I Got Together With the Fake Heiress - Chapter 84

And so, the plan for the weekend outing was finalized.

It’s worth mentioning that just as Wen Yunqing and Wen Yimeng were preparing to leave Jing University, the rookie responsible for the fraud-and-infringement case sent back a very useful message.

The message on WeChat stated that she had a suspected target and was currently making contact. If all went smoothly, the arrest could be made today.

With a suspected target in mind, Wen Yunqing cut out the earlier search segment. She waited for the rookie to send the address, and then went directly to the restaurant where they were having their meal.

“I really love the traditional culture here. If nothing unexpected happens, I plan to find a life partner here,” said the foreign friend with short flaxen hair sitting opposite the rookie. His Chinese sounded excellent, with only a slight foreign accent.

“Of course! Our culture has a heritage of over five thousand years. If you truly want to research it, you might not finish understanding it in your lifetime,” the rookie said proudly.

“Mr. Joern, how long have you lived here? Your Chinese is very good,” the rookie asked with a smile.

Wen Yimeng and Wen Yunqing were seated diagonally opposite the pair. Shielded by the booth, they could see nearly all of the interaction between the two.

“I haven’t lived in Jing City for long. I was an international student at a university in the south, where I stayed for about three years,” the foreign friend said with a smile, picking up a glass of red wine nearby.

“Mmm, this taste… the wine is well-aerated. Would you like to join me for a toast?”

The rookie maintained a smile on her face. With one hand, she picked up her wine glass, and with the other, she held a talisman firmly pressed into her palm. “Sounds great. Let’s toast to traditional culture!”

“Cheers,” the foreign friend said with a smile.

Just as he raised his glass, intending to drink it all down, the rookie suddenly slapped her other hand onto his shoulder, startling the foreign friend so much that he choked.

“Oh, Miss Rui, what are you doing?” The foreign friend coughed violently while wiping his clothes with a napkin he grabbed from the side.

“No effect?” The rookie looked at the talisman in her palm curiously. “Are you a human?”

“OMG, Miss Rui, what do you mean? If I’m not human, am I a vampire?” The foreign friend looked bewildered.

Seeing the rookie apologize profusely, Wen Yimeng silently withdrew her gaze and said with a touch of disappointment, “It looks like we got excited for nothing. That person doesn’t seem to be a demon.”

Wen Yunqing placed her hand over Wen Yimeng’s, signaling a direction with her eyes.

Wen Yimeng followed the direction and saw a man in a suit sitting at a table closest to the inner wall. His gaze, just like hers moments ago, was fixed on the rookie and the foreign friend.

The man in the suit quickly noticed Wen Yimeng’s gaze. As their eyes met, the suited man showed a gentle smile, seemingly conveying something with his eyes.

Wen Yunqing’s normally calm gaze turned dangerous, carrying a clear sense of scrutiny as she looked at the suited man. Could this person secretly observing the rookie be the demon in disguise?

After meeting Wen Yunqing’s less-than-friendly gaze, the man in the suit quickly adjusted his posture, instinctively following his intuition to avoid her sight.

Alright. He doesn’t even dare to meet my eyes. This person definitely has a problem.

Wen Yunqing asked the waiter for a wine glass, walked directly to the rookie’s table, and poured about a third of the red wine into it under the rookie’s surprised gaze.

“Want a drink?” Wen Yunqing seemed to be making small talk, but she was actually already using her spiritual power to probe the man in the suit.

The man in the suit raised an eyebrow and instinctively refused. “No, I suddenly remembered I have an urgent matter to deal with. Goodbye.”

“Sir, I need you to cooperate with an investigation,” Wen Yunqing said, immediately pulling out her identification. Before the man in the suit could react, she slapped a Compliance Talisman (Ting Hua Fu) onto him.

“You are that small demon who likes to deceive female college students, aren’t you?” Wen Yunqing went straight to the point. “Answer my questions honestly.”

“Yes, I like female college students, but I’m not deceiving them; I’m just exchanging my sincere heart for theirs,” the man said. Under the talisman’s effect, everything he spoke was his truest thought.

“Not deceiving them?” Wen Yunqing smiled. “Then, please tell me, how many sincere hearts have you exchanged your one sincere heart for?”

“Six. Once I exchange for the seventh, I will have enough,” The man in the suit wanted to cover his mouth with his hand, but his cultivation was far below Wen Yunqing’s even a single finger, so he could only “fully cooperate” in answering the questions.

“What is the use of seven sincere hearts?” Wen Yunqing raised an eyebrow. “Can they summon the Divine Dragon?”

“Of course not. I collect their blood. Once I gather the blood of seven people and swallow it, my strength can greatly increase,” the man in the suit was on the verge of tears while speaking. His body struggled continuously, trying even to revert to his true form to break free from the control.

Of course, Wen Yunqing would not let this happen. She pressed her hand onto his shoulder, adding a Body Fixing Talisman (Ding Shen Fu).

“Team Wen, is this person… is this the demon?” The rookie’s reaction was not too slow; she realized something was up after seeing Wen Yunqing challenge the man.

Wen Yunqing nodded. Before the talisman lost its effect, she continued to ask, “Where did you learn this method?”

“It was… the black market. Someone exchanged this… this method with me on the black market,” the man in the suit said, a look of pain appearing on his face. The veins on his neck began to bulge.

“Team Wen, the situation seems a bit wrong,” the rookie said, nervously looking around. Thankfully, this spot against the wall was relatively hidden, and not many people had noticed the situation here.

“Do you recognize the person who made the transaction with you?” Wen Yunqing narrowed her eyes, pressing further. “Is he active around here?”

The man in the suit’s expression grew increasingly pained. After slowly nodding, he immediately spat out a mouthful of fresh blood.

“Team Wen, he’s spitting blood…” The rookie was at a loss, unsure how to handle this situation!

“As expected…” Wen Yunqing directly threw out a Cleaning Spell (Qing Jie Zhou), clearing the unnecessary bloodstains from the table. She turned to the rookie and instructed, “Take him back to the Special Affairs Department and question him thoroughly. Also, notify Mu Kuan that there is likely a greater demon hiding nearby.”

“The greater demon should currently be in a wounded state and requires some special means to heal,” Wen Yunqing stated her deduction. “Its cultivation is conservatively around five hundred years. Prepare accordingly.”

“Huh? Team Wen, this person—no, there’s a greater demon here too?” The rookie looked baffled. Wasn’t their mission just to find and arrest the demon who deceived female college students? How did a wounded greater demon get involved?

“I used a special method to briefly sense the spiritual power fluctuations in the vicinity,” Wen Yunqing explained simply. “Based on the fluctuation feedback, the opponent has five hundred years of cultivation.”

“This lesser demon’s cultivation is only barely a century old; it cannot be the greater demon I sensed,” Wen Yunqing said. Since she had decided to intervene, she had to conduct some preliminary investigation.

The rookie nodded blankly, then followed Wen Yunqing’s instructions and took away the incapacitated man in the suit.

The rookie wasn’t the only one confused. Wen Yimeng, who had followed along planning to watch the bad guy get caught, was also stunned. It took Wen Yunqing a detailed explanation for her to sort out the sequence of events.

“So, Yunqing, you knew from the start,” Wen Yimeng quickly connected the dots of the developing situation. “But didn’t you say that Jing City is full of talented people and capable practitioners? Did no one discover the greater demon?”

“Five hundred years of cultivation is enough to defeat most humans,” Wen Yunqing commented.

One had to remember that ordinary people, even with cultivation, could only extend their lifespan by maybe ten or twenty years. Only someone as talented as Lu Zhiming, who could continuously achieve breakthroughs, might potentially double their lifespan.

“So, what should we do?” Wen Yimeng asked. “A five-hundred-year-old greater demon must be very powerful. Should we wait for Teacher Lu to arrive?”

Wen Yunqing thought for a moment and gently reassured her. “That’s not necessary. Jing City’s geographical location is somewhat special; it has a unique suppressive effect on negative entities like ghosts and demons. The demon shouldn’t do anything drastic while it’s not fully healed.”

This whole incident today was actually an accident. In Wen Yunqing’s original plan, the two weekend days were supposed to be spent searching for the deceiving demon. Then, she would incidentally gather intelligence on the greater demon, give the Special Affairs Department a warning, and wait for them to send people to deal with it.

She hadn’t expected the demon who deceived female college students to have such a poor disguise, revealing so many flaws, and getting exposed by her on the spot…

Wait, disguise?

Wen Yunqing frowned. Lu Zhiming’s intelligence seemed to have stated that… the opponent’s disguise was very convincing? That most people couldn’t spot any flaws? Did I find the wrong person?

That’s impossible. The man in the suit was affected by her talisman, and everything he said must be the truth. He definitely was the demon skilled in disguise.

But why, why was his disguise today so clumsy? So clumsy that anyone with a brain could see the problem?

Was he doing it on purpose? No, he was timid and afraid of trouble. With his plan so close to success, he wouldn’t deliberately reveal a flaw.

If the man in the suit’s exposure was not his intention, then someone must be manipulating him behind the scenes!

That person is most likely the greater demon! What was his goal? Was it to use this opportunity to make contact with the people from the Special Affairs Department? What did he want to do?

“Yunqing, what’s wrong?” Wen Yimeng was infected by the tense atmosphere.

“I think I made a small mistake.” The expression on Wen Yunqing’s face instantly became grave. She pulled out her phone and immediately called the rookie.

I’ve grown lax! I’ve truly grown lax!

All the opponents she had encountered had been of ordinary strength. The overwhelming victories had made her mind less tense, and her thinking process had become simple and one-sided.

Seeing that the call wouldn’t go through, Wen Yunqing glanced at her wristwatch. Ten minutes had already passed since the rookie left the restaurant.