Chapter 45 Angel Rose
“Wait a minute!”
After hearing the conditions put forth by “Yu Yinchuan”, Bucheer was stunned for a moment before regaining his composure. He waved his hand at him, signaling him to be patient, and then turned to the two strong men beside him, saying, “You two keep an eye on him, the rest come here for a moment.”
After saying that, he walked to the other side of the room, followed closely by the other Mafia gang members.
Once his subordinates had formed a wall around him, Bucheer lowered his voice and asked, “Does anyone here have any passionate love experiences?”
In fact, this wasn’t Bucheer’s first time acting on behalf of Constantin to contact Siye Association operatives, or investigators from the Night Alliance…
But before “Yu Yinchuan”, the conditions proposed by previous individuals were either money that an ordinary person could never earn in a lifetime or some kind of hard-to-obtain spirit pattern completion materials… which were all easy to fulfill, mostly solvable with cash and bullets.
Even the most ridiculous request, wanting to spend a romantic evening with a Hollywood star, was not a problem; it just required some effort to kidnap the person.
However, Yu Yinchuan was the first to propose wanting to be in a romantic relationship.
A passionate and tragic love, like an urban legend of a lingering spirit before the night stretches long, was something that most people had only heard of but never witnessed.
The vast majority of normal people had never seen it, let alone Bucheer and the Mafia gang members, who probably had no romantic experience at all.
For them, their understanding of what love meant was much deeper than their understanding of what being in love entailed.
And not having seen it, not knowing what it was like, just meant not knowing where to start.
After a brief silence, a middle-aged gang member spoke up, “Boss, I do!”
Bucheer’s eyes lit up as he lifted his chin at him, “Go on!”
“When I was in high school, I accidentally got my girlfriend pregnant. Her dad came to the school with a double-barrel shotgun, demanding I break up with her, or he would k*ll me. I pulled out my M1911 and shot it out with him… I wonder if that counts as a passionate love affair?”
“I think it does!” said a round-faced gang member.
“I think so too!” echoed a red-haired gang member, “By the way, Old Iverson, what happened after that? How’s your little girlfriend?”
“Don’t bring it up! I should have listened to her dad and broken up with her sooner!” The middle-aged gang member wore a bitter expression, “Can you imagine coming home every day with your wife pointing a double-barrel shotgun at your head? It took me two years of marriage to find out her dad taught her how to sh**t.”
Everyone, “……”
In the silence, Bucheer drew a conclusion, “Although it sounds somewhat related, am I really going to send him to high school? He looks like he’s almost thirty. Besides, even if he did go, there’s no guarantee he could find a dad with a double-barrel shotgun who would let him date his daughter.”
“Boss!” said the round-faced gang member, “If all else fails, just take him to [Angel Rose]? I remember they had an ad that said [providing customers with a love-like sweet experience]. If I understand correctly, as long as we provide enough, they can offer Yu Yinchuan a romantic relationship.”
“Well…” Bucheer thought for a moment and nodded, “I suppose that’s the only way to go! Even if it doesn’t suit his fancy, it doesn’t matter. We promised to help him find love, never said we had to do it immediately.”
Exactly!
Mr. Constantin instructed to satisfy Yu Yinchuan’s conditions to make him abandon the investigation. Once he goes to [Angel Rose], he wouldn’t have the energy to continue his inquiries within a month.
By that time, who would care whether his conditions were fulfilled? Bucheer thought.
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Zhipianxian was not someone desperately wanting love; he simply craved to experience human emotions.
Although this desire manifested in an urban legend might seem strange, he had yearned for it since the day he gained self-awareness…
This may relate to the reason for his existence.
As an urban legend born from the corrupting power of the Pink Fluffy Rabbit, his abilities were based on desires for objects and materialism, making it utterly impossible for him to understand what human emotions were.
Yet, paradoxically, as a paper cicada created for a human—specifically for Luxianbei—once he became an urban legend, he naturally acquired some human instincts, such as… a desire for a relationship.
Though this relationship didn’t necessarily have to be romantic…
You can’t expect a paper cicada to know what parental love is, can you?
The difficulty in experiencing parental love might be greater than getting a tractor to comprehend how its manufacturer constructed it and what expectations they had for it.
In short, this feeling resembled that of intelligent robots in some sci-fi stories, which suddenly develop feelings outside their programming—on one hand, unable to comprehend, on the other hand, compelled to pursue them ceaselessly.
Thus, Zhipianxian became a contradictory existence “without” emotions but “yearning” for them at the same time.
Perhaps one day, when he finds heart-wrenching true love, he too might feel a pain in his core, like the intelligent robots in those stories…
After waiting a moment, when Bucheer returned, Zhipianxian, growing increasingly anxious, couldn’t help but ask, “Is it done? Can we go? Can I go on a date now?”
“Yes!” Bucheer said, darkly, “I’ll have someone take you to [Angel Rose] shortly. There are plenty of beautiful girls there, and you can have a passionate romance with anyone you want, but…”
“Kid, once we get there, you better behave yourself and stop working right after you get the benefits.”
“Of course, of course, if I can really date someone!” Zhipianxian nodded vigorously, as if suddenly remembering something, he quickly asked, “By the way, can you tell me what [Angel Rose] is? It sounds a bit strange.”
“How long have you been in the Free City? You don’t even know that?” Old Iverson rolled his eyes.
“I….” Zhipianxian shrank his neck, looked at Bucheer, and weakly probed, “Am I supposed to know?”
“Of course!” Old Iverson replied, ” [Angel Rose] is the largest strip club in the Free City, and at least half of the city’s most beautiful ladies work there!”
“Ah?” Upon hearing this, Zhipianxian’s expression changed, his chest heaving with anger, “How could you do this? I wanted to go on a date, and you take me to see strippers instead?”
“You are insulting the concept of love. Even if you k*ll me and throw my corpse off the building today, I will…”
Suddenly, the dark g*n barrels shifted from his waist to his temples, and sensing the spirit energy fluctuations contained in the .45 cursed bullets from the magazines, Zhipianxian’s words were abruptly silenced.
After a few seconds of silence, he changed his tone, “Actually, going to broaden my horizons wouldn’t be too bad. When are we leaving?”
Although I expect that pure feeling that cannot be bought with money, I am forced by circumstances to go with them… right, just to take a look without doing anything, that should be fine! Zhipianxian thought.
Bucheer, “……” Are the Siye Association operatives at this level? They seem worse off than our Mafia gang members!
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Vivienne rushed back home from [Angel Rose]. As soon as she turned on the light and saw the messy large footprints on the floor, she instantly understood that there were “guests” at her home. She swiftly flashed to the wall and skillfully retrieved a hidden dagger from the shoe cabinet.
However, after extending her spiritual sense and thoroughly surveying the room, her expression gradually turned perplexed.
“It looks like the guests have already left,” the strange cat, having checked the room with its own spiritual sense, reminded her.
“I know…” Vivienne glanced at the empty room and gradually lowered her dagger, “But that guy has also left.”
“From the looks of it, he was probably taken away?” the strange cat tilted its head, “I guess it must be Constantin’s men, right?”
They had long suspected that after Yu Yinchuan caused the Killer Whale to sink, Constantin wouldn’t let him off easily, but they never expected him to be subdued and taken so quickly. As for what would happen to Yu Yinchuan after being brought back… just thinking about it sent chills down their spines.
“Is there no way? Your things are still with that guy!”
“If we’re going to rescue him from the Mafia gang…” Vivienne nodded, “It certainly is a bit troublesome!”
“Don’t worry!” The strange cat lifted its paw, patted Vivienne’s shoulder, and said, “If you truly want to go, I will stay by the canal and pull you up at the first opportunity. I won’t let anyone touch your body.”
“……”
Vivienne shot a sideways glance at the strange cat on her shoulder, hesitating to speak.
Just then, her phone in her arms suddenly vibrated. She took it out and answered the call. Nimo’s cool voice came through the line.
“Hey, I said, the guy you asked me to investigate, the one and only Yu Yinchuan, he showed up at [Angel Rose] just after you left…”
“Are you sure he’s really as badly hurt and unconscious as you said? I see he looks quite spirited!”
“How about it? Do you want to come see him?”
“Okay, I’ll head over shortly.” Vivienne said expressionlessly, hanging up the phone and slowly putting it down.
Noticing her expression, the strange cat couldn’t help but ask, “What’s going on? I think I heard Yu Yinchuan’s name on the phone?”
“Yeah, that guy went to [Angel Rose]…” Vivienne nodded, “You’d think he just got seriously injured and woke up, yet he ran off to a place like that. How much does he like it?”
The strange cat, “……”
