Hearing Flandre's words, Chen Huijie felt a chill all over, and her words of refusal died in her throat.
Because she knew the other party was right.
The initiative was not in her hands right now.
If she kept refusing and provoked this Blood Demon lady into causing a bloodbath outside Lungmen, she would never be able to forgive herself for the rest of her life.
But... she still suppressed the indignation in her heart and agreed to Flandre's request.
"Then it's a deal. Wait outside Lungmen, and I'll deliver the letter to Governor Wei for you."
"But you can't cause trouble outside during this time."
"Of course. If you can keep your end of the bargain, I, in the name of scarlet, will definitely not initiate any trouble," Flandre said with a rhythmic cadence, imitating her sister's tone.
Chen Huijie noted the name scarlet in her mind, then quietly stepped on the gas and slowly drove the car toward Lungmen.
Over an hour later, the vehicle stopped outside Lungmen.
From here, the massive urban area of Lungmen was already visible.
Flandre looked at the city not far away with a look of wonder.
She couldn't see the end of it at a single glance.
How big and how heavy must it be?
She couldn't imagine it.
But it was simply incredible that such a thing could move.
Is this Terra technology? It truly is breathtaking.
Noticing Flandre's awe, Chen Huijie looked at the vibrant Lungmen in the distance, a proud expression appearing on her face.
"This is Lungmen, the core city for Yan's foreign trade, and the most prosperous commercial capital."
"Oh, I see. Here's the letter for Governor Wei; don't forget it." Flandre took out the letter for Wei Yanwu from her bag and handed it over.
Chen Huijie tried to see what was written on it.
But how could Flandre let her succeed?
When Talulah wrote this letter, she wasn't sure if Wei Yanwu would acknowledge her, so she didn't write her name on it.
Therefore, the envelope had nothing on it except for 'To be opened personally by Governor Wei Yanwu'.
"Don't peek, Miss Officer!" Flandre found the feeling of pretending not to know her and playing pranks very interesting.
Chen Huijie watched with a dark face as Flandre nimbly jumped out of the car window.
"How should I contact you!"
"Oh, right!"
"Let Flandre think... I've got it, reach out your hand!"
Flandre thought for a moment and then leaned in to look at her.
"What are you going to do!" Although Chen Huijie didn't know what she was up to, she still obediently reached out her hand.
"Hiss!"
The next second, Flandre bit her finger, and blood immediately welled up.
"Alright, Flandre has memorized your scent. When you leave the city, Flandre will come find you herself."
Before Chen Huijie could react, Flandre flew further and further away with a laugh.
She instinctively retracted her hand to cover the finger that was still bleeding.
"This girl!"
Although the other party looked like a child who had successfully pulled a prank, she didn't think so at all.
In her view, Flandre's meaning was that she had locked onto her; if she couldn't complete the task of delivering the letter, she would be trapped in Lungmen for life, because she would be attacked the moment she left the city.
Of course, if Flandre knew she thought this way, she would only complain that she really was Talulah's sister—both of them were total blockheads with no sense of fun.
After Flandre left, she restarted the car and drove toward Lungmen.
Before long, she arrived at the port, and a green figure happened to enter her sight.
"Old Chen!" The other person also noticed her and greeted her in surprise.
"Didn't you drive out? How did you end up like this?"
Hoshiguma looked inside the car; the driver was still unconscious in the passenger seat.
Chen Huijie opened the door and jumped out.
"My car broke down. The person in this car is a smuggling suspect. Arrange for a brother to take the car and the person back to the department!"
"Hoshiguma, sorry to trouble you, but take me to the Governors Mansion!"
Chen Huijie touched the letter at her chest and said to Hoshiguma.
"Ah!"
Hearing Chen Huijie's words, Hoshiguma couldn't help but look her up and down.
"Are you okay?"
"I'm really fine, let's go!"
Chen Huijie reached out and patted Hoshiguma's shoulder, and then the two of them walked inside.
Soon, Hoshiguma drove a Three-wheeler from the Lungmen Guard Department's exclusive lane on the other side, carrying Chen Huijie away from the port area and toward the Governors Mansion.
In the vehicle, Hoshiguma was still a bit worried.
"Old Chen, if something's up, just say it. Don't keep it bottled up; it's easy for problems to arise."
"What could be wrong with me? Just focus on driving."
Chen Huijie leaned back in her seat and closed her eyes, recalling everything that happened today while thinking about what to say when she reached the Governors Mansion.
Inside the Governors Mansion, Wei Yanwu and Fumizuki were discussing matters when someone suddenly knocked on the door. The two looked up to see a Black Cloak Shadow Guard.
He looked at the two and spoke.
"Miss Chen is outside the Governors Mansion and hopes to see the Governor."
Hearing the Shadow Guard's words, Wei Yanwu and Fumizuki both instinctively looked at the window nearby to see if the sun had risen from the west.
Chen Huijie would actually come to find him proactively.
"Let her in!" Wei Yanwu nodded, then looked at Fumizuki beside him. "You stay too. I'm sure you're surprised why Little Chen would come to see me."
Fumizuki nodded and stood behind Wei Yanwu.
Before long, Chen Huijie was brought in by the Shadow Guard.
After seeing the two in the room, she nodded.
"Governor Wei, Lady Fumizuki, good afternoon!"
"There's no one else in the room. I'd prefer if you called me... Uncle."
Wei Yanwu's gaze as he looked at Chen Huijie was somewhat complex.
Chen Huijie was silent for a few seconds before she spoke.
"Today, while I was arresting a smuggler outside the city, I met a Blood Demon. She said she had a letter to give to you, but because of her identity, it was inconvenient for her to enter the city, so she gave the letter to me."
"And she warned me that if I couldn't deliver the letter to you, she would find a way to cause a commotion outside the city to attract your attention."
While speaking, Chen Huijie took out the letter from her coat.
Fumizuki and Wei Yanwu glanced at each other, and then she walked over.
"Give the letter to me."
Chen Huijie shook her head.
"Blood Demons are not to be trusted. I'm worried there might be a curse or something similar in the letter. How about finding a safe, open room? I'll open the letter inside and read it to you through the surveillance."
Hearing Chen Huijie's words, Fumizuki and Wei Yanwu nodded slightly.
Being able to say such a thing proved she wasn't being coerced by the Blood Demon.
"No need, give it to me. I don't think a Sarkaz would use such means to deal with our Governor."
"After all, if they really wanted to take down the Governor, wouldn't any other trick be better than this?"
After saying that, Fumizuki took the letter.
On the envelope, there was only 'To Governor Wei Yanwu, for his eyes only' written in Yan characters. From the handwriting, the other party should be a woman.
She couldn't help but glance at Old Wei. When did he get to know another Sarkaz woman?
Wei Yanwu felt his scalp tingle under Fumizuki's gaze.
What was wrong with his wife? It wasn't possible that she was already controlled by that Blood Demon just by holding the letter!
Carefully tearing open the envelope and taking out the letter inside, Fumizuki instantly showed a shocked expression upon seeing the first sentence.
She stood there for a long time without moving.
"Fumizuki... Fumizuki!" Wei Yanwu was truly anxious now. He stood up and reached for a special long sword beside him.
A sharp light flashed in his eyes.
Just as Wei Yanwu was worrying, Lady Fumizuki also came back to her senses.
She looked back at Chen Huijie, who was also looking at her with great concern, and then walked toward Wei Yanwu with the letter.
"Yanwu... see for yourself!"
She placed the letter on Wei Yanwu's desk.
So that Wei Yanwu could see the content of the letter as soon as he looked down.
And as expected, after seeing that first sentence, Wei Yanwu froze just like Fumizuki. A few seconds later, he looked at Chen Huijie and took off his glasses with trembling hands.
"Where is that Blood Demon? Is she still outside the city?"
"Unc..." Seeing Wei Yanwu's loss of composure, Chen Huijie opened her mouth, not knowing what to say.
"Phew... wait a moment, let me catch my breath!"
Wei Yanwu took several deep breaths before sitting back down to carefully read the contents of the letter.
After finishing, he looked up and gazed at Chen Huijie with a complex expression.
"Huijie, go and invite the other party in... No, I'll go personally!"
Wei Yanwu stood up and said.
"It's too dangerous!" At the thought of Wei Yanwu personally going to meet a Blood Demon, Chen Huijie felt she shouldn't have come here.
Perhaps a spell had been cast on that letter, which was why Governor Wei was so impatient.
"Sigh, Little Chen, you haven't read the letter yet, have you?"
Fumizuki picked up the letter and handed it to Chen Huijie.
She, who was just suspecting if Wei Yanwu and Fumizuki were under a Sarkaz curse, froze instantly when she saw the first sentence of the letter.
['To Uncle Wei Yanwu, greetings. It is I, Talulah...']
Talulah... The next second, her eyes widened in shock. She looked incredulously at Wei Yanwu, who had already put on his coat, and Fumizuki, who was standing aside with an expression of either sorrow or excitement.
"It's a letter from Little Ta!"
"Yes... It's been almost twenty years since Talulah was taken away by Kashchey."
Fumizuki nodded.
She knew how much the girl meant to Wei Yanwu; the decision made back then was one of Wei Yanwu's greatest regrets to this day.
Under the protection of the Black Cloak Shadow Guards, the three of them soon left the Governors Mansion and drove toward the outskirts of the city.
Wei Yanwu's movement alerted many people in the city.
But not knowing why the Governor and his wife would suddenly leave, they could only send people to carefully investigate while arranging for others to watch the situation at the port.
By now, Wei Yanwu and Fumizuki also knew how Chen and the other party were in contact.
"You mean she sucked a drop of blood from your finger and said she could find you as long as you left the city?"
Wei Yanwu pondered over the entire process from meeting to parting that Chen Huijie had described on the way.
Although Chen Huijie's narration contained many subjective views, he sifted through it and gathered that the other party had no intention of threatening her.
Moreover, in the letter, besides some small talk, Talulah also stated that this Blood Demon lady who delivered the letter was her friend and hoped to settle in Lungmen.
Someone who hoped to move into Lungmen could not possibly attack people from the local law enforcement agency.
Soon, several people arrived at the place where the two had parted.
"This is where I watched her leave," Chen said, pointing to the tire tracks not far away.
"Then let's wait here. Since she said so, it certainly won't be false."
Wei Yanwu straightened his collar.
At this moment, Fumizuki walked to his side and said.
"Remember the news about the Ursus Fourth Army Group not long ago?"
Wei Yanwu nodded.
He had long known the news that the Fourth Army Group had been heavily damaged by a Blood Demon. If not for that, Ursus would not have acted so desperately, forcing Lungmen and Yumen Pass to take risks and move north to the border with Ursus to ensure Yan's stability.
At that time, they had also discussed who had done it.
Was Kazdel really so brainless as to attack Ursus less than a year after the civil war had just subsided?
Now it seemed very likely to be related to her.
"I've thought of that, but she should have come with goodwill, so there's no need to be afraid."
"Besides, if she really did that, and she wanted to harm Lungmen, it wouldn't be this much trouble at all."
Although Wei Yanwu was confident, he also felt that he couldn't take on the elites of the well-equipped (not really) Fourth Army Group single-handedly.
If the other party really wanted to move against him, there were plenty of opportunities; there was no need to go to such lengths to lure him out like this.
Fumizuki thought about it and realized it made sense, so she didn't say anything more. Surrounded by the Shadow Guards, the three waited there quietly.
And what was Flandre doing at this time?
She was squatting in a nearby forest, watching ants move their home.
As a good child who had been locked in a room by Remilia for a long time, she was very curious about everything in the outside world.
While the other memory brought her many recollections, they lacked true emotional depth.
Right now, she was learning by combining those memories with reality.
She had long noticed the arrival of Chen Huijie and her party.
But she hadn't seen enough yet, so she was in no hurry to go out.
After all, for Long-lived species, time is never a luxury.
[Flandre, have you reached Lungmen yet?] Alina sent a message.
Flandre looked at the anxiously waiting Chen Huijie and her party and replied, [Almost there.]
[Then what are you doing now? I feel like you're quite happy?] Alina felt Flandre's happiness through their bloodline connection.
[I'm watching ants move!] Flandre happily described the scene in front of her to Alina.
Alina was momentarily speechless.
[Remember to message me when you arrive. Everyone misses you!]
[Understood. By the way, Sister Alina, how are things over there? How is it going with those Rhodes Island people?]
[The people from Rhodes Island are more professional than we imagined. Your suggestion has really helped us out a lot.] Mentioning Rhodes Island, Alina was very excited.