Chapter 190 - M Pt.3

"...and why is that?" M's eyebrow rose in response to Xi Long's statement. After the years of knowing the man in front of him, he didn't doubt his words but just wanted to know the reasoning. Threats were common for both of them so what made this one special? Of course, he was the one tasked with figuring out and he eyed the plastic bag with more curiosity. 

"I don't know. I hope I'm just overanalyzing it but something about this package doesn't seem right. The letter itself after being horrible on the eyes, spoke a lot on their personality. The phrasing doesn't seem like a joke but more a pre-notice before something happens. My gut is telling me it isn't simple hence me dropping it off with you."

His grip on the bag tightened as he took in Xi Long's words. If there was one thing that he learned about this man was that his instincts were crazy accurate. He usually had the mannerisms of a first generation heir, cold, serious, and upper class upbringing. Those were the main adjectives he used to describe him. However, all it took was one little fight to see that this man was everything but. If the country went up in flames, he would still be fine that's the image he gave off. 

So imagine his surprise when he finally got to see Xi Long in action. He was unhinged and cruel....so very cruel when it came to fighting. Doing experiments and different scientific research, blood and violence wasn't something that could phase him. With all that considered, he still thought that Xi Long was way more f*cked up than him. The eyes that normally looked upon you with cool disinterest changed into a caged animal. He never asked what made him that way, it didn't really matter in his mind. Yet those experiences are what honed that man's instincts and after so many shared battles together, he could tell they were legit. 

If Xi Long said something was up with this package, there was at least a 90% chance he was right. It wouldn't hurt to take a look at it and there hasn't been too much exciting things happening anyways. The time was about right for another incident to happen, the question just was who and when?

Placing the bag on the table, he went to reach inside before a voice stopped him.

"Wait, I haven't cleared anything for drugs. I'd recommend gloves."

M gave a dead pan stare back to Xi Long. 

"Is your security system so inadequate that they can't even verify that? I don't even know why you pay those buffoons so much money when they can't even check this."

"You're still not getting more money from me"

"...I'm still not wrong." He wasn't embarrassed at his true intention being found out. Experiments and developing technology required money. He got resources and money working here but more money could never hurt. He wasn't wrong anyways, the money really could go to better use with him than those shitty security people.

"Why don't you develop me some technology to check for all current drugs? We've got most of them uncovered but for new ones they aren't on our system yet."

"Do I get more money?" Turning back to Xi Long, his stance showed how much importance he put on money.

"Have you finished your previous jobs? I remember I gave a couple extra thousands at your request, haven't seen any results yet...." The tone was lazy and airy but the sentence threw the argument back onto him. 

He sneered and responded, "alright alright, you're so annoying. I'll look at it & get back to you whenever I have something." Grabbing a random pair of disposable gloves from his pants, he slipped them onto his hands. There wasn't really anywhere to set the items other than the table so he stuck with that. A simple chemical wipe after that should be enough to get rid of whatever substance on it. 

Reaching inside, he pulled out the piece of paper first. Holding it within two fingers he looked at Xi Long for confirmation. 

"Yeah that's the one."

Opening it up, he immediately saw what they were alluding to. There were a lot of comments made about this letter being ugly and none of them were wrong. Slowly skimming over the contents there were a couple of points he found suspicious. The wording indeed was concerning with how arrogant they were. They weren't just threatening them but confident their plans would be successful. That level of confidence meant there was something substantial brewing. Of course they weren't omnipotent beings, not everything could be known ahead of time. 

Threats like these were what kept his days interesting and his eyes held a strange fervour at decoding it.

"Okay I see what you mean by the letter, a couple of these sentences are riddles. Assuming you haven't searched anything I can probably google it. If its common I'll see the answer or at least get some history on it. If not, I'll try to solve it myself but the answer could also be nothing related. We have to take in account that it might be a trap to waste our time, we only have ten days."

"Ten days from when that letter was responded, I'm not even sure when that was. It arrived at our mailing facilities today so I'm giving myself at least 72 hours. That's my timeline and yours is half of that to figure it out."

".....you don't pay me enough for this." His voice was laced with irritation, yes he was interested but he was also in the middle of building new technology. That meant his work had to be put on hold for now and his previous flow had been interrupted. 

"Well...I actually do. Have fun, call me if anything." The smirk on Xi Long's face echoed into his voice as he spoke his final greetings. Only the sound of his footsteps after could be heard as they walked out of the building. He didn't bother to send him off and focused on the items in front of him.

'Which one should I start first?'