Chapter 39

Translator: EndlessFantasy Translation Editor: EndlessFantasy Translation

Ke Meng sat in the car and took a good look at the Wanted portrait in silence.

‘What exactly happened at the museum? Why is there a fugitive involved? Does the fugitive have anything to do with the mysterious sunlight?’

It was nothing for the sky to brighten up for a few seconds out of nowhere to outsiders. However, Ke Meng knew that it was not a coincidence.

Ke Meng was in deep thought, as the golden sunlight’s appearance should have something to do with what had happened at the museum.

He had found the location where the mysterious incident happened, but it had something to do with the officials. He did not have the authorization to investigate at the moment. It was impossible for him to enter the museum to investigate himself.

Therefore, he could only put that aside. After driving around the area, Ke Meng drove home directly since he did not discover anything new.

He parked his car and opened the door. He carried the round Glutinous Ball down.

He thought that was the end of his search journey, but Glutinous Ball suddenly straightened its long hair, pointing in a direction.

Ke Meng looked in that direction. There was a man standing before the red rent notice. He seemed to be looking for a house to rent.

Ke Meng walked over. The man seemed to have noticed, as he suddenly looked into Ke Meng’s eyes.

Ke Meng happened to see the front of his face. The man had a square face and broad eyebrows. His eyes seemed to not be focused like he was in a daze. He looked absent-minded.

“Are you looking for a house?” Ke Meng said to him while carrying a huge plush toy.

The square-faced man frowned. He felt rather uncomfortable seeing a man carrying a huge plush toy.

He said with his husky voice, “Yes.”

“3,500 yuan monthly rent. Fully-furnished with three rooms, one living room, one kitchen, and two bathrooms. Wifi included, you’ll pay water and gas bills following the standard civil charges,” Ke Meng said everything in one breath as if he had said it hundreds of times before.

The square-faced man fell into silence and did not respond for a while.

“How is it? Do you want to rent it? I’m the landlord of this building. The family who rented the third floor has moved, so you can move in anytime you want.”

Ke Meng looked at his hands—there were rough calluses on them. He could tell that he was a man who had done hard labor.

He looked at the muscles on his arms. They had clear lines on them and looked powerful.

Ke Meng might have his ribs broken if the other party were to throw a punch at him.

However, Glutinous Ball in Ke Meng’s embrace was not to be underestimated. It would be painful enough for it to straighten its hair and poke his face like a hedgehog.

Naturally, the hedgehog-style attack would be a mess. Glutinous Ball could also bash into the man’s head with its body. It would be so much easier to stun him.

The square-faced man took a good look at Ke Meng’s physique as he fell into silence. He thought Ke Meng was easy to handle, so he nodded and said, “Sure.”

Ke Meng was 1.8m tall, had small muscles, and was thin. Compared to the muscular square-faced man, he was far away from that.

Ke Meng waited for a few seconds. He initiated the conversation upon seeing that this fugitive the police was after did not take the initiative to talk. “Let’s take a look at the house?”

“Hmm.”

The square-faced man glanced at Ke Meng; nobody knew what he was thinking about.

Ke Meng unlocked the side door and let him go up first. Meanwhile, he followed behind while carrying the huge plush toy.

The square-faced man walked really slow, while the shadow underneath his body was connected to both feet and stuck along the staircase wall.

The light bulbs lit up when the infrared sensor along the staircase sensed humans.

His shadow was stretched very long at the moment. It was stretched to the oblique left of Ke Meng’s foot. It almost stuck to Ke Meng’s sole and obliquely paralleled to the shadow underneath Ke Meng’s feet.

Ke Meng’s pupils shrunk lightly. He let go of his arms, which were tightly holding Glutinous Ball, and moved his left hand, ready to capture the shadow.

Glutinous Ball was bouncing hard as soon as it was let go onto the ground. It charged at the square-faced man’s back directly.

The square-faced man’s back was facing Ke Meng as he stood on the 12th step on the stairs. He did nothing upon hearing the noise of a heavy item dropping and bouncing. He was calm, or rather, the square-faced man did not realize there was something terrifying that was coming at him.

Bang!

Glutinous Ball slammed onto the man’s back.

The square-faced man felt a great force hitting him behind while he lost control and fell. He had all fours on the ground.

The square-faced man was shocked!

The landlord had such powerful strength?

Never did he think it was Glutinous Ball’s strength.

It sat on the square-faced man’s back to restrict the top half of his body.

No matter how much he struggled, he could not straighten his body.

“Are you from the investigation team?” The square-faced man frowned and screamed in aggravation as he lay on the ground.

Ke Meng did not answer his question, choosing to be silent.

Suddenly, the shadow beneath the square-faced man’s body expanded and shrunk. He was attempting to change his shadow’s oblique angle toward the bottom of Ke Meng’s feet.

Following what the two female shadows said, a shadow would fall into a long sleeping period right after they lived in a host. It would mean risk for them to change a host at the last minute. However, the square-faced man did not care now. He wanted to change his host now.

Ke Meng clenched his left hand hard to hold a fist.

The stairway was suddenly silent now.

The man fell onto the ground. There was no shadow on him, and Glutinous Ball’s shadow was the only one remaining on the ground.

Ke Meng held his left fist tight. There was no black shadow spilling from the edge.

He held the man’s shadow in his palm now and waved his left hand to put the shadow back to his body.

In the man’s conscious, he had merely fallen into a daze. A magical suction had taken him, and then a magical repulsive force had tossed him back. 

He would notice something happened earlier after being grabbed a couple of times. However, he had no idea what had just happened now.

“What happened earlier?” The square-faced man said, feeling alarmed.

“You were stunned,” said Ke Meng.

The dog on the square-faced man’s head sat targeting the back of his head again.

Bang!

The square-faced man rolled his eyes—he was stunned again!

Ke Meng walked away as he watched out for his shadow. He returned to the entrance.

Following what the two female shadows said, when they were parasites, they would be unconscious too if the host was stunned.

Ke Meng was thinking whether calling the police would threaten him. He could use the Shadow Catcher to interrogate him in order to obtain Shadow Drift’s intel instead.

He thought about it and figured it was inappropriate for him to interrogate the man himself since the police were looking for him.

Ke Meng took out his phone and called the police as he thought to this point.