Chapter 318: A Fierce Battle! (I)

Chapter 318: A Fierce Battle! (I)

Time passed, minute by minute. Everyone went about their normal day. Li Hao went through his usual schedule—training martial dao, practicing his boxing method, and running through sword techniques.

Manager Yu was speechless at the continued disturbance next door. It was her first time seeing such a quiet, completely boring fellow. It wasn’t that the Night Watchers didn’t have these kinds of members, but that they were usually elderly.

Was the young man unused to his new environment, or was he always like this? Apparently, this was how he operated in Silver City as well. This kind of person was very uninteresting. While Hou Xiaochen was also a man of few words, that was his noble bearing to Manager Yu. When Li Hao was the same way, it was utterly boring.

......

The eastern quadrant of the city.

A hotel.

The five supernaturals from the central region weren’t all at the hotel. Hu Qingfeng had gone to the provincial government again and someone else was visiting the Silver Moon Division of the local military.

There were only two left in the enormous suite. There was Yu Xiao and there was a blonde man in his thirties. The two were drinking wine and chatting.

Yu Xiao glanced at the clock on the wall. 5:50 pm. There were ten minutes until Li Hao left work. The kid was a typical office worker who didn’t stay a single minute past 6 pm.

“Ole Huang, this wine isn’t good enough. I smelled something extremely fragrant when I left the hotel yesterday. I’ll go buy some so we can continue drinking. This blasted place is so damn boring that I can’t sleep at night if I don’t drink.”

The blonde named Ole Huang laughed. “Have someone else run the errand. Is there a need for you to go in person?” That was such a trivial task!

“I’ll go. I forgot what the store was called, but I remember where it was. It’s not too far. Wait for me here, I’ll be right back.” Yu Xiao got up to leave.

“Why don’t I go with you,” Ole Huang chuckled. “I have nothing else better to do.”

Absolutely not! The last thing Yu Xiao wanted was to be tied to this guy. As a peak Solar, Ole Huang was stronger than him. Hu Qingfeng was the strongest out of the five, two were peak Solars, there was a woman at late Solar, and Yu Xiao brought up the rear.

Would anything be left for him if Ole Huang came along?

“It’s fine!” Yu Xiao waved him off. “Wait here, maybe Boss Hu and the others will be back soon. They’ll be annoyed to see that both of us are absent.”

“That’s true.” Ole Huang didn’t continue to press. “Just buy the wine, don’t stir up any trouble!”

“How can I?” Yu Xiao roared with laughter.

“I mean it,” Ole Huang emphasized. “Don’t think that no one’s aware of your little habits. If you really want that, just spend some money to have women throw themselves at you. Don’t go dipping into unsavory nonsense. This isn’t a region in disarray, there’s a big one holding down the fort here!” The most uptodate novels are published on n0velbjn((.))com

Yu Xiao had certain unpalatable habits, such as sneaking into a woman’s house and being up to... no good. He had a track record, but at the same time, neither were the Night Watchers quite so distasteful. Yu Xiao didn’t dare indulge in front of others; he only did so in areas torn apart by war. He’d done so more than once, and Ole Huang was aware of his past deeds.

“Hahaha, probably. It’s interesting, isn’t it?”

“That’s true, it’s too boring over at the Night Watchers.” A merry conversation circulated as they walked Li Hao leave. Everyone shook their heads. Where did this weird kid come from?

......

Li Hao ignored the teahouse across from him. It was all small fry—balls of light so small they were nearly invisible. The Night Watchers knew of supernaturals on the lookout there, but no one cared. Various organizations had placed them there as scouts. They were permitted to remain out in the open.

Li Hao advanced, following the street. There was no danger for the moment as he was too close to headquarters. He’d have to walk at least ten minutes before running into anything.

He’d been scoping out the perimeter over the past two days and identified three spots where he was most likely to meet with danger on the way home. Given Hou Xiaochen’s influence, the first spot was too close to headquarters. The second and third spots were more likely to see action.

The second spot was a small alleyway that saw infrequent passersby. It was roughly one hundred meters long and overlooked by tall buildings on both sides. They blocked the light, making it suitable for ambush.

The third spot was roughly five hundred meters in front of the family accommodations building. It was a parking lot that wasn’t often used as there weren’t many White Moon inhabitants with cars.

It didn’t matter either way to the young man. Supernaturals were such a prominent ball of light that he would see them so long as he wasn’t blind.

Li Hao passed by a stall of buns after a while; he decided against buying buns today. They might go to waste later. When he was more than three thousand meters away from headquarters, he saw several balls of light hovering around him.

There was one beneath the ground and one aboveground. These guys haunted him like ghosts that refused to depart the world. It’d been several days—who knew what was so fascinating about him?

Li Hao continued like he hadn’t seen anything. The small alleyway was coming up in one thousand meters. Ordinary balls of light were impossible to make out from such a far distance, unless they were huge!

A smile crossed the young man’s face. Yu Xiao sure knew how to pick his places! This was where the man had chosen for his ambush. It looked like he wasn’t so arrogant as to think he could strike in a brazen way. Indeed, Li Hao identified a ball of light that belonged to Yu Xiao waiting in the alley.

Balls of light differed from each other; some were strong, some were weak. Given the different attributes, some took different shapes and forms. If he looked at them closely, he was able to determine which ones he’d seen before. However...

The young man frowned slightly. He knew that Yu Xiao was mid Solar, but there was another massive ball of light off to the side, less than five hundred meters from Yu Xiao. It was bigger than the man’s—Li Hao regarded it warily.

There was another one? Who? Li Hao looked intently at the ball of light—it was stronger than Sun Yifei. Peak Solar? It wasn’t as strong as Violet Moon or the Revolution King, but it was slightly stronger than late Solar.

To think that there’d be a peak Solar in the premises today!

It wasn’t in the alleyway, but was a concerning development all the same. Five hundred meters was a distance that could be crossed in a few seconds by powerhouses. The unexpected development was perplexing and a bit annoying. Why were there two Solars present?

Fine, maybe what he’d said had drawn the attention of other powerhouses. Li Hao was quite resigned! A plan could never keep pace with changes in reality. He’d wanted to give the fight a shot himself even though he was alone. Could he battle a mid Solar? He was much stronger than before, so he ardently wished to give it a try.

But with an additional peak Solar... that was troublesome.