Capítulo 108: Yellow Flame Iron Brigade II
The newcomer froze the moment her eyes glanced at the elderly man and the woman beside him as her expression turned cold.
"Grandfather…" She said lightly and finished her glorious walk downstairs until she was standing beside the sitting Alucard.
"It's nice to see you're okay Ruoxi. Congratulations, Yu Lei has grown to a level where your grandmother must be very proud of you in the heavens." Lin Zhiguo said with a kind of conflicted smile as Yun Miao only scoffed and looked away.
"Thank you, Grandfather. Could I know the purpose of your visit?" Lin Ruoxi sat beside Alucard and stated, her visage depicted that right at this instant she was in her cold CEO persona.
"You don't need to worry Ruoxi, today I came for Vlad Tepes. If you don't mind me asking, what is your relationship with this man that he can bluntly open the door of your house?" He asked with furrowed brows, he knew they coincided but didn't expect their relationship to be this close.
…
Alucard smirked and let Ruoxi answer the question for the two of them.
Lin Ruoxi threw Alucard a sidelong glance before her hand sneaked down and her fingers entwined with his.
"He is my boyfriend." The CEO answered with a light smile that made Lin Zhiguo grit his teeth in contemplation.
"I see, I'm happy for the two of you then. You will have to excuse me, but we're having a private conversation, could you leave us alone for a while?" Lin Zhiguo told her with a voice filled with authority.
Lin Ruoxi frowned, what could they possibly be talking about that she couldn't hear?
Her vision had been on Lin Zhiguo and Yun Miao and she didn't notice two pairs of eyes looking straight at her.
"If she leaves I leave as well old fool… Whatever there is to say, say it with her present." Alucard took Ruoxi's hand a kissed it.
"You! Do you want to involve her in this world!?" He stood up abruptly and his cultivation arose once again!
"Stop screaming and sit down, who do you think you're talking to?" The count's eyes flashed in red as he said nonchalantly, and the next second Lin Zhiguo sat down and retreated his pressure without even knowing what happened…
"W-What did you do?" His lips shivered, what was that just now?
Is it even possible to be so strong!?
He thought that just maybe, they would be able to retaliate a bit with heavy marksmanship, but this?
Weren't they like pigs awaiting slaughter, just with his words!?
Lin Ruoxi looked at all this confused, for a minute she felt overwhelming pressure on her shoulders coming from her grandfather's body, but the next second it suddenly dissipated.
"Do you really want to involve her in all this? She's just a common mortal!"
"She is but I'm not. Since she's my girlfriend, she's bound to know anyway, might as well tell her now." Alucard sighed and his words further confused Lin Ruoxi.
What are they talking about? Does he have secrets?
Lin Zhiguo's gaze shifted between Vlad Tepes and his granddaughter before he sighed in exasperation.
"Very well, Ruoxi. What you are about to hear, no one must know." He said sternly.
Lin Ruoxi's gaze turned serious, she knew this conversation was not a game. Her hand held Alucard's tightly as she awaited his introduction.
"While I'm the current head of the Lin Clan, I also have another identity…" He was looking for the best way to tell this to someone common.
At that moment Flower Rain sighed and took out her mask, attracting everyone's attention.
The visage of a beautiful woman with purple eyes and silver hair didn't take anyone by surprise.
The woman turned her head to look at Alucard only to find him sipping his wine neutrally with an uncaring attitude, much to her irritation.
"Sister Ning? You're involved in this?!" Ruoxi exclaimed in surprise. Cai Ning and Cai Yan were her childhood friends. She still maintained contact with Cai Yan regularly, but she hadn't spoken to Cai Ning for a long time.
The CEO didn't know her friend's whereabouts, she only knew that Cai Ning was very 'busy' inheriting the Cai Clan back in Beijing…
"It's been a long time Ruoxi… I'm sorry for not keeping in touch with you as I would have wanted…" Cai Ning smiled with a little dejection, she had technically been the older sister to not only Cai Yan, but also to Lin Ruoxi and even Mo Qianni.
Yet after her training started and she became a cultivator, she hadn't even spoken to them once, going as far as only speaking with Cai Yan briefly every month.
"It's alright… You're busy as am I." Lin Ruoxi exhaled lightly, not really minding it as she herself hadn't had much time since she inherited Yu Lei.
"I'm a member of a secret organisation that we call the Yellow Flame Iron Brigade. it's a secret group of elite corps that protect the country from the shadows. We specialise in foreign 'uncommon' threats… Such as your boyfriend here…" She then explained everything the best way possible before throwing Alucard a cautious glare.
"…"
Lin Ruoxi lifted her eyebrows as her new boyfriend was suddenly called a 'foreign threat'… Let alone something like a secret service was easy to understand, she knew such a thing existed, but not the implications or responsibilities of the group.
"Are you going to tell her or should we do it ourselves?" Yun Miao interjected and shot Alucard a glance.
"Go ahead…"
…
"Then, we are here today because your boyfriend turned out to be something like a God with so much power that he's a threat to the Chinese citizens and government… I believe it's hard to understand, but that's the only thing I can tell you for now Ruoxi, we need to proceed with this conversation…" Lin Zhiguo finished this section very quickly as there were a lot of things that he wanted to ask Alucard.
…
It was indeed hard to believe.
The CEO of Yu Lei, who was still trying to understand the 'load of crap' she was just told, turned around to look at Alucard with a bewildered but also upset expression.
"I-I don't really understand… But, why didn't you tell me this sooner." She only wanted to know that… The way he was with her, and the fact that she knew so much about his personal life, gave her a false sense of knowing everything about him.
It turns out, she was just being conceited and it hurt her a bit.
"… That's not something easy to say Ruoxi, especially to a mortal. You're my woman now, that's why I am telling you." Alucard sighed and turned his gaze towards the four people.
"Since Ruoxi looks like she's unable to continue, we will have to leave it for today. But I'll tell you ahead of time. I have no intention whatsoever of cooperating with you lot. If there's anything to ask, my office in Hermes is the best place to find me. Don't come here to find me again, are we clear?" Alucard stood up and pulled Ruoxi with him, surprising the latter, before uttering words that didn't sit well with the lot in front of him.
Yun Miao was about to scold him but Lin Zhiguo stopped her and shot Alucard an angered glare, "At least answer the last question I asked you! How did you defeat Ares?!"
'Defeat Ares?…' those words sit in Lin Ruoxi's brain for a holiday.
"You don't need to know that, but after defeating him, I received his Godhood as apparently he deemed me a great warrior and decided to concede it to me before perishing. If that's all, you can leave." Having said that he turned around and led Lin Ruoxi to the kitchen where Yulan who was now hearing the whole conversation listened to everything. Naturally, if Lin Ruoxi was qualified to know, so was she.
"Wait a minute, Lin Ruoxi." At that moment, Yun Miao stood up and interjected.
Alucard stopped and both turned around as Yun Miao technically pulled Lin Hui to her feet.
"This girl is Lin Hui… You've exchanged glances yet hadn't greeted each other even once… She's your cousin." Yun Miao presented Lin Hui as the latter flustered a little and bowed.
"Nice to meet you, S-Sister." Lin Hui didn't even know what way she could call this cousin of hers whom she had never seen.
"Nice to meet you, Hui'er." Lin Ruoxi answered back with a smile, there seemed to be some physical resemblance between them, or... Was there? She now knew the truth after all...
Her mind was still full of the new revelation so she really couldn't react to this appropriately.
"You see, even though Hui'er has been raised in a shrine, she's always been curious about the way the city works. I brought her now to know if you saw within you to let her stay in your villa as she finds herself in this city… I believe it is time for Hui'er to open her wings." Yun Miao spoke with 'seriousness' as everyone in the room except Ruoxi and Lin Hui glared at her…
'Can any more rubbish come out your mouth!?'
"It would also be great for the two of you to know each other better and become good sisters, I know you both have had lonely lives so, that's for the best."
'It can!'
…
Lin Ruoxi gave Lin Hui a brief look as their eyes locked.
Well, she's family…
"I don't have an issue, when is she moving?" Lin Ruoxi was not one to hold hatred, her grandmother had already passed and even she herself didn't hold hatred against those two, or even this 'cousin' of hers that had nothing to do with their strifes.
"Wonderful, can it be next week? She needs to pack up her stuff and prepare." Yun Miao smiled in 'happiness' and threw Ares a sidelong glance.
'That old wench is scheming something, Master.'
'I know… Let her do as she wants.'
No one in this room can harm him or Ruoxi anyway.
…
Lin Zhiguo gave his wife and granddaughter a complicated gaze, it's not like he had a saying in this…
"Then we will leave for today, thanks for your hospitality…" He stood up followed by Yun Miao, Cai Ning and Lin Hui who bowed slightly towards Alucard and Ruoxi.
The last one to leave was Cai Ning who threw Alucard a sharp stare, "I'll pass by your office one of these days Vlad Tepes… Hope you will answer my questions then."
Having said that, she left, leaving only Alucard, Ruoxi and Yulan.
'Those sisters are very alike huh, pretty and composed until you piss them off.' Alcina smirked inwardly, as much as she wanted to appear and give them a scare, if she was to be associated with Alucard publicly in any supernatural matter, she'd be directly taken as the first suspect to be the 'Shadow Hound'.
A few more cards had to be played before she appeared publicly with her master as 'his goddess'
'Fufu~ I like how that sounds.'
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