Chapter 206: Unexpected Guests

Lu Xin slowly mulled over these questions, not rushing to disturb Vice President Xiao.

He simply turned his chair silently, watching Xiao Yuan’s convincing and detailed pantomime, studying him closely. After a short while, Lu Xin was certain – there was no Mental Monster present on him right now.

Moreover, there were no other threads or anything similar extending from him elsewhere.

From Lu Xin’s current perspective, this Vice President Xiao seemed perfectly normal.

By normal, I mean all his thoughts and patterns were under his own control without external influence.

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“So…”

After thinking for a moment, Lu Xin decided to borrow Mom’s ability.

He first calmed himself, picturing his Mom’s face, and gradually his vision began to change.

Looking at Vice President Xiao again, he immediately saw something different.

A green glow emanated from Vice President Xiao, intensifying – it represented his desire to eat.

Normally, while dreaming, he should be eating what he craved, and this desire should be satisfied.

But because the dream was empty, the satisfaction was only illusory.

In reality, this desire was constantly accumulating.

He would only become hungrier and hungrier.

Besides this desire, through careful observation, Lu Xin gradually noticed something else unusual about him.

It was a Mental Entity hidden within Vice President Xiao’s body.

Apart from his own psyche, faint white lines could vaguely be seen, outlining a shape identical to his body, clinging to the surface of his own psyche like a shadow overlapping him.

That white Mental Entity was extremely faint, almost translucent, and deeply merged with Vice President Xiao himself, making them nearly indistinguishable.

Even borrowing ‘Mom’s vision’, Lu Xin could only barely make it out.

And this was only while Xiao Yuan was under its influence, experiencing that recurring dream, when its power was relatively pronounced.

Under normal circumstances, even if Lu Xin borrowed ‘Mom’s vision’, he probably wouldn’t be able to detect its existence accurately.

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“Is this the power influencing him?”

Lu Xin understood slightly, but then frowned.

Even if he saw the problem, how could he help separate it?

Initially, his plan was simply to observe this Vice President Xiao.

He wanted to see if a Mental Monster or something like Psychic threads would appear near him when he had that dream.

Either way, if something appeared, he could follow the trail and directly eliminate the Mental Monster.

Or he could follow the Psychic threads to find the ‘Dream Weaver-type’ and eliminate them directly as well.

But now that those two possibilities were ruled out, the problem became slightly more difficult.

That white shadow was inside Xiao Yuan’s body, merged with him.

Trying to remove it would inevitably harm Xiao Yuan himself.

He wondered if Mom, were she here, could directly remove the influence without affecting him.

Unfortunately, after discussing it with Mom previously, Lu Xin had made an agreement.

Until he successfully completed the Second Stage, he would temporarily refrain from asking his Family for help.

The Main City had already agreed to his Second Stage progression; asking his Family for help now could easily lead to unexpected complications.

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In that case…

Lu Xin pondered for a moment and quickly came up with an idea: he planned to ask Han Bing via phone.

Since this wasn’t an urgent special pollution incident handling, he hadn’t maintained a constant connection with Han Bing. But when encountering a tricky problem, requesting information support or direct assistance, letting the appropriate person handle it, was normal.

However, doing so meant he might have to share a portion of his payment.

Although it pained him, saving someone was more important.

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With this thought, Lu Xin had already picked up his bag.

But just then, a soft electronic beep suddenly sounded from outside the hotel room door.

“Beep…”

It was the sound of someone opening the door from the outside with a hotel key card.

Immediately after, the hotel room door was pushed open, and two noisy children suddenly darted in, giggling and laughing as they rushed towards Xiao Yuan, shouting, “Brother, Brother, we finally caught you! Why haven’t you come back…”

Lu Xin frowned.

He turned his head towards the open door and saw Xiao Yuan’s Secretary hiding not far down the corridor.

“Heh heh…”

As Xiao Yuan’s younger brother and sister burst in noisily, Xiao Yuan was clearly midway through his ‘meal’.

The more he ‘ate’, the stronger the temptation became, the stronger his accumulated desire grew, and it couldn’t be satisfied.

When his siblings rushed to his side, he visibly froze for a moment, his pantomime abruptly stopping.

He subconsciously sniffed, and his expression suddenly became strangely fervent.

“Swish!”

He forcefully pulled the little boy into his arms and bit down hard.

Although the little boy was hurt by the sudden pull, he thought his brother was just playing rough like usual and closed his eyes, smiling.

The little girl hugged her brother’s arm, pouting slightly because he only hugged the boy and not her.

Lu Xin stood up from the chair, took a stride forward to Xiao Yuan, and reached out to pinch his chin.

Although he could only borrow his Sister’s ability at this moment, his movements were still much quicker than a normal person’s.

As he pinched Xiao Yuan’s chin, his other hand had already darted down, pulling the little boy up from between Xiao Yuan’s tightly embracing arms at a clever angle, then casually tossing him… towards the pillows on the bed.

Simultaneously, he hooked his foot, kicking open a nearby wardrobe, and then nudged the little girl into the cabinet with his leg.

“Hoh hoh hoh…”

Xiao Yuan sensed his siblings moving away from him, stood up angrily, and lunged towards the cabinet.

Lu Xin leaned back slightly while kicking out with his foot. Xiao Yuan stumbled and fell heavily to the floor.

Then Lu Xin stepped firmly on his spine, just below the middle back, pinning him so effectively that despite struggling with all his might, he couldn’t get up.

“Waaaah…”

Only then did the two children react, bursting into tears with loud wails.

Outside the room, the female secretary in the corridor clearly hadn’t expected this scene. Seeing Lu Xin instantly toss the boy away and pin Xiao Yuan underfoot, she panicked, running over in her high heels, shouting:

“What are you doing?”

“Guards! Guards, quick…”

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She turned out to be surprisingly aggressive, grabbing an ashtray from near the door as she ran in.

Lu Xin frowned, reaching into his bag.

Before her ashtray could come down, Lu Xin had already pulled out his gun and pointed it at her face.

The female secretary was stunned; the presence of the gun was completely unexpected.

Isn’t this guy just a low-level employee from a branch company?

How could he have a gun?

Just then, three or four tall guards rushed down the corridor.

They were originally Xiao Yuan’s bodyguards, staying in a room on the same floor.

So, the moment the secretary’s shouts rang out, they appeared immediately. They were especially shocked to see Lu Xin pinning Vice President Xiao to the ground, rushing over while pulling out rubber batons, fierce expressions on their faces.

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Underfoot, Xiao Yuan, eyes red, was desperately clawing at the cabinet door.

He had already pulled the cabinet door open; less than ten centimeters from his hand was the terrified little girl.

The bodyguards ran faster, about to burst into the room.

Lu Xin frowned slightly; the situation was tense.

If these bodyguards charged in, Lu Xin couldn’t guarantee he could deal with them without being distracted, still managing to control Xiao Yuan with just one foot without injuring him, and preventing him from harming the little girl right in front of him.

There wasn’t enough time to explain clearly.

Normally, he might have become agitated, but currently, he was in the state of borrowing ‘Mom’s vision’. To some extent, borrowing Mom’s ability made him calmer than usual, so instead, he quickly made a judgment.

The female secretary before him finally snapped back to reality, perhaps Lu Xin’s gentle expression lessened the pressure on her.

A threatening look appeared on her face as she opened her mouth to shout, “How dare you…”

But before she could finish, Lu Xin suddenly glanced at her with a smile and softly asked, “Did you give them the key card?”

Caught off guard by his words, the secretary froze for a moment.

Then she saw Lu Xin shake his head at her, as if seeing right through her thoughts: “Jealous?”

“Your thoughts are truly filthy…”

As he spoke, the muzzle dipped, and he pulled the trigger.

“Bang!”

The shot hit the secretary’s leg.

The loud bang was exceptionally piercing in the confined space, startling everyone.

The two children, terrified by the gunshot, abruptly stopped screaming.

The anger and curses that had just formed on the female secretary’s face vanished completely.

The bodyguards who had just reached the doorway stumbled in shock, nearly falling, scrambling frantically to the sides of the doorframe.

The situation was handled perfectly.

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After doing all this, Lu Xin looked down again at Xiao Yuan on the floor.

As if startled by the gunshot, Xiao Yuan, who had been struggling desperately, had also stopped.

“Was it interrupted?”

Lu Xin showed a less than satisfied expression.

Just then, from Xiao Yuan’s back, a deathly pale hand suddenly emerged.

The pale hand appeared unnervingly, extending directly from his back and grabbing onto Lu Xin’s calf.

At the same time, Lu Xin felt his consciousness rapidly plummeting.