I felt a bit stunned. Bingbing looked confused and continued to turn the dining table, glancing around. Angrily, she clenched her fists. "That bastard! Brother! I want to go too!"
"You'll return to Lüshun Base tomorrow morning," I said. She couldn't go. Her combat power was too weak. Besides, Bingbing was petite, resembling a young girl. If we refused and the Miao King captured her for cultivation, wouldn't that be losing both the wife and the army?
Suppressed emotions filled the room, and we lost our appetite for dessert. Lin Chi went to pay the bill. As we left, Lin Xi had already called for two Sablea business vans.
"By the way, which hospital is Yanan in?" I asked. I had tried to search for her using Xiang Qi Shu before, but there were quite a few demons in Capital City, including many blue-qi great demons. They influenced the effect of Xiang Qi Shu on each other. I couldn't be bothered to identify them one by one to find out which one was the eagle demon.
"She's at our main hospital, quite far away, in the northern suburbs of Capital City. Don't worry, it's the hospital with the best conditions in all of Asia," Lin Xi said.
We all got into the vans and were taken to Sablea's guesthouse, right across from their office building. Standing in the guesthouse courtyard, I activated Xiang Qi Shu. Oh my, it was a riot of colors, truly beautiful. Most of the people living inside were "masters" from the martial world. There were seven or eight with purple qi alone. Capital City truly hid crouching tigers and hidden dragons.
Although it was called a guesthouse, the building looked quite ordinary from the outside, just a six-story small building. But inside, it was no different from a five-star hotel. Sablea wasn't short on money; they just deliberately hid their strength sometimes to maintain a low profile.
Lin Xi asked us how many rooms we needed.
"Four," I said.
"Four rooms?" Lin Chi chuckled mischievously. "It's not that we're stingy, we have plenty of rooms, but we might not have adjacent rooms. If they're too far apart, I'm afraid it would be inconvenient for you."
"It's not inconvenient, but we don't need four. Two adjacent ones will do," I said. One room for the living, one for the dead.
After completing the procedures, the guesthouse also helped us with our bullet train tickets for tomorrow morning, so we could go directly to the train station. They had even arranged for a business van from the guesthouse to the train station for tomorrow morning, parked in the courtyard outside. We could drive ourselves or have the guesthouse driver take us.
They were very accommodating and gave us great face.
"Then you all rest well. My sister and I won't keep you company," Lin Xi said.
"You're not staying here?" Bingbing asked.
"We have our own homes, why would we stay here?" Lin Chi laughed.
"Ah? Are the two sisters... already married?" Bingbing asked in surprise.
"Don't misunderstand, it's not that we're married. It's our own homes. We're older single women, still living with our parents. Our house isn't big, just a small eighty-something square meter apartment. After all, we're public officials, and we have to keep a low profile," Lin Xi said with a smile.
"Which ring road do you live on?" I asked.
"The second ring."
Heh, owning a property within the second ring road and still calling it low-profile. If buying a house within Capital City's fourth or third ring road was a symbol of wealth, then living within the second ring had little to do with money. It was the Lin sisters' family background, their lineage. Nurturing such excellent senior Sablea executives likely meant their grandfather wasn't an ordinary person either.
"Alright, then I'll have to visit your parents when there's a chance," I said casually, thinking of it as I spoke.
Unexpectedly, Lin Chi chuckled. "Why wait for a good day? How about today? My dad was just mentioning you this morning. He said you're young and promising, and that we should take you as an example. He rambled on for half an hour, almost making me late!"
"I knew he'd talk about it this morning after reading last night's briefing, so I ran off early," Lin Xi said with a smile. Then she turned to me, "How about it, Chengfeng? Want to go?"
I could go, but what would be the point? Meeting the parents? But I couldn't meet one parent for two different girls!