After Tiamat left, Ling Ling immediately pulled out her phone and called Chiyotsuki.
On the other end of the line, Chiyotsuki, who had been drinking black tea and reviewing family affairs reports, immediately answered when she saw the caller ID was Ling Ling.
But she was also very confused.
According to the time, Ling Ling should still be accompanying Lin Jiu at the aquarium.
What could have made that sister-obsessed maniac take time to call her?
When the call connected, Ling Ling didn’t waste words and spilled everything about the blue-haired girl she had encountered earlier, though she omitted the information that the other party was a Knight of the Round Table.
In her heart, she vaguely felt that she shouldn’t involve Chiyotsuki in troublesome matters like the Cradle.
After hearing Ling Ling’s account, Chiyotsuki on the other end furrowed her brows.
That light blue hair color was indeed the hair color of the Chiyo Family.
But what puzzled Chiyotsuki even more was the other party’s golden vertical pupils and that ability similar to “Shadow.”
Before she disappeared, Qian Dai was just an ordinary person.
Let alone having a Supernatural Ability, even her Ability Circuit was almost completely blocked.
And it was precisely for this reason that she had been looked down upon by the family since childhood.
The Qian Dai that Chiyotsuki knew would never be that kind of extremely arrogant person.
She was a lively and cheerful ordinary little girl who was a bit jealous.
After a moment of silence, Chiyotsuki finally spoke her first words.
“Ling Ling, can you still find her?”
“I want to meet her.”
On the other end of the line, Ling Ling replied with a hint of apology.
“Sorry, she left very suddenly.”
“I didn’t have time to ask for contact information…”
Chiyotsuki was silent for a long time.
So long that Ling Ling thought it was because of poor signal at the aquarium.
But when she brought the phone closer to her ear again, she could hear Chiyotsuki’s somewhat rapid breathing.
“Are you still there?”
Chiyotsuki on the other end slowly came back to her senses and spoke in her usual gentle tone, though there was a barely noticeable tremor in her voice.
“I’m here.”
“Ling Ling, do you have any other leads on her?”
This was the first time Ling Ling had seen Chiyotsuki so flustered.
In her impression, the other party had always been that gentle and elegant.
It seemed that Tiamat was a very important person to Chiyotsuki.
“No…”
“But I can ask Hua Jianxi to look into it.”
“Mm, sorry for the trouble.”
“If there are any new leads, remember to contact me.”
“Okay.”
“If there’s nothing else, I’ll hang up now. Have fun.”
“Mm.”
After Chiyotsuki hung up, Ling Ling quickly returned to Lin Jiu’s side.
After all, it had been close to an hour since she said she was going to the bathroom.
Although Lin Jiu hadn’t sent a message to urge her, she could probably guess what expression and state she was in now.
If she didn’t go back soon, she might be… tonight.
At the thought, cold sweat broke out on Ling Ling’s back.
She used “Aura Concealment” at the fastest speed, concealed her figure, and ran back to the Jellyfish Wall.
Meanwhile, Lin Jiu, who had been waiting for Ling Ling, now had a face full of dark lines, and even her smile was filled with “nuclear kindness.”
“Sister, why did you take so long in the bathroom?”
“Did you go find some other woman again?”
After saying that, Lin Jiu walked up to Ling Ling, leaned close to her neck, and sniffed the scent on her.
At that moment, Ling Ling also started to feel nervous and silently complained in her mind.
‘It doesn’t smell like a woman Lin Jiu has known…’
Then, Lin Jiu indeed smelled a scent slightly different from usual.
Another reason Ling Ling usually spoke very little or said things briefly was that she was tongue-tied.
If it were Ye Fengxue, it would be fine, at least they just bantered normally.
As long as she didn’t intentionally hit a sore spot, she could say whatever she wanted, and it was quite comfortable.
But with Lin Jiu, it was different.
She had no idea how to explain certain mysterious misunderstandings to her sometimes.
If she couldn’t explain clearly, Ling Ling was a bit afraid of repeating the scene in the bathroom that day…
“Sister, don’t you want to defend yourself?”
Hearing this, Ling Ling gave up struggling, raised her hands above her head, and made a French military salute pose.
“Xiao Jiu, it’s a misunderstanding…”
“Oh? Then explain, sister.”
Lin Jiu’s expression had started to soften a bit, but that hostility still hadn’t disappeared.
What she needed now was an explanation from Ling Ling.
Ling Ling dropped the French military salute, rested one hand under her chin, coughed dryly twice, and then began to explain everything in detail.
After hearing Ling Ling’s explanation, Lin Jiu’s expression also became somewhat complicated.
“Sister, are you saying there were two people who look very much like Senior Chiyo, and one of them, a Knight of the Round Table, has been following us?”
Ling Ling nodded.
“Could she be Senior Chiyo’s younger sister or cousin or something?”
“Maybe.”
“Chiyotsuki has never mentioned to me that she has a younger sister or cousin.”
“Besides, I’ve looked into the Chiyo Family before, and the only visible heir is Chiyotsuki. I’ve never heard of any other heirs…”
After saying that, both Lin Jiu and Ling Ling fell into a moment of contemplation.
Each of them had their own speculations in mind.
Ling Ling thought the other party might be an illegitimate daughter of the Chiyo Family or something.
After all, the records she had found on the Chiyo Family only listed Chiyotsuki as an heir, with no mention of others.
Even if she had died, there should have been a record.
Lin Jiu, on the other hand, thought the other party was most likely Chiyotsuki’s biological younger sister.
It was just that for some reason, the Chiyo Family had never brought it up, and even Chiyotsuki herself didn’t want to mention it.
She had always known what kind of woman Chiyotsuki was.
The other party was a strange woman even more twisted than her own sister, always deliberately keeping distance from people or things she wanted to get close to…
However, Lin Jiu had no intention of continuing this topic with Ling Ling.
After all, today was her day to have Ling Ling all to herself.
She couldn’t let such a heavy topic ruin the wonderful atmosphere of today.
“Sister, let’s just leave it to that useless pink hair.”
“Yeah.”
The two immediately found Hua Jianxi on a messaging app and briefly explained what had happened today and what they wanted her to investigate.
Hua Jianxi, who was playing a card battle game called “Song of Shadows: Beyond the World,” saw Ling Ling’s message and casually replied with “OK.”
Then she went back to the game and fought desperately against the lucky dog on the other side.
Unfortunately, when the opponent had only a sliver of health left, she didn’t draw any damage cards.
What the opponent responded with was an 8-cost, 6/6 body card with Charge, and then kicked her to death.
At this point, Hua Jianxi was completely enraged by the game’s mysterious card-drawing system.
She decided to hack into the game server to see how the game’s card-drawing code was written…
After all, this was a mysterious game that could make even a joker like her lose her cool and turn red-hot.
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