Chapter 772 - Freckled Fatty And His 2x2 Twins (1/2)

The cause of Song Baicheng’s death still remained a mystery.

Official police reports had deduced that he died of a cerebral haemorrhage. This caused the officers to rule out murder as a possibility. Xia Lei had already expected this and had gotten some information about Song Baicheng’s wife from Fan Fan. Her name was Liu Hui, an ex-special force agent before serving under Ling Han as his bodyguard. Song Baicheng had courted her and they got married.

Xia Lei was certain Liu Hui had something to do with Song Baicheng’s death.

A person of Ling Han’s status wouldn’t do the deed themselves. Ordering someone beneath them was much more likely. In this case, it happened to be Liu Hui in this case. Song Baicheng would not have expected an attack from his partner, which explained the lack of evidence and peaceful death. How unfortunate.

Based on Fan Fan’s information, Xia Lei was sure about the ident.i.ties of the culprits. Sadly, there was nothing much he could do with it. The investigation was paused while the research on the silver piece of metal was halted as well.

The blood on the metal provided him with information on how he might be able to visit the ancient realm. But that was only a small piece of it and not the whole chainmail. Plus, he wasn’t entirely sure he was bold enough to take that step. If there was such chainmail, where could the rest of it be? Xia Lei was hungry for an answer.

Although said research was temporarily paused, plans for new material research projects were soon made within the Thunder Horse Organization. Xia Lei had invested one hundred million dollars into this project, with the person-in-charge as Li Youdon.

Two days later, he had a guest.

“Boss, you have a guest from South America,” announced Yelena as she entered Xia Lei’s office. She’d call him Director Xia in the presence of outsiders.

Xia Lei, who was busy studying AI technology, lifted his head to look at her. “A guest from South America? Did he mention who he was?”

“I asked but he didn’t answer.”

“I see. Where is he now?”

“I had him and his people wait in the parlour. Would you like to meet him now”

“Yeah, sure.” Xia Lei left his seat to exit his office.

What he saw as he entered the parlour shocked him.

On the couch sat a fat brunette man. He looked young, presumably not more than thirty years old. His baby face was adorned with freckles, making him seem approachable.

Behind him stood four women.

They blue-eyed blondes who shared the same tall, slender physique. They were all s.e.xy Caucasians. Their heights were the same too, standing at about 185cm tall as if it was on purpose. Their amazing body proportions were accentuated with the black leather outfits they wore! But that was not the most shocking thing. The women on the man’s left were twins as were the women on his right! Together, the four gave off an illusion that they were cloned from two identical females, just like the cloning technique Sun Wukong, the Monkey G.o.d was known for.

Xia Lei couldn’t help but stare at the fat brunette and his pair of twins.

“Mister Xia, are you looking at me or the ladies behind me?” questioned the fatty calmly. He had a faint smile on his lips and spoke in English

His hair colour was of the standard Scandinavian range, and he was speaking in a language not typical of the South American region. This confused Xia Lei as to his origins.

Xia Lei entered the room to sit opposite the fatty. “Do you know me?”

The fatty replied, “The Western media portrayed you as a mad scientist from China. I’ve read my fair share of those, so how could I not know you? Are you not aware of such articles?”

“No, I’m not that interested in media.” Xia Lei continued, “Since you know who I am, I’ll spare you from my self-introduction. Who are you?”

“I’m just a mere businessman who wishes to purchase your weapons.”

“Well, that’s the only thing you can get here.” Xia Lei’s left eye twitched subtly mid-sentence, his gaze pierced through the fatty’s clothing to land on his right chest. There was a cross-shaped tattoo that consisted of four arrows on it.

That was the Knight Hospitaller’s signet, which all its members had on their body.

He averted his gaze to stare at the four women behind him, scanning across their chests slowly. Aside from their round bosom, he found the same tattoo on their chests.

The Knight Hospitallers had finally arrived.

Yelena entered the room bringing tea for Xia Lei.

When Yelena decided to stay behind, Xia Lei quickly instructed her to leave.

She nodded and left.

“Speak, who exactly are you?” Xia Lei repeated his question.

The brunette paused before he answered, “Your sight sure is powerful. Alright, my name’s Arthur and I’m a member of the Knight Hospitallers.”

“Why isn’t Mister Walton here?”

“My presence is sufficient.” Arthur stared directly into Xia Lei’s eyes. “Let’s not waste time, bring me to our sacred relic.”

“You’ll get it. But not now,” said Xia Lei. Are s.h.i.+fted his gaze to the four blondes behind Arthur. “Are the women behind you trustworthy?”

“Yeah, you could trust them.”