57: I Know!
"If I could, I wouldn't want to be some Demon King. No rest days, and having to worry about a whole bunch of things every day." Pouting her little mouth, Leticia made no attempt to hide her deep loathing for the profession of Demon King.
"But you're doing quite well at it, aren't you?" Bai Ling knew Leticia's status among the demon race. This young lady could be counted as one of the rare wise rulers the demon race had seen in several generations.
"That's because you don't know how eccentric my ancestors were, one by one. If there's a chance in the future, I'll tell you about them." Leticia chuckled. Didn't she know her own abilities? Fighting was fine, but handling demon race political affairs really wasn't her forte.
Fortunately, her predecessors were equally incapable of handling these things. In fact, when compared, Leticia, who occasionally offered her own opinions, turned out to be quite capable in that regard.
"My mother was a love-brain. Qila and I were just extras that came with her romance. In the end, she was assassinated because of love." Leticia had no good feelings toward her mother, the previous Demon King.
As for her father... Leticia really had no impression of him.
"By the way, what about your parents? Are they dead?"
"I don't know." Bai Ling shook her head. "They disappeared when I was little. I asked Senior Sang about it before, but she didn't have any clues about my parents either."
"Oh, then they're probably dead." Leticia's words were quite infuriating. Even the usually good-tempered Bai Ling felt her fists harden at this moment.
Was there anyone who cursed other people's parents to death like this?
"Sister, Su Qianqian, we're here!" Bai Ya timely interrupted the two young ladies who were about to perform a real-life fighting match on the street. She pointed to a quite lively restaurant not far away and said to them.
"Mm." Bai Ling lowered her fist.
Leticia just chuckled, feeling extremely pleased at seeing Bai Ling frustrated.
Just like that, under Leticia's seamless topic diversion, Bai Ling's attention successfully shifted from "which Leticia is the real Leticia" to "how to beat up Leticia."
Truly cause for celebration.
Entering the restaurant, because it was a rest day, there were quite a few customers.
"Four guests?" The server at the entrance immediately approached them with a professional smile.
"Yes, are there any seats available?" Bai Ya nodded.
"Yes, yes there are." The server led the four to an empty table, then pointed to the QR code on the table and said, "To order, you'll need to scan the code with your phone."
"Alright." Bai Ya indicated she understood.
When Bai Ya took out her phone to scan the code, Leticia elbowed Bai Ling. "Hey, look at those three over there. Aren't they the people we beat up a few days ago?"
Bai Ling followed Leticia's gaze and saw a distinctive head of blonde hair.
"Mm, should be them." The blonde guy and two pretty girls—this combination should be the people they beat up a few days ago.
"What a coincidence." Leticia sighed. "Never thought we'd run into them just having a meal."
Central City was so big, yet these two groups of people happened to choose to eat here. It really made one sigh about their fate.
Leticia and Bai Ling's pointing and whispering naturally caught the attention of the three-person team. Lu Siyu, who was facing Leticia and the others, quietly said to Xia Hongying beside her: "Look, those two girls over there seem to be looking at us."
"Ah, that's normal. Look at this blonde head—how could it not be eye-catching?" Xia Hongying replied without looking up.
In Central City where black hair was predominant, Blonde Youth's flowing blonde hair was truly extremely conspicuous.
"This is natural, genetic, understand?" Blonde Youth expressed dissatisfaction. His blonde hair was hereditary in his family and something he was very satisfied with.
"Besides, isn't there a white-haired one over there too? Compared to my blonde hair, white hair is obviously much rarer, right?" Blonde Youth also turned to look at Bai Ling's side and quickly found the two girls whispering to each other. "These two girls are quite pretty."
"Indeed, much prettier than those big stars on TV." Xia Hongying also looked up toward Bai Ling's side. After seeing the two girls, she was also somewhat surprised. These were the most beautiful girls she had ever seen.
Especially that black-haired little girl, who appeared very lively and cute—simply the most perfect image in Xia Hongying's heart.
"They seem to have noticed us." Leticia propped her chin and smiled at Xia Hongying, then said to Bai Ling.
"Sharp perception. Worthy of the rising stars the Association has high hopes for." Bai Ling had no reaction. It would be strange if those three hadn't noticed.
She and Leticia hadn't concealed their gazes at all. Such obvious attention was very easily perceived by gifted ability users.
"Sister, Su Qianqian, stop whispering and hurry up and order!" Bai Ya said to them with some dissatisfaction.
Her sister and Su Qianqian had been whispering since just now, talking for ages without finishing. She had called them several times without being noticed.
These two dog girls were really annoying.
"Ah, haven't finished ordering yet?" Leticia blinked. She thought Bai Ya had already finished ordering.
"Anything is fine with me." Bai Ling's answer was even more brief. "As long as it can fill me up."
"Oh."
......
"You're saying that after you searched the kitchen, you were knocked unconscious, and when you woke up you only saw two strange people, one black and one white?" Qila stood in the center of the room with her hands behind her back. Behind her, Emily was kneeling on one knee.
"Yes, I just don't know why they let me go." Emily nodded. She had thought she was doomed, but after waking up from being knocked unconscious the second time, she found herself lying on a park bench.
That place happened to be covered by surveillance cameras, as if the person who brought her there had chosen it deliberately.
She really didn't understand why someone would treat her, a thief, this way—not torturing her much, just knocking her unconscious and throwing her out.
Could it be that those two people were actually reincarnated bodhisattvas?
"One black and one white... what were their heights?" Su Qi was gradually guessing the truth. She remembered the black robe Bai Ling had worn home last night, and also recalled the excuse Bai Ling had used at the time.
She said she had gone to catch a thief.
The thief naturally referred to Emily, but there was still one problem—Bai Ling should have had a companion.
Otherwise, how could Emily have been knocked unconscious and captured when Bai Ling hadn't returned home yet?
It couldn't be that this person actually also lived in Bai Ling's house, but Bai Ling was hiding it from Bai Ya, could it?