Night Walker

[Unknown IP User: Are you there?]

[Camellia: Who is this?]

[Unknown IP User: It's Yuzu.]

A typing indicator appeared under Camellia's avatar, then stopped after a moment. Xu Xiaoyou's expression immediately grew serious. Had the other party already learned part of the truth?

Could the other party be someone associated with the Association or the company? Should she immediately stop communicating?

Little did she know, while Xu Xiaoyou was brainstorming, the red-haired girl on the other end was so excited she was practically bouncing. She hadn't misread it, had she?

It had been almost half a month since their last unproductive chat. Two days ago, Yuzu's avatar had gone dark, and she'd worried she said something wrong or that something had happened to the other party.

She paced, deleting the words she had just typed, wondering if she should act reserved or simply apologize openly.

Finally, she made up her mind.

[Camellia: The busy person finally deigned to find me?]

[Yuzu: To be honest, something happened to me that's hard to explain in a short time. In short, many people are hunting me, and I've fled to Red Heaven.]

Seeing the message from Xu Xiaoyou, the girl's mind went utterly blank. She couldn't believe her eyes, filtering out words like 'hunting' and 'fled,' only seeing that Yuzu had arrived in Red Heaven.

This meant she could suddenly meet this mysterious online friend, who was millions of kilometers away, in person?

"Hey, Camellia, what are you spacing out for? Time to go, that damn guy is about to come out."

A companion's voice sounded in her ear. The red-haired girl turned, seeing a boy in a night-suit with short chestnut hair putting on an owl mask. Beside him, a black-haired leader was pulling on gloves, the nunchaku draped over her wrist conspicuously visible.

Behind them, a girl with a ponytail and a large bow tied on her head blew pink bubbles. With a slight push of her leg, her swivel chair carried her in front of everyone. After stretching, she propped her legs onto the tactical table.

"I've blacked out all the surveillance in the nearby area. Everything according to plan."

A tactical map, covered in red marker where '00XX' was written, lay spread on the table, pinned at its four corners. Every marked spot had annotations corresponding to different street corners in Dragonfly Town.

Various weapons were laid out: homemade crystal-axis stun batons, pepper spray, golf clubs, smoke grenades, flashbangs. Most weren't lethal but could incapacitate someone in a very short time.

[Camellia: Really?]

Only belatedly did she realize the other party mentioned having some trouble? That wasn't important. With her status, as long as the other party was in Red Heaven, she could fix any problem, no matter how big.

The prerequisite was that the other party still yearned for 'justice.'

[Yuzu: I need help.]

The girl called Camellia raised an eyebrow and typed.

[Camellia: You're so sure I can help you?]

[Yuzu: I deduced it.]

[Camellia: Congratulations...]

Camellia smirked and snapped her fingers. In the operations room behind her, a heavily modified off-road vehicle, radiating a powerful aura, rose up. Its body was emblazoned with wild spray paint, and as the lights fell upon it, the 'Night Walker' logo stretched from the front to the rear, flamboyant as flames.

The girl wore a cool jacket, her dark red hair cascading down her back. Beneath her devilish red and black miniskirt,

long Dr. Martens boots encased her calves, with spikes distributed around the toes. These spiked elements were visible everywhere on her clothing.

No one could have imagined that the Chi family's little family head, coveted by countless people, who was usually pure and quiet, had such a side to her in private—a flamboyant and unrestrained personality, like a spoiled delinquent girl.

Camellia leaned against the jeep, chewing a bitter melon flavored candy. Compared to the rugged metal beast behind her, her figure was slender; her height, just over 1.7 meters, barely reached half the car door. The red-haired girl, whom countless people usually pampered, heedlessly touched the dusty metal, her gaze fixed intently on the screen in front of her.

[Camellia: Your deduction is absolutely correct. I guarantee no one in Red Heaven can help you more than I can. Where are you now?]

Xu Xiaoyou pondered for a moment, not sending her exact location, only telling the girl she was in Dragonfly Town.

A hint of surprise flickered in Camellia's eyes.

The other party was in the same town as her? What a coincidence.

Camellia thought of something, smiled slyly, and sped up her typing.

Since that was the case, for their first meeting, she should give this mysterious online friend an unconventional introduction to leave a deep impression.

[Camellia: I happen to be caught up in something right now. Turn on the local news, Yuzu. You'll see me in three minutes. Get ready for a good show. See you.] Leaving these words, Camellia went offline. Xu Xiaoyou had many questions. She hadn't expected this online friend to also be in Dragonfly Town. As for the 'good show' the other party mentioned... she turned on the TV and switched to the local news channel.

On screen, an agitated crowd surrounded the entrance of an agency. Reporters stood on tiptoes, trying to hold up their cameras, pressing the shutter button repeatedly as a man emerged, escorted by the Mountain Crow family.

"Why are you letting this scoundrel go!"

"We demand an explanation from the Mountain Crow family!"

"Why let go of this heinous bastard! He killed his wife and daughter, raped and murdered five maids,

and molested twenty-three young girls in their prime! Just because this scoundrel is from the Chi family, he gets to walk free!?"

Various soda cans, eggshells, and rotten vegetable leaves were hurled at the middle-aged man at the center of the storm. Some justice-minded young men pushed through the crowd, rolling up their sleeves and eager to punch the man, but they were stopped by members of the Mountain Crow family around him. The latter merely found it a bit noisy, looking at the indignant faces with disdain, and spat on a young man's face.

"These fools, look at their ridiculous faces, ha ha ha ha."

He was Chi Pinyouyi, the young master of Dragonfly Town's power company. These commoners dared to dream of judging him. Thinking that he would be transferred back to the main family in a few days, and after the storm passed, he could do whatever he wanted again, just like before, the man flicked on a cigarette and took a drag.

So what if he got a little excited and accidentally played to death a few low-status women? It was as if he was the only one who had ever done such a thing. Just thinking of those young girls' tender, moist skin, Chi Pinyouyi's mind conjured up new wicked thoughts, and his body grew restless. He had already memorized the faces of the protesting girls in the crowd; after the storm passed, he would have someone send them to his bed.

Suddenly, he noticed an old woman in the corner of the crowd, carrying a vegetable basket, her clothes patched and mended. Her temples were streaked with white, her eyes dim, standing there like a withered tree trunk, as if a gentle breeze could knock her over. Chi Pinyouyi recognized the old woman. Although he didn't remember which girl's mother she was, she had caused the most trouble after he was locked up in the agency.

Chi Pinyouyi deliberately made a choking gesture, his eyes wide, showing a hint of ferocity.

This was how he had killed those girls. After doing this, the surrounding crowd grew even more agitated. Chi Pinyouyi and even the Mountain Crow family members around him were pushed back and forth like a small boat in a raging current. He wasn't scared; instead, he seemed to savor a drag of his cigarette, blowing the smoke onto the face of the Mountain Crow family man protecting him, extinguishing the reddish cigarette butt on the man's head:

"I should thank you all. The Mountain Crow family's dogs are truly loyal, tsk tsk tsk."

The man endured the humiliation and anger. If he could, he would naturally want to hand this heinous devil over to the public for judgment.

But the other party was from the main family. The new family head had only taken office a few days ago, and a new official had three fires to ignite. The order from above was to send this man back to the main family unharmed. Since joining the underworld, they had sworn loyalty to the main family with blood, and the Five Great Chi Families had extremely severe methods for those who betrayed the clan.

The old woman's tears had dried days ago. She slowly walked toward the crowd, her bark-like skin dirty and caked with mud. Her hand reached into her vegetable basket, as if grasping a pair of small hands; tiny hands gently tracing the rough cracks on her hands, counting lines like tree rings, innocent and lovely.....

A fruit knife lay in the vegetable basket. She couldn't live anymore. She wanted this demon to pay for her granddaughter's life. After that, she would kill herself, dying in a deserted corner, affecting no one.

Just as the old woman was about to pull out the fruit knife and charge into the crowd, a young girl stopped her. A wisp of dark red hair fluttered in the air, a black and red figure passed by her, and a warm, firm, reassuring clear voice reached her:

"We guarantee he will receive all the punishment he deserves. Then, death will be his release."

"Justice may be delayed, but it will never be absent."