She frowned then closed the safe, she went to the front door and stealthily dragged the guard at the door into room. He tried to struggle but she's suppressed him in less than a minute
"Did the general move the blueprint?" she asked him
"No" the man answered back
"then where is the blueprint?" she asked him again.
he answered with a set of meaningless words "a beautiful bird took it away" she thought he was being feisty so she hit him and repeated the question.
"tell me where the blueprint is! and if you try to be smart this time around then you just well might lose your life"
despite her threat the man had repeat the same answer, but this time around she had noticed something about him.
"a beautiful bird took it away" he said blankly, his eyes were dazed and unfocused and at that moment it seemed he had transformed to a wooden puppet programmed to give this same answer. Her eyes lit up and she understood that all these could only happen if...
He had been hypnotized!
The man's symptoms showed that someone had hypnotized him into giving that same answer anytime he was asked. There was only one person that she knew who could hypnotize people easily and was also after the blueprint, and that person was...
Her Brother!
She should have doubts, but the facts also adds up, one he was way ahead of her on looking for it, while she was still dealing with Lu shenqi he must have already been on the blueprint's lead. Two, it was only her brother that would irrevoltably refer to himself as beautiful.
She asked the man to describe the beautiful bird but all he had to say were meaningless incoherent words, she asked him again what time the beautiful bird had taken the blueprint but the man's answer was 'at the time the moon gets beautiful', She sighed and knocked the man out. Even though she didn't get the blueprint she was still relaxed that her brother had gotten it, it was still safe in his hands and him having it was equivalent to it being with her.
She left the study and announced to the others that someone else had gotten the blueprint.
"who do you think it might be boss?" Si xunmi asked.
"could it be Zi yichen? I see traces of Lord Gremlin's men at the party too, it seems he is also after the blueprint" Jin fengju added.
Lu yao yin lied "I don't know but I think so too" before her father Kun xiabei died he had strictly ordered that not even her shadow should be aware of her brothers existence so even though she trusted her companions she still could not tell them.
"I think it's him too, I would have to confirm when we get back to China"
She and her group then left just the way they came_incognito.
They went back to their resort and slept for their journey back to china the next morning. Their mission here was over so there was no need staying back here.
For the first half of the night everything was peaceful and serene but when the sky turned pitch black and the moon had gone to hide behind the clouds, the peace and quiet was disturbed by a bunch of stealth footsteps.
Lu yao yin who was initially sleeping was woken up by the quiet footsteps on the ceiling on her resort room, if not for her good hearing she wouldn't have heard the footsteps at all.
she laid on her bed and pretended to be sleeping while from the corner of her eyes she watched as a group of people entered her room through the window and stood round her bed watching her, as one of the robed men reached out for the hidden weapon in his cloak, she also reached out for the dagger under her blanket.
She could feel the killing intent emanating from the man plus there seemed to be an unexplainable air surrounding him, it was without a doubt that this people had come with the intention of killing her but what happened next surprised her.
The man moving to harm her was unexpectely held back by another man, the first man was clearly reluctant to obey the second man but still he still stepped back.
Lu yao yin puzzlingly watched the man from her partly closed eyes, he walked to the side of her bed and stared at her for a very long time, she could not see what his face looked like so she could not understand what was on his mind. The man stood there for a few seconds then turned around and ordered the group to leave with him.
After they had gone, she immediately sat up, her face was grim and her mind was pondering who would have sent someone to kill her, if she had been in China she would have been able to list a dozen people that wanted to kill her but this time she was being incognito in a foreign land and still someone had fished her out for assassination. who had she suddenly offended? was it someone from China?
or was it a new enemy?
after the incidence she tried to go back to sleep but the just couldn't so she stayed awake. Her mind was distracted by the sudden assassination attempt.
To keep herself busy she decided to go through the box Grandpa Lu had given to her. Although she brought it together with her to Las Vegas, she was too busy to look through it since all these days, so she might do it now.
gently she opened it and the first thing that came to sight was a bunch of paper, one by one she opened them and read it, it looks like Lu yao yin mother had the habit of writing about interesting events to her daughter, most of the letter weren't of much importance, it just contained normal things, but there was one that held a very shocking information.
"yao yao, by the time you are reading this, I might no longer be here. my darling child mummy is very sorry, I'm sorry for bringing this upon you. I'm sorry I couldn't protect you anymore, my weak health made me leave this Earth too early, I wish I could write more than I can now but yao yao you must listen, there are very bad people in this world and all though I wish I could have said this face to face to you, this is the only way I could say it. Lu yao yin your life is in danger!"
Lu yao yin furrowed her brows when she read this part, still she continued reading "they are bad and strong, very strong, I can't explain it all but once you get this letter I need you to go to Huoli Mountain ask for Old man Duk, he'll explain everything to you, Yao'er I have to go always remember that mom loves you, if things end badly then we might see earlier than we supposed to, but first promise me you would keep that stuff with you at all times, never stop taking it okay, it's the only way to stay alive. It's the only way to undo what mother had done".
As intelligent as Lu yao yin was, she still couldn't understand what the real soul's mother was trying to say, the only thing she fully understood was that the real soul's life was in danger. But the real soul was dead now so should she still try to find out why?
she now lived in the soul's body so doesn't that mean that it was her those people were after now?
and what was the stuff her mother was talking about? It sounded like a drug but she doesn't recall the real soul being on any medication.
"I guess I have to find out, I'll leave it be till I have spare time" She made up her mind to follow up on the issue, if her body has an enemy then it definitely means she had that enemy too, it would be detrimental for her if she had an enemy in the shadows that she didn't know about.
She also decided to look into the body's mother identity, although she had all the memories of the body's real soul she some how didn't have any on her mother, not images of when she was small neither images of when she even died, it's as if her whole existence was wipe away from her head, she knew the body had a mother but there was no clear memory of any moment they had shared together and that's weird.
After sometime she managed to push the whole stuff to the back of her mind then got some sleep.