The Creatures That We Are

Chapter 479: Cover-up

Chapter 479: Cover-up

About ten minutes later, Gao Yang, Qing Ling, and Gao Shou had more or less recovered with the help of Fat Jun’s level 5 Healing.

Virus from Talent: Patient didn’t kill quickly like X’s Pestilence, but its widespread contagion could slowly and quietly claimed a higher life form, making it a perfect Talent for assassinating the target while making sure the target was none the wiser; when the target realized what was happening, they had already been poisoned.

With the source of the virus stopped and the help of healing-type Talents, though, it wouldn’t take long for the victims to recover.

When Dick was inflicted by Patient, he would’ve been in tremendous pain and kept vomiting blood under the influence of the Talent if nothing was done. There was no worse torture than that.

“Whew!” Fat Jun let go of Gao Shou’s hand and wiped the sweat on his forehead with his chubby arm. “Done. You’re...you're all fine. You just have to rest well.”

“Thank you.” Gao Shou marveled at the magical healing technique while staring at Fat Jun, who was entirely drenched in sweat.

Although he was still quite flabbergasted, he had come to terms with one fact: his son, daughter-in-law, and these newcomers all had magic, or whatever the power was.

Gao Shou had watched his fair share of xianxia dramas with his wife, so he wasn’t unfamiliar with the concept.

Now that everyone was in no danger of dying, he could no longer tamp down his curiosity. “Yang Yang, what’s going on...”

“It’ll take time for me to explain to you, Dad,” Gao Yang cut him off. “I'll tell you everything later. Now, please believe me and do as I say.”

Gao Shou paused before nodding. “Okay, I trust you!”

Meanwhile, White Rabbit had told Heavenly Dog and the other members of Team Heavenbreaker that the trouble had been dealt with, and that they weren’t needed here.

“Uncle!” She put away her phone and went up to Gao Shou with a friendly demeanor. “Nice to meet you!”

Gao Shou paused before nodding at her with a smile. “Nice to meet you.”

White Rabbit extended a hand and broke the ice. “I’m White Rabbit, Gao Yang’s friend and former colleague. I belong to the same organization as Qing Ling.”

Gao Shou shook her hand and said with a smile, “I’m Gao Shou. Just call me Uncle Gao.”

“Uncle Gao, congratulations on becoming an awakener.”

“Awakener?” Gao Shou could guess that she was referring to those who could use magic.

White Rabbit took out her name card, printed with the title of lobby manager of the Millennium Tower. “I’m the HR head of the Twelve Zodiac Signs. The name card is a fake, but the contact information is real.”

“Oh, right.” Gao Shou took the name card and read it seriously.

“The Twelve Zodiac Signs have been recruiting new members recently. You’re welcome to join us.”

“Rabbit!” War Tiger had to step in. “He’s Seven Shadow’s dad, and you want to recruit him?”

White Rabbit shot War Tiger a glare. “Why not? Is there a rule that says father and son must belong to the same organization? Besides, what if both his dad and his girlfriend are members of our organization? Perhaps Seven Shadow will want to come back to us then. I won’t hold a grudge against him.”

Gao Yang smiled wryly. White Rabbit, you never change.

“Haha, thank you for the offer, Miss White Rabbit. I’ll consider it,” Gao Shou said politely before putting the name card into his pocket.

“Elder Seven Shadow.” War Tiger curled his finger at Gao Yang. “A word, please.”

Gao Yang followed War Tiger and put some distance between them and the others.

War Tiger asked quietly, “So? Anything we didn’t know?”

Gao Yang said honestly, “Nothing yet. Team Heavenbreaker’s findings are shared with all three organizations.”

War Tiger nodded, stroking his chin.

“How are things going on Yellow Ox’s end?” Gao Yang was quite worried about Officer Huang since Su Xi was giving birth soon.

War Tiger sighed softly. “It doesn’t seem good. Mischievous Monkey gave us a start, but you didn’t find much after going to the West Nation for investigation.”

Gao Yang felt a little shamefaced. He smiled bitterly. “At least we confirmed that life monsters do exist.”

War Tiger looked into the distance. “I was gonna grab the two Tails members to interrogate them. See if I can find something. But they ran away.”

“Yeah.” It was a shame to Gao Yang too.

“From what I know, though, they have been quite active in Li City recently. We still have a chance.”

“Right.” Gao Yang nodded. Then he thought of something. “How’s Captain?”

“Asleep again.”

“He went into hibernation again?” Gao Yang was surprised. Was this really the time to go to sleep?

War Tiger’s lips twitched. He glanced at Gao Yang. “He went to sleep not long after the Crimson Tide ended. He said that he had to be ready for the crisis that may come in the future.”

Gao Yang didn’t get into it. Dragon seemed to have a plan, and outside of getting caught off guard by X during the Crimson Tide, it seemed that his plans had never gone wrong before.

Gao Yang looked up. Night would soon fall, and the sky was going to get dark.

“We have to go, Teacher War Tiger.” Gao Yang smiled wryly. “My mom and sister are waiting for us to return. My family came here today to have some quality time.”

“Sure, keep in touch.” War Tiger turned around and called out to White Rabbit and Fat Jun. “We’re done here.”

It hadn’t been that long since they started talking, but White Rabbit was already sitting on the ground and painting her toenails. She didn’t even look up as she said, “My shoes are broken. I want reimbursement.”

“Alright, put that on Electric...” War Tiger paused, correcting himself. “On my account.”

A few minutes later, War Tiger, White Rabbit, and Fat Jun departed.

By the now ruined observatory on the top of the mountain, Gao Yang was left alone with his father and Qing Ling.

Gao Shou looked at his bloodied shirt and the two kids covered in injuries. He frowned. “What do we do? How are we gonna explain to your mother and Xinxin? We can’t tell them that we fought a few bad guys, could we?”

Gao Yang had been through this many times, and he already had a plan in mind. “Don’t worry, Dad. I’ve called someone for cover-up.”

“Huh?” Gao Shou was surprised. “You’ve got people for that? Is it an established system or something?”

“Of course. He’s a cover-up expert.” Gao Yang smiled.

...

Half an hour later, Wang Zikai arrived in his sports car on the dim rural path. Gao Yang, Gao Shou, and Qing Ling stood by the crossroad, having been waiting for a while.

Wang Zikia parked the car and opened the door, taking three bags of clothes from the passenger seat. “Here, I picked them out quickly, so no complaints about the designs.”

Gao Yang and Gao Shou changed out of the bloodied and torn clothes then and there, while Little Qing Ling took over and knelt down behind the car with the clean clothes, getting changed out of their view.

After making themselves presentable, Gao Yang clapped and said, “Come on. Let’s agree on a story.”