228: Chapter 228 A Crazy Hotel Night (Part 2)

"Beep—"

Gou Fugui took the master keycard he'd swiped from the front desk and swiped it against the access panel of Room 2808.

However, before the chime had even finished sounding,

"Creak."

Xiang Batian gave it a light push, and the heavy smart door popped open with surprising smoothness.

"Huh? That's strange."

Gou Fugui adjusted the gold-rimmed glasses on the bridge of his nose, poked his head inside, and muttered with a puzzled expression:

"This seven-star hotel in the Imperial Capital isn't all that, is it? How is the lock broken? It wasn't even latched shut?"

Beside him, Xiang Batian relied on his massive frame to squeeze right in.

"Who cares if it's broken or not? Let's get inside quickly and talk to Brother Jiang about splitting the money."

Xiang Batian lowered his booming voice, complaining as he walked inside:

"Fugui, I told you we should have come earlier, but you insisted on dragging me over in the middle of the night. Brother Jiang is probably already fast asleep in bed now."

"What on earth were you doing earlier, fiddling with your phone in the room for so long?"

"Heh heh, that's where you don't understand."

Gou Fugui pulled the door shut behind him, a sleazy grin typical of a profiteer spreading across his face. He pulled out his phone, waved it around, and spoke with the loneliness of someone who is "invincible and lonely":

"Wasn't there some arrogant fool earlier, frantically stirring up trouble under our Class F promotional post, insisting on hyping up that Qin Zhuo from Imperial Capital University?"

"I used my 'Honest Boss Gou' account and battled that little hater for three hundred rounds in the comment section!"

"Oh?" Xiang Batian became interested. "How did the battle go?"

"Need you ask? It's a good thing I wasn't using a keyboard to face off against that person, or I could have roasted her ancestors back eighteen generations until they were depressed!"

Gou Fugui tossed his hair triumphantly, his tone filled with disdain:

"That little hater, judging by the tone, was just like some naive elementary schooler who's never seen the world. When she got flustered, all she could do was spam a bunch of angry emojis."

"I poked her sore spot in just a few sentences and roasted her so hard she couldn't even type punctuation marks. I bet that little brat is hiding under her covers crying right now! Hahahaha..."

At this moment.

Inside the luxurious bathroom, just one door away.

A "buzz" sounded in Qin Zhuo's mind, as if a string called "reason" had completely snapped.

"Honest Boss Gou?!"

"It was this bastard?!"

"He dares to call me an elementary schooler? Says I'm crying under the covers?"

Qin Zhuo's stunningly beautiful face instantly flushed bright red, and the veins on her forehead throbbed violently.

The temperature around her began to rise uncontrollably and sharply. The [Divine Phoenix Undying Fire], which she had been forcibly suppressing, began to flicker restlessly with golden sparks between her fingertips and hair tips due to her extreme rage.

"Are you crazy?!"

Beside her, Spade 10 felt the surrounding air turn into an oven. Terrified, her face pale, she quickly warned in an extremely low voice:

"Put the fire away! Do you want to trigger the smoke alarm? Do you want everyone in the Imperial Capital to know that the esteemed Chief of the Imperial Capital Martial Arts Academy is hiding in a man's bathroom in the middle of the night?"

This sentence was like a bucket of ice water poured over Qin Zhuo's head.

Qin Zhuo took a deep breath, bit her lower lip hard, and forcibly suppressed the flames that were about to go berserk.

But her eyes, which were practically spitting fire, stared fixedly at the bathroom door, as if she wanted to hack the Gou Fugui outside into a thousand pieces with her gaze alone.

"Damn you, just you wait! If you have the guts, don't let me run into you at the league tournament!"

...

In the outer bedroom.

Gou Fugui, completely unaware that he had been dancing on the edge of death several times already, was just about to walk toward the large bed to wake Jiang You up.

Suddenly!

"Hiss!"

Xiang Batian, who had been maintaining an extremely high level of vigilance, suddenly gasped.

His muscles, trained to the peak, tensed up instinctively, like a cheetah catching the scent of a natural predator.

He grabbed Gou Fugui, using enough force to nearly dislocate his arm.

"Fugui! Shut up! Don't move!"

Xiang Batian's voice was low and hoarse, his eyes fixed intently on the direction of the bathroom:

"Something's wrong! There's… killing intent in this room!"

"And… it's hot! Abnormally hot!"

Gou Fugui was startled by Xiang Batian's appearance of facing a formidable enemy; he almost dropped the phone in his hand.

He, too, felt the faint yet scorching hostility in the air that could roast a person alive.

"Holy crap! Could it be those enemies Brother Jiang mocked during the day, who came to assassinate him in the middle of the night?"

Gou Fugui's legs went weak with fear, and his glasses slid crookedly to the tip of his nose:

"No, no! We're only Tier 3; this aura is at least Tier 4, maybe even a stronger big shot! Going up there is just serving ourselves on a platter!"

"Then what do we do? Wake up Brother Jiang?" Although Xiang Batian was stubborn, he wasn't a fool.

"Wake him up, my foot! Brother Jiang is sleeping like a dead pig right now. If that assassin unleashes an ultimate move, we won't even have a chance to run!"

Gou Fugui's brain worked rapidly, and he immediately came up with a brilliant idea for self-preservation.

He grabbed Xiang Batian, signaled wildly with his eyes, and then deliberately cleared his throat, speaking in an exaggerated, almost theatrical, booming voice:

"Oh my! So Brother Jiang is already asleep!"

Xiang Batian understood immediately and instantly cooperated, showcasing his clumsy acting skills while shouting in a rough voice:

"Yeah! Brother Jiang is sleeping so soundly! Snoring like a tractor!"

Gou Fugui continued his loud performance, pulling Xiang Batian toward the door as he spoke:

"Since Brother Jiang is asleep, let's not disturb him! Let's talk about splitting the money tomorrow!"

"Sounds good, sounds good! Oh man, I suddenly feel a bit sleepy too. I need to hurry back and catch some beauty sleep!" Xiang Batian yawned stiffly.

"Goodnight, Brother Jiang! Have sweet dreams, Brother Jiang! We're leaving!"

The two of them shouted loudly to bolster their own courage, while tiptoeing toward the door at the speed of a hundred-meter sprint.

Their plan was perfect: pretend they hadn't noticed anything, retreat immediately, then go straight to the front desk to summon help, calling all the security guards and the team leader. This way, not only could they save their own skins, but they could also rescue Brother Jiang!

At this moment.

Inside the luxurious bathroom, just one door away.

Although Qin Zhuo and Spade 10 were keeping each other in check, how could they not hear the clumsy acting of the two clowns outside?

"We've been discovered!"

Qin Zhuo and Spade 10's hearts sank simultaneously.

If they let them run out and call for help, things would blow up tonight!

Qin Zhuo didn't want to be branded with the infamy of a "night raid on a boy's room," and Spade 10 was even more afraid of exposing her identity as an assassin for the Wusheng Divine Sect.

But!

Neither of them dared to move first at this moment.

Qin Zhuo was afraid that if she turned to catch them, Spade 10's poisoned dagger would pierce her heart from behind.

Spade 10 was also afraid that if she showed her head, she would be burned to ashes by the Divine Phoenix Undying Fire.

More subtly, they were actually hoping that Gou Fugui and Xiang Batian would leave quickly!

"Get lost! Get far away! Once you leave, I'm jumping out the window and getting out of here! This place is too cursed today!" Qin Zhuo prayed frantically in her heart.

"Hurry up and leave. It seems the mission can't be completed today; I need to make a run for it." Spade 10 also gripped her dagger tightly, silently urging them on in her heart.

Just as the two in the bathroom were full of expectation, and Gou Fugui's hand was already gripping the doorknob, preparing to pull the door open and "escape to safety" at that critical moment!

"Knock, knock, knock."

A steady, powerful knock suddenly sounded from outside the door!