I moved everything from the table onto the bed and then shoved the table aside, exposing the floor. I used playing cards to represent all the rooms on the fourth floor and placed them in a circle on the floor. After that, I pointed to three of the rooms and drew three wolves on the playing cards.
“These three rooms aren’t simple. One of them must be the boss’s room. He’s unlikely to be staying with other people, but he probably has a bodyguard with him. He should be in the middle room.” I wrote the word “king” next to the wolf on the playing card that represented that room. “We’ll call this middle room the Wolf King’s Den. With regards to the two rooms next to it, no one has come out since checking in. There must be experts staying inside. Each room can accommodate three people, so we’ll call these two rooms wolf dens and assume that there are three wolves in each one. No matter what we do, we must never disturb the people in these three rooms.”
Everyone nodded, but it was obvious that they didn’t fully understand. I told Fatty about how Xiao Hua didn’t drive the fourth floor people away. Even if they were all rabble, they still needed to be cleared out, but Xiao Hua didn’t do it. This clearly showed that the people in these three rooms were very dangerous. We didn’t have any weapons or combat effectiveness now, so we could only rely on our brains.
Once Fatty agreed, I continued arranging the rooms. There were three or four rooms on the other side of these three rooms that I labeled with the word shuixian (1). “Shuixian are those people who are good at swimming and have special abilities. These people are very important since they’re needed for many critical operations. As a result, they’ll also need protection and will be placed near the wolf dens. But there are three or four rooms between them and the wolf dens. The people staying in them are definitely more important than the shuixian, but not as important as the boss. The person we’re about to kidnap is staying in one of them, so we’ll have to think hard to figure out what they do.”
“Are they family members?” Bai Haotian asked.
I shook my head. Who would bring their family to do such a thing?
“No, they’re consultants. This boss definitely isn’t an insider, so he’ll need grave robbers familiar with the system to manage so many outlaws. These people are officially called consultants. At least, that’s what A Ning used to call them. These people help the boss manage the people below, so they have a certain degree of prestige. That’s why they’re staying in these three or four rooms. The grave robbers who got hired must be in the area where the shuixian are staying.”
I write the word “fox” on the playing cards representing these rooms. There were now three or four fox dens on both sides of the wolf dens.
The shuixian area was crowded with people and there were at least a dozen rooms separating the stairs from the door to the head grave robber’s room. The doors and windows to these rooms were usually left wide open and some people simply got drunk in the corridor at night. Some people gambled at night, while others simply slept during the day instead of sleeping at night. I wasn’t sure that I could walk through this corridor without being discovered. Not to mention tying people up, our only possibility was to wait for the young man to leave his room and go outside.
But I had never seen him stray too far from his room, so I had to draw him out first.
This person had a very cautious nature and didn’t like to leave his domain. The way he eyed people and his keen awareness of other’s eyes in the crowd all proved that he definitely wasn’t an ordinary person.
Theoretically, I had a hundred feasible ways to get him out of the room, but the only thing that would actually work was to get him to follow his own desires and think that he had the upper hand.
I had to get him to notice me, realize who I was, and then let him think I knew where the calling spring was. If I did that, he would end up following me.
At this time, Xiang Dun had just come back, so I said to him, “Help me make an appointment with your friend, Hong Ding Shuixian.” Xiang Dun was dumbfounded, but I kept talking, “We’ll make him pick up male clients even if he doesn’t want to.”
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TN Notes:
(1) If you don’t remember, the characters for shuixian (水仙) can mean daffodil or legendary water immortal. Based on the context here, I decided to just go with the pinyin.
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