Chapter 15

Zhao Kongcheng felt like he was about to explode with anger.

"Me! You're asking me who I am? I'm the innocent victim whose feelings were toyed with last night, left to freeze in the wind!"

Zhao Kongcheng gripped Lin Qiye's hand tightly, like a devoted uncle afraid of losing his boyfriend to someone else. "Let me tell you, stop playing dumb. You're not getting away today!"

Lin Qiye looked at his locked arm, gave up on his futile struggle, and put on a 'do as you please' expression.

"Fine, tell me, where do you want to talk?"

"Come with me."

Zhao Kongcheng, linking arms with Lin Qiye, strode off in an unknown direction…

When Lin Qiye saw they were approaching a love hotel, his expression suddenly changed, and he turned to flee.

However, Zhao Kongcheng gave him no such opportunity, locking him in again with a reversal and dragging him towards the hotel.

"You... what do you want? I'm telling you, I have hemorrhoids, don't do anything weird...!"

"...What is it that you high school boys have in your heads? We're just finding a place to talk."

"We need to go to a love hotel to talk? Didn't you see the way people were looking at us? I'm so embarrassed!"

"What do you know? This is a safe house. I didn't bring you here for any other reason. Besides, do I look like... like that kind of person?!"

Zhao Kongcheng rolled his eyes and, dragging the struggling Lin Qiye to the front desk, threw an extremely greasy, flirtatious wink at the stunned female clerk.

"One 'Passionate Thrills' themed king-sized room, please."

Lin Qiye: ...

The female clerk froze in place. After a brief moment of mental shutdown, she became inexplicably excited!

"Yes, yes, sir. We'll need your identification, and this young... young comrade, your ID as well."

Lin Qiye, forced to hand over his ID, looked strangely at the overly excited female clerk, wondering what kind of otaku fanfiction plot was playing out in her head...

But he couldn't really blame her. In the middle of the night, a middle-aged man forcefully dragging a teenager to a love hotel to book a king-sized room, and a 'passionate' suite at that, claiming it was just for a chat... who would believe it?!

"Here is your room key. The room is 3966. I wish you two... a pleasant stay!" The female clerk said with a smile, her eyes narrowing at Lin Qiye, who looked like he was about to be taken advantage of.

Lin Qiye's fists clenched.

"Why are you just standing there? Come on up." Zhao Kongcheng pulled Lin Qiye towards the elevator.

After swiping the card and entering the room, Lin Qiye, a pure soul, saw the dazzling array of peculiar facilities and realized that rich people played in such extravagant ways...

It was indeed passionate enough!

Zhao Kongcheng locked the door and finally released Lin Qiye. He walked directly to the electric bed and sat down, his body, stiff from a day of tension, finally relaxing.

"Don't be so nervous, it really is just for talking." Zhao Kongcheng chuckled and scolded, seeing Lin Qiye's defensive posture.

Lin Qiye sighed and sat on the sofa by the door. "What do you want to talk about?"

"About you, of course."

"Lin Qiye, male, 17 years old, single, 175 cm tall, weight..."

"You know I'm not talking about that." Zhao Kongcheng rubbed his forehead, pointing at Lin Qiye's eyes with another finger. "I'm talking about your eyes."

Lin Qiye fell silent.

"Have you met Michael?"

Hearing this, Lin Qiye's body trembled slightly. After hesitating for a long time, he nodded gently.

As expected, this man knew a lot, and the power behind him... was definitely not simple!

This sentence also revealed an important piece of information to Lin Qiye: the Seraph he had seen ten years ago was none other than the famous King of Angels, Michael.

Seeing Lin Qiye nod, Zhao Kongcheng's heart finally settled, and his gaze towards Lin Qiye grew fervent.

"Why did He seek you out? What did He tell you? To what extent can you use the Forbidden Zone now?"

Zhao Kongcheng's questions came like a barrage of cannon fire. Lin Qiye frowned and shook his head.

"You have too many questions."

Zhao Kongcheng realized he had lost his composure and gave a dry laugh. "Indeed, you must have many questions in your heart right now. Let me answer them for you first. Ask whatever you want to know."

Lin Qiye pondered for a moment, looked into Zhao Kongcheng's eyes, and asked his first question: "Do the gods in mythology... truly exist in this world?"

"They do," Zhao Kongcheng nodded without hesitation. "But not all gods exist."

"What do you mean?"

Zhao Kongcheng fell into thought, as if considering where to begin. "What do you think mythology is?"

Lin Qiye thought for a moment. "A spiritual solace for ancient people? Fear and fantasy of the unknown forces of nature?"

"You're right," Zhao Kongcheng nodded. "Until a hundred years ago, everyone thought so."

"A hundred years ago?"

"That's right. Before the Mist appeared, there were no traces of gods in this world." Zhao Kongcheng's eyes narrowed slightly. "However, after the Mist that covered the Earth appeared, everything... seemed to change.

In September 1922, a year after the Mist appeared, a Mist detection team dispatched by Great Xia observed a colossal dragon slowly flying in the sky in the Mariana Trench. It was the first time in human history that a mythical creature had been observed."

After research and verification, that dragon was the Dragon of Chaos from the Bible, Leviathan. Legend has it that it was a creature created by God. The discovery of this colossal dragon directly overturned the understanding of the entire Great Xia leadership. They realized that since the onset of this great fog, the world had become fundamentally different from what it once was.

At that time, the mist had just appeared, and the entire Great Xia fell into panic. The leadership, for the sake of national stability, concealed the results of this detection.

As Leviathan, the Dragon of Chaos, was the first mythical creature observed by humans, the Great Xia leadership assigned it the codename 001. During subsequent detection processes, they discovered more mythical creatures and continued to assign sequential numbers.

The Seraphim Michael you saw was the third mythical creature observed by humans in 1928, codenamed 003."

"1928?" Lin Qiye was stunned. "We didn't even have the technology to reach the moon back then. How did they find the Seraphim on the moon?"

"We didn't find Him," Zhao Kongcheng shook his head. "In March 1928, a beam of golden sword light emanated from the moon, pierced through the cosmos, and flattened a large volcano in North America. It was only then that we learned a deity resided on the moon."

"North America? What's there?"

"Later, our exploration team spent a year reaching that volcano. Amidst the ruins, we discovered the deity codenamed 004, sealed within a Divine Forbidden Zone..."

Zhao Kongcheng paused and continued, "The fallen angel, Lucifer."