2:00 PM was the time Xiang Kun had arranged to meet "August's Kasumi" in person online.
The woman in blue had been inside the "Long Time No See" café for 13 minutes.
Xiang Kun appeared to be engrossed in playing the claw machine, but in reality, he was intently gathering auditory and olfactory information from his surroundings.
Although the distance and the glass door prevented the release of much odor information from the coffee shop, he had already "observed" all the customers before they entered, and had created a basic information card in his mind.
However, so far, no target has been found that raises enough suspicion to warrant further investigation.
Of course, Xiang Kun wouldn't go into the "Long Time No More" coffee shop.
After suggesting this meeting place, he never went into that coffee shop again. From beginning to end, he had no intention of "showing up" to meet the other person.
Through the reflection of the metal trim, Xiang Kun saw the woman in blue drinking one of her two beverages while idly scrolling through her phone, looking like an ordinary city girl.
From this, Xiang Kun can confirm once again that the woman in blue is not a vampire, and that her connection with the vampire behind "August's Kasumi" is not very deep. Otherwise, the other party would have told her what to be careful about when asking her to impersonate him, and that she shouldn't eat or drink anything indiscriminately.
Xiang Kun didn't stay at the claw machine arcade for long, since few people play claw machines for extended periods, especially since he deliberately didn't manage to win a single prize.
After 2:30, he left the claw machine arcade, went to the milk tea shop diagonally opposite, ordered a milk tea, and then sat in the shop playing on his phone. He observed the "Long Time No See" coffee shop over there through the rearview mirror of an electric scooter parked on the side of the road, which he had observed beforehand.
People were coming and going in the coffee shop, and passersby occasionally glanced at the woman in blue through the floor-to-ceiling windows, but it seemed like an instinctive glance at a beautiful woman, and nothing seemed out of the ordinary.
Buzz~~~~~
Xiang Kun's phone suddenly vibrated. His first thought was, "Another spam call?"
Since I lost my job, very few people call me directly now. They usually communicate via WeChat first, and I only call if he doesn't reply to my WeChat and it's urgent.
But when I looked down, I realized it was my mom calling.
If it were anyone else, he could hang up first and call back later, but with his mother, he was a little worried that something urgent might have happened, so he answered the call immediately.
"Kun, are you at work?"
"Yes, I'm at work." Xiang Kun said, his gaze still fixed on the electric scooter's rearview mirror, observing the situation inside the "Long Time No See Cafe" and also keeping an eye on the pedestrians nearby. However, judging from his mother's voice, it shouldn't be anything urgent.
"Are you busy? If you are, I'll call you later."
"It's okay, I'm not busy right now," Xiang Kun said. He knew his mother's personality; if she called directly, she must have something to say. Even if it wasn't urgent, she must be holding it in and feeling resentful if he didn't let her say it immediately.
"Didn't you say you'd find time to come home after you got through that busy period? That was in July, and now it's October. Your company doesn't even give you a holiday for National Day. Are you going to be busy until the Spring Festival?" Mom complained on the phone.
"Soon, things are almost done here. I should be able to find time to go home by the end of this month." Xiang Kun hadn't told his parents about the company going bankrupt and his temporary unemployment.
"Hmm, how long will you be staying this time?"
"Will you stay for a few days? Is something wrong at home?" Xiang Kun asked. Although he had made plans to go back to his hometown and find a remote place in the countryside to open a small-scale breeding farm, he didn't intend to tell his parents until he found a suitable place.
"Let me know in advance when you're coming back, and I'll prepare some of your favorite dishes for you," Mom said.
Xiang Kun immediately said, "Mom, just tell me what's wrong..." After thirty years as mother and son, he knew his mother's personality and speaking habits very well, and knew that she hadn't revealed her true purpose yet.
"Well, I visited your Aunt Qiu these past few days, and one of her nieces just came back for the holidays. She's two years younger than you, quite tall and pretty, and single. She said she's planning to quit her job and come back after the National Day holiday, so I mentioned it to your Aunt Qiu, and she'll introduce you two to each other then..."
Xiang Kun quickly interrupted, "Wait, Mom, we're not even in the same city. I'll just have to come back after I go back. What's the point of getting to know each other?" He dared not tell his mother that he had lost his job and was planning to sell his house and leave the city.
My mom immediately said, "Oh dear, I've talked to that girl. She graduated from a prestigious university, but she's unhappy at her current company and wants a change of scenery. She's coming home to rest for a while, and maybe she'll end up working in your city! Anyway, young people are capable; they can find jobs anywhere. The most important thing is whether the two of them get along..."
"Let's talk about it later, Mom. There's no rush. This really isn't urgent."
"You're not in a hurry, but I am! I'm telling you, you'd better decide on a specific time to come back, or I'll call you three times a day to bother you, I'm telling you."
"Okay, okay, I'll let you know when I've set a time. Oh dear, the boss is calling me, I'll go now, that's all~"
After hanging up the phone, Xiang Kun breathed a sigh of relief and continued to focus his attention on the people nearby.
Then, he would occasionally pick up the milk tea and sip through the straw, making a "drinking" gesture to avoid being seen as strange.
At 3:09 PM, the woman in blue finished a game on her phone, looked around, and then got up and left the coffee shop.
Xiang Kun didn't follow immediately. Instead, he waited for about 30 seconds. When he didn't see anyone else come out of the coffee shop or follow the woman in blue from another direction, he left the milk tea shop and quickly headed towards the direction the woman in blue was likely to be heading, via a parallel side road.
Xiang Kun cut in front of the woman in blue from another direction, slowed his pace, held a cup of milk tea in his hand, and pretended to stroll around. He only paid a small part of his attention to the woman in blue, but most of his attention was on the other people around him, judging whether there were any other followers or observers like himself.
He was pondering how to casually slip a Ballpoint Pen Tip he'd acquired during his previous blood-drinking phases into the blue-clad woman's bag—after using it to track and locate the boy with the earring, he'd thought it was a good tool for tracking, essentially a miniature GPS, so he'd prepared two more.
Then he overheard the woman in blue talking to her friend about seven or eight meters away. "... Out shopping... Just got a job, and this idiot told me to wait for someone at a coffee shop, and I had to wear blue and buy two drinks, like it was a spy rendezvous... I've been waiting for an hour, and not a single person has shown up!"
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