After entering the underground passage, she had felt a bad premonition. Judging by his reaction now, he had indeed realized he was being followed.
She no longer cared about the Executor's orders. Following Lu Mingfei was fine as long as she went unnoticed, but coming face-to-face with him meant the mission had gone disastrously wrong!
Chapter 105: Three's company
A tea room lay hidden in the bustling shopping district. Up a narrow, dim stairway between two shops, on the second floor, a black wooden door opened onto a surprisingly spacious interior.
Once the door closed, the noise outside was shut away. Silence filled the dim room. The tea-making utensils were already prepared on the table, steam rising from them.
Caesar and Gao Mi sat facing each other.
"If the branch wanted to negotiate with us, shouldn't they be talking to Lu Mingfei?" Caesar opened a white paper fan bearing the words "You're no true hero until you've climbed the Great Wall" and spoke with interest. "Besides, this doesn't look like a branch safe house."
He had released Kamaitachi when he entered and detected no third heartbeat in the tea room. Gao Mi was meeting him alone.
"Because what I have must be kept secret from both the branch and the other members of your team." Gao Mi handed him a document envelope.
Caesar picked it up. A red "SS" stamp sealed the flap, marking the contents as top secret. "An assignment from the Board of Trustees?"
There was little inside the envelope, just a single briefing.
In essence, the Board of Trustees was providing Caesar personally with a set of special equipment and requiring him to kill the Dragon King alone.
What truly interested Caesar, however, were the board's accusations against Lu Mingfei and Chu Zihang. Lu Mingfei's bloodline was