Shameless Gangster

Chapter 20B

Jiang Xiaoning quickly lowered his eyes and asked in a deep voice, "Did you see that person?"

The owner thought for a while and described him objectively: "I checked the hotel registration information. The person's name is Han Jia, and visually, he's about 1.77 to 1.79 meters tall. He had on a light blue shirt and blue jeans. Physically, he's thin and has a straight face, the bridge of his nose is also straight and the line from his cheekbones to his chin seems delicate. He has short hair with bangs, and his eyebrows are dark and sits at an angle. He doesn't wear glasses, and has double eyelids, and the distance between his eyes is about—"

Jiang Xiaoning wanted to interrupt the owner, who had misunderstood what he meant. What he wanted to ask was not the name and appearance of the target that Xin Muran was tracking, but the details of their meeting. He tried to stop him with a gesture, or say something but although the hunch was there, the impact of hearing Han Jia's name was just too great. He was unable to move from how suddenly his heartbeat had intensified. He just stood there, exhaled and inhaled deeply, and when the owner finally got to say the distance of the pupils, he interrupted him and asked: "Do you have his address?" 　

"It's useless even if you have it, they left there already. Xin Muran arrived at the hotel at 5:10 in the afternoon and stayed in the man's room for half an hour before the man walked out with him with his luggage."

Jiang Xiaoning asked in detail: "Where did they go?"

The owner glared at him: "Are you kidding? That's Xin Muran. I had only followed him for half an hour and was already soaked in cold sweat. Where would I find the guts to follow him still? Besides, I thought you only wanted to investigate Yu Xiujun..."

Jiang Xiaoning nodded, and went quiet for two seconds before he spoke again: "Thanks, please continue to check it out for me."

The owner patted his chest: "Leave it to me."

Jiang Xiaoning said his goodbye, walked out of the store and made his way slowly to his car on the corner of the street - it took him several tries before he could eventually open the car door.

He threw the bag in his hand on the passenger seat, slowly got into the car, then picked up his mobile phone and called Xin Muran.

The phone had been turned off.

Jiang Xiaoning dialed Xin Muran's other number, but that was also turned off.

Due to the particularity of their profession, they seldom turn off their mobile phones. Naturally, Xin Muran was even keener about this sort of thing. Jiang Xiaoning stared at his phone and frowned from an ominous feeling that welled up in his chest. He started the car, and without any hesitation, drove to Han Jia's old apartment.

With very few vehicles on the streets at night, he reached his destination in just a little over twenty minutes. He got out of the car and looked up - in the wee hours where all the lights from the windows had been switched off, the one he was looking for was undoubtedly still on.

He almost ran up the elevator all the way, practically flying to Han Jia's door.

As he gasped hastily, he took the key from his pocket to open the door.

The moment he inserted the key into the keyhole, his hand stopped. It had already been two years since he had come here, what if Xin Muran had changed the lock...

Jiang Xiaoning put away the key, turned around, and walked toward the stairwell. He walked down for a while, pushed open the window at the end of the stairs, reached out, and turned over the window frame.

There were many pipes on the outer wall of the apartment building and many more footholds than at the previous buildings he had staked out. Jiang Xiaoning climbed out of the window and leaped on the wall, moving agilely from one foothold to the next as if he was walking on flat ground; very quickly he found the window to Han Jia's bedroom.