Chapter 1384: Final Preparations

Chapter 1384: Chapter 1384: Final Preparations

Looking at his father’s worried appearance, Pei Yan felt both amused and heartbroken. At the same time, his hatred for Delacuri increased a few degrees. Since the Delacuri Clan had locked their target onto his family, and since their clan liked endless revenge, they couldn’t blame Pei Yan for being ruthless. If he didn’t uproot the Delacuri Clan, his family would be constantly threatened with death, unable to sleep at night—this was something he absolutely couldn’t tolerate.

Old Pei, next to him, seemed unaware of the murderous fury in his son’s heart at this moment. He continued explaining self-assuredly, "I even hung garlic in the house with your mom. I said this thing is unreliable, but your mom said it works. Oh, right! I also had this made for self-defense." With that, Old Pei took out from his pocket something wrapped in small black cloth.

Seeing this, Pei Yan received the black cloth from his father, opened it, and saw a short knife. He opened the button and drew it out of the sheath, discovering the blade had a dim silver-white sheen. Old Pei leaned in and said, "Pure silver! I looked it up and saw silver can counter vampires. This thing’s just a spread rumor, right?"

"No! Vampires are indeed afraid of this silver knife!" Pei Yan didn’t refute his father’s words, smiled, put the short knife back into its sheath, pocketed it, and said to his father with a smile, "This knife is mine now! It’ll come in handy when dealing with that guy."

"Good! Ah! I didn’t expect there’s some truth to the legend. Luckily, I made three of them. If you need more, I’ll get them for you."

"It’s enough! One is enough! You can keep the other two as decorations."

"Hmm! Oh, by the way, doesn’t your unit give you equipment to deal with such powerful things? You have to buy these things yourself? I see your benefits are quite good!"

"Uh, they do! I just lost mine and haven’t had time to get a replacement!" Pei Yan struggled to answer, dodging the question with a guilty conscience.

In the following three days, Pei Yan obediently stayed home and spent time with his parents along with his sister and Wang Ruoqin. To handle the upcoming plan, the entire community aligned with the Daoist Plane the day before Pei Yan returned home. During the time Pei Yan spent with his parents, the entire investigation hall acted around the plan, first contacting the housekeeper Depeo, who Pei Yan had previously released, the day before Pei Yan left the Immortal Palace through contact details left by Delacuri. They officially set the exchange of hostages for a month later. As for the location, since the other party wasn’t satisfied with the location proposed by the investigation hall, they requested to change it, deciding to notify the investigation hall separately before the exchange.

Since the aim was just to give Delacuri some pressure, forcing him into the trap, the investigation hall didn’t care about this point. However, to play the part well, Mei Simiao still protested to the other party, and both parties have been bickering over the specific location until today.

While Mei Simiao was negotiating with the other party, the community discreetly and intensively started the family exchange work over three days, replacing everyone’s family members in the community except Pei Yan with investigation hall members whose bloodline aura had been modified. Only after all these arrangements were completed did Pei Yan’s parents leave the family district under Pei Yan’s escort, heading for the final and most crucial step of setup. 𝑓𝑟ℯℴ𝓂

In a ward in the basement of the investigation hall headquarters, Pei Yan’s parents and Wang Ruoqin, who had just had their blood essence extracted using magic, were showing slight fatigue, lying on hospital beds. On both sides of the bed were Pei Yan and Pei Jin, brother and sister, with worried and guilty expressions. Facing their children’s sad faces, the elderly couple appeared very generous, only pulling Wang Ruoqin over and kept muttering about dragging this child into this, feeling sorry for her parents.

At his father’s strong request, Pei Yan brought him along to see the disguised colleagues. Looking across the window at the three people who looked exactly like him, neither Pei Yan’s parents nor Wang Ruoqin were shocked, while Pei Yan’s parents showed disbelief on their faces, despite knowing their son was using supernatural powers with a group of people to protect the world and having accepted this reality. Seeing this ability in action for the first time still gave them great shock.

"Are these your colleagues?" Old Pei subconsciously touched his own face as he asked. If the person wasn’t making different hand motions and smiling at him across the window, he’d suspect himself of looking in a mirror.

"Old Pei, this, this really looks alike! Exactly the same! You say your thigh...." Beside him, Mrs. Pei also covered her mouth in surprise, expressing her amazement, but before she could finish speaking, Old Pei, blushing, interrupted her, reprimanding, "What nonsense are you talking about? It’s enough that they look alike outside! Does everything have to be exactly the same? Could vampires come and lift clothes to compare and see if that place looks alike? Besides, how would he know what mine looks like? He hasn’t seen it."

"I was just asking out of curiosity!" Mrs. Pei glanced at her chuckling children beside her and whispered in grievance.

"Alright! Alright!" Waving his hand, Old Pei didn’t want to discuss this topic further. Instead, he walked to Pei Yan’s side to instruct, "Son, extracting our blood is just to make their disguise more convincing, so the vampire won’t notice the switch?"

"Yes! Later I’ll modify their aura according to each of your aura characteristics for a second-layer disguise, making it harder to distinguish between real and fake."

Old Pei didn’t understand how aura disguise works nor could he see any difference, and he chose not to ask more about things he didn’t understand, instead shifting the question to his main concern, "So, will your colleagues be in danger? If something happens to them because of saving us, we wouldn’t feel good about it."

"As I told you before, your son is really strong now. The reason I stayed home for three days was not just to leave enough aura to attract the other party, but also because the Bat Spirit doesn’t dare to attack as long as I’m stationed here. Using this opportunity, other families were transferred away first, and ours is last!" Pei Yan clenched his fist, promising, "Dad! Don’t worry! My colleagues and I will solve the issue this time, ensuring you live without further worries."

"Rest assured! We’re assured! But you should also be careful! No matter how confident you are, don’t underestimate the enemy, understand? Mom and Dad will be here waiting for you to return."

"Mm!"

The echo of his parents’ advice lingered in his ears as Pei Yan stared blankly at the disappearing figures of his parents within the teleportation array. He didn’t know the exact location where his parents would be transported to within the secret space, as the new family allocation area was only known to those assigned to security after thorough screening just before departure. To prevent revealing the new location, Pei Yan could only stay at headquarters, waiting for the day Delacuri falls into the trap and is completely dealt with.