The white blonde man was playing with the small porcelain knife as he wandered and observed it continuously, sometimes even closing his eyes, as if he was not looking with his eyes, but sensing through the small porcelain knife.

His name is John Cavendis, he is from Slovakia, and he has come to China this time for Guo Tianxiang.

When I went to Montamira before, I just heard about the "group illusion incident of the eight-armed giant" on the way, so I stopped by to check it out.

After meeting Zhao Feng, Wang Dean and others, he knew that the things there were not something he could reconcile, and he had to leave.

As for why he was able to find this place so accurately, it was because of the small white porcelain knife in Guo Tianxiang's hand, or to be exact, the contents of the small white porcelain knife - in the early morning of October 9 last year, they knew the location in Slovakia.

The small white porcelain knife was given to him by Guo Tianxiang in Slovakia when he went to Europe a few years ago.

At the beginning, when they got the feedback from the small porcelain knife, they were happy, because from the induction, they thought that Guo Tianxiang's "hunting" was successful, which meant that Guo Tianxiang's own blood quality had been greatly improved.

But soon they found out that something was wrong, because they couldn't sense the substance in the small white porcelain knife in Guo Tianxiang's hand anymore, and Guo Tianxiang didn't take the initiative to contact them after that, which was completely different from their expectations.

This can only show that either Guo Tianxiang had an accident, or Guo Tianxiang betrayed them.

In fact, it is not accurate to say betrayal, because from beginning to end, they did not regard Guo Tianxiang as their own person, if he found out their true purpose, then it is logical to choose to separate.

In both cases, there is a possibility.

However, they have an instinctive fear of the mysterious eastern country of China, because some of them have had bad experiences and left a deep impression.

Therefore, they are reluctant to set foot on this land unless they have to.

But now, months later, they have reached the time of "last resort".

John wandered around this clearing for a long time, although he was sure that the contents of Guo Tianxiang's small white porcelain knife were used here, and the connection was completely annihilated here, but too much time had passed, and no valuable clues could be found.

He found a few small fragments, but they were clearly not Guo Tianxiang or the person who should be suspected, and there were no obvious traces of excavation and landfill in the surrounding area.

After lingering around the clearing for more than an hour, John finally left, somewhat reluctantly.

When he walked back, he judged through the observation of the surrounding terrain that Guo Tianxiang's appearance here was definitely not an accidental passing, but the result of careful selection.

It's not very far from the city, but it's a place that doesn't get much noticed, with little foot traffic and no residents.

There is a golf course and a botanical garden next door, and there are some tourists and staff during the day, but at night there are not many people.

In particular, where the small porcelain knife has a "reaction", under the shade of the standing rock at the foot of the mountain, only the other side of the highway can be seen in the distance - but without the lights, at night, at such a distance, no one can see what is happening here.

Did Guo Tianxiang deliberately choose this place to lure the target of "hunting" over to do it?

So what happened after that?

As he walked back, John saw an old grocery store, with only a few sparse gray hairs on his head, holding a pocket radio, squinting at the doorway and listening.

The boss saw John coming over and greeted with a smile: "Oh ha~, hey, no, yes...... Okay~!Okay, guy, what do you need?"

John took off his sunglasses and looked at his boss, but his mouth was neither English nor Chinese, but some meaningless syllables that sounded like he was muttering.

The grocery store owner listened to these meaningless syllables, but his expression was focused, and he nodded from time to time, as if he understood.

After a while, the boss began to murmur in the same tone.

The exchange lasted for a few minutes, and John put on his sunglasses and left the grocery store, while the owner continued to listen to the play with the radio as if the conversation had never been there.

John used his way to get some information from the boss, but unfortunately it was useless, the boss's shop was generally open until late at night, but he didn't remember whether there were any people who passed in front of his shop from the evening of October 8 to the early morning of October 9, after all, too much time had passed.

Along the way, John asked about the shops on the side of the road, especially those that had enough surveillance cameras to capture the door.

Unfortunately, none of the stores still have surveillance video from October.

John didn't stay in Liucheng for long, and a few hours later he found a taxi on the side of the road and headed to another target city, Yangcheng.

In fact, if he wants, he can stop a luxury car on the road and easily "persuade" the driver to take him anywhere, but if the owner of a private car changes his driving plan, it is easy to attract inquiries from friends, family or colleagues.

As for why not take a train or a plane?

Because John entered the country illegally and did not have a legal identity document, including in Myanmar before, he also entered through illegal channels.

Even in Slovakia, he did not have legal status in the true sense of the word.

It's just that in other places, he can deal with it with a fake document, and when necessary, he can simply use his ability to fool the past, and it doesn't matter whether he has a certificate or not, whether he has an identity or not.

But in China, with a full real-name system, all kinds of networking, and cameras everywhere, there will be many hidden dangers when he wants to rub the train and other public transportation, which is also what he was repeatedly explained before he came.

If Guo Tianxiang can still be contacted, it will be much more convenient.

After arriving in Yangcheng, John went directly to the building where Guo Tianxiang was located.

In fact, Guo Tianxiang didn't tell them his specific address in Yangcheng, but the substance in his small porcelain knife, when in use, or every once in a while, can cast some imprints that can be perceived by similar substances to record the location. Within a certain range, John only needed to find it by the same substance in the other small porcelain knife in his hand.

Finding the caretaker in the building, John easily asked the other party to tell the floor where Guo Tianxiang's clinic was located, and took the key to help him open it.

The entire floor where the clinic is located was bought by Guo Tianxiang, so even if he disappeared, the door was only closed and not cleaned up.

John also learned from the mouth of the property management that the police were investigating Guo Tianxiang, and that a few years ago, there were police plainclothes officers staring at the inside and outside of the building, but he didn't see him again this month, and it seems that he had withdrawn.

This surprised John a little, and began to wonder if Guo Tianxiang's "lost contact" was arrested by the official.

But he quickly ruled out this speculation, because if this was the case, there would be no need for the Yangcheng police to keep an eye on it, and it was obvious that the police were also looking for Guo Tianxiang.

Since entering China, John has been very attentive to his surroundings, careful not to be targeted, and to avoid cameras and the like.

He was basically sure that he had not been followed all the way.

So when he heard that the property management said that the police had not seen him again this month, he was also slightly relieved and began to search for clues in the clinic that could help him judge Guo Tianxiang's whereabouts.

However, John Cavendish is not a bald head after all, and there is no way to directly observe his surroundings beyond the visual level, and he cannot directly perceive all electronic devices.

So he naturally didn't notice that in Guo Tianxiang's clinic, there were several very secret miniature cameras that were cleverly integrated into the decorative wall panels, ceilings, and lamps at work.

His range of perception and calculation of sensory information such as sound and smell are also quite limited, and he did not know that when he walked into the building and communicated with the property management, a young man had noticed him in a van with the logo of "Running Extremely Fast Express Company" parked on the side of the road not far from the building.

"Hey, there's a situation! There's a situation! Someone has entered Guo Tianxiang's clinic!" In the van, the young man staring at the monitoring screen took off his headphones and pushed his companion who was dozing off next to him.

"Who? plainclothes policemen?" asked his companion, who had woken up from his half-reclining seat, rubbing his eyes, not taking it seriously.

They have been monitoring Guo Tianxiang's clinic for a day or two, and there has been no substantial progress. I could still observe the police officers who were also monitoring and squatting before, but for more than a month, even the police couldn't see them, and they were all guessing when "Mr. Liang" was going to let them withdraw too.

"Of course not!" said the young man staring at the monitor as he operated on the console.

"Are you sure?"

"That's a gringo!"

As soon as the companion heard this, he immediately became energetic, sat up straight from his seat, and saw through the monitoring screen that the blonde foreigner was checking all kinds of things in Guo Tianxiang's clinic, and immediately said: "Hurry up, inform 'Mr. Liang', we have finally found out! We can finally change places! Damn, if I stay any longer, my hemorrhoids are going to attack!"

"I've already sent the surveillance video to 'Mr. Liang'. The young man in front of the surveillance screen also said with some excitement.

"What is the origin of this gringo, it won't just come from abroad to see Guo Tianxiang, right?"

"This gringo is very wrong, he was very strange when he talked to the property manager of the building just now, but unfortunately there is no radio equipment there, I can't hear what they say, but the property management is different from his usual behavior, I don't know if he was threatened. ”

Soon, the reply from "Mr. Liang's" unique voice came: "No contact, keep Level 3 surveillance." ”

This command deflated the two young men in the car, and the meaning of not making contact is easy to understand, that is, not to make any contact with the target, and level 3 surveillance, which is to monitor the other party outside of sight and keep a sufficient distance.

This means that they don't react at all, and just video surveillance is carried out in place.

As for whether they will follow after the gringos leave, it will be necessary to wait for further instructions.

......

The clues that John wanted to find in Guo Tianxiang's clinic were naturally different from what the police were looking for, he started more from the aspects of "blood clan" and "blood-related derivative elements", wanting to find out the purpose of Guo Tianxiang's previous trip to Liucheng and the reason for his disappearance.

He knew very well that Guo Tianxiang had already entered a stage of extreme bloodthirsty state in July last year, and ordinary blood drinking could only temporarily relieve bloodthirsty impulses, and as time went by, the satisfaction that ordinary blood could bring would become smaller and smaller.

In July, Guo Tianxiang had already asked them for help through special channels, and the advice they gave at that time was to try to find a "blood clan" or "blood beast" that could meet the requirements of blood drinking before January this year, and "purify and absorb" it.

If he can't find it in January, go to Slovakia and find them, and they will use secret methods to help him get through this stage of the level.

So he knew that the reason why Guo Tianxiang could run to Liucheng at that time and use the substance in that small porcelain knife was definitely the appearance of other "blood clans" and "blood beasts" that met his requirements for drinking blood.

But after searching in Guo Tianxiang's clinic for nearly an hour, John still found nothing, so he could only leave empty-handed and go to the next location sensed by the small porcelain knife.

When leaving the building and walking out of the street, John noticed that a van that was originally parked opposite the building also drove out, but the truck drove directly in front of him after driving out of the street, and quickly disappeared at the intersection in front of him, so he didn't pay much attention to it - after arriving in Yangcheng, he saw this kind of unified model and unified standard van on the street, and it can be known from the English letters on the car that this is the car of the express company.

Until one o'clock in the middle of the night, after visiting a few places where Guo Tianxiang had stayed for a long time, John still did not have any valuable gains, which made him a little irritable, and he had a hunch that this trip to China was likely to be empty-handed.

But at the same time, he also had a hint of luck, if Guo Tianxiang was really killed when he was "hunting", then even if he found the "murderer", maybe he would not be an opponent, and he might even become the prey in turn.

And if Guo Tianxiang had achieved a certain qualitative improvement through the phased blood drinking, and realized what they had done to him in Slovakia before, and the rhetoric against him was using and deceiving him, then I am afraid that he would not obediently return to Slovakia with him, and it would be a tragic battle.

Although he benefited the most from finding Guo Tianxiang or other "blood clans" to bring back to Slovakia, he was also the one who took the greatest risk. Anyway, now he can't stand it, it's the old guys who are about to finish, it's not him, he's tried his best, and there's no way to find it.

John, who was walking on the night streets of Yangcheng, was a little surprised that there were still so many people on the street at this time, and all kinds of places for supper, and those nightclubs were still open.

He also began to relax and went to a quieter-looking bar to have a drink.

Although they were unable to eat and drink normally after being transformed into a "Bloodline", someone had found a way for them to drink normally from a long time ago, and it was passed down to the line, but only the type of wine they could drink was red wine, because that person loved red wine in the first place.

When Guo Tianxiang went to Slovakia before, he also learned that method from them, but he didn't know if he succeeded.

In the bar, John took a sip of red wine and frowned slightly, the taste was a little different from what he thought.

So he called the bartender and said a few words, and the latter was stunned for a moment and reopened a bottle of wine.

This time John was a little satisfied, and after taking a sip, he looked at the young girls in the bar, licked his lips, and wondered if he could find a female companion here, or maybe he could drink blood before leaving?

After entering China, John, who had been relatively smooth, began to slowly let go of his initial vigilance, vigilance and nervousness, feeling that what the old guys said before was too exaggerated, and there was no need to worry so much. China is so big that with their ability and characteristics, they can blend in with the crowd, and as long as they don't cause any big noise, they won't attract any attention at all. Just like when they were in Europe, they could easily come and go in London, Paris, and Rome, as long as they kept a low profile and secrecy enough.

He was even a little annoyed, thinking that if the old guys sent him to China as soon as they noticed the strange feedback of the substance in the small porcelain knife, the chances of finding Guo Tianxiang's traces or causing Guo Tianxiang's disappearance would definitely be much greater.

And if the old fellows are not so timid, send one more person with him, and his certainty and security will be much greater.

Their ability is naturally suitable for mixing in crowded places and hiding in big cities, and China is a place with such a large population and such a high degree of urbanization, in fact, it is the best place for them to display their abilities.

While thinking so, a tall lady who looked very interested in him walked into the bar and sat down at the bar not far from him, accompanied by a handsome male companion.

The corners of John's mouth curled slightly, and he walked over with his wine glass.

But as soon as he got up, he frowned slightly, because a man in a black suit, with a tiger's back and a broad face covered with earthworm crawling scars, walked up to him and stretched out his hand to block his way.

"Hello, excuse me, can I talk to you outside?" the tone of the strong man in the suit seemed polite, but it was actually tough.

John's brow furrowed even deeper, he knew that this strong man in a suit was not the security guard of the bar - as soon as he came in, he observed all the people in the bar, this strong man had just walked into the bar, and he walked directly to this side, and when he entered this bar, he came for him.

John raised his eyes to meet him, and instead of replying to his words, he uttered a few syllables in a very strange tone.

The strong man in the suit looked stunned, his body muscles relaxed, nodded, and opened his mouth to say something.

But as soon as he opened his mouth, the strong man's body suddenly shook violently, as if he had been electrocuted, and let out a miserable scream, attracting the sideways glances of the people around the bar.

John was also stunned, and immediately realized something, ignoring the strong man who was sitting on the ground, and walked quickly to the outside of the bar.

When John left the bar, the scarred man in the suit came to his senses, shook his head, got up from the ground, took out the spare headphones from his pocket and put them on, and then immediately heard a hoarse and low voice that seemed to have metal rubbing:

"Lao Xie, wait for me in the car. ”

Lao Xie didn't speak, and walked out expressionlessly under the gaze of the confused guests in the bar and the security guards who rushed over after hearing the sound.

Although the security guards of several bars were not much smaller than him, standing in front of him, they inexplicably felt that their momentum was one level lower, and they didn't dare to stop or ask loudly, so they subconsciously moved to the side and watched him walk out of the bar.

Out of the bar, Lao Xie got into a very large black GMC modified RV in the parking lot, and sat in the cab to wait for further instructions.

He knew he had just caught the blonde white man in the bar, but it was expected, so he wasn't annoyed or afraid.

He also didn't pay attention to the blonde white man's whereabouts, he didn't care, because he knew that the white man couldn't run away no matter where he went, no matter what he was capable of.

Because it was "Mr. Liang" who was dealing with the white man.