Chapter 159 Deep Sea

Hearing Nangong Wuyue mention the situation, Hao Ren immediately became interested.

"There's a restriction in the deep sea?" He looked at Nangong Wuyue. "I also heard Vivian say that even the most powerful guys back then couldn't find the sirens' underwater city. Is it because of this restriction?"

"Probably," Nangong Wuyue thought so too. "Maybe a special method is needed to get in. The deep sea is a mysterious place, and mankind hasn't even explored a fraction of it. Perhaps a normal siren would know how to sneak into the deep sea—it's a pity that Mother never told me about our homeland. She didn't seem to want me to go there, and I don't know why."

"Actually, I don't think Mom is likely to be in the deep sea," Nangong Sanba shook his head. "If she were there, why wouldn't she come out to find us? She only went ashore once back then. There's no reason she couldn't come out again."

"Anyway, I'll keep looking, even if I don't find her in the end," Nangong Wuyue said softly. "After so many years, it's almost become a part of my life."

"We roughly understand the situation. Wouldn't it have been better to explain things sooner?" Hao Ren took a breath, feeling that the experiences of these siblings could really be made into a TV series, at least forty episodes if aired on a local station. "Sanba-xiong, what are your plans for the future?"

"Please just call me Nangong," Nangong Sanba's face immediately turned bitter. "I came here mainly to see my sister. Now it seems that she's found a group of pretty awesome friends, so I'm relieved. But I'm curious... what exactly is going on with you guys?"

As Nangong Sanba spoke, he scanned the entire living room. He could recognize Vivian's and Lily's races at a glance. The fact that a vampire and a werewolf were living together harmoniously stunned him. In addition, there was a burly giant over two meters tall sitting directly opposite, and a smile from him could scare anyone to death. Even a fool could tell that he wasn't an ordinary person. The strange combination in Hao Ren's house completely baffled him.

"This..." Hao Ren remembered that he had signed a confidentiality agreement, so he couldn't say too much before Nangong became "one of us." So, he simply brushed it off. "We're kind of like a sanctuary here, an absolutely neutral safe zone. Anyone, as long as they're willing to coexist peacefully with others, can live here. See, aren't these two (pointing to Vivian and Lily) quite peaceful? By the way, you can live here too if you want, just pay rent. But I'll have to apply to my superiors..."

"No, I'm sure living here would cause you trouble," Nangong Sanba refused very simply, saving Hao Ren a lot of trouble. "Besides, I have my own career. As a demon hunter, I can't enjoy a life of ease in one place."

Nangong Wuyue lightly kicked him. "Bro, stop showing off and talk seriously."

"Oh, I took a job in Russia helping a rich businessman exorcise evil. The money is good, so I couldn't refuse. I'm leaving in a couple of days..."

Nangong Sanba called himself a demon hunter, but this half-baked one was basically somewhere between a demon hunter and a wandering warlock. Usually, his income came from running around the world helping rich people exorcise evil and pray for blessings. Of course, in addition to that, he would also actively clear some evil spirits to collect materials, like the time they met in England. That was a job he actively sought out. Overall, he rarely bothered with those powerful otherworldly beings, such as vampires and werewolves, any of which could cost him half his life. Nangong Sanba's usual limit was dealing with undead, a species with relatively low combat power, or simply solving problems such as curses and voodoo. He always went for the safe option.

But even the most cautious sometimes stumble. He almost messed up in England last time—who would have thought that under a local noble's castle there would be an underground palace specifically for sealing demons, and a bunch of out-of-control knightly spirits? If he hadn't met Hao Ren that time, he might have only met Nangong Wuyue again in the form of a black and white photo.

At this point, Nangong Sanba also remembered this, belatedly smacking his forehead. "Right, the last time in the underground palace in England... so it was you who took action back then? I thought there were too many suspicious points at the time... are you my benefactors?"

"Haha, it was just a small matter, a small matter." Hao Ren waved his hand, indicating that it wasn't necessary to mention it, while involuntarily yawning.

Seeing this, Nangong Sanba stood up and straightened his clothes. "It's too late today, so I'll leave it at that. I won't bother you anymore. I apologize for my presumptuous actions this time. If there's anything I can help with in the future, just let me know—my skills are limited, but after running around the world for so many years, I do have some intelligence channels."

"It's so late, are you going back now?" Hao Ren stood up. "Why not just stay here for the night?"

Izaaks also stood up, revealing a smile that could stop a child from crying at night, his voice as deep as thunder: "That's right, since you're Miss Wuyue's family, don't be so polite with us. There's an empty bed in my room."

It was really difficult to arrange a bed for Izaaks' size, and the great demon himself didn't want others to go to too much trouble for him, so he had been sleeping on the floor in his room for a long time, and the bed had become more of a decoration.

However, Nangong Sanba looked at Izaaks' more than two-meter-tall figure with trepidation, and the latter's smile looked unsafe no matter how he looked at it. He subconsciously took half a step back. "No need, no need, I'm renting a temporary place nearby. It's too late today. I'll bother you again tomorrow to ask about my sister's situation. I hope you won't mind then."

As Nangong Sanba spoke, he walked towards the door. Hao Ren originally wanted to keep this interesting guy overnight for Nangong Wuyue's sake, but seeing the subtle expression on Vivian's face, he realized that it would be a pretty awkward thing to keep a demon hunter overnight in this situation. Vivian was still a little concerned, so he could only get up to see him off. Nangong Wuyue stood up with him and scolded Nangong Sanba as she sent him to the door: "You're just causing trouble for people. Can't you be a little more mature..."

Amidst Nangong Wuyue's scolding, Nangong Sanba nodded and apologized as he left the door, and then quickly disappeared into the vast night—that black windbreaker was too good at camouflage.

"Actually, we should have let your brother stay overnight." Hao Ren looked at Nangong Wuyue a little embarrassed. He felt that it was not the way of a good host to let her own brother go back alone in the middle of the night, but Nangong Wuyue didn't care at all. She just waved her hand. "It's okay, my brother is stubborn. You might not be able to persuade him. He's old enough that he can't even walk a night road."

After seeing Nangong Sanba off, the people in the house were silent for a while. Finally, Vivian broke the silence first: "It's really a coincidence everywhere in the world. I should have been suspicious when I first heard Nangong Wuyue's name... but I didn't expect it to be such a coincidence."

"Let's all go to sleep, let's all go to sleep," Hao Ren felt sleepy again at this time. He glanced at the clock on the wall and found that it was already half past two in the morning. "We'll talk about anything tomorrow. I'm really sleepy."

So everyone got up and went back to their rooms. The living room was quiet after a while, but just as Hao Ren was about to leave, he realized something: Lily was still huddled on the sofa. The girl had tried her best to fight her biological clock tonight, but now she had reached her limit and had fallen asleep without knowing when.

Hao Ren went forward and tugged at Lily's tail. If it had been normal, she would have jumped up, but this time the only response to Hao Ren was a string of garbled sleep talk. Seeing this, Hao Ren could only sigh. It didn't seem appropriate to ask Vivian or Nangong Wuyue to help at this time, but to carry a girl back to her room... he had the intention, but he was afraid that Lily would bite him in her sleep. After all, something similar had happened before, so in the end, he could only find a blanket in the room and put it on Lily, and then yawned and went back to his room.

Nothing else happened in the second half of the night. Hao Ren slept straight until nearly ten o'clock the next morning.

He was rudely awakened by Doudou slapping his face with her tail.

As soon as he opened his eyes, he saw a little mermaid jumping around on his chest, which was a small stimulus for Hao Ren, especially since he was still half asleep and almost instinctively threw the little mermaid out. He sat up from the bed with the little guy in his arms and found a wet trail on the floor from the desk to the bed, obviously left by Doudou all the way here.

It seemed that the little one really didn't understand human language—he had clearly told her not to jump on the ground yesterday.

Hao Ren put Doudou back in the pot, and holding his daughter, he came to the living room and found Vivian sweeping the floor, while Lily was sitting on the sofa with a dazed expression, her neck tilted to the side at a ridiculous angle. Seeing Hao Ren come out, Lily waved her hand and greeted him with her head tilted: "Good morning, landlord..."

"What's wrong with you?"

"I have a stiff neck," Lily looked at Hao Ren at a horizontal forty-five-degree angle. "My neck hurts so much..."

Hao Ren: "..."

He felt that he should have taken the risk of being bitten and carried Lily back to her room last night.

"Are you hungry?" Vivian asked as she passed by Hao Ren with a broom in her hand. "There are steamed buns in the kitchen. If you're hungry, eat something to fill your stomach first. Everyone woke up pretty late today, so we won't make breakfast. We'll just eat lunch later."

Hao Ren said "oh." Just as he was about to walk towards the kitchen, he suddenly heard a knock on the door.

He pressed Doudou's head back into the pot and asked Nangong Wuyue to take the little guy to the water room and lock it up (to prevent the electricity bill collector or the neighborhood committee aunt from coming), and then ran to open the door, only to find two tall foreigners standing at the door.

Their first words were: "Does the Countess live here?"