Chapter 25

"And I do not enjoy uninvited guests in my home," I said, replying to the Old Master's comment.

"As far as I was aware, I was invited here," he snapped in return. Oh Lordy, why couldn't he be one of those cute old men that just want to garden and gossip with his friends? I would have kept him then.

"You were brought here as a condition to me getting something that I want. However, I was under the impression that the information that I provided would be enough payment and you could spend your time happily in your own home and not mine." I turned to Liu Wei. I was willing to work with him, to put his mind at ease, but I really did not want someone that cranky in my home. Only I was allowed to be cranky here.

"Would someone please tell me what is going on?" The Old Master asked, looking at the younger generation. He had served his country with honor, and his sons served their country and became martyrs. Their children should have the respect granted to them by that action alone.

I looked at Wang Chao, wondering exactly what he was going to say to the old man, and to my surprise, he told him the truth. "The end of the world is coming in about six months. This will probably be the safest place to be and I don't want anything to happen to you."

Huh, the man could show some human emotion, I'm surprised.

The Old Master continued to look at his grandson as if he was expecting him to keep going. When he did not, he turned to look at me instead, assuming that I would provide him with what his grandson did not.

I shrugged my shoulders and went to sit down on the couch across from the fireplace. Wang Yi Chen and Wang Chao took their seats opposite me and Lui Wei, the last to sit down, chose the seat beside me. Once again, the guards took their spots and everyone relaxed for a moment.

Feeling a slight chill, I looked at the fireplace and threw out the pink flame, lighting the fire within seconds. Some days, being a fire user was a great thing. Unfortunately, I forgot who was in the room with me.

The Old Master stood up startled and the guards pulled their guns out and pointed them at me as a result. "Seriously, people?!?" I asked, exasperation evident in my tone. "You are going to have to get used to this. Muscle, remember, need to be using it to keep it."

The Old Master sat back down after noticing that neither Wang Chao nor Liu Wei seemed to react to it. "Alright, young lady, you have my attention now. Do you mind telling me what is going on?"

"First, I would like to point out that I neither wanted nor needed your attention. I was cold, so I started a fire. I am pretty sure that that is what most people would do when they became cold. It's not my fault I don't need a lighter to do it," I said, sounding perfectly reasonable in my own head.

Liu Wei's cough/laugh suggested that I was not as reasonable as I thought I was. I wave him off and let him take the lead.

"Li Dai Lu came to our attention when she purchased this ranch from us after the Blood Moon mercenaries were wiped out. Wang Chao had some concerns and asked me to look into it. After a while, we found out that our concerns were misguided and, after a conversation with Li Dai Lu, discovered that the end of the world was coming on November 1st."

Wow, when Liu Wei decided to be precise, he could do it quite well… but we were going to have a little talk about this Blood Moon thing. Whelp. Time to take over, I guess.

"I am in need of weapons, a lot of weapons, and enough ammo to last at least ten years, longer if possible. I knew that Wang Chao had his hands in a lot of pockets and thought that he might be able to get me some."

The Old Master nodded his head that he had understood up to that point. Yay for me, I beat out the other two.

"They asked me why I needed the weapons and I replied to kill people with them. I am not sure why they expected another answer, but they apparently did. They asked for a meeting, my knowledge in exchange for their guns. So, I told them what I knew."

"And what exactly do you know?" Asked the Old Master.

"I know that starting on October 1st of this year, every man, woman, and child is going to get a vaccine. In thirty days, that vaccine is going to mutate them into something else. As to exactly what that something is is determined by their genetic make-up."

"I hope my boys told you that you were crazy and that they would not be providing you with guns."

"Something along those lines, but closer to 'you won't get the guns until November 2nd to prove what you are saying is true'," I grumbled, knowing full well that neither man trusted what I had said that day. Liu Wei might have come around to my side, but Wang Chao was firmly in the 'seeing is believing' camp.

Sucks to be me.

"Then if we all know you are crazy, what am I doing here?" Asked the Old Master, looking from me to Wang Chao to Liu Wei.

"Ah, but that's the problem," I laughed, "Can you prove that I am crazy and that the world will definitely not end on November 1st? Cause they can't, and they are not willing to take any chances after I mentioned Zhao Jun Jie becoming the head of City A after you gave him the position."

"It would be a cold day in Hell before I gave any member of the Zhao family complete control of City A," snarled Wang Yi Chen, hitting the armrest of the chair in anger.

"I guess a few months without electricity and heat would make it a cold day in City A," I smirked. "But I am pretty sure that it had more to do with the disappearance of Wang Chao and 90% of the Wang family military… coupled with the death of your daughter and her husband, and your third grandson. Would that count as a cold day in Hell?" I asked as I raised my eyebrow at the old man.

His attitude was starting to grow on me. At least I knew that I wouldn't be stabbed in the back by him.