Chapter-9[Conspiracy]

Today was quite a good day for the Sofitel Xining Hotel as the Young Master of Situ family was holding a party there in the VIP room. The whole top floor was booked by the Young Master of Situ Family.

Sofitel Xining Hotel was in an uproar as they did everything they could to provide the best environment for that young master to enjoy himself.

Even the kitchen that had the top-quality chefs passed out from top universities was trembling in nervousness while doing their work.

"Do it quickly! We need to present everything in 1 hour!" The head chef of the kitchen screamed at the other chefs.

'Damn it…if only they gave us some time before deciding to come here abruptly…' The head chef was in dilemma.

He was notified in the morning at 3 am to start preparing as the hotel was notified at that time by the young master of the Situ family. So, he was in a perilous situation where he had to do his work quickly while at the same time, he had to present it elegantly.

"Head Chef! We need more hands here!" The chef from the sweets department demanded.

Head Chef had an angry look on his face as he looked at the Sweet Chef before he sighed. 'Sigh…I need to calm down… it's not going to be good to get angry right now.'

"Take some people from the cleaning department and use them." Head Chef responded.

Sweet Chef nodded and went to the cleaning department to look for people there.

Meanwhile, Head Chef started preparing the special soup he was famous for. Just as he was picking the salt bottle to pour into the large container placed over the gas stove, filled with water, it suddenly moved and the sugar bottle that was placed beside it was picked by the Head Chef.

As both were finely grained, it was hard to tell the difference between them.

Head Chef then went toward the freezing compartment where all types of meats used by the hotel were placed and selected the ones he was going to use and came out.

'Hmm…the meat quality is good…I guess they have it freshly butchered.' Head Chef inwardly complimented.

He stood in front of the soup cutting the meat into pieces and pouring them into the soup. The meat started to cook and the Head Chef went to check on the work of other departments.

Suddenly, the darkness-like shadow started to gather around the table where the soup was being cooked. It morphed into a hand but the speed was quite slow. The hand then picked up the salt bottle and flew in the air. The soup was being cooked openly. The hand then poured all the salt into the soup.

Then it picked every other spice other than those that would show color and poured them into the soup. After done with that, the hand melted into the shadow like it was never there, and sometime later, the head chef returned and started to pour the soup into the serving tools.

As someone who had cooked it for several years, he was not worried about the taste at all. So, he didn't waste his time checking the taste of the soup even if it was going to be served to the VIPs.

On the top of the ventilation system of the kitchen, a bat that was silently sitting there flew away.

***

In the manager's office of the Sofitel Xining Hotel, a man in his twenties sat on his chair with his back leaning on the chair relaxedly. The man was named La Ji. He was the manager of the hotel.

He was talking with someone on his phone.

A greedy smile appeared on his face, "Young Master Jiang, I did your work…so I hope you could complete the end of your deal?"

-I know, you trash. I will talk about you to my brother.

"Thank you, Young Master Jiang!" La Ji's smile intensified. "And could you give me some of that aphrodisiac too?"

-Why?

"There are several beauties in the bar nowadays, but you know, I can't easily woo them. After all, I am not blessed with a handsome face like you." La Ji said in a flattering tone.

-How could trash even be compared with this young master?

A lecherous look appeared on La Ji's face, "Then, could you give me some of that aphrodisiac, young master Jiang?"

-Well…even if I want to give it to you for your good work, I can't. I only have a little bit of that left which I would be using on that Adam Bastard's bitch.

"Then, could you tell me from where have you bought that?" La Ji asked, disappointedly.

-I don't know. Someone had sold that to my secretary.

"I see…then if you find stuff like that again, then please show some grace onto me too."

-I will see it at that time.

Without any other thought, Jiang Han on the other side hung the phone.

La Ji placed his phone on the table, "Damn that bastard. He really tried to use a drug without no knowledge on someone. He really has screws loose in his head."

"Well, not my problem. Even if that girl did die, he would have solved it with the help of his family."

La Ji's tone was carefree as though the life that would be lost in the hands of Jiang Han was valued to nothing. But it was also not something he had seen first. The only reason why he was able to climb to the position of the Manager this quickly was by helping Jiang Han take care of those beauties.

"But it would be interesting to get my hands on that stuff. That girl was quickly mesmerized just by taking a single sip of the drugged wine." La Ji shook his head with disappointment flashing across his face.

While he was working as Jiang Han's dog, he had never truly respected Jiang Han. How could he respect a bastard who got girls with his money or by using drugs? And the only reason why Jiang Han had the money to own his company was because of his family.

"I see…so you want to get your hands on that drug? Huh?" A cold voice chilling the soul sounded in the office.

La Ji's whole body shivered as he quickly stood from his seat and started looking around.

"Who is that?! Show yourself!!" La Ji's face was full of cautiousness.

'Who entered my office?! No! the room was closed the whole time and nothing had entered from the window! Is it a speaker? But…" Just as La Ji was going over his thoughts and looking around his office to find the source of the voice, suddenly, his sight darted in front of his table.

He was left stunned. A figure slowly formed on the chair in front of his table with darkness surrounding that figure. It was like the advent of the devil.

The man that had appeared had a cold look on his face. His eyes were blood red. Canines were formed in his mouth.

"What were you saying? Did you want to have some of that aphroadic too? Do you want to use it on your clients?" The man's voice made La Ji tremble.

La Ji felt like he was standing in front of a giant glacier with icy winds blowing. His body just shivered from pure fear.

Death.

He could see his death in those addictive red eyes.

'Who is that??!! N-no how did that person appear there??!' La Ji had never seen anything like that, a person appearing out of thin air. "I-is it a devil!? Why?! What did I do to make a devil appear in front of me!? And is a devil even real!?'

"I am not a devil. I am Adam Walker. You should know about me, right?" The man, Adam asked.

Those words made La Ji compare the man with the photo given by Jiang Han.

'wait…he does look like the bastard Young Master Jiang was targeting…but how did he appear here?! I haven't heard of him coming back to the hotel yesterday…!! Wait…what is he?!'

"W-Who are you!? I don't know anyone named Adam or whatever!" La Ji declined furiously.

He tried to appear confident to show dominance, but failed as the pressure emitting from Adam was too much for him to sustain. Only several normal humans could hold themselves against the mana pressure released from Adam when he was low-leveled.

And right now, his mana pressure was way too intense. He had come to La Ji's office just before the latter had called Jiang Han and he had heard all of their conversations.

"Are you sure?" Adam asked.

La Ji lowered his head, those red eyes were scaring the shit out of him right now.

"Y-yes! Who are you! I am going to call the security!!" In order to come out of this situation alive, La Ji's brain decided to keep the fact that something supernatural was happening hidden.

"Sure, go ahead." Adam calmly said. He then placed his arm on the armrest and his chin on his right hand as he watched La Ji do all the shit latter could pull.

La Ji seizing the opportunity quickly picked up the hotel phone and called the guard's team.

"Come to my office quickly! There is an intruder here! Bring all the weapons you could pull out!"

-Y-yes sir!

*Slam*

La Ji slammed the phone on the table as he stared at Adam with trembling eyes. 'What the fuck is happening to me! Young Master Jiang had said that he had arranged for this bastard to get into an accident, then why is he here!?'

"You seem to be surprised to see me here?" Adam asked with a small smile on his face. But his eyes showed no emotion in them. Even his alluring voice sounded like a decree issued by Yama from hell.