Blades of Secrets: The Endless Night

CHAPTER 8

They walked down on the roofs carefully.

"Why is it every time you get into trouble I would automatically get into trouble," Fen Yuhang argued.

"Shh be quiet."

Fen Yuhang moved his hand up and down his body. Cheng Xing looked back at him.

"What are you doing?"

"Your assassins' outfits are a lot tighter than they look," Fen Yuhang points out. Cheng Xing scoffs.

"You want it to be looser? Maybe you just need to train more, you gained weight," Cheng Xing argued back before crawling along.

"Excuse you, this is basically my first assassin mission, you do this all the time. I don't even know why I was asked to come with you on this mission. I'm supposed to steal things, not retrieve dead bodies from police morgues. Plus, why am I wearing an outfit and you're just wearing casual clothes? I think I'm better off as a thief-"

Cheng Xing cut him off. Cheng Xing climbed into the window. Fen Yuhang swung in after him.

"They just conveniently have the window unlocked and open?"

"Not many people think about breaking into a police station."

"That's a good point."

They walk up and down the morgue.

"Which one?"

Fen Yuhang opens the one closest to him, to see a middle-aged man.

"That's Zi Rui. Qiu Lin's last mission."

His dream flashed quickly by his head, the man holding a gun above him. He remembered the numbers carved into the wood. 173 and carved into it 23. Cheng Xing's eyes immediately go over to one that had the number 23.

"Try number 23," Cheng Xing said. Fen Yuhang walked over to 23 and opened it. Cheng Xing peered inside and winced at seeing Qiu Lin's body.

"I half knew Qiu Lin was going to die. I was trying to warn myself," Cheng Xing said.

"Ok, how do we get the body out?" Fen Yuhang ignoring his comment.

"I haven't thought of that yet," Cheng Xing said looking around the room.

"What!?"

A sound of a door opened, and footsteps walked closer to them. Fen Yuhang panicked looking between Cheng Xing and Qiu Lin. Cheng Xing quickly shoved Fen Yuhang in with Qiu Lin's dead body. Li Ming walked into the room, seeing Cheng Xing standing alone in the dark morgue. Li Ming looked around the room.

"What are you-"

"I was working late, and I thought I heard a sound," Cheng Xing quickly said cutting in.

Li Ming looked around the room again.

"Don't you think it would have been easier to find what you were looking for if you turned the lights on?"

Cheng Xing stared blankly at Li Ming. "Well, I'm still getting used to the prefect and I couldn't find the light switch," Cheng Xing said. There was this awkward moment of silence. Li Ming walked over to the light switch and turned it on. The lights flickered a few seconds and then turned on to a pale white.

"It's here, for your knowledge," Li Ming said leaving the room.

"Wait-"

Cheng Xing followed Li Ming to his office. Cheng Xing sat on the corner of Li Ming's desk. Li Ming glared at him. Cheng Xing cleared his throat and slowly got off the desk.

Fen Yuhang opened the door and wriggled himself out gasping for air. Fen Yuhang landed on the floor and pulled Qiu Lin out gently. Fen Yuhang took part of his assassins' jacket and wrapped it around Qiu Lin.

"Shit, how do I do this?"

Cheng Xing scanned Li Ming's desk and saw the flower necklace. Cheng Xing quickly picked it up and inspected it. "Li Ming, is this your girlfriends? I never thought someone so cold would have a girlfriend. What does she look like? Do you have a photo?"

Li Ming snatches the necklace back and shoves him against a wall making a loud thud. Touchy, huh?

"Don't touch my stuff," Li Ming said staring at Cheng Xing. Cheng Xing looked past Li Ming. Li Ming turned his head to see Wen Zhang standing at the door. Wen Zhang blinked at them for a few seconds before walking by.

"It's not what it looks like!"

Cheng Xing pushed Li Ming off him and ran after Wen Zhang.

"It's really not what it looks like."

"This the third time, what do you mean? It's fine anyway, it's not like it's any of my business," Wen Zhang replied with a grin. Li Ming stood behind Cheng Xing crossing his arms.

"Wen Zhang, what are you doing here?"

Wen Zhang put his hands in his pocket.

"I was just doing some late-night work, writing and finishing the report about Qiu Lin's death- nothing unusual. My question is what are YOU guys doing here? Not work as far as I can tell."

Cheng Xing flinches when hearing Qiu Lin's name. Cheng Xing looked back at Li Ming.

"We're here for work as well," Cheng Xing lied.

Wen Zhang raises an eyebrow looking between them.

"Uh-huh, ok well-"

Wen Zhang is cut off as a loud thud came from the morgue. Cheng Xing's heart started racing.

"That's the sound I heard. That's why I went to check the morgue," Cheng Xing lied. Li Ming looked at Cheng Xing before sprinting to the morgue.

SHIT! I NEED A DIVERSION! Cheng Xing yelled in his head. Li Ming ran in before Cheng Xing and Wen Zhang. Li Ming looks around. He walked over to the slightly opened morgue cabinet. Li Ming looked back at Cheng Xing and Wen Zhang at the doorway.