BOOK 10. There are two tales at the beginning. Zhao Yunlan is searching for a lost artefact while Black Robe is searching for the same thing in a different world. One story is partly an illusion, while the other is very real and when they merge...
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Ying instantly teleported to Wei's room and nodded before he hurriedly approached and walked around him, looking for anything out of place.
"Ying, is there something I should know about, because you seem to be concerned about what I'm wearing?"
The guard stepped back and sighed as he dropped to his knees.
"I was worried that something had happened to you My Lord. There is an android sitting in the kitchen downstairs identical to you, but it's alright at the moment. Lord Zhao is talking to it, trying to find out why it was sent. It doesn't seem to be armed and it's only answering by nodding, so I don't think it can talk, it probably doesn't know what your voice sounds like."
Wei took a deep breath in and remained calm before he transported with Ying to the corridor outside the kitchen where Yunlan could see him, and observed as he listened to the one sided conversation.
"I went to visit an old friend yesterday, you've never met him, he's called Kunlun, the next time I go, you should come along." Yunlan suggested while he looked for any sign of recognition of the name but there was none, therefore the androids were not aware of each other's programmed task.
"He had an unwelcome visitor who was killed but he was an android not a human," still no reaction, these machines held no emotion for each other, they were cold automatic killers.
"My other friend Shen Wei was there but he wasn't harmed."
There was no movement when he mentioned the name, he wasn't after Wei and he'd already said Chu's name with no recognition. He had ruled himself out as its target but he had to be sure so he stood up to leave the table and there was a slight glimmer in one of its eyes. Yunlan felt like a fool, he should have thought of this earlier as another possibility and he sighed and sat down again.
"So are you just watching or can you broadcast as well? What do you want?" Yunlan asked the controller of the android who was recording everything through the camera in its eye.
"This is just a messenger to show you how easy it was for me to enter this house. I don't appreciate you destroying one of my creations yesterday and this is part payment. Don't worry, no one will be harmed, it's mainly to demonstrate my skills, I can copy anyone and you wouldn't know."
Yunlan saw the blink of an eye and ordered Apep to move as he drew his gun to fire, but wasn't fast enough before Wei encased it in a protection dome which trapped the odourless gas, before he teleported it to the locked room under the flower garden, and approached Yunlan to see if he was alright.
"What was that gas Wei? Was it flammable?"
"No, Ah.Lan, it was laughing gas. I don't know who this person is but Kunlun might. This seemed more like a warning for us not to interfere. Are you alright?" Wei asked as he gave Yunlan a hug and stepped back.
