Chapter 35: Chapter 35: Breeze Dance Hall

The Breeze Dance Hall is open 24 hours.

There are daytime guests during the day and late-night guests at night, without conflict.

When Han Zhan and his group of three arrived at Breeze Dance Hall, there were still quite a few people scattered around, each with one or two dancers in their arms, whispering jokes.

It was quite rare to see someone like Han Zhan, accompanied by two stunning beauties, coming to the Breeze Dance Hall.

Even the doorman stared at them in surprise for a moment.

“You come here often, order some drinks.”

“Don’t be too expensive.”

Han Zhan added to Li Lingzhen.

Although they had just raided the City Guardian’s warehouse and the wallets were still well-stocked, he wasn’t someone who spent lavishly.

“Two glasses of fruit wine, an iced coffee, and a snack platter.”

Li Lingzhen immediately said to the waiter.

They found an inconspicuous corner booth to sit in and surveyed the surroundings.

On the stage, scantily clad dancers were performing, with many off-duty City Guardians below watching intently.

Nearby, a few dancers responsible for livening up the atmosphere were going from table to table offering drinks.

Black stockings, long legs, scars, garish makeup. It perfectly matched Han Zhan’s stereotypical impression of a dance hall.

They quickly arrived at Han Zhan’s table.

They ignored the two, who were obviously not their target audience and even more beautiful than themselves, Li Lingzhen and Xia Youwei, and directly approached Han Zhan.

“Are you here alone, brother?”

“???” You could tell that lie with your eyes open.

“Have a drink with us, darling.”

“The scent on you is so alluring!”

A dancer leaned close to Han Zhan’s neck, took a deep breath, and said with a face full of intoxication.

Xia Youwei and Li Lingzhen had strange expressions.

Is it true that you love what you do?

You find that scent alluring, that’s unexpected.

But this also indirectly proves that these dancers aren’t parasitized by Erosion Insects.

“Sorry, we’ve already ordered drinks.”

At this point, Li Lingzhen interrupted the seduction routine of these gaudy women.

The dancers’ income comes from three sources.

Basic appearance fees, guest tips, and commissions from selling drinks.

That’s why they worked so hard to persuade guests to drink.

Hearing Li Lingzhen’s words, the dancers’ expressions instantly turned cold.

“What a bore.”

“Yeah, bringing these two pretty chicks to a dance hall? What’s the show-off about?”

“Just as boring as that guy yesterday who only drank water and didn’t talk.”

The dancers left, clearly uninterested.

Soon, the waiter delivered their order.

Two glasses of pale golden transparent fruit wine, a cup of iced coffee with white frost on the cup walls, and a snack platter with steaming fries and unidentified beast meat.

All this, and the price was surprisingly high, costing several thousand, making Han Zhan click his tongue.

But seeing the dancers on stage performing energetically, he let it go.

Taking the iced coffee, Han Zhan casually started asking the young waiter:

“Do you have a woman here called Red Iris?”

Han Zhan’s voice wasn’t loud.

But, as soon as he finished speaking.

Suddenly, with a tray in hand, the waiter’s gaze fell on him with a strange look.

Not just him.

The entire bar, perhaps it was an illusion, everyone seemed to stop moving and turned their heads towards him!

All their eyes fell on Han Zhan.

The appearance of this eerie scene,

Han Zhan subconsciously clenched his fist, his mind slightly sinking.

“This guest, did you just say, Red Iris?” The waiter wore a smile on the corner of his mouth, seemingly confirming again.

Han Zhan pursed his lips.

“Yes.”

In the entire bar, those drinking and joking stopped, the dancers entertaining guests stopped, and even the dancing ceased.

As Han Zhan confirmed, preparing to fight this large group of parasitized Erosion Insects.

Suddenly, the waiter excitedly shouted: “Great, this guest said ’Red Iris,’ he will cover the tab for everyone here, renting the entire place!”

“Woohoo—”

Others cheered along.

Just when Han Zhan was still somewhat confused, the waiter came over to explain to him.

“It’s like this, customer, yesterday there was a guest who came here, he racked up a huge tab, then said someone would come later and say ’Red Iris,’ and cover the cost and his bar debt.”

The waiter’s words immediately made them think of someone.

Yi Fan, who had gone missing from the hospital!

He had been to Breeze Dance Hall too?

He was indeed investigating the Erosion Insect issue.

“You just let him rack up a tab like that?” Han Zhan asked in confusion.

“Well, he’s a City Guardian, and it wasn’t his first time running a tab here, everyone knows him…”

It was undoubtedly Yi Fan.

Han Zhan shook his head, choosing not to elaborate, and decided to help Yi Fan pay off the tab.

This sort of thing used to be handled by Bai Shuang.

Now that Bai Shuang may no longer be around, god knows how many times Yi Fan’s tab debts might get run up.

Yi Fan’s “prank” quickly brought new clues to Han Zhan and his team.

They saw another waiter approach them with a wooden box.

“The person said, once the tab is settled, we are to give you this wooden box.”

“We can’t open this box, guest, please see for yourself.”

Taking the box Yi Fan left behind,

A faint layer of golden light enveloped it.

This was Yi Fan’s Spirit Contract Master talent, “Immortal.”

As Han Zhan reached out to take it, the protective light film on the box seemed to sense something and slowly dissolved away.

Opening the box, inside were two pieces of paper, each recording different information.

[Year 23 of the Insect Disaster, February, Captain Yi Ming of the Deep Blue City’s City Guardian Team 1 successfully returned from exploring a nearby ruin, and the City Guardian Organization rewarded him. The entire team went to Breeze Dance Hall to celebrate.]

[Year 23 of the Insect Disaster, March, Yi Ming was transferred to the frontline for special reasons and then went missing.]

[In the same month, Deputy Captain Zhao Hu acted as Captain.]

The information on the first paper concerned Yi Ming, Captain of Team 1 of Deep Blue City. Han Zhan didn’t understand why Yi Fan left this information for him.

He continued to look at the second paper.

[The asexual reproduction and division cycle of the Erosion Insect mother insect is one month, splitting one offspring per month.]

[Kill the mother insect, and all the offspring will die together.]

The second piece of information was about the Erosion Insect. Killing the mother insect was known to Han Zhan, but this first division cycle was something new to him.

Combining the contents of the two papers.

Could it be that Yi Fan wanted to indicate that Yi Ming brought back the mother Erosion Insect from that ruin outside Deep Blue City!

“Which means, the mother insect’s division started in February, so now there are a total of seven parasitized individuals!”

This information was crucial.

It allowed Han Zhan to narrow down the target range immediately.

So now, they just need to find the seven parasitized individuals to solve the Erosion Insect problem!

“Waiter, please wait a moment.”

Han Zhan thought of this and called the waiter, asking, “Do you remember if Captain Yi Ming came to the Breeze Dance Hall in February?”

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