Chapter 64 - Chapter 64: afraid

"what?" Mei Xiaotong asked facing her friend in her bed roomLu Jingyan called Xiaotong to explain everything that happened to her and she drove down to the Leng manor immediately to console her friend "Yan Yan" Xiaotong called "Have you tried his number?" She asked "He isn't picking" Lu Jingyan replied "Then what should we do?" Mei Xiaotong asked when a knock rang out"Come in" Lu Jingyan said as Leng Yumo walked "Sister in law. Are you okay?" She asked "I am fine""Brother said you shouldn't worry. He has sent brother Shiyan to go after brother Tianyi to Vienna" Leng Yumo said "Why?" "I don't know. But I think it's related to the Lu family case" she said. Lu Jingyan tensed up after hearing Leng Yumo "Are you afraid?" Mei Xiaotong asked "I am not afraid of anything. I am just afraid of the both of them being hurt in the process" Lu Jingyan replied as she looked out he window "Brother Tianyi. I hope you can be fine" she said "Don't worry sister in law. My brother and brother Tianyi would surely find the person who did it" Here's how things unfolded in Vienna after the cryptic lead surfaced:Vienna: Hochturm HotelThe city's lights stretched out beneath them like a shimmering web. On the rooftop terrace of the Hochturm Hotel a discreet address known only to those who traded secrets the wind tugged at the coat of Mo Tianyi as he surveyed the skyline. A sleek black briefcase rested on the glass table between him and his two contacts: a Vienna‑based fixer and a former intelligence officer.Tianyi clicked open the case. Inside: a single red USB drive, a faint residue of sand, and a photograph of the shell company *Yuhai International Holdings*. He slid the photo across the table. "The cold storage facility was one thing," he said quietly. "This is the second lead: Yuhai, under recent registration, funneled a modest amount-$3.2 million-to a vault in Vienna. The vault's code name: *Red Lotus*. It's not just an alias-it's the file name for a complete copy of data stolen from the Lu family's archives."The fixer's eyes went cold. "Red Lotus isn't just a file. It's a door."Tianyi nodded. "And I have the key. This drive links Yuhai to Austria. The question is who opened that vault."The former intelligence officer leaned in. "The vault's location: deep beneath the Palais Silbergrün bank. Access requires a biometric scan and a relic fingerprint algorithm-that only high‑level operatives carry."Tianyi closed the briefcase. "Then we're going in."Vienna - Underneath Palais Silbergrün, Sub‑Vault 42 | Early Dawn Tianyi moved silently, the hum of the vault's air‑conditioning his only companion as he entered through the hidden access hatch beneath a marble sculpture of Athena. Inside, he found the vault door ajar-unlocked from the outside.The cold steel corridor curved downward. At the end, the vault chamber: walls of reinforced concrete, ambient red light glowing along the seams. Vaults numbered 41 through 50 lined the room. He approached #47: *Red Lotus*. With a flick, the door clicked open.Inside: racks of encrypted drives, financial ledgers, and a photograph of the Lu family's holdings-all labeled with dates and codes that mapped the downfall.As he extracted one of the drives, a soft voice echoed behind him. "Looking for something?" Tianyi turned. A tall figure in black stood in the doorway-his silhouette unreadable. "You weren't supposed to follow that trail," the figure said. "Red Lotus doesn't show itself-it consumes you."Tianyi's voice was calm. "Not tonight."Steel rang as the door slammed shut.Back at the rooftop, Vienna's lights flickered like warning beacons as Tianyi sent the encrypted key back to Leng Xuanmo. *Lead #2: The vault in Vienna linked Yuhai and the Red Lotus file-connected to arranging the Lu family's downfall.* But he hadn't found the hand that placed t