Mission 1: Sacred Banquet Part 2

"WangZi..." GuiGui uttered a cry. "Why did you have to die?" she weep silently.

"Why? Why did you have to die like that?" tears kept flowing from her eyes.

"Huh?" she saw a news article in the internet. "This is it! The men in the car was political and social journalist of Rong Jia newspaper..."

Click!

"Ohh! Who's there?" she roam her eyes around the library. It's empty. She continued to search about that news report. Again GuiGui heard a sound and she knows she's not alone.

"Is someone there?" she shouted once again.

GuiGui quickly packed her bags and walked out the library. She started to ran towards the exit door when suddenly,

"Aaaahhhh! Let me go!!!" GuiGui screamed as loud as she can.

"I'm sorry. I didn't mean to scare you." the guy came out of nowhere.

"Let me go!" GuiGui looked at the guy then stop screaming.

"You okay? Are you hurt?" the guy asked her.

"What? Oh... no I'm fine." GuiGui calmed herself down.

"Oh. I see. I read that article too." said XiaYu, her colleague in the school newspaper. They went to a coffee shop near the school.

"Four journalists were killed mysteriously. Actually, they were dead already when it squirmed off the expressway." he continued.

"But why..." GuiGui asked.

"They probably uncovered some sort of secret and ran." XiaYu said and took a sip from his cup. "But they were assassinated because the secret could not be revealed."

"What secret?"

"I'm not sure. But it must be something big if it's worth killing over." XiaYu looked outside. "But it's strange..."

"What is?" GuiGui asked.

"All they found at the accident site were the bodies. If the secret is that huge, it should be recorded on a something like floppy or compact disc."

"Now that you mention it..." GuiGui remembered something that night.

She remembered a floppy disc was on her side while crying over the body of WangZi.

"The key to solve that mystery might be on that disc." XiaYu interrupted her thinking.

"The key to solve the mystery...?" GuiGui repeated his words.

XiaYu hold her hands. "Will you let me help you?"

"What?"

"If the journalists were killed for that disc..." he gripped her hand tightly.

"That means... I'm in danger?" GuiGui said frightened.

"Don't worry I'll protect you."

"Um, I'm..." she hold back her hand.

"I know. You're GuiGui Wu. The school newspapers programmer."

"How did you know my name?"

"You're very famous at school. You're the youngest winner of our programming contest. You're the genius hacker." XiaYu complemented her.

"Not genius..." GuiGui blushed.

"Hahaha! You don't take compliments well." XiaYu laugh.

"Well..." GuiGui laugh also.

Again, the same car yesterday passed by observing GuiGui. DaDong was fixing his flowers outside the shop and his eyes followed it.

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Later that night, GuiGui was staring at the disc she's holding.

"The four men were killed for this disc. And..." GuiGui closed her eyes when she thinked about WangZi again.

She put the disc on the computer and click the program. The program needed password.

"... a password? Oh, no! If I knew what the journalist were investigating..." GuiGui exclaimed.

Dingdong! Dingdong!

GuiGui opened the door, and saw XiaYu outside.

"XiaYu!" she was surprised.

They went inside her apartment and he showed some documents.

"I have a friend who works at the paper..." XiaYu laid all the documents on the table. "I got some information about the journalists and the notes they kept until they died."

"Wow!" GuiGui said.

"Maybe we can find something in all of this. Let's do it." he started to sort out.

"Yeah." GuiGui flipped the documents. "They were looking into the energy council. There's got to be something they would've used as a password."

XiaYu gave her a cold glance.

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GuiGui slept onto the computer table. They've been working until morning. When she opened her eyes, XiaYu was gone. Then a letter slid under her door. She picked it up and read. Her eyes opened wide.

"This is..." surprised written on her face.

"Come to the Villa White at Mount Xia Zhen on April 8th if you want to know the truth about the incident."

"What do you think?" GuiGui said after she showed the letter to XiaYu.

She invited XiaYu that morning to the coffee shop.

"It's fishy." XiaYu said.

"I'm thinking of going." GuiGui answered.

"But that's dangerous!" XiaYu protested.

"You gave me courage." GuiGui told him. "I want to find out the truth. If you could come with me..."

"Of course I'll go with you."

"Thank you. I'll go get ready then." GuiGui said happily.

In just a few hours, they reached Mount Xia Zhen.

"Villa White. This is it." GuiGui informed him.

"Be careful." XiaYu warned her. "We don't know what's going to happen."

GuiGui slowly turned the knob and pushed the door open.

"Ehhhhhh!!!!" GuiGui screamed.

"I'm sorry. Are you ok?" YiRu coming out of the door.

"You're..." GuiGui recognized him.

"Hey! GuiGui!" YiRu greeted her.

ChunNie and DaDong popped out of the door. "What's up, YiRu?" DaDong asked.

"DaDong! ChunNie!" GuiGui exclaimed when she saw the two. "And YaLun too?!"

"GuiGui, what are you doing here?" YiRu asked.

"I..." she pulled out the letter from her pocket. "... received this letter."

"Hey! This is the invitation I wrote!" DaDong take it from GuiGui's hand. "ChunNie! You gave it to the wrong person!" he shouted angrily.

"I told you not to write it like that!" ChunNie scratching his head.

"What?!" DaDong looked at ChunNie with fierced eyes.

"What about the truth and the incident written there?" GuiGui asked with a puzzled face.

"DaDong screwed up and the two women he's seeing bumped into each other..." ChunNie continued while walking away.

"No! I wasn't two timing..." DaDong followed him inside. "... my past met my future, and that's what I wanted to explain."

"I guess that's the truth then." YaLun turned his head on her.

GuiGui felt so much disappointment.

"We're just here for a short vacation." YiRu talked from her back." I'm so sorry if DaDong caused all these trouble for you."

GuiGui fell down on her knees. "Haiyyssss!"

"Who are these guys?" XiaYu asked.

"They're from the wedding shop near my house." GuiGui answered.

"Stay here tonight." YaLun offered.

"Eh?" GuiGui was surprised.

"Yeah, you came all this way." YiRu said.

"I don't really dig that you've brought a man along, but hey. Besides, it's ChunNie's fault." DaDong crossed his arms on his chest.

"It's your fault!" ChunNie bickered.

"What we'll do?" GuiGui asked XiaYu.

"We don't have a choice." XiaYu answered.

"Two guests!" YiRu shouted happily.

"Please, GuiGui. This way." DaDong guide her inside the Villa White.

XiaYu didn't follow them inside.

"Is something wrong?" YaLun looked at him intensely.

"N-not really..." XiaYu answered awkwardly then went inside.