After My Overprotective Brother Slept for a Thousand Years - Chapter 2

Chapter 2

The moment I stepped out of the café, a cool breeze hit me head-on. I leaned against the doorframe, looking perfectly relaxed as I scrolled through my phone.

In reality, I was typing messages like my life depended on it.

[Lao Tao! Bird in danger! Get here now! (address)]

Unread.

[If you’re ten minutes later, that Xie Jin from the Golden Crow Clan is going to be dismembered by humans!]

Unread.

[Lao Tao! Taotie! Stop entering your stupid competitive eating contests!]

[Sister Luan’s ignoring me too! Did she go request songs at the plaza again?]

[You all promised I’d be the spy and you’d be my backup, remember? Help me out here!!]

Still unread.

I kept typing.

[Deputy Captain.]

Then a woman’s voice suddenly sounded behind me. “Who are you messaging?”

My shoulders almost jumped, but I held it in.

I locked my phone screen and turned around expressionlessly to look at the short-haired woman pressed up against the glass door.

I lifted my eyelids slightly. “What, Xiao Li? Are you bored too? Or do you think you’re more qualified than me to be the idle deputy captain?”

“No, that’s not what I meant.” The short-haired woman paused. “Also, Deputy Captain, my surname is actually Wang.”

“Got it, Xiao Zhang.” I narrowed my eyes impatiently. “That Golden Crow Clan member won’t start showing part of his original form for another half hour, but he’ll wake up in less than an hour. If he isn’t tied down properly, he can kill every human in this place at any moment. How much longer are you going to stand here like an idiot?”

Xiao Wang looked faintly resentful, but she still lowered her head deeply, took a step back, and returned inside the café.

Only then did my tense shoulders loosen a little.

My name is Gu Zhi. It sounds a little like stubborn in Chinese, but the character for Zhi means pheasant.

And the human organization I joined is called Shizun.

It’s unofficial, lawless, and massive.

They specialize in hunting down Shenzhou living in seclusion among humans-that is, the descendants of ancient divine beasts-then selling them at exorbitant prices or using them for experimental research.

As for why I joined, it was because Shizun pulled a dirty trick a year ago.

They stole the Life-bound Phoenix Core my brother had given me.

But after studying it for ages while wearing nuclear radiation protective gloves, they discovered that while the words “Phoenix Core” sounded mystical, to humans it was just a scalding-hot ball with little practical value.

The most effective way to use it was still to threaten me with it in exchange for my loyalty.

After all, as a pheasant, I wasn’t supposed to live forever. Without regular nourishment from the Phoenix Core, I wouldn’t have long to live.

So they simply used the captive emperor to command the nobles, coercing and bribing me into identifying Shenzhou who looked human, then approaching them as one of their own and drugging them.

Somehow-maybe because I worked too hard-I ended up becoming deputy captain of an operations squad.

But what no one knew was that I was also a spy embedded inside Shizun.

Because the humans still had no idea how much trouble they had gotten themselves into.

I took a deep breath and sent two final messages:

[Just you wait! When my brother finds me, I’m telling on all of you!]

[You’re going to get me killed!!!]