There was a faint milky scent on Liuli.
It was not fox odor. It was only that very fresh kind, a pleasant body fragrance…
Of course, the reason Yue could smell it was purely because she was following right behind Liuli.
She was absolutely not lying on him going sniff-sniff like some pervert!
Yue lifted her head and looked toward the owner of this scent, watching him kick the fatty collapsed on the ground—who weighed at least three hundred jin—flying with a single foot.
The fatty hung in the air, spinning as he traced a graceful parabola, and at last smashed onto the street with a heavy muffled impact.
Dong—
The earth trembled faintly…
After her gaze lingered on Liuli’s slender legs for a short moment, the corner of Yue’s mouth twitched involuntarily.
If some other girl threw a punch, she could cry for a long time. If Liuli threw a punch…
The other party’s family could cry for a long time.
Was this fellow’s Heaven-Chosen Skill really the soul type? Why was the physical technique this outrageous too!
His current state should have been a little fox girl, right? Weren’t demihumans supposed to be a bit weaker than humans in strength?
Then why, when both of them had transformed, was he that strong and she this weak?
She was not even equal to a vixen?!
Yue rolled up a sleeve, stared at the small arm white and clean as lotus root, and sank into a long silence…
Damn heaven, rnm!
…
Time returned to a little more than two hours earlier—
A silver Rolls-Royce was parked on the road beside the small villa.
15:40
The woman in the driver’s seat had her dark brows faintly drawn together.
How many times had she looked at the time now?
Why had Miss still not come back after forty minutes?
Did bringing a person need that long?
Something was off…
She tried dialing the phone.
Doo-doo…
“The number you have dialed is not answering at this time. Please try again later…”
Pa—
The woman got out of the car at once and ran toward the villa’s main gate, extremely fast.
Seeing the closed gate, she stepped forward and knocked.
“Hey! Is anyone inside? Miss? Are you in there!”
“…”
No one answered.
The woman backed up a few steps, observed the surroundings briefly, and noticed that the floor-to-ceiling window on the second-floor balcony was open.
Several flashes of movement, a twisting climb, and when she landed she had already crouched like a black panther and slipped inside.
In the end, she found a curled-up figure in a dark corner of the kitchen.
The woman eagerly grabbed the girl’s slender arm. Only after checking the pulse did her tightly drawn brows ease a fraction.
She carefully examined the girl’s body again and finally found only a red mark at the back of her neck.
“Knocked out by a strike to the vagus nerve. Fortunately there is no danger to life…”
The woman inspected the surroundings, discovered the iron rack on the floor and the small hole in the wall directly above herself, and after a brief silence the brows that had just eased furrowed again.
“If it was done by hand, it could still be understood as skilled technique. Miss’s big brother should not have had the intent to injure. Being able to do it like this, one can only say he has extremely precise control…”
“Object control… an element-type Chosen One…? Psychokinesis?”
“Wait… not psychokinesis!”
The woman touched the back of her own neck, light flashing without stop in her eyes, and only after a good while did she finally settle her emotions.
She had said this technique gave her a sense of déjà vu. So it was that fellow!
“I truly cannot believe… he would actually be here…” the woman murmured. “[Four-Leaf Clover], I have finally found you…”
She picked up her own miss, returned to the car, settled the girl in the back seat, and after finishing all that went back to the villa kitchen again. She took several photos of a few key places, then specially went to the second-floor balcony and locked the floor-to-ceiling window.
After withdrawing from the villa, she checked the courtyard carefully once more and suddenly discovered a glittering gold object in the grass inside the yard.
She went up to look. It was a gold bank card.
She picked it up at once and returned to the car.
By then Miss had already woken and was holding a laptop, looking as if she were searching for something, her expression very serious.
Seeing her own bodyguard-cum-driver-cum-career-consultant-cum-human-model return, Lin Lianxue quickly pulled up the surveillance of this small villa, turned the laptop around, and aimed the screen at her.
“Mu Bai, look at this.”
The woman called Mu Bai first handed the gold card in her hand to Lin Lianxue, then took the laptop.
Two glances were enough to know this was the villa’s surveillance, mounted on the enclosing wall, able to see the situation in the courtyard.
The time in the upper right displayed: 13:45
Unpause.
Faint noisy sounds could be heard. Mu Bai turned the volume up, and the next second a burst of hysterical roaring exploded inside the car.
“What the hell are you so smug about?!”
“Don’t you forget, this house is property of the Lin Group! Once you sign the resolution you have to get lost immediately!”
“And this one million—”
“You’ll never get it in this lifetime!”
…
Then a fellow in a suit came out falling the whole way. The fall at the front gate was the worst, and something seemed to have dropped off his person.
Zoom in. The gold card.
Mu Bai silently sucked in a cold breath.
This cheap… this signature ability. Besides him, there could not be anyone else!
Thirty-two times speed, arriving at 15:00, the moment Lin Lianxue had just gone in.
One minute…
Two minutes…
Five minutes…
Suddenly the villa door opened.
But even more suddenly, a butterfly flew onto the camera and just happened to cover the fellow walking out from behind the door, until he left the surveillance range…
Mu Bai immediately used CIA clearance to pull up the old district’s surveillance network.
The result was that within this ten-li radius, during this period, the cameras had either malfunctioned or been blocked for a stretch of time by insects such as butterflies.
By the end of the search, never mind where that fellow had gone. They did not even know what that fellow looked like.
On the surface Mu Bai did not change expression. In reality her inner heart was already stormy seas, and she was even more certain of one matter—they had found that fellow whose code name was [Four-Leaf Clover].
The number-one target wanted by the CIA.
But it was a great pity. He had been allowed to run again.
Looking at Lin Lianxue, whose mood was clearly somewhat low, Mu Bai felt a little pity and also a little reluctance to hurt her. She then took the other party’s small hand and comforted her.
“There is no need to sulk over that kind of person. When we return to the company, I will have him dismissed directly from the personnel department, and while we are at it use this matter to make him bleed heavily once.”
“Besides, your brother should have run outside. But please rest assured, Miss. I will go find him and bring him back.”
Mu Bai herself was free, but ever since she had first seen Lin Lianxue, she had found it very hard to leave Miss again.
There was no special romantic feeling. It was only a simple attraction that originated from bloodline.
Like a lower being following a higher one.
She was clear what her own bloodline was. Precisely because of that, she had chosen to stay at Miss’s side, at the side of a young human girl who looked ordinary.
While Mu Bai was thinking, Lin Lianxue’s quiet voice came over at the same time.
“Thank you, Mu Bai. But what I mainly feel awful about is that I went into the house and did not find my brother…”
“Mm-mm. It’s all right. I will help you look together, so don’t be sad.”
“There was only a very cute little girl in the house…”
“Mm-mm… mm? Mm?!”
“She really was very cute, but she ran away, and I cannot find her. More important, I failed to record her appearance. Right now I cannot see her, and my heart itches. It feels awful.”
“What did you say?”
Mu Bai’s brows furrowed very deeply.
The assassin [Four-Leaf Clover], a strange little girl, a big brother out of contact…
In that instant, she realized a certain terrible possibility…
“…Miss.” Mu Bai was silent for two seconds, took the laptop, and pulled a dossier from the CIA backend. “Your big brother… I am afraid it is not as simple as running away from home.”
Lin Lianxue leaned over to look.
Old District Serial Child Disappearance Case
“Suspected Chosen One gang operating across districts. Action Group Two has locked onto suspect targets and is conducting an infiltration investigation.”