Chapter 72: Western Fantasy Traveling Through Long Aotian
"...Of course, you have to believe me, this is definitely not me."
Long Haoyu leaned against the window sill on the stairwell landing, answering the phone. The breeze blew a few strands of hair across his forehead. He relaxed his posture and raised his voice:
"Oh, of course I believe in Mr. Gu's sincerity. But we were attacked less than a hundred meters after leaving the 'Blue Sky and Sea of Clouds' that Mr. Gu had booked. This is an indisputable fact. Mr. Gu would surely agree with this, right?"
Gu Yang's expression froze slightly. He knew that Long Haoyu was trying to warn him, wondering if there was a traitor around him. But...
"Haoyu, how can you be sure that he didn't follow you all the way here?"
Gu Yang's words were not sarcastic, but a real question.
Long Haoyu lowered his eyes slightly. It was simple. He didn't think anyone could follow them all the way here under the perception of the three-headed dragon. Therefore, the truck driver must have received the news after they entered the "Blue Sky and Sea" and waited at the intersection.
This news was not released by him, but was naturally passed on by someone around Gu Yang who knew about this matter.
He dodged the question, simply saying, "Don't worry about how I confirmed this. Anyway, they're not following us. Mr. Gu, you should check the people around you first."
On the other side, Gu Yang raised his hand to adjust his glasses, and when he thought of the solid wood table that was broken by Long Lingnan's slap, his mouth suddenly closed when he was about to say something.
He originally thought that these two children were a stopgap measure that Long Haoyu's team found from somewhere so that they could appear on the show. When Long Haoyu came to see him, he had to bring the children with him, so he just thought that maybe they had developed feelings for each other. But until he saw this unscientific scene with his own eyes, he realized that he was wrong.
This is most likely not a child, but a bodyguard!
Fortunately, he didn't land a punch. As the saying goes, money is more important than life. Gu Yang instantly changed his plan, not daring to resort to force. Based on Long Lingnan's strength, he was willing to believe that Long Haoyu was telling the truth.
If one unscientific thing happens, will the second one be far behind?
After the call ended, Long Haoyu became curious about the reason for Gu Yang's subtle change in attitude. This was inconsistent with his profile of Gu Yang's personality. Why...
At that moment, Long Lingnan was in the room, her face tightly furrowed. She opened her mouth and released a stream of golden light. It hung in the air, then faded away, revealing a white pill, faintly shimmering with five colors. The pill, barely the size of a glass ball, spun incessantly in mid-air. This was her Dragon Ball.
Ever since her dragon ball absorbed the golden bead she had received from the Golden Snake Shayi, it had grown slightly larger and rounder, but nothing had changed. Until today, Long Lingnan suddenly noticed a change in the dragon ball within her body.
She concentrated, felt it carefully, and tried hard for a long time, but in the end, she had no choice but to swallow the dragon ball back into her stomach.
It was strange. She could clearly feel that Longzhu wanted to convey some message to her, but she was still vague and couldn't sense it clearly.
Long Lingnan was completely baffled. Suddenly, she remembered that quite a while had passed since they arrived in the human world, and she had no idea what the situation in Longming Realm was like. Her father wouldn't turn the entire Longming Realm upside down just because he couldn't find her, would he?
Probably... no
The more Long Lingnan thought about it, the less confident she became. She comforted herself: It's okay, the ministers should be able to... stop it.
...How could the ministers possibly stop her father? Whether or not they could catch up with her father was a problem. These old guys all cherish their lives very much!
But distant water cannot quench immediate thirst. A world away, Long Lingnan had no way of passing news to her father. She had tried many times, but perhaps because the boundary wall was too thick, each attempt ended in failure.
What could she do? She was just a little dragon after all.
"Brother, you're back!"
Hearing the sound of the door opening, Long Lingnan raised her face with a bright smile to welcome her brother home.
Long Haoyu smiled subconsciously when he saw his sister jogging over. He asked, "Why, don't you like watching TV again?"
"I've finished reading it!" Long Lingnan's eyes sparkled as she pulled her brother's sleeve to lead him inside. "Brother, how is it? Did you find anything?"
Long Haoyu followed Long Lingnan's lead and walked into the room lazily with his hands in his pockets: "Where's Long Zixuan?"
"He's sleeping in there."
Long Lingnan brought out a small stool and sat down opposite Long Haoyu, propping up her face to listen to her brother.
"Officer Lin just called me. The money that was transferred into Ma's bank account has long been withdrawn. Furthermore, the police investigated Ma's connections and his social media records. As expected, they found nothing."
"Obviously, the other party is very sophisticated. Everything was done offline through contact. After so many days, it's impossible to trace Ma's movements by checking surveillance footage."
"Also," Long Haoyu paused, "Gu Yang told me that this practice is very similar to the Duan family nanny case twenty years ago."
"Back then, the nanny claimed that her husband had committed suicide by jumping off a building due to the Duan family's malicious suppression of their acquisition of a small company, and that she had kidnapped the Duan family's young master in revenge. But in reality, the police discovered a large amount of unexplained money in the nanny's son's account. He had similarly fled abroad before the incident."
"Moreover, the nanny had a cough before her death. Someone witnessed her coughing up blood a week before the kidnapping."
It seems that these two cases do have some similarities, and the people behind the scenes are most likely the same group.
Long Lingnan pondered and asked, "Brother, have you told Officer Lin about Duan Xingzhou?"
Long Haoyu remained silent. Mentioning Duan Xingzhou would inevitably reveal their grudge. Using his previous relationship with Ying Yiran as a motive for Duan Xingzhou to hire someone to kill him was a far-fetched and unfounded claim.
If it's a fight for succession, then the motivation is indeed sufficient. However, there are two problems here.
First, how did Duan Xingzhou determine his identity? Both he and Gu Yang were too certain about this. They identified him based solely on a birthmark. If a wealthy family were so careless, it would be ridiculous.
He had seen the photos of Duan Bowen that he had made public online, and he did bear some resemblance to him in his features, but there were so many people in the world who looked alike, and he was no exception.
Thinking of the urgency that Gu Yang had hinted at in their previous conversation, Long Haoyu had several guesses: Could it be that Duan Bowen was in poor health, and this was the critical moment to determine the heir? If he was not mistaken, the Duan family's assets should be more than double that of the Gu family.
I heard that Duan Bowen...seems to have started from scratch, while the Gu family is known as a century-old family.
It's interesting, whether it's a rich girl marrying a poor boy or a poor boy turning around and becoming the "number one scholar", it's extremely interesting.
Although Long Haoyu is not very serious in his daily life, he has the intelligence to get into the top two universities in the country. Based on this information alone, he roughly guessed the grudge between the Duan and Gu families.
The second question was, if he wanted to prove that he and Duan Xingzhou were indeed in a competitive relationship, then written DNA evidence would undoubtedly be needed. But Long Haoyu didn't dare to gamble. He wasn't alone. Long Zixuan and Long Lingnan were strictly illegal in this world, and their identities couldn't withstand investigation.
If something really goes wrong, the consequences are unimaginable, unless...
Long Haoyu buried the countless thoughts in his mind and took the initiative to say to Long Lingnan: "Guyang gave me an invitation letter. Duan Xingzhou will also be there. What do you think? Do you want to go?"
Wow! Her brother has grown up and has learned to tell her when he has something to say!
Long Lingnan said firmly, "Go! Of course I'm going!"
She wanted to see who this Duan Xingzhou was, how dare he so brazenly disregard the law. In her previous life, Long Lingnan was a law-abiding citizen. This was the first time she had seen someone so arrogant and lawless.
A mysterious department somewhere in China.
“Are there any results?”
A tall, thin young man asked the bespectacled man sitting in front of the computer screen. The man stared at the screen with a serious expression. He clicked the mouse a few times, magnifying a certain part of the screen to the extreme and showing it to the young man.
In the middle of the screen, there is a long horn with half of its side shining golden, while the other half is hidden in the thick clouds.
The young man took a deep breath, calmed his trembling heart, and asked, "Besides this, are there any more obvious discoveries?"
The man buried his head and continued tapping away at the keyboard. The young man waited for a while, and the man finally stopped and said:
"This is the most likely appearance of the organism restored by stitching together countless images captured by satellites and using digital modeling technology."
On the screen, deer antlers, snake neck, fish scales, eagle claws, cow ears... it was suddenly a majestic golden dragon!
If Long Lingnan were here, she would be astonished by this technique. Even from a dragon's perspective, the golden dragon on the screen looked 80% like her, except that her claws had five toes instead of four.
Seeing this, the young man, despite having expected it, still had his pupils shrink violently, and his hands trembled slightly. This, this is a dragon, the dragon from the totem of Chinese mythology!
Even though he had been through many battles and had seen many magical beasts, he couldn't help but get excited, but he quickly calmed down. It was still unknown whether this dragon was an enemy or a friend.
"Maybe dragons are on the side of humans." The man with glasses couldn't help but say. After all, as a descendant of the dragon, he naturally has a lot of good feelings towards creatures like dragons.
"According to the State Oceanic Administration, at 10:11:57 that morning, the ocean's power suddenly surged, causing the ground to vibrate violently, threatening a massive tsunami. However, at 10:35:31, for unknown reasons, the ocean returned to calm, and the tsunami subsided."
"This time point is exactly when the golden dragon disappeared from the satellite image. It is very likely that the golden dragon prevented the tsunami."
The young man sighed: "This does not mean that the golden dragon is friendly to humans. Its power to calm the tsunami is simply terrifying. If..." If it wants to summon a tsunami, it will probably only take a moment.
"We have learned enough lessons from the past. We must not make the same mistake again!"
He stared at the information on the screen. The golden dragon appeared right near Hain Island, and there was a storm that the Meteorological Bureau had not observed. Could all this be a coincidence?
"Report, abnormal energy has been detected at a southeastern estuary. It's extremely massive. It's, it's a giant python!"
"Even Moon Scale Fragrance can't drive it away?"
It is a turbulent time, and the young people are frowning.
【Author’s words】
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