Chapter 30: The Honey Trap
A black gas slowly emerged from the jade ring, stayed in front of her for a second, and then suddenly floated out from the crack in the door.
After a while, Shen Zhiyi heard the door opposite open, and soon after, the smell of gasoline suddenly hit him.
Anger flashed in her eyes. She closed her eyes and chanted two spells, and then her body was able to move freely.
She clicked on the Yin-Yang diagram app on her phone, selected the floating mode, and immediately a holographic projection that only she could see appeared in front of her.
The huge electronic compass needle trembled and finally pointed to the southeast.
She snorted coldly: "Looking for death."
She opened the window and jumped out.
*
Xiao Lanting woke up from his nightmare, wiped the sweat off his head, and turned on the light.
A pungent smell hit him, and he immediately opened the door and went out to check.
There was no one in the living room on the second floor.
He knocked on Shen Zhiyi's door twice, but when he heard no response, he opened the door and went in.
The strong wind blew the curtains against the table, and the big bed was empty.
"Chen Zhiyi!" He called out, but no one answered.
I quickly went downstairs, only to see Yu Fanggeng holding a bucket of gasoline and pouring it everywhere. When I turned around to see him, his eyes were unfocused and lifeless.
Their eyes met, and it was extremely quiet.
Suddenly, Yu Fanggeng let out a strange and sinister smile, and the corners of his mouth seemed to extend all the way to his ears!
The next second, he took out a lighter and pretended to light it.
Xiao Lanting's eyes were shocked, but he was not in a hurry. He picked up a fork beside him and threw it at Yu Fanggeng's hand.
Yu Fanggeng looked lifeless, his movements were stiff, and his reactions were a little slow.
The fork knocked down the lighter accurately.
Yu Fanggeng still had that weird smile on his face, and he bent down like a puppet to pick up the lighter.
Xiao Lanting acted quickly and took the lighter away first.
Yu Fanggeng raised his head, his eyes filled with murderous intent.
The arm in plaster suddenly raised up and rushed towards Xiao Lanting with a scream!
Xiao Lanting frowned slightly, grabbed his collar and threw him aside.
But he bounced up in an instant, like a spring man, and continued to pounce fiercely, baring his teeth and claws, and making hoarse sounds from his mouth.
Very weird.
Soon, the security guards who had been on duty outside ran in quickly, stood in front of Xiao Lanting, and pressed Yu Fanggeng to the ground.
The lights flicker.
The skinny Yu Fanggeng pushed away the four security guards who were pressing on him like a strong man and lifted them up with his own strength!
The security guard who was lifted up screamed.
Xiao Lanting looked at the unusual scene in front of him with deep eyes.
A second later, the flashing lights suddenly became brighter, and Yu Fanggeng collapsed and fainted.
The four security guards immediately restrained the man and said to Xiao Lanting, "Third Master, let's hand this guy over to the police immediately!"
"No, put it aside and go find someone first."
“Miss Shen is missing?”
“I just went upstairs to check, Miss Shen is not here!”
"It was so strange just now. We were on duty, but suddenly we couldn't move and our bodies were numb."
"Yes! I had the same feeling just now. My consciousness was so chaotic that I thought I was dreaming!"
"That's so weird!"
“I’ve been guarding the door and haven’t seen anyone coming in or out. When did Miss Shen disappear?”
Xiao Lanting hurried to the monitoring room and called up the previous surveillance footage.
However, they found that the surveillance records only recorded the time before they went to bed, and the footage of the previous period mysteriously disappeared.
He had no choice but to send people to look for Shen Zhiyi from four different directions.
He walked straight towards his uncle's house.
As soon as I reached the door, I heard the sounds of a very fierce fight, either a table collapsing or glass breaking.
He kicked the door open and in an instant, everything inside suddenly became quiet again.
Turning into the yard, I saw a mess in front of me, with incense, candles, yellow talismans, prayer flags and other messy things everywhere.
A man in a yellow robe was lying on the ground, gasping for breath.
He walked over and turned the man over.
The Taoist priest's face was covered in blood and bruises everywhere, especially his eyes, which were so swollen that he couldn't open them.
So much so that when he met him, the Taoist priest subconsciously trembled and begged for mercy: "Master, spare my life, spare my life, I won't dare to do it again, I will definitely do as you say, and atone my sins from today on, please don't hit me."
Xiao Lanting: "What are you doing here? Who told you to do this? And who hit you? Answer me."
Hearing the male voice, the Taoist priest was in a trance for a moment.
Then he staggered to his feet and tried to escape.
Xiao Lanting pressed his fingers on his wrist and easily restrained him.
The Taoist priest screamed and said quickly, "Third Master, spare me! I was only here on your uncle's orders to perform a ritual and pray for blessings. Halfway through, the neighbors got annoyed by my noise and had someone beat me up."
"Male or female?"
"Female...female."
"You can't even beat a woman?"
"She attacked me by surprise. I'm not as skilled as her and I'm no match for her."
This sounds weird.
Xiao Lanting asked, "Where did they go?"
"She hit me and left. I don't know where she went."
At this moment, a security guard came running outside.
"Third Master, Miss Shen is back! She's fine and safe."
When the security guard said this, Xiao Lanting clearly felt the Taoist priest shudder.
"She was the one who hit you?"
The Taoist hesitated.
"I...I don't dare to work in the middle of the night anymore. I'm leaving first!"
He packed his things and ran out.
Xiao Lanting had no reason to arrest anyone at the moment, so he could only let him go.
Back at the villa, Xiao Lanting saw Shen Zhiyi.
The girl was sitting on the sofa in the living room eating fruit. She was wearing her bedtime clothes. Her soft black hair was draped over her shoulders, with a few strands maintaining stiff curves, as if they had been blown by the wind for a long time. There was a faint red on her cheeks, as if she had just finished an intense exercise.
He looked down at the shoe cabinet and saw some yellow soil mixed with grass on the soles of the women's shoes.
This way.
Shen Zhiyi had already felt the man's naked scrutiny.
She pretended to be calm and bit into an apple.
Xiao Lanting is an outsider. If you explain Yu Fanli's matter to him seriously, he will definitely not believe it.
They would also say that she had a problem with her brain, that the work was time-consuming, laborious and unappreciative.
So, she had already thought of a set of excuses.
"Brother Lanting." She put down the apple and walked towards him. "I heard something happened just now?"
"Where have you been?" the man asked in a deep voice.
"I couldn't sleep, so I went out for a walk. I walked near your uncle's house and heard some noise inside. It was really loud. I went in and saw a Taoist priest acting like a ghost and disturbing the people. I tried to reason with him, but he wouldn't listen. Then I couldn't help but fight him. When I came back, I didn't expect you all to be awake, and the house was full of gasoline. What happened?"
Xiao Lanting remained silent, his eyes always moving on her face.
Shen Zhiyi felt something was wrong and his mind started thinking rapidly.
Which of the Thirty-Six Strategies is applicable now and can quickly divert his attention?
At this moment, the man suddenly took a step forward.
In her panic, her body reacted instinctively. She suddenly stood up, wrapped her arms around his waist, and leaned her face against his shoulder. She said in a delicate voice, "I'm so scared."
The Beauty Trap of the Thirty-Six Stratagems.
(End of this chapter)
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