Chapter 16 He Came Back from the Dead
Boom boom boom.
The knocks on the door, each one louder than the last, struck directly into the hearts of Li Xiaogou and Wang Bo.
After making a gesture, Li Xiaogou reacted extremely quickly and slipped into the bathroom.
Wang Bo took a deep breath, tucked his long hair behind his ears, rubbed his cheeks, and opened the door with a "charming" smile.
In the bathroom.
Li Xiaogou's dark eyes scanned around and locked onto the white towel on the shelf.
Jin Zhenghao in the bathtub had his eyes closed and his face wrinkled. Even though he was unconscious, he was still not honest and kept groaning in pain.
Pulling the towel from the shelf, Li Xiaogou slightly exerted force on the hand that was pinching the man's chin, forcing Jin Zhenghao to open his mouth. Li Xiaogou stuffed the towel in without hesitation.
The world is finally quiet.
Shaking off Jin Zhenghao's chin, Li Xiaogou turned on the faucet and rubbed it carefully with one finger at a time, while holding his breath and listening to the movement outside.
This time it was Kim Jung-ho's agent who knocked on the door.
"I'll deliver the food."
Wang Bo raised his eyebrows: "You can speak Chinese?"
The usual arrogant and provocative expression becomes an unattainable charm on a beautiful woman.
The man looked greedy and said in a thick accent, "A little bit."
Haha, you dog man.
Wang Bo looked down on the man with disdain, his finger tapping on his plump lips as he said meaningfully, "He said he wants me to feed him, so leave it to me."
The agent frowned and hesitated, trying to touch Wang Bo's neck. Wang Bo shook his head and pushed his hair aside, revealing his fair and slender neck and a large and delicate collarbone.
The man's eyes were glued shut.
The enchanting beauty with waist-length hair bent down, holding the handle of the scooter with her white and tender fingertips, looked at herself with numb eyes, and pulled the scooter into the room swaying her slender waist.
The man swallowed and felt his throat burning as if it was about to smoke.
"Thanks a lot."
Even the beauty's voice is so pleasant.
The man nodded dazedly. Seeing the door about to close, he regained his senses briefly and reached out to hold the door open.
Wang Bo paused, his smile frozen on his lips: "Is there anything else?"
Was there something wrong discovered?
He followed the instructions in the training course strictly and didn't make any mistakes?!
"Well... there are shrimp in the dish, you have to help pick them. Zhenghao doesn't eat onions and garlic, so you have to pick them out. He won't drink the hot water that comes with the meal, and he wants three ice cubes, no sugar, and two packets of milk for his coffee."
"...Okay, anything else?"
"No more." The man felt an inexplicable chill on the back of his neck.
The door slammed extremely loudly.
Wang Bo threw the plate onto the table with a clang. Li Xiaogou just came out of the bathroom and said with a smile, "Why are you so angry?"
"There's so much going on." He tilted his head towards the bathroom. "No sound."
"The mouth is gagged."
Wang Bo calmed down a bit, "Serves him right! He still wants me to feed him food, but I might as well feed him shit."
As soon as the words came out of his mouth, he was disgusted by the thought of Kim Jung-ho being splashed with feces.
…
"So...are we just going to sit here and wait?"
"Yeah." Li Xiaogou lay down with his hands behind his head.
Wang Bo leaned over and asked, "Do you think Jin Zhenghao will be their target?"
Li Xiaogou brushed the hair away from his face: "If it were me, I would choose Jin Zhenghao."
Wang Bo: "Why?"
Li Xiaogou looked at him with a smile and said, "Idiot, easy to kill."
It's true that Kim Jung-ho is an idiot, but it sounds weird.
The rumbling sound of his stomach interrupted Wang Bo's thoughts. He was hungry after being busy for so long.
Jin Zhenghao is a bad guy with a foul mouth. He kept saying that he would never eat Daxia food, but in the end, all he ordered were authentic Daxia dishes, which were exactly what Wang Bo liked.
The appetizer is cold bamboo shoots carved into rose shapes, and the transparent dewdrops on the leaves are made of fish meat beaten into clay.
Stir-fried mushrooms are the most popular dish and are so delicious that you can make your tongue melt in one bite.
The lychee wood-roasted pigeon and the rosy lobster are smoked with tea leaves to remove the greasiness.
The soup is made from Jinhua ham broth in a cloisonné enamel pot, with seasonal morels and scallops, simmered over low heat, and gently stirred with a spoon, filling the room with fragrance.
Wang Bo's stomach growled even louder.
"Shelling shrimp?"
Wang Bo snorted coldly and reached his chopsticks into the lobster dish first.
"Bah."
Wang Bo's face wrinkled into a ball: "It tastes terrible!"
How can some people not even eat in peace?
Li Xiaogou sat up and asked, "Even the food in a five-star hotel is not to your liking?"
Wang Bo put his chopsticks right under Li Xiaogou's nose and said, "I'm not being pretentious, it's just really unpalatable!"
It is impossible to eat.
Li Xiaogou's nostrils twitched and his eyebrows raised slightly.
"Don't move yet." He walked to the table with a serious expression, picked up the cutlery one by one and examined them carefully.
Wang Bo asked nervously, "What's wrong? It's not poisonous, is it?"
"It's over, it's over, I took a big bite!"
He wished Li Xiaogou would mock him as usual, but Li Xiaogou's expression became even uglier.
"Say something, I'm scared." Wang Bo's voice trembled.
Li Xiaogou held the cup of hot water, his dark eyes moving along the rim of the cup...
"Mo Shang, contact the bureau immediately. Wang Bo might have been poisoned."
His slightly furrowed brows usually made him look listless when he looked at people, but at this moment, the depths of his eyes, so deep that they seemed to absorb all the light, were tinged with two balls of fire.
That's anger.
Wang Bo scratched his throat for a while, but nothing came out. There was no light in his eyes now.
He slumped in his chair and asked in a daze, "What kind of poison is it?"
Li Xiaogou handed the cup over: "Have you seen the blue particles on the rim of the cup?"
Wang Bo has followed Wang Zheng since he was a child, so he always has more experience than them.
"Blue granules?" Wang Bo sat up with a somersault. He snatched the cup from Li Xiaogou's hand, staring at it with his eyes fixed on one spot. "Isn't this the fake medicine?!"
Li Xiaogou asked, "Have you seen it?"
Wang Bo's face was as pale as paper. "I told you all, in order to quickly improve my superpowers, I bought fake medicine. After taking it, all my hair fell out..."
He looked dazed, and his body swayed twice before he crashed into the chair.
No matter how dumb he was, he understood the seriousness of the matter.
If these blue particles were really the poison planted by the rebel organization, then wouldn't he have become the organization's target a long time ago?
"The people from the bureau will be here soon." Mo Shang's calm voice sounded, which made people feel at ease at this time. "Are you feeling unwell now?"
Wang Bo shook his head. Thinking carefully, he did take a big bite of shrimp, but it was too disgusting, so he vomited most of it and didn't actually eat much.
"It shouldn't be a big deal." Li Xiaogou frowned and analyzed, "If a tiny dose could kill a person, they would definitely just put it in a dish or water."
He looked at Wang Bo: "Did the agent behave in any strange way when you were talking to him?"
Wang Bo, who was not in immediate danger, thought carefully about the scene. After a moment, he shook his head and said, "It's quite normal. The cowering look of someone who has been subjected to the pua of a vicious boss for a long time is very real. He even told me all about Jin Zhenghao's dietary restrictions."
"Cooling down... That's not right!" Li Xiaogou said suddenly, "Tell them to arrest Jin Zhenghao's agent!"
Wang Bo:?
"He might be timid and afraid, even physically afraid, when facing Kim Jong-ho, but have you forgotten how he behaved on the plane? When facing ordinary people, he was more like a dog relying on the power of others."
The man's domineering and mean face popped into my mind.
That seems to be the case.
Wang Bo's face suddenly flushed: "That's possible, he was impressed by my beauty."
Li Xiaogou: "...and then he was very gentlemanly and did not offend anyone."
As if he didn't say it.
"Yunlou said that the person who did this had a transformation ability. So it's not surprising that he transformed into a manager. Managers are the easiest to get close to Jin Zhenghao."
As the two were talking, there was already news from Mo Shang.
"We caught him." His voice was filled with uncontrollable excitement. "When we caught him, he had already become a hotel security guard. He was deleting the surveillance video when he was caught red-handed."
"Thank goodness you guys spotted him in time, so I was able to see through the hotel surveillance that he'd gone from being a manager to a security guard. Otherwise, he would have gotten away."
Having said that, he stopped abruptly.
Li Xiaogou: "Is there any problem?"
Mo Shang's tone was subtle, sounding cautious. "It's like this... The arrest made quite a commotion, and Jin Zhenghao's real manager was getting a massage when he was suddenly pinned down... After realizing it was a misunderstanding, he arrogantly said he wanted to defend his rights, and now he's heading towards you."
Wang Bo rubbed his stomach clockwise and said disdainfully, "We were performing our duties and protecting his vicious superior. Could he possibly eat us?"
"The bureau is not planning to intervene?" Li Xiaogou guessed something.
"Well, the Special Investigation Bureau is a sensitive department, and Kim Jong-ho is a foreigner, so it's not convenient for him to show up in the bureau."
"To be precise, you can't let Kim Jung-ho's agent know about the existence of the Special Investigation Bureau."
"This is too unfair!" Wang Bo shouted.
Li Xiaogou scoffed, "What does Yunlou mean?"
Mo Shang answered honestly: "Yes."
"In that case, don't blame me for being ruthless." Wang Bo said harshly, ran into the bathroom and dragged out the unconscious Jin Zhenghao.
A long water stain was left on the ground, and the bathrobe was loosened by the dragging. Wang Bo's eyes were stung, and he kicked the man and turned him over like a turtle.
He took out his cell phone and took pictures of Kim Jung-ho and the man next to him in various poses.
Li Xiaogou: ...
"When his agent comes, show him this photo. If he dares to come after us, he will be on the international headlines tomorrow!" Wang Bo became even more arrogant.
Li Xiaogou couldn't help but remind him: "He was splashed with feces today, and it has already made international headlines."
Wang Bo tutted his words, "He's well versed in hype."
If Jin Zhenghao were awake at this moment, he would probably faint from anger again.
"Your method is good, but it's easy for the other party to catch you." Li Xiaogou said sincerely.
Mo Shang, who had been listening, couldn't help but say, "Don't do anything illegal!"
Li Xiaogou scratched his ears and said, "So, I have another plan."
Li Xiaogou decisively called the police.
There was good reason to call the police - a foreign celebrity was attempting to rape a woman in the country, and the evidence was the drugs in the man's briefcase.
After calling the police, Mo Shang had already erased all traces of them on the Internet.
The two men quickly wiped out all traces in the house and knocked out the agent who came over to get himself killed.
On the return flight, Wang Bo couldn't help but admire: "How did you know that the man had drugs in his bag?"
"The girl is unaware of this and is a very upright person. As her superior, the man must be well aware of this and will naturally be prepared."
Mo Shang was worried: "Although Wang Bo is fine, what if the police find out something about the vegetables left there?"
Li Xiaogou closed his eyes and chuckled: "No matter what we find out, Team Yun will naturally come forward."
…
He is really vindictive and won't tolerate even the slightest loss.
Mo Shang pulled up his eye mask and smiled.
That’s great. The leader should take the blame. This is how the workplace should be.
When I returned to the Special Investigation Bureau, Yunlou was not there.
The case came to an end, and they were no longer responsible for the interrogation and trial, so they separated on the spot.
Li Xiaogou did not go home, but went directly to find Jiang Mu.
The two hadn't seen each other for a while. When Jiang Mu saw Li Xiaogou's eyebrows curved into a crescent shape, he gave him a big hug.
Li Xiaogou got straight to the point and pulled out a transparent bag from his pocket and handed it over. "There should be a laboratory in the bureau, right? Can you help me test this?"
The transparent bag is only the size of a palm and contains about 30g of blue crystals.
Jiang Mu agreed without asking for the reason.
After Li Xiaogou said goodbye to him, he returned home. It was not the big house he has now, but the place where he used to live in a small house.
He always thought that his original body's death was an accident until he saw the blue marks on Jin Zhenghao's cup, and until Wang Bo said that he had taken the same medicine.
He used all his strength to suppress the trembling all over his body.
If the original body's death was not an accident, then how many pairs of dark eyes on this bustling street are watching him resurrected from the dead?
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