Chapter 31 You look quite handsome in men's clothes
If after the Oxfam Charity Gala, someone interviewed the attendees and asked, "What does this Oxfam Charity Gala experience mean to you?"
Many people would answer: "I have witnessed the progress of Daxia's stunt industry."
If it weren't a "stunt", then everything they witnessed would be inexplicable.
For example, a certain female star saw with her own eyes a teenager crawling upside down on the roof.
For example, a certain male star watched helplessly as a beautiful woman flew over his head and flew up to more than 20 floors.
If this was a dream, they would still be very moved when they woke up.
If we go back in time, such a scene has not happened yet.
The young man was being chased closely by Li Xiaogou, his lips grinning with excitement, his adrenaline surging to the extreme, as he shuttled through the crowd. When he encountered someone blocking his way, he stepped on that person's head without a care, and used the force to fly up the wall, performing the stunt of "flying over the eaves and walking on the wall" in front of everyone.
The noisy crowd could only stare blankly.
Li Xiaogou and his men naturally couldn't just ignore it like that. They would be left behind from time to time, but they were not at a disadvantage in this pursuit as it seemed.
The young man had many tricks up his sleeve, and would provoke Li Xiaogou from time to time, as if he was playing some real-life electronic game. He was so engrossed in "parkour" that he didn't even notice that the two people who were originally following Li Xiaogou had disappeared.
As early as when they passed by a round hall designed to imitate ancient Roman colonnades, Wang Bo and Jiang Mu acted separately.
One goes left, one goes right.
Before setting off, Mo Shang printed out the topographic map and forced them to memorize it.
Finally, the turning point of fate appeared.
Most of the people had already left the venue through the hall door. The few remaining people saw this scene and knew that a storm was coming, so they retreated to the periphery.
The young man was blocked and looked around, only to find that he had been surrounded by Jiang Mu and his men.
Being blocked on three sides, the boy had to either choose to break out or run upstairs. However, all the rooftops here were locked, so going upstairs would be a dead end.
Among the three of them, Jiang Mu's physical skills were the weakest, so Li Xiaogou arranged him at the entrance to the passage leading downstairs.
If the young man forced his way through, Jiang Mu wouldn't have to fight. He could just pretend to break through and then get out of the way. After all, the one waiting for him would be even stronger than them.
The young man raised his eyebrows in surprise: "I underestimated you."
Wang Bo: "Thank you, thank you. You are not bad. You actually have the courage to come to us first to inquire about military information."
It turned out that the young man was Lan An, who had spoken to Jiang Mu and the others while Li Xiaogou was away.
"Thank you for the compliment." Lan An lowered his eyes slightly and showed a shy smile, but it only looked creepy now.
However, before his smile faded, Lan An ran upstairs in an instant.
"This kid is really brave. He actually dared to run up there!" Wang Bo pinched his finger bones, his handsome face full of banditry. "Fuck him!"
The three of them chased after him.
Just as expected, Lan An fled all the way, but was eventually blocked in the stairwell on the top floor.
Jiang Mu supported himself on his knees and gasped for breath.
Li Xiaogou's face turned red, but he held it in and pretended to be angry.
Wang Bo, the strongest of the three, let out a hideous, villainous laugh, so loud it could be heard echoing through the stairwell: "You're quite a runner, you climbed over twenty floors in one breath... Wait a minute, ahem... But you underestimated your grandfather!"
Lan An was also being chased and was gasping for breath. The stairwell was narrow, and climbing over the eaves and walls was more troublesome than climbing the stairs honestly. Even though he was in a strong body, he was exhausted after coming down like this.
"Aha, then why haven't you caught me yet?"
Seeing that the arrest was about to turn into a kindergarten brawl, Li Xiaogou said in a deep voice: "Arrest them!"
Behind Lan An was a locked iron gate, and in front of him were three people forming a wall.
Seeing there was no way out, a sly smile suddenly appeared on the young man's delicate face. He glanced past the three people and lazily fell on the crowd below: "It seems that you guys in the Special Investigation Bureau are just cowards. The captain didn't dare to arrest me, so he just chased me, a small soldier, all over the street."
Captain? Puppeteer?!
Wang Bo followed Lan An's gaze in surprise and looked at the crowd downstairs, only to see a charming woman in a red dress blowing a kiss at them.
"Xiao Gou, is that the puppeteer?" Wang Bo gritted his teeth and squeezed out the sound.
Li Xiaogou took a quick glance, his Adam's apple rolled slightly, and he hummed softly.
Wang Bo reacted very quickly this time: "It's the same if I catch you and use you to lure her out!"
"Lure her out?" Lan An seemed to have heard a ridiculous joke, clutching his stomach and doubled over with laughter. "Hahaha, so in your eyes, all the members of the organization are so united, friendly, lively, and kind?"
Wang Bo's face turned red at his words.
Lan An: "But, as long as you let me go, I can help you catch her."
"To be honest, my mission here is different from hers. I'm not here to kill anyone."
Jiang Mu frowned: "Are you here for painting?"
Lan An smiled brightly: "Bingo! It seems that not all Special Investigation Bureau agents are as stupid as him."
Wang Bo, who was named, almost bit it.
Jiang Mu: "That's why you told us not to touch that painting."
"What's wrong with that painting?"
"Want to know the answer? That's a different price." Lan An tilted his head. "Consider it? I'll help you catch the puppeteer, and you let me go. As for the painting, I'll take it on my own merit. It's fair competition."
"It's a good deal no matter how you look at it, right?"
"You say you can help? How credible are the words of the organization's people?" Wang Bo sneered.
Lan An smiled and did not refute. Instead, he raised his right hand in the air and snapped his fingers.
"Look," he said.
A few people turned around and saw that the puppeteer who was originally walking out with the crowd had actually stopped, turned 180 degrees on the spot, and started walking back!
"A small token of my sincerity." He circled his hands in front of him twice and bowed. "But I can't control her for long. You only have one minute to think. Cooperation? Or... a fight to the death?"
Wang Bo wavered. He plotted loudly, "How about you two go and capture the puppet master, and I'll stay here."
Lan An just smiled when he heard what Wang Bo said. It was obvious that he was confident that he could escape when facing one person.
The captain of this operation is Li Xiaogou, and all actions are decided by him.
He thought silently for a moment, glanced at Jiang Mu beside him, and nodded: "Okay, cooperation."
Wang Bo wanted to say something, but Li Xiaogou stopped him with a look.
"You watch here while we go catch the Puppeteer."
Li Xiaogou turned around and walked downstairs. Lan An looked at his back, and the corners of his lips slowly rose -
However, at this moment, Li Xiaogou suddenly attacked!
He supported himself on the railing with his left hand, spun his whole body around, and swept his legs directly towards Lan An.
Jiang Mu, who was following closely behind him, seemed to have known that he would do this. He took action before him, took out something like a Rubik's Cube from his arms and threw it out.
"Space Cage." Lan An's eyes flickered, and a bloody smile appeared at the corner of his lips. "Yunlou actually spent so much money that they even gave you a Space Cage."
The space cage is extremely rare and is made of special materials. Once trapped in it, one cannot use their supernatural powers.
Seeing that Lan An was about to be covered, he chuckled and said, "But I also came prepared."
He raised his arm and a sharp iron hook shot out from his sleeve and pierced straight into the concrete wall on the roof. The rope contracted and carried him up.
"What you're doing is really unkind. Didn't your mother teach you—" Lan An narrowed his eyes. "Don't you want to burn your bridges?"
At this time, he stretched out one hand with his palm against the wall, and put the other arm behind his back. As soon as he finished speaking, he swung his palm forward with lightning speed.
Li Xiaogou only had time to use his arms to block Jiang Mu, and they both leaned back to avoid the attack.
No one knew what weapon Lan An used. They could hear the sound of a whip in the wind, but they couldn't see the real object.
At the same time, Jiang Mu was surprised to find that he could no longer read Lan An's thoughts.
The situation where Jiang Mu is unable to read the other party's thoughts will only happen when the other party's strength is far higher than his own.
It was not shocking that Lan An's rank was higher than his, but he realized that what he had just read from Lan An in the audience were only what Lan An wanted him to hear.
"You want to provoke us to kill Jing Hongwen." Jiang Mu's eyes darkened slightly.
Lan An feigned shock: "Oh my god, so you guys are planning to kill me? Who are we supposed to arrest when the police come?"
Being outmaneuvered, Jiang Mu and Wang Bo both looked grim.
"It's not too late to regret now. Give me the painting as well, and I can give you another chance."
At this moment, there was a slight vibration from the belt. The movement was so small that no one present except Li Xiaogou could notice it.
Li Xiaogou met Lan An's gaze and said with a smile, "Okay, I'll give you the painting, and you hand over the puppeteer to me."
Lan An lowered his eyes to look at the space cage, and Jiang Mu put it away.
The danger was over, and Lan An finally jumped down from the ceiling. He stretched his neck left and right and said in a relaxed tone, "Let's go."
"Where are we going?" Li Xiaogou asked.
"Of course I'm going to get the painting. Only after I get the painting can I catch the puppeteer."
Li Xiaogou was like a nail stuck in the ground, unable to move. He asked doubtfully, "Catch him? Isn't the puppeteer right in front of us?"
"In front of me? Where?" Lan An looked around pretentiously.
Wang Bo also looked up and down and left and right.
Li Xiaogou looked straight into Lan An's eyes: "It's you, the puppeteer, Anna."
"In the hall, you deliberately bumped into my phone in order to make some noise and let Jing Hongwen's men keep an eye on me. But there's always a loophole, and you exposed your tattoo." Li Xiaogou pointed to the back of his neck.
Lan An: "I'm a member of the organization, it's normal to have this tattoo."
"It's perfectly normal, but you didn't intend for me to see it. This would only increase the risk of your actions. So I was wondering, what kind of situation would lead you to such carelessness? Just now, when I saw the puppeteer downstairs, it suddenly occurred to me. If a person always has long hair, the tattoo will naturally be covered. Over time, she will get used to not having the tattoo seen. But suddenly, she becomes a man, and her habits don't change."
"I have to say, you have a very creative mind."
"Do you want me to continue? Besides the tattoo, your scent is exactly the same as the puppeteer's. You're not going to tell me that you were just rubbing shoulders with the puppeteer before you bumped into me, are you?"
Lan An's lips gradually drooped: "What if I say yes?"
Li Xiaogou lowered his eyes, his thick eyelashes obscuring his gaze. "Then how do you explain your fingers twitching unconsciously from just now? Are you thinking about how to kill us?"
The moment the last word fell, Lan An rushed over.
Jiang Mu and Wang Bo wanted to take action, but found that their hands and feet were entangled by silk threads that appeared out of thin air.
"Don't struggle in vain. I planted a thread on all of you when we were chatting just now."
The two men's faces turned pale instantly, recalling the intentional or unintentional physical contact when Lan An was talking to them before.
"Despicable! If you have the guts, let's fight head-on!" Wang Bo wanted to break through by relying on brute force.
Lan An chuckled: "All's fair in war."
"Besides, you want to compete with a woman in strength?"
Wang Bo's character could not stand provocation, and he struggled even harder. The invisible sharp lines on his body cut his skin inch by inch, and he instantly turned into a bloody man.
"Don't move." Li Xiaogou said.
"You still have time to care about others?" Lan An smiled and raised both palms upwards at the same time -
The puppeteer who was originally downstairs was also being pulled upstairs by invisible silk threads. She flew over twenty floors in full view of everyone. A dagger appeared in her hand and stabbed Li Xiaogou in the back!
That was actually a puppet controlled by Lan An!
"Your abilities are interesting, but you don't seem to be very good at fighting. What a shame, you're going to die here." Lan An's face didn't show any regret, but instead, he looked incredibly excited. "Don't worry, you're different from them. You're not a bad man. After you die, I won't abandon you. You'll become one of my treasured dolls."
In front of him is the real puppeteer, and behind him is the puppet controlled by the puppeteer.
Both teammates beside me are unable to fight.
Li Xiaogou fell into despair.
He stood up straight, turned sideways, and barely avoided the dagger behind him, but he could not avoid the second attack.
Lan An took advantage of the victory and pursued Li Xiaogou. At the moment when her silk thread was about to entangle Li Xiaogou's neck, a huge force hit her back like a tsunami.
All her attention was focused on Li Xiaogou, and her back was not protected at all. Under this punch, her internal organs seemed to be displaced, and she immediately spurted out a mouthful of blood mist.
The silk thread was broken and she fell from mid-air. She held her chest and turned around to look. Wang Zheng was standing behind her in a cloak, slowly sheathing his fist. The door that was originally locked was opened at some point.
Lan An stood up and wanted to run, but Li Xiaogou blocked the window before her.
Lan An turned and ran downstairs. A charming figure walked out from the shadows at the corner. Baili Meng raised her red lips slightly and said, "Puppet Master, long time no see. You look quite handsome in men's clothes."
Lan An bit her lip and looked at Li Xiaogou: "Li Xiaogou, you plotted against me."
Li Xiaogou said calmly, "All is fair in war."
"You're not the only one who can use the front-and-back pincer attack."
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