“Master Chen isn’t inside,” Liu Xiaoyuan said, then pushed open the door and went inside. After searching the room, he couldn’t find any trace of the child.
"See if they're in the next room!" Liu Xiaoyuan said to Lu Siyao. He went to the next room and found the door locked. Listening carefully, he could hear breathing inside, and there was more than one person.
There were people inside, but the door was locked, which inevitably raised suspicions.
"Sihan, do you have the ability to open this lock?" Liu Xiaoyuan asked.
Lu Siyao rolled her eyes at Liu Xiaoyuan and said, "I'm not a thief, how could I possibly open this lock?"
Liu Xiaoyuan thought about it and realized that the police were not omnipotent, but the god-level invincible system was. Liu Xiaoyuan immediately summoned a lock-picking master.
As soon as the locksmith was summoned, Liu Xiaoyuan immediately took out a small wire from his pocket, fiddled with the lock for less than ten seconds, and the lock clicked open.
Lu Siyao, standing to the side, stared wide-eyed. This was incredible! He opened the lock so easily; he was a lock-picking expert!
"Don't just stand there, come in quickly!" Liu Xiaoyuan said to Lu Siyao as soon as he saw her still standing at the door.
Lu Siyao then went into the house and closed the door.
"Xiao Yuan, who did you learn this skill from?" Lu Siyao asked in a low voice, very curious about why Liu Xiaoyuan's lock-picking skills were so amazing, almost like magic.
Liu Xiaoyuan said, "I'm self-taught. There's nothing I can do about it; I'm just too smart."
"Look, kids!" Before Lu Siyao could even say anything to Liu Xiaoyuan, she noticed several children sitting on the bed in the room, their eyes glazed over, looking like idiots.
Lu Siyao immediately examined the four children on the bed carefully. After a closer look, she said, "Two of these children are from our county and were trafficked."
It seems that not only is that Master Chen involved in the child kidnapping case, but the Zhang family is probably also implicated. These people are likely all in cahoots.
“Little friends, little friends…” Lu Siyao walked up to the four children and took their little hands.
But the four children acted as if they were mentally challenged, completely ignoring Lu Siyao. Their blank stares remained fixed ahead, their expressions unchanged.
"Xiao Yuan, what happened to these four children?" Lu Siyao asked, looking at the four children in their current state.
Liu Xiaoyuan couldn't understand what had happened either. The four children were like puppets, their eyes were dull and their expressions were unchanged, just like statues.
"What Zhang San said might be true. It's possible that Master Chen used puppetry on these four children, and they've probably been turned into puppets," Liu Xiaoyuan said, expressing his guess.
Liu Xiaoyuan felt that his guess was pretty much right, because normal people wouldn't act like these four children, ignoring Lu Siyao's calls and not even glancing at her.
"Damn it, they actually used such evil magic! I'm going to arrest this Master Chen and make him receive the punishment he deserves!" Lu Siyao said angrily.
Liu Xiaoyuan took Lu Siyao's small hand and said, "Siyao, that Master Chen has such abilities and is also a corpse driver. He's not so easy to deal with. We need to think this through carefully and not act rashly. Let's go outside and talk about it first."
Just as Liu Xiaoyuan and Lu Siyao reached the door, they saw Master Chen walking over. At this moment, it was neither good to go back to the room nor good to go out.
Because once they returned to the room, the door lock had already been opened, which certainly couldn't escape Master Chen's notice.
"Xiao Yuan, what should we do?" Lu Siyao asked Liu Xiaoyuan.
Liu Xiaoyuan said, "Let's go. Master Chen has already discovered us. Let's go, I'll go and meet this Master Chen. You stay here with Lingmao."
“Little guy, protect your mistress well. She will buy you lots of delicious food when we get back, okay?” Liu Xiaoyuan said to the spirit cat.
Upon hearing that there was food, the civet cat immediately meowed a few times, appearing very happy.
"Xiao Yuan, I'd better go with you." Lu Siyao said immediately, worried about Liu Xiaoyuan's safety.
Liu Xiaoyuan said to Lu Siyao, "Siyao, I'm fine. You hold the little guy; he's very capable."
"Then be careful!" Lu Siyao said to Liu Xiaoyuan after taking the spirit cat.
Liu Xiaoyuan gave Lu Siyao a reassuring smile, then walked over to Master Chen. Master Chen's sinister gaze was fixed on Liu Xiaoyuan, as if he wanted to see right through him.
After learning that Master Chen was a corpse driver, Liu Xiaoyuan finally understood the reason for the deathly aura on his body. It must be due to his long-term association with the dead, which caused him to be more or less tainted by the aura of the dead.
"Who told you to open the door?" Master Chen asked coldly, his voice devoid of any emotion.
Liu Xiaoyuan said, "I also want to ask you, what do you want to do by controlling these children as puppets?"
Faced with Liu Xiaoyuan's question, Master Chen looked at Liu Xiaoyuan and said, "Young man, the more you know, the faster you'll die. You should know that, right?"
"Are you threatening me?" Liu Xiaoyuan asked with a smile.
Master Chen said, "Kid, it's truly remarkable that you're a master of the third level of the Innate Realm at such a young age, and you should be proud of it. However, what can a master of the third level of the Innate Realm do in front of me? Perfect, I'll take this opportunity to make you one of my henchmen."
After saying that, Master Chen made his move, grabbing at Liu Xiaoyuan's throat with an Eagle Claw Kung Fu. Liu Xiaoyuan easily dodged the attack, and then swiftly appeared behind Master Chen, striking him on the back with a palm strike.
Master Chen did not dodge, letting Liu Xiaoyuan's palm strike his back.
"Ah!" When Liu Xiaoyuan's palm struck Master Chen's back, Master Chen cried out, and his clothes burst open with a bang, like a balloon being blown to its limit.
After the clothes on his upper body were torn, Chen Ye's upper body was naturally exposed. When Liu Xiaoyuan saw Chen Ye's dark skin, he was shocked. What was going on? How could a person's skin be so dark?
Master Chen's upper body skin was as black as ink, looking exceptionally eerie, as if it was still emitting black mist, which made people shudder.
"You're asking for death!" Liu Xiaoyuan's palm strike to Master Chen felt like hitting an iron plate; Master Chen was completely unharmed. He turned around and punched Liu Xiaoyuan in the chest.
Seeing Chen Ye's enormous fist, Liu Xiaoyuan avoided its force with a backflip.
(End of this chapter)
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