Chapter 192 Key Figures
"Hey! System boss, you've finally come back to life!"
She smiled to herself.
"I thought you were totaled. What have you been up to lately? Why haven't you said a word? You've been gone for days at a time, and you always let me down when it matters!"
I got so caught up in watching short videos that I forgot about you...
The system's voice sounded a bit awkward.
[I just saw him stealing something, and then it dawned on me—isn't he a key character in the main quest?]
The system suddenly urged us on.
[Hurry! He's getting off at the next stop! If we don't act now, the trail will go cold!]
Zhou Shufen raised an eyebrow.
"Who can believe me with just my words?"
[You have so many 'treasures' in your space, just grab one and throw it at him, wouldn't that solve the problem?]
Zhou Shufen was startled.
"What if...we really kill him?"
The system responded coldly.
[They deserved to die; why keep such wicked people around for the New Year?]
She took a light breath.
"Understood."
The middle-aged man lay down on the middle bunk.
His eyes were closed, but his eyeballs kept moving beneath his eyelids.
Zhou Shufen calmly pulled a thick cloth curtain out of her bag.
She looked up at Guo Zhenyi.
"Zhenyi, it's not very convenient for me, a woman, to sleep here alone at night. Could you help me hang up the curtain?"
Guo Zhenyi stood up immediately without saying a word.
He took the curtain, carefully fastened each hook securely, and checked it from all angles.
"Okay, it's well separated."
"Shufen, it's getting late, go to sleep."
With the curtain drawn, it's like two completely different worlds.
Zhou Shufen stepped to the corner, and in the next instant, her figure flashed and she entered the space.
As soon as I stood still, several small snakes surrounded me.
She crouched down and lowered her voice.
"Snake fairies, do you have any medicine that can make people dizzy? Preferably something that makes people confused but not to the point of fainting."
A small snake with seven star-shaped spots on its tail twisted its body.
It hesitated for a moment, then turned and swam away.
It returned in less than two seconds, carrying a small glass bottle in its mouth.
It deftly curled the bottle with its tail, tilted its head back, and winked at her.
Zhou Shufen's heart clenched, and she subconsciously shrank back.
"No way... Doesn't it hurt when you pinch my lips? I can't bring myself to do it."
But before she could finish speaking, all the snakes around her fell silent and stared at her intently.
She gritted her teeth and reached out to pinch the little snake's chin.
The snake struggled slightly, then obediently opened its mouth.
She squeezed hard, and a few drops of sticky venom slowly dripped into the bottle.
At this moment, the two largest snakes also came over.
Each of them had an unfamiliar wild grass in its mouth.
The male snake growled and swung its tail violently, crushing the grass blades against the stone surface, shattering them instantly.
The juice seeped out, and its color was strange.
It dabbed some grass juice with the tip of its tail and then pointed to the bottle.
Zhou Shufen understood.
She carefully collected every drop of the black and green liquid into the bottle.
"Thank you, all you snake fairies. I will surely repay you handsomely in the future."
But then I thought about it again.
"...No antidote? What if I come across it too, or accidentally inhale too much and faint?"
The mother snake immediately turned around and slowly swam into the depths of the grass.
She gently picked up two dark green herbs that emitted a faint fishy smell with her mouth.
Zhou Shufen quickly stuffed the herbs into her pocket.
After leaving the space, she quietly wrote a note on the wooden board in the corner of her bunk.
After writing it, she carefully folded the note into a small square and hid it in her sleeve.
Then, she pretended to get up.
"Zhenyi, I'm going to the restroom. Can you keep an eye on my wallet for me? I don't want it to get lost like last time."
As she spoke, she quietly slipped the herbs and the folded note into Guo Zhenyi's arms.
Then he stood up and walked towards the connecting area between the carriages.
The train was running over an old rail joint when it suddenly lurched.
She stumbled and crashed hard into the armrest of the middle-aged man's bunk next to her.
At the moment of impact, her wrist loosened, and the bottle of transparent venom hidden in her sleeve quietly slipped out.
The liquid spilled all over the edge of the man's pillow.
Guo Zhenyi immediately pulled a small flashlight out from under the blanket.
He quickly glanced at the handwriting on the note in the dim light.
"The grass is all gathered up, don't touch it."
She pretended to have finished using the restroom and slowly walked back down the corridor.
As she approached the berth, she deliberately coughed twice, just enough for Guo Zhenyi to hear.
Guo Zhenyi suddenly sat up from his bunk.
Zhou Shufen is tall, and she can easily look down at the berth next to her from the aisle.
She immediately noticed that the man had his head tilted to the side, his face buried deep in the poison-stained pillow.
She quickly gestured to Guo Zhenyi to be quiet.
Guo Zhenyi understood and nodded slowly.
She stared intently at the man's right hand, which was now twitching slightly and uncontrollably.
She gestured with her chin toward Guo Zhenyi.
He quickly retreated to a position half a step away from the aisle, blocking the view of the passengers in the next berth.
Guo Zhenyi took a deep breath.
Just as the man turned over, revealing a gap in the pillow, he grabbed the pillow.
Just as expected!
Inside the pillowcase, a small, bulging cloth bag was sewn in.
It must be that letter of introduction, there's no mistake.
He had just tucked the cloth bag into his clothes and hidden it tightly against his chest when the man suddenly shuddered.
"Snakes! So many snakes! Don't bite me!"
His eyes were tightly closed, and his hands were flailing wildly.
"Get out of here! Get out of here!"
The shout startled the passenger in the next berth, who sat bolt upright, completely waking up.
"What's all the noise about? What's wrong with you in the middle of the night? Can't a person get some sleep?"
The man muttered impatiently.
Zhou Shufen immediately responded loudly.
"Excuse me, excuse me, this comrade seems to be having a nightmare. Let's take a look!"
She quickly stepped in front of Guo Zhenyi and pressed down on the man's agitated shoulder.
The two, one in front and one behind, worked in perfect harmony to hold the struggling man down firmly.
The man was still babbling incoherently.
“That woman…that woman had a snake on her body…Yao Junan lied to me…he said he wouldn’t…wouldn’t come back to find me…”
As Zhou Shufen listened to these words, her brows furrowed little by little.
"Zhenyi, you keep an eye on him, I'll go call the train conductor."
Before she finished speaking, she had already turned and left.
As soon as she reached the carriage door, she bumped into a train attendant who was on night patrol.
Zhou Shufen quickly lowered her voice.
"Comrade, the guy in the middle bunk is acting strangely! He's behaving abnormally, seems incoherent, keeps muttering something about 'Yao Jun'an,' and... there's something hidden under his pillow!"
"I bet they're the people involved in the case of the stolen item on our bus!"
The flight attendant, who was already on edge because of the passenger's report of theft, immediately changed her expression upon hearing this.
He suddenly looked up, grabbed the flashlight, and strode back.
As soon as the flight attendant approached the berth, he saw Guo Zhenyi pressing down on the man.
The man convulsed violently, like a fish suddenly thrown ashore.
"Snake! Get away! Get out of here!"
He suddenly screamed.
"Don't touch me! They're crawling! They're biting me!"
The commotion was so great that it woke up the entire carriage.
"Don't move!"
The flight attendant suddenly stood up straight and shouted sternly.
He raised the flashlight high, the bright light shining on the man's face.
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