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Pear City.
Huo Chengrong, wearing a gray alpaca wool bathrobe, was sitting alone on the sofa.
He picked up the bottle of Baishi Cola with ginseng and goji berries beside him, took a sip, and stared intently at the photo of "Huo Xiaozhuang" on the tablet, sighing deeply.
After Green Hair and Red Hair successfully obtained "Huo Xiaozhuang's" hair, Huo Chengrong divided the hair into three parts. He had two of his underlings send two parts to two different authoritative institutions in the city, while he kept one part for himself in case of emergency.
The nearest testing agency is at least an hour and a half's drive from his apartment, and although he paid extra for the fastest express service, the results would still take at least three hours to come out.
The wait, which lasted at least four hours, made Huo Chengrong restless in his apartment.
"Sleep at midnight, wake up at 6 am, and drink millet in the ICU."
"I sleep at 1 a.m. and wake up at 6 a.m., and even the King of Hell praises my good health."
"Sleep at 2 AM, wake up at 6 AM, and the urn containing my ashes is a cube."
"Go to sleep, go to sleep! Stay up all night tonight, and you'll be in paradise tomorrow!"
It was 10 p.m. when the alarm clock rang on time to remind him to go to sleep. Huo Chengrong reluctantly turned off the tablet and crawled into bed.
After all, people reach middle age and it's time to focus on health.
Huo Chengrong, despite being over forty, still looks like he's in his early thirties, all thanks to going to bed early.
...
On the rooftop of the building opposite Huo Chengrong's residence, Wang Erzhuang was hiding in a blind spot of the surveillance cameras, carefully observing with binoculars.
After discovering the hideout of his target, Huo Chengrong, he immediately notified the men Chu Xiao had sent to Lishi to support him. Within just two hours, he had secretly laid a trap and was now waiting for the right moment to strike and capture him.
Just as it turned ten o'clock, the lights in Huo Chengrong's residence were already off, causing Wang Erzhuang to frown and feel puzzled.
Has Huo Chengrong left?
But even Number 3, who's in charge of monitoring the Huo family's gate, hasn't sent any news!
Did the person on duty leave on the 3rd and fail to monitor Huo Chengrong's departure?
"Number 3, this is Number 1, please respond!" Wang Erzhuang pressed the earpiece, his face grave. "Number 3, has the target left home? Report your location. Over."
Number 3, dressed in an orange-yellow cleaning uniform and wearing a blue disposable mask, was wielding a large mop and had been mopping the floor in front of Huo Chengrong's house for more than two hours.
Hearing the beeping sound from his earpiece, he ducked into the fire escape and whispered into his sleeve, "Number 1, target hasn't left home. Number 3 is still on duty. Over."
After listening to No. 3's reply, Wang Erzhuang stared at the target building, and countless thoughts flashed through his mind.
Did Huo Chengrong discover the surveillance and deliberately pretend to go to bed early to mislead them, while actually slipping away through the secret passage?
But this is just an ordinary apartment building, one unit per floor. Huo Chengrong lives on the top floor, so there couldn't be a secret passage.
Or is his equipment broken?
Wang Erzhuang put down his binoculars and attempted to observe with the naked eye.
Even with his excellent eyesight of 1.5+, Huo Chengrong's room was still completely dark and silent.
"It's so quiet...did they really go to sleep?"
Wang Erzhuang thought to himself: So it's not that his equipment is broken. Could it be that Huo Chengrong has a health problem? Is he going to bed early because he has a cold and fever?
As the person in charge of the operation to capture Huo Chengrong, Wang Erzhuang believed that Huo Chengrong going to bed at 10 p.m. was unusual, and that taking action rashly might alert him. Therefore, he decided to hold back for the time being and observe the situation for a while longer as a precaution.
...
Huo Chengrong tossed and turned on his luxurious bed.
Three minutes ago, he had just finished his 99th roll in bed.
The bed was soft, the blankets were comfortable, and the air conditioning was at a perfect temperature, but he just couldn't fall asleep.
As soon as he closed his eyes, the image of "Huo Xiaozhuang"—a youthful face that bore a 90% resemblance to his own—involuntarily appeared in his mind.
The moment he opened his eyes, he was already scratching his head in frustration over the paternity test results.
Just as Huo Chengrong turned to the 101st page, he opened his bright, alert eyes again, showing no sign of sleepiness.
Fumbling for his phone in the pitch black, Huo Chengrong glanced at the time—
00:00.
He was jolted awake and jumped out of bed with a "whoosh".
The paternity test results will be out in less than an hour, why is he still sleeping!
Huo Chengrong decided that once the paternity test results confirmed that the child was his, he would personally go to pick him up immediately!
He turned on the light, looked down intently at his phone, and his fingers left afterimages on the screen.
Two minutes later, a new post quietly appeared in the list of a well-known relationship forum: "Question: How should I communicate with my adult child whom I have lost contact with for more than ten years?"
...
At 00:00, a dark figure silently blended into the night, precisely avoiding all blind spots of the surveillance cameras.
He stopped outside the bathroom window of Huo Chengrong's apartment, and with a flash of his professional tools, the window lock opened—this man was none other than Wang Erzhuang.
Wang Erzhuang, dressed in a community security guard uniform with a mask covering his face, nimbly slid in through the half-person-high window.
The moment his feet touched the ground, he held his breath and listened intently to the sounds outside the bathroom.
However, Huo Chengrong's residence was very well soundproofed, and no noise could be heard outside the door.
Wang Erzhuang frowned and tiptoed to the bathroom door, preparing to listen closely to the floor. But the bathroom door was suddenly pulled open from the outside with a "click"!
"?!"
Rewind 30 seconds.
Huo Chengrong had just finished posting when he casually tossed his phone onto the bed, preparing to shower and change before picking up "Huo Xiaozhuang".
He walked barefoot and unsuspectingly to the bathroom door, then turned the doorknob with a "click".
The moment the door opened, his excited gaze met a pair of astonished eyes inside!
A strange man dressed in a security guard uniform and wearing a mask was squatting at the door of his bathroom!
"you--"
Huo Chengrong's eyes widened, and he was about to question who the newcomer was when he saw the uninvited guest suddenly spring up from the ground! A hand flashed out of its pocket and pulled something out, spraying it at him with a series of "poof poof" sounds.
"puff--"
An indescribable smell suddenly entered Huo Chengrong's nostrils, and he felt dizzy. His words were abruptly cut off by drowsiness.
His fingers futilely grasped at the assailant's mask, then everything went black, and he fell straight forward.
...
Just ten centimeters before Huo Chengrong was about to fall face-first and be disfigured, Wang Erzhuang reached out and caught him in time.
He gently placed the unconscious Huo Chengrong on the ground, took out a specially made rope from his backpack, and swiftly tied him up.
Noticing that Huo Chengrong was barefoot, he thoughtfully went to get him shoes and socks.
They put a red sock on Huo Chengrong's left foot, a green sock on his right foot, and then put on black leather shoes.
After thinking for a moment, he took out a button-sized locator from his bag and stuck it into the tread pattern on the sole of the shoe.
"Mission accomplished, target is asleep, you can come and pick them up," Wang Erzhuang whispered into the microphone.
A few minutes later, a black van without any markings silently drove away from the apartment area and headed straight for an abandoned warehouse that had been prepared in advance on the outskirts of Pear City.
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