"Mm." Old Fu nodded, but did not act imdiately. Instead, he said to Li ngzi, "Little brother, before you go to sleep, don’t you use the toilet to avoid getting up at night?"
Li ngzi was stunned by the sudden question.
But he was quick-witted and quickly caught on.
"Oh, Old Fu, you’re so considerate, I almost forgot." Li ngzi slapped his forehead and quickly looked at Chen Yang, saying, "Cousin, co with to the toilet."
"Oh, okay."
At the words, Chen Yang imdiately pretended to agree naively, got off the bed, and then left with Li ngzi.
They stayed outside for about five or six minutes before returning.
When they returned, the house was empty.
Only the tunnel location seed to have been tampered with.
Obviously, those people had gone down.
"This..." Seeing no one, Li ngzi breathed a sigh of relief and was just about to say sothing when Chen Yang interrupted him,
"Hey, cousin, who were those people just now? Where did they go? What business are you all in together?" Chen Yang feigned naivety, asking as if he understood nothing.
Li ngzi, being truly clever, imdiately understood when he heard this.
He quickly followed Chen Yang’s lead.
"Cousin, you don’t need to inquire about this, just get a good night’s sleep. Tomorrow morning I’ll take you out for breakfast, and soon you’ll head off to work in the big city. Just consider tonight’s events as if they never happened."
Li ngzi said this and imdiately lay back on the bed.
Chen Yang felt pleased inside!
This Li ngzi is quite talented. If he used his intelligence elsewhere, he wouldn’t have beco the infamous scoundrel of Fuling Village.
"Alright, alright."
Chen Yang responded, following up by turning off the room’s light, pretending as if nothing had happened.
anwhile, at the entrance of the tunnel, after Old Fu and his group went down, they did not imdiately proceed to steal the ore.
Instead, they chose to eavesdrop at the entrance.
It was not until they saw the lights outside extinguished that they finally felt at ease.
"It seems that person really is his cousin." Old Fu said.
"Old Fu, you’re too suspicious. Our operation is so secret, who could discover it? Stop wasting ti, quickly go in and dig. If today’s haul is small again, the boss might get angry." Soone urged Old Fu.
Old Fu hesitated slightly, then nodded in agreent.
After that, they proceeded together along the passage and left.
anwhile, lying on the bed, Chen Yang understood everything happening in the tunnel as if it were in the palm of his hand.
At his late stage of Qi Cultivation, he could already observe a wide area.
As he entered the door just now, he sensed that Old Fu and the others hadn’t left, which is why he deliberately spoke as he did.
Luckily, Li ngzi was quick-witted and cooperated in ti, otherwise, things would have beco complicated.
After turning off the light, the room fell into a brief silence.
After several tens of minutes, Li ngzi finally dared to whisper to Chen Yang: "Leader, are they gone?"
"They’re gone."
Chen Yang replied.
"So, what do we do next?" With the prior experience, Li ngzi was now more composed, without the previous nervousness.
"Next, you should just sleep well, don’t worry about anything else."
Chen Yang said.
"Ah? Don’t worry?"
Li ngzi was astonished, but looking at Chen Yang’s expression, he dared not ask further.
He could only silently complain in his heart: "How the hell can I sleep when there are people below..."
Chen Yang had no intention of sleeping, and Li ngzi couldn’t fall asleep, so the two of them waited in silence.
It wasn’t until five in the morning, when dawn was approaching, that there was movent from the tunnel.
They ca back!
Hiss.
"They’re back!"
Li ngzi’s heart leaped to his throat upon hearing the noise.
Chen Yang turned a deaf ear, remaining seated on the bed, eyes fixed on the entrance.
"Leader, quickly lie down, if they find us, we’re both in great danger." Li ngzi was terrified, seeing Chen Yang unresponsive.
He feared being discovered by Old Fu and his group.
With so many of them, if discovered, he couldn’t imagine the outco.
"If you want to lie down, you lie down. I’m here to catch them, why should I lie down?" Chen Yang said.
"What?" Li ngzi was dumbfounded, thinking he had misheard.
One person trying to catch ten or twenty burly n? Isn’t that crazy?
"Leader, don’t be foolish, there are so many people on the other side! I think you should lie down first, and we can plan this out." Li ngzi frantically said, even attempting to pull Chen Yang down with him.
But no matter how he tried, Chen Yang wouldn’t budge.
In fact, he even got off the bed.
"Oh my God."
Li ngzi was terrified, seeing the commotion growing, he abandoned trying to pull Chen Yang and quickly lay down himself, pretending nothing happened.
Chen Yang stood alone in the room, eyes fixed on the tunnel entrance.
A mont later, the entrance was pushed open from below.
Soone poked their head out.
It was none other than Old Fu.
After working all night, he was covered in dust.
Without checking the outside situation, once the cover was opened, he climbed out from the tunnel, followed by the others one after another.
These people were all covered in dirt.
They individually brushed themselves off, and just as they were about to leave, they noticed Chen Yang standing not far away, watching them.
"Hmm?"
Old Fu and the others were montarily taken aback.
Their expressions changed dramatically upon realizing the situation!
"What are you doing here? Who on earth are you?"
Old Fu was highly alert, a strong sense of foreboding growing within him.
Chen Yang no longer intended to pretend.
Earlier, he had acted to let them dig, to see how much Spirit Stone they could extract in one day.
Now that it was over, he was ready to reveal the truth.
"Ha ha." Chen Yang let out a cold laugh, dropping his previous naive deanor.
"You ask who I am? I should be asking you that. You stole from my mine, and you’re so self-righteous about it, you’ve got so nerve." Chen Yang mocked with a smile, also revealing his identity.
Old Fu initially didn’t react.
But after thinking it over, he imdiately understood.
"You’re the owner of the mine? Ha ha ha... No wonder I felt sothing was off when you first showed up, you definitely had ulterior motives." Old Fu coldly laughed, looking sowhat disdainful.
He was indeed afraid of being discovered, but now that they were caught, he had nothing else to worry about.
He believed that the opponent couldn’t do anything to him.
"Yes, that’s correct." Chen Yang straightforwardly admitted, and then directly asked without further ado, "Who are you people, and who sent you to clandestinely dig here? It’s been days, you must have stolen quite a bit, right?"
The main purpose of this mission was to find out who these people were.
Chen Yang initially suspected the Gu Family.
But upon further reflection, it seed less likely.
If it were them, they wouldn’t be so secretive, they would have targeted Fuling Village long ago and wouldn’t have waited until recently to discuss procurent.
Furthermore, the tunnel underground had been completed months ago, analyzing from these tilines, it seed less likely to be the Gu Family.
So, Chen Yang remained very curious about who these people actually were.
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