"Click!"
The lock on the bathroom stall door made a sound.
Fu Yongnan instantly deleted the ssage and cleared all background apps.
Zheng Wei ca out of the bathroom and asked, "Old Fu, finished your call?"
"I thought about it and felt it wasn't appropriate, so I didn't make the call." Fu Yongnan calmly handed the phone back and said, "Let's go, take to find Xiao Feng."
"But…" Zheng Wei hesitated. "Xiao Feng isn't ho right now. Us going to his place is pointless."
Fu Yongnan chuckled. "Doesn't need to be 'useful'. We'll just turn his house upside down. Disgusting him a little is enough."
"So you're not planning to just take him out directly?"
"So many of our fellow disciples died before. That alone proves Xiao Feng is not easy to deal with. If I don't plan this carefully, I'll probably end up just like them.
By the way, how exactly did Feng Haotian and the others die? Tell the whole thing first."
Zheng Wei's heart lurched; he genuinely felt those three hours of rehearsal in the afternoon weren't wasted.
If he hadn't prepared, he might really have been taken out early by Fu Yongnan right about now.
After adjusting his expression, Zheng Wei started recounting according to the script they'd prepared beforehand.
Fu Yongnan listened very attentively, while also watching Zheng Wei's expression and changes in his deanor, not even letting the tiniest movents slip by.
After listening, his brows knitted tightly together as he fell into deep thought.
It wasn't that he'd spotted any obvious holes, it was just a gut feeling that sothing was off.
However, before he could figure out where that off-ness ca from, he heard Zheng Wei say, "Old Fu, are you… not trusting ?"
His thoughts were interrupted. Fu Yongnan smiled and replied, "It's not that I don't trust you. It's just that you can't go wrong being careful.
Any organization can produce traitors, but I believe in our Celestial Defect Sect—betrayal does not exist among us!"
As he said this, a perfectly asured hint of pride flashed in his eyes.
This was exactly what Zheng Wei had been waiting for. He imdiately followed up, "If you really trust , then we should take the chance to grab Xiao Feng's wife first. We can still calmly work out the follow-up plan afterward."
Fu Yongnan had never planned on acting according to the intel Zheng Wei provided, and after what he'd just seen in that text ssage, he was even less likely to go along with Zheng Wei's ideas.
He patted Zheng Wei on the shoulder and said gently, "Since I'm here, I'm going to thoroughly wash away the sha on our Celestial Defect Sect.
Trust —I have my own plan."
"But…" Zheng Wei looked like he still wanted to insist, but in the end he nodded in agreent.
The two of them hailed a taxi and headed toward Jinyue Garden.
...
anwhile, Xiao Feng's side was ready as well. The traps in the yard were activated, and the wall-mounted TV in the living room was showing sixteen surveillance feeds.
From the gate of the villa compound all the way to their own villa along the main road, everything was clearly visible.
"Next we'll test the wireless mics." Lu Yao, wearing a headset, pressed the talk button and said, "This is Lu Yao. If you can hear , report back in nurical order."
Monts later, voices ca through her earpiece.
"Number One, Lone Wolf. Everything normal."
"Number Two, Lv Ziming. Everything normal."
"Number Three, Iron Kid. Everything's normal on my end too."
When everyone had finished reporting in, the comm channel fell into a long silence.
Everyone scattered around the villa was on full alert, paying attention to any stir in the wind or grass around them.
If this were a movie shoot, the shots right now would be close-ups of everyone's faces, those serious expressions actually looking pretty convincing.
"They're in." Lu Yao, who had been staring at the computer screen, suddenly said, "But they didn't co through the main gate—they climbed over from outside."
As she spoke, she enlarged one of the sixteen surveillance feeds.
Xiao Feng and the others all turned to the wall-mounted TV in the living room and indeed saw Zheng Wei walking down the street with an old man leaning on a cane.
"How far are they from us?" Xue Nuofu asked.
Lu Yao glanced at the other feeds and replied, "Three intersections more and they'll reach the main gate. At their current pace, it'll take about five minutes."
Xue Nuofu nodded and relayed this to the people outside.
Five minutes later, Zheng Wei and Fu Yongnan appeared outside the iron gate.
"Didn't you say there was no one?" Fu Yongnan looked back and asked, "If no one's ho, why are the lights on?"
Zheng Wei shot back, "If soone can afford a villa like this, you think they care about that bit of electricity?"
"What I an is, if there's no one inside, how were the lights turned on?"
"That I don't know. Xiao Feng didn't hire a housekeeper; maybe he turned them on before going out."
"Oh?" Fu Yongnan narrowed his eyes slightly and asked with a smile, "So you didn't actually see Xiao Feng leave with your own eyes?"
"That… I really didn't."
"That's not right, is it?" The smile at the corner of Fu Yongnan's mouth slowly cooled. "I rember you swore up and down before that Xiao Feng wasn't ho.
Since you didn't see it yourself, how were you so sure he wasn't ho?"
Every word of this conversation fell clearly into the ears of the people in the living room.
"Brother Xiao Feng, you totally called it. This Fu Yongnan really is like he's got a paranoia disorder." The little girl laced her fingers together to prop up her chin, eyes shining, looking every bit like a fangirl.
Xiao Feng ignored her, pressed the talk button, and said, "Old Lv, you can move."
"Copy!"
As that single word dropped, a car parked by the roadside opposite the gate suddenly started up.
The headlights flashed on, blasting the still-bickering Fu Yongnan and Zheng Wei outside the gate.
Fu Yongnan raised a hand to shield his eyes from the glare, then swung his gaze sharply toward Zheng Wei and snarled, "You dare set up?"
Zheng Wei was decisive enough. He imdiately shoved Fu Yongnan toward the front gate and ran off toward the distance without looking back.
"Vroom!"
The roar of the engine exploded in an instant, making one's heart clench.
Fu Yongnan gripped his cane and slamd it down, using the force to leap.
But before he could actually jump, a surge of naless danger rose in his heart.
His instincts told him that if he really jumped, it might be even more dangerous than getting hit by the car…
At this critical mont, there was no ti to think it through. Fu Yongnan kicked the iron gate hard.
"Bang!"
The gate was kicked open from the middle, visibly buckling inward.
Seeing this, Xiao Feng couldn't help feeling a stab of heartache.
That one kick… there went a few thousand bucks.
Fu Yongnan imdiately rushed into the yard, but he didn't charge into the villa. Instead, he sprinted toward the opposite wall, clearly intending to escape.
"Clackclackclackclackclack…"
The dense chanical clicking hit his ears. Fu Yongnan's pupils shrank and he cursed inwardly.
"Whoosh! Whoosh!"
Two sharp whooshing sounds split the air.
Looking up, he saw two huge nets already opening above him, dropping down to engulf him.
He gritted his teeth, raised his cane, pushed off the ground, and leapt upward toward the nets.
"Rip!"
The huge nets, rated to bear ten thousand kilos and withstand three full-strength strokes of a blade without breaking, tore like sheets of paper with the lightest swipe.
Xiao Feng's gaze locked onto the cane in Fu Yongnan's hand, and he said with interest, "Looks like that's a good piece of gear."
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