Free Web Novel21:57, an intersection about three kilometers away from Yuhua Road.
A taxi slowly drove up and stopped by the side of the road.
A man dressed in ordinary clothes, wearing a mask, and appearing to be around forty or fifty years old from his eyebrows, opened the car door and got out. He looked around, locked onto a direction, and quickly walked forward.
In the taxi, the driver observed the man's every move without batting an eye. After the man had walked away, he took out his phone, opened a certain goose chat software, and entered a group named 【Shizhou City Temporary Monster Story Chat Group】.
This chat group was established by Lu Yibei, who paid a hefty price to ask Netizen Laosepi for help, specifically for Lin Nian and her informants to communicate.
Taxi Driver Laoma: "@Shizhou City Baixiaosheng I might have found the person you're looking for. He was originally going to the Yuhua Road Auto Repair City, but for some reason, he got out of the car halfway."
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Meanwhile, on the other side.
Near Bu Ye Street, at Lin Nian's home.
She had fed her Grandpa supper, settled him down to sleep, returned to the living room, picked up her phone, and went out the door.
Walking on the dimly lit street of the old residential area, Lin Nian felt her phone vibrate in her pocket. She took out her phone, glanced at it, and quickly ✧ NоvеIight ✧ (Original source) replied to the message.
Shizhou City Baixiaosheng: "Oh? Laoma, please follow him. Report his location in the group every minute. 【Red envelope: Exclusive to Taxi Driver Laoma】"
【Taxi Driver Laoma has claimed your red envelope】
Taxi Driver Laoma: "Leave it to me! Guys like them who practice pedophilia, harm others, and commit murder and robbery, even without this red envelope, I would still help!"
After a day's time to ferment and spread, the heinous acts of Hu Chuan and Elder Wang, who were worse than beasts, had long since spread throughout the Psychic circle in Shizhou City. It had almost reached the point of public outrage, and during the spread, many versions that didn't exist originally had even evolved.
By now, even if they hadn't done anything at all, the crimes attributed to them were enough for them to "grace" the Night Watch's wanted list once.
Shizhou City Baixiaosheng: "Then I'll trouble you, Laoma. You can stop in ten minutes! @All members Everyone, keep an eye on the messages Laoma sends in the group later. 【Luck-based red envelope】"
According to the plan given by "Gu Qianqian", Hu Chuan and Elder Wang are extremely cunning and dangerous. After discovering their whereabouts, only by using this multi-person random cross-tracking method can they ensure they are not detected and that the trackers' lives are safe.
Although directly asking Netizen Laosepi to access the surveillance cameras in Shizhou City could achieve a similar effect, surveillance cameras also fall under the category of items, and it's difficult to guarantee that Hu Chuan cannot control them.
More than ninety percent of the group members in this temporary chat group are D-level or even unranked Psychic, and they have their own beloved jobs and lives. To put it excessively, they are a group of old, weak, sick, and disabled Psychic living happy and fulfilling lives.
Such people are not the primary targets when the Secret Society recruits members. People like Elder Wang, who are neither here nor there and are full of dissatisfaction with their current lives, are.
Having them do the surveillance greatly reduces the possibility of alerting the enemy.
Furthermore, although these Psychic themselves are not very powerful, having lived in Shizhou City for many years, their network of contacts is quite terrifying. If other Psychic not in the group discover the whereabouts of Elder Wang and Hu Chuan, the news will also reach their ears quickly.
From this perspective, they are the Psychic version of the "Chaoyang Masses" in Shizhou City!
This is the victory of the power of the masses!
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The real-time location of Elder Wang, posted by the taxi driver Laoma, kept scrolling in the chat group.
Ten minutes later.
Lin Nian looked at Laoma's last message, pondered for two seconds, typed out the text, and sent the message.
Shizhou City Baixiaosheng: "@Beef Big King Master He, that guy is passing by your building downstairs now. Could you please take a look and see which direction he went?"
Beef Big King: "He went east, towards Jinmen Road."
"Towards Jinmen Road?" Lin Nian slightly furrowed her brow, recalled the terrain near Jinmen Road in her mind, waited for more than ten seconds, and sent a message.
Shizhou City Baixiaosheng: "@Strong Medicine Strange Doctor Doctor Li, that guy is about to pass by your clinic. Could you please help take a look and see which direction he probably went?"
Strong Medicine Strange Doctor: "I saw him, towards Chunfeng Road."
Shizhou City Baixiaosheng: "..."
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22:04, Yuhua Road.
This rather old street is located on the edge of the urban area, but it hasn't gradually become deserted as the night grows long, unlike other old streets.
As one of the main transportation arteries in Shizhou City, it connects to the expressway leading to the subordinate districts and counties of Shizhou City, is one of the entrances to the airport expressway, and also has a passenger transportation center, with a constant flow of people every day.
Accompanying the flow of people are the large and small auto parts stores, restaurants with large portions, and the largest auto repair city on both sides of the street.
After nightfall, many shops on both sides of Yuhua Road are still open. Although it can't compare to Bu Ye Street, which is lively every night, it is much more bustling than some streets where you can't see half a person after dark.
It's not strange at all that Hu Chuan would choose this place for the transaction between Elder Wang and Yang Yichen.
The combination of factors such as high traffic flow, convenient transportation, relatively old and poorly planned buildings in the surrounding area makes it much easier to escape in case of unexpected situations.
But...
The agreed-upon transaction time had passed, but Elder Wang's figure had yet to appear at the agreed-upon transaction location.
Across from the Yuhua Road gas station, inside a McDee's fast food restaurant.
Lu Yibei gazed at the gas station through the glass window for a moment, withdrew her gaze, took out her phone, checked the time, sighed silently, and looked at Hua Sang, saying, "Let's go. Elder Wang probably won't come."
"Huh?" Hua Sang tilted her head. "Don't we wait a bit longer? It's only been less than five minutes..."
"Five minutes is long enough," Lu Yibei shook her head. "Given their current situation, they will definitely try to avoid staying in the same place for a long time."
"So under normal circumstances, Elder Wang wouldn't be late or early. The most likely scenario is that he would arrive exactly on time, meet Yang Yichen here, quickly complete the transaction, and leave."
"He hasn't appeared yet, either he's run into trouble and been delayed, or our actions have been spied on by Hu Chuan. But since there's no news from Senior Qingxia Zi and no movement from Lin Nian's side, it's most likely the latter."
Anyway, I didn't expect to catch those two guys based on just this one clue...
Lin Nian should have news soon, Lu Yibei thought.
"Also..." Her gaze shifted downwards, and she lightly patted the Shui Shu Beast who was reaching out a claw towards the egg tart in front of Hua Sang. "Elder Sister, don't steal Hua Sang's food. Eat mine if you want to eat!" ƒreeωebnovel.ƈom
Seeing this, Hua Sang pushed the egg tart towards the Shui Shu Beast and looked at Lu Yibei, saying, "However, if it's really as you speculated, this trip wasn't completely fruitless."
"At least one wrong option has been eliminated now."
"That's right," Lu Yibei nodded.
When she previously assumed that Hu Chuan was hiding in Shizhou City, Lu Yibei speculated that the three places he was most likely to choose were the small commodity wholesale market, the auto repair city, and the old town home furnishings city.
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Now that he chose the transaction location near the auto repair city, the possibility of him hiding in the auto repair city is significantly reduced.
After all, once Elder Wang is caught, Da Chunyang Palace will definitely investigate the sources of Spiritual Energy fluctuations in the surrounding area.
Only by being far enough away from Elder Wang can Hu Chuan have sufficient time and space to react when Elder Wang is caught.
Playing 'under the lamp is the darkest' at this time is too risky!
Lu Yibei wasn't sure if Hu Chuan would dare to take this risk, but if it were her, she definitely wouldn't.
After a brief moment of contemplation, she looked at Hua Sang and said, "The current problem is whether he is hiding in the small commodity wholesale market or near the home furnishings city."
As soon as she finished speaking, her phone vibrated. She took out her phone, unlocked the screen, glanced at the message from Lin Nian, raised her eyebrows slightly, and then held up the phone and handed it to Hua Sang.
After glancing at the message on the phone screen, Hua Sang frowned and said, "Someone suspected to be Elder Wang went towards the home furnishings city? In other words..."
"Hu Chuan and Elder Wang are hiding near the home furnishings city!" Lu Yibei said decisively.
According to what he just said, shouldn't Hu Chuan be hiding in the small commodity wholesale market? Hua Sang thought for a moment and said, "You mean, Elder Wang went back to inform Hu Chuan?"
"Exactly!" Lu Yibei nodded and said, "Now you can go find Senior Qingxia Zi, bring people over, and put the area near the home furnishings city under surveillance."
Hua Sang slightly furrowed her brow. "I go find my Master? What about you?"
"Me?" Lu Yibei rolled her eyes. "I'm going to pay them their wages! You think with so many people helping with surveillance, you don't have to give them benefits?"
If I hadn't freeloaded off the okin rod for a wave of gold last time, I would be bankrupt today. Du Sixian even thought I had picked up some bad habits... Lu Yibei added in her mind.
"Besides, after you find those two guys, you'll definitely fight. Why would I go to such a dangerous place?"
Hua Sang's lips parted slightly. She stared at Lu Yibei's eyes for a few seconds, then took a deep breath and said solemnly, "Don't worry, I will definitely bring back the ruler."
"Got it, got it! You've said that seven or eight times..." Lu Yibei impatiently waved her hand. "Hurry up and go. If the guy surnamed Wang runs away later, you won't be able to get it back."
"Let's go!" Lu Yibei stroked the Shui Shu Beast's head. "Elder Sister, let's take her over."
"..." Hua Sang looked at Lu Yibei, wanting to say something but holding back, then nodded.
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22:15.
Near Bu Ye Street, around the residential buildings that were a scene of devastation.
Two Da Chunyang Palace disciples responsible for clearing the residual Spiritual Energy fluctuations were sitting on stone chairs by the street, chatting idly during the break after the second round of clearing was completed. freeweɓnovel.cøm
"Did you know? I just heard from the Senior Brothers and Sisters who stayed at the mountain gate that Senior Sister Fu did something earth-shattering again today!"
"Oh? What did Senior Sister Fu do again?" another disciple asked.
"She rode away the Zhenshan Divine Beast and hasn't returned yet!"
The other disciple frowned and pondered for a few seconds. "Could it be that she rode the divine beast, secretly went down the mountain, and went to chase those two guys?"
"Who knows?"
As the two disciples were talking, the surrounding moisture suddenly became dense, a faint white mist drifted around, subtle electric arcs flickered faintly on the walls of the narrow alley entrance, a weak thunder sound came from the alley entrance, and a majestic and agile figure flashed by.
The two disciples were stunned for a moment, then slowly turned their heads to look at each other. As their eyes met, they simultaneously saw deep shock in each other's eyes.
"Did you see that just now?"
"I saw it, it should be the divine beast..."
"Hiss—!"
Just as the two were talking, footsteps came from the small alley entrance. Following the sound, they saw Hua Sang walking quickly, heading towards Qingxia Zi's location.
Seeing Hua Sang pass by them, the two disciples hesitated for a few seconds, finally gathered their courage, and asked, "Senior Sister Hua Sang, wait, we have something we want to ask you, is that okay?"
"Hmm?" Hua Sang turned around and tilted her head towards that disciple. "Ask away."
"Was that figure just now..."
"Zhenshan Divine Beast," Hua Sang said indifferently.
"Then the one who brought you..."
"Fu Xinyi," Hua Sang nodded, admitting frankly. "Is there anything else? If not, I'll go see my Master first, I have important matters to report."
"No, no, please go ahead!" the two disciples said in unison.
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Meanwhile, on the rooftop of a tall building in the distance.
Lu Yibei sat on the back of the Shui Shu Beast, looking down from afar at Hua Sang, who was now just a small dot on the ground. She raised her hand and gently patted the Shui Shu Beast's neck, leaned down, and whispered softly in its ear, "Let's go, Elder Sister, let's go to the small commodity wholesale market side."
"If that guy Hu Chuan is hiding near the small commodity wholesale market, he'll reveal himself soon."
"Pfft!" The Shui Shu Beast snorted softly, its iron hooves stomped fiercely, and it leaped into the air. At the moment of descent, its figure disappeared into the bright moonlight.
When Lin Nian sent the message saying that Elder Wang was approaching the direction of the home furnishings city, she felt that the possibility of Hu Chuan hiding in the small commodity wholesale market was higher.
But then, how to approach the small commodity wholesale market without being detected by Hu Chuan, and capture him before he escapes again, became a new problem.
If the Da Chunyang Palace disciples participating in the pursuit all gathered towards the small commodity wholesale market, Hu Chuan would definitely find a way to get wind of it in advance and slip away.
So she had to put on a show for him, a horror show!
Make him think that Da Chunyang Palace had made a wrong judgment, then appear before him without warning.
To avoid spoilers, Lu Yibei didn't even tell Hua Sang her idea.
"..."
Isn't it just feinting to the east and attacking the west? Who doesn't know how to do that!
Even if she guessed wrong, that guy couldn't possibly escape from Shizhou City for now, but if she guessed right...
I have helpers and room for error, but he doesn't!
Lu Yibei thought, squinting slightly in the wind, a cold glint flashing in her eyes.
