Primeiro Volume, Capítulo 55: Aquele que Espia nas Sombras

“Ah!”

Just as Fu Wenqi was consumed by murderous intent and a ferocious expression, a foot flew out and swiftly kicked him directly over onto the bed.

Finally able to catch his breath, Fu Shiyan, driven by subconscious instinct, breathed heavily, his chest rising and falling.

Although he was currently in a vegetative state and lacked sensation, his hearing had always remained intact. Moreover, when teetering on the edge of death, his body still retained some perception, even though, aside from the rise and fall of his breathing, his body remained completely motionless.

“Who are you?!”

Clutching his aching and swollen chest, Fu Wenqi, sprawled over Fu Shiyan, glared fiercely at the woman clad in night-attire standing in the darkness.

The woman did not speak. Her sharp gaze locked firmly onto him. With a swift movement of her foot, she kicked away the pillow covering Fu Shiyan’s head and launched another attack at him.

“Who the hell are you? What do you want?!”

Fu Wenqi dodged, questioning her sternly, though his voice was deliberately kept low.

The woman still uttered not a word, merely pressing her attack rapidly like a ruthless machine. She was using taekwondo, at least at the black belt seventh-dan level.

To reach such a level, one had to be at least forty-three years old.

Fu Wenqi had also studied taekwondo; although he only knew a smattering and his skills were superficial, he had watched taekwondo matches several times. Thus, doubts inevitably arose in his mind, and amidst dodging, he grew distracted, sizing the woman up.

Even though he could not see her face, he could sense that the opponent was far from being forty-three years old.

The woman’s attacks grew increasingly fierce. How could Fu Wenqi, already inferior in skill, possibly fend her off? After dodging a couple of times, he was directly grabbed by the throat and pinned to the floor.

At that moment, the woman finally asked: “Speak! Was it you who poisoned Fu Shiyan and turned him into a vegetable?”

The woman was using a voice changer.

Judging solely by her voice, it was completely impossible to tell her age or identity.

“Mm… cough, cough… cough…”

Seeing that he did not answer immediately, she deliberately applied pressure. Fu Wenqi could barely breathe, his face turning beet red.

In the dark, his rapid gasps and coughs sounded like the countdown of a life.

“Cough! Cough! I… didn’t… cough… cough, cough… not… no… cough, cough… it wasn’t… me…” Finally realizing that his opponent was not someone to be trifled with, Fu Wenqi replied breathlessly.

Pleas for mercy began to show in his eyes.

Beneath the black veil, the woman curved her lips in a mocking smile, but she did not release her grip.

She raised her other hand and struck the side of his neck with her palm. The silver needle hidden in her palm pierced his skin, and in an instant, Fu Wenqi felt his entire body go limp, losing consciousness completely.

Lu Jiiyan looked at the passed-out Fu Wenqi, shook her head, and cursed with utter disgust: “Useless trash! Good for nothing, yet you still want to reap rewards without putting in any effort!”

Having finished cursing, she stood up, walked over to Fu Shiyan, and took his pulse once more.

His pulse was steady.

She smiled faintly.

The Living Hades truly was the Living Hades; he had a tough life!

Oh no!

Suddenly remembering the old master, she furrowed her brows and hurried toward his room in a panic.

Sneaking into the room, she looked all around. The old master was lying on the bed, and in the silence, his snoring could still be heard.

The sound of snoring proved that he was still alive.

Her heart settled somewhat. She stepped forward quietly and carefully took the old master’s pulse.

After a brief moment, her tightly furrowed brows relaxed; the old master’s pulse was normal.

Walking on tiptoe, she placed the old master’s hand back in its original position and tucked the blanket in. Doubt naturally arose in her mind: the old master hadn’t eaten the pastries, so where were they?

Driven by suspicion, she searched the room.

However, after quite a while, she found nothing.

Could it be that the old master hadn’t eaten them, but given them to someone else instead?

Those pastries had been laced with poison; according to Fu Wenqi’s words, the toxicity was extremely high and fatal. Whoever ate them would be in mortal danger!

Although in this vast Fu family everyone harbored their own hidden agendas, when it came to human life, Lu Jiiyan simply could not sit idly by.

Every life deserved respect and was worth saving; it should not be treated lightly. Thinking this, she hurried out of the old master’s room.

Afterward, with extreme speed, she meticulously searched every corner of the Fu family estate, yet she never found that batch of pastries.

It was getting late, and she had to leave. Though she still worried about the missing box of pastries, for now, she had no choice but to give up.

What she did not know was that the old master, still harboring a grievance, had been unwilling to eat the pastries Fu Wenqi brought and had casually left them on the desk.

And before Lu Jiiyan had searched the place, someone else had already taken the pastries away a step ahead of her.

After leaving the Fu family estate, Lu Jiiyan and Shi Yuan drove their motor vehicle back to Villa 104.

Shi Yuan was somewhat sullen. He had participated in the entire operation, yet it felt as though he hadn’t participated at all; he had clearly been present, but it was as if he had never been there.

He couldn't help muttering in a muffled voice: “Master, don't you have any other tasks for me to execute? I feel like I was totally useless in this operation!”

“Then what use do you think you could have had? Which part of the process required you?”

“……”

“All right, you weren’t completely useless. Drive on the way back, I need to rest for a while.”

With that, she opened the door of the car’s passenger seat, climbed directly into Shi Yuan’s vehicle, and then leaned her head against the headrest behind her, closing her eyes tightly.

Seeing her frowning deeply with a depressed and melancholy expression, Shi Yuan wisely kept his mouth shut.

At this moment, the thoughts in Lu Jiiyan’s mind remained active.

No matter what, without finding the pastries, it would be impossible to convict Fu Wenqi. As long as he remained in the Fu family estate for a single day, Fu Shiyan and Old Master Fu would face an extra fraction of danger.

Besides, the whereabouts of the missing pastries were also a mystery.

Perhaps he still had an accomplice in the Fu family helping him clean up the mess, destroying the evidence of the pastries ahead of time.

If that were the case, the person lurking in the shadows was also extremely dangerous.

Massaging her brow, Lu Jiiyan took a soft breath and made up her mind: it was time to find a little bodyguard for this Living Hades!

At the same time.

In a certain villa not far from the Fu family mansion, a man tossed a box of pastries onto a table and then stripped off his night-attire.

Before long, someone came from behind to report: “Assistant Wen, no footage of that woman appearing could be found in the surveillance.”

“Oh?”

Wen Du heard this, furrowed his brow slightly, and took a deep breath.

“Not a single trace? Was the surveillance footage tampered with?”

“We’ve checked; the surveillance wasn't tampered with. The opponent must be intimately familiar with the location of every camera and skillfully avoided them.”

“If that’s the case, then this is tricky!” Wen Du said with a serious expression. “This woman is highly suspicious; we must investigate her thoroughly!”

There were quite a few surveillance cameras in the Fu family mansion, all installed before Fu Shiyan became a vegetative state.

The location of each camera was extremely covert and not easily noticed by ordinary people. Furthermore, these were all pinhole cameras.

If the opponent was able to avoid every single camera, it proved that their plan might have already been exposed. After all, that mysterious woman was not a member of the Fu family and had not spent a long time moving about the estate, yet she was still able to clearly map out the location of every surveillance camera. She was definitely not simple.

Thinking this, the furrow between Wen Du’s brows deepened.

Who on earth was this mysterious woman?

Just how much did she know about Young Master Fu?

And how had she managed to locate all the surveillance cameras?

Moreover, why did she save Young Master Fu? What was her true purpose?

Contemplating this, Wen Du dialed a phone call: “A-fei, Young Master Fu was targeted in an assassination attempt. We need to trace the movements of a mysterious woman on our end. Please hack into the nearby surveillance cameras and check the footage from the past two hours to see if you can find any clues.”