Chapter 71: 71. Midnight Outing (Extra for Li Dongze and the Silver League)

“Shh!” Qing Chen whispered to Li Tongyun.

The little girl looked up in terror at the living room ceiling, her body shrinking into the couch bit by bit.

Despite her precocity, she rarely encountered such situations.

Last time, the shadows of two intruders who had broken into their home hadn’t fully dispersed, and now there were intruders again.

Li Tongyun instinctively wanted to turn off the TV with the remote control nearby, but Qing Chen stopped her.

The autumn sky darkened quickly, and they had turned on the lights early.

The intruders must have noticed this, which is why pretending no one was home could lead to trouble.

Qing Chen patted the little girl’s hand and silently mouthed, “Don’t be afraid, I’m here.”

Li Tongyun wiped the tears from the corner of her eyes and nodded.

Everything in the house seemed to continue normally, with no changes.

Qing Chen turned and went to the kitchen, signaling Jiang Xue to continue cooking.

He wrote on a piece of paper for Jiang Xue to read, “The intruders are upstairs now. From this moment, all of us must act as before, like normal people. Don’t panic yet, they won’t expect you to be downstairs.”

The entire building had four floors with eight households. It was unlikely that the intruders were insane enough to search the entire building.

Only when Jiang Xue patiently finished cooking and brought the dishes into the living room did she, suppressing her fear, write on a piece of paper, “What do we do now?”

No sooner had she written this than the sound of glass shattering came from upstairs, accompanied by heavy footsteps that just happened to pass over their heads.

A sinking feeling hit Qing Chen—it was the weight of a mechanical limb.

An ordinary person couldn’t possibly make such heavy footsteps.

Gradually, strange friction sounds came from the ceiling overhead.

Qing Chen searched his memory, comparing similar sounds… this was the sound of a zipper scraping against the floor.

Right now, someone was lying on the floor, listening!

It was as if, in the dark of night, a demon had arrived behind you, whispering, exhaling the stench of blood.

Qing Chen sat on the couch, motionless; there was no need to attract attention at such a time. It was better to sit quietly and wait for the other party to leave.

In the forest, if you are the prey and facing a skilled hunter, you must first learn how to hide your scent.

Don’t try anything risky, because the other side has guns.

When the friction sound of the zipper against the floor arose again, the person on the top seemed to get up, then the heavy footsteps headed towards the kitchen.

The TV broadcast the news program that had just begun; the host’s crisp voice echoed in the room.

Qing Chen wrote to Jiang Xue, “Contact Kunlun on WeChat? Don’t call, it might be heard.”

Jiang Xue took out her phone, turned it to silent mode, then sent a message to Lu Yuan.

Unexpectedly, Lu Yuan did not reply.

Qing Chen wrote, “Forget about Kunlun for now, let’s just wait patiently.”

Li Tongyun cuddled in her mother’s arms, gradually calming down. She gently tapped her porcelain bowl with her chopsticks, making the normal sounds of eating.

However, just then, the sound of a door opening came from the corridor, followed by Hu Xiaoniu and others talking as they went upstairs.

Qing Chen exchanged glances with Jiang Xue and Li Tongyun; everyone realized what was happening.

This was Hu Xiaoniu and his group, definitely going up to visit Jiang Xue’s home!

Knocking on the door.

Then came Wang Yun’s voice, “Aunt Jiang Xue, are you home?”

Immediately after, sudden exclamations and the sounds of collision came from upstairs, along with the sound of something heavy suddenly crashing to the ground.

The sounds came rapidly, but they also faded quickly, as if the intruders had quickly ended the fight.

Then the four people were slowly dragged into the house.

Qing Chen was surprised; he had underestimated the suspect’s combat ability.

Even though Hu Xiaoniu and the others were just ordinary people, they shouldn’t have been subdued so quickly.

“What should we do? Should we save them?” Jiang Xue wrote on the paper, her fear evident.

If those four students encountered a criminal, everyone could guess what would happen next.

Qing Chen looked at Jiang Xue, then at Li Tongyun.

The young girl suddenly pulled on his sleeve and wrote on the paper, “Brother Qing Chen, you must have a way, you’re so smart.”

The girl paused in her writing before continuing, “But you must stay safe.”

Qing Chen sighed. It was likely that Hu Xiaoniu and the others were not dead; given the suspect’s modus operandi, they would probably see the Time Travelers as an asset and would not kill them easily.

… There was still time.

He suddenly closed his eyes; his pupils narrowed in the darkness behind his eyelids.

The streams of information that had once flashed through his mind were now being scrutinized one by one.

If someone asked him what was in the old times of the past,

Qing Chen would calmly tell them, “There, you’ll find the treasures you once forgot.”

“According to reports, there are still nine suspects at large…”

“Hello, do you know Liu Dezhu…”

“Four transfer students have come from Haicheng…”

Qing Chen seemed to have found something.

What had Liu Dezhu told him in the isolation cell?

“Kunlun learned of the Ezhou people’s whereabouts and ambushed outside the school ahead of time…”

“The person in charge named Zheng Yuandong said, someone would protect me.”

Qing Chen suddenly opened his eyes, turned his back and took out a communication device to send a message to Liu Dezhu: “Take a taxi now to 12th floor, 4 Xingshu Road and stake out. Go immediately!”

Liu Dezhu replied right away: “Boss, what’s this for? Why am I staking out there?”

Qing Chen replied, ignoring the question, “Remember to tell Hu Xiaoniu, the first transaction is completed; he should pay with a gold bar.”

The moment Liu Dezhu received the message, he was stunned. What did he mean, and why bring up Hu Xiaoniu all of a sudden?

Still, he replied, “Okay, departing now.”

Qing Chen finally breathed a sigh of relief. He didn’t want to harm Liu Dezhu by having him come here.

Instead, he had realized that perhaps Jiang Xue, an insignificant Time Traveler, might not be able to contact Kunlun, but Liu Dezhu certainly could.

It wasn’t that Liu Dezhu had to make the contact himself but rather that Kunlun was definitely lurking nearby at this time.

Qing Chen didn’t need Liu Dezhu; he needed Liu Dezhu to bring Kunlun to him.

Slowly, the sound of a girl’s faint crying came from upstairs, indicating someone had woken up.

…

In Xinglong Residential Area, several Kunlun members who were staking out below Liu Dezhu’s building were chatting.

Liu Dezhu sneaked out of the building, looked around quickly, and then ran out of the complex to take a taxi waiting at the entrance.

A Kunlun member whispered into the headset, “Attention, attention, ‘Sparrow’ has taken flight, ‘Sparrow’ has taken flight, Sparrow has boarded Xiao Ying’s car.”

In the mysterious night, Liu Dezhu sat anxiously in the back of the taxi and said, “Master, to Xingshu Road, number 4, please hurry.”

Lu Yuan’s voice came through the headset, “Everyone, follow suit, Sparrow has given the address, check for anomalies. Wrench, Hawthorn, speed up, get there ahead of time and find a place to hide.”

Liu Dezhu had no idea that his actions had agitated so many people.

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