Chapter 626 - 393: A Sudden Big Deal

Chapter 626: Chapter 393: A Sudden Big Deal

Sunlight streamed through the gaps in the leaves, casting golden patches of light on the ground.

The golden patches of light beneath the trees swayed with each passing gust of wind.

After dealing with the bastard who betrayed him, Li Ying started looking for Zhu Daqi. His search led him to the outside of Zhu Daqi’s residential complex.

He stood under a tree lining the road, his back against its trunk. Patches of golden light filtered through the leaves, dappling his body. He frowned, staring at a small red dot on his phone screen.

’Liu Menglong’s subordinate is really unreliable! He’s only been tailing for a few days and is already slacking off. Maybe I should just go install a tracker on the mission target’s van myself. Tracking the target directly would be less hassle.’

Li Ying stared at the tracking app on his phone, deeply disappointed. After a few minutes of thought, he dismissed his own rash idea.

’Forget it. Planting a tracker on the target’s van directly is too aggressive. I’d better act more cautiously and not expose myself.’

Exiting the tracking app, Li Ying opened his phone’s contact list, found Liu Menglong’s number, and dialed it.

RING...

"Sorry, the number you have dialed is outside the service area. Please try again later."

Li Ying hung up the phone, a look of confusion on his face.

He had planned to call Liu Menglong and urge him to move on the target sooner. Since the call wouldn’t connect, he couldn’t help but suspect that Liu Menglong had already made his move.

To verify his suspicion, Li Ying turned and left, heading toward Liu Menglong and Chen Xiaoyan’s residence to check on the situation.

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GURGLE... GURGLE... GURGLE...

The sound of the gurgling stream was ceaseless, and small fish could occasionally be seen swimming about in its crystal-clear water.

After Lin Li and Su Yue finished lunch, they rested for a while, then they started to pack up their things to go home.

"I’ll take these two big bags of stuff back to the car. You can take down the tent in a bit." Lin Li hefted two large bags filled with camping gear and spoke to Su Yue. She was on her phone, scrolling through photos they had taken earlier on the hill.

Su Yue hummed in agreement, then put her phone away and began to dismantle and pack up the tent.

Seeing Su Yue start to pack up the tent, Lin Li, carrying the two large bags of camping gear, walked quickly toward the parking area.

At this time of day, many of the other campers, just like Lin Li and Su Yue, were starting to pack up and prepare to head home.

A family of four was packing up their things. The youngest, a six-year-old girl, sat on a small folding stool, watching her parents and older sister pack the camping equipment. With nothing to do, she hummed a song while waiting to go home.

Just then, she saw a young man nearby carrying two enormous bags. ’That guy is so strong!’ she thought.

Lin Li left the campsite. When he reached a spot where Su Yue couldn’t see him, with a thought, the two large bags of camping gear in his hands vanished in an instant.

After stowing the items in the Mysterious Small Island, Lin Li’s pace grew faster and faster, until he broke into a run.

The six-year-old girl on the small folding stool stared blankly as the empty-handed Lin Li ran off into the distance and disappeared from sight.

"Big sis, big sis! I just saw a guy make two big bags full of stuff disappear!" The little girl snapped out of her daze and immediately turned to a high schooler with a ponytail who was helping pack.

"Oh, really? Where is he?" The ponytailed high schooler placed a metal bowl into a bag and turned to ask her younger sister.

"He went that way," the little girl said, pointing in the direction Lin Li had gone.

"Oh, he’s already gone," said the ponytailed high school girl, and then she went back to helping her parents pack.

Seeing her sister go back to her chores, the little girl didn’t say anything more. The magical scene she had just witnessed replayed over and over in her mind.

Empty-handed, Lin Li sprinted along. The path was just a dirt trail, packed down by foot traffic, making it uneven and difficult to traverse.

But for Lin Li, who had spent the last few months frequently navigating the treacherous wilderness alone, this kind of dirt path that seemed difficult to ordinary people was actually quite decent in his eyes.

After all, when Lin Li hunted Mutant Beasts in the perilous wilderness, most places were overgrown with wild grass, with no proper paths underfoot at all; he had to forge them himself on the spot.

Running at full speed, Lin Li emerged from the forest in just a few minutes, arriving at the spot where he had parked his car.

He took the car keys from his pocket, opened the van door, retrieved the two large bags of camping gear from the Mysterious Small Island, and placed them inside the vehicle.

After putting the things away and closing the door, just as he was about to return to the campsite to get more stuff, his phone rang in his pocket.

RING... RING... RING...

Lin Li pulled his phone from his pocket, glanced at the name on the screen, and answered the call. He asked with a smile,

"Zhang Yuxi, what’s up?"

Inside a three-story villa, Zhang Yuxi, dressed in a light silk nightgown, was currently sitting on the sofa in her living room.