On Chen Xuan’s end, his phone was on silent mode, so the people on the other side couldn’t hear what they were saying.
“We’ve been tricked. Xu Mu was right—that woman called us idiots!”
Zhang Wei’s face turned grim. Over the past six months, he had let his guard down around Sixteen Night Orange Fragrance almost completely.
She had asked about their previous collaborations, and Zhang Wei had spilled everything.
He never imagined he’d been played for a fool by a little brat.
Li Hongdou’s expression darkened as she heard this. “No wonder Lin Ruoshi disappeared. Given her abilities, as long as she didn’t run into a fourth-tier supersonic-speed expert, she should have been able to escape.”
“So that means she walked into a trap.”
Chen Xuan said from the side.
“Exactly! That’s got to be it. She said there are cameras here too, and she’ll hand over photos of you guys soon.”
Zhang Wei quickly added, “We need to take control of her right now!”
Li Hongdou immediately dashed toward the distance, reaching Sixteen Night Orange Fragrance’s door almost in a single blink.
Just as she was about to break the door down, it swung open from the inside.
“Senior, you’re here.”
Xu Mu smiled and pointed at Sixteen Night Orange Fragrance, who was lying slumped on the floor. “She’s already been neutralized.”
Li Hongdou gave a slight nod and stepped into the room.
“What are you doing? Aren’t we on the same side?”
Sixteen Night Orange Fragrance felt her entire body weak, unable to muster any strength. She couldn’t even crawl, completely at their mercy.
“I don’t understand the bird language you’re speaking. I’ll just assume you’re cursing me out.”
Li Hongdou said to Sixteen Night Orange Fragrance.
“Wait! I can speak Dragon Kingdom language. Aren’t we on the same side?”
Sixteen Night Orange Fragrance quickly switched languages.
Her speech still carried a foreign accent, but it wasn’t hard to understand—even more standard than the rusty Mandarin spoken by some elderly folks in remote parts of Dragon Kingdom.
“Same side? You’ve fooled me good!”
Zhang Wei stormed in angrily. “You’re not from the Hanyu family at all, are you? You’re from the Sixteen Night family, right?”
“How is that possible? I’m definitely from the Hanyu family. The person who dealt with you five years ago was also from the Hanyu family. If I weren’t, why would I have been assigned here?”
Sixteen Night Orange Fragrance continued to argue.
Xu Mu was already scrolling through her phone. “Actually, it’s easy to verify. I’ll just call every contact in here one by one—I’m sure I’ll dig something up.”
Hearing this, Sixteen Night Orange Fragrance’s face gradually turned pale.
“Found it.”
Chen Xuan also entered the room, holding a pinhole camera in his hand, which he placed on the table.
“You’re only at the master level. We don’t want to make things too hard on you. Tell us, where is Lin Ruoshi now?”
Li Hongdou said expressionlessly. “Otherwise, you’re going to suffer some physical pain. I’m not like these men who’d go easy on a pretty face.”
As she spoke, she raised her hand, and a wooden thorn, as thick as her little finger, formed from a vine in her palm.
“Senior, how do you plan to deal with her?”
Chen Xuan asked with a grin.
“I’ll stab her with this thorn, avoiding vital spots. My personal record is six hundred and forty stabs—covering nearly her whole body—and she was still alive.”
Li Hongdou crouched down in front of Sixteen Night Orange Fragrance with a smile. “Today, I’m aiming to beat that record.”
“Senior, I think we should let Brother Mu interrogate her first. Brother Mu has professional training for questioning women like this.”
Chen Xuan chuckled.
“Don’t ruin my reputation. I’m a very pure guy.”
Xu Mu said flatly.
“Fine, then it’s up to Xu Mu.”
Li Hongdou retracted the wooden thorn with a smile and sat down on a nearby chair, watching calmly.
Sixteen Night Orange Fragrance’s face grew increasingly pale. A man was going to interrogate her—she didn’t need to imagine what methods he’d use.
But deep down, she still clung to a sliver of hope. These people, supposedly from the Dragon Kingdom Sanitation Department, were a righteous organization—they shouldn’t stoop to anything so vile.
Xu Mu walked up to Sixteen Night Orange Fragrance, took out her phone, and smiled. “I’ll take some interesting videos of you and send them to all your contacts.”
He knew that this country was extremely divided.
On one hand, their adult entertainment industry was highly developed.
On the other hand, relationships and romance were deeply conservative—premarital behavior was still considered improper by mainstream society.
For example, adult film stars in this society were widely discriminated against.
Banks even refused to grant them loans.
He’d once read a report: about forty percent of women in this country around the age of thirty were still virgins.
So in Xu Mu’s mind, this threat would be enough to disgrace her and her entire family.
Just as he’d thought—hearing this, Sixteen Night Orange Fragrance trembled in fear.
“No! Don’t! Ask me whatever you want—I’ll answer everything.”
“What’s your name?”
Xu Mu broke into a smile.
“Sixteen Night Orange Fragrance.”
Hearing that name, Zhang Wei let out a helpless sigh.
If not for the fact that Xu Mu had happened to witness it before, he would still be kept in the dark to this day.
Sending Xu Mu and the others in this time might still result in them getting caught.
“What’s going on with the Hanyu family?”
Zhang Wei demanded harshly. “Why did they send you here?”
“The second-in-command of the Hanyu family secretly reported this matter to the main clan half a year ago. The original family head has gone missing, fate unknown, and the current family head is already that second-in-command.”
Izayoi Tōka explained.
“Who were you talking to on the phone just now?”
Xu Mu pressed further.
“Our Izayoi family. I told them that you’ve successfully gone inside.”
Izayoi Tōka replied. “They should have laid a dragnet, waiting for you to take the bait.”
“I don’t quite understand their reasoning. Why do they want to catch us one by one?”
Li Hongdou asked from a distance, sounding puzzled.
“I wouldn’t know about that. I’m just a small fry—they definitely wouldn’t tell me.”
Izayoi Tōka said in a low voice.
Xu Mu pondered for a moment, then said, “Looks like we have to go in after all.”
“After all, if we’re going to rescue people, we have to storm the tiger’s den.”
Li Hongdou stood up and turned to Zhang Wei, “Can you keep this woman under control?”
“Of course.”
Zhang Wei nodded.
“Then we’ll re-enter. Zhang Wei, this woman is your responsibility.”
After finishing her words, Li Hongdou, together with Xu Mu and Chen Xuan, headed back toward the ruins.
Once inside the ruins,
Xu Mu suddenly said, “Senior, why don’t we just play along with their plan?”
“What do you mean?”
Li Hongdou looked at Xu Mu.
“Right now, we don’t know Lin Ruoshi’s whereabouts. So, I could deliberately let them capture me—maybe I’ll even get to see Lin Ruoshi.”
Xu Mu laid out his idea.
“No way! Too dangerous!”
Li Hongdou shook her head. “The ones who captured Lin Ruoshi are definitely fourth-level experts. You won’t even have a chance to escape. If something happens to you, how am I supposed to explain that back home?”
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