Chapter 27: Caught

But it was just a fleeting glance. The man had already disappeared at the end of the aisle after turning around. He must have been getting off the plane.

I didn’t have time to explain anything to Huigen, so I quickly got up, rudely pushing people out of my way, and chased after him…

But the result was not what I expected. It should have been easy to see the same person getting off the plane, but I didn’t see him again until I left the airport. It was as if the scene of him smiling at me after I woke up on the plane was also a dream.

I was standing at the airport, it was already night, and I felt extremely lost. This feeling was mixed with a vague sense of danger, making me feel that there were prying eyes in the dark. Why was our itinerary monitored the entire time? Who had revealed our itinerary?

What kind of whirlpool am I involved in?

As Jiang Yi said, no one had really threatened my life, but the repeated warnings were really frustrating.

At this time, Huigen and Zhao Hong had already caught up. Huigen hadn’t said anything yet, but Zhao Hong asked first, “Chengyi, did you find anything?”

He was sensitive like an agent, knowing that something was definitely going on with me. As for Huigen, she was also looking at me with concern. I had a hard time explaining to them what had happened. Should I tell them that I actually had a dream, and that I saw someone in the dream who told me not to get involved in this matter?

So I was silent, and said with a bad look on my face, “Forget it, let’s talk about it when we get there.”

Zhao Hong and Hui Gen didn’t ask any more, but just kept silent for a moment. They were also confused. Then Zhao Hong came to his senses and said, “Chengyi, didn’t you say someone was coming to pick us up? The plane wasn’t late, but we’ve already walked out of the airport and stood here for a while, and we haven’t seen anyone come to pick us up.”

I was completely at a loss for words at this point. A sense of helpless anger filled my heart. I took out my phone and dialed a number. It was the department head, with whom I had been in contact all along.

I don’t know why, but my emotions were extremely unstable. I even felt that if the phone couldn’t be connected at this time, I would smash the phone.

Fortunately, the phone was connected at this late hour, but I found that my anger had not subsided. I almost burst out and yelled, “Didn’t you say someone would come to pick me up? Where is he? Where is he? You don’t care about the danger, just take out the temptation and lead me by the nose, why is this the case? Are you fucking inconsiderate? What does that mean?”

My yelling and screaming here, regardless of my image, almost made Hui Gen and Zhao Hong dumbfounded. Even I myself was a little confused. Why did I suddenly become so violent? Was there something wrong in the middle?

But I just thought about it, and I was too irritated to think about it. I couldn’t calm down and think about anything. I felt that there was a tiger spirit in my soul, and there was no way that anything could go wrong.

The person on the other end of the phone seemed to be confused by my yelling, and it took a while before he said, “Chen Chengyi, have you encountered something? Why are you so agitated?”

“I’ve had a lot of fucking things happen to me. Which one are you referring to? The most recent one is that I didn’t see the person who was supposed to pick me up at the airport. I really wanted to calm down, but I just got more and more irritated.

“Do you know why I was still in the office so late? We were holding an emergency meeting to check whether there were any problems in the department. The person who was originally assigned to meet you inexplicably died at home this evening, shortly after you got on the plane. I was in the middle of a meeting and was going to call you in ten minutes to tell you that the person who was supposed to meet you in this city was the one who was on the operation with you, and I secretly and urgently moved the location to XX. You should take a taxi there first, and we will contact you after you arrive. After that, the other party hung up the phone, perhaps because they were dissatisfied with my irritable attitude.

I held the phone in my hand, my heart cold, and my mind had only one thought: Is this… is this death? I looked up, and my heart was still restless, one wave after another. In the dark night sky, I saw an invisible net coming towards me, and I couldn’t break free…

This kind of mood made me even more irritable. Hui Gen came over cautiously and asked me, “Brother, what’s going on?”

It was as if I could only calm down when I saw Hui Gen’er’s clear eyes. I had no way of getting angry with Hui Gen’er, and the impatience in my heart was somewhat suppressed. I said to Hui Gen’er, “Let’s go. We’ll take a taxi. Something’s wrong. We have to go ourselves.”

This time the operation was so dangerous, step by step, I didn’t want Hui Gen to know too much, and there was no need to put too much pressure on him.

We stopped a taxi, but the driver seemed to be a long-distance driver who was unwilling to take people who were not going to a very far place. So he used an excuse to refuse us. At that moment, I felt like something in my heart was about to explode…

I threw down my bag, took off the plaid shirt I was wearing over my vest, and walked up to the driver. Without saying a word, I pulled the driver out of the car!

The driver was a little confused and frightened, but at that moment I didn’t feel anything at all. I pressed him down on the hood of the car with a loud thud and said in a low voice, almost with clenched teeth: “Tell me again, just once, that you won’t go?”

The driver tried to struggle, but I was too strong. He couldn’t move. He kicked me, but I smiled and suddenly raised my fist and smashed it into the driver’s head. If this hit solidly, the driver would probably faint for a while.

But at this moment, a pair of hands grabbed me. It was Zhao Hong. He suddenly pulled me away and shouted at me, “Chen Chengyi, are you crazy?”

Hui Gen’er stood by and, after a moment of silence, suddenly ran over and said, “Uncle Zhao, hold my brother. My brother has been hit. Or, you can knock him out now…”

Zhao Hong looked at Huigen with a puzzled expression, unable to understand how I had been affected. I was also furious with Huigen, shouting, “What are you talking about? How did I get affected? Do you want to be beaten?”

Zhao Hong was helpless. He raised his hand and was about to strike me. I looked at Zhao Hong like an angry lion with bloodshot eyes. Suddenly, I had an urge to fight with Zhao Hong to the death!

“Tut, tut, tut… Chen Chengyi, you’re really in a mess.” A voice suddenly interrupted, and then I saw a man come over and hand something to Huigen without saying a word. Then he said to Huigen, “In fact, if he burns a piece of agarwood in his hand, he can also sober up. It’s just a waste. Give him this talisman to wear.”

It was Xiao Chengqian. How could he be here? I had questions in my heart, but I was still too agitated to think!

This time, Huigen didn’t resist and came over to me. She wrapped the triangular talisman in red cloth and hung it around my neck. The moment the talisman was hung around my neck, I felt a coolness in my heart, and I was no longer so agitated.

At this time, a man carrying a pot of something walked up to Xiao Chengqian. Xiao Chengqian took it from him, walked up to me, smiled at me, and then suddenly opened the lid of the pot and poured it over my head without thinking. I was originally going to be furious, but the water had a special flavor that made people sober up, or maybe the water was too cold, and it made me calm down instantly.

Xiao Chengqian whispered in my ear, “Chen Chengyi, this is a bargain for you. The precious meditation talisman and the precious medicinal herbs, as well as the water that was boiled according to the method of making fragrant soup, are all a bargain for you.”

At this point, I was fully awake and knew that I had been tricked. I picked up the shirt I had just thrown on the ground, wiped the water off my body, and said, “Xiao Chengqian, why did you come here?”

Xiao Chengqian leaned lazily against a car and said to me, “What can I say? We are also in the same vein. Our friendship has been good over the years. I think of you as someone on my side. What’s so great about coming to your rescue once in a while?”

The summer heat made it hard to tell whether the water on my body was sweat or water. I said, “I have never considered myself to be on your side, nor have I participated in anything related to your psychotic organization.”

“Come on, let me return the favor for all the times I’ve troubled you. Get in the car. You’ve really messed with a great old monster this time. Fortunately, I have some information and am here for some business. Oh, I forgot to remind you, this only suppresses the ghost temporarily, it doesn’t get rid of it completely.” Xiao Chengqian said indifferently.

What? I was stunned.