Chapter 49: Fear and women

Lu Fanming’s cautiousness made me and Lao Hui extremely angry. It would be a waste of talent for him not to become a detective, but such a fiery mood is not helpful to the matter, and it will also become a drag. So I took a deep breath and said to Lao Hui, who was also a little anxious about the mood, “To be honest, we shouldn’t complain about Lu Fanming, because we are very lucky tonight with the right time, place, and people.”

Old Hui replied in a bad mood: “What do you mean?”

“First, we waited for Lu Fanming at the food stall. We knew that the time we had to use to heal our wounds was limited. Second, Lu Fanming wasn’t going home to sleep tonight, but was acting suspiciously. Finally, the most important point is that Luo Fanming went upstairs and changed his shirt, but he didn’t change his pants. You know, he might have thought that an ordinary pair of trousers with a white shirt and an ordinary pair of trousers with a casual shirt would be two different feelings. Besides, he is slightly overweight, but only his belly is fat, and there is nothing wrong with his lower body! Or, the pants that he hasn’t changed yet, who knows what’s going on? Anyway, the lucky thing is that he didn’t change his pants. As I explained to Lao Hui, I gradually felt relieved, and in the end, I even smiled.

“What does it matter to me if he didn’t change his pants?” Lao Hui was still a bit irritated.

“Of course it matters. My bug is on his pants! As the saying goes, seven points are earned through hard work, and three points are destined by heaven. This is heaven’s destined us to succeed tonight. Why are you still angry? Calm down. We may have a great discovery tonight.” I said to Lao Hui encouragingly.

Laohui smiled and asked, “Is it again based on intuition?”

I laughed and said, “You guessed it right.”

“Pah.” Lao Hui still spat, then laughed with me, and the previous irritability was swept away.

We parked the car in a secluded place and got out. At almost midnight, we knocked on the door of a nearby building and bought a bicycle from someone.

The country road was too obvious and was under full control. It was too conspicuous for us to drive or walk. Lao Hui and I made a brief observation. There were many side roads connected to the country road. Some people who returned home late chose to ride a bicycle on that side road. After all, it was closer than the main road, which was the so-called shortcut.

We have bugs, so we don’t have to worry about losing Lu Fanming on the shortcut. It also saves some time. A bicycle is undoubtedly the best choice.

Everything went smoothly. I sold the old bike for 500 yuan. I guess the owner thought I was crazy. I rode the bike, and Lao Hui sat on the back seat. As soon as I pedaled, Lao Hui was already calculating: “Seven hundred! If you don’t give me a receipt, I’ll throw the receipt in your face.”

I listened without saying anything, just pedaling the bike quickly and attentively, but in my heart I cursed the life of an X-egg. Other men have their beloved women sitting on the back of their bikes, but I have a decadent uncle, Lao Hui, sitting on the back of my bike, and it’s still on such a quiet road at night. What the hell?

If it were Ruoxue… I thought, a smile involuntarily appeared on my face. Yes, if it were Ruoxue, how wonderful!

With the help of the bug, we didn’t get lost. Besides, this broken bike wasn’t completely without merit. At least it had a battery, so we didn’t fall over on the narrower and unfamiliar side roads.

After only ten minutes of riding, the bug stopped pointing the way and started to circle around the center point again. As soon as I sensed this reaction, I quickly turned off the battery and stopped the bike. I urged Lao Hui to get off the bike, and I jumped off the bike as well.

Laohui was puzzled by my reaction. He said, “There are cornfields everywhere in this village. What are you afraid of?”

Yes, at this point we had already tracked Lu Fanming to the outskirts of the town, and as Lao Hui said, there were cornfields everywhere, so I didn’t need to be so surprised. After all, the bug would react like this at a distance of 10 to 30 meters, and in the countryside, a distance of 30 meters also meant that there were many fields.

In the face of Lao Hui’s questioning, I hid my bicycle in the cornfield without saying a word, only muttering, “Keep your voice down.” In fact, I had no way to explain to Lao Hui that I had a symbiotic tiger soul, let alone explain that my symbiotic tiger soul had arrived here and had inexplicably become fearful.

You have to know that tigers are kings, and kings have the pride of kings. They would rather die than be afraid. I have asked myself many times, and it has never made me feel this way. This is the first time it has ever shown such emotions. My soul is symbiotic with it, so how could it not have such an emotional reaction?

I just couldn’t explain it. After I put down the bike, I turned around and walked with Lao Hui in the dark on this country road. Although Lao Hui was surprised, he didn’t ask me any more questions. But after I took just one step, I suddenly stopped.

Because I stopped so suddenly, Lao Hui didn’t react immediately and bumped into me, which made me come back to my senses from the shock. Lao Hui felt strange and couldn’t help but ask me, “Chengyi, what’s wrong?”

“The bug is dead!” I whispered as I turned around and lit my lighter. Under the light of the lighter, a place on my arm began to slowly ooze blood. That was the bite of the bug, and the bug was so agitated that it had broken through the limits of this sap and quickly crawled away, not knowing where it had gone.

“Okay, I know how to raise this bug, but this bug is so powerful, are there any limitations?” A conversation between me and Ru Yue suddenly came to mind when she gave me the bug.

“Of course there are limitations. For example, if the bug on the target dies, the other bug will become manic and uncontrollable, biting people and running away quickly.” This is what Yueyue answered me.

“Is this a love bug? Can it go crazy? Will it bite and cause poisoning?” I was full of curiosity at the time.

“This bug is not poisonous. Is it true that bugs can fall in love with each other?” Ru Yue asked me at the time. I don’t remember how I answered.

When I came back from my memories, I saw Lao Hui’s face full of shock. He said, “The bug is dead, how can we find it? Didn’t you say that as long as we get within 5 meters of the target, the bug will climb out no matter what? Could it be that we got within 5 meters of the target?”

While talking, Lao Hui unconsciously looked up at the house outside the field, calculating whether the nearest one was 5 meters away from us.

I shook my head and said, “It’s different. The other bug is indeed dead, but I’m not sure if it’s been found. But… I have a way to find Lu Fanming.”

“What other way is there? Don’t look at the 30-meter distance, but there are at least seven or eight households at this distance. We can’t go to each door to investigate, and Lu Fanming is so cautious. If we do it this way, he will definitely be discovered.” Lao Hui scratched his head, obviously feeling helpless in this situation.

“Follow me, I have a way.” I was also depressed, but I did not lie to Lao Hui, because I felt that my tiger soul was constantly afraid, and even when I took a step just now, its fear increased even more.

The tiger spirit would not be afraid for no reason. I could only say that the place the tiger spirit feared most must be where Lu Fanming was hiding. I was so sure of it, and there was no reason for it, just such certainty.

So I walked forward, slowly approaching the row of houses. The difference between this rural area close to the city and the more remote ones is that the houses are not far apart, and some are even very close, just a wall away.

This way of building houses provides convenience for our movement. At least, people who pretend to be late for a card game are not too conspicuous walking on this road. After all, the houses are built in a group, and the isolated and distant houses make our target obvious.

Soon, we walked out of the side road and onto the main road. Under the cool moonlight, I felt a little cold, even though it was a hot summer night. Since I was living with Tiger Soul, I was also affected by it, so I was also a little scared.

It was raining cats and dogs, and I was already trembling as I walked along this ordinary road. But when I passed by a certain place, something suddenly jumped out from behind a large tree and slammed into me. I was so scared that I almost screamed out loud. After I had calmed down, I looked down and saw that it was a woman who had suddenly jumped out.

What came into my eyes was her dirty, confused face.