Chapter 259 Chapter 258 Accidents Seem A Little Too Frequent
Chapter 258 Accidents Seem A Little Too Frequent
With her phone in hand and a cloak concealing her petite figure, hood drawn over her face, Chi Xiaocheng slipped out of her room, avoiding the security cameras.
The cloak was to reduce her presence, preventing her face from being captured, but it didn't grant invisibility.
Caution was still paramount.
In the darkness, she moved as nimbly as a cat. Even those with sharp eyes would only catch a glimpse of two tea-brown pigtails, like silken ribbons, fluttering in the air, leaving a faint, lingering fragrance.
Strictly speaking, Su Tao wasn't the only person Chi Xiaocheng cared about.
There was her older brother, Chi Song, and her parents back in their hometown.
In the broader sense, Su Tao might not be her "everything."
But Chi Xiaocheng knew herself. If Su Tao were no longer in this world, she likely wouldn't have any desire to live.
Having experienced such tenderness during her coldest, most fearful moments, she could never escape its hold.
Leaving the hospital, Chi Xiaocheng hailed a taxi.
She didn't have time for further investigation; she could only return to Si Chen's villa for now.
The car was only halfway there when Chi Xiaocheng received a message from Si Chen.
"Bad news. Lin Fangya is missing. After we handed her over, Dongfang Yang had several bodyguards drive her to the hospital."
"But on the way, they had an accident. The bodyguards sustained varying degrees of injuries, but Lin Fangya is gone."
"She was unconscious from her injuries at the time, and she was also tied up."
Si Chen's message made Chi Xiaocheng narrow her eyes.
Were accidents really that easy to come by?
"Tǒngzi, what do you think? Could it be that Second Young Master Ye didn't want to hand her over, so he staged this?"
[It's also possible that the world's will doesn't want this character to disappear so quickly.]
"But this character isn't that important, is she?"
Chi Xiaocheng couldn't understand why Lin Fangya, who only existed in the original story to be a foil for Su Tao, someone without much intelligence, was still thriving.
The current developments were increasingly deviating from the original plot. Lin Fangya's changes made Chi Xiaocheng feel a little uneasy.
She texted Si Chen, "Where did the accident happen?"
Si Chen: "Xiangyang North Road."
Xiangyang North Road – wasn't that about two kilometers south of her own house?
Upon receiving the information, Chi Xiaocheng turned to the driver and said, "Driver, please change the route. Go to Xiangyang North Road."
"Alright."
The driver gave Chi Xiaocheng a strange look but didn't say anything. After stopping at a red light, he changed their destination.
They drove along the road until they reached the destination and got out of the car.
The area had already been cordoned off by the traffic police, so she couldn't examine the scene of the accident. Did this mean that the trail to Lin Fangya had been cut off?
She'd only been enemies with that woman in the shadows because of Ye Liang.
If she escaped this time, their conflict would be out in the open.
The last time, this woman had hired a sniper to assassinate Tao Tao.
What kind of dangers would she create now that she was even more unhinged?
"No, I have to find her!"
Chi Xiaocheng's sixth sense told her that if she didn't eliminate this person, things would become difficult in the future.
She went to a dark and somewhat dirty place, swallowed a pill, and cupped her hands around her mouth to amplify her voice.
"Meow~ Meow~"
Two adorable meows came from Chi Xiaocheng's mouth. Before long, several meows echoed from the dark bushes and trash cans.
Her innate affinity skill, combined with the pill, allowed Chi Xiaocheng to communicate with the animals briefly.
Several stray cats emerged. After understanding Chi Xiaocheng's intentions, they ran back from where they came.
Then, a slightly injured and dirty tabby cat was escorted out by the others.
Behind the tabby, besides several stray cats, there was also an unusually clean Ragdoll cat.
Upon closer inspection, Chi Xiaocheng realized, how could this tabby cat look so familiar?
It wasn't until the tabby paused and let out a silly meow that Chi Xiaocheng understood why it seemed so familiar.
She asked the tabby, "Da Wang?"
"Meow!!"
Perhaps the cloak concealed her scent, Da Wang hadn't recognized Chi Xiaocheng right away. It wasn't until she called out that it excitedly bounded toward her.
It wanted to leap into Chi Xiaocheng's arms, but she pushed it away with a look of distaste.
"I don't have time to hold you right now, and you're too dirty. I haven't been home for that many days, how did you become like this?"
"Meow~"
Da Wang, pushed aside, felt wronged.
It hadn't seen Chi Xiaocheng in two months. Now she didn't even want to hug it.
Indeed, it shouldn't have feelings for creatures like pet owners!
But Chi Xiaocheng was more concerned with Da Wang's injuries.
It looked like it had been scratched by other animals.
She pouted, somewhat dissatisfied. "Tao Tao is really something, didn't she even come home to see Da Wang in all these days? It's so hungry that it's fighting others for trash."
No matter how silly this cat was, it carried the memories of herself and Tao Tao.
Tao Tao didn't cherish those memories, did she?
Your Xiaocheng's fondness for you has greatly decreased!
Decrease... Decrease by 10 first!
Um... Never mind, 10 is too much. In short, decrease by 1 first!
Yes, decrease by 1 for now.
But right now, the focus clearly wasn't on Da Wang. Chi Xiaocheng didn't forget her purpose and asked Da Wang, "When that car accident happened, did you... or your little buddies, see anyone running out of the car?"
"Meow?"
Da Wang tilted its head, finding Chi Xiaocheng's long string of words difficult to understand.
Chi Xiaocheng knew that Da Wang's brain was overloading.
After waiting for a while, Da Wang ran behind the Ragdoll cat and nudged its snow-white fur with its rear.
The snow-white Ragdoll whimpered timidly. Chi Xiaocheng, under the effects of the pill, immediately understood what it meant.
It had escaped into a small alleyway, all the way toward the outskirts of the city.
Chi Xiaocheng smacked Da Wang on the head. "Let's go, Da Wang, show off your sense of smell. Today, we, master and servant, will be on the battlefield!"
Da Wang meowed at the Ragdoll cat a few times and immediately ran to Chi Xiaocheng's feet.
Following the narrow alley, they soon came to a major road leading to the suburbs.
On both sides of the road were tall fields of weeds.
Da Wang twitched its nose a few times and led Chi Xiaocheng into a patch of grass.
This made Chi Xiaocheng suspect whether Da Wang was a tabby cat or a dog.
Its tracking was so precise.
After walking a few steps, Chi Xiaocheng finally understood why Da Wang had accurately found the target.
There was a faint smell of blood in the air.
Chi Xiaocheng lowered the brim of her hood and moved quietly. She soon arrived near a dilapidated thatched hut.
There was a fishy smell in the surroundings, and rows of fishing rods were stuck on the side.
Further ahead, she could hear the sound of water, clearly a place frequented by fishermen.
Before approaching the hut, as the smell of blood grew stronger, Chi Xiaocheng also heard a man and Lin Fangya talking.
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