Chapter 291 Guess
After passing through the dense forest, there was an open plain. It was almost midnight and there were fewer lights than during the day, but there were more people patrolling the road.
When heading to the first destination for investigation, Shen Manzhi grabbed Qin Yanfeng's clothes, said nothing, but his eyes were filled with deep thought.
Qin Yanfeng did not urge her. He turned sideways and looked down at the cold white skin of her fingers. The knuckles were red due to the low temperature outside. He reached out and held her finger, wrapping his soft hand around her to transfer the warmth.
Shen Manzhi raised his eyes, a light gleaming in them, "I want to go back to the stilt house by the river to take a look."
Qin Yanfeng was not in a hurry to express his opinion.
Although the undercover agent is likely to be hidden in a stilt house by the river, Golden Leopard has set an ambush, and going in rashly will only lead to walking into a trap.
But he did not reject the proposal, but put the pros and cons in front of him, "We cannot determine the number and location of the ambush around us."
Shen Manzhi knew what he meant, but he just curled the corners of his mouth slightly, as if he was confident of finding the opponent's flaw.
"I placed two trackers in the motorcade of Mr. Xun's group."
Qin Yanfeng raised his eyebrows, "Two?"
Shen Manzhi was about to take out his cell phone when he looked down and found that his hand was held tightly by him.
"..."
Qin Yanfeng pinched her knuckles calmly, then let go calmly and looked at her seriously.
Shen Manzhi gritted his teeth slightly.
If this had happened in the past, she would have definitely knocked the person to the ground for such blatant harassment.
But the instigator still looks thirsty for knowledge.
She glanced at him and returned to business. She remembered that she had not brought her cell phone with her before she set out in case she was caught and searched, so she told Qin Yanfeng the details of the tracker.
"Master Xun and one of his men have dark scars on their faces. I put trackers on their cars and found this place based on their movements."
"Situ?"
Shen Manzhi frowned, "You mean the scarred man? He and Mr. Xun seem to be in a superior-subordinate relationship, but he is more cautious in doing things."
Placing a tracker on the desperado's car is an extremely risky thing, but the benefits are self-evident. At least they can find the base camp by following their tracks, and may even continue to explore other places.
It’s just that Xitu’s car has not been used since it came back from the city center, but Xunye’s off-road vehicle is still moving on the tracker software.
Qin Yanfeng understood what she meant almost instantly. No wonder she said that Xitu would be more cautious. "The cars that go out are generally used exclusively to avoid being followed or tampered with by someone with ulterior motives."
Not to mention that a figure like Mr. Xun, whose status is second only to Golden Leopard, would only be more careful about his own safety, but he was still using this car and did not check or clean it, so Shen Manzhi could easily find out his movement location.
Her eyes lit up slightly, as if she had caught some fleeting inspiration. "Master Xun's car went to the stilt house three times today."
There was silence in the forest for a while, and Qin Yanfeng slowly spoke, "Is it possible that he was deliberately exposing himself?"
"I thought about it," Shen Manzhi leaned against the tree trunk with his arms folded, "there were ambushes set up around the stilt house. Mr. Xun appeared there frequently in one day, and he didn't even change cars. It seemed like he was waiting for us to rescue the hostages and jump in on our own initiative."
Seeing that he didn't say anything, Shen Manzhi smiled and said, "Of course, this is just one of the guesses, and it is a very reasonable but least likely guess."
Qin Yanfeng turned his head to look at her beautiful eyes, and saw a hint of fox-like cunning in her eyes, along with her lively and bright expression.
His Adam's apple moved slightly, and he resisted the urge to lean forward, revealing an admiring look, "Tell me the most likely one."
Both of them are experts at catching micro-expressions. Shen Manzhi guessed that he thought the same as she did. The situation she just described would only happen if Jin Bao and Xun Ye took the people from the National Security Bureau for fools.
"Let's make a bold assumption. Mr. Xun wanted to tell us that the undercover agent was in the stilt house. But he didn't know that the Golden Leopard had set up an ambush in the stilt house. In addition, we discussed before that the Golden Leopard's ambush might not be aimed at us."
Qin Yanfeng's lips curled slightly, "That means that Master Xun has actually discovered that someone has followed him here."
"It doesn't matter," Shen Manzhi raised his eyebrows, "Golden Leopard has not given any instructions to capture him so far, which means that Master Xun didn't tell us. His target is not us, but an undercover agent."
Qin Yanfeng said what she meant, "He wants us to rescue the undercover?"
Shen Manzhi lowered his head, tapped his arms with his ten fingers, and said in a low voice, "If our speculation is correct, then what is the relationship between Mr. Xun and the undercover? The undercover has so many secrets, why would he let the undercover go..."
She fell into deep thought, trying to sort out her thoughts, and didn't even notice when Qin Yanfeng pulled her away. At this moment, she had completely trusted him.
Qin Yanfeng stopped and held her shoulders, "There's still a little more."
Shen Manzhi noticed the change in the environment around him after he stood firm, "What?"
"Master Xun's purpose is too obvious and too direct. It's like the ambush set by the golden leopard in the stilt house. It's actually not hidden at all. After we discovered it, it was useless, unless his purpose was not against us."
Shen Manzhi understood, "You mean Mr. Xun wants to tell us other information?"
Qin Yanfeng smiled, "You were in the stilt house before, and they chased you. Do you think that time, did Master Xun find out about the ambush they had set up around you?"
Shen Manzhi's heart skipped a beat. He thought of the thing he hadn't figured out. "If Mr. Xun is smart enough, he will definitely find those ambushing people. Since he wants people to successfully rescue the undercover, he must also pass on the information that there is an ambush, so that the people who go to rescue will not be caught in one fell swoop."
Qin Yanfeng raised his eyebrows slightly. "So even if he found someone following him, he didn't change the car, didn't remove the tracker, and didn't even report the matter to Golden Leopard. He can walk to this position, he won't ignore these details. His actions will only make us suspicious and make us highly alert to the stilt house."
Shen Manzhi was surprised that Qin Yanfeng and he had the same idea, but he had to sort out the clues immediately, "So the location of the undercover and the information about the ambush around him, is what he wanted to tell us?"
Qin Yanfeng didn't answer, but his expression showed his approval. He went through so much trouble, risking being discovered by the Golden Leopard and using extremely high psychological skills to lure the National Security Bureau to the stilt house, and hinted at an ambush, just to successfully rescue the undercover?
Shen Manzhi's palms were slightly sweaty. If they had not come up with this bold guess, how could Lord Xun have achieved his goal by using this trick?
She recalled their first encounter in the city center.
Mr. Xun noticed her the first time he saw her in the club. Even when she was "talking" to Mr. Xiao Jin and was suspected by the black-faced man next to him, he showed up in person, walked up to her, and said a few extra words to her.
He said he wished her good luck.
good luck?
What good luck?
Did you doubt her identity and purpose of her trip from the beginning, so you hoped that everything would go well for her?
Or is he implying that she is under his control?
Shen Manzhi's heartbeat suddenly quickened. Standing at this point in time and thinking back carefully about what Master Xun had said, everything was creepy.
Qin Yanfeng noticed that she looked a little pale, so he reached out and shook her hand, "What's wrong?"
Shen Manzhi came back to his senses, suddenly shook his hand back, his brows outlined with excitement, "Verify it."
Lord Xun is very cunning and is not necessarily harmful to them. She is eager to confirm this conjecture.
Qin Yanfeng looked down at his clasped hands, the corners of his lips curled up unconsciously.
Shen Manzhi found the stilt house on the other side of the river according to the marks he had made along the way. Since he didn't know the exact location of the ambush, he could only wait and see.
"There is a car."
Qin Yanfeng reached out and turned Shen Manzhi's head to avoid the high beam of the car lights.
The black off-road vehicle was parked under the stilt house, and the engine was roaring as it started.
A tall man in black combat uniform came down the wooden stairs, a cigarette dangling from his lips, and stood in front of the car, instructing the people around him about something.
Shen Manzhi picked up the mini telescope hanging on Qin Yanfeng's waist and looked over.
"It's Master Xun."
Qin Yanfeng took the telescope and glanced, "Xi Tu is not here."
Shen Manzhi looked at the five or six people around the stilt house and narrowed his eyes slightly, "Do you think Mr. Xun will help us get rid of those people?"
"The guess hasn't been verified yet. What if his target is us?"
Qin Yanfeng turned his eyes and saw a hint of amusement in her eyes. He had a bad feeling, "What are you going to do?"
Shen Manzhi was eager to try, "So I have to give it a try."
The two of them took a detour. In the pitch-black night, the moonlight was blocked by the dense forest behind them. A dirt road lay in the middle of the half-man-high bushes.
Shen Manzhi half-knelt in the grass, supporting himself on the one-way road, and took out a shiny piece of iron from his waist bag and inserted it into the mud and rocks.
Qin Yanfeng leaned sideways and saw a willow-leaf dart standing where Shen Manzhi had just moved.
Did she want to draw attention by puncturing the tires of Mr. Xun's car?
He looked at the small bag hanging on Shen Manzhi's waist again. If you didn't pay attention, you wouldn't be able to tell that there was something inside. It didn't even make a sound.
Shen Manzhi returned to the bushes and patted the mud off his hands. "This is the only way Master Xun takes every time he comes here."
"How can we be sure that the tire will be punctured if we only put one?"
Shen Manzhi tilted his head and tapped his chin lightly towards the road.
The road is close to the river bank and the soil is wet. It becomes even more muddy after rainy days, and the wheel marks are very solid when the weather is clear.
"The lane is narrow, so if nothing goes wrong, we'll just follow the wheel tracks of the previous cars."
Qin Yanfeng looked at the dart again. Its shape was a very ordinary willow leaf, but it shone with a cold silver light under the night sky. The workmanship must be very beautiful.
I vaguely saw it somewhere.
Shen Manzhi followed his gaze and looked, "That's not something that belongs to the locals, let alone the National Security Bureau. If Mr. Xun's purpose is to rescue the undercover, he will definitely know that there are outsiders coming, and he may be able to read our hints; if he wants to arrest someone, he will not hinder the subsequent actions of the National Security Bureau."
After all, this thing won't make them suspect the National Security Bureau.
Qin Yanfeng no longer paid attention to the darts, "Let's go back to the stilt house."
Shen Manzhi followed him for a few steps and suddenly stopped. "Aren't you afraid that my guess is wrong? What if Mr. Xun's target is us? Going back would be a trap for us."
Mr. Xun is so smart, how could he not guess that they would wait here?
Qin Yanfeng turned sideways and finally saw her face clearly again with the moonlight spilling in from the open area.
In order to hide his true identity, Shen Manzhi darkened his face by several shades, leaving only his facial features clear and unchanged.
She said this in a joking tone, but her eyes were indifferent yet serious.
Qin Yanfeng reached out and brushed away the dead leaves on her faded wig. His tone was not serious, but gentle yet firm in his laziness. "I believe in you unconditionally."
Sorry for the long wait, resuming the previous update status
After passing through the dense forest, there was an open plain. It was almost midnight and there were fewer lights than during the day, but there were more people patrolling the road.
When heading to the first destination for investigation, Shen Manzhi grabbed Qin Yanfeng's clothes, said nothing, but his eyes were filled with deep thought.
Qin Yanfeng did not urge her. He turned sideways and looked down at the cold white skin of her fingers. The knuckles were red due to the low temperature outside. He reached out and held her finger, wrapping his soft hand around her to transfer the warmth.
Shen Manzhi raised his eyes, a light gleaming in them, "I want to go back to the stilt house by the river to take a look."
Qin Yanfeng was not in a hurry to express his opinion.
Although the undercover agent is likely to be hidden in a stilt house by the river, Golden Leopard has set an ambush, and going in rashly will only lead to walking into a trap.
But he did not reject the proposal, but put the pros and cons in front of him, "We cannot determine the number and location of the ambush around us."
Shen Manzhi knew what he meant, but he just curled the corners of his mouth slightly, as if he was confident of finding the opponent's flaw.
"I placed two trackers in the motorcade of Mr. Xun's group."
Qin Yanfeng raised his eyebrows, "Two?"
Shen Manzhi was about to take out his cell phone when he looked down and found that his hand was held tightly by him.
"..."
Qin Yanfeng pinched her knuckles calmly, then let go calmly and looked at her seriously.
Shen Manzhi gritted his teeth slightly.
If this had happened in the past, she would have definitely knocked the person to the ground for such blatant harassment.
But the instigator still looks thirsty for knowledge.
She glanced at him and returned to business. She remembered that she had not brought her cell phone with her before she set out in case she was caught and searched, so she told Qin Yanfeng the details of the tracker.
"Master Xun and one of his men have dark scars on their faces. I put trackers on their cars and found this place based on their movements."
"Situ?"
Shen Manzhi frowned, "You mean the scarred man? He and Mr. Xun seem to be in a superior-subordinate relationship, but he is more cautious in doing things."
Placing a tracker on the desperado's car is an extremely risky thing, but the benefits are self-evident. At least they can find the base camp by following their tracks, and may even continue to explore other places.
It’s just that Xitu’s car has not been used since it came back from the city center, but Xunye’s off-road vehicle is still moving on the tracker software.
Qin Yanfeng understood what she meant almost instantly. No wonder she said that Xitu would be more cautious. "The cars that go out are generally used exclusively to avoid being followed or tampered with by someone with ulterior motives."
Not to mention that a figure like Mr. Xun, whose status is second only to Golden Leopard, would only be more careful about his own safety, but he was still using this car and did not check or clean it, so Shen Manzhi could easily find out his movement location.
Her eyes lit up slightly, as if she had caught some fleeting inspiration. "Master Xun's car went to the stilt house three times today."
There was silence in the forest for a while, and Qin Yanfeng slowly spoke, "Is it possible that he was deliberately exposing himself?"
"I thought about it," Shen Manzhi leaned against the tree trunk with his arms folded, "there were ambushes set up around the stilt house. Mr. Xun appeared there frequently in one day, and he didn't even change cars. It seemed like he was waiting for us to rescue the hostages and jump in on our own initiative."
Seeing that he didn't say anything, Shen Manzhi smiled and said, "Of course, this is just one of the guesses, and it is a very reasonable but least likely guess."
Qin Yanfeng turned his head to look at her beautiful eyes, and saw a hint of fox-like cunning in her eyes, along with her lively and bright expression.
His Adam's apple moved slightly, and he resisted the urge to lean forward, revealing an admiring look, "Tell me the most likely one."
Both of them are experts at catching micro-expressions. Shen Manzhi guessed that he thought the same as she did. The situation she just described would only happen if Jin Bao and Xun Ye took the people from the National Security Bureau for fools.
"Let's make a bold assumption. Mr. Xun wanted to tell us that the undercover agent was in the stilt house. But he didn't know that the Golden Leopard had set up an ambush in the stilt house. In addition, we discussed before that the Golden Leopard's ambush might not be aimed at us."
Qin Yanfeng's lips curled slightly, "That means that Master Xun has actually discovered that someone has followed him here."
"It doesn't matter," Shen Manzhi raised his eyebrows, "Golden Leopard has not given any instructions to capture him so far, which means that Master Xun didn't tell us. His target is not us, but an undercover agent."
Qin Yanfeng said what she meant, "He wants us to rescue the undercover?"
Shen Manzhi lowered his head, tapped his arms with his ten fingers, and said in a low voice, "If our speculation is correct, then what is the relationship between Mr. Xun and the undercover? The undercover has so many secrets, why would he let the undercover go..."
She fell into deep thought, trying to sort out her thoughts, and didn't even notice when Qin Yanfeng pulled her away. At this moment, she had completely trusted him.
Qin Yanfeng stopped and held her shoulders, "There's still a little more."
Shen Manzhi noticed the change in the environment around him after he stood firm, "What?"
"Master Xun's purpose is too obvious and too direct. It's like the ambush set by the golden leopard in the stilt house. It's actually not hidden at all. After we discovered it, it was useless, unless his purpose was not against us."
Shen Manzhi understood, "You mean Mr. Xun wants to tell us other information?"
Qin Yanfeng smiled, "You were in the stilt house before, and they chased you. Do you think that time, did Master Xun find out about the ambush they had set up around you?"
Shen Manzhi's heart skipped a beat. He thought of the thing he hadn't figured out. "If Mr. Xun is smart enough, he will definitely find those ambushing people. Since he wants people to successfully rescue the undercover, he must also pass on the information that there is an ambush, so that the people who go to rescue will not be caught in one fell swoop."
Qin Yanfeng raised his eyebrows slightly. "So even if he found someone following him, he didn't change the car, didn't remove the tracker, and didn't even report the matter to Golden Leopard. He can walk to this position, he won't ignore these details. His actions will only make us suspicious and make us highly alert to the stilt house."
Shen Manzhi was surprised that Qin Yanfeng and he had the same idea, but he had to sort out the clues immediately, "So the location of the undercover and the information about the ambush around him, is what he wanted to tell us?"
Qin Yanfeng didn't answer, but his expression showed his approval. He went through so much trouble, risking being discovered by the Golden Leopard and using extremely high psychological skills to lure the National Security Bureau to the stilt house, and hinted at an ambush, just to successfully rescue the undercover?
Shen Manzhi's palms were slightly sweaty. If they had not come up with this bold guess, how could Lord Xun have achieved his goal by using this trick?
She recalled their first encounter in the city center.
Mr. Xun noticed her the first time he saw her in the club. Even when she was "talking" to Mr. Xiao Jin and was suspected by the black-faced man next to him, he showed up in person, walked up to her, and said a few extra words to her.
He said he wished her good luck.
good luck?
What good luck?
Did you doubt her identity and purpose of her trip from the beginning, so you hoped that everything would go well for her?
Or is he implying that she is under his control?
Shen Manzhi's heartbeat suddenly quickened. Standing at this point in time and thinking back carefully about what Master Xun had said, everything was creepy.
Qin Yanfeng noticed that she looked a little pale, so he reached out and shook her hand, "What's wrong?"
Shen Manzhi came back to his senses, suddenly shook his hand back, his brows outlined with excitement, "Verify it."
Lord Xun is very cunning and is not necessarily harmful to them. She is eager to confirm this conjecture.
Qin Yanfeng looked down at his clasped hands, the corners of his lips curled up unconsciously.
Shen Manzhi found the stilt house on the other side of the river according to the marks he had made along the way. Since he didn't know the exact location of the ambush, he could only wait and see.
"There is a car."
Qin Yanfeng reached out and turned Shen Manzhi's head to avoid the high beam of the car lights.
The black off-road vehicle was parked under the stilt house, and the engine was roaring as it started.
A tall man in black combat uniform came down the wooden stairs, a cigarette dangling from his lips, and stood in front of the car, instructing the people around him about something.
Shen Manzhi picked up the mini telescope hanging on Qin Yanfeng's waist and looked over.
"It's Master Xun."
Qin Yanfeng took the telescope and glanced, "Xi Tu is not here."
Shen Manzhi looked at the five or six people around the stilt house and narrowed his eyes slightly, "Do you think Mr. Xun will help us get rid of those people?"
"The guess hasn't been verified yet. What if his target is us?"
Qin Yanfeng turned his eyes and saw a hint of amusement in her eyes. He had a bad feeling, "What are you going to do?"
Shen Manzhi was eager to try, "So I have to give it a try."
The two of them took a detour. In the pitch-black night, the moonlight was blocked by the dense forest behind them. A dirt road lay in the middle of the half-man-high bushes.
Shen Manzhi half-knelt in the grass, supporting himself on the one-way road, and took out a shiny piece of iron from his waist bag and inserted it into the mud and rocks.
Qin Yanfeng leaned sideways and saw a willow-leaf dart standing where Shen Manzhi had just moved.
Did she want to draw attention by puncturing the tires of Mr. Xun's car?
He looked at the small bag hanging on Shen Manzhi's waist again. If you didn't pay attention, you wouldn't be able to tell that there was something inside. It didn't even make a sound.
Shen Manzhi returned to the bushes and patted the mud off his hands. "This is the only way Master Xun takes every time he comes here."
"How can we be sure that the tire will be punctured if we only put one?"
Shen Manzhi tilted his head and tapped his chin lightly towards the road.
The road is close to the river bank and the soil is wet. It becomes even more muddy after rainy days, and the wheel marks are very solid when the weather is clear.
"The lane is narrow, so if nothing goes wrong, we'll just follow the wheel tracks of the previous cars."
Qin Yanfeng looked at the dart again. Its shape was a very ordinary willow leaf, but it shone with a cold silver light under the night sky. The workmanship must be very beautiful.
I vaguely saw it somewhere.
Shen Manzhi followed his gaze and looked, "That's not something that belongs to the locals, let alone the National Security Bureau. If Mr. Xun's purpose is to rescue the undercover, he will definitely know that there are outsiders coming, and he may be able to read our hints; if he wants to arrest someone, he will not hinder the subsequent actions of the National Security Bureau."
After all, this thing won't make them suspect the National Security Bureau.
Qin Yanfeng no longer paid attention to the darts, "Let's go back to the stilt house."
Shen Manzhi followed him for a few steps and suddenly stopped. "Aren't you afraid that my guess is wrong? What if Mr. Xun's target is us? Going back would be a trap for us."
Mr. Xun is so smart, how could he not guess that they would wait here?
Qin Yanfeng turned sideways and finally saw her face clearly again with the moonlight spilling in from the open area.
In order to hide his true identity, Shen Manzhi darkened his face by several shades, leaving only his facial features clear and unchanged.
She said this in a joking tone, but her eyes were indifferent yet serious.
Qin Yanfeng reached out and brushed away the dead leaves on her faded wig. His tone was not serious, but gentle yet firm in his laziness. "I believe in you unconditionally."
Sorry for the long wait, resuming the previous update status
