??50: Chapter 50: Sneaky (Please Favorite, Follow, and Vote)
50: Chapter 50: Sneaky (Please Favorite, Follow, and Vote)
Even though he wasn’t considering joining the organization right now, successful cooperation was the foundation of trust, so Zhang Ansha allowed He Ao to quote any price, but He Ao wouldn’t really make an exorbitant demand.
“My charges are always reasonable,” He Ao reassured Zhang Ansha, because it seed that Zhang Ansha’s organization wasn’t very wealthy.
After thinking for a bit, he added, “I need to contact Liu to have him help retrieve surveillance footage and set up defenses on so roads.”
——
Liu Nan was carried on the shoulder of a young man, traversing the gloomy and dark alley.
Her physical condition wasn’t as good as He Ao or Zhang Ansha’s, and on the pitch-black alley without any streetlights, she could hardly see anything.
The majority of the surrounding houses had turned off their lights, everything was so dark; only the young man carrying her continued to move silently forward.
“Hello,”
Liu Nan tapped on the young man’s back, trying to converse with him.
She was carried directly on his shoulder, her legs wrapped around his chest and held by his arms, her waist jamd on his shoulder, her upper body hanging down along his back, so she could only knock on his back,
“Whatever you want, I can give it to you directly.
No matter how much money you need, life is hard for everyone, I can understand that.
If you let
go, I’ll transfer the money to you, and I won’t call the police…”
The young man didn’t respond and continued to hurry along with a grunt.
“Really…
I’m not lying to you…” Liu Nan pinched her sleeve, the hard texture feeding back to her, “My dad is the chairman of Wanhe Industrial, we can afford to pay, he taught
from childhood to be honest, if I say I won’t call the police, then I really won’t.”
The young man didn’t respond, simply tightening his grip on Liu Nan’s leg.
The intense pain bore down, imdiately causing Liu Nan to cry out in agony.
“Talk again and I’ll kill you.”
The young man’s tone was ice-cold, as he continued moving forward.
Liu Nan glanced at the pitch-black surroundings and, enduring the pain, quieted down.
She realized that this odd group of people seed not only after money, or perhaps not after money at all.
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“Can you watch the stall for ?” He Ao hung up a sign on his stall that read [Closed Today for Urgent Matters], locked his little chest, and had Yuan Nannan sit in his place, “I’ve contacted the police, and soone will co to protect you soon, don’t worry, there’s surveillance here, it’s safe.”
In reality, Yuan Nannan was always safe.
If they really wanted to capture her, they would have done so when they abducted Liu Nan, not letting her run back to find He Ao.
When He Ao ntioned surveillance, a short-haired girl who was normally eating cold noodles in the corner suddenly paused, then continued to slowly eat her noodles.
At that ti, there weren’t many people left eating at He Ao’s stall, just a few scattered here and there, mostly sitting a good distance away and essentially unable to hear He Ao’s voice.
After reassuring Yuan Nannan, He Ao turned his head to glance at the short-haired girl but said nothing, and slowly walked deeper into the street.
The short-haired girl watched He Ao disappear step by step into the night and breathed a long sigh of relief.
She then looked around and noticed a surveillance cara at the top of the street facing their direction.
Then she hastily finished her noodles, grabbed her suitcase and headed in the opposite direction from where He Ao had gone.
After walking a distance and making sure no one was pursuing her, she started to jog, running for quite a while until there was absolutely no one around before stopping to catch her breath in deep gasps.
“What are you hiding from?”
A soft inquiry suddenly reached her ears.
“Ah!!!”
The girl was startled by the sudden ‘greeting,’ twisting her foot and tumbling to the ground.
Seeing her fall, He Ao quickly reached out.
And grabbed the suitcase.
Bang—
The girl hit the ground hard with a loud thump.
She looked up, stared blankly at He Ao, then rubbed her buttocks as she stood up, “Don’t you have any gentlemanly manners at all?
Didn’t even think to give
a hand.”
“May I see what you have in your suitcase?”
He Ao looked at her calmly.
“Look…
go ahead…”
The girl, staring into his icy gaze, felt that if she refused, she would be killed by this man in the next second.
She had even imagined her own body being discarded in the wilderness.
“I’ve asked for your permission, so inspecting your belongings isn’t an invasion of your privacy.”
He Ao glanced at the suitcase, which had a combination lock, but the girl hadn’t locked it.
He pressed the switch, and with a ‘clack,’ the suitcase opened.
A foldable multi-tiered inner box was revealed, displaying various bottles and jars.
However, there were so items that He Ao recognized, such as foundation, eyeliner, and lipstick.
He had suspected that it could be filled with any number of items, jewelry, contraband, or even weapons, but he didn’t expect it to be these things.
“What is this?”
He looked at the girl, puzzled.
“Makeup…
makeup products…” the girl stuttered in response.
He Ao’s presence was too intimidating, nothing like the warm boss who sold cold noodles earlier, a bit frightening, “I’m a makeup artist.”
“Makeup artist?”
Although He Ao had never heard of the profession, it seed like a perfectly normal job.
He slowly closed the suitcase and ticulously zipped it up, returning it to its original position.
“It’s just soone who does makeup professionally.”
The girl explained.
She always felt that there was sothing not quite right about He Ao’s actions, but he had asked for her permission and hadn’t touched anything, and he seed quite polite.
“There shouldn’t be anyone around here who needs your makeup services, right?”
He Ao handed the suitcase back to the girl.
He had noticed the girl’s uniqueness early on, but didn’t pay much attention at first.
Not until he realized the girl seed to be eavesdropping on his conversation with Yuan Nannan and that her consecutive noodle slurping was clearly a way to stall for ti.
If she were just an ordinary custor with ‘unique’ characteristics, He Ao wouldn’t care.
But the girl appeared too secretive, so he decided to ‘fish’ a bit, wanting to see what she was really up to.
“I…
I have a client nearby…”
The girl didn’t know why she felt compelled to answer He Ao’s questions, but she dared not refuse.
Clearly, she was lying, and not a practiced liar at that.
She didn’t even know that keeping a steady tone, making eye contact when lying, would improve her credibility.
But He Ao no longer had the ti to argue these points.
He took out his phone, glanced at the ti, and looked at the girl, “When I ntioned the surveillance and that the police would arrive soon, you hesitated, then you quickly left after I walked away.
Are you afraid of the police?”
“Ah?”
The girl instinctively froze, then a sense of dread began to erge.
He Ao’s gaze shifted to sothing behind her.
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