Chapter 76: Fork in the Road (Request for Recommendation Votes)
Chapter 76: Chapter 76: Fork in the Road (Request for Recommendation Votes)
"Wait a moment, I’ll go check."
After Lin Xi got out of the car, he stood at each of the five intersections for less than five seconds before getting back into the car and directly telling Zhou Yan, "The second one on the right."
"Are you sure?" Zhou Yan seemed a bit baffled.
"I’m sure," Lin Xi responded.
Zhou Yan really didn’t know what to say. You just stood at those five intersections and knew which path the van took?
Who do you think you are!
"Captain, they went down the second road on the right. Should we follow?" a policeman driving the car asked Ren Hao in the passenger seat.
"Follow them," Ren Hao said with a grim look, clearly in a bad mood.
Not to mention Lin Xi teasing him at the start, afterwards he even heard his subordinates say that this person could find Miss Wang.
At first, he was shocked, thinking they had found some major clue.
In the end, after some inquiries, he found out this person didn’t have any evidence, just claimed that he needed one of Miss Wang’s personal items to find her.
Did he think he was a bloodhound or something!
Another reason was that he had a crush on Zhou Yan.
Seeing her today, she was simply stunning.
Whether it was her fiery figure or her looks, she was the most top-notch he had ever seen in his life.
Even in his alma mater, known for its abundance of beauties, none could compare, not by a long shot.
So at first sight of Zhou Yan, he was determined to win her over.
Moreover, after some digging, he found out Zhou Yan had an extraordinary background, giving him even more motivation.
And now, the guy who just shamed him had gone out alone with his future wife, making him very unhappy.
The alley was narrow and uneven, with cars occasionally coming by. Zhou Yan wasn’t driving very fast, and Lin Xi kept telling her to drive forward.
Half an hour later, Zhou Yan finally stopped the car because ahead was another fork, but now there were only two paths, and they were narrower.
"Which way?" Zhou Yan asked Lin Xi again, watching him unbuckle his seatbelt, and asked in confusion, "You’re getting out again?"
"How can I be sure if I don’t get out?"
"What can you be sure of by getting out?"
"The scent, and it’s getting stronger."
Zhou Yan felt like she was about to lose her mind. What scent? She couldn’t smell anything.
Watching Lin Xi get out, she immediately followed, wanting to see what Lin Xi was up to, and if he was deliberately bluffing.
After getting out, Lin Xi stood at the two roads for less than three seconds, frowning for the first time.
After thinking for a moment, he was about to head down the right path, but Zhou Yan grabbed him, saying, "Explain this to me, or I’m not going."
Lin Xi hesitated for a moment, thinking there was nothing to hide, and said, "Miss Wang has a unique fragrance on her."
"So wherever she passes, there’s more or less some residue of it."
"So you’re using this scent to find her?" Zhou Yan’s face didn’t look good.
"Exactly." Lin Xi nodded, pointing to the path on the right. "Look over there, let’s go check it out."
About fifty meters away, an old van was parked by the roadside.
Because the road wasn’t very straight and there were many trees, if you didn’t look carefully, you might not have seen the van.
"That’s it." Zhou Yan’s expression turned serious, quickly drawing her gun from her waist just in case.
Seeing her like this, Lin Xi shook his head and said, "Don’t be nervous, there’s no one in the van." At this moment, Ren Hao and others arrived, parked the police car nearby, and saw Zhou Yan drawing her gun and Lin Xi staring ahead.
He took a look and also spotted the van, which was identical to the one used by the kidnappers last night.
"Everyone stay alert, move in." Ren Hao, as if injected with adrenaline, quietly commanded his seven subordinates, who had disembarked, to form an assault formation and jog towards the van, completely ignoring Lin Xi and Zhou Yan.
The Wang family is a well-known enterprise in Chuzhou City, and Elder Wang is also a renowned philanthropist.
This kidnapping case was given great importance by the city bureau.
Whoever solved this case would certainly have a bright spot in their records, gaining more attention from above.
No one would let this opportunity slip away.
"No one."
"No one."
"No one."
After Ren Hao and his team arrived, five provided cover while three launched an assault from the car door, only to all say in unison in the end.
Zhou Yan and Lin Xi caught up as well. Just as Zhou Yan was about to step forward and inspect, Ren Hao stopped her.
"What are you doing?" Zhou Yan was a bit confused.
At this moment, Ren Hao forcefully suppressed his inner desire for beauty and coldly said, "Zhou Yan, you can’t look, as we were the first to discover and control this."
"You discovered it first?"
"Yes."
"Do you have no shame, and would it kill you to just take a look?" Zhou Yan suddenly had a deeper impression of Ren Hao.
"No way," Ren Hao still refused.
Lin Xi, however, ignored the van and walked forward a few steps, finding the road bumpy, with some places even sunken, making it difficult for the van to pass.
But Lin Xi paid no attention to that and instead took a few light sniffs, then asked, "Are you going to pursue down this road?"
"Of course, it’s quite obvious," Ren Hao said confidently. "Plus, there are two abandoned factories ahead; they are likely hiding there."
"What if I say it’s not this road?" Lin Xi said.
"Then you take the other road, but I don’t want to see you on this road again," Ren Hao didn’t want to share any credit with Zhou Yan and Lin Xi.
"Alright, we’re leaving." Lin Xi gave Zhou Yan a look, then turned to walk back.
Zhou Yan had no choice but to follow Lin Xi, whispering, "I think the kidnappers are also on this road, didn’t you see they even abandoned the car there."
"There’s no more scent ahead." Lin Xi explained.
"..." Zhou Yan had to keep her mouth shut, as she had been listening to Lin Xi talk about the scent, but she had never smelled it.
Is this reliable?
Or did they find this place purely by luck?
Back in the car, with Zhou Yan driving down the left road, it wasn’t long before they noticed a police car following them.
"They’re really sneaky!" Zhou Yan couldn’t help but sneer.
This time, after driving less than ten minutes, Lin Xi shouted, "Busty Sis, pull over the car."
"Why?" Zhou Yan asked in confusion, seeing nothing resembling deserted factories ahead.
"We should be close, let’s go on foot to avoid alerting them," Lin Xi said, as he could already smell the scent growing stronger.
To be sure, Lin Xi took out a red item from the Jade Pendant Space, took a deep sniff, and confirmed it.
"You pervert, what are you holding!" Zhou Yan’s face turned black seeing this.