Chapter 138 Come Again Tonight

Meng Dong pulled the little girl straight out of the house.

It's broad daylight now. If there really are people inside, they'll be facing the enemy head-on if they rashly open the secret room. They don't know if these people are armed. If he's alone, it's not so bad and he doesn't care. But the little girl's safety is something he can't ignore.

"Why isn't Brother Meng going in?" He Caiwei asked Meng Dong in a low voice when they reached the door.

“We don’t know what’s inside, so we can’t go in rashly, or it will be dangerous.” Meng Dong wanted to take her back to school, but He Caiwei also wanted to go find her second brother.

"No need, Brother Meng, I know this area well, I can go back by myself. Be careful, the person I just saw was wearing a long black trench coat and black cloth shoes, the kind of thousand-layered cloth shoes that the aunties make themselves. I don't know what's wrong with those shoes, they just seemed really strange. You can keep an eye on them. The woman's hair wasn't very long, but her bangs were very long, and she was wearing big black-rimmed glasses. I didn't get a good look at her face." He Caiwei described the woman to Meng Dong. She had left him after seeing the woman's appearance, intending to go find her second brother.

"I understand. Be careful." Meng Dong saw that she really didn't want him to see her off, so he could only watch her leave.

He Caiwei turned directly into a place she couldn't see in her dream. She had just heard Meng Dong say which way her second brother went.

The thing the second brother left behind was that very precious Yuhua stone. The second brother must have had nothing left on him, so he took out his treasure as a marker.

Moreover, clear markers like pebbles can sometimes be picked up or kicked away by others if dropped in the wrong place.

Following the direction Meng Dong had just mentioned, she ran a long way before finally finding Li Shengli, who had come looking for someone. They were circling around here, clearly indicating that the trail had gone cold.

In other words, her second brother has gone missing.

"Brother Li, what's wrong? Why are you wandering around here?" He Caiwei saw him looking like a headless fly and had no choice but to come out of the alley.

He Caiwei was fast on her feet, so by the time she came out of the alley, Li Shengli and the others had only been there for less than 10 minutes.

"Weiwei, the Yuhua stones disappeared after we got here. We searched everywhere, in every direction, but we still haven't found another one." Li Shengli reached into his pocket; he had only collected six along the way.

"Brother Li, how many Yuhua stones have you found?" He Caiwei asked, seeing his hand rummaging in his pocket, wondering how many they had found along the way.

"Including the one at school, there are six in total." Li Shengli took out all the stones from his pocket and handed them to Weiwei to see.

“Brother Li, there’s no need to look anymore, there aren’t any left. Second Brother only took this many when he came out today, that’s why you can’t find them here. Look for any other markers.” He Caiwei looked at the few stones, shook her head, and told him not to focus on the Yuhua stones anymore, because there weren’t any left.

These stones aren't actually Yuhua stones, they just look like them. They're actually quite valuable cat's eye stones, which she found in her online space before. Because her second brother likes these strange stones, she found 12 of these stones in her online space last year for his birthday and carved his character "Bamboo" on them as a birthday gift for him.

He didn't know how many times he poked his finger while carving words on these Yuhua stones. With such a smooth surface, how easy is it to carve a word?

To make things easier for him, He Caiwei took a highlighter from the study in the space. Once written with this kind of pen, it cannot be erased unless it is taken back to the space to be removed.

These stones given to my second brother would be very valuable in later generations, and they are still valuable now. To those who recognize them, they are very valuable, but to those who don't, they are no different from ordinary pebbles.

This morning, my second brother casually took six stones with him when he went out, mainly because someone in his class took a liking to his stones yesterday.

He brought these stones over mainly to ask that person to help him determine their material and value.

If you ask him to sell these things, that's impossible. His only hobby is collecting these strange stones. He keeps a notebook of all the stones he owns, noting down their materials and other information.

Ever since he received these dozen or so stones from his sister, he has been fascinated by a few of them, but he really doesn't know or can't figure out what these stones are all about.

Now that someone knows what material it is, he thought he'd bring a few over to show them.

I had no idea this thing still had this use today. His second brother must have been heartbroken when he threw it away back then.

Suddenly, He Caiwei thought of something. She took out a very small flashlight from her pocket, which was actually from her spatial storage.

He just remembered that her brother had a special ballpoint pen that he had asked her for; the pen only wrote when illuminated by a specific object.

Her second brother only wanted the pen because he thought it was fun.

I wonder if my second brother will still use that pen after he loses these stones. That pen has a special function: pressing the pen tip will spray out the water inside.

Because it's shaped like a pen, people probably won't pay much attention to his movements.

Li Shengli and his team followed the little girl around, looking here and there. After walking around three times, they finally found a little bit of ink that was not very noticeable. They could only see it because the little girl was shining her flashlight on it.

Li Shengli finally breathed a sigh of relief upon seeing this. At least they had a direction; it was much better than them wandering around aimlessly like headless flies.

When they followed the strange ink to a dilapidated scavenger yard on the outskirts of the city, they were surprised to find an exhausted Lu Qingzhu and the corpses of several strangers beside him.

Another person tried to ambush Lu Qingzhu when they arrived, but was crippled by the little girl beside them.

The main reason was that they were afraid that if there were no survivors, it would be difficult for them to find clues, so they only crippled that one person.

Upon hearing his sister's voice, Lu Qingzhu finally fainted completely. These people were too strong; he couldn't handle so many on his own. If it weren't for waiting for his sister, he probably wouldn't have been able to hold on.

"Second Brother..." Li Shengli quickly reached out to catch the boy who was about to fall. He checked his pulse and found that he was only relieved because he had exerted too much force. He carefully examined him and found that there were no specific external injuries on his body, just bruises on his shoulders, back and legs, which were frightening to see. The biggest wound should be the knife wound on his arm, which looked like it was cut by a dagger.