Chapter 245: I’ve Got My Eye On Her
“That’s right, meow.” Tuan Tuan nodded in agreement: “As long as Mother sees that big bad guy’s true face with her own eyes, Mother will leave him!”
“That big bad guy caught lots of meow’s friends and annoying dogs, and little four-legged beasts like you, hiding them in the basement under the swimming pool! Hurry over! Meow will lead the way!”
Tuan Tuan excitedly jumped down from Xie Shuyao’s shoulder, tail held high as it walked ahead, occasionally turning back to look at Nan Yuanman.
Nan Yuanman relayed Tuan Tuan’s words to Xie Shuyao, then asked her: “Sister, are you going?”
Tuan Tuan’s words completely extinguished the last trace of feeling Xie Shuyao had for Zhou Baiyu; her eyes reddened as she nodded and slowly stood up from the ground: “I’m going.”
She wanted to see with her own eyes whether this man she had been with for nearly five years was human or beast.
“Wait.” Feng Jingcheng furrowed his brows tightly: “Tuan Tuan said he also caught four-legged beasts like you? Why did he catch little girls? Could it be…”
Feng Jingcheng couldn’t help thinking of some terrible things; his face darkened: “If that’s really the case… then Zhou Baiyu is truly a beast without a doubt.”
Xie Shuyao’s face looked even worse; she pursed her lips without speaking, quietly following behind Nan Yuanman.
Nan Yuanman: “Sixth Brother, let’s go check it out first. If something’s wrong, we’ll call Police Uncle.”
Feng Jingcheng: “Mm.”
When leaving the living room, Nan Yuanman slyly took out a talisman and stuck it on the camera in the living room, creating the illusion that they were still playing in the living room, before quietly leading Xie Shuyao and Feng Jingcheng to follow behind Tuan Tuan toward the swimming pool.
At the same time.
Zhou Baiyu vigilantly circled to the kitchen, arranged for the kitchen to prepare the afternoon meal, then slipped out the back door of the kitchen and headed straight for the swimming pool.
After arriving at the swimming pool, he vigilantly scanned the surroundings, confirmed no one was there, then went to the lounge chair in front of the swimming pool and pressed a switch at the bottom of the lounge chair.
With a “click,” the water in the swimming pool receded at extreme speed, the bottom slowly parting in two, revealing a downward staircase.
Zhou Baiyu looked left and right again before stepping down the staircase.
The moment his figure disappeared on the staircase, the opened swimming pool bottom slowly closed again, the receded water surged back up, restoring its original appearance.
The water level in the swimming pool was calm and still, completely hiding another world beneath.
He had just left when Nan Yuanman and the others arrived at the swimming pool.
Xie Shuyao nervously clenched her hands, breathing heavily as she looked up, only to find the swimming pool, which could be seen entirely at a glance, empty.
Feng Jingcheng looked around: “No one’s here… How strange, could that guy have seen us and not dared to come?”
Nan Yuanman lightly sniffed the air in the swimming pool; Tuan Tuan had already hopped to the lounge chair where Zhou Baiyu had pressed the switch earlier: “Here here! Man! Here!”
Nan Yuanman ran over pattering; Tuan Tuan raised its paw and pointed: “Meow saw him press something here before, then the ground below split open, and he went underground!”
Nan Yuanman looked in Tuan Tuan’s direction but didn’t see anything at first glance.
She simply squatted on the ground, straining to reach under the lounge chair and grope around.
Feng Jingcheng searched around the swimming pool but didn’t find Zhou Baiyu; turning back, he saw Nan Yuanman with her little buttocks sticking up, head buried under the lounge chair, and hurried over to ask: “Perfection, did you find something?”
“Sixth Brother.” Her muffled voice came: “Tuan Tuan says there’s a switch under this lounge chair leading to the basement.”
“Then come out, Sixth Brother will find it.” Feng Jingcheng lifted Nan Yuanman up from the ground, lay down himself, and searched carefully.
After great effort, he finally found a button on the lounge chair leg that was as small as a button and the same color as the leg.
Feng Jingcheng pressed it hard.
“Splash—”
Xie Shuyao, standing by the swimming pool, watched wide-eyed as the water inside quickly receded and vanished, followed by a faint “rumble,” the swimming pool bottom slowly cracking open to reveal a staircase leading to an unknown place.
Xie Shuyao: “!!!”
“You little punk, hiding it really deep!” Feng Jingcheng clapped his hands, stood up from the ground, and couldn’t help smacking his lips upon seeing the staircase.
Without Tuan Tuan leading the way, who would know there was another space hidden under the swimming pool?
“Let’s go catch the big bad guy!” Nan Yuanman drew her copper coin sword and led the way inside; Feng Jingcheng hurried to follow.
As he stepped onto the staircase, he turned back to the stunned and shocked Xie Shuyao: “Are you coming? Or…”
“Don’t you even have the courage to face the truth and avenge Tuan Tuan?”
“…Coming.” Xie Shuyao took a deep breath and followed with a determined expression.
She was going to personally bring Tuan Tuan home.
Zhou Baiyu was still unaware that three uninvited guests had arrived in the secret basement he built; with a gloomy face, he punched a man to the ground: “What did I tell you? Watch those beasts! Don’t let them escape!”
“Do you know, because of your negligence, you nearly ruined my big plan today!”
The man cried out in pain as he fell to the ground, clutching his bleeding nose and protesting: “Boss! I didn’t! I was watching! These beasts are all locked up tight, none escaped!”
“What you saw was probably a little wild cat that ran in from outside, it really has nothing to do with me!”
The man clutched his nose, staggered up from the ground, fumbled for the mouse on the table and clicked a few times; two or three small screens instantly appeared on the computer screen.
The screens showed cramped, piled-up cages.
The first screen had cats in cages, the second had dogs, the third screen’s cage was a bit larger, with figures of five- or six-year-old children curled inside…
They were like cats and dogs, with chains on their hands and feet, their movement, eating, drinking, and excreting all restricted to the cages; faintly, their excrement could be seen inside the cages.
The man was accustomed to it; he pointed at the screen indignantly: “See, Boss, all the cages are locked tight, not even a fly got out!”
Seeing this, Zhou Baiyu’s expression softened a bit; he flexed his wrists: “Then I wronged you; your reward this month will increase by one hundred thousand.”
The man’s eyes lit up, and he immediately grinned cheekily: “Thanks, Boss! This injury of mine is instantly better!”
Zhou Baiyu sneered disdainfully, rolled up his sleeves, and said: “Go pick a cat and bring it to the operating room; I want to perform the surgery on it myself.”
Man: “Got it!”
“By the way, do you know the youngest daughter of the Feng family?” Zhou Baiyu paused and turned to the man: “I’ve taken a liking to her; find a way to get her for me.”
