These female bandits couldn’t figure out what had happened. But to me, it was nothing hard to understand. Although Chongxi sometimes missed his shots on fortune telling, he was lucky today and figured out the right direction right away. Therefore he went ahead and waited for them. With the help of Xiao Si and Xiao Wu, these mortal women were definitely no match for him! Then he found a chair there, made slide bars, and made the women carry him all the way. What a trick! I bet that was a wicked idea from Xiao Si and Xiao Wu.

When they all came back to Wulan’s place, they made peace with each other. Wulan finally knew the truth in the old days, apologized for her abruptness, and thanked me for showing them mercy! Only my team didn’t take extreme measures to deal with her followers. She knew that Murong Hai was a big shot, and it was impossible for his son to be weak. Therefore she understood that the reason why I didn’t hurt them was that I was kind and benevolent enough to hold myself back from doing it. At that time, Wulan treated the three of us to a feast. During the feast, she asked me about our next move. I said, “From what it seems, the cop whose surname is Zhang must be a spy from my enemy. He leaked out information and tried to murder us with a borrowed knife! The crime scene was also faked. It was a trick to lure the three of us to come!

Our next move is to find Tao Gang, make a thorough investigation, and then make a plan! After the meal, Wulan gave us three horses and sent three strong girls to escort us. When we were leaving, Wulan whispered into my ears, “Go back and tell your dad secretly that there is a woman in the grasslands whose nudity has never been seen by anyone else but him. And she loves him. Whenever he comes, she will be his wife!” At that time, hugging Aunt Wulan tightly, I wanted to call her ‘mom’. But I held myself in afterward.

We rode the horses and left the Wulan Manor. Xiao Qi and her sisters all felt very excited. It was indeed quite fun riding a horse on the grasslands. However, I wasn’t in the mood for all that! I couldn’t get through to Tao Gang’s phone! Then I told that to Chongxi and Lin Feng. And they found it unbelievable too. Suddenly the three of us had the feeling of getting deceived. Lin Feng said, “Could it be that Tao Gang is an associate with the Zhang guy?” I nodded and said, “I thought the Zhang guy would call us in the middle to lure us away so that he could avoid Tao Gang. But now the whole matter seems like a trap!” Then I called Zheng Shuang and asked for the address of the police station that Tao Gang served. But I didn’t tell him about what had happened here except that we didn’t get through to Tao Gang’s phone.

After I got the address of the police station, I said to the girl beside me, “Sister, is that place far from here?” She said, “Not far. We could reach there soon.” I nodded. Then we sped up. On the way, I asked her, “I passed out right away after I entered the house. What kind of drugs did you use? It was quite effective.” She laughed and said, “Actually it wasn’t a drug. It was a potted plant in the house. It was a cultivated thorn apple!” Then I understood. A thorn apple might seem strange to people. But actually, its pollen was one of the main ingredients of knockout drugs. I walked into that house without any preventive measures or taking any antidotes. That explained everything! That should be the means that this pack of female bandits used to carry out misdeeds and commit crimes. The kind of punishment they mentioned shouldn’t be anything good either! They escorted us back to the hotel and left after we got the car.

After we arrived at the police station in the county, a police officer received us. When we mentioned that we were looking for Tao Gang, the police officer asked, “He is out on a mission. Do you have anything to ask from him?” I said, “Actually, he asked us to come!” He said, “Oh.” Then he asked, “When did he ask you?” I answered, “A few days ago.” Apparently, he seemed quite surprised. And he asked, “Did Tao Gang call you by himself?” I said, “No. The other day, Tao Gang contacted his classmate Zheng Shuang, who serves the police station in Wu Zhong County. Then Zheng Shuang found us! I thought that Tao Gang had already told you about the situation.” The police officer nodded and said to us, “Please wait a moment. I will be right back!” After a while, he came back and said to us, “We just got in touch with the police in Wu Zhong County and confirmed that what you said is true. Our director will come down soon and have a talk with you.” I said in my mind, “Shit! You really didn’t trust me!” At this moment, Zheng Shuang also called me. He said hastily, “Bro, why didn’t you tell me that something happened?!” I laughed and said, “Don’t worry, brother. There is nothing that I can’t handle!”

A moment later, a middle-aged police officer came and shook hands with each of us. The younger police officer introduced, “This is Deputy Director Zhao of our station!” Deputy Director Zhao motioned us to sit down. Hurriedly, I also introduced ourselves, “We are the special investigators sent by the special task force of the police station in Wu Zhong County. Because this case involves many things, I made a deal with Tao Gang that we investigate undercover. However, we lost contact with him…” The deputy director nodded and said, “Let me be honest with you. Tao Gang fell ill half a month ago when dealing with a special case. He went out of his mind and is being treated in the hospital now!”

I stood up stunned and said, “That’s impossible! We have been talking to him through the phone over these days!” Then I made a detailed introduction about what happened to us these two days to Deputy Director Zhao. After knowing that, he also got stunned with his eyes wide-opened! Then he whispered to the other police officer. Then the other police officer left. Deputy Director Zhao took out some cigarettes and lit them for us. After a while, the other police officer came back with a policewoman who carried a laptop. She turned on the laptop and switched it towards us. Deputy Director Zhao said to us, “Please take a close look. Which one was the policeman that picked you up at the station?” The identification photos of the policemen scrolled on the screen. When the photo of Xiao Zhang showed up, I pointed out, “That’s him!” Deputy Director Zhao took a look and said, “He is the one who attends to Tao Gang!” Then he said to the other police officer, “Call him!” The other police officer took out his phone and went outside while dialing. After a while, he came back and said, “Xiao Zhang has been absent from his post without leave since the afternoon of the day before yesterday. He has gone missing now. And his phone is off!”

In this case, I also started to doubt that it was the real Tao Gang who spoke to us on the phone! I stubbed out the cigarette between my fingers and said, “We won’t be able to find him! Apparently, he took advantage of the chance of attending to Tao Gang and got access to Tao Gang’s phone. Then he contacted Zheng Shuang through Tao Gang’s Wechat and lured us here. Then he picked us up in the station in Tao Gang’s name, brought us to that hotel, and realized his goal in killing us by another’s hand!”

Deputy Director Zhao stood up immediately and said, “That is too exaggerated!” I said, “Deputy Director Zhao, from the life experience you have so far, do you know how many contacts your colleagues have in their Wechat, what kind of friends they have, what jobs their friends have, where their friends are from, and what relationship they are in?” Deputy Director Zhao blurted out, “Are you saying that this is a premeditated scheme?” I answered, “Yes!” Although this scheme of killing us by another’s hand seemed simple, it was in fact otherwise. To realize it, this guy needed to know that Tao Gang had a friend who was a police officer in Wu Zhong County and were also friends with us. People now often use an alias instead of their real names on Wechat. Therefore, he also needed to find out which Wechat contact was Zheng Shuang. Not only that, but he also needed to know about the hotel environment and the bandits’ operation. I suspect that there are spies among the bandits! Apparently, Xiao Zhang had been keeping his eyes on Tao Gang for a long time. And he was not enough to scheme such an action on his own!

Obviously, Deputy Director Zhao didn’t get what I was saying. He was in a daze. After a long while, he said, “The police in Wu Zhong County have capable brains! You are young and promising! Your way of thinking is better than mine. You must have graduated from a famous police training school!” I made a fake cough and said, “Ahem. We are not policemen. And we didn’t graduate from a police training school. We are just assistants for Zheng Shuang. That’s why we are special investigators.” Now he felt embarrassed, cleared his throat and said, “Right. I know that there are also private detectives.”

I shook my head helplessly, took out my phone and dialed Aunt Wulan’s number. I went to the corridor and said to Wulan in a low voice, “Aunt, investigate the woman who has a relationship with the policeman whose surname is Zhang and send me her profile!” Before I hung up, Wulan said, “No need for the investigation. She has already run away since you showed up. My people are searching for her everywhere!” I said, “Okay” and hung up. When I returned to the room, Deputy Director Zhao asked me about the status. I answered, “They absconded.” I thought for a moment and said to him, “Could you tell me about the case that Tao Gang was in charge of, and how did he get sick?” Then Deputy Director Zhao started to tell us about the bizarre case that Tao Gang handled…