Chapter 76: The Missing Person

Finally found it?

Little An was already mentally prepared. Even though Heiyang discovered through the equipment at Qingfeng’s home that Qingfeng’s location kept changing, had long left the city, and recently even left the province. But, fortunately, there was still a month’s worth of location information available to check in Qingfeng’s recording device.

“Go on.” Little An could not help but slow her pace. Thinking of Juzi inside Tian’ai Hospital, she could not help but worry whether the situation of Qingfeng and the other missing companions would be the same.

“During the time of their gathering, they were at the seaside around the Meikeng area. The later location information should have been artificially placed in a moving car.” After Heiyang finished speaking, he said again: “Since the mastermind scattered the phones of the people who attended the gathering across the city, and separately handled the tracking device on Qingfeng, I think there should be discoveries at the beach where the gathering took place.”

“You have worked hard until now without closing your eyes, rest first, I will go to the seaside.” Little An prepared to bring Queen Huang, because if there was a situation at the seaside, she could basically guess it was very likely like Juzi.

“Finally have time to ask that gorgeous Mai Shiranui cosplayer out! Originally, we were supposed to have breakfast together this morning! For the sake of the Association’s affairs, I have sacrificed way too much, way too much!” Little An had always been very clear about Heiyang’s hobbies. So, Heiyang lacked money, loved electronic products, loved music, and also liked to have special interactions with real-life cosplay shows…

The income of the Demon Extermination Association was simply not enough for Heiyang to spend; it was only a part of his expenses. The other part came from the bonuses he earned from helping Little An manage the many businesses in Xuancheng, and that was the bulk.

The procedures Little An brought for Chen Fengshi were actually very simple. The most complex one among them was the insurance contract. Chen Fengshi felt it was enough when he saw the thick stack, so he directly looked for the key clauses. The beneficiaries were his parents; this was an accident insurance.

“So, Little Family Beauty’s pension is covered by insurance?” Chen Fengshi felt he had underestimated Little An’s financial management ability. In this way, all the members had coverage, and what Little An paid for each person was the premium. Of course, he checked the premium amount, and it was also a huge sum…

“Is there a problem?” Little An looked a little confused.

Chen Fengshi thought for a moment and suddenly realized, right, what problem was there? For accidental death, the compensation was ten million. If Little An took this amount herself, it would be better to use the same money to buy insurance in advance, wouldn’t the compensation be even more?

“So this is how insurance is used…” Chen Fengshi sighed, signed, and then said: “Hopefully we won’t need to use it.”

Neither of them mentioned the rivalry from before. Anyway, joining the Association this time was neither an invitation from Little An, nor was it Chen Fengshi begging on his knees to be taken in.

“I should buy an extra copy for you.” Little An put away the contract, looked at Chen Fengshi, and said: “The chance of you using it is very high. What were you thinking last night? Taking a bullet for me?”

Chen Fengshi had already expected her to ask. Obviously, Little An did not take this kind of thing for granted, and it was impossible to take it for granted in the first place.

So Chen Fengshi asked back very helplessly: “Beauty, last night, based on your location, I directly broke the glass and rushed in to support you. As a result, as soon as I went in, I saw you leaning your back against the glass partition, and the Parasite at the door was raising a gun to shoot at you! I want to ask you—how would I have time to think then?”

Little An felt that the situation was indeed like that. When rushing in, Chen Fengshi did not know at all that her situation was so dangerous, and the inside could not be seen from the outside through the glass partition. “So I understand even less.”

Chen Fengshi covered his heart with his hand, looked out the window at a forty-five-degree angle with a solemn expression. “I can only blame my mother’s education, which gave me such noble sentiments! What can I do? I just have a strong sense of morality! Smart! Handsome! Oh, and now exceptionally brave! It’s almost at the pace of being absolutely flawless…”

“Rest assured!” Little An stood up and struck back angrily: “You at least have the flaw of being shameless, plus your emotional intelligence is worrying, oh, and you are naive and simply believe in love. So—you are far from flawless, there is absolutely no need to worry about nothing.”

Chen Fengshi looked her up and down several times, and then asked very seriously: “Do you really hate hearing me tell the truth that much?”

“I will tell you what the truth is—the seaside location where the missing people like Qingfeng from the Mutual Aid Association gathered has been confirmed. Now I am going to bring Queen Huang over to take a look, are you going or not?”

“Invited by a beauty, and I happen to be free today, of course I’ll go!” Chen Fengshi hurriedly stuffed the last few pieces of meat on the plate into his mouth, stood up, and left. He was of course eager; this was directly related to Juzi’s matter!

There were four cars in the garage. Little An told him to drive and practice his driving skills by the way. Before Chen Fengshi could say anything about feeling immense pressure and being afraid of crashing the car, she said first: “Making a beauty be your driver, do you have the nerve? You are the driver today, so of course any accident counts as mine.”

“Since you put it that way, I will reluctantly be the driver.” Chen Fengshi certainly would not thank her a thousand times. Having the chance meant he had to act tough and owe a favor, that was the way to treat Little An.

“Pick one yourself.”

Chen Fengshi did not recognize any of them, so he asked what models these four cars were. He only recognized a limited number of brands like BBA plus Land Rover and Audi, and knew nothing about the series and such. Little An introduced them, saying they were a Range Rover, a GranTurismo, an M6, and an M5.

Chen Fengshi then picked the Range Rover. After getting in the car, Little An asked: “I thought you would prefer a coupe.”

“You guessed right, I do prefer that blue M5.”

“Then why pick this one?” Little An originally felt that given Chen Fengshi’s pursuit of limits and challenges when riding a motorcycle, he should prefer performance cars, even if there was no chance to speed on city roads, it would be no exception.

“I am the driver, this car is big, so you will be comfortable sitting in the back.” Chen Fengshi answered as a matter of course. Then he started the car, carefully tested the gas pedal, observed the RPM, listened to the engine sound, felt confident in his mind, and then officially set off.

“I will return a sentence to you: suddenly being so considerate is not like you.”

“Alright, alright, I was wrong to say that. Everyone has multiple sides.” After Chen Fengshi finished speaking, he asked with a little curiosity: “Is this your family’s main house?”

“If my IQ was out of credit, I would set the Base of the Demon Extermination Association in the main house.” Little An did not know if Chen Fengshi’s IQ had dropped after getting injured.

“Yeah, I originally thought so too. But the layout of the room I woke up in, and the cars in the garage, made me doubt it over and over again.”

“Even in a house that hasn’t been lived in once a year, it is still kept neat and tidy by someone, in case one day I suddenly feel like going.” Little An understood that Chen Fengshi had no way to guess her living conditions. “As for the cars—from Xuancheng, to this province, other provinces, and even abroad, my family has houses. I don’t remember how many cars are parked there. The vast majority are just like these four; maybe my parents drove them, or maybe I drove them, parked them here, and forgot.”

After Chen Fengshi heard this, he thought for a while. This was truly not a mindset from the same world, so he sighed: “What I am most curious about now is, where did you learn that kind of carefulness in being considerate to your best friends? It’s so rare.”

Little An did not answer, but turned her head and quietly looked out the window.

The guardrails by the road kept flashing backward. The speed of the car was not fast, but no matter how fast the car went, it could not be faster than her recollections at this moment…

Chen Fengshi saw her expression in the rearview mirror and did not ask anymore. That was a face with a story, but whether she was willing to talk about it was uncertain.

After a long while, Little An’s gaze returned to the front, and then she said lightly: “A friend who was a good friend since childhood, my best friend before the third year of high school, suddenly let me know one day that she had hated me for a very, very long time, and even viciously hoped I would disappear from this world.”

“It doesn’t sound like your responsibility.” Chen Fengshi did not press for details. Little An obviously did not like to chatter about countless details.

“I always remembered—she was in the rain, her face covered in blood, but she did not beg for mercy, did not admit she was wrong, but hysterically shouted a speech: ‘If you really treat me as your best friend, you wouldn’t not give me respect. Are you treating me as a friend by constantly spending money? You give away things you don’t care about at all. Money is like toilet paper in your eyes, do you have the nerve to say that spending toilet paper for me is proof of treating me as your best friend? From childhood to adulthood, you have spiritually hurt me, I have always tolerated you, tolerated you for so many years! You haven’t changed at all! You haven’t considered my feelings at all! I just want you to die! Because no one in this world hurts me more than you! Someone like you who only makes cheap sacrifices and demands the most precious things deserves to be lonely for a lifetime! Because you don’t deserve to have friends at all!'” When Little An repeated this speech, her expression did not change, but her tone was clearly imitating the person who said these words.

This imitation did not carry her own emotions, which made Chen Fengshi feel that these words had indeed stimulated her very, very deeply. They had probably echoed in her mind who knows how many times, each time probably carrying the emotions and the voice rhythm of the person who said it at the time, so when she repeated it, she could easily memorize the voice rhythm of this speech.

“Isn’t this bandit logic?” Chen Fengshi did not understand. It was obvious that Little An’s friend had problems with her own thinking, and her way of handling it was even more problematic. A normal person, if they felt it was not suitable to be friends, would just stay away, or speak it out, what normal person would be like this? And then take revenge while playing the victim?

“It is bandit logic.” Little An nodded in agreement. At this moment, she actually looked able to view this matter very calmly. “I was sad for a long time in the past, but I was never led astray by these words. Her hurt was brought upon herself. For so many years, she neither communicated well with me, nor did she break off ties with me to protect her own fragile heart. But—because of this, I realized that her spiritual hurt was a fact; and that my way of giving to my friends had shortcomings was also a fact.”

Chen Fengshi did not comment on this anymore, he felt there was no need. Little An did not think the person who said these words was worth her regret, but she had improved herself because of it.

The car soon arrived at the neighborhood where Queen Huang stayed.

Little An had placed her in a villa area on the edge of the neighboring city. The occupancy rate here was very low; it had always been investment property, and very few people actually lived there. So there was no one around, and there were comprehensive surveillance cameras inside and outside the villa. Queen Huang had no chance to come into contact with strangers at all. Her daily meals were prepared by Little An, and the person who delivered them would just leave the things and go, never saying an extra word to Queen Huang.

Queen Huang was far away from her sphere of influence, had no chance to infect strangers, and under surveillance had no chance to leave, completely in a harmless state.

When Chen Fengshi and Little An drove there and said they were taking her out, Queen Huang was so happy that she directly grabbed her clothes and got in the car to change.

“I’m almost bored to death! I don’t care, today you must arrange a few men for me no matter what. Anyway, after I finish playing, won’t you just swallow the Fungal Demon cells on them!”