Peach-Orange! – Chapter 258 – There Seem to Be a Few Too Many Accidents

Carrying her phone, her petite figure concealed under a cloak, her face hidden beneath the hood, Chi Xiaocheng slipped out of her room door, carefully avoiding the surveillance cameras in the area.

The cloak was meant to lower her presence and prevent her face from being captured, but it didn’t make her invisible.

She still had to proceed with caution.

In the darkness, she moved as nimbly as a cat. Even someone with sharp eyes would only catch a glimpse of her chestnut-colored twin tails, like silk ribbons, fluttering through the air, leaving behind a faint trace of fragrance.

Strictly speaking, Su Tao wasn’t the only person Chi Xiaocheng cared about. There was also her older brother, Chi Song, and her parents back in their hometown.

In a broader sense, the “only one” might not be Su Tao alone.

But Chi Xiaocheng knew herself well. If Su Tao were no longer in this world, she probably wouldn’t have any desire to live either.

Having experienced such warmth in her coldest, most fearful moments, she could never free herself from it.

Leaving the hospital, Chi Xiaocheng hailed a taxi. She didn’t have time to conduct further investigations and could only head back to Si Chen’s villa first.

Halfway there, she received a message from Si Chen:

“Bad news. Lin Fangya is missing. After the Ye family’s second young master handed her over to us, Dongfang Yang had a few bodyguards drive her to the hospital.

“But they got into an accident on the way. The bodyguards were injured to varying degrees, but Lin Fangya herself disappeared.

“At the time, she was injured, unconscious, and tied up.”

Si Chen’s message made Chi Xiaocheng narrow her eyes. Were accidents really this easy to come by?

“System, what do you think? Could it be that the Ye family’s second young master didn’t want to hand her over, so he staged this?”

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[It could also be that the world’s will doesn’t want this character to exit the stage so soon.]

“But this character isn’t that important, is she?”

Chi Xiaocheng really couldn’t understand. In the original story, Lin Fangya was just a punching bag for Su Tao to show off. She wasn’t even smart, yet she somehow managed to thrive.

The current developments were straying further and further from the original plotline. Lin Fangya’s sudden change inexplicably gave Chi Xiaocheng a sense of unease.

She typed a message to Si Chen: “Where did the accident happen?”

Si Chen: “Xiangyang North Road.”

Xiangyang North Road? Wasn’t that about two kilometers south of her home?

After receiving the information, Chi Xiaocheng turned to the driver and said, “Driver, change the route. Head to Xiangyang North Road.”

“Got it.”

The driver gave Chi Xiaocheng a strange look but didn’t say much. After turning at a red light, he changed the destination.

They drove all the way to the location, and she got out of the car.

The area was already cordoned off by traffic police, so she couldn’t inspect the accident scene. But now, didn’t that mean the trail for Lin Fangya had gone cold?

The last time they’d clashed because of Ye Liang, it had been in the shadows. But if Lin Fangya escaped this time, their conflict would be out in the open.

Last time, this woman had hired a sniper to assassinate Tao-Tao. What kind of dangerous stunt would she pull now that she’d grown even more unhinged?

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“No, I have to find her!”

Chi Xiaocheng’s sixth sense told her that if she didn’t eliminate this person now, things might get troublesome later.

She arrived at a dim, somewhat grimy spot, swallowed a pill, then cupped her hands around her mouth to amplify her voice.

“Meow~ Meow~”

Two adorable cat calls came from Chi Xiaocheng’s mouth. Before long, responses echoed from the dark bushes and even inside a trash can.

Her natural affinity skill activated, and with the help of the pill, she could briefly communicate with these small animals. A few stray cats emerged, understood Chi Xiaocheng’s meaning, then ran back.

Then, a slightly injured, somewhat dirty tabby was ushered forward.

Behind this tabby were several other stray cats, as well as an unusually clean ragdoll cat.

Upon closer inspection, Chi Xiaocheng realized, why did this tabby leader look so familiar? It wasn’t until the tabby froze for a moment, then let out a silly meow, that Chi Xiaocheng understood the source of that familiarity.

She called out to the tabby, “King?”

“Meow!!”

Perhaps due to the cloak masking her scent, King hadn’t recognized Chi Xiaocheng at first. Only after being called did it excitedly dart forward, trying to leap into her arms, only to be pushed aside in disgust.

“No time to hold you right now. And you’re way too dirty. How did you end up like this after just a few days away from home?”

“Meow~”

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Pushed aside, King looked aggrieved. It hadn’t seen Chi Xiaocheng in two months, and now she wouldn’t even give it a hug?

Truly, one should never develop feelings for creatures like humans!

But what concerned Chi Xiaocheng more were the injuries on King’s body. They looked like they’d been inflicted by another animal.

She then pursed her lips in dissatisfaction. “Tao-Tao really is something. Has she not come home to check on King all these days? It’s gotten so hungry it’s fighting over trash cans with others.”

No matter how dumb this cat was, it carried memories of both her and Tao-Tao.

And Tao-Tao didn’t cherish those memories, huh?

‘Your Xiaocheng’s favorability toward you has dropped significantly!’

‘Drop… let’s drop by 10 first!’

‘Wait… no, 10 is too much. Let’s just drop by 1 for now.’

‘Yeah, temporarily drop by 1. It will go up the next day.’

But right now, the focus obviously wasn’t on King. Chi Xiaocheng hadn’t forgotten her objective. She asked King, “When that accident happened over there, did any of you see someone running away from the car?”

“Meow?”

King tilted its head, struggling to process Chi Xiaocheng’s long sentence.

Chi Xiaocheng knew King’s brain was currently overheating.

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After waiting a while, King trotted over to the ragdoll cat behind it and nudged its snow-white tail fur.

The timid ragdoll let out a few whimpers, and thanks to the pill, Chi Xiaocheng instantly understood what it meant.

Turns out, the person had slipped into a side alley and headed straight for the outskirts of the city.

Chi Xiaocheng patted King’s head. “Let’s go, King. Put that nose of yours to work. Today, we march forth as master and servant!”

After meowing a few times at the ragdoll, King immediately ran to Chi Xiaocheng’s feet. Following the narrow path deeper in, they soon arrived at a main road leading to the outskirts.

On either side of the road were tall wild grasses. King twitched its nose a few times, then led Chi Xiaocheng into a patch of grass.

This made Chi Xiaocheng wonder, was King actually a tabby cat, or was it a dog in disguise? Its tracking was absurdly precise.

After walking a few steps, Chi Xiaocheng finally understood how King had pinpointed the target so accurately.

A faint trace of blood lingered in the air.

Pulling her hood lower, Chi Xiaocheng lightened her footsteps and soon arrived beside a dilapidated shack.

The area smelled faintly of fish, and fishing rods were stuck into the ground nearby.

A little farther ahead, the sound of water could be heard. Clearly, this was a spot frequented by fishing enthusiasts.

Before she could get close to the shack, as the scent of blood grew stronger, Chi Xiaocheng also caught the sound of a man’s voice talking to Lin Fangya.