Chapter 539 — The Plan Goes Smoothly; The Car Stopped at the Foot of Twin Swallow Mountain, Where the Road Ahead Was a Rugged Stairway Too Steep for Vehicles, So the Taxi Could Go No Further.
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So Gu Mengyao said nothing more and followed Zhong Yongliang up the mountain. After several hundred more meters, Zhong Yongliang suddenly turned and headed off toward a small fork in the path!
The fork had no stone steps at all — nothing but bare earth. Gu Mengyao could finally hold her tongue no longer: "Why are we on this little path now?"
"How should I know? If it weren't for you asking, Mengyao, I wouldn't come here for anyone else!" Zhong Yongliang said ingratiatingly. "Yesterday, this is the way she went!"
"Oh. Then let's keep going." Gu Mengyao did not believe Zhong Yongliang would dare try any tricks — for three years now, he had always done as she wished and never once dared overstep.
Luckily they hadn't gone far this time. Zhong Yongliang pointed at a cave mouth not far off and said, "This is the place! I followed her here yesterday, and then in the blink of an eye the woman was gone. If I weren't made of sterner stuff, I'd have sworn I'd run into a ghost!"
Gu Mengyao shot him a glare. Your mother's the ghost, she thought. But she had no wish to offend Zhong Yongliang just now, so she reined in her temper and asked, "This is the place? So did she go into the cave?"
"That I couldn't tell you. How about we wait here a while?" Zhong Yongliang stood where he was, unwilling to go any further.
"Hey, why don't you go take a look at that cave over there?" Gu Mengyao pointed at the cave mouth nearby and ordered Zhong Yongliang.
"I…" Zhong Yongliang hesitated. "It's so late — there wouldn't be wolves or anything, would there?"
"This is a resort scenic area. How could there be wolves? Wouldn't that scare off all the tourists?" Gu Mengyao assumed Zhong Yongliang was simply frightened — though to be fair, venturing into a cave this late at night really was rather creepy.
"All right, then!" Zhong Yongliang had no choice but to nod. "Xiaofu, come with me and take a look!"
"Huh? Me…?" Gaoxiao Fu had been named, and could only trail reluctantly after Zhong Yongliang. But once they were far enough away, his expression changed entirely, a smug smile curling at the corner of his mouth. "Bro Liang, everything's going according to plan!"
"That's right! They're both girls. Shen Yushu may be the bolder of the two, but in this pitch-black night, I doubt she'd dare come over!" Zhong Yongliang nodded. "The incense is all ready?"
"Ready ages ago — remote-controlled power-on, too. But since they didn't follow us, we won't need it." As he spoke, Gao Xiaofu fished a pack of chewing gum from his pocket, handed a stick to Zhong Yongliang, and said, "Bro Liang, chew one beforehand, and the incense won't affect you later!"
Zhong Yongliang nodded, peeled off the wrapper, popped the gum into his mouth, and began to chew.
Once the two of them reached the cave, Gao Xiaofu activated the incense device. The incense ran on a storage battery, so no power source was needed.