Chapter 79: 79. Lure the tiger away from the mountain


    Jiang Xue suddenly said, “It’s time to cross over, Xiao Chen, can I offer any help in the Inner World?”


    In fact, the implication of her words had already shown that she knew of Qing Chen’s identity as a Time Traveler.n/?/vel/b//jn dot c//om


    But that wasn’t important, because during the night of the rescue, he had indeed exposed too many details.


    Qing Chen thought for a moment and said, “Aunt Jiang Xue, it’s better not to get involved in this kind of thing, by the time we return, I might already have a solution.”


    Li Tongyun was blinking her eyes nearby, “What are you talking about? I don’t understand.”


    Qing Chen looked at her and felt somewhat amused; at this point, this youngdy had hidden her identity the best.


    Apart from himself, it seemed that no one else knew her identity as a Time Traveler.


    Meanwhile, in Meng County to the north of Los Angeles.


    Lu Yuan led his team through the rugged mountain roads to Dazhuang Vige, where 7 SUVs were sttered with mud.


    In the vige, three people had called to report separately iming that five strangers, carrying backpacks, entered the mountain, having ankles or arms like steel.


    The callers didn’t say these five people were wanted criminals, only that they acted suspiciously.


    Lu Yuan asked the vige head to call these three people over, then ordered his men to take them to individual rooms for questioning; he interrogated the first caller himself.


    The caller had a face full of wrinkles and dark skin, clearly a true farmer.


    Lu Yuan asked, “When did you see them?”


    In the simple brick house, the old man with a drifting gaze said, “It should be around three or four o’clock in the afternoon, I called the police as soon as I saw them.”


    Lu Yuan suddenly felt that something was amiss, “What kind of clothes were they wearing?”


    “The kind of outdoor sportswear worn by city people, what’s it called, right, storm jackets!” the old man answered.


    “Were there any women?” Lu Yuan’s expression grew serious.


    The old man paused for a moment, “I don’t think so…”


    “What color were their storm jackets, answer me within 10 seconds!”


    The old man stuttered and said he couldn’t remember.


    “How much money did you take to make this false report?” Lu Yuan angrily stood up, “Do you realize how many people could be killed by falsely alerting?”


    There was no need to ask any further, a real informer would never act like this.


    If Lu Yuan didn’t have this level of discernment, he needn’t have stayed in Kunlun.


    He turned and walked out of the room. A Kunlun team member asked, “How did it go on your end, road team? Something seems off on my side, his wife said he suddenly took home a stack of brand-new money yesterday.”


    “A diversion,” Lu Yuan stood quietly outside the door pondering, but what was the point of this diversion? Even though six Kunlun members remained on duty in the city, it couldn’t be that the enemy could escape unscathed once they made a move.


    Not right!


    Lu Yuan suddenly looked up, Laojun Mountain!


    The enemy had gone to great lengths to lure him to this remote area just so that he couldn’t make it to Laojun Mountain in time!


    From here back to the city, it would take 4 hours, and from the city to Laojun Mountain, it would take nearly 3 hours.


    The criminals had done all this just to gain these 7 hours.


    Thus, the enemy’s n tonight would conclude within 7 hours.


    The night was deep.


    They had to race against time in the darkness.


    The countdown hit zero.


    Countdown to return: 48:00:00.


    When the darkness had dissipated, Qing Chen was still wearing the Cat Mask.


    Standing in the dim corridor.


    Meanwhile, in the prison cell, Ye Wan and Lin Xiaoxiao had just injected Liu Dezhu with the Gic Potion.


    The Liu Dezhu who had traveled with them was startled by the two beside him, and he spat out a gold bar and said, “Can you two heroes untie me first? The injection is already done!”


    Qing Chen slowly walked into the cell and coldly asked, “Why didn’t you reply to the messages?”


    Ye Wan and Lin Xiaoxiao exchanged nces and retreated to one side, unaware of what had transpired in the Outer World with these two.


    Liu Dezhu, lying cautiously on the bed board, responded, “Boss, it’s not that I didn’t want to reply to you, but I was always with my ssmates, and I had no chance to check themunicator.”


    Actually, Liu Dezhu was lying. He could have replied to Qing Chen when he went to the restroom, but his ssmates were having so much fun during the trip, and they had even gathered for a bonfire party afterward, so he had forgotten about themunicator.


    Unaware of all this, Qing Chen instructed, “After this return, don’t go out for the seven days of National Day, understand?”


    Liu Dezhu was stunned for a moment, “Boss, I’ve already reached Laojun Mountain, can I wait to hide at home after I return from Laojun Mountain?”


    This time, it was Qing Chen’s turn to be stunned.


    At that moment, all 47 ssmates of Liu Dezhu had already arrived at Laojun Mountain.


    Moreover, under the organization of Hu Xiaoniu and Zhang Tianzhen, they were ying games.


    Right up to the second before the countdown reached zero, they were still ying the game of passing the flower by the bonfire in the courtyard; whenever the drumming stopped, the person who received the flower had to perform.


    In the Outer World, the drumming continued.


    Qing Chen was silent for quite a while, “You went to Laojun Mountain? Which guesthouse are you staying in?”


    Liu Dezhu replied, “It’s called Cloud Top Guesthouse, it seems quite famous on Laojun Mountain. There were 47 of us ssmates, and a transfer student from Haicheng paid for everyone to stay there for three days.”


    Qing Chen asked, “Was this a trip nned a long time ago? Why have you never mentioned it to me?”


    Seeing that the boss seemed angry, Liu Dezhu hurriedly exined, “It wasn’t nned long ago; it was a spontaneous idea by the transfer student from Haicheng. Originally, we were supposed to leave on the morning of October 1st, but since the school holiday started earlier, we went ahead.”


    At this point, Liu Dezhu was muttering in his heart, it seems like the boss isn’t his ssmate after all, otherwise, he would have known about Laojun Mountain.


    Meanwhile, behind the Cat Mask, Qing Chen’s expression hadpletely calmed down.


    Cloud Top Guesthouse, Jiang Xue had mentioned it before.


    Originally, Jiang Xue had nned to book this very guesthouse, but it was rtivelyrge and seemed to only amodate groups during the National Day period.


    The most critical point was that Cloud Top Guesthouse was right next to theirs.


    Qing Chen looked at Liu Dezhu and thought, so theughter and drumming just now was all your doing…


    Unbelievable!


    The myriad voices mingling together, from over fifty meters away, even Qing Chen couldn’t discern some of the familiar tones.


    It seemed the criminals were here for Liu Dezhu.


    On Laojun Mountain, there was no Time Traveler more valuable than Liu Dezhu himself.


    But Qing Chen couldn’t understand how the criminals knew in advance that Liu Dezhu and the others woulde to Laojun Mountain.


    They had obviouslye prepared, even knowing exactly which guesthouse Liu Dezhu and the others were staying in.


    “There’s an insider,” Qing Chen said calmly, “Someone has provided the criminals with your itinerary, not only knowing which guesthouse you’re staying in but even telling the criminals that you arrived a day early.”


    Liu Dezhu looked at the Cat Mask in front of him, “Boss, what are you talking about?”