Chapter 758 — The Uninvited Guest in the Villa: Gu Mengyao's Personal Follower? Living in Gu Mengyao's Villa? A Student of Songshan City No.1 High School?
This outcome took Yu Kun somewhat by surprise. He had originally assumed Wei Zhao must be a man closely tied to Guan Xuemin or Lai Changyi, yet he was tied to neither, but was instead in the employ of Gu Mengyao, the young heiress of the Gu Group!
Yet the more it was so, the more suspicious Yu Kun found the matter. How had a young lady's close bodyguard wound up in Yanjing City at the Yu family's auction? It would have been understandable enough for Gu Pengzhan to attend as a commercial giant, but Wei Zhao — in what capacity had he come?
What, after all, was his connection to Guan Xuemin and to Lai Changyi? And why should figures of the stature of Guan Xuemin and Lai Changyi go out of their way to befriend a young lady's personal follower? It was utterly contrary to reason!
So after leaving Fatty Lai's villa, Yu Kun fixed his target upon Wei Zhao! He felt Wei Zhao to be even more suspicious than Guan Xuemin! If the fragment map was not in Fatty Lai's hands, then it was very likely in Wei Zhao's hands.
Thus Yu Kun's second stop brought him to Gu Mengyao's villa, and luckily the villa was empty, save for a single dog.
The dog, however, was remarkably docile. Upon seeing Yu Kun, it merely curled itself obediently into a ball and paid him no mind.
Since the dog did not come to trouble him, Yu Kun was too lazy to bother with a mere dog, and began his search at once!
Fortunately, he had only just begun searching the rooms on the first floor when he discovered one that looked very much like Wei Zhao's quarters!
For inside were a great many changes of men's clothing, and according to his investigation, apart from Wei Zhao there was no other man living in Gu Mengyao's villa! He settled into that room and began to hunt through it.
Wei Zhao had merely left the fragment map in a drawer, so Yu Kun expended hardly any effort at all, and in his very first cursory sweep he found the fragment map and the Ten Thousand Year Spring wooden box inside the drawer!
That box had been bought by Fatty Lai at the auction from the hands of the Kang family. What use it had, Yu Kun did not know, but since he saw that Wei Zhao had kept it together with the fragment map, Yu Kun naturally helped himself and took it along as well!
Truly he had searched high and low in vain, only to obtain it without the slightest effort!
Yu Kun had never expected this mission to go so smoothly, and not only had he recovered the earlier fragment map, he had gained an additional fragment map and a box of unknown purpose into the bargain!
Judging by the casual manner in which Wei Zhao had stored them, Wei Zhao plainly could not know what the fragment map and the box were truly for, or he would never have tossed them so carelessly into a drawer. At the very least he would have hidden them somewhere secret!
It could therefore be inferred that Wei Zhao's reason for bidding on that fragment map was that he already held an identical fragment map in his own hands, and wished to place the two together for study. Only what secret could two fragment maps possibly yield through study?
Yu Kun curled his lip. This Wei Zhao was truly a fool. Did he not understand that the fragment map at the auction had been deliberately put forth by the Yu family to lure the snake from its hole?
The Yu family already held three fragment maps in its possession, and this was one of them. Wishing to gather still more fragment maps, the Yu family could only use this method of luring the snake out, to draw forth those who possessed fragment maps or knew their secret, whereupon the Yu family would track them down and seize the fragment maps in their hands as well!
Though the means were somewhat base, the Yu family's people were extraordinary in skill, and even if suspicions arose afterward, no evidence could be found.
Just like this time, even Yu Kun himself had never expected it to go so smoothly!
Only just as the fragment map and the Ten Thousand Year Spring wooden box came into his hands, that wretched dog in the hall suddenly began to bark madly, giving Yu Kun quite a fright!
Was there something wrong with this dog? It had not barked before, yet it chose to bark only after he had taken the fragment map and the Ten Thousand Year Spring wooden box? Could it be that the dog barked because he had taken things from the villa, and its earlier silence was for that same reason?
Annoyed for the moment, Yu Kun did not think much of it, and naturally overlooked the sound of a car outside the villa courtyard!
In truth, cars were always passing outside the villa. The rich people living here generally came home at this hour of the evening, so it never occurred to Yu Kun that someone had returned to the villa.
He assumed the dog barked because he had taken things! Nor was he to blame for thinking so, for the coincidence was too perfect. Who told him to pick up the fragment map and the Ten Thousand Year Spring wooden box just as Wei Zhao and the others returned?
Mighty General had made no sound after Yu Kun entered the villa out of an instinctive fear. The dangerous aura Yu Kun carried frightened Mighty General! It was much like the sense of oppression Wei Zhao had once brought it, so Mighty General felt an instinctive dread of Yu Kun.
It feared Yu Kun would hurt it, and so it had curled into a ball and left Yu Kun alone! Yet Mighty General could also tell that Yu Kun came with ill intent!
Thus when Gu Mengyao's car returned to the villa, Mighty General feared that if Gu Mengyao rashly entered the villa she would be harmed by Yu Kun. To keep Gu Mengyao from harm, Mighty General barked. It was warning Gu Mengyao, telling her there was danger inside the villa, telling her not to come in!
Gu Mengyao had treated Mighty General well, and Mighty General repaid kindness with loyalty, which was only natural. But Yu Kun mistook Mighty General's meaning, supposing Mighty General barked because it resented his taking things!
At once Yu Kun felt a surge of disgust. A wretched dog! I spared your life when I came, and you were lucky to cower there quietly, yet you dare to bark? You truly do not know what it means to live or die!
How formidable was Yu Kun? A late-stage Huang-level master, he drove one kick into Mighty General's body, injuring its vitals on the spot until it vomited blood and collapsed. It plainly could not live.
The moment Gu Mengyao entered the villa and saw Mighty General lying dead upon the floor, with a man in black standing beside it, her heart gave a start, and she roughly understood why Mighty General had suddenly barked!
Gu Mengyao had played with Mighty General since childhood and knew its temperament well enough. The dog bullied the weak and feared the strong, turning cowardly at the mere sight of Wei Zhao! Though Gu Mengyao said nothing of it, she knew it all too clearly in her heart.
Fortunately Wei Zhao had come to protect her, so whether Mighty General paid him any heed or not, Gu Mengyao had nothing to worry about.
But the man in black now inside the villa was plainly up to no good. Gu Mengyao believed that had she not suddenly returned, Mighty General would have hidden itself well and would never lightly provoke this intruder. Losing a few things from the villa was nothing, and Gu Mengyao would not have cared.
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