abnabooks Chapter 1574: The Bug That Lets It Go
Chapter 1574: The Bug That Lets It Go
Chapter 1574: The Bug That Lets It Go
At this moment, the wooden door of the study creaked open, and Dong Rui walked in: "Come in first to ask for credit in exchange for candy, right?"
He glared at the ghost ape, who quickly stuffed the last jelly bean into his mouth with innocence written all over his face.
Dong Rui pointed at the net in He Lingchuan's hand and said, "After searching the whole villa for several days, we finally caught these two. I knew it, the insect puppets have a lot of problems, and Mr. Tian must have left some insects that slipped through the net!"
The last time Tian Yun came to Yongquan Villa, he released a lot of insect puppets to collect intelligence. Although he later got rid of Wanqi Liang's pursuit and successfully escaped, Dong Rui was sure that it was impossible to recover all the insect puppets he released.
Yongquan Villa is too big, the terrain is complex and there are many trees, so there will definitely be some insect puppets that fall behind.
Yang Shanren and his two demon puppets searched the villa for several days and finally found the two insect puppets that had set themselves free.
"What should we do next?" He Lingchuan turned to the experts for help.
"I've already fed them, and also given them some medicine, so they'll be more obedient." Dong Rui took out a cricket cage from somewhere, but it wasn't made of straw. "This is a cage made of thin strips of the demon-eating vine. Tie the strings to them and put them in. Don't let them out when I'm not around, or they might hurt people at will."
"Bringing a string?"
"Didn't you play with the scarab when you were a kid?"
He Lingchuan shook his head.
"You rich young men have never played with good things." Dong Rui sneered, took out the spider silk, tied it around the gap behind the beetle's neck, and tied a small knot.
During this process, the carnivorous beetle that could kill Situ Yu lay obediently on his finger, motionless.
Dong Rui tied the spider silk, threw it into the air, and the beetle flew up.
It instinctively flew towards the window, but Dong Rui pulled it gently, and the beetle was pulled back by the spider silk and fell on the table.
"The puppet master who controls it is not here, so it is acting entirely on instinct now." Dong Rui stroked the beetle's back to comfort it, then picked it up and threw it into the cricket cage. His movements were very casual. "The insect puppets have no intelligence at all. Their puppet masters must have done a lot of instinct-enhancing training."
He Lingchuan pressed his neck, feeling a little tired: "Say something I can understand?"
Explaining to Xiaobai is more laborious than doing an experiment: "You won't understand if I explain too much, so I'll just keep it simple. Tian must have a progenitor insect, also called a king insect, just like a queen bee or queen ant. As long as the progenitor insect listens to him, the other insect puppets will listen to him too."
To be precise, he added: "Beetles don't have this nature originally, but Mr. Tian modified them."
"Oh, I see. It's very simple."
"The two guys in the cricket cage have been away from the ancestral insect for a long time. They have also undergone instinct-enhancing training. Once they sense the breath of the ancestral insect-"
He Lingchuan continued his words: "Will you instinctively look for the ancestral insect?"
"Yes, there are too many of these insect puppets that live in groups, and it is impossible for the demon puppet master to control and retrieve them one by one, so their nature is designed like this."
"If we take these two insect puppets around Tianshui City, maybe we can find their owner?"
"That's the theory." Dong Rui also had to face reality. "But there are two problems. First, Tianshui City is very big. We don't know where the man surnamed Tian is hiding. Second, I don't know the range of these two insect puppets to sense the ancestor insect. Maybe it's a few hundred feet, or maybe only a few dozen feet. If the range is too small, they may miss it."
"It can't be too small." He Lingchuan asserted, "Tian Yun put them in Yongquan Villa, which means he can control the insect puppets over a large area."
Yongquan Villa covers a large area, more than several hundred feet in width from east to west and north to south.
"The place where we had dinner that day was more than three miles away from your mountain cellar." He Lingchuan pointed at the insect puppets and asked, "Where did you catch these two?"
"In the dense forest behind the northwest warehouse."
"That's even farther, ten miles away."
This time it was Dong Rui's turn to shake his head: "This is impossible! No demon puppeteer can control insects over such a long distance! Unless they fly over randomly. But this kind of beetle, before it was transformed, did not like to migrate. Although it has wings, it only likes to lie on a tree."
"Perhaps they have become more diligent after being transformed?" He Lingchuan pulled the beetle's silk. "It will be easy to deal with them if their sensing range is large. The next step is to determine the search area."
Tianshui City is very big, how can I narrow the search range?
"Tian Yun said he was from the Zhengxin Chamber of Commerce. I sent someone to check and found that there really is such a chamber of commerce. Moreover, the chamber of commerce has two stores in Tianshui City. It is indeed engaged in the pet business. The leader of the chamber of commerce is really called Tian Yun, but the main store is not in Tianshui City. I wonder if this Tian Yun is the same Tian Yun?" He Lingchuan analyzed, "When he mentioned the Zhengxin Chamber of Commerce, he must have wanted to gain my trust. Besides, this is also easy to verify. There is no need for him to lie about it."
"Then let's go to the Zhengxin Chamber of Commerce?"
"I sent someone to follow him, so he knew he had been exposed and would not show up there. He mentioned the Zhengxin Chamber of Commerce because he was sure that I could not find him through the Chamber of Commerce. In other words, he would not go near the warehouses, storefronts, and properties under the name of this Chamber of Commerce. He could only find another place to live in Tianshui City."
Dong Rui added: "Xiao An said that 'father's' residence is large and spacious, and there are many people who listen to him. She went out with her father twice, and there was always someone around him at all times."
"We are both puppet masters, but they have a large number of servants and huge wealth, while you are all alone?" He Lingchuan launched a personal attack.
Dong Rui pouted: "He has plenty of money! If I had that much money, there would be a lot of people kneeling down and calling me daddy!"
Who doesn't want to have food and clothes provided for him? "Is it because my backers are not strong enough?"
"I don't have enough?" He Lingchuan pointed at his nose, "My 1,764,238 taels of silver are all wasted?"
“Uh…” Dong Rui was speechless.
Why did this guy keep such a clear account? It seemed that he had taken so much research funds from He Lingchuan, all in all.
Dong Rui coughed and said, "In short, Tian Yun has many people around him, and he should be surrounded by people whenever he goes in and out. He is also rich, so he will not stay in those low-class inns, so he either stays in a luxurious inn or buys a big house to live in."
He Lingchuan pondered: "When I talked to him that day, he didn't know much about the current situation in Tianshui City. He didn't grab one or two properties in the new city, and he even only heard of the Youhu Villa that I was in charge of, but didn't know what it was."
"That is to say, he was most likely not in Tianshui City in the past two months. Assuming he originally had a property in Tianshui City, if he bought it under the name of Tian Yun or Zhengxin Chamber of Commerce, he can no longer live there."