Be Careful, Scum Dad! Mommy Is Back! -
Chapter 322 The Secret of the Back Mountain Cliff
Chapter 322: Chapter 322 The Secret of the Back Mountain Cliff
The wind rustles the leaves outside the floor-to-ceiling windows.
Ji Chao approached upon hearing this and looked towards the woods outside in confusion, "Sister, what’s out there?"
Seeing that they were all looking outside, Ji Ze quickly jogged over and slowly squatted down to level his eyesight with Lu Nuonuo’s.
He spread his hands and placed them on either side of his eyes to focus, looking out according to her line of sight.
Unfortunately, he still saw nothing.
"Nuonuo, what did you see? Aside from these trees, I can’t see anything else. Did you see a small animal?"
Little Dumpling pointed to the spot where the figure stood earlier and Ruannuan spoke up, "Brother, there was someone there just now."
Someone?
Ji Chao also squatted down to carefully inspect the tree not far away.
Lu Xining entered from outside the house, only to see three children lined up in front of the floor-to-ceiling window, their eyes practically glued to the glass.
"Xiao Chao, Xiao Ze, what are you and your sister looking at?"
Upon hearing her mother’s voice, Lu Nuonuo turned around happily and called out with a smile, "Mommy—"
She ran into Lu Xining’s arms.
Ji Chao and Ji Ze turned around and told their mother about what Lu Nuonuo had just discovered.
As Lu Xining heard about someone being in the woods ahead, her heart skipped a beat; she intuitively felt it was impossible.
That area was where she stored the cultivated soil, and no one was allowed in without her permission.
On the other side was a sheer cliff, where it was simply impossible for anyone to climb up.
Holding her daughter, she swiftly came to the window and patiently asked Little Dumpling in her arms, "Nuonuo, can you point out where you saw the person for Mommy?"
"Right there, a person wearing a black hat and mask, dressed all in black,"
Lu Nuonuo pointed out a specific location very earnestly.
"Okay, Mommy understands. Nuonuo is such a good girl." She quickly arranged for two bodyguards to go and check if there were any footprints left by strangers on the ground.
Upon investigation, they indeed found some!
Lu Xining decided to go to the woods herself to check out the situation.
She took her sons’ hands and seriously admonished, "Xiao Chao, Xiao Ze, keep your sister company and play here. Don’t go outside until Mommy comes back, okay?"
"Okay, Mommy, don’t worry, I’ll definitely take good care of my brother and sister," they replied.
Lu Xining ruffled her eldest son’s hair, her eyes smiling as she said, "Mommy believes in you."
Before leaving, she added, "If you are tired, go to the resting room inside and take a nap; Mommy will be back as soon as possible."
All three children echoed in unison, "Okay!"
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Once in the woods, Lu Xining seriously scrutinized the scene and had some of the soil taken for analysis.
All this soil had been specially shipped from Yunqiao Village.
She had been meticulously cultivating it for over two years, only enabling the soil to achieve its current effectiveness.
It was initially intended for the soil and earth to go through a process of contact and fusion, but now she was worried that someone might be sabotaging the essential substances contained in the cultivated soil.
"Professor Lu, there are no signs of damage to the fence," someone reported.
Since this piece of woodland was needed, she had the fences reinforced during the initial stages of work, so as to prevent small animals from entering and to stop prying individuals from investigating.
With a cliff at the back, even those proficient in Qinggong would not be able to fly up; hence, Lu Xining had not installed surveillance cameras in the area.
Without having planted any medicinal herbs yet.
Footprints that shouldn’t exist had already appeared. How frightening.
Lu Xining lowered her gaze, crouched on the ground, her fingertips gently caressing the cultivated soil, and commanded coldly, "Have someone come and set up surveillance cameras, covering all directions."
She walked to where the footprints had appeared.
Shoe sizes 42 or 43, judging by the imprint and the degree of indentation, the person should be over 1.8 meters tall, with a weight around...
Lu Xining suddenly looked up, her gaze directed towards her office’s location. Although it was at some distance, she could clearly see everything inside.
Her cool eyes watched the three children playing with a toy train, falling into a certain hypothesis and contemplation.
Even though it was daytime, there was a sensation of the coolness of night about her.
It’s absolutely impossible for a person to appear out of thin air!
"Make sure to search thoroughly!"
Lu Xining immediately ordered a carpet-style search of the surrounding area, refusing to believe they could not find the method and location where this "person" appeared.
She also took a group of people and headed towards a less crowded area.
There were many fallen leaves behind, covering the ground with a thick layer, making it hard for any traces of someone passing by to be significant.
Gradually, the search parties returned.
The answer they all gave was the same: no traces whatsoever.
Since the surroundings had been fully searched and there were no traces of intrusion, there was only one place left that was beyond the realm of possibility.
The cliff at the back mountain!
Fu Junhang had just returned from outside, bringing steaming hot egg tarts and snacks for the three children.
Upon hearing the commotion here, he immediately brought people over.
He walked briskly to Lu Xining’s side, joining her in looking at the smoky cliff in front of them, and glanced at the concern on her face.
Fu Junhang’s handsome brows furrowed slightly, expressing some surprise as he said, "You suspect that person came up from here?"
"There are no traces anywhere else, so it has to be here."
She took half a step forward, watching the cliff enveloped by mountain mist below, and kicked a medium-sized stone down, which made no sound when it hit the ground.
The bodyguards had fetched the unmanned drones.
The moment she nodded her head.
Over a dozen drones immediately flew down towards the cliff.
After about fifteen minutes.
The footage captured by the drones, aside from the steep and rugged cliff faces, showed no signs of climbing.
Lu Xining held a tablet passed to her by the bodyguards, looking down and carefully examining every split-screen image, unwilling to overlook any detail.
When the camera swept past a certain hanging vine, she abruptly said, "Drone No. 8, stop a moment!"
"Fly up ten centimeters."
"That’s right, hold there, zoom in on the image in front, right here!"
Fu Junhang also saw the section of vines frozen by drone No. 8; they seemed chaotic and tangled together, but were distinctly different from the other surrounding vines.
After enlarging the detail of the vines, Lu Xining pointed to the dark shadow at the edge of the vine and said, "Look here, the stone is obviously smoother than the surrounding ones, and if you look closely, there are palm prints."
Her formidable aura was fully unleashed.
"If I’m not mistaken, this stone is a switch, and there must certainly be a passage behind it leading to another place."
Lu Xining had people bring out the original planning blueprints of Redwood Resort again and called over Xu Zhi. Together they analyzed the planned conditions of the back mountain area.
"There is indeed something off, look here."
Upon hearing this, Lu Xining and Fu Junhang both leaned in closer, staring at the spot highlighted by Xu Zhi.
It was exactly at the position of the back mountain cliff!
"According to my usual practice, if there were no plans for this area, I wouldn’t deliberately leave such a large space blank on the blueprint."
"I’m more inclined to another conclusion, that is, there was originally intended to be something planned here, but because it wasn’t supposed to be known to people, they left such a large space."
"Or perhaps..."
Xu Zhi suddenly felt a contraction in his heart, and due to excitement, it started beating wildly and irregularly.
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