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Chapter 395 - 350: Crisis Lurks, Strike in Advance

Chapter 395: Chapter 350: Crisis Lurks, Strike in Advance

Nanli has a long history and is one of the earliest cradles of culture in the Southwest. It is also an important tourist city in the region, with spring-like weather all year round and pleasant scenery, which is highly loved by tourists—according to data compiled by relevant departments, Nanli receives over fifty million visitors each year.

The ancient city of Nanli, referred to as Yeyu or Zi City, is a must-visit destination for tourists to the area.

As evening fell and the sun set in the west, the afterglow spilled over Nanli’s ancient city, which bustled with people coming and going, backpack-toting tourists, and vendors hawking their wares—it was a lively scene.

Dressed in sportswear, Su Liuli carried an oversized travel backpack, donned a baseball cap, and wore sunglasses as she moved through the crowd.

Perhaps due to the hot weather, she had taken off her sports jacket and tied it around her slim waist, wearing only a white, tight-fitting T-shirt on top. Her prominent and spectacular chest, combined with her slender wasp waist, straight beautiful legs, and skin as fair and smooth as jade, attracted the attention of many passersby.

As one of Dong University’s Double Beauties, Su Liuli was used to such stares and paid no heed to them, continuing to stroll and admire the scenery of the ancient city.

A few days ago, after deciding to join the Buddhist sect, she left Hanghu in the dead of night, took the next day’s flight to Yunming City, the capital of Southern Xian Province, and arrived in Nanli yesterday. She planned to travel north from Nanli, visiting several famous spots in the Southwest before hitting the Sichuan-Tibet Line, heading to Xisa.

The reason she didn’t rush to Xisa was that she had no information about the hermit expert she had once met and couldn’t simply show up at his door; she could only plan to let everything be guided by fate.

At a teahouse in the ancient city, several young men sat at a window-side table, sipping tea and watching the tourists come and go, their gazes sweeping over each girl that passed by.

Upon spotting the heavily backpacked Su Liuli, one of the young men with sharp monkey-like features suddenly lit up, nudging a crew-cut youth sitting beside him and pointing at Su Liuli, "Wei Ge, quick, look at that girl, she’s pretty hot."

Whoosh!

The moment the sharp-featured youth spoke, the other young men followed where he pointed, eyes shining like hunters spotting prey.

The crew-cut youth in particular stared with unbridled lust; his eyes, darkened by excessive indulgence, emitted a lecherous gleam.

The others, seeing the look on the crew-cut youth’s face, knew his desires were stirred and shared knowing smiles among themselves.

As if to confirm their speculation, the crew-cut youth, known as ’Wei Ge,’ took a breath, abruptly stood up, and declared, "Tsk tsk, this chick is top-grade, especially that tiny waist and her pert backside, it’d be explosive to take her from behind—what are you waiting for? Let’s go!"

Whoosh—

At this rallying call from the crew-cut youth, the other five young men rose to their feet, rallying around him as they left the teahouse, each one curious about the method Wei Ge would use to snag the beauty.

As his lackeys, they knew all too well that Wei Ge, aka Li Wei, had three tactics in his repertoire for bedding women: "woo, buy, force".

’Woo’ involved seducing the girl with his skills, making her willingly spread her legs on the bed.

’Buy’ meant using RMB—If one stack wasn’t enough, then two stacks, or three until the girl’s pride crumbled. That was their interpretation of ’RMB’.

’Force,’ as the name suggests, meant taking what he wanted whether the girl was willing or not.

Generally speaking, Li Wei started with ’wooing,’ then ’buying,’ and only considered ’forcing’ as a last resort.

The reason for this order was that the sense of conquest diminished from ’wooing’ to ’forcing,’ with the former satisfying both the body and the soul, while the latter was just a means of physical release.

In the memories of these young men, thanks to his height of one meter eighty and his decent looks, Li Wei often resolved the issue just by wooing.

On the rare occasions he resorted to buying, like last year when a model came to Nanli for a photoshoot and ignored Li Wei’s attempts at wooing, he had resorted to using RMB. He ended up getting her in bed by flashing the cash, swallowing a couple of Viagra pills and going all night with her in a hundred and eight positions, almost sending her to Yama Palace.

As for...’force.’

Li Wei had only resorted to it three times.

On one hand, forcing was an illegal act. Although Li Wei relied on his brother Li Kui to swagger through Nanli and the entire Southwest, he did not dare to be too brazen. After all, to avoid legal repercussions from forcing, he would have to either bury his victims in the ground or sell them to nightclubs in the Golden Triangle through his brother’s connections in Nanqinghong.

On the other hand, the women who could drive Li Wei to commit such a crime were extremely high-quality and invariably alone.

Such circumstances were exceedingly rare.

"That chick looks pretty wild; Wei Ge might force himself on her today."

"Heh, if he forces himself, we brothers might get a chance to feast on the leftovers."

Leaving the teahouse, the young men followed Li Wei, exchanging lewd ideas with sly smiles, their eyes never straying from Su Liuli ahead, as if they couldn’t wait to strip her and pin her down in the street.

Hmm?

Up ahead, Su Liuli, who had been admiring the scenery of the ancient city, suddenly sensed she was being followed. She paused, turned her head to look behind her, and saw the lewd, lascivious expressions of Li Wei and his group.

Upon this discovery, her eyebrows raised, and without a word, she quickened her pace and disappeared into the crowd.

Meanwhile.

Donghai.

Ao Xiang Villa, Ye Fan, like always, was sitting cross-legged on the jade stone, immersed in meditation cultivation.

Whoosh!

Without warning, Ye Fan opened his eyes, and the streams of Qi swirling around him instantly dispersed.

"My Martial Arts Cultivation has finally broken through to the Innate Great Success Realm!"

Noticing the formation of a Power Seed within the forty-sixth vital acupoint in his body, and feeling the surging Power within, Ye Fan silently sighed with complicated feelings, but his face did not show the joy of increased strength. Instead, his brows were slightly furrowed, "I wonder if my aunt has found any clues about Liu Li?"

"Buzz... Buzz..."

Just as the thought appeared in Ye Fan’s mind, his mobile phone on the side began to vibrate.

Ye Fan’s heart stirred. He quickly picked up the phone and saw that it was a call from Chu Ji.

"Did you find something?"

Ye Fan hurriedly pressed the answer button and asked straightforwardly.

"Yes, two days ago, she took a plane from Hanghu to Nanming."

On the other end of the line, Chu Ji, who was in the Yanjing Courtyard, immediately relayed the news she had discovered to Ye Fan, although her brows involuntarily wrinkled with a slight expression of concern.

Last night, when she received a call from Ye Fan, he asked her to help investigate Su Liuli’s whereabouts, and he mentioned that Su Liuli had left from Hanghu.

At that time, curious, she had asked Ye Fan why he was looking for Su Liuli, and then she learned about the complicated relationship between Ye Fan, Su Yuxin, and Su Liuli, and that Ye Fan was on a mission to find Su Liuli.

Just now, when she received a call from her subordinates, learning that Su Liuli had gone to Nanming, she began to worry.

"Nanming?"

Upon hearing this, Ye Fan’s brow also involuntarily furrowed.

Nanming is the provincial capital of Southern Xian Province and also the base of Nanqinghong’s Southwest division, and it’s very close to the Golden Triangle!

During the era of nation-states, the Golden Triangle was once one of the world’s three largest drug-trafficking regions. Due to its treacherous terrain, harsh environment, and other reasons, neighboring countries had been unable to eradicate it.

After the alliance era, since Huaxia was the first to develop medicine against the destroy virus, Southeast Asian countries, in order to fend off disaster, sought refuge with Huaxia, forming the Huaxia Southeast Asia Special Zone together.

The Golden Triangle, due to its isolation, had not been affected by the destroy virus and instead became a refuge for some underworld forces.

After the disaster, factions in the Golden Triangle, taking advantage of the Southeast Asian countries joining Huaxia, brazenly expanded their territories and invested heavily in construction.

The Golden Triangle of today, in terms of land area, is equivalent to ten times what it used to be. Plus, it is no longer as backward as before, hailed as a city within the tropical rainforest, gathering a large number of Underworld members.

Including Qinghong, various major underworld powers established divisions within the Golden Triangle. Additionally, various Mercenary Corps also set up their headquarters there.

As a result, the Golden Triangle has become the new center of the Underworld, being a no man’s land—up to now, no alliance has proposed to eliminate the Golden Triangle, this thorn in the side.

Primarily because after the alliance era, the world order changed, and every major alliance was doing everything possible to increase strength. With so many underworld forces and mercenary organizations gathered in the Golden Triangle, naturally, no alliance wants to poke the hornet’s nest for no good reason.

"Nanming is one of Nanqinghong’s bases, and it’s too close to the Golden Triangle. If news of your trip to Nanming leaks, it will be very dangerous!"

Seeing Ye Fan silent, Chu Ji couldn’t help but remind him, "Putting Nanqinghong aside, if other enemies want to put you to death, hiring strong people from the Golden Triangle at a high price, even with the pressure from the Yanhuang Organization, there will surely be strong people who will take the risk for a hefty reward and attempt to assassinate you!"

Ye Fan remained silent. When he heard "Nanming," all these considerations had already crossed his mind.

"If you’re going to go, you must hide your tracks."

Because she knew Ye Fan well, Chu Ji did not waste her breath persuading him to give up, but instead reminded him earnestly.

"My Martial Arts Cultivation has broken through to the Innate Great Success Realm, nearly invincible under the Half-step Gang Qi realm. There are not many in this world who can kill me."

Ye Fan frowned as he looked in the direction of the Southwest, his tone filled with worry, "The only thing I’m worried about now is her safety—if Nanqinghong intends to exploit her for their schemes, things will get tricky!"

"What should we do?" Chu Ji also knew this well, and her face showed even more concern.

"There’s no time to delay. I must rush to Nanming immediately. Continue using your information network to help me find clues about Liu Li’s arrival in Nanming!" Ye Fan took a deep breath, made a quick decision, and then hung up the phone.

"Beep... Beep..."

Listening to the busy tone in her ear, Chu Ji slowly put away her phone and walked to the window, looking at the sunset.

"Master, I hope that girl named Liu Li doesn’t run into any trouble, or else your plans will be disrupted. If that happens, Xiao Fan will definitely swing his sword prematurely!"

As she watched, Chu Ji couldn’t help but let out a deep sigh.

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