I Received Messages From Future Self!
Chapter 619 - 615: Hurry to Villa No. 11

Chapter 619: Chapter 615: Hurry to Villa No. 11

Hearing Fang Xiaocao’s command, Taotie slammed on the brakes, bringing the car to a sudden halt.

Fang Xiaocao, seated in the back, nearly rolled from the rear seat into the windshield.

Fang Xiaocao raised her head, her messy hair sticking out wildly, and glared at Taotie in frustration.

Taotie chuckled awkwardly and said, "Princess Your Highness, if I said I didn’t do it on purpose, would you believe me?"

Taotie stuck to his usual tactic of playing dumb whenever trouble arose, acting like a clueless brute.

"You damn idiot, cut the crap!"

Fang Xiaocao scolded angrily and gave Taotie a flick on the forehead.

She climbed out of her seat and quickly tidied up her hair.

Fuming, Fang Xiaocao pushed open the car door.

She took out her phone and pulled up the picture of the girl.

Fang Xiaocao began comparing the surroundings to the photo, hoping to locate where the picture had been taken.

"Princess Your Highness, what are you looking for?"

Mantis asked, puzzled.

"The location in the photo’s background,"

Fang Xiaocao casually replied.

"Let me help you look,"

Mantis also retrieved the photo and started searching alongside Fang Xiaocao.

Half an hour later!

Just as Fang Xiaocao was about to give up, she noticed a reflective glint in the dirt under a patch of weeds.

Fang Xiaocao froze for a moment, her mind quickly making a connection.

She hurried over, squatted down, and began digging through the soil.

Soon, a diamond-studded earring emerged in Fang Xiaocao’s hand.

Looking at the earring in her palm, Fang Xiaocao immediately recognized it as the one worn by the girl in the photo.

She held up her phone and compared the image—sure enough, it was the same earring.

The earring being here meant one of two things: either the girl had dropped it during a hasty escape, or she had intentionally left it behind.

"Which could it be?"

Fang Xiaocao furrowed her brow, trying to deduce how the earring ended up here.

"Princess Your Highness, how about we take a look at that small village?"

Noticing Fang Xiaocao’s frustration, Mantis suggested.

Fang Xiaocao glanced at the abandoned village nearby and nodded, "Alright."

She carefully pocketed the earring and headed towards the village with Taotie and Mantis in tow.

A distance of several hundred meters vanished swiftly under the group’s quick pace.

Even the slowest among them, Fang Xiaocao, possessed the skill of a first-class martial artist.

Their brisk walk was faster than the average person sprinting a hundred meters.

Following the winding path into the abandoned village, a rancid stench hit them head-on.

The overwhelming odor made all three instinctively wrinkle their noses.

"It reeks!"

Taotie exclaimed, pinching his nose.

Fang Xiaocao ignored Taotie’s complaint and examined the village with a serious expression.

She was all too familiar with this smell.

It was exactly like the stench emanating from the corpse pit back at the pawnshop.

She remembered that the last time she visited this area, there wasn’t any odor like this.

Which meant that someone had recently died in this abandoned village.

And likely not just one person.

A single corpse wouldn’t cause the entire village to smell this awful.

Fang Xiaocao pulled out a portable gas mask and secured it onto her face. "Stay alert, this is the smell of decay."

"There are bodies here, likely more than one,"

She warned Taotie and Mantis.

In truth, Taotie and Mantis had already deduced the same—they could tell the stench was coming from decomposing corpses.

"For it to smell this bad, there must be at least a dozen bodies,"

Taotie said gravely.

Mantis nodded in agreement, "Considering it’s already late autumn and the temperature in the Northern region has dropped sharply, with the air being quite dry, decomposition wouldn’t occur too quickly. These bodies have likely been here for some time."

Listening to their observations, Fang Xiaocao frowned deeply.

So many deaths were an unsettling sign.

"Let’s split up and search for these bodies quickly."

"Find out how they died and what weapon the killer used."

"Pay special attention to see if any of the bodies are wearing clothing matching the girl’s in the photo,"

Fang Xiaocao instructed Taotie and Mantis.

Though she was aware that the Hot Noodles had just assigned her this task, meaning the girl was unlikely to have died months ago, it was best to verify.

What if Hot Noodles’ intel was flawed?

It’d turn into a ridiculous mistake otherwise.

"Understood!"

Taotie and Mantis replied in unison and immediately scattered into the village.

After a moment of contemplation, Fang Xiaocao also walked into the village.

Ten minutes later!

Taotie and Mantis returned to meet up with Fang Xiaocao.

"How’s it looking?"

Fang Xiaocao asked in a low voice.

"Confirmed—it was done by bionic robots."

"Seventeen dead, all with sword wounds."

"Furthermore, the wounds match the design of the alloy longswords equipped by bionic robots perfectly,"

Taotie reported seriously, showing Fang Xiaocao the photos he had taken.

After examining the images on Taotie’s phone, Fang Xiaocao nodded, "Send me a copy of the photos."

The corpses in the pictures were dressed uniformly, likely belonging to the same group.

The absence of the girl’s body among the seventeen was the only consolation for Fang Xiaocao.

How could she be sure?

Because all the bodies were male.

The girl couldn’t have undergone gender reassignment surgery before being killed, right?

That would be ridiculous—better spend that time escaping instead!

"Send the photos to Tom and have him and Thousand Faces investigate the source of these uniforms as soon as possible,"

Fang Xiaocao instructed Taotie, while she also pulled out her phone to send the village’s location and the photos to Song Lin.

[Fang Xiaocao: Brother Song, the bodies at this location are suspected to be Qi Yu’s doing. Please bring people over to handle it.]

[Fang Xiaocao: These corpses have been here for months. If we don’t deal with them quickly, their discovery will surely cause panic.]

After sending the messages, Fang Xiaocao didn’t wait for Song Lin’s reply and immediately put her phone away.

"The criminal investigation team will be here shortly; let’s leave first,"

Fang Xiaocao told Taotie and Mantis, then led the way back to the car.

Fang Xiaocao understood that Hot Noodles’ purpose for sending her to the village was to uncover the story behind the bodies.

From these corpses, they would trace their way to the girl in the photo.

The girl must have some connection to the forces behind these bodies.

And this force, in turn, had crossed paths with Qi Yu.

It was likely they had provoked Qi Yu or uncovered some secret of his, prompting them to become targets of bionic robot attacks.

Taotie drove the car with Fang Xiaocao and Mantis back toward the city.

Just as they were approaching downtown, several police cars rushed past in the opposite direction.

The police cars were headed toward the abandoned village.

Song Lin acted even faster than Fang Xiaocao had expected.

Ring-ring-ring—

As soon as their car entered the city, Fang Xiaocao’s phone rang.

She immediately pulled out her phone to check the notification.

[Hot Noodles: You’re too slow. Hurry to Junyue Villa District, Villa No. 11—the target has already been captured by Qi Yu.]