Spoiled By the Young Master After Reborn In the 80s
Chapter 195 - 194. Suicide Forest

Chapter 195: 194. Suicide Forest

Having swiftly searched through the rooms on the second floor, Luo Shu arrived at the third floor.

The third floor was markedly different from the first and second floors; sliding doors were no longer present, replaced instead by ordinary doors with locks.

On this floor, Luo Shu didn’t detect the presence of anyone’s breath, indicating that it was unoccupied.

She brought out her lock-picking tools and quickly opened one of the room doors, entered swiftly, gently closed the door, and affixed a talisman.

A quick survey of the room told her it was a bookroom.

She approached and began to rapidly search the room, soon discovering a safe embedded in the wall.

The safes of the current era naturally could not compare to those of her previous life, with simpler codes; Luo Shu tried a few combinations and opened the safe.

Inside was a thick stack of documents. Luo Shu’s eyes lit up as she reached for the papers and quickly skimmed through them. Taking these documents would alarm the enemy.

After committing the contents of the documents to memory, Luo Shu closed the safe, took a final glance around the room to confirm she hadn’t left any traces, and walked to the door, intending to leave, when she heard a series of soft footsteps.

Following this was the sound of keys and the person wanting to enter was heading for the room she was in.

She retrieved the talisman from the door and once again crushed an Invisibility Talisman in her hand.

At the same moment, the door was pushed open.

The person was the middle-aged man she had seen leaving in a car earlier.

Wutian Xinye turned on the light and looked around the room, his brow furrowing slightly. For some reason, he had the feeling that someone was spying on him, but the bookroom was only so large and offered no place to hide, so where could someone go?

Approaching the safe, Wutian Xinye keyed in the code and opened it.

He placed a stack of documents inside, closed the safe, and started heading outside.

After a few steps, however, he turned back, picked up the phone on the desk, and dialed a number.

"This is Wutian Xinye! What’s the situation now?"

"Capital Commandant! We have found those people, they are now hiding in the Suicide Forest at the base of Fuyuan Mountain."

"Round them all up!" Wutian Xinye commanded, then hung up the phone and left.

Luo Shu hurriedly followed and, the moment Wutian Xinye opened the door, slipped out.

Wutian Xinye frowned slightly and took another glance at the bookroom before closing the door and departing.

This time, Luo Shu did not return to her room. She had already obtained useful information and staying here no longer held any purpose. Besides, she suspected that the people mentioned in the phone call were likely Hanmo and his group.

She had heard of the Suicide Forest in her previous life; it was a place filled with eerie undertones.

Every year, people purposefully ventured into the Suicide Forest to end their lives.

Every autumn, the people of MD country would carry out an activity to search for those who committed suicide. Security officers, volunteers, and media journalists would enter the forest together. In the first few years, the "harvest" of bodies remained steadily around 20.

The searchers who entered the forest to collect bodies were very careful. Each person would wrap themselves with a rope around their waist, one after the other, and the last person would tie the rope to a car outside the forest to avoid getting trapped inside.

The reason for this was because once inside the Suicide Forest, compasses would automatically fail, making it impossible for those who entered to find their way out and get lost within the forest. Even if they didn’t intend to commit suicide, they would end up starving to death.

In her previous life, she had been to that place out of curiosity, so she had some understanding of it.

Lu Hanmo arrived at Wutian Xinye’s villa, entered it through layers of strict guards.

He had just hidden himself well when he heard a commotion inside the villa.

"Young Master! It’s not good, the woman is gone."

Upon hearing the shouts outside the door, Wutian Tengyi jumped up from the bed and quickly stepped forward to open the door, "Who’s gone?"

"The woman who was locked in the guest room. Didn’t you instruct us to check on her periodically? When we entered, there was no one in the room anymore. The window was open, she must have run away through the window."

"Bastards!" Wutian Tengyi was so angry he almost wanted to kill someone. His father was right, that woman was no simple person. No wonder she was qualified to be Lu Hanmo’s woman. He blamed himself for underestimating his enemy.

"Go find her. Even if we have to turn over the entire MD country, you must bring her to me!" Wutian Tengyi gritted his teeth. Since the woman was in disguise, then everything she had told him before could likely have all been lies. As long as he could capture her, he believed he could surely threaten Lu Hanmo.

"What’s happened?" Wutian Xinye’s authoritative voice came from the side.

"Father, I underestimated the enemy and let her escape. Please punish me," Wutian Tengyi said apologetically, bowing deeply.

Wutian Xinye frowned, "Send out the Martial Artist Group!" Whoever managed to escape under such tight security was definitely not an ordinary person.

"Yes, Father!" Wutian Tengyi was somewhat surprised in his heart. He admitted that Luo Shu was no ordinary person, but was it necessary to mobilize the Martial Artist Group? Still, he dared not countermand his father’s orders.

Lu Hanmo curved his lips slightly and walked out from his hiding place. After glancing at the third floor of the villa, his figure flickered a few times and then disappeared into the night. Shushu wasn’t here, and he felt both relieved and troubled. Where should he start looking for her now?

Luo Shu ran quickly through the night, taking just over half an hour to reach the Suicide Forest.

The trees here soared high, lush and dense, blocking out the sun.

As soon as Luo Shu entered the forest, she felt an oppressive and eerily strange aura. The further she walked in, the stronger this feeling became. The air pressure dropped, and the air gradually thinned out, making it somewhat difficult to breathe.

Mo Shaoze and his soldiers sat down in a clearing. What puzzled them was that after they entered the forest, the people from MD country stopped pursuing them.

"What kind of damned place is this? Why are there so many bodies?"

"Some bodies have decomposed so much, it’s disgusting!"

"The MD people aren’t chasing us anymore, could it be that there’s something strange about this forest?"

"Do you think there could be anything unclean in this forest? Why do I feel like it’s hard to breathe as soon as I walk in here?"

"Stop talking about it, you’re making my skin crawl." The group discussed among themselves. They were veterans who had seen countless dead bodies on the battlefield. They naturally didn’t believe in ghosts and ghouls. But in such an atmosphere, talking about these things was somewhat unnerving.