The Mysterious Heiress: Researcher In Disguise

Panda Novel

Fu Zhi had never wanted to sew Liu Mi’s mouth up so much ever since she had met him.

Without saying anything, Fu Zhi walked out of the bushes.

The black SUV was stopped by the roadside.

“Oh my gosh, Ms. Fu!” Wang Rao jumped out of the car. When he saw Fu Zhi, he could not help asking, “Did you roll in the mud because you knew you couldn’t afford to pay for speeding tickets?”

Fu Zhi did not know what she should say. She did not know why all of them always thought that she was a stingy person.

2

Fu Zhi wiped her face clean and looked expressionlessly at Wang Rao.

Wang Rao felt a chill down his spine and cleared his throat. “Well, I sent your parents back and only came to look for you after making sure they were safe. Luckily, I came right on time. Alright, let’s get in the car, everyone!”

The members of the Shadow Corp looked at each other, but none of them moved.

Gu Yanqi frowned and told Wang Rao everything. “We’re being hunted. We’re going to Lucky Cloud Pavilion, so if you guys are afraid of trouble, you can just lend the cars to us.”

After saying that, Gu Yanqi turned around and looked in the direction of the mountain.

The Phantom Lord was going to catch up to them soon.

“Ms. Fu’s friends are our friends. Xiao Liang will take you guys away. If the Phantom Lord really comes, I will help you guys fend them off,” Wang Rao said.

Then, he hollered at his people and led Gu Yanqi and his team into the cars.

After going into the car, Gu Yanqi lamented. “People always say that birds of a feather flock together. You and your friends are really alike. Although you all look normal on the surface, you guys are always ready to help your friends.”

Fu Zhi did not know what she should say.

Then, Liu Mi chimed in, “Nope. Ms. Fu knows more than them. As for Ms. Fu’s friends, they are just plain, unpretentious SUV drivers.”

That said, Liu Mi was still grateful that they had come all this way to save them. He said, “I want to take a portion of my salary and give it to them. What do you think, Ms. Fu?”

‘I don’t think it’s a good idea. A portion of your salary might not even be enough to buy them a meal.’

The four SUVs drove forward at high speed. After they traveled for another ten meters, Wang Rao turned his car around and went straight for the Phantom Lord.

When Gu Yanqi saw it, his eyes grew so big that Fu Zhi worried his eyeballs might fall out of their sockets. Then, she heard him shout at the driver, “The people from Phantom Lord are not here yet, so why the hell did he turn around? Hurry up and call him back, or he’s going to die!”

“They are just a bunch of sons of b… Ahem, ahem, I mean…” Xiao Liang wanted to say that there was nothing scary about the Phantom Lord, but he remembered that he was just a normal security guard right now, so he swallowed his words back into his stomach, squeezed a few tears out of his eyes, and said, “Really? That’s so scary… but you should know that death is inevitable during war. In order to save you and Ms. Fu, he has to sacrifice himself…”

The moment Xiao Liang finished speaking, the white device on top of Wang Rao’s car began to ring out once more.

“It’s them! It’s them! It’s really them! Here come these sons of b*tches, the Phantom Lord!

“Let’s send them blasting off like a star again! Woohoo!”

Gu Yanqi did not know what he should say. He had no idea why but he had a feeling that Wang Rao did not take the Phantom Lord seriously at all.

He felt suspicious and squinted his eyes. “Really? But why do I have a feeling that you guys are not normal people?”

“You must be delusional. After all, you have lost a lot of blood, and when one loses too much blood, their brain will start to imagine things. We are migrant workers and we only know how to move bricks!”

Gu Yanqi was speechless.

He turned to Fu Zhi and realized that she was looking at a scar on Li Nanli’s shoulder.

He cleared his throat and said, “Ms. Fu, your friends have turned back to face the Phantom Lord. Do you think they will be able to fend them off?”

Fu Zhi lifted her head and looked at him.

Gu Yanqi explained, “I’m just worried that your friends might get injured or…”

“Don’t worry.” Fu Zhi interjected. “They are pretty tough, so they won’t have a problem.”

Gu Yanqi was speechless again.

——

In the meantime, at the intersection of the road behind Lucky Cloud Pavilion…

Six SUVs were parked in a row, and Wang Rao stuck his body out through the window.

He was carrying a device on his muscular shoulder. He aimed at the center of the dense fleet of cars not far away and clicked.

Bam!

Even though there was some distance between the explosion and Mark’s car, his car still shook violently. Luckily, he reacted quickly by opening the door and jumping out of the car. After he rolled on the ground, he spat out a mouthful of blood and felt stinging pain on his back.

Every member of the Phantom Lord was stunned. They were certain that the Shadow Corp of the Li Family had only brought guns with them this time, so where had the explosion come from?

“What happened?” Arnold came out of his car, his face stern.

‘Could their reinforcements have arrived? But how is that possible? There is no way their distress signal could go out despite the signal jammer…’

“Everybody, get into a defensive position!” Arnold barked out his orders.

He began to regret that he had not gone all out when they’d had the chance. Now that the Li Corporation had started to retaliate, things would get really bad.

Every car stopped, and everyone got out of their cars and assumed a defensive stance.

A burst of laughter erupted not far away.

Everyone looked toward the source of the sound.

It was a man. He was wearing a black shirt, and there was a small weapon on his shoulder. He looked straight at Arnold with his green eyes and said, “Well, well, well, Arnold. It seems that you’ve grown a lot bigger since the last time I saw you. In the past, you were just our boss’s lackey, but now that you colluded with Audley and betrayed our boss, you’ve become the vice-commander of the Phantom Lord.

“You really have changed a lot, pal.”

Wang Rao’s voice turned cold toward the end of his words, and Arnold felt as if his throat was being licked by the tongue of a snake that was dripping with poison.

When Arnold saw clearly the face of the man in front of him, his arrogance disappeared and his face turned pale.

“Wang Rao!” Arnold shouted and then looked around.

“Boss is not here, but he asked me to bring you guys a message.”

The commander of the Phantom Lord, Audley, had already gone out of the car, and his face was grim as well.

“He who is unjust is doomed to face destruction,” Wang Rao said, emphasizing every single syllable that escaped his lips. “President Li is with us right now. They will rendezvous with the rest of the people of the Li Family very soon. If you guys still want to capture him, you can go ahead.”

After he finished speaking, Wang Rao hollered at his men and they all went back into their cars.

They turned their cars around, and as they stepped on the pedals, Wang Rao rolled the window down.

He stuck his arm out of the window, lifted his thumb, and then turned it down.

Then, they all went away in a huff.

Mark got up from the ground and glared at them. “How dare they attack me! Commander, I will bring a team to chase them. I will get Li Nanli back as well, and then we…”

“That’s enough!” Audley shouted. He was clenching his fists so tightly that his knuckles had turned white. It was a piece of cake to get rid of Wang Rao, but Li Nanli had already gone far away, and he figured that he had rendezvoused with the rest of the team of the Li Corporation.

The Phantom Lord had already made the Li Family their enemy. If they killed Wang Rao now and enraged Shen Ci Zhou…

Who knew what that mad dog would do.

Audley did not dare imagine this and began to regret taking on this mission.

“Let’s go! The mission has failed! We’re retreating from Myanmar tonight!”

“But… Yes, sir…”

—

Since Li Nanli’s condition was under control right now, after meeting up at Lucky Cloud Pavilion, the people of the Li Corporation then moved Li Nanli back to his mansion.

Jiang Jinshu arrived with the doctor of the Li Corporation soon after they reached Li Nanli’s mansion. He looked at Fu Zhi, who was talking to the doctor about Li Nanli’s condition. Just as he was about to say something, Gu Yanqi appeared and dragged him into the room next door.

Jiang Jinshu frowned. “What are you doing? How can you leave Nanli to her? Gu Yanqi, don’t forget why I left the team. Had it not been for her, I wouldn’t have gone to the Zheng Mansion and you guys would not have fallen into the enemy’s trap.”

He paused for a moment before adding, “Maybe she’s not a spy, but she’s the one who nearly got Nanli killed!”

“The Phantom Lord has dispatched all their members to ambush us, so I think there’s nothing you can do even if you’re there. Do you know how we got out this time?”

“Weren’t you the one who led them down the mountain?” Jiang Jinshu said.

“Me? Are you kidding me? Do you know how dire the situation was? We don’t have enough weapons, and our equipment is not as advanced as theirs. How is there any possibility I could lead the entire team down under such circumstances?” Gu Yanqi said as he threw himself on the chair. “There were four people following me when I got separated from Nanli, but all of them ended up dying while protecting me. If it were not for Fu Zhi, I wouldn’t have been able to stay alive until I found Nanli. Also, she’s the one who brought all of us out through the minefield.”

Jiang Jinshu was stunned. “She brought you all out through the minefield? Which minefield?”

“The one at the back of Lucky Cloud Pavilion. Initially, I thought she was messing around as well, but had it not been for her, you wouldn’t be talking to me right now. And Nanli… She’s the one who saved his life. I think all this is enough to prove that she might be right about Old Master Zheng faking his illness.”

“She knows how to remove landmines?”

“Yeah, and she did a great job removing them.”

Gu Yanqi still could not imagine what would have happened to them if Fu Zhi had not shown up. “In any case, Fu Zhi saved all of us. No matter how much you don’t like her, don’t show it in front of everyone.”

Jiang Jinshu fell silent. Never in his wildest dreams had he imagined that Fu Zhi would be the one to save all of them, including Li Nanli.

Gu Yanqi knew Jiang Jinshu needed some time to digest everything, so he left him alone. He also removed the ring necklace from his neck.

Under the light, he could see that there was a cut on the ring that had nearly broken the ring into two.

The ring was made from a special material, so it was not easy to fix it.

When the realization hit Gu Yanqi, his face turned dark.

—

Meanwhile, inside the bedroom…

Fu Zhi held the phone in one hand and took Li Nanli’s notebook from the study with another hand.

Shen Cizhou then said, “Not only has the public been looking for you since you made an appearance at the rally competition on Mount Qiu Ling tonight, but even the International Crime Unit has their eyes on you.. You better watch out for yourself.”