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Chapter 681: Chapter 681: Jiang Yixiao’s Distress
"Ah? It was Miaomiao who told me,"
Jiang Yixiao had thought this phone number was very confidential, so why was Lin Xiuyuan asking like this?
Miaomiao? Zheng Miaomiao?
Lin Xiuyuan understood; Zheng Miaomiao was also a Water Element Ability User. It seemed her relationship with Jiang Yixiao wasn’t bad, otherwise she wouldn’t have shared the phone number with her.
"Alright, what do you want from me?"
Lin Xiuyuan asked carelessly.
"Lin Xiuyuan, listen, I have something to tell you, help me analyze it. I feel like I’ve been surveilled,"
Jiang Yixiao ducked into the phone booth, watching her surroundings as she spoke in a low voice.
"What? You’re being surveilled? What’s the situation?"
Lin Xiuyuan’s voice suddenly grew several times louder. It couldn’t be that the girl had let something slip to someone, could it?
"I swear I didn’t say anything! Last week, I was playing on my phone at home late into the night, and there just happened to be a blackout at the base. Suddenly, through the camera on my phone, I saw something like a flashing red dot in the living room. Isn’t that a surveillance device? I’ve been afraid to go home these past few days,"
Jiang Yixiao had seen similar news about hotels before the Apocalypse, knowing that a flashing light could be a surveillance device. But she didn’t know who to tell this to; what if it involved her secrets? So, the only person she could think of was Lin Xiuyuan.
"Damn, who’s this pervert, putting surveillance cameras in a girl’s home? Where are you, I’ll come find you right now,"
Lin Xiuyuan felt extremely angry. Even in the Apocalypse, isn’t it disgusting to install such things in someone else’s home? Moreover, the victim was a girl. He felt the fire of justice burning fiercely in his heart.
"Ah, I’m inside a phone booth,"
Jiang Yixiao replied.
"Tsk, there are so many phone booths around the base, isn’t that obvious?"
Lin Xiuyuan once again felt like he was talking to an idiot.
"I still have training later, can you wait for me at the Heart Talk Store after my training ends this afternoon? It’s the one with the cute little girl,"
Jiang Yixiao knew there were two Heart Talk Stores in the base; the one closest to her was the one next to the Security team.
"Alright, I got it. Let’s agree on that then,"
Lin Xiuyuan said, waiting for the other party to hang up before ending the call on his end.
Su Jin and Lu Hao looked at the huffy Lin Xiuyuan and couldn’t help but want to laugh. This kid seemed to be quite concerned about that girl.
After considering for a moment, Lin Xiuyuan poured two cups of water from the water dispenser and sidled up to Lu Hao and Su Jin on the couch, handing them over with a pleasing smile.
"Brother-in-law, you’re smarter, help me analyze this,"
Lin Xiuyuan said. If what Jiang Yixiao said was true, what should he do next? He really didn’t want to act impulsively again.
"Hmm, seems like you’ve grown some brains this time,"
Lu Hao laughed.
"Did Jiang Yixiao say anything else?"
Su Jin asked. She knew it was Jiang Yixiao’s call; because when she received the call, the other party immediately introduced herself and then asked for Lin Xiuyuan. The girl seemed quite polite, and Lin Xiuyuan’s loud voice also let her guess the reason for Jiang Yixiao’s call.
"She just said she wasn’t sure, but there were many suspicious points. The things in her house also seemed to have been searched through,"
Lin Xiuyuan answered.
"If what she’s saying is true, tell her to hold off on doing anything rash, pretend she’s unaware of the matter, and then ask her if there’s anyone suspicious around her recently,"
Lu Hao said. They didn’t know the girl’s situation right now, but he felt that what she was saying was probably eighty percent true. She had obviously attracted someone’s attention.
"Then, brother-in-law, who do you think would do such a boring thing? A pervert?"
Lin Xiuyuan continued to ask.
"I think... it’s the people from E-city base,"
Lu Hao looked at Lin Xiuyuan. The most likely reason someone would notice Jiang Yixiao and secretly surveil her was because of the Multi-Element Zombie she had encountered before. Otherwise, in an era where everyone was struggling to survive, who would engage in such inane activities?
"My god, then what should we do? Should we have her move to another house?"
Lin Xiuyuan felt this was the last thing he wanted to hear. Had that girl really gotten herself into trouble?
"It’s useless unless she identifies the other party and directly eliminates them,"
Lu Hao said. However... if the person installing the surveillance and those mentioned by Lian Jiyue were really from the E-city base, could it be that they planned to kill two birds with one stone on their trip to the S-city base?
"It is quite interesting, actually. It’s not like the base is boring upon return,"
Su Jin said, propping her chin with her hand.
...
Lin Xiuyuan went to the Heart Talk Branch early, bored at home and figured he might as well help out at the store.
"If you’re going to discuss these topics, you might want to talk behind the counter,"
Mao Zhihang suggested after hearing what Lin Xiuyuan had said. Their shop’s resting area was open-plan, where conversations could easily be overheard, so it would be better to talk behind a partition at the counter.
"Right, I’m so famous in the base now that everyone must be dying to hear my gossip,"
Lin Xiuyuan nodded, agreeing that his uncle’s advice made sense since his fame in the base now warranted some caution.
"Brother Xiuyuan is so narcissistic,"
Qiqi made a face, thinking that Dad just wanted to be prudent.
"Tch, you wouldn’t understand,"
Lin Xiuyuan said, tugging at Qiqi’s braid.
Jiang Yixiao hadn’t expected Lin Xiuyuan to arrive so early, but the shop was clearly under the Heart Talk Team’s name, and he was helping count Crystal Cores when she arrived.
And Lin Xiuyuan actually took her to sit in the partitioned space behind, which had tables, chairs, water jugs, and several large freezers. It looked like it was meant for rest, but she had no mind to inspect it closely. Her head was spinning with thoughts of what to do.
"Have any strangers appeared around you recently? I mean, those new people who entered the base, not the original people from S-city base?"
Lin Xiuyuan asked directly.
Jiang Yixiao thought for a moment and immediately remembered the two men next door, causing her to feel goosebumps, "It can’t be them, can it? They don’t seem like bad people."
"You’re so naive. Do you think bad people have signs on their faces? They might be monitoring you, very likely because of that time you were caught on camera, so the people from E-city base are here to capture you,"
Lin Xiuyuan said.
"You’re saying, their target is my..."
Jiang Yixiao couldn’t speak of anything to do with the Jade Pendant Space, but after listening to Lin Xiuyuan’s analysis, she felt calmer.
If the other party was some pervert, she wouldn’t know what to do, but if their target was her space, then she had been preparing for this day countless times, and it had finally come!
