Chapter 607: Chapter 607: The Entrance in the Bathroom_1
"Officer Wang is right," Zi Ling said. "Let the bureau cover the cost once the case is over."
"I just want to verify one thing—do you think the method you mentioned is reliable?" Li Qing asked.
As far as cost and damage were concerned, those clearly had little to do with him.
Zi Ling glanced at Li Qing with a proud look on her face and said, "An Invisibility Talisman worth hundreds of thousands of yuan, do you think it’s reliable? Although we have only one, this item is definitely more reliable than anything else."
Li Qing had only heard of the Invisibility Talisman, he had never actually seen what it truly looked like.
But given the girl’s proud demeanor, it must indeed be a valuable item.
"Then it’s settled, we’ll set off immediately," Li Qing regained control of the situation and spoke in a firm voice. "Officer Wang will stay outside to monitor, while the three of us go in. If something happens to us, do not act rashly—call for backup immediately."
Wang Baichuan nodded solemnly, "Be very careful."
After the discussion, Li Qing and the other two quickly made their way toward the civilian house.
For cultivators at the Qi Cultivation Stage, such a distance could be covered in the blink of an eye.
Upon reaching the entrance, Li Qing first checked the surroundings to ensure there were no monitoring devices left by the other party. Then he led the way by climbing over the wall into the compound.
The farmhouse looked abandoned for some time, with overgrown weeds in the yard and a kitchen corner where even the roof was broken.
After Zi Ling and Shisan floated in lightly, Shisan was about to search the east room but was stopped by Li Qing.
"Wait a moment," Li Qing said in a low voice.
Shisan looked puzzled but stopped at his words, watching the surroundings alertly.
The courtyard was eerily quiet, with no sign of any activity, appearing completely like a deserted house.
Li Qing’s gaze swept over the yard inch by inch, like a searchlight, and then he suddenly walked toward the corner of the northern wall, where the joint of two rooms was, the small room within seemed to be the bathroom.
One could clearly see some scattered soil beneath the wall.
Shisan immediately understood Li Qing’s intention and said, "The entrance should be in one of these two places."
Traces of the scattered soil—one in the east room and the other in the bathroom.
"I’ll check the other rooms," Zi Ling said.
"Be careful, the opponent might have left someone on the upper floor," Li Qing spoke softly.
This sudden show of concern caught Zi Ling by surprise. She nodded her head and walked toward the remaining rooms, her footsteps light, with a yellow talisman quietly tucked between the fingers of her right hand.
"I’ll go to the east room," Shisan said.
"Be careful," Li Qing nodded, then turned his attention to the bathroom.
This bathroom looked to be only three or four square meters, with not too much room to pile up soil. He felt the entrance must be here.
Lifting his foot gently, Li Qing slowly moved near the bathroom.
Black Arrow floated up from his pocket, hovering quietly behind him, ready to strike at any moment.
Li Qing had just started out in Qi Cultivation and when it came to long-range attacks, his means of self-defense were not at all weak.
However, if he were to be attacked at close quarters, he had no confidence at all.
Through capturing the shepherd, Li Qing was also able to make some guesses about the methods of these sects.
It seemed that they were adept at close-quarter combat, which was completely different from the ghost-related tricks Li Qing had encountered before.
Directly in front of the bathroom was a small door without any windows, so Li Qing didn’t even have a chance to peek inside.
He sneaked up to the door and gently pushed open the small door.
Inside, there was neither a knife suddenly lunging out as he had imagined, nor was it a mess with holes dug everywhere.
This was just an ordinary bathroom, and it had squat toilets.
Looking at the tidy bathroom, Li Qing’s mind went blank for a moment.
Given the traces of mud left behind, if they had dug downwards, the place would be either here or in the eastern room. How could it be so clean?
Moreover, with the exterior being so decrepit, it was abnormal for a toilet to be so clean.
Or could it be that these people were ragged on the outside but refurbished on the inside?
Just as Li Qing was at his wit’s end, Shisan and Zi Ling arrived.
"The eastern room is where the soil is stored; the entire room is almost filled with it," Shisan stated.
"No abnormalities can be seen in the other rooms. It’s just a deserted house, but it seems it wasn’t abandoned long ago, probably only two or three years," Zi Ling added immediately after.
Li Qing squatted down on the floor, "But why wouldn’t there be any hole in the bathroom? It’s just a bathroom."
"It’s definitely a trick to deceive people," Shisan also crouched down and started examining the ground.
But after looking around, he didn’t find anything unusual.
"Hiss, it really is baffling; how could there be no hole when there is a room so full of soil?" Shisan scratched the back of his head, murmuring in confusion.
"Move aside, you two are blind!" Zi Ling squeezed in and flipped over the platform of the squat toilet.
A platform was built around the squat toilet, raised about seven or eight centimeters above the ground.
As soon as she flipped it open, a dark hole finally revealed itself to them.
Zi Ling dusted her hands and stood up, about to say something when her face suddenly turned bright red. She jumped to the side as though she had been bitten by a snake.
Li Qing wiped his face and said somewhat speechlessly, "I know you have grievances against me, but that doesn’t mean you have to target me like this! Planting your backside on my face, isn’t that a bit too much?"
Because the space in this bathroom was exceptionally small.
Zi Ling had just squeezed past right in front of Li Qing without realizing he was behind her. As she got up, she thrust her waist, and her round buttocks landed squarely on Li Qing’s face, trapping him completely.
If they hadn’t been wearing clothes, Li Qing’s nose might have been able to poke right in.
"Don’t talk nonsense, I... I didn’t do it on purpose," Zi Ling’s face blushed as she glared and said, "What kind of person are you, talking so coarsely? It’s just a bump; you..."
"What do you mean ’just a bump’? With that bump, you’ve tainted my purity," Li Qing corrected sternly.
"Besides, I’m a bona fide peasant. We call it a backside crease; I don’t know any refined terms for it. Otherwise, what else could I say?"
"Shut your mouth!" Zi Ling was immediately flushed with embarrassment, "Shut it!"
Shisan suddenly felt as if he was somewhat superfluous, "Um... shall we get back to business?"
