Peerless Bodyguard of a Stunning Beauty

Before the man in the raincoat and mask, holding a scythe, could even react, Zhao Rong and his team had already snared him in a net. Once the target was captured, Zhao Rong leaped up and sent him flying with a kick. Then, he took several clubs out of his Magic Ring, passed them to his team members, and said, ”Forget the questions for now. Let’s give this Rainy Night Killer a proper beatdown first…”

As he spoke, Zhao Rong raised his club and, along with his team, gave the netted man a vicious beating. The man caught in the net was soon a terrified, wailing mess.

After the beating subsided, Zhao Rong rushed forward. He hauled the barely conscious man up from the ground, ripped off his mask, and pulled off his raincoat, only to find a middle-aged man. Zhao Rong was instantly bewildered; the intel he’d received stated that the Rainy Night Killer was a handsome young man. How could this be a middle-aged one?

He immediately questioned him, ”Spit it out. Are you the Rainy Night Killer?”

The middle-aged man, his head bleeding, said, ”What Rainy Night Killer? I was just here to cut reeds from the lake in this grove…”

Listening to the man’s words, Zhao Rong took another look at his face. He looked like a common laborer. He continued his questioning, ”If you were just here to cut reeds, why were you wearing a raincoat and a mask?”

The middle-aged man pointed to his clothes. ”Sir, these are waders for working in the water while cutting reeds, you understand? They’re not a raincoat…”

Hearing this, Zhao Rong took a closer look and saw that the man was indeed wearing waders, not a raincoat. The two looked so similar that he had been mistaken at first glance. However, Zhao Rong noticed the mask on the man’s face and grew suspicious again.

”If you came to this grove to cut reeds, then why wear a mask?” Zhao Rong asked.

The middle-aged man looked as if he didn’t know whether to laugh or cry. ”Are you young people nowadays so nearsighted from staring at your phones and TikTok all day? Take a good look at this thing on my face. Is it a mask, or a mosquito hood?”

Zhao Rong knew that the lake in the grove was swarming with mosquitoes, so anyone coming to cut reeds would have to wear something to protect against bites. He looked closely and saw that the middle-aged man was indeed wearing a mosquito hood, not a mask.

Zhao Rong couldn’t help but sigh. Damn it. How could I be so unlucky? We caught the wrong guy.

Just as Zhao Rong was about to let the man go, his assistant stepped forward. Noticing the scythe in the man’s hand, he asked, ”Be honest, why are you carrying a scythe?”

Hearing such a foolish question, the middle-aged man immediately retorted, ”I’m here to cut reeds. What am I supposed to use, my bare hands?” As he spoke, he lowered the basket from his back and tipped out a large pile of freshly cut reeds.

Although the man had proven he wasn’t the Rainy Night Killer, Lili was still cautious and reminded Zhao Rong, ”Brother Zhao Rong, didn’t you buy a lie detector online? You should really use it on him now…”

Hearing Lili’s words, Zhao Rong thought she had a point. To be absolutely certain, it was best to test him. He took out the lie detector, but the moment the man saw the device, a look of panic flashed across his face. When Zhao Rong saw the change in the man’s expression, a flicker of suspicion sparked in his heart. He aimed the lie detector at the man and began testing every statement he had made. To his astonishment, the test revealed that every single word the middle-aged man had spoken was a lie.

Zhao Rong gasped. He immediately confronted the man, ”Tell me the truth. Are you the Rainy Night Killer or not?”

The middle-aged man shook his head, firmly denying it. ”Even though everything I said before was a lie, I’m really not the Rainy Night Killer…”

Although Zhao Rong suspected the man was the Rainy Night Killer, he still had no concrete evidence. He immediately pulled his phone from his pocket and opened the Paradise Shopping Cart app. Once it was open, he typed ”Misdeed Replay Machine” into the search bar. As he was purchasing the device, he turned to his assistant and the three women. ”This man may be cunning, but I have a Divine Artifact that can play back all his past misdeeds like a video, right on my phone.”

When the middle-aged man on the ground heard that the young man intended to display all his evil deeds on a phone like a movie, his expression grew even more tense.

Hearing that Zhao Rong was buying such a powerful artifact, the assistant chuckled. ”Brother Zhao Rong, with a piece of high-tech gear like that, we won’t have to worry about this guy spouting more lies.”

The three women stared at the middle-aged man and issued a warning. ”Listen here, no villain can escape Brother Zhao Rong’s discerning eye. If you’ve done something wrong, you’d better confess now. If you’re the killer, just admit it. Otherwise, if you refuse to do this the easy way, you’ll be forced to do it the hard way, and Brother Zhao Rong will make sure you die a death uglier than a pig’s…”

Before they could finish, a package dropped from the sky. As Zhao Rong picked it up, he said to the man on the ground, ”With this gadget, every wicked thing you’ve ever done will be laid bare for all to see.”

With that, he opened the package containing the Misdeed Replay Machine. However, as soon as he opened it, the middle-aged man burst out laughing. ”A Misdeed Replay Machine?” he jeered. ”You’re just making that up, aren’t you?”

After speaking, he glanced at the Divine Artifact Zhao Rong had bought. This kid obviously just bought a projector, but he’s trying to scare me by calling it some ’Misdeed Replay Machine.’ How ridiculous.

But before the man could finish his thought, Zhao Rong switched on the device and pointed its lens at him. The moment Zhao Rong pressed a button, his phone connected to the Misdeed Replay Machine via Bluetooth. He pressed another button. A beam of light shot out from the machine, striking the forehead of the man on the ground. Then, Zhao Rong held up his phone for everyone to see.

Seeing this series of actions, the man on the ground remained unconvinced. ”Go on, kid,” he taunted. ”Keep putting on a show. Let’s see how long you can keep it up…”

But before he could finish his sentence, videos began appearing on Zhao Rong’s phone, all neatly organized by date.

When Zhao Rong and the women saw the content of the videos, they began to seethe with rage, gritting their teeth. The videos showed the middle-aged man, on dark and rainy nights, first donning a Human Skin Mask to appear as a handsome young man. Then, he would put on another, more terrifying mask, pull on a raincoat, and head out with his scythe. He had murdered several beautiful young women at a school. Not only that, but he had also abducted every man at the women’s college who wasn’t dressed as a woman, hiding them in a basement beneath the school gymnasium.

Most appallingly, the man had used spells to enter people’s dreams and command them to kill. Zhao Rong clearly saw a clip where the man on the ground had entered Lili’s dream, directing her to attack Xuelian and Yu Lan with a knife and scissors.

After fast-forwarding through all the videos, Zhao Rong picked up a brick from the ground and walked toward the man. Raising it high, he demanded, ”Well? Do you still deny that you’re the Rainy Night Killer?”

When the middle-aged man saw all of his past crimes played out as videos, he completely deflated. He looked at Zhao Rong with a defeated expression and said, ”I thought I was killing in secret on rainy nights, without a soul knowing… But I never imagined your team had installed cameras everywhere I went and recorded everything I did…”

He sighed. ”Just my luck, running into a team as incredible as yours… To think you laid the groundwork twenty years in advance, installing cameras everywhere…”

Hearing this, Zhao Rong and his team burst into laughter.

Lili picked up a brick and smacked the man with it. ”What groundwork? What cameras? We never installed a single camera. The reason we could show everything you did is because Brother Zhao Rong bought a Divine Artifact online that can replay a villain’s evil deeds. That’s how we exposed you.”

Hearing this, the middle-aged man slapped himself across the face and muttered, ”I have no one to blame but myself. And the fact that e-commerce and online shopping are so advanced these days… you can buy anything.”