Daily Intelligence System: Don't Kill Me, Honey!

Chapter 574: Chapter 179 Chen Jie: Are You Looking for the Lady in My Bed? (10,000 Words, Please Subscribe)

”Where’s my wife? Where is my wife?”

Nan Batian’s voice rose up in the courtyard. Upon hearing his roar, the four disciples standing guard outside exchanged looks before rushing in.

They saw an ordinary small courtyard, an ordinary room, and a crazed Nan Batian!

Then there was nothing; the wife was gone, and the maidservant Du Juan was gone too.

Nan Batian glared with blood-red eyes at the four trembling young disciples and demanded, ”Where are they? Where is my wife?”

”Gang Leader, she was just right here in the courtyard, we’ve been watching all along without a moment’s lapse, madam, madam can’t just vanish into thin air!”

”She can’t vanish into thin air, so where is she now?”

”You tell me, tell me!”

The four young disciples, faced with the rapidly approaching Gang Leader, knelt on the ground in terror: ”Gang Leader, spare our lives!”

”Spare your lives? You can’t even handle this simple matter, and you don’t deserve to live.”

With a slap, slap... Nan Batian crushed the heads of two of the disciples with his palms, splattering clumps of blood-red ice on the ground.

Seeing this scene, the other two disciples were nearly scared to death. They got up and ran for their lives, but could they truly escape?

Nan Batian easily caught up with one and killed him with a palm strike, then turned to look at the other, whose legs had gone soft with fear, and he could only kneel down and beg for mercy: ”Gang Leader, spare me, please!”

At this moment, Nan Batian’s eyes were bloodshot and he paid no heed to the pleas, walking straight toward him. Just as the man’s life was about to end right there,

Suddenly a voice came through: ”Gang Leader, hold on!”

Hearing this noise, Nan Batian turned toward the doorway, where he saw Tang Ziyue hurry over. He observed the three corpses in the courtyard, looked at the crazed Gang Leader, and the empty yard.

Immediately understanding the situation, Tang Ziyue quickly saluted: ”Gang Leader, please hold off, madam’s disappearance must have a reason; these four were guarding, let’s first ask about the situation.”

Nan Batian’s eyes remained bloodshot, but he still grasped Tang Ziyue’s words and calmed down somewhat. Tang Ziyue said, ”Gang Leader, let me ask.”

”Okay.”

Nan Batian nodded, and then Tang Ziyue turned to the guard and said, ”You see the situation now; you only have a chance to live by telling the whole truth. If you can help find the madam, you may yet survive, else not even a deity can save you.”

The guard disciple nodded repeatedly: ”Thank you, Mr. Tang, for saving my life, thank you!”

Tang Ziyue said, ”Don’t thank me yet. I ask you, after we left today, was there anything unusual?”

”No, there was nothing unusual, everything was as usual. We discussed whether today the Gang Leader would be able to take down Chen Jiusi, and there was no anomaly. Oh yes, in the morning, Miss Du Juan came out briefly to get some fresh fruit before going back in.”

”She asked for fruit?”

Tang Ziyue narrowed his eyes slightly, thinking that asking for fruit at such a time implied no preparation to flee, which meant that the escape was likely accidental or an unforeseen event.

Besides Miss Du Juan asking for fruit, did you notice any other reactions?”

”None, they came out once and then didn’t come out again; we’ve been guarding the door without any negligence.”

”No one came out, but did anyone go in?”

Tang Ziyue inquired.

The guard replied, ”No, absolutely no one went inside; the Gang Leader had forbidden it, and we dared not disobey his orders. If someone had tried to enter, we would have definitely stopped them.”

Tang Ziyue nodded: ”So you’re saying, no one went in, and yet the madam disappeared.”

”It seems most likely that they escaped over the rooftop.”

With that, Tang Ziyue leaped onto the roof, followed by Nan Batian. Tang Ziyue examined the tiles on the roof.

The tiles were fairly intact, but upon searching, he found one that had been crushed, and the break was fresh.

”Mr., have you found anything?”

Nan Batian inquired.

”Look, Gang Leader,” said Tang Ziyue, ”this tile’s break is fresh, just broken today, which means during our outing today, someone snuck in here...”

”And kidnapped the madam!”

Nan Batian cut in upon hearing Tang Ziyue’s words, his eyes flashing red again: ”Damn thief, daring to snatch Nan Batian’s woman, I won’t let them off!”

Tang Ziyue, witnessing the Gang Leader’s state, opened his mouth, unsure what to say.

Gang Leader, this isn’t a kidnapping. If it were, the perpetrator would surely issue demands, but the villain left nothing, not a single note.

What kind of kidnapper takes a person without leaving demands?

Unless... the wife is exactly the kidnapper’s demand.

Which is to say, the kidnapper targeted her...

Tang Ziyue stroked his chin, his thoughts wandering as he considered many things, such as several days ago when the Gang Leader suspected his wife was pregnant and had Liu Yishou check her pulse, only to conclude it was pseudocyesis.

Pseudocyesis, with all the symptoms of a real pregnancy, meant that, apart from Liu Yishou, no one knew the truth of whether it was real or false.

Could it be possible that it was indeed real?

Real hidden under the guise of false?

Tang Ziyue glanced at Nan Batian, who at this moment was frantically shouting, ”Which beast has taken my wife? I’ll kill him, kill him!”

Tang Ziyue then retracted his gaze but his eyes showed pity.

A great man will inevitably encounter an unworthy wife or disobedient son. Gang Leader, such a big hero, unmatched in Mianshui for over twenty years, the Nan Batian, number one of the Thirteen Grand Protectors, renowned across Mianshui County, known by everyone.

Yet, look at him today, such a great hero who went out only to butt his head against difficulties, and upon returning, his wife gone.