After the frail beauty went to the countryside, she went crazy with scientific research.

Chapter 133, Episode 0137: A Nightmare
In the dead of night, a muffled thud came from the backyard.

Then a suppressed, hoarse voice growled in dissatisfaction, "You fucking keep your voice down, or you'll wake up the people inside, and I'll take your head."

After a rustling sound of fabric rubbing together, everything returned to calm.

A figure lay motionless on the kang (a heated brick bed), clearly undisturbed by the noises outside.

Suddenly, through a crack in the glass window, an extremely ugly face covered in scars appeared. Its eyes, somewhat snake-like with a hint of piercing light, gave the impression of seeing a ghost.

The scarred man scanned the room, and after confirming that the people inside were fast asleep, he tried to open the window.

After trying both windows, none of them could be opened. Not daring to make a loud noise and wake people, they had no choice but to go around to the main room.

He made a gesture of going around behind him, and then reached forward with his hands and feet tucked in.

Little did they know that their every move after they came down the mountain had been observed by a large group of people.

Two policemen were standing at the front gate; they were Lin, the county's team leader, and Xiao Liu, who had come specifically to arrest them.

Looking at the two furtive figures, Xiao Liu leaned close to Lin's ear and whispered, "Is Lin Zhiqing a fortune teller? How can she predict things so accurately?"

That's right, tonight's operation was Lin Yuexi's idea.

Lin Yuexi hadn't originally planned to use herself to lure the murderer out, but the captain's reminder gave her an idea. Well, that's not quite right. It should be said that the captain's words reminded her of some things she had previously overlooked.

Since Lin Yuexi's health improved and the weather began to warm up, making it easier to travel, she would occasionally secretly deliver things to the cowshed at night.

There are too many people watching the cowshed, so they have to be careful in everything they do, and it's best if they can't make a single mistake that anyone can take advantage of.

Therefore, the cattle shed must not have any surplus in terms of food, clothing, or daily necessities, and they must not eat better than ordinary people.

In short, the goal is to make people feel like they're just barely surviving.

Therefore, Lin Yuexi would occasionally send them some cooked food that she had collected in her space at night, such as meat soup or medicinal cuisine.

There are more than just her and her third brother living in the house. It doesn't matter if other people know about certain things. There is a certain level of trust between them since they live together, but it is also necessary to keep some things to themselves.

The reason a secret is a secret is because the fewer people who know it, the better. This way, the risk of exposure is reduced, and you and the people you want to protect are safer.

This is also a necessary precaution.

Lin Yuexi didn't even tell Leng Xingran that she was delivering things in the middle of the night.

After being reminded by the captain, Lin Yuexi remembered that on the 28th day before the Lunar New Year, she went to deliver black chicken soup to several elderly people. She arrived a little early that day. Anyway, she took the food directly from her space, and with her spiritual power, she was not afraid of being discovered.

When she returned, it wasn't completely dark yet. As she arrived at her doorstep, two unfamiliar figures were just leaving at the bend in the mountain behind her house.

It was just a fleeting moment, and those days were the time when everyone was visiting relatives and friends, so she just assumed that the two were people from other villages who came to visit relatives and didn't take it to heart.

The climate in Northeast China is cold, and the winters are bitterly cold, making it a natural freezer.

So it's hard to say exactly when Xu Quanmei and the others were murdered. It's possible they were killed before the Lunar New Year and frozen in boxes, or it could have happened recently.

However, in this respect, it's not entirely fair to call those two suspicious. Then, Captain Lin brought evidence: the forensic doctor confirmed that neither victim had died recently. The exact time of death could not be determined due to the lack of a detailed examination [the families did not agree to autopsies], but it could be confirmed that they had been dead for at least three months.

In addition, information found by the police in Xu Quanmei's hometown revealed that Xu Quanmei had a conflict with her family when she went back to visit them. She stole money from her family and bought a train ticket back to Northeast China on the 24th. However, the bus driver and ticket seller from Fuxing County to Hongqi Commune did not remember seeing her on the 27th.

In other words, Xu Quanmei disappeared after getting off the train.

The other victim was also an educated youth who went to the countryside in Zhongyang Brigade. Unlike Xu Quanmei, she had been granted leave and took the train home on the 27th. Her hometown was in the next province, and it would only take less than a day to get there by train. She also disappeared at the train station in Fuxing County.

Then another male educated youth from the educated youth settlement reported to the brigade leader that on the afternoon of the 28th, two strange men came to the educated youth settlement. The two men said that they were relatives of Xu Quanmei's family and had the key to Xu Quanmei's house. They said that Xu Quanmei needed to do something in the city and needed certain documents, but Xu Quanmei had forgotten to bring them. They came to help her get them.

The male educated youth saw that they had keys and assumed they were telling the truth, so they gave them directions.

After learning that Xu Quanmei had been murdered [the police had already gone to the educated youth settlement to inquire], he felt more and more that the two people might be involved. He was afraid of being implicated, so he didn't dare to tell the police. But his conscience wouldn't allow it, so he secretly went to find the brigade leader in the evening.

Several things combined suggest that the two figures Lin Yuexi saw from behind were highly suspicious.

Lin Yuexi realized that the two were heading towards the back mountain. If they weren't going to another village, then it was very likely that the two had been hiding in the mountains all along.

Lin Yuexi didn't believe that scum like them, who even kidnapped two innocent women on their escape, would stay quietly in the mountains forever.

Such people have no sense of law; they are driven by lust and have only a limited mind. They hide from being caught, but once lust takes hold, they forget everything else.

Lin Yuexi wasn't sure if the two of them had spotted her that day, but as long as they had come down the mountain, Lin Yuexi felt there was a significant chance she would be being watched.

However, she didn't actually know how to calculate as Xiao Liu said; she just expressed her guess to Team Leader Lin and didn't think the two of them would come tonight.

Everything is based on the premise that those two are really hiding in the mountains near them; otherwise, it's all nonsense.

Looking at Lin Yuexi's face, Captain Lin had no other thoughts. If someone as beautiful as her couldn't attract those two, he'd cut off her head and use it as a football.

Lin Yuexi was only speculating, while Team Leader Lin and his team had already obtained evidence confirming that the two were hiding in the nearby mountains. However, the surrounding mountains and forests were too vast and there was no precise location, so they had no way to catch them.

Now, the possibility of luring people out without expending manpower and resources to search the mountains or sacrificing comrades, and only needing to lie in ambush for a few days, is already incredibly fortunate for them.

Who knew we'd be so lucky? The two of them showed up on the very first night of our ambush.

If he weren't afraid of being accused of 'feudal superstition,' he would have said that Lin Zhiqing was a lucky koi fish reincarnated.

This luck is just too damn good.

He even had an urge to get Lin, the educated youth, a job at the bureau.

The crickets in his mind didn't stop him from keeping a close eye on the situation in the courtyard. A man in front of him had already arrived at the entrance of the main room, his back to the door and his figure swaying slightly.

When the next person also moved to the entrance of the main room, Team Leader Lin pressed his hand against the wall and jumped in.

He roared, "Take him down!"

Immediately, several figures darted out from the shadows and pinned the two people outside the main room to the ground.