Transmigration: I Have Storage Space in the Apocalypse-Chapter 271 - 267 There is an Eyewitness

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Xie Jingchen only left after making sure his wife had safely arrived home, casting one longing glance at her before disappearing from sight.

Earlier, upon detecting Lin Yingxia nearby, Xie Jingchen immediately moved past her at an unsuspecting speed. As he had hoped, that foolish woman truly believed she had avoided him in time and left without any suspicion.

Who would have thought, right after Lin Yingxia left, his beloved wife would appear in his sight? At that time, he was far away and very anxious, but he couldn’t afford to act rashly.

Because the entire plan wasn’t just his responsibility alone.

At the same time, he had to trust his teammates.

More so, he always had faith in his wife. He trusted in both her character and her capabilities, believing she could handle unexpected situations.

However, this wasn’t a reason for him to relax. On the contrary, no matter how much he trusted that his wife could protect herself, he still felt nervous and wanted to rush up to protect her.

Because she was the responsibility of his lifetime.

Luckily, Lin Yingxia was successfully lured away by his teammates!

With an unsettled mind, he broke protocol and personally followed his wife in stealth until he was sure she safely returned to their small western-style house, and only then did he reassuredly return to mission mode.

Regrettably, they found nothing suspicious on the wine puller.

A fat man and a thin man, along with a ten-year-old boy and a small girl of only three or five years old, they seemed just like a normal family, nothing unusual aside from the absence of a woman.

If you insisted on suspecting them to be abductors, it’s even less plausible; Little Ya often stayed home alone, and the little boy was frequently out on the streets looking for customers to pull carts.

The fat man was indeed very diligent, pedaling a small tricycle every day, soliciting customers everywhere.

Though the thin man was limping, he didn’t show any signs of being exceptional. He couldn’t pedal the tricycle, but he did push a cart filled with cakes, water, and marinated eggs for sale at the train station entrance. When he had spare time, he stayed at home to look after the little girl, teaching her to read and write, and so on. All his behaviors seemed perfectly normal.

Because of the fat man’s display of aggression, the small team on the train didn’t dare to hassle the thin man and the little boy too much. They had been settled in the county town since before the New Year, not having just arrived.

Their overt and covert investigations reached a standstill.

Xie Jingchen frowned, feeling as though he had overlooked something. Moreover, his intuition told him that this fat and thin duo was definitely not ordinary.

Although both tried to fight using unorthodox methods, habits formed from repeated practice would inadvertently reveal themselves. Although Xie Jingchen couldn’t decipher their style, he could tell they weren’t simple.

He had hired a small team to gang up on the two, yet ten men could not defeat them. Observing secretly, Xie Jingchen still couldn’t find any clues.

Without any definitive proof, Xie Jingchen naturally couldn’t simply arrest them and had no choice but to order the team to retreat.

Clues are currently scarce; one can only pursue to the extreme among the existing targets to find that fleeting opportunity.

On the other side, Lin Yingxia was lured into a place only to realize that she had been duped!

The person who had lured her was supposed to be a tall and fit man, but at this moment, she found herself surrounded by three old men in a corner piled with trash—a blind spot.

What was paramount was that these three old men reeked of malevolence at first sight, their stench so vile it was nauseating.

After a futile chase, Lin Yingxia realized that the man had been deliberately leading her on a wild goose chase!

Although she had been full of energy when she started running, she suddenly felt her limbs grow weaker unexpectedly. Despite her elite-level abilities, she found herself besieged by three disheveled men, constantly at a disadvantage and taking a beating!

This was not the worst of it—the most infuriating part was these dirty men dared to grope her!

Damn, scum!

Lin Yingxia cursed in her heart and, in a moment of dizzy evasion, was unexpectedly stabbed by one of the old men. The blade in his hand thrust straight into her side above the waist!

"Uh, uh!" Lin Yingxia felt a slight pain and wanted to retreat several steps to distance herself from the attacker. However, her body did not fully comply with her mental commands and wobbled before collapsing straight to the ground!

"Ah, murder—" Coincidentally, a cleaner was about to dispose of trash in the corner and, upon turning the blind corner, witnessed three large men surrounding and assaulting a woman. The woman in her fifties, who had never seen such a terrifying scene before, screamed in sheer terror!

The old man who had stabbed Lin Yingxia felt a rush of fear, but having spent quite some time in this rough area and seen plenty of blood, was emboldened by his accomplices. Pushed by one of his companions, he quickly came to his senses, smoothly pulled out the dagger from Lin Yingxia’s side, shouted "Let’s go," and hustled away with his accomplices!

"Help..." As Lin Yingxia saw the alert men leaving, she tried to mouth a cry for help, but what she didn’t realize was that she had not moved her lips at all, let alone made any sound.

Even what she thought was an immediate reaction to cover her wound had not happened. At the moment the assailant pulled out the dagger, it was the third time her body sustained damage; the first was when she fell, the dagger plunging deeper, worsening the wound!

Lin Yingxia felt powerless to resist, thankful that the three perpetrators had fled and there was a witness on the scene!

The cleaner was extremely alert, squatting on the ground in fear with her head buried in her dirty knees, not daring to look up.

Should she accidentally incur their wrath, she’d have money but no life to spend it! Moreover, as one of the lowest-ranking laborers, her fearful reaction was instinctual.

Lin Yingxia’s life was barely saved by the cleaner’s shriek, and a tall man hidden in the shadows frowned, dissatisfied with the outcome. Yet, as the sound of approaching footsteps grew, he realized he no longer had time to act.

Lin Yingxia was still conscious, feeling entirely weak. Not even the pain from her wound seemed to afflict her, and her vision grew increasingly blurred...

She knew that her current state was not due to the abdominal wound but that she had been poisoned without knowing when.

Her mind was clear, but her hearing and vision were slipping out of control.

The only remaining sensation was her keen sense of smell—the faint trace of a man’s scent in the air...very familiar!

...Who is it?