Dress up as a pig to eat a tiger

  I suddenly changed color, narrowed my eyes and stared at his eyes, asking word by word: "What did you call me?"

  "Xiao Jiu, isn't your name Jiu, which is just the character for nine? At such a young age, it's fine to be called Xiao Jiu. Don't tell me you want to be called Lao Jiu?" Lu Xun said these words in a nonchalant tone.

  I didn't respond, staring at him intensely for a while before standing up, looking down on him with an arrogant tone: "I'm not interested in your secrets at all, stay down there, I'm leaving." After finishing speaking, I turned around and picked up my own bag, ready to leave. This person, I've lost patience with, it's better for us to go our separate ways, lest we end up annoying each other to death.

  Just as I was about to leave, a sentence suddenly popped up from below: "What if I said this secret is related to Lao Tie's disappearance?"

  It took the strength of nine cows and two tigers to pull it up again, I was so exhausted that I collapsed on the ground, my two arms didn't feel like mine anymore. He, on the other hand, sprang up from the ground, sat beside me, and calmly said: "I didn't expect you had the potential to be a strongman, not bad." I directly kicked his butt with my foot and weakly growled: "Can you stop talking now?"

  Just now he released a tempting bait, and even if I'm not a fish, I still can't help but take the hook. This thing happened right under Lao Tie's nose, it's impossible to ignore, and I suspect that Lao Tie being kidnapped is related to Peng Ye and others losing contact, it's very likely that they were done by the same party. As for whether this party is human or ghost, it remains to be investigated.

  She rubbed her sore buttocks that I had kicked and asked with a scowl: "Why are you so rough?"

  I let out a heavy hum, my tone threatening: "If you don't speak up, there's something even ruder waiting for you." With a flick of my hand, the small knife he had left behind was flung to his feet, making a crisp sound.

  His expression was slightly awkward, and he turned to take out his phone from his pocket. He lowered his head and started fiddling with it. As I was getting more and more agitated, he looked up at me and beckoned me over with a crook of his finger, "Come see." I leaned in slightly, my gaze drifting onto the screen of his phone, and was taken aback. I quickly moved closer, staring intently at the red dot on the screen, before asking after a while, "What's this..."

  "It's exactly what you think it is." Lu Xun replied affirmatively.

  No wonder he would occasionally take out his phone and look at it, even when Lao Tie was missing. It turned out that he wasn't one of those "bow-head" people after all, but rather his phone had tracking software on it. On the screen map, seven other people appeared as small red dots, excluding himself, while a blue marker in the middle indicated the phone's current location, and next to it was a single red dot representing me.

  He raised his head, narrowed his eyes and stared at him, his tone cold: "Speak, when did you install a tracker on me?"

  His eyes narrowed slightly, but the corners of his mouth still curved into a smile: "Don't be so serious, there have been two missing incidents before and after, we must make all preparations when entering the mountain again."

  "When?" I repeated, emphasizing the question and not wanting to hear his nonsense.

  This time he wiped the smile off his face and turned expressionless, "That time you pushed me into the creek."

  When I recalled that scene in my mind, I took a deep breath and my hand trembled as I pointed at his nose tip, "You're good, Lu Xun, pretending to be a pig to eat the tiger, huh!" His gaze drifted to my fingertips, his tone laced with shallow mockery: "Xiao Jiu, who's the pig and who's the tiger, can't say for sure yet."