Reborn as Tycoon's Wife in the Countryside
Chapter 548 - 417 lies down and pretends to faint

Chapter 548: 417 lies down and pretends to faint

Xiaofeng, of course, was not afraid of the so-called Dagou in front of her.

She merely wanted to gauge the reach of Dagou’s power, which in a way, was also helping her own man.

After all, her man had an obligation to eradicate such harmful influences.

Dagou snatched the object from Xiaofeng’s hand, tested it, and discovered it was just a lighter. He sneered, "I thought it was real. Turns out, it’s a fake. Let me tell you, what you’ve got is real, and if you dare to mess around, believe it or not, your blood will be spilled here today."

He almost believed it was real.

And really, the thing was a convincing replica; at first glance, you couldn’t tell if it was real or not.

"How boring, I thought you’d be scared, but it turns out you’re not afraid at all," Xiaofeng said nonchalantly, confident that she could take back what was hers from Dagou whenever she wished.

"Did you think I was a pushover?" Dagou laughed upon hearing her words, "Now that you’re convinced, behave better for me, or I’ll make you listen."

A woman was all she was, after all. He should be able to handle her, shouldn’t he?

"Dagou, it’s bad, really bad," one of his men rushed in, "Lots of police officers are here, they’ve surrounded the place. Dagou, what do we do, what do we do?"

Dagou was shocked and immediately thought of Xiaofeng: "It was you, wasn’t it?"

"I’ve been with you the whole time, so of course, it wasn’t me."

She had expected the Dragon King to come, not the police. It seemed the Dragon King didn’t want to see her after all.

Dagou grabbed her by the neck, a dagger appearing in his hand, "Dare to call the police, and I will deal with you first, then those officers outside."

"Didn’t you say you have connections in the Imperial Capital? Just a few small cops, and look how scared you are," Xiaofeng taunted with a smirk.

"Shut up," Dagou glared at her fiercely, "Don’t get cocky. Lock her up; I’ll go meet the officers outside."

Yeah, what was there to be afraid of?

Just a call to the Imperial Capital, and he’d be in the clear.

Xiaofeng was locked in a somewhat dim room with nothing but some miscellaneous items—it was a storage room.

Someone was guarding outside, probably fearing she might escape.

Ye Fei was leading the team that arrived.

"Gentlemen, where do you hail from?" Dagou thought they were local officers, but their demeanor suggested they had come from the Imperial Capital.

To get from the Imperial Capital to here took at least three hours, so when had these people arrived?

The woman inside had only been here for half an hour.

"Of course, we’re from the Imperial Capital. We received a report saying that you took off with the Gu Family’s Young Madam," Ye Fei glanced at the people who had come out, not seeing the Young Madam, and narrowed his eyes, "Where is our Young Madam?"

Dagou’s face changed, the Gu Family’s Young Madam? What was that?

They had only brought one woman in just now, could it be her? But in the current situation, of course, he would deny it to the death, "Ahaha, comrade, you must be mistaken. We are local middlemen, legitimate businessmen. Not robbers, we would never engage in abducting and trafficking women, comrade, you must be mistaken, we have no Gu Family’s Young Madam here."

Something dawned on Dagou, and he snorted softly, "Everyone that comes here is here for business. Your family’s Young Madam wouldn’t be here to do business, would she? It’s impossible that she’s here."

Internally, however, he cursed, damn, that woman really had some serious backing.

"We saw the Gu Family’s Young Madam enter this place with our own eyes," old Master Yuan had been waiting outside since he hadn’t been able to rescue Xiaofeng.

Xiaofeng had said her family would come to save her, and he hadn’t expected them to actually show up.

The scale of their arrival was a bit much for him, though, making him uncomfortable.

Now, hearing Dagou blatantly lie, claiming Xiaofeng wasn’t inside, he naturally had to speak up.

"When was that? I have no idea," Dagou glanced at the man, "If you don’t believe it, you can go in and search, she’s really not there."

Dagou stepped aside to let the others enter.

Ye Fei glanced at Dagou. His firm stance—could it mean that the Young Madam had already been moved?

Without further words with Dagou, Ye Fei made a gesture to his men—half of them went in to search while the other half stayed put, watching over these men to prevent any escapes.

"Nothing."

"Nothing," those who went in to search reported back after a thorough search, with no findings.

...

Xiaofeng surveyed the storeroom in the darkness.

The room was ordinary, no different from the storerooms used in a typical farmhouse.

Yet, the temperature in this storage room seemed off, as if it were unusually hot, and the odor was not right either.

Was this an anesthetic?

So, the other party planned to make her disappear alive.

Luckily, her body was in great condition now, and she had no reaction to this minor poison.

Still, she slumped to the ground, feigning weakness to see what the other party intended to do.

A minute later, a figure walked in and fumbled along the wall before opening a secret passage.

They hoisted Xiaofeng, carrying the unconscious Xiaofeng on their shoulder, and headed into the secret passage.

Then, with a thud, they dumped Xiaofeng onto the ground and left.

The surroundings stank, like a sewage ditch.

As she sat up, she realized this was an underground sewer, teeming with rats, cockroaches, and snakes crawling everywhere.

Xiaofeng’s scalp tingled; she took out a type of pill from her space that insects found repulsive and placed it on her body to keep them at bay.

With the pills on her, those creatures indeed didn’t dare approach her.

As she sat up, she noticed there were many skeletons around, suggesting they had secretly disposed of many others.

Indeed, who would have thought that such an underground sewer could be so thoroughly utilized by them.

This bunch of scum.

Not far away, a figure crouched, shivering all over in fear: "Don’t eat me, don’t eat me, mom, save me, mom."

When Xiaofeng approached, the Rat Lantern crawling all over her suddenly scattered.

The person didn’t dare to lift their head and trembled as they spoke, "I’ll be good, just don’t feed me to the rats, I’ll do whatever you say."

"Have you been locked up here for a long time?" Xiaofeng crouched down in front of her: "Why did they throw you down here?"

"I tried to escape, and they threw me down here." Perhaps comforted by the sound of a woman’s voice or because the squishy creatures were no longer skittering all over her body, she felt somewhat relieved, lifted her head, and saw a very pretty face: "I’m just a student who was tricked into coming here."

The girl spoke of her ordeal with tears in her eyes: "Who are you? Can you take me out of here?"

"I’m not sure I can take you out right now. I was thrown in here just like you. This place really is a hidden realm, a real eye-opener." Xiaofeng had never known that the dark side could be so dark.

"Those people aren’t human, they’re beasts, scum," she said with a pained expression: "I’m a college student who accidentally fell into their trap, and ended up here."

"Right, they’re not human." Xiaofeng nodded: "Stand up, if we want to get out, we must let the outside world know what’s happening here. Otherwise, outside, they act all righteous, just like cunning businessmen, and you can’t do anything to them."

Because they can disguise themselves, they feel invulnerable.

"But we can’t get out at all, how can we let the outside know what’s happening here?"

"When I was brought here, I pretended to faint. I have an idea of where the exit might be." Xiaofeng stood up, extending a hand toward the other person: "Be brave, what’s this place compared to the will to survive?"

Compared to survival, rats, snakes, and various insects were nothing.

Encouraged by Xiaofeng’s words, and importantly because the filthy things that were running around just now had all disappeared, presumably scared off by the presence of two living humans here.

"Can you really get out?"

"We’ve got to try. Or would you rather wait here to die?"

"Of course not." The person stood up, still looking fearfully around: "Do you think they might suddenly show up?"

"There are police outside, if I’m not wrong, someone else will be thrown down here soon," Xiaofeng said, covering her nose, disgusted by the stench, feeling like vomiting.

The space inside was quite large. Xiaofeng walked around in a circle and was about to move forward when suddenly footsteps were heard.

Xiaofeng whispered to the female student, "Lie down, pretend to be unconscious."

As she spoke, Xiaofeng feigned passing out.

The female student also collapsed to the ground.

Not far away, the Dragon King: "..."

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