Chapter 444 - Chapter 444: Chapter 444 Infiltration (1/2)

Chapter 444: Chapter 444 Infiltration

Truthfully, distinguishing Xia Tianhuo’s scent from a recycling depot was not an easy task.

After all, this place was filled with numerous and varied odor, furthermore, Xiang Kun had only met Xia Tianhuo once and thus had limited familiarity with his scent.

However, near the door of the courtyard was a pile of domestic trash with a strong odor belonging to Xia Tianhuo. Thus, Xiang Kun identified his target upon scanning the courtyard for smell traces.

Even though Xiang Kun knew from his sound and scent exploration that Xia Tianhuo was not in the recycling depot, he decided to further investigate.

He didn’t release any Super-connected Objects or Emotion Infused Objects to perform any Super Sensory State’s investigation but removed his shoes, directly climbed over the wall and entered the yard.

It wasn’t because Xiang Kun suddenly decided to act recklessly and storm in, but because he already knew how many people were inside, their locations, their states, and was confident he could go unnoticed.

Xiang Kun didn’t tiptoe or crouch down carefully, but openly crossed the perimeter of piled papers, plastics, and scrap metals. He took a look at the domestic garbage near the yard door, confirmed that a piece of rag entangled in the pile belonged to Xia Tianhuo and then turned around to walk towards the house in the yard — just like a host or a visitor.

Two seconds after Xiang Kun entered the house, a short stout dark-skinned young man, who was zipping his pants, came out of the toilet next to the room. He was yawning and was heading to the room’s entrance.

However, at this time, Xiang Kun had already calmly entered the living room, stood behind two men playing games on an old television using a PS2 for one second, quickly discerned all kinds of scent information in the room one more time, and then walked toward a slightly open door.

Although he knew there was nobody in the room, he didn’t directly push the door open. Instead, he put his hand on the side of the door and exerted force toward the direction of the door hinge, slowly pushing the door open just a little — as he knew the door hadn’t been used for a long time it would moan if pushed directly.

When Xiang Kun silently slipped into the room, closing the door as he entered, the stout young man who had just been to the bathroom entered the living room and lay directly behind the two men playing the game on an old sofa to continue sleeping.

The three residents of the living room were unaware that an “unknown” person had silently, yet clearly, entered the house.

In the room, even without turning on the light, Xiang Kun, using a dim light night vision view, inspected the room carefully — based on the smell, he could almost conclude that Xia Tianhuo had been kept in this room and tied to a chair.

For Xiang Kun now, with absolute dominance in sensory and physical capabilities, acting underneath the eyelids of the three people in the recycling depot was absolutely possible, achieving a ‘blind spot’ type of ‘invisibility’ by escaping their view.

The current situation for Xiang Kun was like playing a real-time 2D game with a “recycling depot” as the map. Other players had small and narrow views with slow actions, while he was overlooking the entire map. Not only could he see the whole field, but he could also see the other players’ fields of view, directly predict their movements, and his controlled character’s movement speed was several times that of the other players. So naturally, it was not difficult to move around safely without being detected on the map.

Of course, the premise is that there are not too many people in the house. If there were ten, twenty people, and they were all awake, it would be difficult for him to directly and conspicuously “infiltrate”.

According to various details in the room, Xiang Kun speculated the previous situation of Xia Tianhuo in the room, and from the degree of scent diffusion, based on his past experience, estimated that it had been more than ten hours since he had been taken away from here.

That is to say, there’s a good chance that Xia Tianhuo was moved out just after the kidnapper had finished their phone call with Old Xia for a ransom.

The layout of the room was very simple and didn’t offer many clues.

Xiang Kun took out a coin from his pocket and flipped it. The coin rolled and fell to the ground but didn’t make any sound as it didn’t made contact with the floor. It hovered sideways and slipped out under the gap in the door, quietly passing through the living room, and went towards the piled-up scrap metal in the yard under silence.

After a while, a noise came from the yard, startling the three men inside. The two men playing the game and the one sleeping on the sofa were all suddenly awakened.

However, Xiang Kun observed their reactions through the crack of the room’s door. They did not immediately go out to check the situation but looked at each other anxiously. After more than ten seconds, they fetched axes and iron bars from the corner of the living room and cautiously went out together.

After the three men went out, Xiang Kun also walked out of the room. He appeared relaxing but was actually very quick and efficient in searching every area of the house including the living room and other rooms, he even quietly opened several drawers and closets for further inspection.

Although, even outside the house, he could, based on the scent, infer the situation and items within the room, and know biology in the house like the back of his hand, there was still some information that scent and sound couldn’t provide, such as information recorded on paper, and certain physical items that had special functions.

But unfortunately, after a simple search, Xiang Kun found no useful information.

It could be possible that the kidnapper had carried away or disposed of all related items while moving out.

In this case, the main clues lie within these three men who remained here. It was yet to be known how much they knew about the kidnapping, the degree of their involvement, and if they knew where Xia Tianhuo has been moved to.

Feeling the three men outside checking the condition of the situation walking back, Xiang Kun leisurely strolled back into the previous room and softly closed the door.

The three men at the recycling depot found that the source of the strange noise was actually a pile of recycling scrap metals that had originally been piled nicely and stably.

They slightly checked around and found nothing unusual; of course, they didn’t bother to re-stack the scrap metal. As they were about to return to the house, another strange sound came from the scrap metal, so they checked again. They spent quite a lot of time and naturally found nothing, but their original nervousness had also subsided a lot, because it was obvious that it couldn’t be man-made, it must have been rats or wild cats. There had been many caught in the recycling depot before, so they didn’t mind and directly turned around to go back.

On the way back, the short, stout, and black-skinned man who had been sleeping on the sofa earlier couldn’t help but ask his companions, “I heard from my cousin that the situation on the street today is a little off. If Brother Kui’s business deal falls short, would anyone come to check us out? If Boss Wu Lun’s people come to inspect, we would die terribly…”

His Mandarin also had a heavy accent, but it was not a Gui Hai accent, but obviously a unique accent from Burma.

The man with the Buddha jade pendant around his neck who had been playing the game frowned and said, “We’re all still here, what are you afraid of! But I’m warning you, don’t fucking say anything outside, including to your fucking relatives, or else you will die even worse.”

This man’s accent was a clear Gui Hai dialect, but obviously, it wasn’t the voice of the kidnapper that Old Xia had recorded.