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“Should I know?” Chai Rui asked, frowning, his expression puzzled. “I’m just a maintenance worker, only responsible for checking the condition of the villa. As for who the previous owner of the villa was, who the current owner is, when the villa was sold… those are none of my business, and I have no obligation to care.”

Chai Rui's reaction was so natural that the suspicion on the big man's face immediately subsided.

He turned to his companion and asked, "Are there really maintenance personnel in the resort? Did you encounter any when you were on guard duty here before?"

"This..." His companion squinted and thought hard, without giving an answer immediately.

Chai Rui stared intently at him, her palms already damp with a fine layer of sweat.

"...It seems so." After a moment, he said uncertainly, "I think I ran into maintenance personnel a few times when I was on duty before. Those people wore similar clothes to him, so they should be from the same department as him."

"..." The big man raised an eyebrow and looked Chai Rui up and down again.

"Maintenance personnel... since you're here to do maintenance, why don't you come during the day and come at night? It's almost 2 a.m., what kind of maintenance personnel are still working?"

"Do you think I wanted to come this late?" Chai Rui glared at him, her face full of resentment. "I inspected the entire mountain by myself today, and I didn't finish until almost midnight!"

"I originally planned to check the remaining resorts tomorrow, but my wife is not feeling well and needs to go to the hospital tomorrow. I couldn't find anyone else to cover my shift, so I had to finish checking the remaining resorts overnight."

After hearing Chai Rui's explanation, the three burly men exchanged glances, none of them knowing whether to believe him.

He glanced quickly at the three men's faces and, seeing that they were clearly beginning to waver, hurriedly took two steps forward: "Brothers, it's getting late, so don't keep me from finishing my work! I have to rush to the next place after I finish inspecting this villa!"

“…Wait a minute,” the burly man in front of me said, pulling out his phone from his pocket. “I’m going to call our boss and ask for his opinion.”

Chai Rui's heart skipped a beat, and a hint of panic flashed in his eyes.

"Hurry up and hit them! I need to get back to work after this!"

The burly man grunted in response and dialed a number on his phone right in front of Chai Rui.

"Beep...beep...beep..."

The ringing tone echoed faintly in the dark night, and after a long time, no one answered the phone.

"Tsk, no one's answering..." The big man put down his phone, his brows furrowing in annoyance.

Chai Rui secretly breathed a sigh of relief, then pretended to be anxious and urged, "Are you done yet? I'm really in a hurry!"

"..." The big man hesitated for a few seconds, but finally stepped aside to make way for Chai Rui.

"Go in and check it first. I'll call you back later."

Chai Rui clasped his hands in a fist salute to him: "Thank you!"

Then he strode into the villa.

The burly man stared at his retreating figure, but suddenly called out to him, "Wait a minute!"

Chai Rui froze, stunned on the spot: "What are you doing now?"

Big Man: "You two, go with him to do the repairs."

"...The two of us go?" The companion beside him was a little surprised. "If we go there, you'll be the only one left at the entrance."

Big Man: "It won't take him long to do the repairs. I can keep watch here by myself without any problem."

"Alright." His companion wasn't too worried, after all, they had been working here for half a year without encountering any trouble.

"Then you guys keep watch for now, we'll go with him." His companion patted the big man on the shoulder and followed Chai Rui into the manor.

Pei Xingzhi, watching all this from the shadows, smiled with delight.

This was Chai Rui's first time entering this mountain villa, and he was completely unfamiliar with every path inside. If it weren't for the fact that the villa wasn't far from the villa entrance, allowing him to guess the way forward by the direction of the house lights, his plan for tonight would definitely have been exposed because he didn't know the way.

"Look at this streetlight..." He held up his phone and circled the streetlight in front of him twice, pretending to examine it very carefully.

But he didn't actually know what the maintenance personnel were supposed to check. He just checked whatever he saw, and even pretended to kick the stones on the roadside a couple of times.

Then I jot things down in my phone's notes app.

"what……"

The two bodyguards behind him yawned simultaneously, neither paying much attention to Chai Rui. Having worked at this resort for over six months, they had nothing to do but stand guard and patrol.

The long hours of monotonous work had dulled their guard, and they didn't have many doubts about Chai Rui's identity. The moment the burly man decided to let Chai Rui in, they had already begun to believe that Chai Rui was a downtrodden maintenance worker.

Therefore, when Chai Rui was exploring the villa, they didn't pay much attention to him.

He walked towards the light, pretending to inspect it while observing the surrounding environment. In less than ten minutes, he arrived at the courtyard outside the villa.

There were several streetlights in the yard, enough for Chai Rui to find his way.

"Oh dear, this streetlight is a bit dim, I need to change the bulb..." He stood under the streetlight, pretending to be seriously writing something down on his phone.

The two bodyguards were sneaking around and didn't pay any attention to him, so they naturally didn't know that he was taking the opportunity to send a message to Pei Xingzhi.

—Brother Pei, I've arrived at the villa.

Pei Xingzhi replied instantly: How is it? Have you seen Ayuan?

While secretly observing the two bodyguards out of the corner of his eye, Chai Rui frantically typed on his phone.

—Not yet. The villa is quiet; there's been no sign of my sister-in-law yet.

"Get out! Get out of my way! I don't want to hear you speak!!"

The message had just been sent when a shrill female voice suddenly came from a room on the second floor of the villa.

Chai Rui reflexively turned off his phone and turned to look upstairs.

"Eh……"

One of the bodyguards sighed helplessly, shook his head and said, "Here we go again. How can this young lady be so troublesome... She has a big argument every three days and a small argument every two days. I'm tired of listening to her argue even if she's not tired of it."

"Tsk..." Another bodyguard nudged his arm and winked at Chai Rui, "Don't say anything out of line..."

“…Oh.” He shut his mouth sheepishly, not daring to say anything more.

However, Chai Rui instantly identified the woman's voice based on his two complaints.

He left the streetlight, turned around and walked to another streetlight, looking up to examine its lampshade.

"This lampshade is covered in rust; it needs to be replaced..."

As he spoke, he picked up his phone and quickly tapped on the screen, sending a message to Pei Xingzhi.

"Brother Pei, I can hear your wife's voice."