They Let Me In… Now There’s No Escape

Ye Qing was led by Uncle Liu’s adjutant to the checkpoint at the cordon for registration.
Along the way, Ye Qing also observed this cordon.
From the layout along the road, this cordoned area was a circle with a radius of about 800 meters, centered on the villa of Dr. Hadi and Sister Fuzi.
The police forces were distributed along this circle, forming a large encirclement net, preventing anyone from entering or leaving.

Inside the encirclement net, aside from Chenlian and those related to Chenlian, the suspected Variant, all other villa residents had been forcibly evacuated.

Warnings had also been issued in the surrounding area, which was why Ye Qing had seen so many people when he arrived at the villa district.

The purpose of this net went without saying—it was to prevent the Variant suspect from escaping, and also to protect nearby residents from harm.

As for why they had cast such a large net, Ye Qing had his own speculation.

It was likely that they had encountered Variants who forcibly resisted in the past, and had been unable to suppress the Variant’s abilities.

At the same time, without a tight and sufficiently large encirclement, the Variant had used their ability to instantly break through the very short radius of the encirclement net.

The escaped Variant had even reached a point where the inspectors could no longer continue tracking them.

That was Ye Qing’s speculation—that for the current government, Variants were simply that troublesome of an existence.

“You’re Ye Qing, right? You can go in,”
the adjutant said to Ye Qing somewhat politely after completing the registration.
As for why he had suddenly become so polite, Ye Qing had a good idea.

Ye Qing nodded to the adjutant, then walked through the checkpoint gate opened for him by the guards, heading toward the villa where Chenlian and the others were.

Walking through the open outer gate of the villa, Ye Qing arrived at the villa’s front door.
Just as he was about to ring the doorbell, the door was opened by someone else first.
With a “click,” Ye Qing took a step back to avoid being hit by the door, then looked inside.

“Ye Qing! How did you get in?”
Fuzi, who had opened the door, asked with confusion. Beside Fuzi stood Chenlian, holding Fuzi’s hand.

“Ah, well… let’s just say I pulled some strings?”
Ye Qing scratched his head awkwardly and said in an uncertain tone.
‘Hey, why did I phrase that as a question!?’

“Ye Qing~!”
Chenlian trotted up to Ye Qing, then hugged him tightly, burying her head in his chest.

‘Hey, what kind of surprise is this?’
Feeling somewhat resigned, Ye Qing let Chenlian hug him, placed his hand on her head, and patted her gently a few times.
“Okay, okay,” he said softly.

‘Hey, why does this feel like how I treat Xiao Fei and Xiao Bai at home!
Hey, over there! Don’t look at me with that cold expression like I’m some kind of harasser while casually picking up your phone to call 110!’

From behind Fuzi, Lin Yuxuan appeared, looking at Ye Qing with a cold, expressionless gaze, and casually picked up her phone and started dialing.

Yuxuan had already changed into the outfit Sister Fuzi had given her—a black louvered short skirt paired with a blue strapless off-shoulder top.

The top fit her exceptionally well, directly and perfectly accentuating Lin Yuxuan’s slender figure.

The black short skirt also exposed Lin Yuxuan’s slender, long, beautiful legs.

Ye Qing had no choice but to helplessly make gestures and expressions at Yuxuan while Chenlian was still hugging him, his back turned to her.
This was—Chenlian—of her own accord—hugged—me. Force majeure!

“Hmph!”
In the end, Lin Yuxuan let out a cold snort.

Ye Qing sighed and looked down at Chenlian, who was still burying her head in his chest.
‘Hey, little one! If you don’t let go soon, big brother is going to be in serious trouble!
Hey, why do I feel like I said something like this yesterday too!?’

After a while, Chenlian finally seemed satisfied.
She let go of the hug and showed Ye Qing a friendly smile, her large purple eyes narrowing slightly.
She looked remarkably charming and cute!

Looking at Chenlian like this, Ye Qing could only scratch his head helplessly and return a smile.
‘Hey, this isn’t the time for this kind of thing!’
Ye Qing dropped his smile and said to Fuzi with a serious expression,
“Sister Fuzi! Have the countermeasures been worked out?”
As he spoke, Ye Qing gently pulled Chenlian inside the villa, then casually closed the rather large door behind him.

“Mm~. Just a few instructions,”
Fuzi nodded in affirmation and answered calmly.

Ye Qing took off his shoes and put on the slippers that had been laid out at some point.
Everyone inside the villa was doing the same now.
‘Sister Fuzi works pretty quickly!’
Thinking this, Ye Qing continued questioning Fuzi. “What instructions?”

“There are three instructions,”
Fuzi said as she led everyone into the living room.
“One: Do not resist.
Two: Have Yue Chenlian open the door.
Three: Cooperate without conditions. That’s it—”
Fuzi finished speaking and stood in front of the living room table, looking at Ye Qing.
Chenlian, led by Yuxuan’s hand, sat down on the sofa across from Ye Qing. Both she and Yuxuan looked at Ye Qing.

“Mm~!”
Ye Qing stroked his chin thoughtfully, then was about to sit down when he froze.
He suddenly realized that he had become the focus of three women.
Breaking out in a cold sweat, Ye Qing asked the three in an extremely puzzled, helpless voice,
“Hey, why are you all looking at me? Am I especially handsome today?”

The moment these words left his mouth, he suddenly felt a strong storm rushing toward him.
Ye Qing reflexively brought the leather bag from his back around to block this lightning-fast kick.
Only a dull “thud” was heard.
Ye Qing was pushed back by the strong impact transmitted through the weapon and fell onto the sofa.
Lin Yuxuan also quickly and smoothly withdrew her right foot, which had just kicked.
All of this happened in the blink of an eye.

Lying on the sofa, Ye Qing shouted at Lin Yuxuan, helpless and somewhat angry,
“Hey! That kick was definitely serious, wasn’t it!”

Lin Yuxuan, standing beside the table next to Fuzi, bent down angrily and scolded Ye Qing,
“Who told you to say something like that!? Use your brain, idiot!”
With that, she flicked her long flowing hair behind her and turned her head away with her arms crossed. She looked genuinely angry.

Chenlian, sitting across from Ye Qing, could only stare blankly at Lin Yuxuan, completely unable to understand what had happened.
Fuzi, somewhat surprised, opened her mouth slightly, then smiled wryly at the two.
“You two have such a good relationship!”

“Not at all!”
Ye Qing and Lin Yuxuan shouted at Fuzi in unison, then each turned their heads away in opposite directions.

‘With a childhood friend like this, I could die at any moment without even knowing it!’
Ye Qing thought angrily to himself.

Scolded like this by the two, Fuzi twitched and let out a few dry laughs.
Then she put her hands on her hips and said to the two in a voice so cold it was terrifying,
“Ye Qing! Lin Yuxuan!”

Ye Qing and Lin Yuxuan couldn’t help but feel the intense cold and tremble slightly.
Then they mechanically turned their heads toward Fuzi, who was radiating chilling cold, and both asked in fearful, trembling voices,
“Fu… Fuzi… Sister?”

“Mom!”
Just then, Chenlian suddenly wrapped her arms around Fuzi’s right hand, which was on her hip, and looked up at Fuzi with a pitiful expression.
Fuzi instantly canceled the cold aura around her, turned her head to look at Chenlian with a pained expression, and gently stroked Chenlian’s small head.
With an apologetic tone, Fuzi said softly to Chenlian,
“I’m sorry, Chenlian. Did I scare you?”

Chenlian vigorously shook her head, her soft pink hair swaying.

‘Sa… saved!’
Ye Qing and Lin Yuxuan simultaneously thought this with lingering fear.
Then they both bowed to Chenlian and Sister Fuzi.
“We’re sorry!”
They apologized with deep remorse.

Fuzi sighed and said calmly to Ye Qing,
“Ye Qing, think about the meaning of these instructions.”
Fuzi simply moved past this matter.

“Right. Got it,”
Ye Qing responded seriously immediately, then sat down.

‘That’s right. This is definitely not the time for this kind of thing. The judgment is coming soon!
But I really didn’t expect Yuxuan to get angry like that.
No, is it precisely because of the current situation that she got angry?
Anyway, never mind that for now. I need to think.’
After this internal roast, Ye Qing supported his chin with his hands on his knees and fell into deep thought.

“First, the instructions are to have Chenlian open the door, not resist, and cooperate.
Simply put, the other side should be taking the lead, and we just need to cooperate and do certain things accordingly.
As for why Chenlian should open the door, I think something needs to be done at the doorway.
Wait, does that mean the blood test will be done directly at the door?
Forced? As for cooperation and not resisting—these two points probably aren’t directed at all of us.”

“Let’s go back to the instructions. The first point is not to resist.
That means none of us should do anything that could be seen as resisting.
In other words, something might happen that could provoke us into a resistant reaction.”

“The second and third points should go together, because the third comes after the second.
That means Chenlian should open the door and at the same time cooperate with that person’s actions.
Haah!”
Having said this, Ye Qing breathed a sigh of relief and looked at the three.