Chapter 26: Oriole in Pursuit

  Sun De Guang was still quiet until 11 o'clock, and Zhou Jian was getting a bit unbearable. Counting today, he had been waiting for four whole days. These four days were a great test of his patience. When Sun De Guang wasn't around, he could take some time to rest and eat something. Now that Sun De Guang was home, he was afraid of missing anything, so far, he hadn't eaten or drunk continuously for twelve hours while keeping an eye on Sun De Guang. For the convenience of going to the toilet, he even moved his chair into the hotel's bathroom, directly facing the toilet.

  Zhou Jian was even thinking that if Sun De Guang didn't make any other moves, he would directly take action and capture him by force.

  If that's the case, he would have to face two Golden Light Gate experts outside the door, and also confront the Thai man head-on. Zhou Jian didn't know what kind of kung fu the Thai man had, but judging from Sun De Guang's respectful attitude towards him, it was likely that his abilities surpassed those of the two Golden Light Gate experts.

  At half past eleven, Sun Deguang finished his bath and entered his bedroom. He didn't know that Zhou Jian, in a stealthy state, was following right behind him. As a professional thief, Zhou Jian's footsteps were lighter than a cat's, making no sound on the floorboards.

  Sun De Guang locked the door, pulled up the curtains, and then lifted the quilt. Zhou Jian looked at him with a dark expression, muttering to himself, "This guy is preparing to sleep already? Today's wait was in vain. If I still can't get it after two more days, I'll either have to use torture or grab the safe box and run away."

  Sun Deguang went to bed, he turned off the bedside lamp and prepared to sleep.

  Zhou Jian dozed off, now he is both tired and sleepy, but the door is locked, and he can't get out. He plans to wait until Sun De Guang falls asleep, then quietly withdraw his consciousness back to his original body, first solve the problem of his stomach, and then think about it later.

  More than ten minutes had passed, and Zhou Jian, who was extremely tired, squatted in the corner of the wall and almost fell asleep. But just then, Sun De Guang lifted up his quilt and sat up.

  Zhou Jian was startled and immediately woke up. What's wrong with this old man? Is he sleepwalking? Can't even let people rest.

  Sun De Guang sat silently at the head of the bed, motionless. His expression was hidden in the darkness and could not be seen clearly.

  He sat for five minutes, then Sun Deguang pulled out a ring gauge 50 robust cigar, picked up the cold and shiny cigar clipper on the table, and with a crisp crackle, the cigar was cut off by a small piece. This scene made Zhou Jian's pupils shrink slightly. He often saw this shiny little clipper in movies, but it wasn't cutting cigars, it was cutting people's fingertips. It turned out that in reality, this thing was used to cut cigars.

  Lighting the lighter, Sun De Guang held the cigar tail, letting the burning end of the cigar slowly rotate in the flame, and the unique fragrance of the cigar's combustion flowed out. Smoking a cigar is a very tedious project, generally only men who have cultivated a certain state of calmness will quietly come to smoke this thing.

  Zhou Jian endured hunger and fatigue, waiting. The flickering sparks illuminated Sun De Guang's gloomy face. Fifteen minutes passed, but the cigar had only burned one-fifth of its length. Moreover, whenever Sun De Guang took a puff, the cigar would go out. At this point, he would patiently relight it with his lighter.

  Zhou Jian first realized that the time spent smoking cigars was much longer than cigarettes. The room was already filled with swirling cigar smoke. Looking at the wall clock in the room, it was already 12 o'clock. At this rate, it would take at least another hour for Sun De Guang to finish this cigar.

  Just then, Sun De Guang, who was holding a cigar, suddenly turned on the bedside lamp. He adjusted the light to its dimmest setting, and then he pulled out a device the size of a mobile phone from his coat pocket. He used this device to scan under the bed, the lamp base, and the desk. The red light on the device flashed on and off. Although Zhou Jian had never seen anything like it before, he guessed that it was some kind of instrument for detecting hidden microphones and pinhole cameras.

  This old fox is really cautious.

  Zhou Jian quietly lurked in the corner of the wall, licking his dry and cracked lips, intently staring at his prey.

  Sun De Guang carefully checked the room, making sure no one was watching. He temporarily placed his cigar on the ashtray and then pushed aside the Simmons mattress on the bed...

  Zhou Jian's heart tightened, could that be the hidden location of the secret formula? Realizing this possibility, Zhou Jian's pupils enlarged several times, and his hunger and fatigue were swept away.

  Sun Deguang lifted up the bed board, underneath it was empty. Sun Deguang crouched down and entered, the carpet there could actually be lifted up.

  Sun De Guang lifted up the carpet and suddenly revealed a silver-gray metal compartment embedded in the cement floor.

  That dark compartment was only one foot square, with a keypad on top and a laser hole.

  Zhou Jianxin was excitedly inexplicable in his heart. This old fox finally showed its tail, and he had been guarding the villa for so many days just to wait for this moment.

  Sun De Guang quickly typed out the twelve-digit password on the keyboard, then removed his glasses and aligned the laser hole with his eyeball. This was clearly an electronic lock that required retinal verification to open. With a soft click, the hidden compartment popped open.

  After seeing the situation inside the dark grid, Zhou Jian was stunned. What he saw was not a secret formula, but a dazzling array of diamonds, and there was actually a small pile of diamonds hidden there, each diamond as big as a metal button.

  Zhou Jian took a deep breath, this scene he had only seen in movies before. How much would diamonds the size of metal buckles cost? He had no idea, but one thing was for sure, the value of these diamonds was absolutely not just 10 million!

  Zhou Jian's heart was racing, he had never understood before why diamonds had such a great appeal to women, but now, with a pile of diamonds within his reach, he finally understood the irresistible temptation that wealth and glory brought.

  Seeing that the diamond was safe and sound, Sun Deguang had already let out a sigh of relief. If there really were bounty hunters visiting this place, it would be impossible for them not to take the diamond along with them.

  Sun De Guang pushed aside the diamonds and flipped out a encrypted U disk from the hidden compartment. He took his laptop to the bedside, pulled out the network cable, inserted the U disk, and opened it. Inside, the twelve UC videos were intact. Sun De Guang saw this scene and a sly smile appeared at the corner of his mouth. He knew he had won for sure.

  He didn't believe that Chu Qingyun, who was in a tight spot financially, could afford to hire a more formidable professional bounty hunter than Bai Yu. With Bai Yu around, even if the Li brothers of the Golden Light Gate were bribed, it would be pointless, not to mention they had no idea where the secret formula was located.

  To prevent the secret recipe from being stolen, Sun De Guang only left this one copy of the secret recipe. That little girl had nothing in her hands, as long as he himself didn't go out for these few days and guarded the recipe tightly, he didn't believe she could come up with anything.

  Sun De Guang was a cautious old fox, he had thought that Chu Qing Yun's smoke screen this time was just to test the waters, he had ruled out all possibilities of hidden microphones and pinhole cameras, but how could he have imagined that in the middle of the night, there was an invisible person in his house monitoring his every move.