Chapter 60: A Desperate Escape Plan
by xennovel“Brother Wang, what do you think?”
Inside the villa’s main hall, Xiao Yu looked over at Wang Dong.
“I don’t know; there’s nothing I can do either,”
Wang Dong shook his head, his expression icily menacing.
“If you don’t know, then why that smug look?”
Xiao Yu chuckled softly.
The deadline for the system task was fast approaching—just one more day.
If we can’t pin down the main culprit, the case remains unsolved—and this is going to hit us hard…
Xiao Yu wrinkled his nose and activated Wangdie’s Nose.
Luckily, all the villa’s doors and windows had been sealed these past few days.
There was a faint trace of suspect Owen’s scent lingering in the air.
Following the scent, Xiao Yu strode up to the second floor.
He reached the expansive floor-to-ceiling window.
But the scent had suddenly disappeared?
No—it was Owen. He had opened the window and slipped out.
Escaping?
Jumping off the villa?
With a network of surveillance throughout the community, there was no way he could vanish without a trace.
Xiao Yu furrowed his brows. “Are you serious?”
There on the balcony, Wang Dong’s brow was tightly knit.
His mind raced as he analyzed every possibility.
Yet every path led to a dead end!
“Forcing me to use my trump card?”
Xiao Yu’s expression turned icy; his eyes grew cold and unfeeling. “As you wish!”
Simulating a Criminal Mindset!
“If I were… Owen,”
“how would I escape the villa, leave this community, the city—even the country?”
“Conventional methods are virtually impossible.”
“The villa seems perfectly normal on the surface; any attempt at disguise would only expose flaws—it won’t work!”
“So, how could I really vanish? What options do I have?”
“Option one, using a glider on a windy day… not very realistic!”
“Option two, hiding in a secret room within the villa for an escape… no, that won’t do!”
“Option three, neither the sky nor the ground offers a solution—what about going underground?”
“Only by retreating underground can I completely avoid surveillance. Is that the answer?”
“Drain pipes? Gas lines? Communication cables… No, they all lie within the community with no exit to the outside world… wait!”
“I could use these pipes to sneak into another resident’s home. As long as the police don’t catch me and assume I’ve left the community, they might eventually lift the lockdown, giving me a chance to escape.”
“But no—the police aren’t fools. If I vanish, they’d search every home in the neighborhood.”
“That leaves only the most extreme method: infiltrating another resident’s house, threatening them, and using their car to break out?”
“Since most villas come with a private garage, that seems to be the only viable option.”
“Yet even in a car, I’d catch the attention of the security and the cameras… What about hiding in the trunk? But if I did that, how would I force anyone to cooperate?”
“Maybe… I could use a child as leverage to compel an adult to drive, hiding together in the trunk?”
“Is that really how I vanish? Why complicate things so much?”
“I see… my plan was to deliberately divert the police’s attention to the villa, stalling them long enough for me to get further away!”
The cold, numb look in Xiao Yu’s eyes gradually faded as he regained his composure.
He calculated that no more than two minutes had passed during his analysis.
The reasoning wasn’t all that difficult.
It was just that Xiao Yu’s high IQ allowed him to deduce the answer so quickly!
But then…
Wang Dong suddenly appeared before him, staring in disbelief as if he were looking at a monster.
“Damn, just when I was enjoying my own genius, the boss shows up…”
Instinctively, Xiao Yu felt a surge of resistance—a pang of guilt and apprehension.
“Do you even have a human brain?”
Snapping back to reality, Wang Dong glared at Xiao Yu. “How could you figure that out so fast?”
Looking for trouble again? Xiao Yu rolled his eyes. “Can’t you be a little smarter?”
In a past life, his colleagues had regarded Wang Dong like the monster he appeared to be.
This time around, to avoid being seen as a monster, he forced himself to ‘shut down’ his brain.
Unless absolutely necessary, he never allowed his full mental capacity to activate.
It’s like having a Barrett but treating it as if it were a mere walking stick.
Is there really someone who despises their own brilliance so much?
Xiù Er—was she truly as genuine as her name implied?
Only someone as reckless as Xiao Yu would pull off such a stunt!
“You call that being smart?”
Time was of the essence. ‘Now isn’t the moment to debate IQ,’ Wang Dong snapped, rolling his eyes. “Let’s go, no time to waste!”
Assuming Xiao Yu’s deductions were correct,
more than a day’s head start should be enough for Owen to escape the city—far, far away!
But any vehicle used would have a record, making it traceable.
Identifying the exact car would be even simpler.
In a community with few residents, tracking down who has children or who travelled recently would be a breeze.
Half an hour later, Xiao Yu kicked open the door of a villa and burst in.
Inside a villa bedroom, he found a male resident bound to a bed.
“Help, save my wife and kids!”
As the tape over his mouth tore away, the resident roared.
“Don’t worry.”
Xiao Yu patted the man’s shoulder. “They’ll be fine!”
With that, he dashed out of the villa.
He sprinted to the community fitness area and jumped into a waiting helicopter.
The helicopter’s roaring blades lifted it into the sky.
“The vehicle has been locked on!”
Amid the roar, Wang Dong shouted at Xiao Yu.
Xiao Yu closed his eyes, his anger surging.
That foreign bastard, with his mixed heritage, dares return to wreak havoc—just wait, I’ll make you pay!