Chapter 758 — An Uninvited Guest in the Villa: Gu Mengyao's Personal Attendant? Normally Lives in Gu Mengyao's Villa? A Student at Songshan City's No. 1 High School?

This outcome caught Yukun somewhat off guard. He had originally assumed that Wei Zhao must be someone with close ties to Guan Xuewen or Lai Changshan, but neither proved to be the case — instead, Wei Zhao was employed by Gu Mengyao, the young miss of the Gu family!

Yet the more he thought about it, the more suspicious Yukun found the matter. How had a young miss's personal bodyguard ended up in Yanjing City to attend the Yu family's auction? If Gu Pengzhan, as a business magnate, had shown up, that would have been perfectly understandable. But by what identity had Wei Zhao come?

What exactly was his relationship with Guan Xuewen and Lai Changshan? And why would men of their standing bother to cultivate ties with a young miss's personal attendant? This was flatly contrary to all reason!

And so, after leaving Fatty Lai's villa, Yukun fixed his sights squarely on Wei Zhao! He felt that Wei Zhao was even more suspicious than Guan Xuewen. If the fragment was not in Fatty Lai's hands, then it very likely lay with Wei Zhao.

Thus, Yukun's second stop was Gu Mengyao's villa. Fortunate it was — the place was entirely empty, save for a dog.

The dog, however, was well-behaved. Upon spotting Yukun, it obediently curled itself into a ball and paid him no attention whatsoever.

With the dog keeping its distance, Yukun couldn't be bothered to deal with a mere dog either — he went straight to his search!

Fortunate he was: no sooner had he begun searching the ground-floor rooms than he came upon one that looked very much like Wei Zhao's!

The room was full of a man's change of clothing, and according to his investigation, there was no other man living in Gu Mengyao's villa besides Wei Zhao! Yukun settled into that room at once and began rifling through it.

Wei Zhao had simply left the fragment in a drawer, so Yukun had to exert almost no effort at all — on his very first sweep he spotted the fragment and the Wannianchun wood box right there inside!

This box had been bought by Fatty Lai at the auction from members of the Kang family. What exactly it was used for, Yukun did not know, but now that he had seen Wei Zhao store it alongside the fragment, he naturally helped himself to it as well!

Truly a case of searching the world in iron-shod shoes to no avail, only to find it all without the slightest effort!

Yukun had not expected this mission to go so smoothly. And not only had he recovered the fragment he had come for — he had also gotten his hands on an extra fragment and a box of entirely unknown purpose!

Judging by the carelessness with which Wei Zhao had stored it, the man clearly had no idea what the fragment and the box were actually worth. Otherwise he would never have simply tossed them into a drawer — he would have hidden them somewhere far more secure at the very least!

From this one could infer that the reason Wei Zhao had bid on the fragment at the auction was that he already possessed one of his own, and he wanted to study the two pieces together. But what secret could two such fragments possibly reveal?

Yukun curled his lip in disdain. This Wei Zhao truly was a fool — didn't he understand that the fragment put up for auction had been deliberately offered by the Yu family as bait, meant to draw the snake from its hole?

The Yu family already held three fragments, and this had been one of them. In order to collect more, the Yu family had no choice but to employ this snake-drawing tactic — put it out there to lure those who possessed fragments or knew their secrets into acting, whereupon the Yu family would track them down and snatch away the fragments in their possession as well!

The method was somewhat dishonorable, but the Yu family's people were extraordinarily capable. Even if someone grew suspicious afterward, no evidence could be found.

Just like this time — Yukun himself had never imagined things would go so smoothly!

No sooner had the fragment and the Wannianchun wood box come into his hands than that wretched dog in the living room erupted into a frenzy of barking! It startled Yukun half to death!

Was there something wrong with this dog? It hadn't barked before, but chose to bark precisely the moment he picked up the fragment and the Wannianchun wood box! Could it be that the dog was barking because he had taken things from the villa — and hadn't barked earlier for exactly the same reason?

Irritated, Yukun didn't think too deeply about it, and naturally failed to notice the sound of a car arriving outside the villa's grounds!

In truth, vehicles did regularly pass by outside the villa. The people who lived here were wealthy, and they generally returned home at this hour of the evening. So Yukun never once considered that someone had come back to the villa.

He assumed the dog was barking only because he had taken things! And who could blame him for thinking so — the timing was just too coincidental. Who would have guessed that the very moment he picked up the fragment and the Wannianchun wood box, Wei Zhao and the others would return?

General Weiwu's silence after Yukun first arrived at the villa had been due to an instinctive fear — the dangerous aura Yukun carried frightened the dog! It was much the same as the oppressive presence Wei Zhao had once brought with him, so General Weiwu felt an instinctive fear of Yukun.

It was afraid that Yu Kun would hurt it, and that was why it had curled itself into a ball and paid Yu Kun no heed! Yet General Mighty could also tell that Yu Kun had not come with good intentions!

And so, after Gu Mengyao's car returned to the villa, General Mighty feared that if Gu Mengyao entered rashly she would be harmed by Yu Kun. To keep Gu Mengyao from coming to any harm, General Mighty barked — it was warning Gu Mengyao, telling her that there was danger inside the villa and that she must not come in!

Gu Mengyao had always treated General Mighty kindly, and General Mighty repaid kindness with kindness; there was nothing blameworthy in that. But Yu Kun mistook General Mighty's meaning, and took it that the dog was simply displeased that he had taken something.

So a wave of disgust rose at once in Yu Kun's heart. A mangy dog like you — I spared your life when I came in, and you ought to have counted yourself lucky and stayed quietly where you were. And you still dare to bark? You truly don't know whether you're alive or dead!

How formidable was Yu Kun? A skilled hand of the late Yellow Rank, he drove a kick straight into General Mighty's body, sending the dog flying and leaving it coughing blood on the ground with its organs ruptured — plainly it would not live.

The moment Gu Mengyao entered the villa, she saw General Mighty lying dead on the floor, and beside General Mighty stood a man in black. Her heart lurched, and she roughly understood why General Mighty had suddenly begun barking so loudly!

Gu Mengyao and General Mighty had played together since childhood, and she knew something of the dog's character. The dog bullied the weak and feared the strong — the moment it laid eyes on Wei Zhao it turned into a coward! Though Gu Mengyao said nothing of it, she knew it well enough in her heart.

Fortunately, Wei Zhao had come solely to protect her. General Mighty paid him no mind, and Gu Mengyao had no worries on that score.

But the man in black in the villa now had plainly not come with good intentions. Gu Mengyao believed that if she had not suddenly returned, General Mighty would have hidden himself well and would not have lightly provoked this intruder. It did not matter if the villa lost a few things — Gu Mengyao did not care.