Shi Gaofei smiled and said, "Do you think you can catch me?"
"As far as I know, you're just a clerical researcher without any superpowers," the bounty hunter chuckled. With a flick of his wrist, bone spurs sprouted from his hands.
"Oh, so you're a melee combat-type ability user." Shi Gaofei smiled.
"Don't resist, I don't want to hurt you. The wanted poster says to take you alive." The bounty hunter slowly walked towards Shi Gaofei. The two were less than five steps apart. Facing such a weak non-superpowered person, he was confident that he could knock him to the ground with one pounce.
But he had only taken three steps when he saw a deep, mocking smile appear on Shi Gaofei's lips. A sense of unease immediately arose in the man's heart…
Suddenly, his whole body shuddered violently. He had taken a step, but abruptly, he seemed to turn into a puppet, stiffening up and falling headfirst to the ground with a thud, his forehead hitting the toilet floor tiles hard.
The veins on his face, neck, and sides bulged out from under his skin, and his bloodshot eyes stared at Shi Gaofei with a horrified look.
Shi Gaofei walked over slowly. He calmly removed the earphones from his ears, chuckled softly, and raised his wrist, revealing a watch. "Look," he said, "this is my watch. Unlike your watch-style detector, this is an over-frequency emitter. It can emit over-frequency sound waves with an effective range of fifteen meters. These waves will instantly paralyze a person's nerves. You'll be completely stiff, and for at least thirty minutes, you won't even be able to blink. Hehe, do you know how I made this thing? One day two years ago, I suddenly watched an American movie, Iron Man, and it featured something like this. I had a sudden inspiration and made it. This little toy isn't difficult to make, and it's very effective. Isn't it?"
Shi Gaofei had already squatted down, reached into the guy's pocket and felt around, then took his watch and put it in his own pocket: "Sorry. I've been on the run lately and I'm short on equipment. I'll have to borrow yours for now."
He patted his pocket again and pulled out something that looked like a pen, but one end was a small lamppost.
"Look, doesn't this look familiar? Hehe... It's that brainwashing and memory-erasing stuff from the movie Men in Black. Hehe, see, sometimes watching movies can be very helpful for researchers like us to broaden our thinking."
He deliberately held the pen up to the guy's eyes, grinning maliciously as if showing off: "Look, this pen cap has three markings. The first is green, which erases about twenty minutes of your memory. The second is yellow, which erases about three days of your memory, and the third... erases about ten to fifteen days of your memory! In a moment, you'll see the red light flash, and then you'll forget what just happened. You won't even remember seeing me, or how you ended up at this airport in K City, China. You won't remember why you came here... Good luck."
Shi Gaofei smiled and put on his sunglasses.
A minute later, when Shi Gaofei came out of the restroom, he saw Suosuo standing outside with her arms crossed. Shi Gaofei smiled and handed her the watch-style detector he had seized: "Here you go."
Suo Suo casually took it, looked at it, and frowned, saying, "This is the men's version."
"Don't be picky while you're fleeing," Shi Gaofei said, shaking his head as he strode forward.
"What are we doing now? Go see that kid?" Soso followed behind, a shadow in her eyes.
“Little girl.” Shi Gaofei turned to look at Suo Suo: “I know you have some grudges with that kid, but I ask you to at least forget about these things for now—you better forget them! Otherwise, I won’t mind giving you a brainwashing session. I’ll peel some bad memories out of your head, but I haven’t perfected this technique yet, and there might be some bad side effects, so unless you force me, I don’t want to use it on you, do you understand?”
Although he spoke softly, his tone was exceptionally serious and earnest.
Soso paused for a moment, then said, "Alright, my task is to follow your orders. I promise I won't cause trouble for that kid when I see him."
Shi Gaofei suddenly smiled mysteriously: "Who said we were going to see that kid? I came here with no intention of seeing that kid at all!"
"?" Soso looked at Shi Gaofei in surprise.
"Running away requires money," Shi Gaofei scoffed. "Unfortunately, I've always been a scientist confined to a laboratory. But luckily, I have an old acquaintance in K City, and I have a large sum of money deposited with him!"
Soso thought for a moment and asked in a low voice, "I think a smart guy like you must have the habit of leaving yourself a way out! Like this time when you were framed and wronged because of the backdoor device in that main computer! You've always done things this way, so you must have left yourself a backdoor device for emergencies, right?"
Shi Gaofei stopped and gave Suosuo a cold look: "I'll add another rule for you: if you want to stay by my side, you'd better learn to control your curiosity! Otherwise, I have a hundred ways to shut your charming little mouth, understand?"
Soso was speechless, but still nodded helplessly.
"Alright." Shi Gaofei smiled happily. "I saw a car rental company near the airport. Go rent a car and I'll wait for you at the entrance."
"Give me the money." Soso held out her hand: "We just used our last two hundred dollars for coffee."
Shi Gaofei spread his hands: "I don't have a single penny on me. Do you think someone like me would go out with a credit card?"
Soso retorted angrily, "Then how am I supposed to rent a car?!"
"Seduction, honey trap. Do you know how?" Shi Gaofei laughed shamelessly, "You're not bad looking, but you're still a beauty. Surely you can use these basic female instincts!"
As he spoke, he casually glanced around and chuckled, "Look, in that coffee shop, there's a foreigner who's been secretly glancing at you the whole time. Judging from his clothes, he seems pretty rich. Go over and strike up a conversation with him. Be a little charming, give him some sweet talk, and you should be able to borrow a hundred or two. It shouldn't be a problem."
Suo Suo glared at Shi Gaofei, barely suppressing the urge to punch the old man in the nose and dent it. But in the end, she didn't dare disobey the old monster's orders. She gritted her teeth until her cheeks ached, then took a deep breath and turned to walk towards the coffee shop.
After taking a few steps, her face, which had been covered in frost, forced a somewhat alluring smile. However, she was a woman accustomed to a cold demeanor. Asking her to feign allure was truly difficult for her, and the smile on her face was somewhat stiff, as if she had a toothache.
In the coffee shop, a Caucasian man with green eyes was staring intently at Soso as she approached. Soso felt her neck stiffen; she had never before made the first move to strike up a conversation with a man. Finally, she steeled herself and walked up to him. Before she could even speak, the man stood up, looked at Soso warmly, and said with a smile in fluent, standard Chinese, "Ah, beautiful lady, how may I help you?"
"I……"
Suo Suo was speechless for a moment. She couldn't very well just say, "Can you lend me a thousand or eight hundred yuan?"
The man smiled happily and extended his hand: "I'm sorry, I've been looking at you the whole time. You're just so charming. Oh, let me introduce you. My name is Prince, which means prince."
Chen Xiao was taken aback by the overly enthusiastic old man in front of him and couldn't help but take a step back. The old man was so excited that he was practically spitting on Chen Xiao's face.
Xiao Qing, standing to the side, felt a little anxious. Of course, she knew why the old man was so agitated.
However... she hesitated to reveal this matter, because once she revealed Chen Xiao's relationship with her family, the fact that he was her fiancé would naturally become impossible to hide.
Xiao Qing hasn't decided yet how to confront Chen Xiao!
是按照原计划，痛揍陈潇一顿，把他打得连老妈都不认得他，然后再踏上一只脚，恶狠狠地警告他：敢娶我，就打断你的腿。
Or perhaps… nestled tenderly in his arms, she said sweetly, “It’s an arranged marriage. My parents’ wishes, my love, let’s go along with it…”
Ugh...no, no, that's disgusting!
We still need to find a way to keep it a secret for now!
Thinking of this, she quickly and secretly tugged at the old man's hand and said, "Grandpa, Chen Xiao's relatives and friends have been kidnapped by the person who left the note. Now is not the time for idle chatter!"
As he spoke, he turned to the side and gave the old man several meaningful glances.
This old man, though seemingly senile, was actually quite cunning. Upon seeing Xiao Qing's appearance, a thought suddenly occurred to him: if this young man really was… then wouldn't this young woman beside him be…?
Seeing Xiao Qing's flushed face and awkward manner, and his frantic winking, how could he not understand? He could only suppress his excitement, catch his breath for a while, and cough a few times. He mumbled, "Hmm, hmm, not bad young man."