Chapter 91: Secret Exposed?
Fang Xiaocao’s body trembled uncontrollably.
What she saw sent a chilling fear straight to her core.
It was a thick, black-and-yellow striped tail.
“That belongs to the tiger!”
That was Fang Xiaocao’s first thought.
Just by looking at the tail, she could already imagine how massive the owner must be—definitely a ferocious tiger king!
Her legs almost gave out beneath her.
“Princess, run!”
Aquarius grabbed Fang Xiaocao and bolted out of the temple.
They didn’t stop until they had run over a thousand meters away.
“Princess, that was too dangerous.” Aquarius spoke with lingering fear.
A tiger that size—her gun was practically useless against it.
A handgun’s bullets wouldn’t do any real damage to such a beast, let alone kill it.
Fang Xiaocao leaned against a tree, gasping for air. Her heart pounded wildly, feeling like it would leap out of her throat.
Once she had caught her breath, she pulled out her phone and sent a message to Hot Noodles.
“What’s going on?”
“Why is there a tiger in the temple?”
“Are you trying to get me killed?”
She fired off three messages in a row, demanding an explanation.
[Hot Noodles: A tiger?]
[Hot Noodles: How is that possible?]
[Hot Noodles: According to my intel, there shouldn’t be any tigers there.]
Fang Xiaocao could tell from the responses that even Hot Noodles was shocked by the tiger’s presence.
“She didn’t know either?” Fang Xiaocao muttered.
She furrowed her brows and sent another message:
“Where did you get this information?”
Fang Xiaocao was deeply puzzled.
Could it be that someone from the future, knowing she could communicate with Hot Noodles, deliberately fed false information to set her up?
If that were the case, then she and Hot Noodles were in grave danger.
They could be manipulated at any time.
From now on, unless the information was about events unfolding in real-time, she could no longer trust any tips about making a fortune.
There would be no way to tell if they were real or traps.
And that meant… she would lose her ability to foresee the future.
Fang Xiaocao stared at her phone anxiously, waiting for Hot Noodles’ reply.
[Hot Noodles: It was from a newspaper.]
A newspaper?
Fang Xiaocao’s brows furrowed as she quickly asked, “What date?”
Newspaper reports could be true or false.
If someone from the future had planned this, they could have easily planted a fake story to lure her in.
[Hot Noodles: It’s from your current timeline. The date is tomorrow!]
Boom!
Fang Xiaocao felt as if she had been struck by lightning.
Her instincts screamed that something was very wrong.
This mountain was under a security lockdown. How could anyone else have come here, stolen the treasure from the temple, and even made it into tomorrow’s newspaper?
Even though a rescue team was on the way and the lockdown would soon be lifted, would anyone really be so reckless as to flaunt their discovery like this?
“Could someone else have the same ability as you?” Fang Xiaocao typed.
That was her first thought.
Maybe someone in the future—one of her enemies—had the same power as Hot Noodles and had been using it to manipulate events.
Maybe that person was the one who set this trap.
[Hot Noodles: I’m not sure!]
Fang Xiaocao’s gut feeling grew stronger.
She typed out her theory and sent it over.
[Hot Noodles: That makes a lot of sense.]
[Hot Noodles: If your theory is right, then this person must be hiding somewhere in the mountain. Maybe even close to you.]
[Hot Noodles: That would explain why they know about the temple and could set the trap.]
[Hot Noodles: From now on, you need to be extremely cautious of those around you.]
[Hot Noodles: There’s also another possibility—it’s not someone from the future, but rather someone in your team who discovered your secret and holds a grudge against you. They could have set this bait, knowing that I would find the newspaper and lead you into their trap.]
Fang Xiaocao nodded as she read.
Hot Noodles’s analysis made sense.
She started going through a list of people in her mind, trying to figure out who was most suspicious.
The first suspect—Aquarius.
If Aquarius had somehow broken free from her hypnosis and regained her memories, then she would know more about her secret than anyone else.
And if she had escaped and was no longer under her control, she could have easily set this trap.
Even if she didn’t succeed in killing her today, who’s to say that another version of herself in a different timeline wouldn’t have awakened the tiger?
Right now, Aquarius was suspect number one.
The second suspect—Ye Lingchen.
Thinking back to the camp, when she had been messaging Hot Noodles, Ye Lingchen had been nearby.
What if he had seen something?
She had humiliated him many times—what if he held a grudge?
As the heir to the Ye family, he was certainly no fool.
If he had picked up on any clues, he might have pieced things together.
And then there was suspect number three—Wan Xiaozhou.
Fang Xiaocao wasn’t sure if Wan Xiaozhou had ever had the chance to spy on her conversations, so she ranked her third on her list.
Aside from these three, she couldn’t think of anyone else who might want to harm her.
After a moment of contemplation, she sent another message:
“Which newspaper published the report?”
She wanted to track it down.
[Hot Noodles: It’s from Tang City.]
Boom!
Fang Xiaocao felt another wave of shock.
Tang City?!
That was the last thing she expected.
If the report came from Tang City, then Zhi Qi and her group were also suspects.
(End of Chapter 91)
