She hadn't moved very fast just now, so there was no way he couldn't have dodged. Xu Wenji had been specially trained by the organization after all, and his physical qualities were definitely far superior to those of an ordinary person.
That incident just now didn't make Shen Jianyi suspect her own prowess; instead, she started to question the man's identity.
There was no doubt that the face was Xu Wenji's, but the skills were definitely not his.
"Who are you?" Shen Jianyi pressed a dagger against the man's neck.
Gun stood nearby with his arms folded, drawling, "Isn't he the man you've been looking for?"
"Of course not."
Right after she said that, the man in her control let out a series of cold laughs. Shen Jianyi took two steps back and watched as he slowly peeled off his own face.
It was a mask!
So the man in front of her was not Xu Wenji at all. It turned out that he had sent an impostor to take his place here.
"Tell me quickly, where are the real Xu Wenji and the chip?" Shen Jianyi didn't want to waste any more breath on this man, nor did she want to have any physical contact with him.
She should conserve as much strength as possible. After all, it was rather unwise to waste her energy on someone like this.
Gun walked forward. Seeing that the man remained motionless, he picked up the mask from the ground.
"There's a micro - camera in it."
"What did you say?" Shen Jianyi thought she'd misheard. A micro - camera hidden inside a mask? Was Xu Wenji crazy, or was he hatching some grand scheme?
The two of them took out the micro - camera and destroyed it. Gun frowned tightly. "Have we fallen into a trap?"
At that moment, the woman stood still, trying hard to recall the way they had come.
There was a huge vase at a turn, and it looked completely out of place here. It didn't match the decoration style at all and seemed extremely out of place.
"I get it." Shen Jianyi suddenly realized. Without explaining, she turned around and walked out.
Gun still didn't understand what she had figured out. He threw the mask on the ground and glanced at the man in front of him with a blank look in his eyes. He was probably being controlled.
It seemed that Xu Wenji knew quite a few underhanded tricks. He was even able to manipulate this man to such an extent. It seemed that Shen Jianyi was a great threat to him.
As soon as the two of them left the room, they saw a woman in a hurry turning in the opposite direction.
If it weren't for the fact that Shen Jianyi had more important things to do, she would definitely have rushed over, because the figure just now looked a bit like someone she knew.
But she couldn't afford to do so now. All she wanted was to find Xu Wenji quickly, capture him, and forcefully take him back to the organization. Only then could she clear her name.
She had carried this blame for him for so long. It was high time Xu Wenji made amends.
The woman trotted ahead, but the man behind caught up with her in just a few steps. Gun reached out and grabbed her arm, pulling her back a bit. He asked curiously, "What did you figure out?"
She didn't turn around but continued walking, allowing Gun to hold her arm.
The two of them came directly to the place where the vase was. Sure enough, this vase was a far cry from the decoration style here.
After arriving here, Gun also realized why the woman had been looking around all the way here. She had been observing.
He took two steps forward, looked at the vase, and then tapped it gently with his hand.
"A ceramic vase..." Gun looked down. The base seemed to be rotatable. "Try turning the base."
As soon as he said that, Shen Jianyi squatted down without hesitation. After turning the base, she found that it could indeed be rotated, but she didn't know how far she needed to turn it to find any clues.
She stood up, thinking that Xu Wenji was really cunning to have designed it like this.
Shen Jianyi wracked her brains. The flowerpot was placed there alone, with a bunch of lilies in it, and the lilies were facing at a 45 - degree angle.
Just as she was about to tell Gun, Gun seemed to have realized it too. The two of them looked at each other and smiled, as if they were on the same wavelength.
Gun squatted down and easily turned it to 45 degrees.
"Click ──"
A crack appeared on the wall, and then it turned into a square and started to rotate.
Shen Jianyi let out a soft scoff. "Not bad, you're quite smart."
Gun echoed, "You're not bad either. Your powers of observation are so sharp. No wonder you're ranked second on the reward list."
For some reason, she always felt that when Gun said this, he wasn't really complimenting her but was subtly showing off.
This really made her annoyed. Shen Jianyi was too lazy to talk to him and walked straight into the room.
After they both went in, the square started to close and returned to its original state, and the base under the vase also rotated back to its starting point.
Shen Jianyi frowned tightly. She couldn't see anything around. It was pitch - black, so dark that she couldn't even see her own hand in front of her.
"Gun?" The woman's voice echoed in the quiet room, sounding extremely out of place.
The man immediately replied upon hearing her voice, "I'm here."
After that, the two of them managed to find each other by feeling. The moment the big hand held the small one, Shen Jianyi always felt a bit strange. It was as if the softest part of her heart had been touched.
She shivered. This was just a physical contact for the sake of the mission. She hoped that Lu Jinsheng wouldn't find out about this.
Shen Jianyi took two steps forward and felt that there seemed to be some water stains on the floor in front of her. "There's water on the floor. Where's your phone? Hurry up and take it out for some light."
Since Shen Jianyi's phone had run out of battery and turned off, now they could only rely on Gun.
As it turned out, Gun gave her some bad news. "I left my phone at the hotel. I didn't bring it out."
Shen Jianyi: "..."
She had never been so speechless. Why was there someone in this world who didn't carry their phone with them? This was just absurd.
It seemed that now they could only pluck up the courage and move forward. Although they didn't know what awaited them ahead, they had no choice but to take a chance.
Gun could feel the woman's hand squeezing his a bit harder.
At that moment, Gun still had the mood to crack a joke. He said teasingly, "Red Fox, aren't you afraid that your man will find out if you hold my hand like this?"
Hearing this, Shen Jianyi snorted coldly. "Well, aren't you afraid that your wife will find out if you hold a woman's hand like this?"
After saying that, she reached out and pinched the ring on Gun's ring finger.
Just then, Shen Jianyi felt that there seemed to be some words engraved on the ring. She felt it carefully again. It was a letter ── Y.
Shen Jianyi really didn't expect that the cold - blooded Gun would actually engrave his lover's initial on his wedding ring, just like her and Lu Jinsheng. The letter on her ring was S, and on Lu Jinsheng's ring was ──