342: Chapter 336: Searching 342: Chapter 336: Searching Going all out in divination would lead to physical weakness.
Chen Hai’s body was still injured and had not yet recovered.
If it wasn’t necessary, he naturally wouldn’t want to add injury to injury and make himself weaker.
He divined the whereabouts of his cousin Huang Yong casually, just a few times.
After silently reciting the deciphering a few times, the information he obtained was somewhat vague.
“Although ‘Kan as water’ is the least of the least Gua, from what I can tell so far, Huang Yong doesn’t seem to have fallen into any danger.”
“His current location should be on that street between Districts Five and Seven.”
“It’s less than five hundred meters from the Huadu Hotel where I’m staying!”
“As long as he’s fine, other matters, even if we’re down to our last dime, are of no great consequence!”
Having sensed the approximate location of his cousin Huang Yong from the information that flooded his mind, Chen Hai let out a slight sigh of relief.
“Uncle Baoshan, I’m going to go out!”
“What about you?
Are you going to stay at the hotel to rest, or are you going to come with me?” Chen Hai stood up and called out to Bai Baoshan.
He had not gone straight into the city proper after getting off the plane but had stayed in the Bao’an District beyond the city limits, precisely to take this opportunity to find his cousin Huang Yong.
Now that he had a result, and Huang Yong’s location wasn’t very far away, he naturally didn’t plan to delay any further and decided to head there directly.
“Boss, if you’re going out, I’m definitely coming with you!”
With a simple smile, Bai Baoshan got up and followed suit.
One after the other, the two men walked out of the suite.
This was Chen Hai’s first visit to Shen City, and he wasn’t very familiar with the roads.
After stepping out of the Huadu Hotel, he closed his eyes slightly at every intersection to sense his surroundings.
From the results of the divination just now, he already knew the general location of his cousin Huang Yong.
Even so, it took him more than ten minutes to finally reach the street where his destination was located.
It was now between three and four in the afternoon, and the weather here was still somewhat hot.
This place was a pedestrian street, teeming with people along its entirety.
Perhaps this was the busiest and most bustling street in the entire Bao’an District.
The shops on both sides were mainly clothing and accessory stores, with dazzlingly colorful clothes and a myriad of trinkets on display.
In front of the Wan Family Supermarket midway down the street, the customers entering and exiting mingled with the crowd on the street.
At a glance, it was jam-packed with people, dense and endless.
“With such an intensive crowd, finding Huang Yong is going to be quite a challenge!”
Chen Hai and Bai Baoshan had already walked up and down this street several times.
Unfortunately, they had no success.
The divination results were, to begin with, rather unclear.
Chen Hai could only be sure that his cousin Huang Yong was on this street, but he didn’t know his exact location.
Women can shop for hours on end and still be brimming with energy.
Chen Hai and Bai Baoshan, two men, barely made it half an hour down this street before they started feeling tired.
At the entrance of the Wan Family Supermarket, they sat down on a bench by the roadside.
Taking advantage of this break, Chen Hai took out the copper coins for divination and casually cast another Gua.
After combining the Six Gua, the resulting Gua was no different from before.
From the information he had obtained from the Gua, it still indicated that his cousin, Huang Yong, was still on this street.
“At this time of the day, it should be working hours for laborers.”
“That kid Huang Yong with only a junior high school diploma, coming over to Shen City to find a high-end job, it’s not very likely.”
“The shop assistants in the stores along the street are mostly girls.”
“However, in the Wan Family Supermarket, aside from security, there are quite a few male employees.
Could it be that Huang Yong is working in the supermarket?”
Frowning, Chen Hai pondered to himself.
After resting for a while on the long bench, he took Bai Baoshan with him and wandered around the supermarket for quite some time.
He even went out of his way to ask several supermarket employees, but unfortunately, according to their descriptions, they had no idea that there was a person named Huang Yong in their supermarket.
If it were only one person saying so, one could say that the supermarket employee simply did not recognize Huang Yong.
But Chen Hai had asked four or five people, including both men and women.
If they all said the same thing, then it was very likely that his cousin, Huang Yong, truly wasn’t a Wan Family Supermarket employee.
“Boss, are you looking for someone?” Bai Baoshan found a seat on the long bench outside the supermarket and ventured to confirm.
At first, when he followed Chen Hai up and down the street, he was quite perplexed.
But after entering the supermarket, Chen Hai kept asking those supermarket employees whether they knew someone named Huang Yong.
Once he saw this scene, how could Bai Baoshan not understand his boss’s intent!
“Mm!
Looking for my cousin!”
“He came to Shen City to work, and it’s been over a year without any news back home.”
“You must have heard from Xiaohang about my talent for divination.”
“According to the results of my divination, I am sure that he is on this street right now; it’s just a pity that I can’t find him anywhere!”
Chen Hai sighed and explained.
He was even starting to consider whether to go all out and perform a divination.
Even if divination would exacerbate the weakness in his body, it might be better than the current situation, which was going nowhere.
“Boss, your cousin should be eighteen or nineteen years old.”
“From the time we came over here, we’ve already stayed almost an hour.”
“If you are sure that your cousin has always been here, then it means there’s a good chance he is working nearby, not some sort of itinerant person wandering around.”
“You know, I trained there for over ten years; I’ve heard of all sorts of nefarious stuff in the Jianghu.”
“Your cousin isn’t a shop assistant, nor does he work in the supermarket.
Maybe, he’s working here in some other special way?”
Bai Baoshan glanced around with deeper implication as he spoke.
In today’s world, the denser the population, the more pickpockets there are.
Was this what he implied to Chen Hai?
It wasn’t clear.
Anyway, his gaze now veered towards those among the crowd who seemed to have a shifty look in their eyes.
“My cousin, a simple and honest guy, can’t even fart with three kicks.”
“Him, doing something crooked?
I don’t think it’s likely?”
His head shook like a rattle drum as Chen Hai dismissed the idea.
However, Bai Baoshan’s words did give him some direction.
Scanning the surroundings, when his gaze landed on a beggar at the edge of the street some ten or twenty meters away, he stood up swiftly, a puzzled expression on his face.