Taking advantage of everyone's diverted attention amid the clamorous discussions,
Yu Longting took my hand, "Wanwan, let's go."
"Oh." I frowned and glanced at the Paper Man on the ground before he helped me into the passenger seat.
Yu Longting took the driver's seat himself, painstakingly fastened my seatbelt, and planned to drive away directly.
Heiche Rong reacted, frantically knocking on the window, "My car... hey, are you robbing us?"
"Move to the back," Yu Longting commanded sternly.
Heiche Rong shrank his neck and obediently sat in the back seat.
I handed the Copper Coin I had dug out of the Paper Man to Yu Longting, "Can you find the person controlling the paper puppet behind the scenes?"
"Are you doubting your man's abilities?"
Yu Longting pinched the Copper Coin between his fingers and drove along the main road for two minutes.
He turned into a secluded alley.
The van was too big to enter.
The moment the car stopped, I saw a figure in a hoodie in the alley.
The figure had long flowing hair with a bit of a natural curl.
It seemed to be a young girl who appeared to be holding a few strings in her hands.
I hurriedly opened the car door and dashed out, "Did you control the Paper Man? Did you also release the phantom fog in City A today?"
"Guess, Su Wan," the girl slowly replied, turning her head back.
Her features seemed to be enveloped in a mist, but her bright, upward-curving lips were deliberately clear.
In her entire face, only her lips were visible.
Each of her fingers was wrapped with a thin red string, connected to a plump female puppet.
My whole body bristled as I continued to persistently question, "You know my name and deliberately planned to frame me, what exactly do you want? Are you... one of the people of the Lin family?"
The girl gracefully turned around and continued walking forward with hollow-sounding footsteps.
The alley was long, and she walked slowly.
I subconsciously quickened my pace to catch up.
In an attempt to catch her, I continuously accelerated.
My mind was entirely filled with concerns for Lin Huan and my mother!!
I always felt that the girl seemed to be connected to the Lin family and might know why Lin Huan had called me back.
But I didn't know why I couldn't catch up no matter how hard I tried.
Despite maintaining the original distance, I felt something was off in my heart.
"She knows the Taoist Sect's special stepping technique and has used an Illusion Technique; you can't beat her," Yu Longting grabbed my wrist, and several highly venomous pit vipers shot out from his sleeve to pursue the girl.
The pit vipers moved incredibly fast, quickly entangling the girl.
I saw the girl was in danger of being strangled by the pit vipers and worried for a moment, "Don't harm her life."
As soon as the words left my mouth.
The girl being strangled by the pit vipers suddenly twisted into a pretzel shape.
Seeing this made my heart skip a beat, but upon closer inspection, I realized that the body that had fallen was that of a Paper Man...
"I told you, she knows Illusion Techniques, and you still got deceived by her Art," Yu Longting beckoned, and the Black Snake brought the Paper Man back.
Another Paper Man used to mourn the dead appeared before us.
The pupils of the Paper Man were backed with gold paper, which refracted light, making it seem like it was glaring at me.
Stunned by the sight of the Paper Man on the ground, I paused before finally managing to let out a sigh, "She guessed we would pursue her, so she prepared a stuntman and Illusion Techniques in advance to... to toy with us. Her technique for creating puppets is entirely different from mine, yet the effect is the same, seemingly related to the Forbidden Woman's lineage."
"Exactly the Forbidden Woman; you didn't expect, wife, your knowledge... is quite extensive, even recognizing the Forbidden Woman. This Forbidden Woman is full of tricks, playing hide-and-seek with us, interesting!! It turns out someone dares to play hide-and-seek with Snake Lord, rushing to their doom," Yu Longting bent down to pick up a Copper Coin from the ground, adding it to the one I had given him.
With a gentle squeeze of his fingertips, he merged them into a single copper sphere.
An audacious thought crossed my mind, "The Forbidden Woman? The people of the Lin family are very xenophobic; they neither allow demons and evils to enter nor permit other medieval mystic arts masters from differing factions to come close. How could there be a Forbidden Woman in City A?"