When Gold-toothed saw that we were looking at him, he became flustered. He tried to crawl up from the ground and said, “What do you mean? You’re doubting me? You guys really have no conscience! If it weren’t for me, you would have died already!”

Li Mazi stormed forward and pinned Gold-toothed to the ground, slapping him in the face. “You bastard! I already knew you were a weirdo, but I didn’t think your heart was this black.”

Gold-toothed cried like a kid. “No, it wasn’t me! Yet, I know you won’t believe me, so just get over with it and kill me!” 

I frowned. Gold-toothed didn’t look like he was pretending. 

If it wasn’t him, was the traitor Li Mazi? 

My skeptical eyes scanned Li Mazi. 

Li Mazi didn’t know if he should cry or laugh. “Little Brother Zhang, are you doubting me?” 

I shook my head. “Perhaps one of the ghosts was watching us?” 

Qin Sisi suddenly remembered something. She scurried toward Li Mazi and pushed him to the ground. It seemed she wanted to strip him. 

Li Mazi was startled. “Hey, what are you doing? Stop!” 

Qin Sisi said, “Don’t move. I’m afraid you may have some eavesdropping equipment on you.”  

Then, she unbuttoned his shirt and ripped off the button at the top. “Guys, look at what I’ve got.” 

I held the button in my palm and studied it. 

It looked really ordinary. It wasn’t much different from other buttons. However, it felt a little heavier than normal ones. 

I suddenly thought of something. I immediately dropped the button and stomped on it. The button cracked open, and I saw a chip inside it.

It was a mini eavesdropping device.

When Li Mazi saw it, he gawked. “What’s going on? I didn’t know about this.” 

Gold-toothed had turned from a loser to a winner. While Li Mazi was still baffled, he pushed him to the ground. “You little bastard! You were a thief accusing other people of being thieves!” 

Then, he didn’t waste time and slapped Li Mazi twice. “Kiddo, you were really sly. Not even I noticed that you were a traitor!” 

Li Mazi cursed and struggled. However, Gold-toothed was a burly man with a big belly, and a bony man like Li Mazi couldn’t throw him off that easily. In the end, Li Mazi used his finger to poke at the wound on Gold-toothed’s butt cheek, causing him to shriek in pain. 

“You’re really a monster!” Gold-toothed covered his butt and cursed. The scene looked really funny.

Li Mazi turned to me. “Little Brother Zhang, you don’t think that I’m the traitor, right?” 

I said, “Of course not. I just think that someone installed that equipment on you and you didn’t even know it.” 

Qin Sisi nodded in agreement. “This button is not really eye-catching. Normally, you wouldn’t even button up to that button. That’s why you didn’t notice anything.”

Li Mazi patted his head. “I think I’ve got it. I know who installed this monitoring equipment.” 

The three of us turned to Li Mazi and asked in unison, “Who?”

“It’s that damn oldest daughter! No wonder she was trying to strike a conversation with me; she was up to no good. After all, she doesn’t seem like that kind of easy woman.” 

“My sister?” Qin Sisi was shocked. “No, that’s impossible.” 

Li Mazi said, “Do I have any reason to deceive you?” 

Qi Sisi sighed reluctantly. “Although my sister is arrogant and likes to boast, I can’t believe she went as far as to harm our father. I’m very disappointed.” 

“I have to find her and settle this account,” Li Mazi said. “She almost killed us and tried to divide us. How devious of her!”

Then, he prepared to leave the room. 

I hurried to stop him. “Don’t act rashly. Even if you go to them, they won’t admit anything. Instead, they’ll stop pretending and aim at us directly.”

Li Mazi wore an annoyed face. “What should we do then? Swallow this insult?”

I said, “We can only swallow this insult for now. Qin Sisi, please tell me what my grandfather told you.”

Qin Sisi nodded. “That old man told me that the Seven Fiend Soul Locking Formation is about to expire. It won’t be able to resist it for long. As such, we shouldn’t count on it too much. Tonight, you should go to the Wu River to meet him. He has something he wants to tell you.”

I couldn’t help but feel excited. I was going to see my grandfather tonight! It was my chance to clear up all of my doubts.

Qin Sisi squatted and checked Qin Minghao, sighing. “I’m not sure if my father can endure it to the end.” 

I comforted her. “Don’t worry. My grandfather had already foreseen the events that took place today. He’s a meticulous man, and he wouldn’t make mistakes while arranging things.” 

Qin Sisi nodded. “I hope so.”

I guessed that Qin Sisi had an aching heart at this moment. Her closest family members had plotted against her and tried to kill her. 

Although she was strong-minded and looked capable, she was still young. She definitely felt aggrieved right now, and she needed someone to comfort her. If someone seized this chance, they could capture her heart.

Qin Sisi supported Qin Minghao to the bed and checked on him, her expression sad.

“You should call Mr. Qin and report what happened… Although, I think he already knows.” 

Qin Sisi nodded and took out her phone to call Mr. Qin.

Li Mazi and Gold-toothed were still furious, so I had to tell them that they shouldn’t disclose that we discovered the monitoring equipment. We couldn’t afford to have a fallout with Mr. Qin yet.

Although they were angry, their minds were still sane. They gave me a confirming nod. 

After pondering for a while, I said, “My grandfather said that someone messed with the Seven Fiend Soul Locking Formation. The formation lost its power, and the souls it was subduing managed to escape.”

Li Mazi looked at me and thought. “You mean that someone that’s talented enough to break the Seven Fiend Soul Locking Formation is working for Mr. Qin?”

I nodded. “Yes, but we don’t know how strong the person standing behind Mr. Qin is. Do you think it’s related to the Longquan Villa?”

When I said that, Gold-toothed’s face turned purple in rage. “Damn, I’m sure it’s those bastards! I knew they wouldn’t give up. Since they can’t attack us openly, they used this underhanded method! I must find them and ask them for an explanation!”

“What explanation?” I couldn’t help but chime in. “Do you have any evidence that the Longquan Villa is behind this? Without evidence, don’t talk nonsense!” 

Gold-toothed was dispirited and sighed. “Damn it, this is really complicated. Young Master, if you catch the culprit alive, I don’t think they’ll be able to deny their crimes.” 

I nodded. “How can it be so easy to catch the culprit? There’s Mr. Qin standing in-between. Mr. Qin himself is a giant wall. We can’t deal with this matter alone.” 

While we were discussing, Qin Sisi stopped us and said that Mr. Qin was coming. 

We shut our mouths immediately. Right after, we heard the sliding door at the end of the corridor rattle hard. “Guards, open the door!” 

Qin Sisi and I rushed out. We saw Mr. Qin and Qin Tiantian anxiously shaking the sliding door.

Qin Sisi asked, “Uncle, you don’t have the key?” 

Mr. Qin answered, “Who told you to lock the door? It’s dangerous. Where’s my brother?” 

“Didn’t you ask the guards to lock the door? There are no guards on duty here,” Qin Sisi answered. 

“What?” Mr. Qin sounded fearful. “No guards on duty? Sisi, are you all right?”

Then, he carefully checked Qin Sisi from head to toe.

Qin Sisi answered, “I’m all right. Mr. Zhang’s really powerful. He expelled the soul that was attached to my father. To him, it was as easy as flipping his hand.”  

Mr. Qin heaved a sigh of relief. “That’s good, then. But we can’t forgive those guards. Housekeeper, where are you?”

“I’m coming,” the housekeeper’s voice came from downstairs. Shortly after, he appeared. In a panting voice, he said, “Sir, did you call for me?”

“Uncle Lin, where are the guards?” Mr. Qin asked. 

“Ah, they said that they were afraid that they would bother the experts while they were doing their work, so they decided to wait outside. They said to inform them if something were to happen. They’ll immediately run to help the experts…” 

Then, Uncle Lin looked around and said with a smile, “However, I don’t think their help was needed. These two experts are really powerful.”

I cursed him in my head. 

This bastard is really good at acting. He’s telling lies, and he’s not even blushing or blinking. He looks really comfortable, as if things really happened as he said. 

I said, “All right, we don’t need to talk about this anymore. Although those guards messed up, they didn’t do it on purpose. It’s fine as long as they pay more attention in the future.” 

Mr. Qin insisted that we should punish those guards to vent out our anger. 

I just smiled as I didn’t really care about his empty words. 

After Mr. Qin asked Uncle Lin to open the sliding door, he smelled ether in the air. 

He knew what it was but still asked, “What’s this smell?” 

“Oh, that’s ether,” I said. “We wanted to use the ether to subdue Qin Minghao, but it didn’t really work.”

Qin Tiantian, who always had her face in front of her phone, suddenly snorted, “Yeah, right!”

Li Mazi intervened, “Miss, what do you mean?”

“Do you think I don’t know why you used the—” This brainless young lady wanted to expose the events, but Mr. Qin stopped her from babbling. 

After seeing the mayhem inside the room, he pretended to look worried and even called a doctor to check on our bodies. If I didn’t know in advance that Mr. Qin had a black heart, I would have thought he was really worried about us.

After learning about the whole situation, Mr. Qin wore a concerned face. “What should we do tonight?”