Chapter 386: You Two Were in on It Together from the Start!

Ten minutes later, Yu Dazhang arrived by car at the resort villa located halfway up the mountain.

The place had already been cordoned off, with police officers guarding every entrance and exit.

After stepping inside, he scanned the surrounding environment and buildings.

He had to admit, this kind of mountain resort villa had a very beautiful view.

It was the height of late autumn, and the bleakness and withered yellow of the world wove together into a desolate silhouette.

Yu Dazhang had no intention of taking in the scenery, but his gaze was still drawn by the view before him.

This was purely human instinct—seeing beautiful scenery would spontaneously give rise to a yearning emotion, and he was no exception.

But just then, he suddenly caught a whiff of a foul stench.

The smell shot straight to the top of his head, making Yu Dazhang instantly dizzy and nauseous.

Who pulled down their pants?

The stench of shit was so heavy, and combined with his already superhuman sense of smell, catching it so suddenly was genuinely hard to bear.

He followed the direction the smell drifted in from, and saw that not far away was that pig farm.

At the edge of the pig farm were several manure piles as tall as a person, and right then someone was using a fork to turn the piles over.

This is killing me… Yu Dazhang instantly felt his luck turn foul.

He once had a classmate whose family raised pigs, so he understood pig farming to some extent.

The main way to handle pig manure is composting and fermentation.

Pile it into manure heaps, control the moisture, turn the piles regularly to supply oxygen, and finally return the pig manure to the fields.

This just happened to be turning time.

But then Yu Dazhang immediately noticed something off.

How could a resort villa possibly allow a pig farm to do this.

That wasn't quite right either.

It should be—a resort villa shouldn't allow a pig farm like this to appear around it.

It would ruin business.

With a smell like this, anyone in slightly worse physical condition could pass out from the stench.

Yu Dazhang thought for a moment, then said to Captain Hua beside him:

"Go check in what year the resort villa and the pig farm were both built."

This time only he and Captain Hua had come; the task force members had all stayed behind at the municipal bureau, so this kind of thing could only be left to Captain Hua.

"Got it, I'll check right away."

Captain Hua didn't mind at all. After answering, he immediately took out his phone and made a call.

Yu Dazhang then turned his attention back to the resort villa.

If you only looked at the buildings inside the villa, nothing abnormal could be spotted.

But if you took the nearby pig farm into account, things became rather intriguing.

The villa's terrain was already on the high side to begin with.

Combined with the land being leveled and the foundation raised, the angle from the villa allowed a perfect downward view of the nearby pig farm.

What Yu Dazhang found most interesting was that, judging by the orientation, all the villa's buildings sat on the diagonal opposite side of the pig farm.

As if those buildings were all watching the pig farm with sidelong glances.

Quite the anthropomorphism… Yu Dazhang almost laughed out loud.

He also didn't know which genius designed this, making these two seemingly completely unrelated places face each other at an angle—and it actually fit modern architectural concepts quite well.

"Could it be…" Yu Dazhang murmured softly:

"The resort villa is your eyes?"

Using people to observe was too inefficient; to grasp outside developments in real time, the best method was networked surveillance.

This trick wasn't new—Zhang Chao and the others had already used it once before.

"Since this is your eyes, then the place those eyes are staring at is your hiding spot."

Yu Dazhang's eyes quickly swept over the cameras placed throughout the villa, while observing the direction each camera was aimed.

Very clever—no dome cameras used.

Using multiple cameras could achieve surveillance coverage from various angles, and also allow real-time monitoring.

Most importantly, it wouldn't raise suspicion.

But upon closer inspection, you'd find that two of the cameras were specifically aimed at the mountain road and the pig farm.

Aiming at the mountain road was understandable—when tourists arrived, you could know in advance to arrange a welcome.

But aiming at the pig farm was a bit hard to justify.

What's there worth your attention?

Even if all the pigs vanished, it wouldn't concern you, right?

Unless…

You two were in on it together from the start!

If this hypothesis held…

"The pig farm is the entrance to the underground prison."

After Yu Dazhang said this, his gaze settled on the pig farm not far away.

At that moment, the person was still turning the pig manure, and the smell in the air grew thicker and thicker.

"The pig farm's environment may be harsh, but it has a natural cover."

"The strong stench can not only render police dogs' noses useless, but also means there's no need to receive outsiders—because this isn't a place open to the public."

Thinking of this, he suddenly recalled Fang Peng's earlier statement.

According to Fang Peng, after getting down from the cargo compartment, he felt the air outside was very fresh, carrying a fragrance of grass and trees.

This is where the problem arises.

If he had gotten off at the pig farm, Fang Peng would definitely have smelled the stench of pig manure—a smell accumulated over many years, not something that could be cleared away in an instant.

But Fang Peng had also said that he was supported by two people and walked for a stretch before being led into a room.

How did they manage to keep Fang Peng from smelling the stench?

Could the inference be wrong? Is the entrance not at the pig farm?

Yu Dazhang was just thinking when Captain Hua's voice suddenly came from beside him:

"Found it."

He immediately gathered his thoughts and turned his head to look at the other party.

He saw Captain Hua standing beside Chief Long, along with several men in white shirts, the most conspicuous being a man dressed in camouflage.

Yu Dazhang had seen these people in the morning—they were all leaders of various police branches.

He had just raised his hand, intending to salute, when Chief Long stopped him:

"Alright, cut the crap, let's get down to business."

Since Chief Long had spoken, Yu Dazhang no longer stood on ceremony and shifted his gaze back to Captain Hua.

"The pig farm over there was built and put into use in 2003."

Captain Hua said in a reporting tone:

"The plot of land for this resort was originally used for growing oil tea, and later someone leased it and changed it to commercial land."

"Groundbreaking was in 2004, and it officially opened for business a year later."

After he finished speaking, the leaders beside him also showed looks of surprise.

The pig farm came first, and the resort was built afterward.

What resort opening for business would be built right next to a pig farm? This clearly reeks of something fishy.

Judging by the timeline, groundbreaking for the resort was in 2004, but changing the nature of the land also takes time.

So the other party had already been planning to build the resort back in 2003.

Everything started from that year... Yu Dazhang now felt an inexplicable excitement every time he heard "2003."

The timeline matches!

If that's the case, the previous inference can't be wrong.

Yu Dazhang took out his phone and checked the time.

It was almost five in the afternoon, with two hours left until dark.

They had to hurry... Yu Dazhang couldn't help feeling a bit anxious inside.

Due to visibility issues, neither searching nor arresting was suitable to carry out at night.

A long night invites trouble—if the other party had means to deal with the police, they would also implement them preferentially at night.

"Tear down all the surveillance at the resort."

Yu Dazhang issued his first order:

"Tear down the surveillance at that pig farm below as well."

After the order was given, the leaders immediately arranged for officers to begin taking action.

Many hands make light work—the officers moved simultaneously, directly starting to dismantle the surveillance cameras everywhere.

No matter what tricks they play with the surveillance, once the cameras are disconnected, the surveillance loses its function.

At this moment, Yu Dazhang's gaze, however, was fixed on the pig farm below, murmuring:

"I'll pluck out your eyes first; now it's your turn to guess."

(End of chapter)