Chapter 3578: Where Do So Many Coincidences Come From?

From this moment on, Ye Chen's heart became extremely wary of coincidences.

Now when he sees these coincidences, his mind instantly conjures a reaction: where in this world do so many coincidences come from?

Even the Nine Xuan Heavenly Scripture drawn out by his father-in-law smashing a bottle was not something he obtained by coincidence, but the result of his parents' strategic planning years ago.

His smooth enlightenment also owed much to his father passing on his Dragon Pattern superposition, making him an Ascending Dragon Pattern.

So Cai Cai Zi casually hearing in the elevator that Master Jing Qing would come to Qi Xia Temple, then feeling moved to go, and then being guided by Master Jing Qing—these seemingly linked coincidences are more like a sophisticated trap luring people step by step deeper.

If this series is a chain stratagem, then the woman Cai Cai Zi happened to meet in the elevator is the first bait!

Thus he immediately asked Cai Cai Zi: "That woman, do you know her? Does she live just downstairs from you?"

Cai Cai Zi nodded and said: "Later I also saw her a few times, occasionally exchanging a few words in the elevator, so we are acquainted; she lives on the ninth floor, her husband is often away on business, so she lives alone."

Ye Chen immediately said: "Wait a moment, I'll make a call."

Having spoken, Ye Chen immediately took out his phone and called Hong Wu.

The call connected, and Hong Wu respectfully said: "Master Ye, what are your orders?"

Ye Chen instructed him: "Hong Wu, check the owner information of Tang Chen Yi Pin, pull up the owner details for the ninth floor of Miss Ito's building, and send them to me."

The building Cai Cai Zi bought is the best among the high-rises of Tang Chen Yi Pin, with only one household per floor.

Hong Wu's connections in Jin Ling are deep-rooted; upon receiving the call, he immediately began inquiring, and soon sent the information to Ye Chen.

The ninth-floor apartment's property certificate is registered under the name Zhang Xixi, but this Zhang Xixi is not a Chinese national, but an overseas Chinese of American nationality; she has an import-export trading company in Jin Ling, and because she invests in China, she qualifies to purchase property.

Ye Chen found it suspicious—the woman's identity greatly differs from what Cai Cai Zi described; Cai Cai Zi said the woman's husband works away long-term and she is a housewife, but that does not seem to be the case.

Then, next we need to confirm whether this woman's company is really a shell company, and whether her American identity can be verified.

So he plans to have Hong Wu continue investigating this woman and her company, then send her identity to Fei Ke Xin in the United States, so Fei Ke Xin can help verify whether her American identity is genuine.

Cai Cai Zi also realized the seriousness of the problem, knowing Ye Chen must be feeling very depressed in his heart, so she comforted him: "Ye Chen jun, don't worry too much for now; investigate slowly, the truth will surely come to light; later we should pay more attention to unusual coincidences around us, and maybe we can seize the initiative."

Having said that, she suddenly thought of a detail and hurriedly said: "However, Ye Chen jun, come to think of it, I haven't seen this woman for some days; maybe she has already completed her mission and left here; if you now make a big fuss investigating her, you might startle the snake, and then they would know you have sensed their existence; if they originally had other moves, they might become even more cautious; in that case, wouldn't it be very hard to catch any clues?"

Ye Chen murmured: "Your meaning is to pretend not to know, and then wait patiently?"

"Exactly." Cai Cai Zi firmly said: "In the Art of War by Sun Zi of China, isn't there a strategy of using one's own plan against the enemy's plan? Now is a good opportunity for using one's own plan against the enemy's plan—pretend not to know, let the enemy lower their guard and repeat their old tricks, then we can turn passive into active."

Ye Chen felt Cai Cai Zi made a lot of sense.

Investigate, the other side may not be afraid.

Even, whether or not to dig deep into investigating this woman might very well be a warning left by the other side.

Thinking this, Ye Chen abandoned the idea of having Fei Ke Xin thoroughly investigate the other's identity, and instead had Hong Wu arrange people to check the water and electricity bills of the ninth-floor unit in Tang Chen Yi Pin, to see the recent water and electricity consumption of this household, in order to infer whether the house is inhabited; if recent water consumption is zero and electricity consumption extremely low, it proves the house is vacant and no one lives there.

Hong Wu's efficiency is high; he quickly replied to Ye Chen: for that unit on the ninth floor, the water bill for the past month is zero, and the electricity bill is sixty-eight yuan and three fen.

If a house is vacant and there is no water leakage, water consumption will indeed be zero.

But electricity is different; home refrigerators, routers, and networked smart appliances continuously consume electricity; a monthly electricity bill of over sixty yuan is just over one hundred kWh, or four to five kWh per day.

This level of electricity consumption, a side-by-side refrigerator alone accounts for at least one-third; and the floor area of Tang Chen Yi Pin's standard units is two to three hundred square meters, with the developer installing embedded AP panels in each room, and the network taking up one-third; the remainder consists of gas alarms, smoke alarms, and emergency call buttons.

Perhaps the other side still left networked surveillance in the house; whoever breaks in can receive real-time notifications.

So, judging by water and electricity consumption, this house has not been inhabited at all in the past month.

It seems this woman's mission is already completed, she has left Jin Ling; even if we find out her identity, we probably won't find her person.

Ye Chen felt somewhat annoyed, because he has realized that beside him there is an invisible net surrounding him, grasping most of his movements, and even beginning to arrange and direct his life like in The Truman Show.

He even began to suspect whether his wife Xiao Churan might also be a member of the other side; if so, her departure might merely be because her role arranged by the other side has been played out.

Although he knows the other side may not truly have ill intent, this feeling of being secretly manipulated still makes him very uncomfortable.

Cai Cai Zi quickly changed the subject: "Ye Chen jun, from this matter we learn a lesson; for now don't let her affect you too much; Duo Duo is still waiting at home for us to eat; let's hurry upstairs!"

Ye Chen let out a light sigh and slightly nodded.

He also knows his mindset has gone awry somewhat, which is related to Xiao Churan's departure; at this moment he suddenly very much wants to go find Lin Wan Er, sit with her under the Pu Cha Mother Tree, brew tea by the stove, and tell her these worries, to see how she would enlighten him, or perhaps inspire him.

So he adjusted his mindset a bit and said to Cai Cai Zi: "Can't let Mr. Ito wait too long, so let's hurry upstairs; however, I cannot delay too long tonight, I still have things to do later."

Cai Cai Zi knows Ye Chen has just come out of seclusion and surely still has many things to attend to, so she nodded and said: "After eating, Ye Chen jun, if you have things to do, just go ahead; Duo Duo will have no objections."