Chapter 290

"... Remember to help me erase the traces, otherwise..."

Muttering this sentence to himself, Sun Cheng frowned deeply, his eyes fixed intently on the video continuously replaying on the computer in front of him, a hint of weariness visible on his face.

He hadn't been able to sleep well all last night.

The reason, of course, was the video saved on the laptop in front of him.

With one hand covering his forehead and the other tapping unconsciously on his desk, Sun Cheng's thoughts were entirely consumed by this video, which had been intercepted last night from the Nandu traffic surveillance system by Revenge.

It was a short video, with a total length of only one minute and fifty-three seconds, yet the content was explosive.

Subconsciously controlling the mouse to replay the video once more, he immediately locked his brows again and stared at the laptop screen.

The dim environment indicated that the time it was filmed was likely late at night, and the location was a remote street near the outskirts of the Ningjiang District.

At the beginning of the video, a young woman with a slender figure, dressed in professional women's attire, walked to a street corner. Although the surveillance camera could not clearly capture her features in the dim night, Sun Cheng knew that this woman was the suspicious female spy locked onto after Revenge hacked into the entire Nandu surveillance system—Ada Wong.

When Ada Wong reached the street corner shown in the video, she stopped, took a mobile phone out of the handbag she was carrying, and seemed to dial someone's number. However, she hung up after giving only a few simple instructions; the entire process took at most ten seconds.

After putting away the phone, she looked around vigilantly. Not long after, upon noticing the surveillance camera facing her, an unexpected scene occurred: she smiled slightly at the camera, then suddenly walked quickly a few steps into the street, and suddenly kicked off the ground near a wall, leaping onto it. In two or three movements, she climbed out of the camera's surveillance range.

The video did not end there!

After the empty street remained silent for only twenty or thirty seconds, a hurried figure appeared at a jog within the camera's surveillance range.

This appeared to be a strong, sturdy adult male. Although he wore a baseball cap and glasses that looked like sunglasses in the video, making it difficult for anyone to distinguish his appearance, Sun Cheng inferred from his burly physique that he should be no older than forty.

The man arrived at the street but did not rush to walk in.

Instead, he cautiously watched his back and surroundings for a moment before walking into the street.

Seeing that one of his hands was unnaturally reaching toward his chest the entire time, Sun Cheng suspected that he was likely carrying a weapon or even a firearm.

"What exactly is this man's identity? And why is he following Ada Wong?"

Every time he saw this, Sun Cheng would be troubled by it; it wasn't that he was worried about Ada Wong.

Although he had once had a one-night stand with her at the Larvis Hotel in San Jose, apart from those strange creatures who are masochists, he figured no one likes being forced into a sexual encounter, even if the other party is a great beauty.

Moreover, Ada Wong's skills truly did not require him to worry about her.

With those simple three or five moves, she had effortlessly dealt with the forces of Revenge and Defender; Sun Cheng even doubted that Daqi shao xiao, who had killed a Ghost Hunter on Nublar Island, would necessarily be able to take her down.

What he worried about was that this mysterious woman had suddenly disappeared and then reappeared, and had done so in the vicinity of Ye Qi.

This was definitely not a good sign. Sun Cheng was not only worried that she had other designs on Ye Qi or himself, but even more worried that Ada Wong's appearance would drag Ye Qi into danger.

However, the video had only just passed one minute and seventeen seconds at this point, with nearly forty seconds of length remaining.

The man of unknown identity, suspected of carrying a firearm, followed quietly behind Ada Wong into the alley.

However, despite him displaying vigilance far exceeding that of an ordinary person.

Not only did he not expect it, but even Sun Cheng, every time he saw this, couldn't help but clench his palms tightly.

In the video captured by the surveillance camera next, just as the man was about to reach the limit of the camera's range, suddenly, a mysterious Black Shadow descended from the sky.

The man seemed to have sensed something, but his reaction was ultimately a beat slower than that of the Black Shadow. He was struck by her, as she fell from the air with her right foot raised high, right on the spot between the back of his head and his neck.

The next moment, the man's body went limp and he collapsed to the ground, having lost consciousness.

After the Black Shadow landed, the camera finally recaptured her image; wasn't it none other than Ada Wong, who had suddenly disappeared from the camera's surveillance a short while ago?

Having disappeared and reappeared, Ada Wong did not rush to leave or deal with the aftermath after easily disposing of the person suspected of following her.

She seemed very confident in the fierce kick she had just delivered to the man following her. Without even checking, she walked straight toward the street corner. Only when she had walked out entirely and was once again clearly exposed under the surveillance camera did Sun Cheng see her suddenly brush back a stray lock of hair at her temple, suddenly look up in the direction of the camera, and move her sexy red lips slightly, as if saying something.

After speaking, she gave a charming smile, then turned back into the street, dragging the man she had knocked unconscious with her, and disappeared completely.

What exactly was that sentence...

The video captured by Revenge came from the street surveillance system installed by the Ningjiang District government, and the resolution was not very good. Fortunately, while converting low-definition video is difficult, it is not entirely impossible.

After spending several hours using digital image processing, upsampling interpolation, deblurring, and modifying it frame by frame, Sun Cheng finally obtained what he wanted.

Only, this result made him feel somewhat horrified.

Because the sentence Ada Wong finally left for the camera, through lip-reading comparison, was indeed "... Remember to help me erase the traces, otherwise...".

In other words, she might have already guessed that she was being watched, and Sun Cheng even suspected that this woman already knew the person watching her was him!

This was not a good sign. Being somewhat suspicious by nature, he couldn't close his eyes for the entire night because of this discovery.

After arriving at the company in a daze, he realized that he had actually brought the laptop containing this video to the company with him, and before leaving, he hadn't even reminded Ye Qi to pay attention to her safety.

His fingertips tapped lightly on the desktop, one after another, without stopping.

Sun Cheng felt that his heart was exceptionally heavy right now.

Not knowing how many times he had rubbed his temples, he looked frowningly at the end of the video, at Ada Wong who turned and left after giving a charming smile to the lens. For some reason, he suddenly had a feeling that his peaceful life in the real world was about to leave him.

It was just like the ancient poem: The wind is blowing, signaling the coming storm!

Chapter 274: The Wind Before the Storm