Chapter 174: Lin Feng, Wang Ziyi, and Ou Yingying Gather
The villa complex where Ou Yingying's boyfriend's villa was located had extremely strict management.
Under normal circumstances, only property owners could enter;
everyone else would be stopped.
For example, this middle-aged man before her should normally have been detained by security.
Then security would have notified her.
But this middle-aged man had come directly to her boyfriend's villa door.
This showed the man was no ordinary person.
"Who are you? What do you want?"
Ou Yingying found the middle-aged man's appearance completely unfamiliar.
The middle-aged man smiled: "Don't worry about who I am. I'm here to notify you about something extremely important."
"Extremely important? Notify me?" Ou Yingying's delicate eyebrows slightly furrowed.
The middle-aged man said: "Let's find a quiet place. This isn't suitable for discussion."
Ou Yingying then led the middle-aged man to the second-floor study.
Her flawless pale legs crossed, Ou Yingying leaned arrogantly and coldly against the wooden desk.
Looking down condescendingly at the middle-aged man sitting on the sofa.
She said: "Speak. What's this important matter? If it's some nonsense, I'll call the police immediately."
The middle-aged man's lips curled slightly.
Looking at Ou Yingying who was about to face disaster yet remained completely unaware, still putting on this cold act, he almost laughed.
But he restrained himself—he was professional.
He said: "Those videos you gave to Little Zhao yesterday—you've watched them yourself, right?"
Hearing this, Ou Yingying's composed, arrogant expression suddenly changed.
She immediately thought of something, her eyes darkening: "Little Zhao told you? Are you working with him to blackmail me with this?"
The middle-aged man shook his head: "You can doubt me, but don't doubt Little Zhao. That man is utterly loyal to you."
"I came today to notify you that you've been successfully selected to move into Alice Apartment. I'm telling you to prepare in advance. I'll return when it's time for you to move in."
"This is your important matter? What Alice Apartment? I don't understand."
Ou Yingying frowned.
The middle-aged man calmly clasped his hands together.
"Don't play dumb. Think about where you got those videos from. Ask your source and you'll understand."
Ou Yingying played innocent: "I just downloaded those videos randomly online."
Seeing Ou Yingying persistently pretending, the middle-aged man took out his phone and gestured for her to come see the video on it.
Ou Yingying initially didn't care, but after watching the entire video.
She became completely stunned with shock and terror.
The video showed three people.
It appeared to be shot in some room.
Little Zhao was tied to a chair.
Beside him stood two people wearing black masks, their faces unseen.
Probably men.
These two men subjected the tied-up Little Zhao to brutal interrogation.
The specific questions were about where the videos came from, who gave them to him, and what he planned to do with them.
Little Zhao initially refused to talk despite torture, but after being beaten black and blue, with no help coming from heaven or earth.
He had no choice but to confess everything.
"Well, Ou Yingying, what do you have to say now?"
"Also, I know who you got these videos from—it's quite obvious since the main subject was recorded. Now I need to know what exactly happened with these recordings? How did they end up in your hands?"
"If I talk, can I redeem myself?"
"Heh, no."
"Then why should I tell you?"
"Heh, even if you don't tell me, with the resources behind me, I can quickly find out. Of course, even if you do tell me, my people will verify everything to ensure you're telling the truth."
"So you can treat this as selling me a favor. I can give you some information about Alice Apartment so you might at least not die so easily there."
The study fell into complete silence.
Ou Yingying finally nodded and revealed everything about yesterday—the four women in the oceanview room, what Wang Ziyi told them about some apartment, and everything about the videos.
Of course, Ou Yingying's account was subjective, making it seem like everything was Wang Ziyi's fault.
The middle-aged man kept his word after listening:
"You should have learned about Alice Apartment from your friend Wang Ziyi and the videos she recorded."
"The information I'll give you is this: at Alice Apartment, you might survive easier if you attach yourself to someone named Jiang Ran."
"Additionally, thanks to you, Wang Ziyi and her boyfriend have also been selected for Alice Apartment, and they'll be moving in the same batch as you. And your subordinate—the one called Little Zhao—is also included."
"That's all I have to say. Oh, and don't think about running away. Unless you leave Earth, you can't escape our grasp!"
With that, the middle-aged man left.
He needed to find Lin Feng next.
Anyone observant would notice the middle-aged man visited Ou Yingying first, then Lin Feng.
After the man left, Ou Yingying sat in the study dazed for a long time.
In that moment, she felt chilled to the bone, with fear taking root in her heart.
She began to think the middle-aged man's appearance was an illusion, that this Alice Apartment was fake, just some elaborate prank.
But her woman's intuition told her: wake up!
She regretted it, truly regretted her clever idea from yesterday.
She needed comfort now. She called her boyfriend, but his secretary answered.
Said her boyfriend was in a meeting.
Ou Yingying became almost frantic.
Feeling completely insecure, since she couldn't reach her boyfriend, she decided to find Wang Ziyi and Lin Feng.
To ask them clearly what Alice Apartment was all about!
Although she'd heard the general idea yesterday and seen parts of the videos.
She still didn't fully understand.
And Ou Yingying had quite the nerve.
She was the one who got Lin Feng and Wang Ziyi into this Alice Apartment situation.
Yet now she dared to go find them.
Those two probably wanted to tear her apart alive.
...
1:00 PM.
Lin Feng, Wang Ziyi, and Ou Yingying gathered at Lin Feng's own villa.
Only the three of them were in the villa now;
all others like the housemaid had been sent away.
The three currently occupied the first-floor living room.
Wang Ziyi screamed at Ou Yingying sitting on the sofa, completely shedding her usual university beauty queen demeanor:
"Ou Yingying! You bitch! And I considered you a good friend! You said you wanted the videos to investigate whether they were real or fake, whether they were mockumentaries, but you actually leaked and spread them!!!"
If this were normal times and Ou Yingying was cursed at like this.
She would definitely talk back, but this time she stayed silent out of guilt, head bowed like a well-behaved child who'd done wrong.
But Wang Ziyi's subsequent curses became too vicious.
Ou Yingying looked up and said: "Stop cursing! It's useless! Both of you have to move in, and so do I! That middle-aged man notified me too!!!!"