Chapter 648 — Qiu Lingshan's Trouble

That done, Wei Zhao strolled out of the surgical prep room and headed downstairs to look for Qiu Lingshan.

As for the clothes he had stripped off earlier, they had contained nothing but a phone and a box of silver needles, and Wei Zhao was in no hurry to go back for them—what if he ran into An Jianwen's men?

When Qiu Lingshan groggily came to, she knew she had been tricked. The other side had clearly figured out who she was; otherwise, why knock her out with drugged gas after locking her in the cell?

They must have been wary of her strength as a Yellow-rank adept, which was why they had resorted to such a low trick as sedative gas. But there was nothing Qiu Lingshan could do about it—she could hardly stop breathing. The moment she drew breath, the drug was in the air.

Now that she had just woken, the air held no more of the drug; clearly they had not pumped more gas into the cell. Perhaps they had overlooked the fact that a Yellow-rank adept had a hardier constitution than an ordinary person—and so Qiu Lingshan had woken sooner than an ordinary person would.

The first thing Qiu Lingshan did was check whether the phone and the signal transmitter on her person had been taken. Both were still there, which left her rather puzzled. Had they not searched her at all?

She had guessed right. An Jianwen really had not searched her. For one thing, there was no need—the entire headquarters of the kidney-harvesting ring was signal-shielded, so even with a communication device, Qiu Lingshan could not reach the outside world. For another, there was her strength to consider: An Jianwen had not a single Yellow-rank adept at his side, so none of them was a match for Qiu Lingshan, and he dared not lay a hand on her.

Qiu Lingshan glanced at the signal-less phone and smiled bitterly. Just as she thought. Otherwise, with Liu Wangli's efficiency, there was no way he would fail to locate her—no way he would leave her unconscious here for a night and more.

The time on the phone showed it was already noon the next day. She had been out for over ten hours.

Qiu Lingshan rose and surveyed the cell. This kind of defense was beyond her to break—the iron door was thick enough that only an adept at the peak of late Yellow-rank could smash through it. She was only at the peak of mid Yellow-rank, still far from the next stage.

So Qiu Lingshan gave up on futile efforts and instead kept searching the cell for another exit...

Suddenly, a strange fragrance began to spread through the air of the cell... Qiu Lingshan frowned. Had they noticed she was awake and started pumping sedative gas into the cell again?

Sure enough, after searching, Qiu Lingshan found two cameras in two hard-to-spot corners of the cell. They must have been watching her through those. At the thought, she did not bother holding her breath—even if she did, she could only last a short while. She could not go without breathing forever.

So Qiu Lingshan let nature take its course, offering no resistance, breathing the fragrance in the air as normal...

Only, after a while, she felt not the slightest urge to fall unconscious. Instead, she felt an extraordinary excitement, her blood racing as if she had inexhaustible strength...

Had they made a mistake and pumped a stimulant into the cell?

But soon Qiu Lingshan realized the gas they had let in was no stimulant—because her body felt unbearably hot, burning all over, gripped by an intense sexual urge.

Qiu Lingshan had never had a boyfriend, nor done that sort of thing, but she understood this physiological phenomenon well enough. She was a normal woman and occasionally had her spring dreams; it was only that her self-control was usually strong and her work busy, so she kept it in check.

But driven by a drug with such powerful aphrodisiac effect, what good was strong self-control? Because of her profession, Qiu Lingshan had naturally studied these aphrodisiacs more than most, and she knew how fiercely they took hold once they kicked in.

At the thought, Qiu Lingshan truly began to panic. What did these people want? Did they mean to force themselves on her this way? No, that made no sense—though the drug had her in its grip, her mid Yellow-rank strength was intact. Unless they had eaten a leopard's gall, none of them would dare burst in at a time like this.

But if not for that, why pump an aphrodisiac into the cell?

At first Qiu Lingshan could still fight to hold herself in check, but as more and more of the drug entered her body, her gaze grew hazy... Yet her mind stayed clear throughout; it was only her body's reactions that slipped beyond her control.

"Ah..." Qiu Lingshan could not help but moan, and the sound startled even herself. That she, of all people, could one day make such a seductive noise? Her nature had always been firm and unyielding, and now she felt utterly mortified...

Yet mortified or not, even so, Qiu Lingshan's hand still moved beyond her control, wanting to tear the clothes from her body...

The cameras! The thought of the cameras suddenly struck her, and her heart lurched. Surely the criminals did not mean to film her shame and use it to blackmail her? Just think—if a recording of her fell into someone's hands, she would rather die.

Qiu Lingshan bit down hard on her lip, and the sharp pain jolted her clear and calm for a moment.

The cameras had to be destroyed. Otherwise she was truly finished—even if she survived this, she would have no face to go on serving as captain of criminal investigation, much less working at the police bureau.

Qiu Lingshan knew she could not withstand the aphrodisiac's effect, so before the drug fully took hold, she had to destroy everything that threatened her.

Fortunately the cell walls were not very high, and the cameras were mounted only about three meters above the floor. Such a height was nothing to a Yellow-rank adept—let alone Qiu Lingshan, an adept at the peak of mid Yellow-rank.

Qiu Lingshan gritted her teeth, went to the edge of the wall where a camera was mounted, stepped onto the wall, and using the friction of the surface, sprang up and lashed out at the surveillance camera. With a crack, the camera burst apart, its connecting wires kicked clean through—clearly it would work no more.

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