They caught the man.
Li Wufang got serious far faster than Gongyang Jiao. After unleashing his full power, he brought the intruder before Cheng Shi with both feet off the ground before the man even saw who had arrived.
The inspector's methods were so swift and decisive that when the intruder found himself kneeling before Cheng Shi in a daze, Cheng Shi instinctively took a step back, thinking the man was trying to set him up.
Unexpectedly, that cautious reaction instantly changed Li Wufang's expression. He looked around with extreme vigilance while stepping backward toward Cheng Shi, asking suspiciously, "Is there another situation?"
"..."
A trace of awkwardness rose on Cheng Shi's face. There was indeed another situation—you were the situation. If he ignored you, this place was actually quite safe.
But he couldn't exactly say that he had been overly cautious and started suspecting his teammate, so he could only laugh it off. "I was testing how fast you would react. Pretty fast."
"..." This time, it was Li Wufang's turn to be speechless. He sighed helplessly, looking as if he wanted to say something, then held it back with a strange expression. He pointed at the intruder beside him and said nothing more.
Cheng Shi gave two awkward laughs, thinking that it was a good thing the other man hadn't played along. Otherwise, he wouldn't have known how to continue.
After dealing with Li Wufang, Cheng Shi shifted his attention back to the intruder before him. This man was clearly a stowaway—and one without much to his name at that.
The man's face was covered in mud, and his clothes were tattered. Apart from a small pouch hanging at the small of his back, he had nothing valuable on him. He looked far more miserable than most of