Upon arriving home, Qin Xuan took one of the slippers Wang Yu Yan had worn and sniffed it.
"Doesn't seem to have any smell," Qin Xuan muttered with a frown.
"Whatever, let's try it," he decided.
With that, Qin Xuan placed the slipper horizontally before him. He formed a mudra with his other hand and chanted silently,
"Thousand shadows, ten thousand transformations, tracing all things..."
Just as the Zou Li Fen couple, who had been playing poker upstairs, came down, they saw Qin Xuan holding a slipper by the door. Zou Li Fen scolded him irritably,
"What strange fetish does he have, muttering over a slipper? Hong Guang, you better keep a close eye on my slippers, lest this pervert steals them."
"Alright, alright, I'll sleep with them tonight," Dan Hong Guang feigned agreement. His eyes, however, cast a look of disdain at Zou Li Fen's slippers. He thought to himself,
"If anyone's going to steal, it'd be Yue'er's. Your feet stink so much that even dogs would pass out from the smell, ugh..."
After finishing the incantation, a trace of dragon energy attached itself to the slipper. The slipper trembled and suddenly, with a "whoosh," it flew out of the doorway.
"It worked!" Qin Xuan rejoiced and quickly grabbed the other slipper, chasing after it.
At this moment, onlookers on the street witnessed a rather comical scene.
A man was holding one slipper and running after the other.
Qin Xuan no longer cared about losing face.
The most important thing now was to find Wang Yu Yan.
However, there was one thing Qin Xuan was relieved about.
The prerequisite for the Shadow Tracing Technique to succeed was that the person being tracked must still be alive.
Otherwise, the scent on these items would turn into the scent of death.
Therefore, Wang Yu Yan was still alive.
In a cellar of an urban village near the city center of Jiang Bei.
This cellar was used by people seeking refuge during wartime to hide from invading forces.
Currently, a woman was suspended by her wrists and neck, her legs spread apart, her toes resting on two blocks of ice.
The woman's hair was dishevelled, her face pale and drained of color. Her delicate feet were already red and trembling.
Upon closer inspection, the woman was none other than Wang Yu Yan.
Inside the cellar, two disreputable-looking youths sat at a table, leering at Wang Yu Yan.
"Brother Mao, this woman is the CEO of Wang Corporation. Don't you have any ideas? It would be worth dying after being with a woman like her once! Besides, the CEO of Wang Corporation is still single, and a virgin!" the yellow-haired youth said lewdly to the long-haired young man beside him.
The long-haired youth slapped the back of the yellow-haired youth's head and cursed,
"This is someone Chairman Li of Li Corporation specifically requested. If anything happens, will the Black Hand let us off?"
The yellow-haired youth rubbed his head, unrepentant, and said,
"Brother Mao, this woman is already in this state anyway, and her fate is sealed. Keeping her locked up is just a waste. Playing with her once won't hurt. Can you bear to see such a stunning beauty die without ever having been touched?"
The yellow-haired youth's words began to sway the long-haired man.
He had never seen such a beautiful woman in his life, and most importantly, she was a virgin. This was the rarest thing.
It wouldn't matter much to the woman to be played with once, he thought. At worst, they could buy a couple of condoms. He then said to the yellow-haired youth,
"You son of a bitch, you've got me worked up. Go buy some condoms quickly. I'll have my first taste, and then it'll be your turn."
The yellow-haired youth grinned and pulled out two from his pocket.
"Brother Mao, I was prepared long ago. I got these last time we went under the bridge. After we were done, I swiped them from a streetwalker."
"You're the smart one, kid. Come on, you hold the woman up. I'll go first. Let's try something new today, playing with her while she's suspended!" the long-haired man said with a lewd smile, walking towards Wang Yu Yan with the yellow-haired youth.