Trembling At A High Altitude

After the driver accelerated, the yacht quickly reached the open sea.

The tour guide swiftly cleared the deck chairs and tables, then went inside to clean the cabins.

Zeka and another accompanying person took out red wine, beer, and dried fruits from their luggage and placed them on the leisure tables and chairs.

Richard and Song Hui (Yang Shunli) sat at the leisure table and began discussing business.

"You want revenge? This is a good opportunity for revenge, do you know what to do?" Li Teng and Aila spoke at the railing at the stern of the boat.

"I want to kill them," Aila said fiercely.

"Kill them? Killing them would mean your mission fails, and it would be totally meaningless," Li Teng shook his head.

"Then how do you think I should retaliate against them?" Aila was distraught.

"You need to fight fire with fire," Li Teng replied to Aila.

"Still... I don't quite understand," Aila frowned.

"You need to use your current appearance and identity as Miss Song to attract Richard's attention, make him fall in love with you, then drive a wedge between him and Gemma, and even incite him to kill Gemma himself, just like he killed you for Gemma in the past.

"I found that in this mission world, our phones have a network connection, they are connected to the outside world, he used your and your child's death to play the sympathy card online, became an internet celebrity, and made quite a bit of money because of it.

"You record everything between him and you in secret, capture the key evidence of him killing Gemma, and when conditions are ripe, you can even extract details from him about how he and Gemma killed you before... this can't be rushed, take it slow.

"Then expose all this evidence online.

"You make him kill Gemma, then let him fall from grace, be clinked in jail, and even be sentenced to death—that would be the best punishment for them," Li Teng analyzed for Aila.

"Right! Why didn't I think of that?" Aila, having listened to Li Teng's words, felt enlightened.

Then Li Teng explained to Aila in detail how to successfully attract Richard's attention, how to make Richard think he could have her but actually couldn't, guiding Richard step by step into the trap.

"Could this really work?" Aila looked somewhat skeptical.

"Don't doubt my plan, just follow it exactly, everything is under my control," Li Teng said confidently.

"Okay, I'll try," she replied.

"They are coming," Li Teng warned Aila.

Sure enough, as soon as Li Teng finished talking, Richard and Yang Shunli walked over from the front of the boat.

"Young Master Song, let's talk over there," Li Teng pulled Yang Shunli away, leaving Aila and Richard together.

Aila glanced at Richard, then quickly looked towards the sea horizon, feeling extremely conflicted inside.

"Miss Song, is something troubling you?" Richard, as Li Teng had predicted, took the initiative to strike up a conversation with Aila.

"It's none of your business," Aila responded brusquely to Richard.

Of course, this was all taught by Li Teng.

...

"You're simply amazing! I'm lucky you're not a woman, or else all the men in the world would be doomed," Aila, having finished chatting with Richard, found Li Teng and couldn't help but give him a thumbs up as Richard entered the cabins.

"How did it go?" Li Teng glanced toward the direction of the cabin.

"I followed your script exactly, his reactions, even some of the things he said... all within your predictions! I can hardly believe it, why are the words and tactics you taught me so influential? It's like you're brainwashing him! The plan was very successful, but I don't know why it's so successful," Aila looked at Li Teng admiringly.

What does it mean to predict things like a god? This is predicting things like a god! Richard was completely figured out.

"I'm a man, I naturally understand men better than you women," Li Teng said indifferently.

"What should I pay attention to in the next steps?" Aila regarded Li Teng as her strategist.

"He will come to you again soon, he will tell you..." Li Teng continued to coach Aila hand by hand.

...

Over an hour later, the yacht moored at the edge of a small island in the sea, and after securing the ropes, everyone disembarked and reached the island.

The island wasn't large, covered with wild grass as tall as a person.

A stone path had been carved out through the middle of the wild grass.

Following the stone path into the depths of the island, there was a sense of serenity and seclusion.

After walking for about twenty minutes, everyone arrived at a courtyard.

Stone piled up to form the courtyard walls, and the houses were built of stone.

Some chickens and ducks were roaming freely in the yard.

"Banu! Banu!" After entering the courtyard, the guide shouted several times towards the house.

No one responded, and the guide entered the stone house, searching around but finding no trace of the house owner, Banu.

"He might have gone to the vegetable garden at the back, but that won't affect our visit; whatever you need, I can arrange it," the guide explained to everyone.

After setting up tables and chairs in the courtyard, boiling water for tea, and having everyone seated to rest, the guide left the courtyard, saying he was going to the back vegetable garden to look for Banu.

The visitors wandered around the courtyard, Richard being excessively attentive to Aila, which Gemma observed with apparent annoyance. However, under Richard's stern glare, she didn't dare to speak.

Aila couldn't help feeling secretly thrilled: Gemma, you too have your day, huh?

Li Teng was right, killing someone you deeply hate isn't really that satisfying.

Mentally and physically tormenting them slowly is the best strategy.

...

"Could you do me a favor?" Aila whispered to Li Teng when they were alone.

"Let's hear it," Li Teng didn't immediately agree.

"I want you to get close to Gemma. With your intelligence and capability, it should be easy for you. Once you do, find an occasion to secretly record some flirtatious conversations between you and her and send them to me. I'll pretend to inadvertently let Richard see them, then I'll encourage him to kill Gemma. It might make our story more convincing," Aila laid out her plan.

Li Teng glanced at Aila but didn't utter a word.

"What's wrong?" Aila asked.

"You're quite clever, huh? Even learning by analogy now. But I really can't help you with this," Li Teng shook his head.

"Why? It should be easy for someone as capable as you to manipulate her into saying some flirtatious things, right?" Aila was a bit disappointed.

"The task would definitely be easy, but here's the thing: I am a married man, a responsible man, a man who never messes around outside. What you're asking goes against all my principles, so there's no way I'd agree," Li Teng said solemnly.

"I'm not asking you to do anything with her, just to say some flirtatious words…"

"Can you please help me? I'm begging you…"

"I feel like our plan is just missing this crucial component…" Aila kept pestering Li Teng.

"Alright, alright! Who makes me so kind-hearted?" Li Teng, worn out by Aila's persistence, finally agreed.

...

After the guide left the courtyard, he didn't return.

A gust of wind rose on the island, followed by a light drizzle.

Forced by the weather, everyone had to enter the stone house to take shelter from the rain.

Two hours later, the guide still hadn't returned.

And the rain kept getting heavier.

Aila's plan was executed perfectly, everything under her control.

She took an opportunity to meet with Li Teng, eager to know the progress on his end.

"The thing you wanted, I got it for you, I'll send it through WeChat," Li Teng said with a gloomy expression.

"Is it a video?"

"Yeah."

"You actually got video evidence! Awesome!" Aila gave Li Teng a thumbs up.

After watching the video, Aila couldn't help but feel her heart race.

Wasn't it supposed to be just a bit of flirting?

Is this flirting?

This is outright real action!

"This woman is insane! I just wanted to chat with her, throw in a few flirty words to complete your mission, but I didn't expect... she really crossed my line as a man!" Li Teng expressed extreme regret.

"You really went through a lot." Aila's tone was full of gratitude, Li Teng was sacrificing himself to help her!

However, Aila didn't think it was Gemma who was too crazy, but rather that Li Teng's flirting skills were too superior. With Li Teng's intelligence and Charm, was there any woman in the world he couldn't handle?

With Li Teng's video, Aila's subsequent plans were much easier to implement.

Upon accidentally viewing that video, Richard was indeed furious.

Men, creatures that they are, can mess around outside, but they absolutely cannot tolerate their own women being messed with, who could bear having a green hat wear?

Especially a selfish person like Richard.

In the time after Aila's death, he had gradually lost interest in Gemma, but given the shared secret of a murder between them, he didn't dare to break up with her carelessly.

But this video became the last straw that broke the camel's back.

"Your wife, with my bodyguard... this is just disgusting!" Aila exclaimed in shock.

"We were so in love, I really didn't expect..." Richard looked forlorn and sad, a pitiable sight.

If Aila didn't know him, she might have been conquered by his melancholic gaze at this moment.

Unfortunately, his act could no longer deceive her, it only made her feel more disgusted.

"Don't be too sad, these things..." Aila consoled Richard, leading him step by step into the trap she had set.

...

It was getting dark.

But the female guide still hadn't returned.

The rain had lessened somewhat, but it continued to fall.

"Zeka, go to the back of the courtyard and look for the guide, see what's going on, did she just leave us here without caring?" Richard instructed Zeka.

"Okay, Director Lin." Zeka responded, picked up a makeshift umbrella found in the stone house, walked out of the gate, and headed towards the back of the courtyard where the vegetable garden was.

The path leading to the vegetable garden behind the courtyard was also a stone road.

Both sides of the road were lined with weeds as tall as a person.

As Zeka walked, strange noises suddenly came from the weeds beside the path.

It sounded like something was being dragged through the weeds.

Zeka paused, feeling inexplicably scared.

"What is there to be afraid of? I asked clearly before coming here, there are no wild beasts on these islands. Even if there are, they are just things like wild rabbits." Zeka reassured himself and then quickened his pace.

A few minutes later, Zeka arrived at a clearing.

It was the vegetable garden on the island.

A large vegetable garden, planted with four or five common types of vegetables.

The surroundings of the vegetable garden were still bordered by tall weeds.

Although the vegetable garden was vast, the layout was simple.

Beyond this garden, there was just a small stone house next to the garden.

Whether there was anyone in the garden, one could see clearly at a glance.

Zeka didn't see anyone in the garden... of course, there would be no one, with the rain falling, even if there were people, they would have taken shelter in the stone house.

"Anyone there?" Zeka shouted into the stone house several times.

No one responded.

Zeka pushed on the worn wooden door of the stone house.

The inside of the stone house was very small, about four square meters in size.

Inside there were two stone benches and a stone table.

On the stone table, there was an ashtray with some cigarette butts.

But the stone house was empty.

"This guide is really something! Said she was going to the vegetable garden to find someone, didn't find anyone, and didn't come back to tell us, just left? What is she playing at? Won't Boss Lin scold me if he finds out?"

Zeka cursed inwardly.

He really regretted taking his friend's recommendation to rent this company's yacht; was this level of service even acceptable?

He definitely had to complain later, and get his money back.

Just as Zeka was about to head back the way he'd come after leaving the stone house, he suddenly noticed something...

Next to the stone house, in the weeds, there was a clear trail of something being dragged.

Due to the rain, most of the tracks had been washed away.

But, as Zeka crouched down and examined the area of flattened weeds, he soon discovered something off.

First were several fragments of cloth, the pattern exactly matching that of the clothes the female guide was wearing.

Parting the weeds, below them Zeka also found the female guide's work tag!

And then, there was a severed finger!

Seeing this severed finger, Zeka was horrified.

The female guide, could she have been killed?

No wonder she hadn't returned.

What person, or what thing, had killed her and then dragged her into the weeds?

Now was clearly not the time to study this matter, better to quickly report this situation to Director Lin and let him handle it.

Zeka sprinted towards the direction he had come from.

Perhaps because he was too panicked, or because the stone road was too slippery from the rain, Zeka hadn't run a few steps when his foot suddenly slipped, and he fell heavily onto the wet, slippery stone path.

The stone path was uneven, and the fall made Zeka ache all over, it took him a good while to get up.

Just then, strange noises came again from the nearby weeds.

It seemed to be the sound of some heavy object being dragged through the weeds.

Could it be the body of the female guide?

"Help! Help!"

In extreme terror, Zeka finally got up, yelling loudly as he ran towards the courtyard.