Chapter 161: Don’t Look, She’s Hypnotizing You!
Chapter 161: Don’t Look, She’s Hypnotizing You!
System: “Respected Host, this kind of thing is a piece of cake for this system. It’s just invading the other person’s brainwaves, simple and easy.”
“Tang Chen, where are you?” At that moment, a weak voice came through. Tang Chen’s face lit up with joy. He quickly held Yang Mi. Happily, he said, “Yang Mi, you’re awake, you’re finally awake. You scared me to death.”
Yang Mi smiled weakly and touched Tang Chen’s head, saying, “Did you save me, Tang Chen? I feel much better now.”
Tang Chen chuckled, then looked at her seriously and said, “Silly girl. Don’t do such foolish things anymore. If anything happened to you, how would I go on living!”
“Because I love you,” Yang Mi said tenderly. “Because I love you, I can’t lose you first. Otherwise, I wouldn’t have the courage to face the rest of my life.”
Yang Mi’s sudden confession made Tang Chen laugh so hard that crow’s feet appeared at the corners of his eyes. He kissed Yang Mi tightly on the lips, then pulled away and said, “I love you too, Yang Mi. I’ll take good care of you for the rest of my life.”
Yang Mi was awake now, and things became much simpler. Since Yang Mi had just woken up from a serious injury, she was still very tired, so Tang Chen let her rest some more.
However, Tang Chen did not idle around because he needed to wake up He Ping. He wanted to ask him properly what exactly had happened.
When he reached the garage, Tang Chen first drove the Extravagant Battle Car out onto a nearby road. Then he stopped the car, pulled He Ping out of the back compartment, and dragged him into the passenger seat.
Tang Chen tied He Ping’s body tightly with a rope. He didn’t dare to be careless because He Ping under hypnosis was too powerful—even he had struggled to handle him.
“Alright, System. Now find a way to wake up Young Master He Ping for me. I have questions to ask him,” Tang Chen commanded the system in his mind. He couldn’t wait to find out who had done such a thing.
The system hummed in agreement and said, “Respected Host, please wait a moment.” As it spoke, Tang Chen felt a pain in his eyes. Two beams of white light shot out from his pupils and entered He Ping’s eyes. After just a moment, the two beams returned to Tang Chen’s eyes.
“Respected Host, it’s done. This system just invaded his brainwaves and removed the hypnosis,” the system said effortlessly, as if it were the simplest thing in the world.
“Is it resolved just like that?” Tang Chen muttered to himself. At that moment, he saw He Ping groggily open his eyes. When He Ping saw Tang Chen, he was startled and said fearfully, “Young Master Tang, why are you here? Where am I?”
Tang Chen could tell from He Ping’s attitude toward him that the matter had been successfully resolved. He Ping had recovered from the hypnosis. So, Tang Chen quickly untied the ropes from him and said, “He Ping, I tied you up for a reason—it’s because you were hypnotized.”
“Hypnotized?” He Ping pointed at his own nose in confusion and said, “Young Master Tang, what exactly happened? Why was I hypnotized?”
Tang Chen said seriously, “That’s exactly what I want to ask you. In short, after you were hypnotized, you were given an order to kill me, but you didn’t succeed. Yang Mi took a stab for me instead. It was an emergency at the time, and I didn’t know you were hypnotized, so I was a bit rough with you. Don’t take it to heart.”
When He Ping heard this, he was instantly stunned. What did Young Master Tang just say? He tried to kill Young Master Tang but failed, and ended up hurting Sister-in-law? Oh my god, he had no memory of it at all.
“No, no, I’m sorry, Young Master Tang. I didn’t mean to. I hurt Sister-in-law, and you’re not blaming me? But I don’t remember any of it.” He Ping didn’t dare to mind at all. Given Young Master Tang’s affection for Sister-in-law, if he had hurt her, he would have deserved to be killed. Now, not only was Young Master Tang not holding it against him, but he was also speaking to him like this. It made He Ping feel that he hadn’t misjudged this Boss.
Tang Chen had initially been rough with He Ping because he didn’t know the reason behind the incident. Now that he knew He Ping had been hypnotized, how could he stay angry with his brother?
“I don’t blame you. It wasn’t your fault to begin with. You were a victim too. When you’re hypnotized, whatever you do is beyond your control, so of course you wouldn’t remember,” Tang Chen said casually, then patted He Ping on the shoulder.
He Ping nodded nervously and said, “Young Master Tang, then who exactly hypnotized me?”
Tang Chen furrowed his brow and said coldly, “That’s what I want to know too. I heard from your girlfriend that you came to see me this morning, but Yang Mi told me no one came to see me. That means you were hypnotized during that time. Think carefully—did anything unusual happen on your way to find me?”
He Ping thought hard, tapping his head, and then said, “I remember Brother Yu asked me to find you at the time. He said he had something to give to you. There wasn’t anything particularly unusual. I hailed a taxi and headed straight to your place. Oh, and that female taxi driver was very beautiful, like a seductive enchantress. She had mesmerizing eyes. I sat in the car feeling dazed, and after that, I don’t remember anything. The next time I woke up, I was here.”
“A female driver like an enchantress?” Tang Chen furrowed his brow deeply again and said to the system in his mind, “System, I remember you told me that deep hypnosis can hypnotize someone instantly, right? Does it require props like clocks or watches, like in TV dramas?”
System: “Respected Host, that’s completely unnecessary. After all, a hypnotist capable of altering someone’s memory through hypnosis must have been in the field for many years. Sometimes, just a glance is enough to hypnotize the other person.”
“Just a glance?” Tang Chen muttered to himself, then said to He Ping, “He Ping, go home for now, or call your girlfriend to let her know you’re safe. Don’t talk about today’s events for the time being. As for the person who hypnotized you to try to kill me, I’ll handle it myself.”
He Ping hummed in agreement, opened the car door, got out, and bowed to Tang Chen. Apologetically, he said, “Young Master Tang, thank you for your generosity. I’ll take my leave now.” With that, he turned and left. He intended to hail a taxi home.
Tang Chen’s mind was in chaos. According to He Ping’s account, the biggest suspect should be that female taxi driver. But there were so many taxis in the city; finding a female taxi driver he had never seen before was even harder than finding a needle in a haystack.
“System, can you help me identify which female taxi drivers are in this city?” Tang Chen had no choice but to turn to the system for help; otherwise, he really had no way.
The system said with some disdain, “Respected Host, could you not come up with such a foolish method? You should think of another way. Even if this system actually used its vast powers to narrow it down for you, would you really plan to go ask them one by one?”
Tang Chen thought about it and realized he was being incredibly stupid. He sighed at the thought, then turned around and got into the Extravagant Battle Car, ready to drive back first. Just as he passed a turn, a pretty girl suddenly walked out from around the bend.
“Dammit!” Tang Chen slammed on the brakes and honked the horn. The girl was so frightened that she collapsed to the ground on the spot, and the Extravagant Battle Car almost ran over her.
“Damn it, misfortunes never come singly,” Tang Chen cursed angrily again. Then he opened the car door, got out, and went over to check on her. He had no intention of being a hit-and-run driver; at most, he would just pay some compensation.
“Miss, are you okay?” Tang Chen took the girl’s hand and prepared to help her up. This girl had long straight hair and was wearing a grayish-white office worker’s uniform. Her knee-length skirt highlighted her slender, beautiful legs. One of her high heels had fallen off, revealing her delicate little toes.
“Ah, it hurts, it hurts. My leg really hurts,” the girl exclaimed, then sat back down on the ground. She tossed her hair, revealing her stunningly beautiful face.
It was a somewhat youthful face with very fair skin. She had almond-shaped eyes with corners that slanted slightly downward—the standard eyes of a fox spirit in ancient mythological novels. Her lips were red, small, and delicate. Perhaps the movement had pulled at her injury; she bit her lower lip, giving off the vibe of a girl reaching climax in a adult film.
“Are you okay?” Tang Chen asked again. What bad luck was this? Just going out and he almost hit someone.
“I’m fine, fine,” the girl said, her voice sounding very sweet. She stared blankly at Tang Chen, her eyes seeming to shimmer with a hazy light.
“Respected Host, don’t look, she’s hypnotizing you!” the system shouted in his mind at that moment. This woman was hypnotizing Tang Chen!
“You…” Tang Chen came to his senses and was about to throw a punch when his body went weak and he collapsed to the ground.
The girl curled her lips into a smile, then lifted Tang Chen’s body onto her shoulder and walked away, swaying in her high heels.