Lin Feng saw that Qingniao was serious and immediately apologized with a smile, "Don't be angry, I was just joking with you. You're my sister-in-law, if I were to..."
Lin Feng didn't finish the sentence. He had wanted to say that it would be quite thrilling.
"Hmph, you're still sensible. Knowing I'm your sister-in-law, you should be more respectful and stop with the trash talk!"
Qingniao warned him with a huff.
Lin Feng wondered if she meant something more than just verbal sparring.
What was Qingniao's intention? Was she hinting that he wasn't proactive enough, or did she genuinely dislike him?
Lin Feng felt confused. Thinking of the special skill he possessed, he immediately activated his Favorability Perception.
As Favorability Perception activated, Lin Feng was stunned to find that Qingniao's favorability towards him was a mere ten points.
It seemed Qingniao's impression of him was still very bad. He had been overthinking.
Lin Feng chuckled dryly and suddenly thought of a question: why hadn't the mission to "plunder Chen Fan's luck value" in his mind prompted completion?
Chen Fan had been captured by him and was being tormented. By all accounts, the mission should have been completed by now.
Lin Feng felt perplexed.
At that moment, the SUV driven by Qingniao suddenly braked again on the roadside.
"Hey, I haven't disrespected you this time. Why did you stop the car again?"
Lin Feng felt bewildered.
Qingniao couldn't be bothered to explain to Lin Feng. She unbuckled her seatbelt and got out of the car. She glanced at the tires and found that two of the four tires had blown out.
Fortunately, her speed had been slow just now, and she had noticed it in time. Otherwise, a tire blowout on the highway would have had unimaginable consequences!
"Get out of the car. The tires are blown, and we can't go anywhere for now!"
Qingniao told Lin Feng to get out. There was only one spare tire in the car. With two tires blown, they would have to find roadside assistance.
"The tires blew out? There's a small motel by the roadside. Let's go to the motel to rest for a while, and then we can continue our journey after the car is fixed."
Lin Feng pointed to a motel about fifty meters away. The motel could not only be a place to rest but also to get the car repaired.
"I'm not going. If you want to go, go by yourself."
Qingniao immediately refused. Lin Feng, that scoundrel, definitely had ulterior motives for suggesting they go to a motel in broad daylight.
"Little Bird, do you think I'm taking you to a motel because I'm after your body and fear my beastly nature will take over?"
Lin Feng saw through Qingniao's thoughts.
"Otherwise? Do you think you're still a good person?"
"I'm starting to suspect that you sabotaged the tires yourself, with the intention of being alone with me!"
Qingniao had no faith in Lin Feng's character.
"Alas, others laugh at my madness, while I laugh at their inability to see through it!"
"Little Bird, if I truly wanted to have my way with you, would I need to resort to such schemes? I'd just use force. Do you think you'd have any room to resist?"
Lin Feng chuckled. His words were crude but not without reason.
Although Qingniao detested Lin Feng's vulgar and unpleasant speech, she had to admit that if Lin Feng really wanted to, she wouldn't be able to resist him.
"Then what do you mean? Why do you suddenly want to take me to a motel?"
Qingniao asked, confused.
"You're so dense! Think about it. There's no one around here, and there's only one motel. You suddenly have a tire blowout here, don't you find this motel suspicious?"
Lin Feng enlightened Qingniao.
Qingniao then had an epiphany. "Right! My tires are all newly replaced, it's impossible for them to suddenly blow out. It must be that the motel deliberately tampered with the road to attract customers."
Realizing this, Qingniao immediately crouched down to examine the cause of the tire blowout.
To Qingniao's surprise, there was no visible sign on the tire surface indicating what had caused it to burst.
"No need to look. They wouldn't be foolish enough to leave evidence. We need to go in and investigate."
Lin Feng was exasperated by Qingniao's intelligence. She seemed quite sharp usually, but at crucial moments, she was a bit slow to react.
"Alright then."
Knowing that Lin Feng had no other intentions, Qingniao finally agreed to go to the motel with him to take a look.
As it turned out, when Lin Feng and Qingniao walked towards the motel, they found a custom Rolls-Royce worth tens of millions parked there.
The Rolls-Royce had a Beijing license plate, and the plate number was an imposing sequence: 12345.
"Why is the Ji family's car here?"
Upon seeing the license plate, Qingniao's brow furrowed.
"The Ji family's car? How do you know?"
Lin Feng asked, puzzled. A license plate number was enough to identify it as the Ji family's?
"Because this license plate number has long been registered in our Dragon Rider system. Boss Ye instructed us to pay special attention to this plate."
"Lin Feng, you need to keep a low profile later. The Ji family people are not to be trifled with. Don't get into any conflict!"
Qingniao, knowing Lin Feng's hot temper, specifically warned him.
Lin Feng didn't answer Qingniao. His attention had already been captured by the person getting out of the car.
The Rolls-Royce door opened, and a pair of long, slender legs, encased in black stockings, appeared in Lin Feng's line of sight.
The owner of these beautiful legs was a tall and stunning beauty, around Qingniao's age.
She was dressed in a black OL uniform, with the collar of her white shirt slightly open, revealing fair skin and a proud cleavage.
Standing at nearly 1.8 meters tall, with a curvy figure, she made her black-clad legs appear exceptionally long and dazzling.
Crucially, this woman's face was also incredibly beautiful, though she had a somewhat cold aura that discouraged closeness.
"He Yuning? It's her!"
Qingniao seemed to recognize the cold beauty, and a hint of surprise flashed in her beautiful eyes.
A pure and lovely young beauty also alighted from the car with He Yuning.
The younger beauty was only in her early twenties, wearing a white T-shirt and light blue hot pants, exuding an air of pure playfulness.
However, her beauty was in no way inferior to the older one, just a different type.
"It's the two eldest daughters of the He family, He Yuning and He Yuqing."
Qingniao clearly knew the identities of the two women and immediately revealed their names.
"The He family? The four great families of the capital, aren't they supposed to be the Lin, Ye, Hua, and Ji families?"
Lin Feng counted on his fingers.
"The He family does not belong to the four great families of the capital, but they are even more mysterious than them."
"It's like the Forbes rich list. Those on the list are not necessarily the real wealthiest. The truly frightening ones are the hidden tycoons."
Qingniao said with a solemn tone.
"What are you trying to say? That this He family is more powerful than the four great families of the capital?"
Lin Feng was confused by Qingniao's explanation.
"I'm not sure. I only know that even the Ji family has to try hard to appease the He family. The Lin, Ye, and Hua families, if they want to contact the He family, are simply ignored."
"I suspect that the He family might have some hidden families behind them, which is why they only associate with the Ji family."
Qingniao shared her long-held speculation.
"What you're saying makes sense. The Ji family has hidden families behind them, and those hidden families originate from other dimensions. Perhaps in those dimensions, the Ji family and the He family are quite friendly."
Lin Feng agreed with Qingniao's analysis and was also curious about the true background of the He family.