Strike Back, Proud Goddess! Novel

When Qiao Liang arrived at the information room, a man was tracking the email’s IP address with his laptop.

Half an hour later, the man raised his head and looked at Qiao Liang to say, “The current location is in southern California on the west coast of Country M. According to the longitude and latitude, it should be in Long Beach. But it’s not certain whether the location is accurate or not.”

Qiao Liang asked with narrowed eyes, “You mean the address is probably virtual?”

Little Five looked at the man and said seriously, “Little Six, don’t keep us guessing. Finish it all at once!”

Little Six shrugged, looked at Qiao Liang and said, “If it were a normal address, I would have only needed five minutes to track it, but this one took me half an hour to locate the IP address at Long Beach. But according to the information I’ve got so far, I think it’s probably a fake address.”

Qiao Liang frowned, stared at the screen and asked seriously, “Is it possible that this email box is virtual or has been hacked?”

Little Six pursed his lips. “Give me five minutes.”

After five minutes, Little Six shook his head and said, “This email box is of the highest safety factor in the world, and its service fee is high enough for an ordinary person to buy a house in City A. And when I tried to log in to this email box, I had to answer password security questions and provide a security key, so that email could only be sent via this email box and I don’t think it was hacked.”

Qiao Liang was relieved to hear the news. As long as she was the one who sent this email! As long as she sent it herself! He looked sideways at Little Five, and the latter instantly understood and said, “Young Master, don’t worry. I’ve got the flight arranged. The helicopter is on the island and the plane is waiting for us.”

Qiao Liang nodded and went outside. “To Long Beach.”

She had to be hiding from him, which was why she hid her real address, and that being the case, she was probably alive. However, Qiao Liang looked down at the square box in his hand. The finger had been confirmed to be hers, so was she…

No matter what had happened to her, he just wanted her to be alive.

Little Five and Little Six packed up their stuff and asked the others to join them in Long Beach after finishing the matters here.

Qiao Liang got on the helicopter, fastened his seat belt and said to Little Five, “Tell our men in Long Beach that we’re going there.”

Little Five nodded from the co-pilot, put on his headphones and started sending messages.

With a buzz, the helicopter left the island. This time, his heart was alive when he left because he had gotten hope. Even if this hope was slim to him, there was at least hope, and at least he knew that she was still alive.

Qiao Liang held the box tightly. ‘Xixi, you must wait for me there, okay?

‘When I find you, I will never let you leave me again. No matter what you’ve become, you will have to stay with me forever and I will never be separated from you.’

Tang Xi cried so hard that she fell asleep, sitting on the ground and leaning against the bed. When she woke up the next morning, she could hardly keep her eyes open, and her neck was so stiff as if it weren’t hers. She slowly stood up, went to the bathroom and looked at the mirror only to see a woman in white pajamas whose eyes were red and swollen into a line and whose hair was messy. She was so scared that she screamed aloud, “Ghost!”

The next minute, the door was smashed open and Xiao Sa rushed in. When he saw Tang Xi’s face, he widened his eyes and screamed too, “D*mn, ghost!”

Tang Xi blinked, looked at Xiao Sa and glanced back at the mirror before returning to reality. Was the ghost her? Oh, no! It seemed that she was in trouble now. How could she explain about her red and swollen eyes?

Aware of his gaffe, Xiao Sa realized that the ghost standing in front of him was his sister. Xiao Jing, whose room was farther, came over with a sleepy face and asked, “What are you screaming about early in the morning? It’s the weekend. I want to sleep late! … Oh, sh*t, Rourou, what did you do last night? Did you see a horror movie?”

Hearing this, Tang Xi, who was about to turn on the tap in the bathroom, paused. Horror movie? It sounded like a good excuse!

She turned on the tap, washed her face with water, took a towel to wipe her face and asked Xiao Sa, “Sa, can you go downstairs and fetch me some ice cubes? Before Mom and Dad gets up, I’ll have to apply cold compress on my eyes.”

Otherwise, Yang Jingxian might think that she still missed her biological parents. She didn’t want them to misunderstand her.

Xiao Sa always obeyed his sister’s words, so he immediately went downstairs to fetch an ice pack for Tang Xi. Tang Xi lay down in bed, rubbing her neck. Finding that the bed didn’t seem to have been used last night, Xiao Jing sat down on the couch beside the bed, raised his eyebrows and asked, “What happened?”

“Last night I watched a very sad love movie. I couldn’t stop my tears. I cried and cried and fell asleep sitting on the carpet.”

Xiao Jing asked, “Which movie?”

Tang Xi pursed her lips and spat out three words, “I love you.”

Xiao Jing was stunned and suddenly screamed, “Rourou, don’t say that! I’m your brother!”

Knowing that Xiao Jing was playing a joke on her, Tang Xi smiled, but she felt so bitter in her heart. Now she and Qiao Liang were just like the hero and the heroine of that movie, but she was luckier than Geri. At least she was still alive, though she dared not appear in front of him. At this thought, Tang Xi took a look at Xiao Jing and said softly, “P.S. I Love You. I watched this movie last night.”

Xiao Jing nodded. This movie was an old one that was produced many years ago. It was very popular at that time. Many people were moved by the love between the hero and the heroine, but even more so by the actions of the hero. Xiao Jing looked at Tang Xi, saying, “I didn’t expect you would like that kind of movie.”

Xiao Sa came back with the ice pack. Hearing Xiao Jing’s words, he asked, “What movie?”

“P.S. I Love You,” said Xiao Jing. “Surprised, right? This girl took the wrong medicine last night, dug out such an old movie and cried her eyes swollen.”

Tang Xi took the ice pack from Xiao Sa, thanked him and put it over her eyes. “I just randomly picked a movie. I didn’t know it was a tragic one.”

Exchanging a glance, Xiao Jing and Xiao Sa remembered that she had previously lived in the mountains, so it was normal that she hadn’t seen this movie. With this thought in mind, Xiao Sa said, “Let’s go to the cinema tonight to watch a brother and sister movie.”

Warmth welled up within Tang Xi when she heard Xiao Sa’s words, but she said, “Sa, don’t think I don’t know anything about movies. There is no genre called brother and sister movie.”

Xiao Sa chuckled. “Since we brothers and sister are going to watch a movie together, the movie will be a brother and sister movie.”