HUN Chapter 119: Veterinarian Emily

"Hello?"

Emily took the initiative to speak, her voice clear and confident. She stood about ten meters away from Lin Yu'an, maintaining a safe social distance.

"Hello, Emily. I know about you."

Lin Yu'an didn't immediately approach, but remained where he was, responding in a friendly manner.

"I'm Lin Yu'an."

"Lin Yu'an..."

Emily's gaze quickly swept over the mountain of building materials, the huge greenhouse that had risen from the ground, and the completed foundation platform. A flash of undisguised surprise crossed her eyes.

She exclaimed, "Are you planning to build a fortress?"

"Just a home," Lin Yu'an smiled.

"Sorry for disturbing your work. Actually, I came to ask for help."

She somewhat helplessly pointed toward the highway direction, "My car broke down halfway. The fuel pump seems to have some problems, working intermittently. You're the closest to here, so I wanted to ask if you have any tools I could borrow."

Lin Yu'an replied without hesitation, "Of course. Do you need me to come take a look? I know a bit about mechanics."

"Really? That would be so appreciated!" A delighted smile appeared on Emily's face.

Lin Yu'an started his Zongshen three-wheeler, carrying Emily toward the highway.

After reaching the destination, Lin Yu'an jumped down and said to Emily, "Get in the car and try starting it."

Emily sat in the driver's seat and turned the key.

They could only hear the starter motor making "buzzing" sounds, but the engine could only struggle with "puff... puff..." sounds, accompanied by irregular shaking of the car body, ultimately failing to start.

"From this sound, the ignition or fuel supply system is most likely the problem," Lin Yu'an made a preliminary judgment.

He had Emily open the hood, and Subaru's characteristic horizontally opposed engine was neatly presented before them.

Lin Yu'an didn't rush to disassemble with tools. He first bent down and carefully examined the entire engine bay, his gaze sweeping over every component.

Soon, his eyes locked onto an extremely inconspicuous spot: a wire harness bundle connected to the fuel pump relay.

He pointed there and said to Emily, "Come look at this."

Emily curiously leaned forward and saw that on the corrugated tube wrapping the wire bundle at a bend, there was a very tiny cut that looked like it had been made by a sharp instrument. Without careful observation, it would never be noticed.

Lin Yu'an took a small knife from his tool bag and carefully split open that section of corrugated tube.

Inside, a key wire controlling the fuel pump's power supply had its insulation stripped for a small section, exposing the copper wire underneath.

On that exposed copper wire, there was a layer of extremely unnatural, lightly crystallized green corrosion.

"This is..." Emily's expression became serious.

"These are traces of accelerated corrosion by electrolytic solution," Lin Yu'an's voice also became low.

"Someone used a syringe or dropper to precisely drip a small amount of highly concentrated acidic or alkaline liquid onto this exposed cut."

"The liquid corroded the copper wire, causing poor contact, which is why your fuel pump was working intermittently."

His words made Emily's face change instantly.

This wasn't an accident. This was deliberate sabotage! And the technique was extremely professional and concealed.

"Can it be fixed?" There was a trace of calm in Emily's voice.

"Yes, it's just a small problem," Lin Yu'an's tone was very calm, as if handling a perfectly ordinary matter.

He took out his portable toolbox, working skillfully and quickly.

He first used small wire strippers to completely cut the corroded section of wire, then neatly stripped fresh copper wire from both ends.

Next, he took out a "heat-shrink butt connector" very common in North American auto repair, inserted the two copper wire segments into both ends of the connector, and secured them firmly with special crimping pliers.

Finally, he took out a lighter and evenly heated this small connector.

Under the flame's heat, the insulation sleeve on the connector's exterior began to shrink, and red sealant oozed from inside, perfectly and waterproof wrapping the entire connection point.

The entire process flowed smoothly and took less than five minutes.

"Alright, try it again," Lin Yu'an said calmly.

Emily took a deep breath, returned to the driver's seat, and nervously turned the key.

"Buzz... roar...!"

Accompanied by smooth starting sounds, Subaru's horizontally opposed engine was instantly awakened, emitting stable and powerful rumbling! All warning lights on the dashboard also went out.

"My God! You actually fixed it!"

Emily turned off the engine, got out of the car, and looked at Lin Yu'an with eyes full of admiration and more complex gratitude.

"I checked for ages earlier and completely missed the problem here."

"The perpetrator's technique was very professional, designed to make it look like ordinary electrical failure. You might need to be careful about your safety recently," Lin Yu'an said matter-of-factly while packing up his tools.

"Thank you so much, Lin!"

"You not only fixed my car but also... let me know the truth. If you have time, you're welcome to visit my veterinary clinic in town. I'll buy you a drink. My clinic is at the end of that fork road in town, the biggest log cabin there."

"Alright, definitely."

After Emily thanked him again, she started her Subaru Outback and drove toward town along the highway.

Lin Yu'an came to the roadside, thinking about how to transport the containers into the camp as well.

Just then, urgent motorcycle roaring sounds came from the distance, interrupting his thoughts.

A black, heavily modified dirt bike sped past on the Dalton Highway. The rider wore all-black riding gear and a full-face helmet, making their appearance unclear.

The motorcycle didn't pause at all, directly turning onto the fork road leading to Wiseman town.

The moment the motorcycle passed by him, Lin Yu'an's sixth sense, honed through countless life-and-death trials, suddenly felt like being pricked by a needle, instantly sensing a wave of cold malice!

That malice was fleeting but extremely intense!

Lin Yu'an was certain it wasn't directed at him, so then...

Emily's figure and her broken-down Subaru Outback instantly flashed through his mind!

Artificially created vehicle failure to keep the target stranded halfway or delay her journey, this was a classic tactic!

A thought arose in his mind! This rider was going after Emily!

Lin Yu'an didn't want to meddle in others' affairs, but the phrase "We need neighbors more" echoed in his mind.

He thought of the help from Stan, George, and other simple, sincere people.

Without further hesitation, Lin Yu'an mounted his Zongshen three-wheeler!

"Roar...!"

The GB1000 engine let out a roar, and Lin Yu'an drove this red beast at full speed in the direction where Emily and that black motorcycle had disappeared!

The houses in Wiseman town were far apart from each other, and after entering that fork road, it became even more desolate.

Lin Yu'an knew that in such a place, if something really happened, Emily would be helpless and alone.

He twisted the throttle to the maximum, the three-wheeler sliding wildly on the muddy road, but with his superb driving skills, he always kept the vehicle under control.

When he saw Emily's log cabin at the end of the fork road from afar, he immediately slowed down. He saw that black dirt bike parked outside the cabin's yard!

To avoid alerting them, he stopped the three-wheeler and with a thought, stored it in his space.

Then, using the forest as cover, he silently approached the cabin.

When he reached the clinic, he found it unusually quiet.

This kind of silence made his sixth sense, which had developed conditioned reflexes to danger, buzz with alarm.

From experience, such strong premonitions often meant there were people nearby with strong malicious intent.

Emily's log cabin had its main door tightly shut, and all curtains were drawn, as if the owner wasn't home.

But Lin Yu'an's gaze locked onto a detail on the second floor: a window there was open a crack.

He circled to the side of the cabin. His physical abilities, enhanced far beyond ordinary humans by the golden finger, were perfectly demonstrated at this moment.

He stepped back a few paces, took a running start, pushed off the rough log wall with both feet, and his body instantly leaped upward.

His fingers precisely gripped the lower edge of the first-floor window sill. Using his core strength, he flipped upward like a monkey, silently climbing to the second-floor window sill, then nimbly slipped through the window.

The entire process made no unnecessary sound.

The room he landed in appeared to be a study.

He immediately crouched low, pressing his ear to the floor. The conversation from the living room downstairs clearly reached his ears.

"Emily, my patience is limited! Hand over that hard drive, and both you and I can live," a man's voice was saying.

"I don't know what you're talking about," Emily's voice, though trembling slightly, was unusually firm.

Lin Yu'an quietly moved to the stairway and looked down.

In the living room below, the motorcycle man in black riding gear was pointing a silenced pistol at Emily, who sat on the sofa.

Emily's face was somewhat pale, but her eyes showed no hint of surrender.

The motorcycle man was obviously enraged, "Stop playing dumb! Your ex-boyfriend, that damn thief! Before he died, he must have given you the hard drive and that map! I know it's here with you! Hand it over!"

"I don't have any hard drive," Emily replied coldly.

"Then you can die! I'll find it myself!" The motorcycle man roared and unhesitatingly raised his gun.

Just as he was about to pull the trigger!

"Bang!"

Emily moved! With an extremely agile tactical roll, she rolled from the sofa to the floor!

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