CHAPTER 117: CHAPTER 116: JING ZHENGWEI, TRULY WORTHY OF YOU

After Mu Qingmei calmed down, she was convinced that there was a master behind Zhengwei.

After she took the edited article back, White Night conducted an internal investigation and found that no other region had seen this article either. Everyone thought that Zhengwei had hired a ghostwriter.

When she saw the three new columns proposed by Zhengwei at the meeting, this idea was almost confirmed—how could a black-hearted profiteer like Zhengwei come up with such era-transcending, cunning, and mind-bending columns?

The only decision he seemed capable of making was to feature a large, colorful picture on the cover!

Therefore, when Mu Qingmei saw Zhengwei disguising himself and sneaking out of the newspaper office without even bringing his bodyguards, she left the office under the guise of metabolism and followed him. The others didn’t care—new colleagues and unfamiliar faces, everyone was busy with their heavy workload and didn’t pay attention to where their colleagues went.

In Mu Qingmei’s view, Zhengwei’s furtiveness was definitely him meeting that master. As for why they were meeting secretly, Mu Qingmei could think of a few reasons: the master was Zhengwei’s trump card, Zhengwei didn’t want others to know about the master’s existence; the master’s identity was inconvenient to expose; the master was being kept in the basement by Zhengwei to write articles...

In fact, Mu Qingmei had a very bold guess!

Standing behind Zhengwei, the master might be Yin Yin Yin!

Otherwise, why could Yin Yin Yin ensure that the newspaper would hire people from White Night?

Although this was the only line of evidence, Mu Qingmei trusted her intuition greatly.

Intuition stems from spiritual power investigation, and Mu Qingmei’s spiritual power was naturally strong and unmatched, capable of repelling a thousand troops, so her intuition was naturally extremely accurate. Therefore, when Yin Minghong returned home covered in blood that year, Mu Qingmei beat him up on the spot. It later proved she hit him too lightly and wrongly.

It was Yin Yin Yin after all!

Thinking of this, Mu Qingmei’s heart burned with passion. Now, in Xuanzhu White Night, who wouldn’t want to know where Yin Yin Yin was? What were his intelligence sources? What exactly did he intend to do?

A white-haired assassin, how exactly did he establish himself in Xuanzhu County? Could his path of infiltration be replicated?

And with the truth so close at hand, how could Mu Qingmei let it slip away?

Thus, on her first day at work, cultural department editor Mu Qingmei followed the editor-in-chief into the alleys.

However, it was evident that Mu Qingmei had not formally learned how to tail someone. Even if she mastered Lingxu Battle Technique, getting too close would trigger the other’s spiritual reaction—a martial artist could even dodge bullets in an instant, how could her blatant staring not make someone feel uncomfortable?

When Yueyu stopped and shouted upon discovering someone was following him, Mu Qingmei panicked.

After all, she was a young lady new to the game, how would she know how to handle being discovered while following someone? Two thoughts flashed through her mind:

Knock him out.

Kill him.

As Mu Qingmei tried to sneak away quietly, she heard Yueyu utter a threat, and in a fit of fury, she stepped forward.

When she saw Yueyu’s stunned expression, she knew she had been tricked.

There was no way out now.

Even her face was seen, and Mu Qingmei couldn’t escape even if she wanted to.

As they say, a rabbit will bite when cornered, and students panic and mess up math problems. Realizing her situation, Mu Qingmei’s courage grew sinister.

Being discovered plotting nefariously, even if she escaped, should he investigate and trace back, it could implicate the editor-in-chief sister—in Mu Qingmei’s view, there was surely a magnificent romance between Yin Yin Yin and the beautiful editor-in-chief sister, which was why the editor-in-chief was able to hire people from White Night. The editor-in-chief, to support Yin Yin Yin’s resistance venture, had no choice but to compromise with the beast Zhengwei...

Whether Yin Yin Yin had a relationship with Zhengwei was unknown, but letting Zhengwei escape here meant the editor-in-chief sister was doomed!

So she had only one choice—eliminate him!

Everything would be reshuffled, the Jing Family would send others to take over the newspaper, and she could continue to infiltrate!

Mu Qingmei clenched her fist and stepped toward Yueyu.

Her determination grew more resolute.

Never did she think, Zhengwei wouldn’t die at Minghong’s hand, but at hers.

Let Zhengwei’s death be a small interest for the Jing Family’s brutal pleasures!

On the other hand, seeing Mu Qingmei’s menacing "Black Widow" look, Yueyu knew this was trouble.

Even if he could outsmart Mu Qingmei, there was no need!

He had hired people from White Night to subtly insert subversive articles into newspapers!

What was the point of eliminating people? Now even ’Yin Yin Yin’ might be suspected—did you fish just because our person vanished from the newspaper as soon as they joined?

What’s more, Yueyu thought he couldn’t beat her!

Seeing the illusory cloak appear on Mu Qingmei—a high-level technique that could only be mastered when a battle technique has reached ’Integration and Mastery (Intermediate)’—he knew.

The skills Yueyu currently mastered were: Lingxu Battle Technique (Basic), Kenshi Ultimate Battle Technique (Basic), Biting Battle Technique (Intermediate). This means, comparing paper alone, Mu Qingmei was no weaker than him.

System upgrades weakened a person, plus Yueyu hadn’t practiced nor fought for a month, just played cards and read novels every day, while Mu Qingmei mastered Intermediate Combat Techniques at a young age. He understood the concept that system flow couldn’t beat a genius flow.

As for the Basic Lingxu Battle Technique and Basic Kenshi Ultimate Battle Technique, in a head-to-head bout, what’s crucial is instantaneous DPS and strengths; mastering many techniques gives an advantage in diverse situations, but in a narrow confrontation, the one with higher explosive strength wins!

So Yueyu’s first reaction was—to run!

With Mu Qingmei behind him, naturally he ran forward!

Just run out of this alley, and outside lies the main street where the Battle Card Hall is located. Would White Night dare to kill someone in broad daylight!?

Yueyu swiftly employed Lingxu Battle Technique to speed forward, but turning back, he saw Mu Qingmei’s speed was faster—her mastery of Lingxu Battle Technique surprisingly surpassed Zhengwei, who had practiced it with cheats!

Moreover, she wasn’t mainly practicing Lingxu Battle Technique, otherwise now she would have drawn a gun from her pants and shot herself!

Truly, neither system flow nor cheat flow could beat genius flow!

Seeing he was about to be caught, and only halfway through the alley, Yueyu had to reach into his pants.

So he quickly pulled out a short-barreled shotgun, aimed it back at the rapidly approaching Mu Qingmei, and fired!

Bam!

The physiological reaction induced by spiritual power was nearly uncontrollable. Hearing the gunshot, Mu Qingmei dodged instantly, giving Yueyu a chance to widen the distance!

But soon she realized she was tricked—the first shot from the short-barreled shotgun was a blank, serving no purpose other than scare!

"Ha ha ha ha, you fell for it!" Yueyu laughed heartily, hastening his escape.

Just then—

A bunch of armed thugs suddenly surged from the dark alleys on both sides, surrounding both Yueyu and Mu Qingmei. Their fierce demeanor and malevolent intent clearly signaled they were not here to mediate.

Seeing this, Mu Qingmei suddenly realized, feeling as if a bucket of cold water was poured over her head in the dead of winter, her heart chilled to the core. She sighed at the depth of city people’s schemes and lamented, "I can’t believe I fell into your trap... Zhengwei, as expected of you."

Yueyu: "¿"