Chapter 38

Tong Yue's talent is astonishing; he can see through the surface of things to their inner workings and true nature. Judging from those paintings, he has already reached the intermediate level. If he were to assist in finding spies at the Demon Fishing Academy, it's unimaginable how exciting it would be. However, the advanced form of this talent is too terrifying; not only Feng Xu, but even normal people cannot accept it.

Thinking of this, Chi Xia couldn't help but shudder.

Although Feng Xu did not agree, he still subconsciously used Tong Yue's talent to make a judgment. He knew the wonderful use of this talent and thought about using it without any psychological burden.

So, if Tong Yue's talent were exposed, how many terrifying forces would rush in, drawn by the scent of blood?

What will happen if the informant hidden in the Demon Fishing Academy finds out?

That's almost predictable!

Chi Xia dialed the contact information for Feng Xu that she had obtained from Ye Feng.

Feng Xu's calm voice came from the device, "Hello? Who is this?"

Chi Xia had just finished showering and put on a bathrobe. She stood by the window of her bedroom, her short hair dripping wet. The way she looked up did indeed bear a resemblance to Tong Yue's painting.

"Mr. Feng, I apologize for disturbing you."

There was a pause on the other end. "Teacher Chi? Is something the matter?"

The white short-haired towel wrapped around her neck blocked the water droplets that were about to fall into her hair, but the water droplets on her messy hair were still dripping freely, making her face itchy and uncomfortable. Chi Xia pulled up one end of the towel and wiped them away.

It's not Chi Xia's style to talk about important things while doing other things. There was a few seconds of silence on the device. The person on the other end didn't urge her and waited quietly.

Chi Xia looked at her reflection in the glass and said in a deep voice, "Your brother's matter should not be revealed; it's dangerous."

Feng Xu sneered, "So you finally realized something was wrong?"

Chi Xia knew that the two were not talking about the same thing, but she did not argue with him. She asked for his contact information because of Tong Yue. "Mr. Feng, it's just this one thing."

“Of course I know there’s no need to publicize this kind of thing. You didn’t encourage him to use it in front of others, did you?”

"No."

Chi Xia was about to hang up—

"Teacher Chi?"

"Is there anything else?"

Feng Xu seemed to take a light breath. "You won't hurt my brother, right?"

"Won't."

"Knock knock knock!"

After hanging up the call, there was a knock on the door.

Chi Xia grabbed a towel to dry her hair, tightened her bathrobe, and went to open the door.

The woman, always dressed in a black uniform and wearing a framed wig to disguise herself, opened the door with wet hair and wrapped in a bathrobe, surprising Xin Ran. He took a step back and held up a bottle of fine wine in his hand. "I got this from Fang Jin's house. Want to have a drink?"

"Okay, I'll come right after I change my clothes."

Xin Ran turned and left first. Chi Xia closed the door. Xin Ran walked to the top of the stairs, smiled, and muttered to herself, "This is my home. What's there for me to be uncomfortable about?"

Having figured out the key point, Xin Ran went downstairs as usual, took out two wine glasses to sterilize, and then poured the wine on the sunken balcony in the living room.

The lighting was soft, not disturbing the tranquility of the moonlit night.

Chi Xia wore black trousers and a plain gray short-sleeved shirt, revealing her neck and arms with smooth lines and firm skin. Her slender figure had a sharp and beautiful look.

This wasn't the way Xin Ran was used to. He stared at it for a moment, then looked away. "This wine has an official price of six figures. Come and have a taste."

Chi Xia didn't waste any more words. She had already taken it, opened it, and poured it out, so she might as well drink it. As a professional assassin, she didn't know she had such a high moral bottom line.

"Consider it a thank you from Teacher Fang for helping him." Xin Ran happily raised her glass. This was something the two of them had agreed on beforehand—to help that unfortunate colleague.

Chi Xia smiled faintly and clinked glasses with him. She already knew that Fang Jin was Ye Feng's man, but she was curious about what Xin Ran would gain from going to Fang Jin's house.

Chi Xia took a sip, savoring the rich, mellow aftertaste. She tilted her head back and downed it in one gulp, then took the wine and refilled her and Xin Ran's glasses. "You didn't come back very early, but you've had a good time?"

Xin Ran swirled her wine glass, her eyes fixed on the beautiful scarlet liquid. "Besides being a teacher at the Magic Fishing Academy, Fang Jin is an avid photographer with a talent for recording and storing information. He made cards for every teacher and student at the Magic Fishing Academy."

Xin Ran finished his drink, put the glass down, and casually pulled a magnetic card from his pocket, handing it to Chi Xia. "I found it in his study."

Chi Xia clicked on it, and there was her personal information, down to her current and former addresses. It turned out that the real information of the faculty and staff of the Magic Fishing Academy was not on the system website, but in the hands of the actual person in charge.

Ye Feng had asked her if she had any doubts, but she hadn't asked any. She had considered this possibility, and Ye Feng's answer to why was that was—

Let the bullets fly for a while.

The other party didn't say it explicitly, but Chi Xia guessed it. She had guessed it from the moment she saw the note from the sisters: the Demon Fishing Academy was hiding an even bigger secret.

A secret closely related to the Dawn organization.

Chi Xia continued to look at other information, but unfortunately the other party could not find Chi Xia's previous profession. The record was the information Chi Xia gave to Ye Feng: mortician (unverified).

Chi Xia: "Does everyone have one?"

Xin Ran looked at Chi Xia with her bright black eyes, "There's no Ye Feng one."

Chi Xia remained calm. She continued looking at the card that stored information and pictures, without asking about the many cards of teachers and students. She wondered why Xin Ran could so confidently say which personnel were missing.

“When I left his house, I was being followed.” Seeing the change in Chi Xia’s eyes, Xin Ran continued, “I led the other person around in circles and took him to the affiliated hospital of Nuodun, to Fang Jin’s special care ward. Guess what?”

Chi Xia guessed it, but she still looked at Xin Ran calmly.

“Fang Jin wasn’t in the hospital at all. There was someone in that ward who had been paralyzed for at least a year and was in a vegetative state. I had a sudden inspiration and started following that person instead. You would never guess that person was the real Fang Jin.”

Xin Ran had whetted Chi Xia's appetite, but then suddenly stopped and started sipping her wine.

Chi Xia patiently drank along with him.

Aren't you curious about what happened between us after that?

"curious."

Xin Ran finished the rest in one gulp. "You give me a piece of information in exchange."

“Fang Jin serves Ye Feng.” Chi Xia did not hesitate, because with Xin Ran’s abilities, he must have guessed it.

“Cheating? I already thought of that. Let’s find another way,” Xin Ran said with a smile.

“I visited their homes today. Tong Yue, a student in my class, is President Feng’s illegitimate son. There’s one in your class too.”

Xin Ran nodded, seemingly satisfied with the information. "Fang Jin told me a secret. He said that there is an extraordinary person hidden in the Magic Fishing Academy. That person stole his Rubik's Cube, and the car accident we encountered last time after leaving the Yu family was also arranged by that person."

Chi Xia wasn't surprised. She calmly asked, "Fang Jin wasn't in a car accident?"

Xin Ran smiled and poured wine for the two of them. "I thought you would ask how I got Fang Jin to tell the truth."

“Now that we have the information, the process is not important.” Chi Xia raised her glass, and the two clinked glasses.

Now it's clear: Fang Jin's car accident was a hoax, designed to lure out spies. At this moment, Xin Ran sneaked into Fang Jin's house. Logically speaking, Xin Ran shouldn't have been here tonight; he should have been reported to Ye Feng by Fang Jin and brought down by the Yu family.

However, things took an unexpected turn. Xin Ran not only escaped unscathed, but also brought back crucial information.

Chi Xia wondered, what if that eyeliner was Xin Ran's?

Xin Ran seemed to sense her concerns, and smiled as she leaned closer, her bright eyes sparkling, "Scared?"

Chi Xia looked up and said, "I'm completely convinced."

Xin Ran turned to look at the moon outside the window. He felt the palm of his hand as he touched the wine glass and noticed a fresh cut.

"It's a good thing that the Yu family has taken over the Demon Fishing Academy," Xin Ran said casually.

Chi Xia slightly raised her eyes to look at him. The young man's face was calm and serene, as if the world were peaceful. She had only learned of this information through her cooperation with Ye Feng. She never expected that Xin Ran would know everything after just one trip. This man was simply unbelievable.

This makes one curious about his professional abilities.

Chi Xia: "You went there and only took a bottle of wine and a magnetic card?"

Xin Ran turned her gaze back, "The money is in Fang Jin's living account, and I'm helpless."

"I thought that with your abilities, you could make Fang Jin willingly transfer all his savings to your name."

Xin Ran paused for a moment, then suddenly burst into laughter, her shoulders shaking with laughter. She sat down on the floor, leaning against the sofa. "Someone as serious as you should give me a heads-up before suddenly making a joke, otherwise, my reaction time can't keep up with your pace."

Chi Xiajing said to him, "You caught up, didn't you?"

"Any news from the warehouse?"

Chi Xia shook her head, "I only know it's in the old capital, but I haven't been able to find out who it belongs to."

“We can’t find it.” Xin Ran lowered his head and took a sip of his drink. “That warehouse looks abandoned. Anyone with a fake identity could buy the land and use it.”

Chi Xia had considered this possibility. "What's your suggestion?"

Xin Ran looked up at her, her expression unusually serious. "Go directly there, grab one or two small fry and interrogate them, then follow the clues to find the whole thing."

Chi Xia swallowed a mouthful of strong red wine. "But if we do that, we'll be exposed too. Now is not the time."

Xin Ran: "Have you ever thought about what the purpose of that group deliberately staged a car accident for us?"

Chi Xia: "Leave Lin Mu and that Rubik's Cube behind, so I can witness my friend's tragic death."

Xin Ran shook her head. "They didn't really figure out your and my identities. They only know that you have a close relationship with Ye Feng. To put it bluntly, they are targeting Ye Feng, but at the same time, they are testing the extent of your relationship."

Chi Xia thought about it and agreed. If she were exposed for frequenting the Demon Fishing Academy, she would have ended up like her sisters long ago. But she still wanted to dig deeper. "Could it be that the other party thinks the target isn't tempting enough?"

Xin Ran looked at her, wanting to laugh but holding it back, "I don't know about that, I was just saying. But sticking to Ye Feng's powerful backer is definitely the right thing to do. Good luck to you, and I'll benefit from it too."

No one could crack jokes better than the person in front of her. Chi Xia stood up and said, "It's getting late, I'm going to sleep."

Xin Ran: "What are the plans for tomorrow? Xiao Di and Xun Jiang are coming over, are you coming with them?"

Chi Xia stopped and turned around. "I have other things to do tomorrow. Let's do it together next time."

Xin Ran smiled faintly, "Okay."

Watching Chi Xia's departing figure, Xin Ran suppressed his smile and took out a memory card from his pocket.

What he spent so much time and effort doing in Fang Jin's study was actually this: the real information of all the members of the Magic Fishing Academy. He had guessed that such a thing would exist when he saw the personnel cards. Fang Jin probably never dreamed that the small chip that looked like dead tree bark that he had hidden under the flowerpot would be found by someone.

Xin Ran made a copy, planning to go to the basement later to sort it out.