Today, although Chu Mingxu wanted to investigate Zhu Yang, Zhu Yang also wanted to quickly find out Shen Mu Ning's identity.

But they also knew that if they were really hiding their identities, it wouldn't be easy to figure them out in a short time.

Therefore, after failing to elicit information and induce Chu Mingxu to suspect Shen Mu Ning, Zhu Yang temporarily stopped.

He knew very well that someone who was undercover on a mission would not easily be exposed when working at the educated youth settlement.

Just like him, because of the nature of his mission, he was just an ordinary, honest older brother figure in front of the educated youth.

If Shen Mu Ning truly had a special identity, she wouldn't let them discover it so easily.

However, he could determine her identity by monitoring her communications or her whereabouts when she left the educated youth settlement.

While Chu Mingxu was more focused on Zhu Yang, Zhu Yang, who was currently free from the burden of missions, would not have any weaknesses.

Therefore, he could only remind Zhang Jiayang to pay attention to Zhu Yang's unusual behavior.

Shen Muling was unaware that Zhu Yang was trying to smear her reputation in front of Chu Mingxu again.

She was just puzzled as to why there hadn't been any news from the county town yet.

Even if those who collect antiques feel that the courtyard is safe and there is no need to send someone to guard it.

Haven't you gone to check on the situation inside all this time?

In fact, people who collect antiques also have normal working lives.

They would only take a look at the antiques if they had just acquired new ones and needed to hide them, or if the authorities were about to move the antiques away.

There's often not a soul in sight over there, and the location of that secret room is so bizarre.

Who would go in there for no reason and then happen to discover a secret room?

They've been using it for several years, so they're very confident in the safety of that place.

Besides, they haven't acquired any new antiques recently, and they're already quite tired from their normal daily lives, so nobody goes to look at them.

So, Komo had been keeping an eye on that yard for the past few days, but hadn't found anything out.

However, his physical training is already quite impressive.

The day passed peacefully amidst the differing thoughts of Shen Muling, Chu Mingxu, and Zhu Yang.

However, calm during the day does not mean that things will remain the same at night.

In the stillness of the night, when all is quiet.

A slight noise suddenly came from the courtyard of the educated youth settlement.

The moment Shen Mu Ning heard the sound, she awoke from her deep sleep.

He immediately sat up and extended his mental energy outwards.

From her perspective, she saw Cao Jinzheng tiptoeing, hesitating whether or not to knock on her window again.

As soon as she saw that the person outside was Cao Jin, she immediately relaxed.

But she soon noticed some movement coming from Chu Mingxu's room; he must have been woken up by Cao Jin.

So she immediately pulled open the door, making it creak on purpose.

At the same time, he went outside and pretended to go to the toilet.

Because their toilet was in the backyard, she took Cao Jin directly to the backyard.

She knew that the message Cao Jin wanted to convey to her was written on a note that had been placed in her room early in the morning.

The reason he made the noise was simply to wake her up.

So, Cao Jin followed her instructions and quickly climbed over the wall to leave the educated youth settlement.

She noticed Cao Jingang's anxious look and didn't care whether Chu Mingxu suspected anything.

He quickly returned to his room and retrieved the note.

The note simply read: "There's some movement."

She didn't know how her apprentice communicated with Cao Jin, but the handwriting was Cao Jin's.

I casually took out my watch and checked the time; it was already past five o'clock.

Based on Cao Jin's walking speed, it would take him at least four hours to get back from the county town without stopping.

In other words, Como must have noticed the commotion in the yard around 12:00.

Those people will definitely investigate once they discover something is missing, but they probably won't stay in that yard forever.

So even if she rushes to the county town right now, she might end up empty-handed.

But losing the antiques exposed their hiding place, and those people will definitely investigate.

Perhaps she should go to the county town again tomorrow to check on the situation.

Now she suddenly felt that her idea of ​​finding out who was behind this on her own seemed a bit naive.

Just like this time when Komo discovered those people's whereabouts, Cao Jin had to walk back to inform her.

She couldn't get to the county town anytime soon, and if they didn't continue their investigation, wouldn't she miss this opportunity?

Moreover, after being discovered this time, they will either become more secretive or temporarily cease all operations.

If she hides even deeper, she alone has no way of finding her in the vast sea of ​​people.

But in this era and in this place, she had no familiar faces, nor did she know any big shots like the protagonists in other novels.

She couldn't just go to any high-ranking person and confide these things to them.

Shen Mu Ning paced back and forth in the space, feeling that she was ambitious and wanted to investigate the matter alone.

Seeing its anxious master, the Bloodthirsty Vine didn't know how to comfort her, so it could only draw water from the Spirit Spring for her.

Only after she calmed down did I ask her what had happened.

After hearing her master's troubles, Bloodthirsty Vine also felt that it would be difficult for her alone to find out who the entire organization was.

So it started giving her advice: "Master, isn't Zhang Jiayang from Beijing?"

"His clothes look very nice; he must be from a wealthy and powerful family."

The Bloodthirsty Vine had already developed the ability to recognize people by their clothing or mental appearance during the apocalypse.

People who are neatly dressed are either capable themselves or come from capable families.

The people who looked after the educated youth settlement, Zhang Jiayang and Lin Siqi, always wore new clothes.

The other people were generally dressed in old clothes, some of which were patched up.

"Hmm? You're using your ability to judge people by their clothes again?"

“You’re right, his family is indeed rich and powerful, but their sphere of influence is in the capital, not here.”

Of course she knew that Zhang Jiayang's father was a soldier.

However, based on the information she gleaned from the novel, their family's sphere of influence extended to Beijing and some military regions in the south.

As for the Lingbei area, the Zhang family has no roots there.

Besides, her relationship with Zhang Jiayang hadn't reached the point where she could trust him.

She would never involve his family if she didn't know how deep the water was in there.

After all, according to Qian Zhuang's memory, there must be their people among the high-ranking officials in Lingbei.

Rather than getting involved with the Zhang family, whose background she knew nothing about, she'd rather investigate it herself.

The Bloodthirsty Vine was not discouraged when its master rejected its proposal so quickly.

It also knows that it doesn't know much about the human world and is unlikely to get to the heart of the matter in a single sentence.

So, a second candidate was quickly proposed: "There's also Chu Mingxu. He used to be in the military, so he should have some connections."

This time, Shen Mu Ning didn't immediately reject the idea, because she was also considering it carefully.