Chapter 173

"My sister and brother-in-law used to work in the Capital Star Military. My sister was a civilian with a lower title, while my brother-in-law had a slightly higher rank, responsible for inspecting prisoners."

"One day, my brother-in-law received a mission to escort a prisoner. This time, unlike any other escort, he received secret authorization from his superiors to attack the starship carrying the prisoner during the escort and prevent him from reaching his destination."

"The so-called action actually means detonating. Although my brother-in-law was confused, he did not dare to disobey military orders and accepted the mission."

"Before being escorted, he and his sister conducted extensive investigations and discovered the identity of the prisoner - Li Zewei."

"You've spoken with Li Zewei, and you should be well aware of the situation there, so I won't elaborate. In short, Li Zewei failed to convey military intelligence in a timely manner, leading to the failure of the mission to strangle the Desolate Star Beast. He was exiled by the military as punishment."

The so-called delayed delivery was just a lie made up by the military, Xia Mo's heart was as clear as a mirror.

That group of people targeted her parents from the beginning, and sent them out under the pretext of clearing out the star beasts. In fact, they secretly opened the black hole through some means, and led the star beasts from the other end of the black hole to the battlefield of the desolate planet.

Her parents died as that group of people wished.

But they didn't expect that there would be a variable named Li Zewei.

Li Zewei witnessed the entire process, and without anyone in the military knowing, he secretly brought the child in Jasmine's belly, that is, her, back to the capital planet.

When the military leaders learned that he had returned alive, they were afraid that he would reveal the truth, so they hastily fabricated a crime and planned to blow him to death while being escorted in the name of exile to prevent future troubles.

However, they overlooked a variable - the escort.

"Aunt Zhou, what are the names of your sister and brother-in-law?" she asked calmly.

Zhou Qian sighed: "Zhou Jiang, Shen Zhengqing."

Well, the higher-ups didn't expect that Shen Zhengqing would disobey military orders and secretly let go of Li Zewei, who should have been eliminated.

Zhou Qian said she was not sure how to adjust the bag specifically because her sister did not explain it to her in detail.

"Why does Uncle Shen want to help Li Zewei?" Xia Mo didn't understand this point.

Zhou Qian looked at her and smiled bitterly: "Maybe she doesn't want the flame of truth to be extinguished..."

"I shouldn't be saying this to a child like you. You'll be joining the Alman Star military and under the command of the Capital Star... But Aunt Zhou still wants to remind you from the bottom of her heart that the military isn't as glamorous as outsiders think. Alman Star is a little better, but the Capital Star, haha, is completely rotten from top to bottom."

"Even without the Li Zewei incident, my sister and brother-in-law would have resigned sooner or later. They're both exhausted and have confided in me many times about wanting to leave the brutally cruel Capital Planet."

"So escorting Li Zewei was just a fuse. Once this fuse was lit, Uncle Shen and the other two would naturally retreat?" Xia Mo asked.

Zhou Qian sighed again: "You can understand it this way..."

"I have one last question," Xia Mo said, "Do you know the names of those people in the military back then?"

Zhou Qian's expression seemed to be cracked, she stared at Xia Mo in disbelief: "Why are you asking these questions?!"

As expected, they had the same reaction as Li Zewei. When they asked who the executioners were, both of them became alert.

What does this mean?

It means she guessed right.

Only those people are still alive and currently in high positions, so the two of them are afraid and dare not reveal anything to her.

Little did she know that the more she avoided them, the more it confirmed her idea. That group of people back then might be the high-ranking officials in the military today, right?

Xia Mo smiled and didn't ask any more questions: "Thank you Aunt Zhou for seeing me today, take care."

After saying that, he was about to leave.

But when he turned around, Zhou Qian called him: "Wait."

Xia Mo turned around.

Zhou Qian stared at her. "Recently, the people on Capital Star have been reinvestigating. They seem to be suspicious of my brother-in-law letting Li Zewei go. This matter may not necessarily lead to you, but you... should be more careful."

"Okay, thank you Aunt Zhou." Xia Mo smiled slightly.

As he turned around, the smile on his face froze into ice.

She seemed to have guessed why Xiaoyu wanted to deal with her, and why Li Zewei suddenly disappeared that year.

She, Xia Mo, is the one that the top military brass are still wary of even after 18 years. She is actually related to Wei Xiaoyu's aunt's family and her mother.

From Wei Xiaoyu's perspective, in order to protect her mother and herself, she is likely to choose the following two paths.

1. Expose Xia Mo directly.

Second, kill Xia Mo quietly.

If you choose one, it seems that you are helping the Capital Star Military Department on the surface, but the latter can just move a finger and find out that Shen Zhengqing, Zhou Jiang, and Zhou Qian are "shielding" Li Zewei and Xia Mo.

This merit cannot offset the fault, and Wei Xiaoyu's family will definitely be held accountable.

That leaves option two: kill her.

Xia Mo narrowed her eyes, memories and clues flowing through her mind like a dense stream of information.

In her previous life, Wei Xiaoyu chose option two.

She pretended to be healing the spirit, but in fact she was eroding Xia Mo's spirit body bit by bit, and finally let her die quietly under the cover of the game without any knife or blade.

As for Li Zewei's disappearance, there are also two explanations.

1. The capital star personally sent people to clear out the rebellion.

Second, the capital star did not have time to take action and was taken over by others.

Xia Mo tends to believe that the second scenario happened that year.

Wei Xiaoyu was very cautious. Since she refused to even expose herself, how could she allow the people of Capital Star to find out about Li Zewei's existence?

Once Li Zewei is discovered, her mother Zhou Qian will not be able to escape either.

So before the people from the capital star arrived, Wei Xiaoyu must have done something to make Li Zewei disappear without a trace.

What can Wei Xiaoyu do?

Don't forget that she is a spiritual healer. It is easy for her to destroy the spiritual body of an ordinary person.

Xia Mo thought that Li Zewei's fate was probably not much better than hers. Maybe he was still alive, but he was not much different from a vegetative state.

It seems that Wei Xiaoyu must be eliminated first, otherwise she and Li Zewei will repeat the tragedy of the previous life.

Her eyes fixed, Xia Mo turned around and went to a place that she could never go to with her current identity.

Underground black market.

Xia Mo put on the mask he had bought in advance, put it on his face, and walked straight in.

Various modified illegal guns and equipment are placed in rows on both sides of the narrow path. The sellers are all wearing masks, and no one knows the true identities of the people trading here.

Xia Mo picked a dagger and a Tac-50 sniper.

She is a mecha pilot, and accurate shooting is the basic skill of this profession.

The Tac-50 uses an old-fashioned rotary bolt system with a slow bullet-changing speed. It was eliminated by the military more than ten years ago, but its advantage is its long range. If the wind speed is used well, the maximum range can reach 3,500 meters.

The whole gun that Xia Mo bought had been assembled by the seller. She put it in a cloth bag and put it on her back. As she turned around to leave, a figure that seemed somewhat familiar to her suddenly passed by her.

The other person was also wearing a mask, so she couldn't see his face.

But his figure and walking posture reminded Xia Mo of a person in the game.

At this critical juncture, meeting a game player in the black market is not a good thing. Xia Mo's vigilance tells him that there is something wrong with this person and he needs to be followed.

Xia Mo immediately turned the corner and followed quietly.

That person was also buying a gun, but not a sniper, but a pistol.

He paid and left the stall. Xia Mo immediately walked over and threw a few bills to the stall owner: "What kind of gun did he just buy?"

Different guns are suitable for different environments. She needs to know why the guy bought the gun.

Those doing business in the black market knew the rules of the trade. After receiving the money, they immediately said, "Pellet gun."

What? Marbles?

Xia Mo frowned, then she smiled and continued to follow.

That guy had no anti-reconnaissance awareness at all. When he left the black market, he didn't realize that someone had put a bug on his collar. At the same time, he took off his mask carelessly, contacted someone with the light brain ring, and got on the bus without any vigilance.

The moment he took off his mask, Xia Mo knew she had guessed the right person.

——Three of Diamonds

Although his face in the game had been shaped and was a little different from his real face, a person's walking habits and hand-shaking movements would not change. Xia Mo's eyes were sharp and he became suspicious the first time he saw him.

Now that it was confirmed, Xia Mo got on the bus and sat in the last row.

Xia Mo checked the route of this bus and found that the terminal was in a very remote place.

Her eyes flashed.

As expected, the Three of Diamonds got off at the last stop. When he got off, Xia Mo noticed that he touched the marble gun in his pocket unnaturally.

He went to a nearby teahouse and sat down on the second-floor terrace.

Xia Mo looked around and saw an abandoned restaurant two hundred meters away from the teahouse. She immediately ran to the fourth floor of the restaurant, took out the sniper rifle, and placed it on the dusty windowsill. Through the scope, she stared at the target in the cross with her right eye.

Not long after, a girl came to the rooftop and Xia Mo was startled.

Worry-free.

It turns out that the two knew each other privately.

His heart skipped a beat. Xia Mo raised his hand and pressed the headset on his ear, quickly calming down.

Wuyou pulled out a wooden rattan chair and sat opposite the Three of Diamonds: "Is there anything you must say here?"

The Three of Diamonds smiled slyly: "I know one of your secrets."

Wuyou rolled his eyes, his face full of speechlessness: "Shen Fang, have you watched too many spy movies?"

But Shen Fang still grinned: "It seems you don't know yet, okay, then let me tell you in detail..."

A few minutes later, not only Wuyou on the opposite side was stunned, but Xia Mo's fingertips holding the butt of the gun also showed a slight sweat.

Shen Fang's father turned out to be Shen Zhengqing's brother!

Then Wuyou is Shen Zhengqing's daughter!

She was also involved in that incident that year.

Xia Mo secretly felt that this was troublesome. The fewer people involved in this matter, the better. Who would have thought that Shen Zhengqing's daughter Shen Wuyou would appear now? If the capital star investigated, Wuyou and she, as the daughter of a "criminal", would be doomed.

Faced with Wuyou, a time bomb, her cousin Shen Fang did not choose to continue keeping the secret for her, but took out a marble gun in a flash!

Xia Mo was quick-eyed and quick-handed, pulling the trigger!

The bullet spun and tore through the air, accurately hitting Shen Fang's right wrist where he was holding the gun.

Blood bloomed like flowers, the pellet gun fell out of his hand, and he looked around the rooftop in horror, as if he wanted to know where the bullet came from.

Xia Mo was considering whether to shoot him in the leg again as a warning, but he didn't expect Wuyou to make a more decisive decision.

She quickly squatted down, snatched the marble gun from the ground, and bang! bang!

Two bullets hit Shen Fang's forehead, and the blood that burst out turned into a fountain, flowing down along the bridge of his eyebrows and nose.

Shen Fang fell straight to the ground.

The boss on the first floor heard the noise, put down the teapot in his hand and ran to the second floor.

Xia Mo's brows gathered together as he pulled the trigger continuously. The bullets shot out straight along the same trajectory, piercing the hinges of the iron door leading to the rooftop. The iron door fell from the door frame and collapsed into the stairs like a collapsing building.

The teahouse owner was horrified, afraid of being hit by the falling iron door, so he gave up the idea of ​​running to the second-floor rooftop.

Shen Wuyou turned around and saw this scene.

Someone is helping her.

But she didn't have time to figure out who was helping her behind the scenes. She rushed to the edge of the rooftop, grabbed the fence, and threw her body out. Then, like Spider-Man, she climbed the rough concrete wall and successfully jumped into the alley.

Wuyou's back disappeared from the sight. Xia Mo put away his gun and left without any hesitation.