Zheng Hui sat behind his large desk, his short, fat hand supporting his forehead. He had lost two younger brothers in one day. Who was targeting the Zheng family?

"Dad, I heard..."

Zheng Li pushed open the door, and Zheng Hui put away her worried expression and looked at him with affection.

"Didn't you go on a trip with your classmates? Why are you back so soon? Did you run out of money...?"

"Why didn't you tell me about such a big thing that happened at home?" Zheng Li plopped down on the sofa. "If I hadn't seen it on the news, how long were you planning to keep it from me?"

"I just wanted to make sure you had a good time since you finally got to go out," Zheng Hui said with a smile, looking at Zheng Li. "Besides, the murderer has already been caught, there's no need to tell you..."

"Dad, I'm all grown up now. Can you please stop treating me like a child?" Zheng Li threw himself into Zheng Hui's arms, his voice trembling. "My second uncle and my youngest uncle both had accidents. Do you know how worried I was about you?"

The bigger the tree, the more the wind will blow. Someone must have been looking down on the Zheng family and was deliberately seeking revenge, which is why the two uncles suffered this calamity.

"What could possibly be wrong with me?" Zheng Hui gently patted Zheng Li's head. "Alright, you're such a grown-up, why do you still cry like that?"

"Dad!" Zheng Li rubbed against him sheepishly and looked up. "Anyway, you can't get hurt. You have to be okay."

"Okay, I'll find the best bodyguard to watch over me 24/7, okay?"

"That's more like it..."

Just as Zheng Li was about to say something, he saw a light flash in Zheng Hui's drawer. "Dad, your drawer..."

"It's nothing." Zheng Hui patted Zheng Li on the shoulder. "You can go out now."

"dad……"

"Go out first."

Although Zheng Li was puzzled, he obediently left the study.

"How's the matter I asked you to handle?"

The cold voice reached Zheng Hui's ears, and he couldn't help but shiver.

"Preparing..."

"How long have you been preparing?" The other person seemed very angry, their voice rising unconsciously. "You can't even handle something as simple as killing someone on your own turf..."

“Yu Wei is no ordinary person. He is an S-class Alpha, a combination of the Wood-linking Grass and the Ghost Hand Vine. If you had told me this back then, I would never have agreed.”

Zheng Hui went to the balcony, closed the door, and roared in a low voice.

"No matter what method you use, don't let him return to the Second Sector alive..."

“Zhou Qi! This is simply... a fantasy!” Zheng Hui took a deep breath. “Putting aside his exceptional abilities, his identity alone is beyond our ability to handle.”

"What? Scared?" Zhou Qi sneered. "You're afraid of even a half-dead Yu family? Have you lost all your courage?"

“This isn’t something I can do just by being bold.” Zheng Hui rubbed his temples, his brows furrowed. “I need a weapon forged from stone essence.”

Are you kidding me?

"The Lianmu grass has an extremely strong self-healing ability, and the stone crystal can limit the regeneration of Lianmu grass cells to the greatest extent..."

Stone essence is a rare substance extracted from natural crystals. It takes tens of thousands of top-grade crystals to extract just one gram. Stone essence weapons are entirely golden, impervious to water and fire, and can cut through iron like mud. Due to the special extraction method, it generates extremely high temperatures and requires a specially designed protective bag to be carried. Ordinary people will be burned if they get even slightly close, and once a wound forms, it is impossible to heal unless the skin and flesh are cut off.

“A shipment will arrive at Luojiang Port in five days; what you need is inside.”

Zhou Qi frowned slightly, not expecting Yu Wei to be so difficult to deal with.

Emperor Etolan once poured all his national resources into forging only two exquisite weapons: a dagger, which he bestowed upon Vince, the captain of the guard at the time; and a longsword, which eventually ended up in Zhou Yu's hands after the fall of the kingdom.

Zhou Yu died, but he took the Stone Essence Sword with him, leaving only the dagger that Vince intended to give to Zhou Siyu.

However, since Zhou Siyu has left the Zhou family, there's no need to give him that thing.

"This is the last time," Zheng Hui said calmly. "This is the last time I'll help you."

"Help me?" Zhou Qi chuckled. "I'm actually helping you."

"If Yu Wei were to return to the Second Star Sector alive and expose what you've done, do you think Yu Zhen would let you off the hook, or Lin Zheng would?"

"Smuggling weapons, colluding with rebels, illegally buying and selling glands and human trafficking—each and every one of these crimes deserves a hundred deaths."

"To tell you the truth, Yu Wei has been infiltrating the 28th planet for three years to gather evidence..."

Zhou Qi deliberately softened his tone; how could he possibly know why Yu Wei would appear on the 28th planet? But as long as he could fool Zheng Hui, that would be enough.

“You don’t need to say anything more. I will kill him.” Zheng Hui sighed. “If something happens to me, I’ll have to trouble you to take care of Xiao Li.”

He always had a premonition that Yu Wei was not to be trifled with, or something bad would happen.

But now the die is cast, and there's no turning back. Someone has their eye on the Zheng family, and he has to do something.

"He is my son, you don't need to worry about him."

Zhou Qi hung up the communicator. If Zhou Sijue hadn't become increasingly disobedient over the years, he wouldn't have needed to find a way to bring Zheng Li back.

He didn't love Zheng Hui, but in order to survive the family struggle, he had to do something. Unlike Zhou Yu, who possessed exceptional fighting skills and had Vince and Yu Zhen to help him, he had nothing and could only rely on himself.

He hated Zheng Hui, but after all, it was his first time being a father, and he couldn't bear to kill the child. He could only try to put the child into a dormant state and then have Zheng Hui secretly take him to the twenty-eighth planet.

But to his surprise, Zheng Hui was even more irresponsible than him, completely forgetting about Zheng Li until things had completely settled down before remembering that he still had a child.

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