Qingyou and Huo Xingchen talked for a while.

Qingyou helped him sit on the bench in the cubicle, and had the little zombie guard him.

She went out and closed the door behind her.

Then she looked at Deng Kaichun with a dark expression and said, "You killed the heir of the Huo family. You've got some nerve."

Everyone present was stunned upon hearing this.

Ji Yong and Si Qin exchanged a glance, both somewhat suspicious.

They had seen Qingyou save people before. Although Huo Xingchen was still unconscious, she should be able to save people successfully with her abilities.

Did Huo Xingchen die from the severe poisoning after they came out?

This is not impossible, after all, judging from Huo Xingchen's appearance, his condition is much more serious than that of Si Qin before.

Of course, they were only half-believing and half-doubting, but they felt that Huo Xingchen, with Qingyou's help, shouldn't die so easily.

Deng Kaichun wasn't too surprised by Qingyou's words.

Although he had seen the woman save Huo Xingchen, he didn't think she could save him.

That was from a zombie bite; there's no way to cure such severe zombie poison.

Especially since he discovered that Huo Xingchen was on the verge of death before these people broke in.

He breathed a sigh of relief, but couldn't help worrying himself, "What are you trying to do?"

Qingyou raised an eyebrow. "Of course, we'll hand you over to the Huo family to deal with."

She originally intended to get rid of this person.

After careful consideration, it would be better to let Little Star fake his death and have him temporarily live to testify at the Huo family in the First District.

In order to cover up their own secret plot to harm Xiaoxing, the Huo family will definitely push Deng Kaichun out.

Therefore, Deng Kaichun absolutely cannot survive.

Deng Kaichun's expression changed. "You have no relation to the Huo family, so why invite such trouble?"

"If you release me and my people, we can give you all the alien cores and resources we have collected, and we can also transfer credits to you."

He didn't want to be taken back to the Huo family.

Qingyou raised an eyebrow. "You've all become prisoners, do you think you still have the right to negotiate?"

Deng Kaichun sneered: "If it weren't for us, you wouldn't be able to find where the alien core is located at all."

Qingyou pouted, "Besides, we didn't come here as alien cores. We just don't want you to continue harming innocent people in the wild."

She didn't waste any more words with Deng Kaichun and said directly to Ji Yong and the other man, "Tie them all up and take them back to base. Hand the hunter over to the military, and this man over to the Huo family."

Ji Yong and Si Qin naturally had no objections, "Alright!"

Then he ordered his men to tie all of them up.

Deng Kaichun and the others resisted, but with the help of the zombies and the fact that Ji Yong and his group brought along all people with superpowers, they were unable to break free.

Deng Kaichun and the hunchbacked old man wanted to speak, but Qingyou had someone stuff a rag on the table into their mouths.

Then all of them were taken away.

Only Qingyou and Ji Yong remained in the entire ancestral hall.

Ji Yong leaned closer to Qingyou and whispered, "Is Huo Xingchen really dead?"

Qingyou shook her head: "No."

"He was tricked by the Huo family and didn't want to go back for the time being, so he pretended to be dead."

Upon hearing her words, Ji Yong and the other man immediately understood.

It turns out that Qingyou was deliberately putting on an act for Deng Kaichun and the others.

Ji Yong asked, "Then what do we do now?"

Qingyou said, "Secretly bring Huo Xingchen back to the Fourth District, and then when you return to the First District, tell the Huo family that he was too deeply infected by the corpse poison and there was no way to save him."

Ji Yong nodded: "That is one way."

"Then how do we get him back?"

“If he’s with us, we’ll definitely be discovered.”

He squinted and said, "I suspect there's a traitor among my men."

Otherwise, how could they have known so clearly the time and place of their departure from the city?

Therefore, the fact that Huo Xingchen was not dead could only be known by a few of them, and the people he brought with him also had to be kept in the dark.

Qingyou laughed and said, "If he doesn't come with us, I'll order a zombie to carry him back to base behind us."

Si Qin thought for a moment and asked, "If the Huo family asks us why we didn't take Huo Xingchen's body back, what should we say?"

Since they brought back the person who killed Huo Xingchen, they should logically bring Huo Xingchen back as well.

Qingyou said, "I've already thought of that."

"If the formation of this ancestral hall is forcibly activated, it will self-destruct."

"That means this entire house with blue tiles will be destroyed."

"In a moment, we'll have everyone in the courtyard leave. The three of us will pretend to search this place for alien cores and other resources. Then I'll activate the formation and destroy this place."

“Go back and tell them that Huo Xingchen’s body hadn’t been brought out yet, and then the whole courtyard was destroyed, so you couldn’t bring him back.”

The driver and his colleague's eyes lit up. "This is great!"

So the three of them split up. Ji Yong and the other went out to instruct the guards to take the hunters away, while they went to search the place with Qingyou.

Both Deng Kaichun and the hunchbacked old man revealed mocking expressions and a hint of calculation.

Only they know where the heteronucleus is hidden; these people simply cannot find it.

And even if we did find it, we wouldn't be able to get it.

We'll definitely have to come to them then, and that's when we can negotiate terms.

After everyone left, Qingyou ordered a zombie to carry Huo Xingchen and leap out of the backyard.

She took out several talismans from her backpack, folded them into the shape of little figures, and used them to communicate with spirits.

Several small paper figures jumped up and seemed to be searching for something in the ancestral hall.

Although they had seen them once before, seeing these paper figures again, which seemed to come alive, still felt somewhat unreal to Ji Yong and Si Qin.

Ji Yong asked curiously, "What are they looking for?"

Qingyou said, "Of course we're looking for the alien core, and what they've hidden away."

This is the most important place for hunters. Judging from the reactions of Deng Kaichun and the hunchbacked old man, their best items must be hidden in this ancestral hall.

After all, this place is guarded not only by zombies, but also by a killing formation set up by their ancestors, making it the safest place in their eyes.

Having found their hideout, Qingyou certainly wasn't going to leave empty-handed.

Ji Yong and Si Qin's eyes lit up again. "You're so smart."

If we can find what's hidden there, we can pretend to have accidentally triggered the formation and destroy this place.

They denied taking the items, and no one could prove they were lying; even suspicion was useless.

That way, it won't be easy for others to have designs on it.

Soon, the little paper figures found the place where the hunters had left their things.

Some were placed in the wooden beams overhead, some in the ancestral tablet bases on the table, and some in the wooden doors of the partition rooms.

Believe it or not, apart from the one on the roof beam that someone might look for, the other two places were quite unexpected.

Most people would probably think of digging or breaking through walls to find it.

The three of them worked together to find them all.

Looking at the tens of thousands of alien cores of different grades piled on the table, as well as many valuable mutated medicinal herbs and materials that had been publicly displayed in the base.

Both Ji Yong and Si Qin couldn't help but sigh that these hunters were too fat.