Task One
When Qiqi heard Ying Yungui's tone, she started sobbing with tears in her eyes.
"I'm very grateful to you...wuwu...for helping me tonight. Otherwise, I...wuwu...would definitely get beaten up. I was entangled by them, and I...wuwu...had no...wuwu way to deal with it."
Ying Yungui disliked his behavior and stood up and sat on the armrest of the sofa to the left of Shi Youchen.
Shi Youchen glanced at Qiqi and asked him, "We saw you at JU a while ago. Do you go to every bar?"
Qiqi cried until she hiccupped, and her eyes became even redder when she heard his words: "No... Although I make a living from this, but... I'm not a promiscuous person... Wuwu..."
Seeing the man crying so hard, Lu Quezhi went to get him some paper at a loss.
Ying Yungui raised his hand, and the dart flew past Qiqi's forehead, piercing the center of the target. "Just answer whatever I ask you. Do you want to know what the consequences are for obstructing the Association's psychics from completing their mission?"
The three words "superpower" were so resounding that they made Qiqi's head buzz and she collapsed to her knees.
He had wanted to be with this handsome guy who had saved him from the gang, even for one night. Or the pretty and thin one, if he tried hard, he wouldn't be able to be with her.
But he could never have imagined that these three people were actually superpowers, a superpower that only appears once in hundreds of thousands of people.
He immediately wiped away his tears and fake crying voice, and clasped his hands together in panic: "I'm sorry, I didn't know you were that one. I'm telling the truth! I must tell the truth!"
Ying Yungui crossed his legs and glanced at the man on the ground: "It's ugly to kneel down, get up." He could tell at a glance that this guy was a shrewd person. When questioned, he would always give ambiguous answers and knew how to avoid the important issues.
People like this need to be scared. The more scared they are, the more honest they will be.
Qiqi quickly got up and wiped the sweat from her palms on her trouser legs, but she didn't dare to raise her hands to wipe the sweat from her forehead.
"I usually only go to a few fixed places. I do it to make money, so I have to choose customers with a lot of money." But his palms kept sweating and he couldn't wipe them clean, so he simply pinched the fabric of his trouser legs.
"Which ones?"
"JU, LST, Nightfire..." He answered hesitantly, counting every place that made him more and more depraved.
After hearing this, the three of them had a conclusion in their minds - the bar that Qiqi regularly went to was exactly the same as what they learned from Mo Ling.
Shi Youchen had a guess, and when he turned around, he found Ying Yungui looking over at him. As soon as the two of them looked at each other, they knew that the other person's thoughts coincided with their own.
Shi Youchen: "What's the character for Qi in your name? How old are you this year?"
Qiqi recalled someone teaching her a line of poetry and answered honestly, "The Qi in 'Qi Shui Tang Tang' is 28 years old this year."
Shi Youchen and the other two were silent for a while, and finally Lu Quezhi asked tentatively: "Were you an orphan and later adopted?"
Qiqi was stunned and asked blankly: "How do you know?"
Sure enough, what a coincidence.
Ying Yungui played with a dart and said nonchalantly, "She was in the Good Deeds Orphanage until she was six years old, and was adopted by the Mo family when she was six, right?"
Qiqi was truly dumbfounded this time. Others might know I was an orphan, but they would never know so clearly about the Good Deeds Orphanage. Tears welled up uncontrollably, and he choked out, "Yes, I stayed at the Good Deeds Orphanage until I was six, and then I was adopted by the Mo family that summer."
He was both happy and sad. Happy that he could finally talk to someone about his past, but sad that he was already stuck in the quagmire and it was too late.
Shi Youchen found the right moment to coax her, "We can help you get out of your current environment, but you need to cooperate with us in investigating some things." Qiqi felt that she had nothing to lose, so she immediately nodded in agreement.
The next day, after a night's rest, Lu Quezhi sensed Qiqi.
"He has been malnourished since childhood and his body is weaker than others. After being adopted by the Mo family, his grades were very poor when he was in school. After graduating from junior high school, he worked odd jobs for three years and then joined a nightclub." Lu Quezhi said everything he felt.
Shi Youchen listened, looked into Qiqi's timid eyes, and asked him, "After you became an adult, did anyone from the Mo family take you for any assessment?"
"Yes, and then I was sent to the entertainment street."
"Do you still remember the other people who were adopted at the same time?"
Qiqi bit her lip and tried her best to recall: "I only have a vague impression. We haven't been in touch since junior high school. They shouldn't be like me."
"Do you remember the name?"
"I can't remember clearly. I even forgot my name when I was in school." Qiqi said sadly.
More than ten years after graduating from junior high school, he only had the code name "Qiqi". He floated in the entertainment industry and had long forgotten the short-lived happiness and the unique name he once had.
"What a pity." Lu Quezhi felt sorry for him sincerely, but Ying Yungui and Shi Youchen had very complicated feelings in their eyes.
"I don't have any impression of them. After I put my sign up, many young girls and boys come to work every year. Most of them are orphans, and many, like me, were adopted by the Mo family and then abandoned."
"Maybe it's because we have poor academic performance and can't make any contribution to society, so the Mo family gave up on us." In fact, he has always regretted it.
Shi Youchen said expressionlessly, "Those who gave up on you didn't give up on you because you weren't good enough."
"It's just that he wanted to give up, so he made up a random excuse."
At this point in the investigation, the three have roughly understood the real purpose behind the Mo family's "benefiting society and caring for orphans" - to adopt and try to raise these orphans from an early age.
When these children grow up, a small number of them are put into major companies as tools, most of them are thrown into the dark corners of society to survive on their own, and some grow up normally and find jobs.
So it is not that the Mo family controls both the enterprise and the personal activities of the enterprise owner.
Instead, they exploit human nature, control the pawns who have lost their independent consciousness, control the entire Z city, and make profits for themselves.
First, they pulled the children out of the mire of fatherlessness and motherlessness and cleansed them of their filth, but then they pushed most of them back even deeper into the earth, never to see the light of day again.
In this way, one link after another, with the hopes and dreams of countless people, a huge family business that will last for a hundred years was built.
"You've helped us a lot. According to our previous agreement, after Mo Ling wakes up, we will send you away from Z City and start a new life."
Xiao Qi pursed her lips tightly, but couldn't suppress the cries of a young animal coming from her throat.
Not long after nightfall, Mo Ling woke up and agreed to leave the city with Xiao Qi.
Going to a place where no one knows is the best redemption in their lives.
I sent them off under the night sky. On the way back to the association, the sky was already turning white, and the investigation came to an end with the rising sun.
The three of them took turns. This time, Shi Youchen was driving, Ying Yungui was sitting in the passenger seat with his eyes narrowed, and Lu Quezhi was lying directly in the back seat.
Shi Youchen watched the area of the fish belly white gradually expand, thinking that the two people had finally reached the other side after more than ten years of suffering. Suddenly, he remembered something, stopped, and parked the car on the side of the road.
He patted Ying Yungui, who was half asleep, and asked softly, "Do we have to wait until a child reaches adulthood to determine what he is suitable for?"
Ying Yungui replied dazedly, "Of course not. As soon as I was born, the entire District 8 knew what I was suitable for."
So what exactly is that adult assessment assessing?
Shi Youchen asked, but Ying Yungui had fallen asleep completely.
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In X City, beside the cross-sea bridge, Xiao Qi and Mo Ling sat on the shore, enjoying the sea breeze and chatting about the past and the future.
They had recently said goodbye to their benefactor and were about to head towards a bright future, so they decided to come here and abandon all their past.
"Hi, how are you guys?" A pleasant, slightly hoarse male voice suddenly sounded behind them, and the two turned their heads at the same time.
...
"Bang!"
"Bang!"
Two sounds of water entering the water were heard, but were drowned out by the sound of the tide.
"It's really sad that young lovers, unable to bear the consequences of their love, jump into the sea to commit suicide."
"But luckily I didn't bring any luggage, so it saved me some trouble."
The man took off his sunglasses, his grey eyes gazing at the rising sun in the distance, muttering, "I'm so considerate. I've helped you so much. How are you going to thank me?"
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Ying Yungui had just woken up, opened the door and went downstairs. He had arrived home this morning and slept until almost sunset.
"Yun Gui is home? How rare. We haven't seen each other for several months, right?" The magnetic male voice was very elegant and charming.
Ying Yungui saw the person sitting in the living room: "Uncle Lu, long time no see."
Lu Ming, the current head of the Lu family, Lu Zhiqi's father, is an 8th-level touch-sensing psychic.
The Ying and Lu families had always been on good terms, and Lu Ming had watched Ying Yungui grow up. Ying Yungui himself admired the strong, so he had always respected Uncle Lu.
"What have you been busy with lately? Are you still busy completing tasks non-stop?" Lu Ming asked with a smile, holding a teacup.
"No, I've been doing other things these days and not doing any missions."
Lu Ming was a little surprised: "Is there something more important than the mission? Could it be that Yun Gui is dating someone?"
Ying Yungui thought of Shi Youchen and wondered how he was doing in his resting place.
"Not yet. I accompanied him to investigate something interesting and just came back not long ago." Ying Yungui thought that the beauty would not be angry if he took advantage of her verbally.
Lu Ming smiled knowingly, "Then you'd better work harder. Can you share this interesting story with me?"
Ying Yungui thought about how the Lu family had always been estranged from the Mo family, and how the two families had never intermarried, so their relationship was indeed very ordinary. So he smiled and said, "It's nothing serious. It's okay to tell Uncle Lu about it." Then he also poured a cup of tea and sat down.
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After three rounds of tea, Lu Ming wore a polite smile on his face. "So the Mo family is really becoming less and less influential. As a large family of superpowers, they still do such low-class things."
"That's right." Ying Yungui took a sip of strong tea and sighed.
"Come to think of it, I haven't been to the association for retesting for a long time. I wonder if I can take advantage of Young Master Ying and meet your sweetheart by the way?" Lu Ming spoke in a completely caring tone of an elder.
Ying Yungui waved his hand and said, "Then let's go back to the association together tomorrow!" He was thinking about what reason he could use to ask Shi Youchen out.
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