Chapter 174
Shen Fang would never have thought that the remote place he carefully selected would not be used to bury Shen Wuyou, but instead become his own grave.
There are too many dark unspoken rules in this world, one of which is that the weak are not worthy of attention.
Until Xia Mo took the bus back to the city center, she did not see any news about the shooting case from her light brain ring or the screens along the way.
No one called the police?
No, the teahouse owner definitely reported it.
But because the place chosen by Shen Fang was too remote and belonged to a dirty, messy and gray area, violent incidents occurred frequently. The local police had long been accustomed to it. When they saw Shen Fang die from glass marbles, they must have subconsciously thought that it was another private fight between some small gangs.
For this type of incident, the police already have a well-developed process for handling it, including identity verification, notification of family members, and taking the body to the crematorium, and that's it.
Therefore, Shen Fang's death did not cause any waves.
His death was silent.
The bus arrived at the station and Xia Mo got off with a black cloth bag on his back.
Following Shen Fang was an unexpected episode; her original mission was still waiting for her to complete.
Pulling down the hood of his sweatshirt, Xia Mo lowered his head slightly and walked in the bustling street.
*
Shen Wuyou ran out of the alley as fast as he could and came to a deserted lake.
She gasped for breath, lowered her head, and found that the pellet gun that Shen Fang bought to kill her was still in her hand.
"asshole."
She cursed softly, then swung her arm and threw the marble gun forward. It plunged into the water with a splash, creating ripples on the surface of the lake. After a few seconds, everything returned to calm.
She thought that no matter how naughty or shameless Shen Fang was, he should not turn his anger against her because they were cousins.
Who would have thought that this cold-blooded bastard Shen Fang would not only divide her guild's resources and spend the money she transferred to her uncle and aunt, but in the end, worried that his family would be implicated, he even wanted to kill her!
It's rotten to the core.
In this case, she decided to go all out and make Shen Fang shut up forever.
But... who was the person who shot to protect her?
Shen Wuyou looked at the lake and thought carefully.
*
On the way back to the rental house, Shen Wuyou was still thinking about this matter.
The moment Shen Fang took out the pellet gun, the bullet pierced Shen Fang's wrist, indicating that the man had been lying in ambush nearby.
Was the other party following her or Shen Fang?
Shen Wuyou looked out the car window, her intuition told her it was the second one.
I'm afraid that after discovering that Shen Fang bought a gun, that person targeted Shen Fang and followed him all the way to the teahouse.
In other words, the shooter's initial goal was not to protect her, but simply to target Shen Fang. When he discovered that he was about to kill someone, he shot to stop him.
“The shooter doesn’t know me, but knows Shen Fang?” Shen Wuyou frowned and murmured.
But what was there about Shen Fang that was worth the shooter's attention? Although Shen Fang was a jerk, he was a man of his word. He had a very narrow social circle and didn't like to hang out outside. His greatest pleasure every day was playing games behind closed doors.
Shen Wuyou couldn’t think of any enemies he had.
"No, I was wrong." She shook her head, denying her previous guess, "The shooter knew Shen Fang, and he also knew me."
Otherwise, why would the shooter hiding in the dark be so kind as to help her?
If he knew her, that meant the shooter also knew her secret?!
The feeling of horror suddenly ran from the tailbone to the top of the head. Shen Wuyou shivered violently while sitting on the bus seat.
“No, no, don’t be nervous, Shen Wuyou, calm down first.”
She took a deep breath and forced herself not to lose her composure.
The cold air from the suburbs was inhaled into his lungs, and after a moment, Shen Wuyou finally suppressed his pounding heart.
The other party did not kill her, but helped her instead. This is the key point.
So the other party is definitely not from the capital planet.
He was not from the capital star, but he knew the secret of her parents. At the same time, he shot to stop Shen Fang who knew her secret. In a flash, a person suddenly flashed in her mind!
Is it her?!
The girl whose identity is as sensitive as hers!
*
Wei Xiaoyu's villa is located in the city center, a quiet residence in a bustling area.
Xia Mo had been here many times and walked to her house with ease. He quietly placed a new eavesdropping device on the windowsill in the living room.
It was already evening, and the sun was setting, with orange sunlight slanting into the windows and yards of every house.
Within a few minutes, the setting sun quickly sank into the horizon. Because it was not yet the stipulated evening time, the neon lights and colorful signs were not yet lit.
Just when the light was the dimmest, Xia Mo, carrying her sniper, quickly crawled behind the big sign of the gymnasium next to the villa area.
No one noticed that there was a person squatting behind the dark sign.
Click, as evening falls, colorful signs light up and every household also turns on the lights.
Through the high-magnification scope, Xia Mo saw Wei Xiaoyu in the bedroom on the second floor.
She was walking back and forth in the spacious bedroom, seemingly very anxious, holding a paper document in her hand. She walked around a few times, stopped, then looked down at the contents of the document and began to sneer.
On the first floor, Aunt Zhou and her husband were returning home from work one after another.
As soon as she entered the living room, Zhou Qian noticed that her daughter Xiaoyu's expression was not right.
"What's wrong, Xiaoyu? Are you still feeling unwell?" She walked forward and asked with concern.
But Wei Xiaoyu slapped him away fiercely: "Why do you want to support Xia Mo?"
Her cold questioning voice came from the eavesdropping device, and Xia Mo's eyes gradually turned cold.
"Don't explain. I heard everything you said to Dad last night, and I also read the documents and emails on the table. Mom, when you wanted to bring your cousin Wuyou over to live with you, I didn't say anything, but why? You're helping a bitch like Xia Mo, who's not even related to you?"
"What a bitch! That's your classmate, your friend!" Zhou Qian glared at him and scolded him.
Wei Xiaoyu chuckled twice. "I don't think the descendants of military criminals are qualified to be my friends. Xia Wei, Jasmine, I spent a lot of time looking up their information today. They are both traitors who betrayed the Capital Star. Their daughters should have been executed with them long ago."
"She's a ticking time bomb, Mom. We have to get rid of her before it's too late."
"Wei Xiaoyu!" Zhou Qian was shocked. She didn't expect that her daughter, who seemed to be well-behaved and sensible, could so easily say the word "murder".
Before she could continue her scolding, the man next to her said sternly, "Xiaoyu is right. Potential disasters should be dealt with as soon as possible. Otherwise, once the Capital Star Military Department investigates, our entire family will be finished!"
It’s a crime to harbor a criminal, and the person they are harboring is a serious criminal. None of them will be able to escape when the time comes!
Zhou Qian looked at her bedside companion with an incredulous look. "Weidong, Xiaoyu is young and naive, but don't you understand? What happened back then was a political conspiracy. Someone, fighting for power, found an excuse to eliminate everyone around them one by one. Xia Wei, Jasmine, and Li Zewei, they were all innocent victims! And their children, even more so!"
"So?" Wei Dong looked at her sarcastically. "They are innocent, what does it have to do with me? You don't want to live, but I still do."
"Okay, stop talking. I don't have time to listen to you talk about the same morality as your sister and brother-in-law. This is the divorce agreement. Sign it. Xiaoyu is yours. From tomorrow on, I will never return to this house again."
Zhou Qian's eyes turned red with anger.
However, Wei Xiaoyu understood another meaning of Wei Dong's words. He didn't want to return home because he wanted to go to another woman.
"Really, Dad? Are you sure you can walk out of this house alive?"
Through the sight, Xia Mo saw Wei Xiaoyu suddenly reach out and press Wei Dong's head. In just a moment, Wei Dong suddenly let out a scream!
Then there was a thud, and Wei Dong fell to the ground with his bleeding eyes open.
Zhou Qian's eyes widened, her face filled with horror: "You...what did you do?!"
Wei Xiaoyu withdrew her hand and glanced at the dead body on the ground: "Killing a cheating scumbag..."
Before the word "了" came out, puff!
A volley of bullets came from the darkness and hit her temple.
Wei Xiaoyu stood there in shock, her mouth half open.
Zhou Qian burst into screams, but Wei Xiaoyu was unable to react. One second later, she fell to the ground like her scumbag father.
The Tac-50's range is well-deserved. After hitting the target, Xia Mo quickly put the gun into a black cloth bag, and while there was no one around, he slid down the steel pipe to the ground.
The night wind was cold and chilly, but when it blew on Xia Mo's face, it felt like the hot wind in the desert.
She killed someone.
Xia Mo hid himself in the surging crowd, with only this one thought in his mind.
She had killed many people in the game, using different methods, but this was her first time in real life.
The hand holding the butt of the gun was still trembling slightly. She put her hands in her pockets, lowered her head and strode forward.
A person suddenly stopped in front of her.
She subconsciously wanted to punch out, but the moment she raised her eyes, she saw the person in front of her clearly.
"... Suibai..."
*
Inside the closed healing room.
"I didn't expect you to be one step faster than me." Sui Bai took a cup of hot water and handed it to her, "Take it, warm your hands."
Xia Mo took it without hesitation, placed his palm on the cup for a while, and then put it down: "You have a plan too?"
Ever since Sui Bai revealed to her that he was also a reborn person, Xia Mo assumed that he knew about her and the things on the Capital Star.
Sui Bai gestured for her to sit down, and he sat opposite her: "Yes, give him a taste of his own medicine."
Xia Mo: "How long have you been planning this?"
It would take some time to fight back in the same way Wei Xiaoyu had destroyed her brain, because polluting the brain is a subtle process. If it's too fast, it will be easily discovered by the person involved, but if it's too slow, the best opportunity will be missed.
"Before our last conversation." Sui Bai answered honestly.
"Then it seems I have interrupted your plan."
Sui Bai: "No, it's good that you do this, a quick and easy victory."
Xia Mo smiled, and then asked a question that had troubled her for a long time: "Why do you want to help me?"
He is a reborn person, but that doesn't mean he has the right to help me. What is the reason that makes him choose to be on the same side with me?
"Because I want to see if the dawn will rise, is that a good enough reason?"
Dawn equals hope.
Xia Mo said half-jokingly: "Then you are quite idealistic."
Sui Bai looked through her and smiled as well, "Maybe."
Living in this messy world, sometimes when you see a beam of light, you can't help but want to grab it.
In his previous life, he spent four years in the military and saw too many dark sides that were inconsistent with the propaganda: the impoverished people who were blocked from hospitals, the schoolchildren in slums who were prevented from receiving education, the coolies who suffered from pneumoconiosis due to years of working in mines... These people who should have been supported by the policy were coldly ignored by the policy.
People in the circle will always be in the circle, and people outside the circle will always be worthy of staying outside the circle.
He didn't know when it started, but he started to hate these rules.
Later one day while on a mission, he discovered a pair of skeletons in a crater on a barren planet called X198.
Instead of reporting the incident, he took the nameplate and rank insignia lying among the bones.
He found Xia Wei and Jasmine, and also followed the clues to find their daughter Xia Mo.
From then on, he paid more attention to her in the game. He originally thought that after she graduated, he would recruit her into his team and protect her safety. However, before that day came, the poisonous snake hiding in the shadows took action in advance.
After her death, he was also executed for allegedly illegally obtaining military records.
Fortunately, he came back with her, back to 5 years ago.
His purpose of returning this time was very clear: to stay alive and overthrow the military.
"I suggest we sort out the current situation first." He withdrew his thoughts.
Xia Mo said okay, took the paper and pen at hand, and started drawing as he spoke.
"My father, Xia Wei, and my mother, Jasmine, were framed and killed because they touched the cake of certain people in the Capital Star Military Department."
"They have a good friend named Li Zewei." Xia Mo connected the names with a line and wrote the word "friend" on the line.
"After my parents got into trouble, Li Zewei secretly brought me back to the capital planet. The higher-ups probably realized what he knew, and soon after, they issued him an ultimatum to exile, intending to blow him up en route under the guise of exile. The person escorting him was Shen Zhengqing, a man with a very clean background."
Next to "Li Zewei", she drew an arrow and wrote the three words "Shen Zhengqing" at the end of the arrow.
"Shen Zhengqing knew the military's true intentions. He was a sincere man, and he didn't follow the military order to blow Li Zewei up. Instead, with the help of his wife Zhou Jiang, he brought him and me to the marginal planet of Yarman."
"I grew up on the planet Yarman, with a pair of adoptive parents as a front. My living expenses came from Li Zewei's secret donations, and my tuition came from Zhou Jiang's sister, Aunt Zhou Qian."
As he spoke, he drew an arrow next to and below "Zhou Qian".
"Zhou Qian's husband, Wei Dong, has died after his spirit body was destroyed by Wei Xiaoyu. Their daughter, Wei Xiaoyu, was killed by me. Zhou Qian is the only person who knows about this."
Sui Bai: "Don't forget about the Shen family."
Xia Mo nodded, moved the pen to Shen Zhengqing's side, drew an arrow to the side, and wrote the three words "Chen Chengfeng".
"Shen Zhengqing's brother, Shen Chengfeng, has a wife whose name is currently unknown. They have a son named Shen Fang, the Three of Diamonds in the game, who has been shot dead. We learned from the eavesdropping device that his family knew about Shen Zhengqing's affairs. However, they have no intention of concealing it now. Shen Chengfeng is said to have told the truth to the military."
"Oh, by the way, Shen Zhengqing and Zhou Jiang have a daughter named Shen Wuyou, who is the president of the Wuyou Pavilion Guild. She was the one who killed Shen Fang. She has good reflexes and skills. Maybe she is a student from another military academy?"
After nodding beside Shen Wuyou's name, Xia Mo raised his head and asked Sui Bai for confirmation.
Sui Bai nodded: "Yes, she is a student at the Second Military Academy of Alman Star, in the same class as you."
As expected, Sui Bai had more information. Xia Mo lowered his eyes, not knowing what he was thinking.
Suibai: "What are your plans next?"
The slightly drooped eyes moved slightly, and then the owner of the eyes raised his eyes and smiled: "Kill them."
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