Jiang Jinxiu did not rush forward immediately. She stood in the shadows, her mental energy highly concentrated, like an invisible net that enveloped the entire Peace Hotel.
She needed to confirm whether Feng Jingui was actually there or not.
The inn was in chaos. Besides the thugs, there were also several alarmed guests hiding in their rooms, trembling with fear.
No, there's still no trace of Feng Jingui.
He really didn't come.
A flicker of disappointment crossed Jiang Jinxiu's mind, but she felt more wary.
The old fox will hide, but they will find him sooner or later.
The fight in the courtyard had reached a fever pitch.
Gu Xichen was like a tiger among sheep; those so-called thugs were utterly no match for him.
He attacked quickly and ruthlessly, each move aimed at the opponent's joints. All that could be heard were cracking sounds and screams. Within a minute or two, a group of people lay on the ground.
Although Jiang Junrong was not as good as Gu Xichen, he still took care of a few, and the rest were locked in a fierce battle with Gu Xichen.
Seeing this, Jiang Jinxiu knew it was time for her to leave.
She stepped out of the shadows and walked directly toward the skinny monkey lying on the ground, seemingly lifeless.
One of the spies, seeing that she was a woman, thought she was easy to bully, and grinned maliciously as he raised a stick and smashed it down on her head.
"Get out of here, you bitch!"
Jiang Jinxiu's eyes turned cold. Without even looking at him, she simply flipped her wrist, and the dagger in her sleeve silently slid into her palm.
She dodged the wooden stick to the side, her body pressed against the man at an incredible angle, and with lightning speed, she lightly slashed the man's wrist holding the stick with her dagger.
"ah!"
The man screamed in pain as a bloody gash appeared on his wrist. He could no longer hold the wooden stick and it fell to the ground.
He stared at Jiang Jinxiu in horror, unable to understand how this seemingly gentle and weak woman could be so agile and ruthless.
Jiang Jinxiu ignored him and squatted down to check the skinny monkey's breath.
He was still breathing, but very weakly. The back of his head was broken, and he was bleeding a lot.
"We must save him immediately."
Jiang Jinxiu immediately took out silver needles from her cloth bag.
This was something she prepared specifically before leaving home.
She quickly pricked several acupoints on the thin monkey's head to stop the bleeding, then took out a pill from her spatial storage and put it into his mouth.
After all that was done, the battle over there ended.
Gu Xichen patted the dust off his hands, as if he had only done a trivial thing.
There were seven or eight men lying on the ground, all groaning and unable to stand up.
Jiang Junrong threw down the carrying pole he was holding, strode over, looked at the skinny monkey on the ground, and frowned, asking, "How is he?"
"He won't die."
Jiang Jinxiu put away the silver needles: "But we need to find a place to get him to talk."
"Boss! Boss! What happened?"
Inside the hostel, a middle-aged man wearing a vest and looking sleepy peeked out. When he saw the scene in the courtyard, he turned pale with fright.
Gu Xichen walked over and took out an ID card from his pocket, flashing it in front of him.
The shopkeeper couldn't make out what kind of document it was, but seeing the bright red seal on it and Gu Xichen's imposing aura, his legs went weak.
"We're here to investigate a case."
Gu Xichen said succinctly: "Give us two rooms, and don't tell anyone, or you'll face the consequences."
"Yes, yes, yes!"
The boss dared not utter a single word of dissent, nodding and bowing repeatedly, and personally led them up to the third floor.
Gu Xichen asked the shop owner to give him a key to a room and then let him go back.
They dragged the unconscious, skinny monkey and the thug whose wrist had been slashed by Jiang Jinxiu into the room.
The door slammed shut with a bang.
Gu Xichen threw the thug to the ground and stomped on his chest: "Tell me, where is your boss?"
The thug, sweating profusely from the pain, looked at them in terror: "I...I don't know! We were just following orders!"
"Whose orders are we taking?"
“A guy named… Brother Biao. He's the one who told us to wait here for that skinny guy, saying he betrayed us and made us kill him.”
Where is Brother Biao?
"I...I really don't know! He's usually elusive, we don't even know where he lives!"
Seeing that he couldn't get any information from him, Gu Xichen stopped paying attention to him.
Jiang Jinxiu was examining the thin monkey's wounds.
The pills had taken effect, and the thin monkey's breathing had become much more stable.
Jiang Jinxiu pressed on his philtrum again, and the skinny monkey grunted and slowly woke up.
As soon as he opened his eyes, he saw Gu Xichen and Jiang Junrong standing by the bed. He was so frightened that he almost fainted again.
"You...you all..."
"woke up?"
Jiang Jinxiu's voice was cold: "Now, can you honestly tell us where Feng Jingui is?"
The skinny monkey looked at her, his eyes filled with fear.
Although he was in a daze, he saw how the woman saved him and how she dealt with the thug.
This woman is more terrifying than those two men.
"I... I'm telling the truth! It was that old man surnamed Feng who told me! He said he'd wait for us in room 301 of the Peace Hotel!" Skinny Monkey was still being stubborn.
"Yeah?"
Jiang Jinxiu sneered, "You think we didn't check? The Peace Hotel only has twenty rooms, there's no room 301 at all. Do you think we're fools?"
The skinny monkey's face turned deathly pale instantly.
“You lured your accomplices here, intending to use us to get rid of them so you could keep all the benefits you got from Feng Jingui for yourself, am I right?” Jiang Jinxiu exposed his scheme word by word.
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