Zhong Ci knew very well that the Sanitation Office was in charge of these ancient martial artists, and that they possessed an incredibly powerful intelligence network. It was definitely far more reliable than the group of headless flies blindly running around.
“Right. Hurry and ask Xu Mu. He’s with the Sanitation Office. Have them investigate,” Zhang Hongxia added.
After spending so many years with the hidden clans, she naturally knew what the Sanitation Office did.
Xiao Gui, who was standing nearby, turned pale when he heard the name.
Why did it have to be Xu Mu of all people?
Zhong Ci was an extremely even-tempered person. The first argument they had a few days ago had been precisely because of Xu Mu.
“Wife, there’s no need to ask him. The people I know are no worse than the Sanitation Office when it comes to intelligence,” Xiao Gui said as he walked over. “Besides, whoever took our daughter probably did it to threaten me. They’ll come looking for me on their own.”
“You still have the nerve to say that? If anything happens to my daughter, I’ll never forgive you!”
Ignoring Xiao Gui’s objections, Zhong Ci called someone first.
It was a liaison officer from the Sanitation Office. Previously, that person had been the one to contact Zhong Ci and tell her where to go to enter the Inner Realm.
After all, she didn’t have Xu Mu’s contact information.
…
Meanwhile.
Xu Mu was lounging comfortably on the sofa, enjoying a leg massage from Ying Weiyang.
The girl had now thoroughly come to understand how the world worked. She knew that without money, nothing could be done.
Shi Fumeng didn’t have much money on her either. Whenever she took Ying Weiyang out, she had paid for everything herself.
She also felt too embarrassed to ask Ye Tong for money.
“Xu Mu? Is this enough?” Ying Weiyang knelt on the sofa and looked at Xu Mu with a beaming smile.
“Here, two hundred.”
Xu Mu took out two hundred yuan in cash and handed it to Ying Weiyang.
[Affection +10]
“Thank you.”
Ying Weiyang hurriedly accepted the money, then turned to Shi Fumeng and waved her spoils around.
“Sister Fumeng, we have money now!”
“Hm?”
Seeing this, Xu Mu took out another bill.
“Here, I’ll give you one more.”
[Affection +10]
“Xu Mu, you’re the best!”
“Here, have another one.”
[Affection +10]
…
Seeing this, Xu Mu pulled out a stack of cash and handed it to Ying Weiyang one bill at a time.
To him, anything that could be solved with money was a minor problem.
However, after Ying Weiyang’s affection had risen past one hundred points, the increase began to diminish. Clearly, she was approaching the daily limit.
Just then, his phone began to vibrate. He took it out and glanced at the screen, discovering that it was an unfamiliar number.
He answered the call without saying anything, waiting for the other person to speak.
“Are you Xu Mu?”
An anxious woman’s voice came through.
Xu Mu paused slightly. The voice sounded somewhat familiar, but he couldn’t place it. After all, a voice over the phone sounded somewhat different from the real person.
“Who is this?”
“I’m Zhong Ci. My daughter has been kidnapped. You’re with the Sanitation Office—can you help me find her?”
By the time Zhong Ci finished speaking, her voice was already choked with tears.
“Please. I’ll do anything you ask.”
Xu Mu felt a little awkward after hearing that. He had impersonated various protagonists before, yet none of them had ever fallen for it.
This time, after offending Yue Menglong, who could have expected her to act so decisively and abduct Xiao Qiao directly?
Still, there was one difference.
Previously, Xu Mu had impersonated male protagonists, all of whom possessed the protagonist’s halo. Xiao Qiao, however, did not.
“Wife, let me talk to him…”
“Get lost!”
Xiao Gui’s voice came from the other end, but Zhong Ci immediately cut him off.
Xu Mu rubbed his nose. Although that little girl had brought it on herself, she didn’t deserve to die for it.
After a brief hesitation, he asked, “What exactly happened?”
“It must have been one of Xiao Gui’s enemies. They kidnapped our daughter to get revenge.”
Zhong Ci’s voice was full of tears.
“We’ve already checked the surveillance footage. The person was wearing a black robe and a mask. We could only tell from their build that they were a woman. You’re with the Sanitation Office—please, think of something.”
“Uh… I’ll think about it.”
Xu Mu didn’t know how to respond. After all, he himself was the real culprit.
“Xu Mu, is it because Xiao Gui tried to kill you before, so you don’t intend to help us?”
Zhong Ci had seen through him. Usually, when someone said they would “think about it,” it meant they had no intention of agreeing.
She also understood that her relationship with Xu Mu wasn’t particularly close.
“That’s not what I mean. Forget it. I’ll ask someone to investigate first.”
Without waiting for Zhong Ci to say anything else, Xu Mu took the initiative and hung up.
After hesitating briefly, he sent a message to Zhong Qianqian, telling her what had happened.
Zhong Qianqian immediately replied with a laughing emoji. It seemed that she was delighted Xiao Qiao had been kidnapped.
Not long afterward, Xu Mu’s phone began vibrating again.
Seeing that Zhong Qianqian was calling, Xu Mu answered.
“Hahaha! That brat got kidnapped! This is great!”
Zhong Qianqian couldn’t stop laughing the moment she opened her mouth.
“She throws her weight around at home because Xiao Gui indulges her. Now she’s finally paying the price.”
“Check the surveillance cameras nearby and see if you can find any clues,” Xu Mu said into the phone. “Zhong Ci asked me for help, so I’ll give her a token effort.”
“You’ve met Zhong Ci?”
Zhong Qianqian’s voice was filled with surprise.
“She’s a disciple of a sect. I met her once while carrying out a mission.”
“Okay, got it.”
Zhong Qianqian didn’t refuse. After all, this was something Xu Mu had asked her to do.
Thinking about it carefully, her older sister, Zhong Ci, had always treated her quite well.
Xu Mu leaned back against the sofa, then took out the video Feng Yue had sent him and studied it again.
He noticed something: the masked woman hadn’t mentioned Xu Mu’s name at all.
He wondered whether he should simply send the video to Xiao Gui and have him go rescue his daughter.
That way, he could sit back and watch the dogs turn on each other.
With Xiao Gui’s strength, combined with the protagonist’s halo, there was a good chance he would rescue his daughter and slaughter Yue Menglong’s people.
By then, the two sides would truly become enemies.
After waiting for a little while, Zhong Qianqian sent Xu Mu a video.
Xu Mu opened it immediately. Zhong Qianqian had checked all the surveillance cameras in the area, but only one had captured anything—and even then, it was just a one-second clip.
It showed a black-robed figure carrying Xiao Qiao and jumping straight off a cliff.
Clearly, whether entering or leaving the Zhong residence, the culprit had avoided the main roads and infiltrated through the barren hills behind the house. By now, there was no sign of where she had gone.
After watching the footage, Xu Mu called Zhong Ci again and told her what he had found.
There was nothing Zhong Ci could do. All she could do was thank him.
After ending the call, Xu Mu stretched lazily. He planned to take two days off before handing the video over to Xiao Gui.
He could also go there himself and watch the excitement.
Lying on the sofa, Xu Mu closed his eyes for a brief nap while Shi Fumeng and Ying Weiyang sat nearby watching television.
Xu Mu dozed for about two hours before waking up again. He then went down to the underground illusion formation to refine pills.
The divine pill furnace had not yet acknowledged him as its master, but it was still far superior to any other pill furnace.
He continued refining pills until dusk, when Ye Tong got off work. Only then did he stop.
Xu Mu put the pills away, preparing to pass several of these useless Yellow-grade cultivation techniques on to her.
This time, it wasn’t for the sake of increasing their affection. After all, their affection toward him was already maxed out.
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