Upon hearing this, Xu Mu frowned and said, "You killed her?"
"No, I beat her, trying to force her to give up the prescription, but she refused no matter what, so I starved her for a few days."
Zhang Kaijie said to Xu Mu, "I really deserve to die."
"Take me there now."
Xu Mu immediately said.
"Okay."
Zhang Kaijie nodded repeatedly, "She's not here. I intentionally parked her car here to throw people off the track. I'll lead the way on my motorcycle."
Xu Mu nodded, "Then we'll follow in the car."
After saying that, he and Dai Xingluo returned to the car.
On the way, Dai Xingluo smiled at Xu Mu, "Brother, your skill at lying is truly impressive. I'm afraid your little sister has been kept completely in the dark."
"Dark my ass! Get in the car, quick."
Xu Mu's heart wasn't entirely at ease either.
From Feng Yue being captured this time and not giving up the prescription out of fear of death, it proved she was worth deeper investment.
Not to mention, she was already considered his woman to begin with.
Xu Mu planned to focus on improving Feng Yue's strength from now on.
His own people shouldn't keep getting bullied.
Led by Zhang Kaijie, Xu Mu drove to another village.
He opened his perception and found the village was almost deserted, with only a dozen or so elderly households remaining.
Zhang Kaijie led Xu Mu and Dai Xingluo to a house door, took out a key, and opened it.
With a single sweep of his perception, Xu Mu saw Feng Yue locked in the cellar.
Entering the courtyard, the weeds covering the ground proved no one had lived here for a long time.
According to Zhang Kaijie, the old folks of this family had passed away, and their son had bought a house in a nearby county town.
He had rented the place quite easily.
Opening the cellar door, Zhang Kaijie headed down.
Xu Mu and Dai Xingluo followed behind.
Upon arriving, they found Feng Yue bound there by ghost vines.
She seemed somewhat dazed, her lips pale, weakened to the extreme.
When she saw Zhang Kaijie enter, gloom clouded her face again, but upon seeing Xu Mu following behind, the gloom instantly vanished.
[Favorability +20]
"I'm sorry!"
Zhang Kaijie walked up to Feng Yue, knelt on the spot, kowtowed once, then forcefully slapped himself several times.
"Get up!"
Xu Mu patted Zhang Kaijie's shoulder, then quickly walked behind Feng Yue and untied the ghost vines binding her.
Feng Yue opened her mouth, but her throat was completely parched, unable to utter a word.
"Let's exchange contact info. Wait for my notification."
Xu Mu took out his phone and said.
"Okay."
Zhang Kaijie nodded and immediately took out his phone.
After exchanging contacts, Xu Mu picked up Feng Yue and quickly left the place.
Back in the car.
Xu Mu took out a bottle of mineral water and handed it to Feng Yue, "Don't drink too fast. Moisten your throat first."
Feng Yue nodded slightly. After taking a sip of water, she clearly felt much better.
Returning to the previous village, Xu Mu had Dai Xingluo drive Feng Yue's car back.
Xu Mu himself planned to take Feng Yue directly back to Jiang City.
Seeing Feng Yue's haggard appearance, Dai Xingluo didn't say much more.
...
"Boss, if you had come a few days later, I'm afraid I would have died."
Feng Yue took another big gulp of water, leaned back in the seat, and closed her eyes.
"I'm sorry. If Ye Tong hadn't mentioned it, I wouldn't have even thought you were captured."
Xu Mu's face was also full of apology, then he said, "From now on, exercise more. I plan to continue improving your strength."
"Really? That good?"
Feng Yue had just laughed when she broke into a fit of violent coughing.
"You're my person. I won't let you get hurt again!"
Xu Mu's eyes looked ahead.
[Favorability +20]
A faint smile appeared on Feng Yue's lips.
...
After taking Feng Yue home, Xu Mu personally cooked her some light meals.
He told her to eat and rest, and they would talk about the rest after she woke up.
Xu Mu left her villa and went to his own home.
Just as he entered the living room, a message came through on his phone. It was Tantai Quan from Lu Mang Mountain.
Xu Mu answered the call, "Sister Quan, what brings you time to call me?"
"We all agreed to cooperate back then. What do you think I'm calling you for?"
Tantai Quan's voice came from the other end of the phone, "Where are you now? I'll be at your doorstep in a moment."
"My doorstep?"
Xu Mu was full of surprise, "You know where I live?"
"Xu Mu, the young master of Jiang City's Xu Group, so famous. A little investigation, and isn't it easy to find out?"
Tantai Quan said with a laugh.
"I happen to be home today. Just drive over."
Xu Mu said into the phone.
"Okay."
Tantai Quan agreed.
Xu Mu sat on the sofa and opened his perception.
About a few minutes later, a Range Rover stopped outside his villa gate.
Xu Mu checked the people inside. There were three in total.
Tantai Quan, a male driver, and besides them, a young and beautiful woman.
After the doorbell rang, Xu Mu got up and walked outside.
He opened the main gate and said with a smile, "Please come in."
"Where should I put the rare herbs?"
Tantai Quan, holding a slender tobacco pipe, smiled at Xu Mu.
"Just put them in the yard."
Xu Mu pointed to the side.
"Okay."
Tantai Quan gave a look to the driver beside her.
The man opened the trunk, carried out several large bundles of rare herbs, and walked towards the yard.
"This many?"
Xu Mu looked at the rare herbs with great surprise, "Still Hongyuan Pills?"
"That's right. Based on the amount you needed for refining last time, I prepared materials for a hundred pills this time, if not more."
Tantai Quan glanced at Xu Mu, "Shall we go inside to talk?"
Xu Mu nodded.
The three of them came to the living room together.
Xu Mu proactively went to get two glasses of water. While delivering the water, he used his God's Eye to check the young woman beside Tantai Quan.
She looked to be just over twenty, wearing a black dress, her bust at least reaching the C-cup realm.
Her eyes were very spirited, and she was quite beautiful.
Name: Tantai Piao
Identity: Lu Mang Mountain Finance
Favorability: -6
Fate Level: 2 (Max Level 10)
Seeing this information, Xu Mu relaxed his guard. It seemed she wasn't some big shot.
"What does Sister want to talk about?"
Xu Mu sat on the sofa, crossed his legs, and looked at Tantai Quan as he asked.
"These materials are more than enough. We want to take seventy Hongyuan Pills. The rest are all yours."
Tantai Quan gave Xu Mu a charming smile.
"Sister Quan, you'd better take the herbs back. I'm really not short of a partner like you."
Xu Mu waved his hand at Tantai Quan.
"But partners who make such large-scale deals like me probably aren't many, right?"
Tantai Quan smiled at Xu Mu, "Getting over thirty Hongyuan Pills at once is really not a small amount. Consider this a test. I can tell you clearly, we also have ninth-grade rare herbs, and when the time comes, we'll entrust them all to you for refining."
"A test? Sister Quan, the only ones qualified to test me are the nation and its people. You're not qualified."
Xu Mu raised a finger and gently shook it.
"I am one of the people."
Tantai Quan struck a match, smiling as she looked at Xu Mu.
"Is that so? Let me see the 'people's currency' then."
Xu Mu said to Tantai Quan.
grated, and just when he finally managed to get into an elite academy, he discovered that he actually had a system, and the way to earn rewards was extremely ridiculous. So for the sake of rewards, he had no choice but to start acting ridiculous as well. Su Cheng: "It's nothing but system quests after all." But later, what confused Su Cheng was that while he was already quite ridiculous, he never expected those serious characters to gradually become ridiculous too. And the way they looked at him became increasingly strange... (This synopsis doesn't do it justice, please read the full story)
world slacker. But a genius female disciple just had to get clingy, insisting that he take her as a disciple. Not only that, she was always making advances on him, thoroughly disrupting his peaceful slacker life...
] [Lone Wolf, No Male Gaze] [Protagonist is pursued early on; extreme protagonist-stans, stay away!] The "Carnival Paradise" descends and slowly devours the real world in the form of a game. By chance, Zhu Yan awakens the talent [Roleplay], becoming one of the first beta players. He thought he could develop safely, but after clearing the first instance, he is branded by humanity as the chief culprit behind the game's spread—a traitorous villain. A villain? Who would ever... become one! He'll be the villain! From then on, Zhu Yan is not only a player but also a lackey for the Carnival Paradise. Between the straight path and the crooked path, he chooses the con. With his left hand, he dons the villain's mantle, staging scenes within instances, infuriating players who decry him as a despicable traitor, all while the game happily promotes him. With his right hand, he joins the non-human organization "Fangcun Mountain," which opposes the Carnival Paradise, transforming into a mysterious player who slaughters game bosses, earning cheers of "Long live the expert!" from fellow players. Gradually, Zhu Yan rises to become an S-rank human player in Fangcun Mountain's archives, while also being the Carnival Paradise's certified top game Boss. But when the final war erupts and both major factions place their hopes in him— Players tag his various aliases: "Experts, this offensive depends on you." The Carnival Paradise's supreme Boss throws an arm around his neck: "Bro, you're the iron, I'm the steel; you can't let me down again!"
ing gift was a patch of barren land, and disciples were all picked up along the way. He spent fifty years diligently building three "ramshackle little sects," thinking he could finally live a carefree life relying on his disciples. But right at the fifty-year mark, he was suddenly swept away by a spatial rift and exiled to the Chaos Desolation, the Disorderly Ruins. There was no spiritual energy there, only slaughter. Relying on the cultivation feedback from his disciples, Gu Changyuan hacked his way through a sea of blood for eleven hundred years. When the system finally fished him back out, he discovered the ramshackle little sects he'd built back then had developed a rather... unusual style. Hold on... I vanished for a thousand years, so how did my ramshackle little sects become holy lands?!
