155. Concealing One’s Identity to Solve a Major Case, Journeying Alone a Thousand Miles Without Leaving a Trace

"My guess? I'll guess your mother's corpse! Get the hell out of here!" Zou Tianhua roared angrily.

Xie Wuji took out two medicinal pills and flicked them into the mouths of the two women nearby. The two women instantly fell into a deep sleep on the bed, and when they woke up, they would not remember anything that had happened in the past half-hour.

However, in Zou Tianhua's eyes, Xie Wuji's skill made his heart skip a beat. His lips trembled as he asked, "What—what did you do to them?"

"What did I do? Today, I'm going to cripple you first!" With these words, Xie Wuji strode forward. Just as he was about to strike with a palm, a fierce aura suddenly projected over.

Xie Wuji took a step back and looked toward the doorway, only to find Mo Minna and her younger sister already standing there.

Mo Minna took a sip of coconut juice and slowly said, "Look who's come uninvited. After an entire afternoon, you've come to see me again. Could it be that you missed me?"

Xie Wuji knew that the fierce aura just now did not come from Mo Minna, but from someone else. He looked at the young girl beside Mo Minna.

The young girl's eyes were chillingly cold, a far cry from her gentle demeanor just moments ago.

At this moment, Zou Tianhua also hurried over to Mo Minna, crying out, "Wife, save me! Wife!"

"Are you here to exact revenge for your predecessor?" Mo Minna looked at Xie Wuji.

Xie Wuji said coldly, "This time it's for myself. Step aside."

"Then you'll have to ask my sister, Mo Minmin, first. I knew you might come looking for trouble with me tonight, so I invited her over. You aren't the only one with special abilities, and my sister is not one to be trifled with!" As Mo Minna spoke, the young girl beside her drew a pair of short blades and advanced toward Xie Wuji.

"Hi-yah!" Mo Minmin let out a sharp cry as she thrust her twin blades directly at Xie Wuji's temples.

Xie Wuji took a step back, launched a counterattack with both hands simultaneously, and used his fingers to pinch the blades' edges.

Right at that moment, Mo Minmin unexpectedly abandoned the twin blades, reached into her robe with both hands, and pulled out two mini crossbows, unleashing a rapid volley of bolts at Xie Wuji.

Although Xie Wuji successfully deflected all the incoming crossbow bolts, he was shocked to discover that the two sleeping women on the bed behind him had been pierced so many times they looked like honeycombs.

By now, they were undoubtedly dead beyond doubt.

Xie Wuji said, "I only put them to sleep, yet you actually killed them?!"

"You're the next one to die!" With that, Mo Minmin hurled the crossbows at Xie Wuji. Just as Xie Wuji was about to deflect them, he realized that the handles of the crossbows were wrapped in two blocks of C4 plastic explosive!

Atop the plastic explosive, a small indicator light was blinking.

"Not good!" Instinct drove Xie Wuji to wave his hands to the sides, hurling the explosive-rigged crossbows out of the window.

The plastic explosives detonated in mid-air. The sudden explosion caused the people on the rooftop to cheer and laugh, "Oh, so there are fireworks after all? Didn't they say fireworks are banned in the capital?"

"That's because you don't know any better. What kind of person is our Young Master Zou? Besides, the ban applies to the ground, not the sky, hahaha!"

The surrounding crowd continued to raise their glasses and revel.

Inside the room, however, Xie Wuji looked at the young girl before him with wary caution.

He had thought that without her twin blades and twin crossbows, she was disarmed, but Mo Minmin produced a Japanese katana from who knows where. Gripping the katana with both hands, she said to Xie Wuji, "State your name!"

"If you want to know my name, you should tell me yours first," Xie Wuji replied.

"I am Mo Minmin of the Thousand-Hand Shadowless Style!" the woman declared.

Xie Wuji was puzzled. "Island nation?"

"My father is a countryman," Mo Minmin said.

Mo Minna covered her forehead with her hand. "This stupid girl!"

Mo Minmin gritted her teeth, gripped the long sword with both hands, and slashed at Xie Wuji. "Hi-yah! Go to hell!"

Slash after slash, her continuous attacks forced Xie Wuji to look at her in a new light. If translated into the cultivation levels of another realm, this woman perhaps possessed the strength of the Golden Core stage.

However, in the eyes of the current Xie Wuji, it was still far from enough.

Once he familiarized himself with her attack pattern, Xie Wuji grabbed the woman's wrist and swept her to the side.

Mo Minna was also greatly startled. Gritting her teeth, she suddenly drew a crossbow and pointed it directly at Xie Wuji.

Xie Wuji narrowed his eyes. "Do you think that's still going to work?"

Mo Minna abruptly changed the direction of the crossbow, pointing it right at the head of her own husband. Zou Tianhua shook with terror. "Wife, wife, what are you doing?"

"Swoosh! Swoosh!" Just two quick releases, and the crossbow bolts pierced straight through Zou Tianhua's glabella. Zou Tianhua dropped dead on the spot. No one could have anticipated that he would ultimately die at the hands of his own wife.

Mo Minna said, "Alright, now that he is dead as well, there is no longer any tie between you and me. I admit you have some skills; originally, if you had chosen to work with me, I could have given you everything you ever wanted—beauties, money, power, things beyond your imagination. But since you refused, there's nothing more to be done! However, please let my sister go right now."

"I never intended to hurt your sister in the first place." Xie Wuji pulled Mo Minmin up and pushed her toward Mo Minna. "But you seemed eager to kill this man all along."

"That is a matter of corporate interests, which has nothing to do with you," Mo Minna said.

Xie Wuji picked up a syringe from the bed. "If I guessed correctly, these two women were also your pawns. You must have intended to use them to get rid of your husband. Now that you are also a member of the Zou Group, if Zou Tianhua dies, a portion of the Zou Group will belong to you—essentially transferring your husband's shares to your name, not to mention you have a child."

"The more you know, the greater the danger you're in," Mo Minna said coldly, turning to her sister. "Minmin, are you alright?"

"I'm fine, but he is an expert," Mo Minmin said with lingering fear.

"As a citizen of this country, I know my limits, but I will never allow you people to murder and commit crimes here," Xie Wuji said as he walked forward.

Mo Minna widened her eyes in shock. "You—what do you want?!"

Xie Wuji suddenly ripped away the bed sheet, revealing densely packed bags of white powder hidden directly beneath it. Zhu Feifei had been victimized by these very substances.

Xie Wuji said, "The people you are harming with these are innocent citizens of the capital. This gathering is nothing more than an underworld drug trade. I'm sorry, but the blood of Yanhuang flows through my veins."

With that, Xie Wuji strode forward. Mo Minmin attempted to resist, but Xie Wuji struck the back of her neck with his palm, and she instantly collapsed into unconsciousness.

Mo Minna also began to panic. "If you leak this stuff out, you won't escape unscathed either!"

However, Xie Wuji paid no heed to such threats. He swiftly subdued Mo Minna as well and made a phone call; shortly after, the wail of police sirens echoed from downstairs.

Xie Wuji played the role of an anonymous hero once again, leaving a grand gift for the police.

A fleet of police cars arrived, their occupants having already surrounded the entire Zou Corporation building. When the police reached the top floor, they caught the culprits red-handed with both suspects and stolen goods!

That very day, reporters from across the capital swarmed the scene, blocking every exit of the Zou building airtight.

The capital was the core metropolis of all China, and the police here upheld the law impartially, not daring to take a major case like this lightly. By midnight that same night, the news had spread throughout the capital.

People began discussing the identity of this mysterious hero who had managed to assist the police in cracking such a massive case.

Yet Xie Wuji was naturally someone who abhorred trouble, and he had no wish to take the credit. Even though exposing his formidable abilities might earn him the worship of many, it would simultaneously push him into the glaring spotlight, making it difficult to ever extricate himself. His true mission did not lie here, but in another realm.

Late into the night, as Xie Wuji was on his way back, the Phoenix suddenly communicated with him, saying, "There is a spiritual spring nearby, an eye where spiritual energy converges. You had better go take a look; you might be able to take the opportunity to nourish your thirty-six spiritual swords and your ancient mirror."

"Alright, thank you." Xie Wuji looked around and discovered that the location was actually inside a public park. To his absolute despair, it was right inside the park's public restroom!

The location of this spiritual spring was truly bizarre beyond belief.