Chapter 1 The Edge of the Real World Outer Star Sea

"I'm going to die, I'm going to die! How dare the Zerg do this... I'm so angry!"

Mei Shi's beautiful face showed no traces of time, but she was clearly furious, her eyes wide with anger, and she really did resemble a shrew scolding the streets in her old age.

Mei Shi stood on a deserted planet with her hair disheveled, not caring about her appearance. She stood with her hands on her hips, stomping on the hapless star pirates who had the misfortune of running into Mei Shi, who was seething with rage and had nowhere to vent it.

A handsome man with a mature temperament and a tall, slender figure gently pointed his finger at the smoking starship not far away.

The exploding starship caused the star pirates, subdued by the couple, to scream in agony for the first time.

This was all their wealth!

With a flick of his finger, everything was gone!

Ming Yi didn't even glance at them, but took out a cup of fruit tea from his space button and handed it to her, comforting her softly, "Have some fruit tea, with ice and sugar."

"Thank you, hubby~"

Mei Shi, who had been fuming just moments before, was now all smiles. Ming Yi couldn't help but smile and asked, "Feeling better?"

"Mmm~ But these guys..." Mei Shi took a sip of her fruit tea and glanced at the star pirates on the ground and the group of people huddled in a cage not far away, sighing softly, "Isn't the nearest legion the Sixth Legion? Let them know to come and rescue these people."

Mei Shi and Ming Yi didn't believe in seeing things through to the end. Rescuing people was just a matter of convenience. The couple had business to attend to in the outer star sea and didn't have time to send people home.

Inside the game, the outer star sea.

"I feel like I've been followed recently." Sun Yunzhong and Dong Lei told Lu Xiaoyao about this the first thing after they returned.

"Are you being targeted by the mastermind who killed Zhen Hu?"

Lu Xiaoyao thought about what they had been investigating recently and immediately thought of this possibility.

"Doesn't seem like it." Sun Yunzhong shook his head. "If that were the case, we would probably have been assassinated already. Besides... Dong Lei and I have been very careful and shouldn't have been discovered yet."

"That's strange then." Lu Xiaoyao drank a bowl of hot soup. "I'll ask Hu Yue later; maybe she has some ideas."

"Yeah, what about you and Hu Yue these past two days? After getting the Zerg information from the three people you caught? Have you investigated the other two?"

"Not yet! No news about those two..." Lu Xiaoyao rested her chin in her hands, seeming to remember something. She looked at the two others who were also eating and suddenly asked, "Speaking of people, did you investigate the butcher shop, Zhen Hu's neighbor?"

"Cough! We're eating!" Dong Lei held her bowl and glared at Lu Xiaoyao. They were planning to find Mu Chen after they finished eating, as it was quite disgusting.

"Ah, ah, sorry, sorry..."

Realizing what she had asked, Lu Xiaoyao smiled awkwardly and lowered her head to continue eating in silence.

And so, the disgusting matter was brought up on Ming Mei's and the others' treehouse platform, disgusting everyone.

"My god... Was he really chopped up and sold?" Ming Mei frowned, feeling like she might have eaten too many snacks earlier and her stomach felt uncomfortable.

"Yeah, when Dong Lei and I went, we pretended to have a body that needed to be disposed of and specifically asked if they accepted it."

Sun Yunzhong was immediately glared at by Mu Chen beside him, so he quickly added, "At the time, Dong Lei and I disguised ourselves and smeared some animal blood on ourselves. When we asked, we specifically didn't say whether it was a human or a beastman."

Mu Chen nodded secretly, "What did the butcher shop owner say?"

"The owner said as long as they weren't residents of the underground city."

"Not residents of the underground city?" Lu Gui laughed, and everyone else laughed as well. He asked, "How do you prove that?"

At this question, Dong Lei and Sun Yunzhong also gave forced smiles, "Yeah, we asked, too. What the owner said was basically the same as what Hu Yue said last time, as long as they couldn't tell."

So, the butcher shop owner hinted to them that he could accept some "minced meat." As for how the minced meat was minced, whether they handled it themselves or the butcher shop owner handled it, either was fine.

However, the latter required them to pay the owner a "handling fee."

"Did the butcher shop owner see the body of Zhen Hu's neighbor?"

After Hu Yue asked, she saw Sun Yunzhong nod.

"In the butcher shop owner's task relationship screen, I saw a person talking to the owner with the body of Zhen Hu's neighbor lying in a body bag beside him."

As Sun Yunzhong spoke, he remembered the meat balls on the butcher shop stall when they went. Thinking about this, he didn't stop talking, and his expression became increasingly ugly, which didn't improve anyone else's mood either.

They had just heard about selling minced meat, and now they heard that the butcher shop was selling meatballs, but how could anyone not make the connection?

"Wow, what's the background of that butcher shop owner?" Lu Xiaoyao was the first to notice something unusual this time. "Are those people who silenced him really so confident in the butcher shop owner's ability to handle things? Our previous idea was to remove the head before handing it over to the butcher shop owner.

"But, that butcher shop owner is so... Ah, does he have a very strong backer? Isn't he afraid of knowing too much and being silenced himself?"

Lu Xiaoyao's words hit the nail on the head. Everyone turned their attention to Sun Yunzhong again.

Sun Yunzhong used the boxed lunch. After all, he couldn't only see such a small area, right? This boxed lunch was for investigating character relationships, not for recreating the case, right?

"Among the people who came and went to the butcher shop owner, there were ordinary underground city residents and also people from the surface. Hai Ke knew him, and it seemed that someone from Feng Li's side had also contacted him. Even some of Klee Ann's subordinates had appeared to buy meat.

"However, most of the meat he received was sold by people from the surface, and some was from people under Hai Ke who came to ask for disposal."

"Hai Ke... Given his temper, he has a lot of violent thugs under him, so this is also possible." Lu Gui understood why Hai Ke's subordinates appeared there.

"Then, did you see the appearance or name of the person who asked him to dispose of the neighbor's body?"

The butcher shop owner's network of contacts was relatively complicated. He was a character who was in contact with all three sides and could get along anywhere. They couldn't deduce anything from him, so Mu Chen asked about the situation of the person who brought Zhen Hu's neighbor's body.

"I saw him, but we haven't seen that face before. It's roughly like this..."

As he spoke, Sun Yunzhong took out a piece of paper from his pocket. He had drawn it out earlier. It wasn't very good, but Sun Yunzhong still captured the features. After Lu Gui glanced at it, he immediately exclaimed in surprise.

"Brother, do you recognize him?"

"Yeah, this person is Hai Ke's subordinate, but he disappeared a few days ago. It was just after I agreed to Hai Ke's recruitment that I had a brief encounter with this person, but he disappeared without a trace during this time. Hai Ke's mood was extremely bad. Hai Ke said that this person had betrayed him, and he had been wanted for many days without any news."

Hearing Lu Gui say this, everyone fell silent again.

Originally, as they analyzed, these clues seemed to be getting clearer and clearer—Hai Ke had a problem.

However, this known line of clues was cut off once again. Could they convict Hai Ke based solely on the scenes seen in the boxed lunch? Wouldn't that be too arbitrary?

Or were they being a little too suspicious?

For a moment, it seemed that all their matters had made progress, but the road that was about to reach the end suddenly collapsed...