Chapter 11 Reassessment

Mingmei brought the four people back to the treehouse, to the same old terrace, but this time with one more person, Lu Gui.

Last night’s fighting had left Lu Xiaoyao and the others completely confused. Later, Lu Xiaoyao's passing a "murder weapon" led to them all being arrested after tripping over their own feet.

Since Lu Gui was arrested, taken away for questioning, and then locked up with them, he had remained silent. They hadn't been able to find out anything. Now that they were all released, everyone finally had the chance to sit down and review what happened yesterday.

"Speaking of Zhen Hu, I haven't seen him since I came in. How did he just disappear? Why were you guys assassinated last night?"

Lu Xiaoyao began to ask impatiently as soon as she sat down. Dong Lei and Sun Yunzhong weren't students of the Central Military Academy and naturally didn't know Zhen Hu, nor did they have any interaction with Lu Gui. Therefore, they weren't in a hurry to speak up about this matter, which made Lu Xiaoyao even more anxious.

Lu Gui looked at his sister's impatient appearance. He remembered the scene when he asked Mingmei last night if Lu Xiaoyao had improved recently and she suddenly fell silent. Lu Gui instantly understood.

If it were him, he would be embarrassed too.

"It wasn't me who was being assassinated."

Lu Gui first emphasized that he wasn't the target of the assassination last night, and then looked at Mu Chen, who was pouring tea on the opposite side, and said, "Does the Security Office have people from your employer? I blocked them, and directly lost my job."

"Oh? It's good that you weren't silenced."

"Is that so? You didn't die, so I won't die either."

The two of them exchanged words back and forth. Sun Yunzhong's gaze shifted back and forth between them, and then, as if he had discovered something, he lowered his head and continued to ponder.

Mingmei watched Sun Yunzhong's independent thinking and then looked at the other two clueless fools, who seemed to be wandering in the ninth heaven. She couldn't help but pick up her teacup and drown her sigh in the water.

Oh well, it's enough if one out of the three is smart.

"It seems that person doesn't want to expose himself too much and doesn't want to make things too big," Mu Chen thought for a moment, and then chuckled at the chaotic events of last night, "But it should still be a big deal."

"Yeah."

Lu Gui sighed. Last night, he tangled with those assassins for a long time, but Zhen Hu was still successfully assassinated, which made him so angry that he chased those assassins for two streets. This matter might have already spread throughout the streets.

After a long while, Lu Gui couldn't help but sigh, "Unfortunately, Zhen Hu didn't have time to explain anything before he went offline last night. What about you? Do you have any clues?"

"No."

Mu Chen answered decisively, but Lu Gui curled his lips.

This person never tells the truth.

He then turned to Mingmei, who was sitting next to Mu Chen, and continued to ask persistently, "Meimei, do you know anything?"

"Huh?"

Mingmei was drinking tea and spacing out. Hearing Lu Gui call her, she silently raised her head and looked at him innocently.

Mingmei: ovo

Lu Gui: "..."

"What are you guys talking about? Who? What employer, what background? Can't we just be frank with each other!"

Lu Xiaoyao finally couldn't bear it anymore. What were they all talking about after listening for so long?

As soon as she opened her mouth, she received a disappointed glare from her brother, who said, "Look at your classmates, they can still use their brains. You've been listening for so long and all you know is to ask me?"

"If you can just tell me, why do I have to use my brain to guess? Do I have a lot of brain cells? Can't you not be so extravagant and wasteful!"

Sun *extravagant and wasteful* Yunzhong: "..."

Lu Gui was really choked by Lu Xiaoyao. If you say she's not smart, she's better than anyone at excusing herself.

"A simple explanation is that the person I killed in the underground boxing match last night has a powerful backer. I suspected that his death wasn't normal, so I investigated it."

Mu Chen looked at the veins on Lu Gui's forehead that were about to burst and decided to show some kindness and prevent the appearance of a "domestic fighting drama."

"Is it the third one who died last night?"

Sun Yunzhong was sensitive and directly said that it was the third one, the lizardman of the first one was directly eliminated by him.

Mu Chen and Mingmei looked at each other, which was also a disguised form of agreement.

"That boxer, I saw that there were a lot of fans in the audience..."

Dong Lei also remembered that the atmosphere suddenly became unusually strange at the last match because Mu Chen suddenly killed the opponent. When many people reacted, they directly cursed at Mu Chen.

"So, Boss, someone hired you to kill the third person?"

Lu Xiaoyao also reacted to why Mu Chen was so brutal last night. Mu Chen didn't say anything about this. Not speaking meant acquiescence, which was especially obvious here with Mu Chen.

Lu Gui snorted coldly, "Yes, no one hired you. You just had a fit of bloodlust in the boxing ring, right?"

Lu Gui directly pointed out that Mu Chen was unwilling to admit this matter, and the others blinked as if they understood. Sun Yunzhong took the initiative to skip the topic and asked, "Then, you were attacked last night, is it because that dead classmate was also related to this matter?"

"Yes, because the Security Office suspected it was a contract killing, and Zhen Hu was the one suspected of hiring the killer. However, in the end, they were all released due to insufficient evidence."

Lu Gui said to here, and everyone almost understood the whole thing.

"Then... is it possible that someone else saw them getting away with it, so they secretly took action again to silence them?"

Mingmei secretly nudged Mu Chen with her elbow, indicating her nephew’s alertness. Mu Chen also lowered his head and smiled at Mingmei, indicating that he was also very happy with Sun Yunzhong's condition.

At least, next time he sends a message back home, he can help Sun Yunzhong and his cousin speak up.

After all, her only son is away from home, and she must be feeling bad.

She could stop him, but she couldn't bear to stop her son's choice of path.

"Is it possible that it was the person behind the boxer who, seeing that the suspects who had been arrested were acquitted, couldn't bear it for a moment and personally found someone to take revenge?"

Lu Xiaoyao felt that everyone's description was too deifying the real murderer. How could there be such a powerful person who arranged everything without showing up from beginning to end?

"If that's the case, Ah Chen should also be retaliated against last night, right?"

Mingmei refuted Lu Xiaoyao's guess. Just like they said, Mu Chen didn't seem to be affected in any way.

"But I'm also curious, why... only silence Zhen Hu? Logically speaking, if they want to silence people, Mu Chen should also be affected, right?"

Although Sun Yunzhong didn't refute Lu Xiaoyao's guess, Lu Xiaoyao's words also reminded them, why did Mu Chen escape this calamity?

"Because the Security Office has that person's spy." Mu Chen smiled, "They have no evidence to point to me intentionally killing someone. How can the events in the underground boxing arena be called intentional homicide."

If according to the other party's plan, Mu Chen and Zhen Hu should have gone in together, but in the end, not only were they all acquitted due to insufficient evidence, but Mu Chen had no traces at all, which was scary.

Perhaps the other party was suspecting that Mu Chen had already discovered it and was prepared.

If he took action against him at this time, and failed again, who knew if he had other things in his hands?

"So, Boss, you really...?"

Lu Xiaoyao was not sure if she had understood correctly just now, but Mu Chen still did not answer her question directly.

"However, I have a question. Why is that boxer worth being assassinated by a... um, it seems very powerful boss, and in the end, he still wants to clear everything up? Could it be that the dead boxer has another unknown identity besides boxing?"

Dong Lei raised her hand and asked actively. Mingmei had also thought about this question last night, but Mu Chen didn't know about it either. His original role did not have any other information about that boxer.

If it wasn't for Mu Chen himself being cautious and wanting to clean up the account for Mingmei's later use without any worries, he might not have been able to get rid of this matter so easily this time.

But thanks to this, the employer probably realized that Mu Chen himself was not the kind of person who could be easily dealt with as he thought, and didn't dare to act rashly for a while.

But the more cautious the other party is, the more it shows that he is afraid of the consequences of being exposed.

And they can't follow Mu Chen's side to investigate this consequence. The only thing they can do is to investigate from the dead person.

"First of all, we can confirm a few points." Mu Chen put down his teacup and finally mentioned the really important thing, which made everyone's eyes fall on him.

"First of all, the identity of the dead boxer is not simple. We need to investigate him more.

Secondly, the role identity of Zhen Hu, how was his dark web chat record leaked? Yesterday, I could see that the original role was not very good at using the dark web. He didn't even know how to post tasks, how to give deposits and rewards.

Who guided him into the dark web and allowed him to send me a bunch of directional words, wanting to get rid of that boxer?

We might as well investigate the original social information of the role played by Zhen Hu, and maybe we will find something."

The others agreed with what Mu Chen said and nodded. They even started talking about how to team up and where to inquire. Then Mu Chen emphasized again, "And."

"Um?"

"The location of the mysterious merchant's shop. This time, the boxed lunch is very important to us. Those who haven't bought it or don't have enough can go and buy some more. The specific address is in the black market trading market on the top floor of the underground city. There is a snack shop."

Hearing Mu Chen suddenly promote her business, Mingmei was stunned for a moment, and then even Guigui couldn't stand it anymore and clicked her tongue in her mind [Look at your host, your boyfriend is more active than you!]

Mingmei: [...]

"We bought it."

Except for Lu Gui, everyone else present bought it, but Dong Lei couldn't help but complain at this time, "I didn't expect this boxed lunch to be so expensive. I didn't recharge enough game coins before entering the game, so I only had enough to buy one..."

Before entering the underground city, they had relied on the supplies opened from Sun Yunzhong's boxed lunch.

"Use one for now. When inquiring about information this time, if possible, the boxed lunch that can see through a person's relationship can be used."

Mu Chen reminded them, and the eyes of the others lit up!

"That's right, we can go to see the corpse first! Directly see what kind of relationships they have!"

Lu Xiaoyao said excitedly, and although Lu Gui hadn't bought the boxed lunch yet, he had already heard the function of one of the boxed lunches - to see through a person's relationships.

"Corpses, if they don't have any special uses, may have been disposed of that day."

Lu Gui couldn't help but pour a bucket of cold water on them when he saw them looking so excited, "The underground city won't waste resources to preserve corpses, either they're sold or cremated."

Everyone: So fast?!

"So, what we need to do now is to investigate different people related to the deceased, and then investigate their real relationships?" Sun Yunzhong said, and Mu Chen nodded, and Dong Lei became even more frustrated.

"How many people do we have to investigate? One box is not enough, I knew I would have recharged more money..."

"If you really need it, you can borrow it and pay me back offline."

Mu Chen looked at Dong Lei's remorseful face, and even Sun Yunzhong was a little worried. It could be seen that they probably didn't recharge enough money.

So, for his girlfriend's "performance", Mu Chen decided to lend them money out of compassion, and then, of course, after doing all this, he got an even sadder expression from Mingmei.

Mu Chen: ???

Shouldn't she be happy?