The stolen magic is a bit magical

“Yes, so the police have no reason to arrest them and can only place them under house arrest,” Ding Ruoshui said. “They do not have the Soul-Giving Gu or the chip in their brains. Can we be sure that they are truly unaware of this?”

This was the issue that Ding Ruoshui was most concerned about.

Lei Xiaoya, after all, was her best friend.

She has no other best friend in the world, and she truly doesn't want this best friend to slide into an abyss.

“There are two possibilities if there is no Soul-Bearing Gu in their brains,” Lin Xiaosu said. “One is that they are truly innocent. The other is… they have bypassed the levels controlled by the Soul-Bearing Gu.”

"Skipped the control levels of the Soul-Breaking Gu? What does that mean?"

"To put it simply, the middle and upper management of Hydra!"

Ding Ruoshui's face turned slightly pale.

She understood this explanation.

My dad said that most of the people controlled by the Soul-Binding Gu are the subordinates that Hydra has worked hard to develop.

It targets elites in each line of work; only elites are worth using poison on.

However, for this organization, those who are controlled can only be those at the lower and middle levels.

It couldn't be someone from a high-ranking position.

Why?

Because this thing is too dangerous and too uncontrollable.

If you have this thing in your brain, you might encounter the Soul-Calling Incense anywhere, and once you do, you will surely die.

Which high-ranking official would willingly put a bomb on their own head?
Therefore, there are methods to control those at the top.

“She was at the Yangcheng Hotel at the time, and I saw her swallow two pills with my own eyes,” Ding Ruoshui said. “But tests showed she wasn’t poisoned by a Gu. What are the possibilities?”

“Two possibilities!” Lin Xiaosu said, “The first possibility is that two of the pills in her medicine were not poisonous, and she just happened to take them herself, just like the Mandarin Duck Pot that kills and harms people on the road of martial arts.”

The Mandarin Duck Teapot on the Road of Jianghu is a teapot with a hidden mechanism.

When the mechanism is closed, the wine poured out is normal. When the mechanism is opened, the wine poured out is poisoned. You may see two cups of wine being poured from the same pot, but one cup is actually poisoned and the other is not.

Drinking the non-poisonous ones yourself, and using the poisonous ones to harm others, is a kind of cunning and treacherous practice in the martial arts world.

"What about the second possibility?"

"The second possibility is that she has an antidote!"

Ding Ruoshui said sadly, "Actually, no matter which one it is, she is a suspect, isn't she?"

If, in the first scenario, she precisely obtained two non-poisonous pills from a single batch of medicine, that would be too much of a coincidence! Unless she knew beforehand which two pills were non-poisonous.

Once she knew, she was already involved.

If it's the second scenario, she'll be even more involved.

Moreover, after learning of Xia Tian's death, she immediately threw away the medicine, which is highly suspicious of destroying evidence.

“You’ve already decided, you just don’t want to,” Lin Xiaosu said.

"Yes, my best friend since childhood, my only best friend, how could this happen? Why? What is she lacking? How could she walk this tightrope?"

"Everything in this world has a reason..." Lin Xiaosu smiled gently, "Let's talk about something lighter, where's your brother?"

"My brother is such a light topic for you?" Ding Ruoshui glared at him. "This time might be a little different. My brother isn't a light topic either. He... has disappeared!"

"Gone? What do you mean?"

Ding Ruoshui said, "He's probably out having a wild time with some woman somewhere. Things like this have happened before, but this time it's been a bit longer. He left home on the day of the expo, and his phone hasn't been turned on since. My mom has asked around everywhere and dug up seven or eight of his mistresses, but she still can't find him... Why don't you look for him?"

"Alright, I told you I didn't bring your mother any gifts this time I came to your house, so I'll just help her find this playboy!"

"Going right now?"

"Let's go!" Lin Xiaosu stood up, and Ding Ruoshui followed her out the door. The two got into a blue car, and Lin Xiaosu drove them out of the villa.

Ding's mother saw them off at the door, reminding them to be careful...

As the car rounded the mountain bend ahead, Lin Xiaosu's eyes suddenly lit up...

Through time travel, he saw where Ding Dong had gone.

The time was late at night on April 15th.

On the day of the expo.

Ding Dong left his house without driving, and walked to this bend in the road. There was no one around.

A flying car appeared silently, picked him up, and drove away.

This flying car has no distinguishing features.

But the person who came to pick him up...

It's a snow nightingale!
Qianlong has taken Ding Dong away!

Lin Xiaosu was a little confused for a moment.

This spoiled brat actually had the ninth-ranked gold medalist from the Hidden Dragons come to pick him up personally.

Moreover, they were received with VIP treatment.

he……

How can you be so virtuous?

Could it be that……

He thought of Ding Dong's special skills and the kid's boast: "I'm very arrogant now. If you give me enough materials, I can make a nuclear bomb by hand."

His extraordinary love for mechanics and his exceptional hands-on skills, honed by a fortune, are the special abilities of this eccentric rich kid.

Did Qianlong discover this extraordinary talent amidst the vast sea of ​​people?
"What's wrong?" Ding Ruoshui stared at him.

"No need to investigate! Your brother is fine!"

"How do you know? You haven't even started investigating."

"This... it's just intuition. After all, there's a saying that good people don't live long, but bad people live for a thousand years. A beauty killer like him in Jiangcheng is a major scourge in the world of beauties. Theoretically, he could live for seventy or eighty years, if not a thousand years."

Ding Ruoshui looked at him with a sour expression: "If he can live for eighty years, you can theoretically live for eight hundred! You're more like a scourge than him. Don't think I didn't notice; you took advantage of me while you were treating me..."

OMG……

Lin Xiaosu was speechless.

After driving around for a while and having some fun, Ding Ruoshui didn't mention her brother again. After all, the Ding family was quite tolerant of their eldest son. It was perfectly normal for him to mess around with women in a rented apartment and take them all over the world. Turning off his phone to avoid outside interference was just a regular occurrence for him.

More importantly, he is genetically engineered.

Genetically modified humans are sitting in the front row of this world.

Unless he deliberately seeks to die, he is generally not easy to kill... Ding Lizhong did not return that night.

Ding's mother is actually quite intelligent. Although she occasionally throws a little tantrum in front of her husband, she never causes any trouble when it matters. She knows that her husband has been very busy lately, living and eating at the company, so she doesn't call him at all.

Time just passed by day by day.

Lin Xiaosu spent three days with Ding Ruoshui, who then personally drove her back to Fengcheng.

Back at the detective agency, the spoils of this trip have been collected. How much?

250 million!
250 million sounds like an insult.

Giving it to someone seems like a joke.

However, what Miao Ruolan and Zhou Xi saw was excitement.

In Lin Xiaosu's eyes, it was full of charm.

This is the price set by Hydra, the king of the hydra.

SSS-level mission, 500 million each!
He had previously fought against the White-Clad King, and he teamed up with the Bloodstained King. Dividing the prize money in half, he received 250 million.

This time, let's get another 250 million.

This means that Qianlong has verified that the Shadow King she and Lan Yao killed was the legitimate one.

So he was given half of the Heavenly King's reward.

With the Immortal King killed, what kind of turmoil will be stirred up within the Hidden Dragon? He doesn't know yet, he can only guess.

What about Hydra?

So what?

We can only guess!
How is the whole incident progressing?

He did a lot of research and kept in constant contact with Lan Yao...

The most cutting-edge information entered his mind without reservation, just as he and Lan Yao had analyzed...

The nine-headed serpents within the Great Xia territory were almost entirely dormant.

Apart from those brought out by the Soul-Bearing Gu, they almost never initiated any provocations.

However, the situation is quite different abroad.

In Roba State, eleven outposts were attacked.

In the Middle East, there are three military posts plus an embassy.

In Beimozhou, businesses in Daxia have been experiencing a series of mishaps.

In Nanmo Prefecture, a scientific expedition team from the Great Xia Dynasty perished...

The entire team of Qianlong Gold Medalists was mobilized.

They were dispatched to various battlefields.

The Hidden Dragon Heavenly King also mobilized all its forces, the Wonderful Sound Heavenly King went to Northern Mozhou, and the Bloodstained Heavenly King went to Southern Mozhou.

All of this was told to him by the Blue Demon.

This was the third time Lan Yao had contacted him.

Moreover, her image was generated directly from the longan and displayed on the second floor of the detective agency.

"Are you in Fengcheng? On the second floor of the detective agency?" Lan Yao's gaze swept across the room, focusing... on the bed again.

But of course she couldn't see anything. Ruolan's habit was that as soon as Lin Xiaosu got up, she would immediately go into the room and make the bed look like someone was sleeping alone.

"Yes!"

“It’s fine in Fengcheng!” Lan Yao said. “You don’t need to go anywhere else, just stay in Fengcheng.”

"What happened?" Lin Xiaosu asked.

Lan Yao let out a soft sigh: "A list of those who will die has been released. I suppose I should congratulate you on getting second place on the list."

"The Death List? Second place? What does that mean?"

"The Deadly List: The people Hydra most wants to kill! They have an unwritten rule that any one of the top ten can be exchanged for the lives of everyone in an entire base."

"The treatment isn't bad! It's almost like trading one for one with the base," Lin Xiaosu laughed. "However, I'm also a little curious. I took down two Heavenly Kings and got a Wing Blade, and I only got second place? Who's first?"

“Naturally, it’s Thunder!” Lan Yao said. “Since the beginning of the Death List, Thunder’s position at the top has never been shaken in the past ten years.”

Lin Xiaosu laughed: "He's first, I'm second. Wouldn't you say this is the closest I've ever gotten to this legendary figure?"

"Absolutely!"

Lin Xiaosu looked out the window: "Why do you think I'll be safe just because I'm in Fengcheng?"

"This is an absolute secret! I would never have told anyone under any circumstances, but you can be the only exception."

"what?"

Blue Demon blinked slightly: "Do you know the Red Flag?"

"Red Flag? I don't know, I've never heard of it."

"Red Flag, the Dragon Head's personal guard! They carry out top-secret missions, monitoring all the Heavenly Kings. Red Flag is in Phoenix City! You can rest assured while you're in Phoenix City, and you can rest assured about your home too!"

Just one sentence.

Lin Xiaosu's heart was in turmoil.

His home was even protected by the Dragon Head Guards.

Moreover, the mission of these guards, the Red Banner, has always been to monitor the Heavenly King.

What kind of person would be able to monitor a superstar?

While it may not be accurate to say that he is stronger than the Heavenly King, he is certainly not much weaker.

Moreover, the Red Flag is a team.

Not alone.

At this moment, Qianlong's strength seemed to have risen once again with the appearance of the Red Flag...

"Don't try to find the Red Flag, you just need to believe in the Red Flag! I can't say another word."

Lin Xiaosu frowned slightly, neither nodding nor shaking her head.

"What? You don't quite believe me?" Lan Yao stared into his eyes.

“I absolutely believe what you say!” Lin Xiaosu said, “However, there is something very strange.”

"What?" (End of Chapter)