I bought a secret manual of the Hehuan Sect for ten yuan.

Cheng Feng precisely seized the moment when the assassin lost focus, and grabbed his neck with one hand like an iron clamp.

"Click—"

As Qin Ge finished speaking, Cheng Feng snapped the assassin's neck, and the dagger clattered to the ground.

"Xiao Meng!!" Qin Ge saw Yang Xiao Meng lying in the flower bushes and rushed over without thinking of anything else.

"What's going on?" Su Wenxi also came into the courtyard, cautiously scanning the situation.

Then Bai Yutang appeared.

"I'm so sorry, it's all my fault. Xiaomeng did it to save me... that's why..."

"Qin Ge, how... how is she...?"

Su Li was sobbing uncontrollably, but when she saw Qin Ge examining Yang Xiaomeng's injuries, she quickly covered her mouth again.

Qin Ge quickly checked Yang Xiaomeng's injuries and breathed a sigh of relief.

He pinched Su Li's cheek. "Don't worry, she's fine."

Qin Ge channeled spiritual energy into Yang Xiaomeng's body, then picked her up and looked at the assassin's corpse. "Was it coming for you?"

"I don't know either, I guess so!" Su Li breathed a sigh of relief when she heard that Yang Xiaomeng was alright, and her tears stopped.

"That person suddenly appeared in front of me. Xiaomeng reacted quickly and pushed me away, but she herself was stabbed and sent flying."

She looked at Cheng Feng, "And then he came."

Qin Ge walked to the assassin's corpse, kicked off its mask, and asked, "Do you recognize him?"

Su Li looked at it carefully for a while before shaking her head, "I don't remember."

"Let's go back and treat Xiaomeng's injuries first." Qin Ge took two steps, then stopped near Cheng Feng. "Thank you so much, Mr. Cheng, for saving me. I'll remember this favor!"

He looked at Cheng Feng's right hand and said, "Mr. Cheng's hand is indeed as sharp as an eagle's claw. If you hadn't appeared in time, Xiao Meng and Su Li would probably be in grave danger."

Cheng Feng quickly waved his hand and said modestly, "Mr. Qin, you are too kind. You are Mr. Bai's friend, and protecting your safety is my duty. It is only right that I help you."

"Unfortunately, I was too late, and Miss Yang was injured. I'm truly sorry."

He glanced at the assassin, hesitated for a moment, and continued, "This assassin is quite skilled. From what Miss Su said, it seems he's after her."

"I wonder if Mr. Qin knows his background?"

"Such a master must have an extraordinary background. I hope Mr. Qin will take this seriously."

"Thank you for the reminder." Qin Ge glanced at the assassin again. "This assassin's background is not simple. Mr. Cheng is even more skilled than him, so your background must be even more extraordinary, right?"

"Just kidding, don't mind me. I'm genuinely grateful to you for saving Xiaomeng and Su Li."

He looked at Bai Yutang, "Thank you too, Brother Bai!"

......

"How is it?"

"Are you alright?"

Upon seeing Qin Ge emerge from the room, Su Wenxi and the other two immediately surrounded him, all looking anxious.

"It's alright, he just needs some rest." Qin Ge glanced around the hall. "Has Bai Yutang left?"

The three of them finally breathed a sigh of relief. Su Wenxi said, "When you were treating Xiaomeng, Bai Yutang stayed for a while, but he probably thought you wouldn't be able to finish in a short time, so he left first."

"But he specifically said before he left that if anyone needed help, they could find him at Villa No. 1."

"He's so thoughtful!" Qin Ge's expression was ambiguous, but he smiled when he saw Su Li looking pitiful from self-reproach. "Our little Li'er is still feeling guilty, isn't she?"

"I've already told you this isn't your fault, but I still want to ask, do you have any enemies?"

"Probably not!" Su Li had been thinking about this while waiting for Qin Ge to come out. Apart from Jiang Yingrong and her daughter, she really didn't know who else she had offended.

She had never provoked Jiang Yingrong and her daughter; it was all an undeserved disaster.

"Could it be my dad... Su Shiyue?"

A chill ran down Su Li's spine. She had let Su Shiyue go because she was soft-hearted, but Su Shiyue wouldn't let go of his own daughter?

She still doesn't know that Su Shiyue was shot in the head by Xie Bingning long ago!

"It shouldn't be him."

"Don't overthink it. Maybe the assassin wasn't even after you. It's just that you and Xiaomeng happened to be in the courtyard at the time, so he had to find someone to attack first."

What puzzled Qin Ge was how the assassin had timed it so perfectly, appearing just when he and Bai Yutang were having a pleasant conversation, completely absorbed in each other and letting their guard down.

Normally, he would notice anyone approaching the villa, and he would never give any assassin the opportunity to hurt anyone!

He had suspected Bai Yutang, but couldn't figure out what Bai Yutang's motive was.

Trading the life of a master for Yang Xiaomeng's serious injury seems like a bad deal, doesn't it?

Although in his own mind, ten or even a hundred such masters couldn't compare to Yang Xiaomeng, this was only from his personal perspective, and it was tinged with personal feelings.

Regardless of the circumstances, Yang Xiaomeng's serious injury is a fait accompli, and Qin Ge will absolutely not let it go!

The frustrating thing is that there's no clue whatsoever, and the assassin is dead; we can't exactly summon his spirit back for interrogation.

As his thoughts raced, Qin Ge had an idea: he desperately needed an intelligence organization.

An extremely professional intelligence organization that serves only him!

In the past, if he needed to understand something or investigate someone's background, he would ask Hong Zhendong or Shen Tingzhi.

Wealthy families like theirs have their own channels for obtaining intelligence, allowing them to know many things before ordinary people. While not particularly powerful, these channels are sufficient for them.

But Qin Ge felt it wasn't enough; he wanted a more powerful and professional intelligence organization!

This intelligence organization can quickly identify anyone they randomly grab on the street, knowing how many lovers they have, where they slept last night, and whether they have a habit of spitting indiscriminately.

"Why don't we build one ourselves?" Qin Ge thought to himself, considering the connections and resources in Donghai, the Lin family, the Yang family, and the Shadow Martial Hall in Jinling, as well as the Su family and the Li family in Haicheng. He thought he could integrate all these resources.

I dare not say anything else, but the intelligence organization built using these resources will definitely be much stronger than the original intelligence channels of each party, with a faster response and more accurate and detailed intelligence!

If we could create a super database and train artificial intelligence to work in conjunction with it, that would be even more perfect!

Take Bai Yutang, whom he has just met, for example. He always felt that this person was too mysterious. He asked the East China Sea to help him investigate this person, but there were no results.

If there were such a powerful intelligence organization, they might be able to obtain Bai Yutang's true identity information in just a few minutes, and even find out what brand and color his underwear was!

"Never mind, it's too much trouble!"

Qin Ge quickly dismissed the idea; he wasn't willing to waste so much time on such a thing.

Moreover, he only had a general idea; he didn't know how to actually do it, and he didn't have a suitable person around him to do it.

I wonder if such an organization even exists in this world. I wish I could just rob one!