With a warehouse full of supplies, I stood alone as king in this chaotic world, gun in hand.

Thinking of this possibility, Qi Ziyang revealed a hint of schadenfreude on his face, "No way! You who treat women like snakes and scorpions, could it be that some woman took your virginity?"

Let me think about it. Those mountains are inhabited by monks. It's impossible for female pilgrims to go to that back mountain. Could it be a female monk from the opposite mountain...?

"What nonsense are you spouting?" Xiao Lin glared at him as he spoke more and more outrageously.

But the thought of this possibility made her ears blush.

"Okay, so what are you being so paranoid about?" Qi Ziyang shrugged speechlessly.

"Pass down the order: spare no effort to hunt down and kill the Serpent Spirit Society." Xiao Lin's gaze suddenly turned sharp.

"Alright!" Qi Ziyang said seriously, "The Serpent Spirit Society has been quite arrogant these past few years. It's time to teach them a lesson."

"Let me know if anything happens," Xiao Lin said, then stood up.

"Hey! Wait a minute." Qi Ziyang hurriedly called out to him, "Another letter came from over there, saying you should go back."

Xiao Lin's eyes turned cold, and after a long while he said, "Let's talk about it later."

"Wait a while longer? If you ask me, you've been out long enough, and the poison in your body has stabilized. You can't keep wandering around outside all the time!" Qi Ziyang said helplessly.

"Why would I go back? It's not like you can't live without me." Xiao Lin seemed to be very opposed to this question and took a step to leave.

"Are you still going back to the Prince Yuan's residence?" Qi Ziyang asked him again.

"Well, I'll stay there for now until the Serpent Spirit Society and Nangong Xun are eliminated!" Several children's faces flashed through Xiao Lin's mind again.

"You don't necessarily have to live in the Prince's mansion! If we need anything, it won't be convenient for us to come to you."

Qi Ziyang walked up to him, a mocking glint in his eyes, "You're not really going to become the father of those children, are you? The name Xiao Lin has already been labeled as Nangong Wu's male favorite."

If the people over there found out that you, a man of such high standing... actually became a male favorite of the Prince of Zhenyuan, you'd be laughed at by the whole world.

"You talk too much!" Xiao Lin rolled her eyes at him and strode away.

"Hey! What do you mean I talk too much? You heartless bastard, who am I worrying about all this for...?"

Midnight.

Nangong Wu changed into night clothes and quietly left the palace.

If Nangong Xun dares to send the Serpent Spirit Society to assassinate her, then from this day forward, she will ensure that he and his cronies never have a peaceful day again and will have no choice but to embark on the path of rebellion.

She first went to the home of Shi Wen, one of Nangong Xun's closest friends and the Minister of Revenue.

This Shi Wen was in charge of the financial revenue and expenditure of the Western Yan Kingdom, and was Nangong Xun's biggest money bag.

According to Nangong Yi's information, Shi Wen was a major corrupt official. Although he gave the lion's share of the ill-gotten gains to Nangong Xun, he must have been rolling in money even with the smaller portions.

As she was walking, her ear twitched slightly.

Realizing someone was following him, he slipped behind a tree and used his mind to enter the space.

The next moment, a man in black leaped down from the roof and landed where she had just been standing.

As expected, they were being followed.

The man in black stood still for a while, and when he didn't see anyone, he leaped onto the roof again.

After confirming that the person had gone far away, Nangong Wu left the space, and this time she was even more careful.

After entering the Shi residence, she stood on the highest rooftop and first used night-vision binoculars to survey the area.

The Minister of Revenue was a high-ranking official of the second rank, and he lived in a medium-sized four-courtyard mansion, which was about 300 meters long from north to south, and was guarded by about 30 guards at night.

She first found the warehouse, but this time she didn't rush to pry it open. Instead, she took out a metal detector.

She seized the treasuries of the Zhou family, Nangong Xun, and the Ming family. Even if Shi Wen were foolish, he wouldn't keep large amounts of gold and silver treasures in the storerooms and secret study rooms like they did.

Nangong Wu took out a long-range metal detector with a detection range of up to 1,500 meters and a depth of up to 25 meters.

Its principle is electromagnetic induction, and it can also distinguish some types of metals.

Last time at the Ming family's house, she almost couldn't find the secret room, so she found this metal detector in the warehouse, which made finding treasure much easier.

She fiddled around for a while but couldn't detect any gold or silver underground. There was, however, a small amount of silver in the storeroom.

To avoid being discovered, she didn't collect anything from the storeroom; instead, she mentally retrieved the detector and went to the study first.

After searching the area, no gold or silver was found around the study.

After thinking for a moment, he took out a geological scanner, walked around the study with the detector, and a dark room quickly appeared on the screen.

There was indeed a hidden underground room in this study, but it was empty; there was nothing inside.

Nangong Wu packed everything away, wondering where she would hide the things if she were Shi Wen.

Neither the storeroom nor the study had a hidden room, so that left only his bedroom or a side room.

With that in mind, she headed towards where Shi Wen lived.

There were two guards outside the courtyard, but she didn't touch them and quietly entered the courtyard.

I walked to the window, stood there and listened for a while, and found that there was no sign of anyone in the room.

She created space for the detector again and began to probe.

A beeping sound came from the screen.

"I've got it! It was hidden here!" Nangong Wu exclaimed in surprise.

This historical figure actually hid his gold and silver valuables under his bedroom floor.

She then took out the geological scanner, trying to find the entrance to the underground chamber.

Just then, a commotion came from outside the courtyard gate.

"Sir, you're back?" came the voice of the guard.

"Hmm, have you noticed anything unusual?"

"Reporting to you, sir, there is nothing unusual."

Upon hearing this, Nangong Wu knew that Shi Wen had returned, so she first put the things into her spatial storage.

A moment later, the courtyard gate opened, and a servant-looking man carrying a lantern walked in first, followed by Shi Wen.

Nangong Wu glanced at him and saw that Shi Wennian was about forty years old, fat and bloated, with a loose robe on his plump body, and several red kisses on his exposed neck.

Needless to say, that scoundrel just went to find some concubine to be intimate with.

But after it was all over, they didn't stay overnight. Were they afraid that the treasure underground would be lost, so they came back to guard it?

After a while, the lights in the room went out again, but the servant sat leaning against the door with his eyes closed, seemingly intending to stay and keep watch.

The courtyard returned to silence. Nangong Wu flashed out of the space, and a swordsman knocked the servant unconscious.

Carefully tear open the window paper and drop some sleeping powder inside.

He then took out a geological detector to search for the entrance to the secret room.

A moment later, a hazy entrance to a dark passage appeared on the screen, right behind Shi Wen's bed.

"What a cunning and treacherous person." Nangong Wu sneered, mentally retrieving the item back into her spatial storage.

He deftly pried open the window.

Thinking there was sleeping gas in the room, he put on a gas mask and climbed into the room.

Shining a miniature flashlight onto the bed, he saw Shi Wen lying sprawled out on the wide, canopy bed, looking like a fat pig.

She remembered the assassins from last night.

The people from the Serpent Spirit Society were hired by Nangong Xun, and that bastard was very likely involved in the plot to murder her.