The girl selling goods at the market had never seen money before.

At this moment, in her eyes, there were only 'enemies'.

Five seconds have passed.

Qin Yichen remained silent.

At this point, others may have already launched an attack on Murong Yao.

Their attack may also harm Yao's parents.

Time is of the essence.

Everything converged into the intense killing intent in his eyes.

"If you don't speak, you might as well die."

Qin Yichen was so frightened by being forced to look directly at Bai Jinxuan's face that he couldn't even speak.

Even so, she still tried her best to make sounds from her throat.

Because she knew that what the girl said was true; what was reflected in her bright red eyes was the blood-stained wall and herself lying in a pool of blood.

She didn't know how many people the girl in front of her had killed, but she knew that her own life was absolutely insignificant in comparison.

Why did things become like this?

What exactly happened to me?

What is she asking? I...I'm going to die...? No...I don't want to die...!

Tears welled in Qin Yichen's eyes as he gritted his teeth and said, "I was forced into it. I didn't want to kill Murong Yao either. She found out our secret first. I..."

"boom--!"

Before she could finish speaking, Bai Jinxuan grabbed her by the throat with one hand, slammed her against the wall, and slowly lifted her up.

"Speak more seriously."

The icy voice chilled to the bone.

The string in Qin Yichen's heart snapped, and she blurted out everything she knew.

Volume 1: Chapter 75: The Girl Who Entered the Game Personally

According to Qin Yichen's intelligence, the No. 2 Middle School's surveillance only covers important areas (such as the school gate, central square, food street, etc.).

The purpose is to enable the principal and security department to monitor key areas in real time and screen suspicious persons. Therefore, places like toilets, dormitories, and some empty and deserted places are not monitored.

As for why they killed Murong Yao, it all started a week ago.

At that time, their club—the Super Power Gadget Research and Development Club—was forced to seek new business partners due to a lack of research funding.

Just then, a mysterious man suddenly appeared in front of them.

Given a corpse and a site, he can produce a large quantity of equipment with minimal investment.

For example, Tier 2 armor, bracers, helmets, etc...

It just so happens that the Super Power Items Research and Development Club had similar conditions in its previous projects. In addition, many members of the club have families with related businesses, and they used these businesses to maintain the club's operating expenses.

But now, due to mismanagement, the business has gone bankrupt, and they are worried about having no backup plan.

Such a good thing was delivered to their doorstep, so of course the Superpowered Items Research Society wouldn't ignore it. However, they were still wary. What made a man of unknown origin capable of providing the equipment he mentioned?

So they arranged a meeting and witnessed firsthand the influx of skeletons into the abandoned industry, putting it back into operation.

Batch after batch of brand-new equipment was shipped out of the factory, thick smoke rising into the sky like a black dragon.

The heart of the Superpowered Items Research and Development Society pounded violently, just like the roar of that machine.

All failures were reversed at this moment.

The shame of the family, the pressure from the academy, the sacrifices of the past, the pain of failure...

As the long-buried memories shattered and melted like ice, they remembered the burning passion in their hearts from the very beginning.

This time, we cannot afford to fail. This is a rare opportunity, and we must gamble everything on it.

Take back everything that the Super Power Items Research and Development Society threw away before!

Within a week, they resumed their previous positions, from production to sales, from market research to marketing... The Super Power Props R&D Team gradually became busy again.

Qin Yichen is in charge of corpse supply chain management.

With weapons production progressing smoothly, the Superpowered Items Research Society, having regained funding, decided to further invest the money in weapons factory development. Their family had the means to open a new underground factory.

However, this has led to an exponential increase in the demand for corpses.

Qin Yichen certainly wouldn't dare to take action against the students on campus, as these people were all influential and it would be easy to escalate the situation.

If you want a corpse, you have to go to the lower city. Just secretly set up a human experimentation lab and spend a little money, and they will automatically deliver it to your door.

Although it was against the rules and illegal, he couldn't care less; otherwise, where would he find so many corpses?

The underground city is much more strictly controlled than the surface city, and the upper city is even more so. He could only search in the neglected lower city.

To his surprise, the human testing facility he had only opened as a trial became an unexpected hit.

His operating method was simple: first, he would issue customers a high-priced death warrant, telling them that their survival depended entirely on fate. Then, he would give money to send a few people out to do publicity. As a result, a group of people from the lower city would fight desperately for the experimental ranking, gambling on a chance to make money while lying down.

In this way, large numbers of corpses were sent to factories to be turned into skeleton soldiers for labor.

During this process, he sent the transaction materials and plan details of the human experimentation lab, as well as the most important tokens needed for each plan to be executed, to the old factory of the Superpower Props Research and Development Society through his informant.

Frankly, it was a very risky move, but he had no choice.

The Second Middle School is a fully enclosed school. Normally, their factory operations are carried out on campus, while Zhou Kai is outside the school. If he wants to make the safest contact, he must resort to physical means and communicate through informants, and he cannot be too obvious about it.

It just so happens that because the old factory is being demolished, there is a team that can contact people outside the school. As long as you pay a little more money, a few employees of the demolition company will help bring the things in.

Those who could join the demolition team all had some dirty hands, and Qin Yichen happened to know some of their stories, so he trusted these people. But things didn't go as planned, and suddenly, the old factory welcomed its new owner.

When Qin Yichen heard the news, he rushed to the old factory to look for the token, only to find that most of the gas used to confirm the token's integrity had dissipated.

He was certain that Murong Yao had opened the package. Although she might have quickly resealed it and used sophisticated magic to restore it, the gas inside could not be brought back, no matter what.

This matter concerned the lives of everyone in the Superpowered Item Research and Development Club, and Qin Yichen dared not gamble. Therefore, after relocating to a new rendezvous point, they prepared to use their previous...

The potion they researched would completely erase Murong Yao from this world.

According to Qin Yichen, it was a potion that could melt people into black mud. Explorers below level 3 were powerless to resist it, and it would leave no trace, making it impossible for any detection magic to track down.

Having learned all the information, Bai Jinxuan's eyes flashed with a cold light as she stepped out of the cubicle.

This is the Second Middle School. Making the scene too bloody would easily leave traces, so she chose to use a quieter and gentler method to plunge Qin Yichen into eternal silence.

Although the opponent struggled violently, kicking wildly with its legs off the ground, that's often how battles are.

It will be over soon.

The cubicle door closed softly, as if no one had ever stopped there. The inside was empty, except for Bai Jinxuan, who strode out and disappeared into the crowd.

There are quite a few people in the Super Power Item Research Society, nine in total, three of whom are at Tier 2. Killing so many people in a short time when the artifact is unusable is no easy feat.

Therefore, Bai Jinxuan planned to use another method: first, to extricate Murong Yao and her parents from this matter, and then slowly fight against those people.

The method was simple: the people from the Superpowered Items Research and Development Society tracked Murong Yao using magic, and she happened to have a few magic crystals filled with Murong Yao's magic.

This was a gift that Murong Yao gave to Bai Jinxuan years ago. She had always kept it carefully in her treasure box and never expected it would be used for something like this today.

Quietly taking out the several meticulously carved magic crystals shaped like folded-eared rabbits from her pocket, Bai Jinxuan clenched her arms and quickened her pace.

The interrogation took her a lot of time. If the people from the Superpowered Gadgets Research and Development Society found Murong Yao first, then her plan would have failed.

We have to be faster!

Quickly traversing the block, Bai Jinxuan disappeared into the shadows of the bushes like a ghost.

Her body, honed through countless trials, reached its limit at this moment, and soon she found the Superpowered Items Research and Development Society.

At the same time, the other party also found her, but because Bai Jinxuan was wearing a hood that covered her bright silver-white hair, they did not recognize Bai Jinxuan's true identity.

"Gu Qingyun, we've found Murong Yao. She seems to have sensed our movements and is trying to escape on her own."

"Chase her! We absolutely cannot let her escape! The fact that she can run means she must know something!"

Gu Qingyun suppressed her anger and shouted through gritted teeth.

Qin Yichen, that scoundrel, actually abandoned all responsibility and hasn't joined the operation for so long. He must still be eating, drinking, and having fun in the tavern.

She thought he was just talking the talk, but he would actually do things properly when it came to action. Turns out he really did it. Gu Qingyun was wrong about him!

Never mind him, deal with Murong Yao first, then settle accounts with him.

Gu Qingyun was clear about the seriousness of the matter, and she immediately directed the other club members to surround Murong Yao.

But throughout the process, she felt that something was amiss.

"How did you find Murong Yao so quickly? Wasn't it supposed to be about an hour's journey? Did you take a hovercar?"

"No, it's probably because Murong Yao was trying to escape and just happened to run into us."

"That's really like a gift coming to our door."

.............

..............

Bai Jinxuan looked at the figures chasing closely behind her and a smile appeared on her lips.

Seeing that they were about to lose track of them, these guys simply stopped pretending and chased after them directly, instantly revealing their presence.

There are 4 people in total; the others should still be on their way.

There's no rush. It's not time to close the net yet. We need to wait until they're all here before killing them all at once, so no one will be left out.

In order to prevent them from noticing that the guy they were chasing was shorter than Murong Yao, Bai Jinxuan increased her strength and left them behind.

In this way, they had no time to think about these details while they were desperately chasing after them.

Time marched on, and under Gu Qingyun's blockade, Bai Jinxuan was like a fish caught in a net with nowhere to escape, pursued relentlessly from all sides.

All eight people have arrived.

"Murong Yao, you can really run fast! I didn't expect you to be so good at both magic and martial arts. No wonder the teachers at school value you so much. It's really enviable."

The blue-haired girl spoke first.

Immediately afterward, another boy who looked quite muscular chimed in: "What a pity, what a pity. No matter how talented you are, no one can save you today. If you could run a little faster and reach the central square, then we really wouldn't be able to do anything to you. Sigh... what a pity, just a little short."

Halfway through his sentence, a loud bang came from the central square in the distance.

Everyone instinctively glanced in that direction.

Against the backdrop of the night, the colorful characters appeared in mid-air.

[The Star City No. 2 Middle School Arts and Culture Gala is now beginning!]

Bright fireworks illuminated the earth, and cheers from the people resounded through the sky.

A huge electronic screen appeared in the night sky, projecting everything on the stage onto it.

That's as tall as a building.

It's no exaggeration to say that the entire Second High School could probably see it.

But that... is a program belonging to the Murong family.

Bai Jinxuan bent down, stretched out her legs, and prepared for battle.

"Still trying to make a last-ditch effort?" Gu Qingyun frowned and said seriously, "Actually, I admire you, Murong Yao. If someone as talented as you could join us, we could all have a bright future."

She said, enunciating each word clearly, "You gained money, and we gained market share. There's absolutely no need for us to be at odds like this. You should understand that we won't easily betray our partners."

Indeed, just as Gu Qingyun said, every member of the Superpower Props Research and Development Society has an obligation to protect the secrets.

For them, as long as Murong Yao joined and received money, she would be a member of the Superpower Props Research and Development Society.

At least that's how it appears to the outside world.

Once the secret of the Superpowered Gadgets Research Society is exposed, none of them will be able to extricate themselves from the situation.

If it were Yao Yao herself standing here now, she would most likely accept this condition; joining a criminal organization is better than dying here.

But the people standing here...

It's Bai Jinxuan.