Chapter 561-562: Hound Dog Mercenary Group; Working With a Tiger |
561: Hound Dog Mercenary Group
The two assailants thought Feng Wu would be an easy target to take down.
Who would have thought she would catch the punch, and more shocking still, squeeze M’s hand in a death grip so hard he couldn’t free himself.
“Let go!” His face was flushed red from the exertion.
The boss rushed over and tried to kick Feng Wu away, but ended up being kicked back by Feng Wu instead. The impact of her kick on his chest forced him several steps back and made him hit the door.
M took the opportunity to kick Feng Wu as well. In forcing her to avoid his kick by stepping back, he was able to free his hand.
“This stinky girl is not easy to deal with.” He said in a deep voice.
“Let’s attack together.” The boss spat out and rushed forward.
The three started fighting in the small booth. Feng Wu landed more than a dozen blows and kicked the men hard into the mural of the wall. They, who had entered thinking they were invincible against a little girl, were finally forced to quit and run away.
Only then did someone realize something was happening in one of the booths.
The person in charge sent a waiter to investigate. When the story came out about what happened, the staff could only apologize.
The food had been drugged. If it wasn’t for the one girl not succumbing to the drug, all three of them would have been abducted while in the restaurant. It was a big deal.
The person in charge comped their meal and gave them a VIP card as compensation to settle the matter.
The person that colluded with the kidnappers was caught and dealt with by the person in charge.
The person in charge also got some medicine for Xi and Annika so the two girls woke up.
The girls returned to the dorm but their faces weren’t good. Xi and Annika were nearly ruined by scoundrels so their hearts were still uneasy. They scolded the villains as they walked out of the restaurant, scolded them as they walked to the dorms, and didn’t stop scolding even after they reached the dorms.
Feng Wu was unphased and called Ming Xi the moment she returned to her room.
Although Ming Xi was back at school, the two still kept the habit of calling each other every night. Their night time calls were always long and lasted through the wee hours.
Ming Xi’s expression wasn’t good when he learned about the near abduction. He didn’t know who was behind it, but the list of suspects was very short. The most being suspicious person was his cousin, Hua Jin.
If it was her, then he was going to have to settle their debts, old and new. Hua Jin wasn’t going to get away with doing whatever she wanted.
Hua Jin had no idea her impression in Ming Xi’s hearts plummeted beyond repair. She was oblivious and still intent on taking over Feng Wu’s position.
At that moment, in a room inside Xingguang Holy academy, a beautiful man with auburn hair elegantly held a glass of red wine in his hand. In front of him one woman was singing a song, to the side another woman waited to refill his glass in between feeding him grapes, while another massaged his thighs with her slender hands. It was a hedonistic image.
Suddenly the man frowned and ordered, “Leave.”
“Yes.” All three women saluted and left. They went downstairs and with neutral expressions on their faces, greeted his roommates. They put on their cloaks and left amicably.
The three men left behind in the living room sighed and shook their heads.
“How is he so attractive to these women? This time it’s three at once. It’s amazing they didn’t have a cat fight.”
“If you had a family and money like him, you can have lots of women like that too. The girls around him are just there for money and power.” The person who answered had a lot of disdain in his voice.
“Aye, you’re just hateful about it because you’re jealous!”
“There’s nothing to be jealous over. All those women are just doing it for money. I don’t want women like that.”
“Let’s talk about something else.”
The three men stopped talking about other people’s girlfriends and changed topics.
Upstairs, the auburn-haired man had displeasure in his eyes.
“You failed.” His voice was calm without a hint of anger.
Despite this, the person on the other end of the line knew the man was angry. His face paled as he shrank his neck.
“Please give us another chance. This time we’ll succeed,” assured the man on the line.
“This is your last chance. If you fail again, you know my rules. I don’t keep useless people under me.” The auburn hair said casually.
The man on the other end only dared to wipe the cold sweat from his brow after hanging up the communication line. He was head of the mercenary group.
The people in his group were the bottom dregs of society who had done shameful things to live.
He was no exception, but he was lucky five years ago when a man he met gave him a large sum of money to form a mercenary group to handle shady business.
There were two ways for mercenary groups to get business. One was to go to the mercenary guild and pick up a task. Tasks were issued by families and individuals and varied in content.
Their group did not accept missions this way. The missions they accepted were from special underground channels that listed private tasks ordinary people would reject. The missions posted were always shady and never for anything good, but they paid well.
In the mercenary guild, a small task could pay a dozen gold coins, but in the underground, a small task could pay out several hundred gold coins. The bigger the task, the more the pay. It wasn’t impossible to earn several hundred million gold on a single big task.
It was easy to make good money if you didn’t have a conscience.
The only ones who knew their mercenary group was formed specifically to serve a special demonic and cruel young master were him, the head and deputy head. Every one else just thought they were a small mercenary group of ten.
562: Working with a Tiger
The auburn-haired man raised his cold eyes. It looked like he was in deep thought. Who knew what he was thinking.
“Why did you fail? Didn’t you say you would succeed?” Hua Jin yelled angrily at the other party on the end of the communication crystal.
The auburn-haired man frowned slightly and a hint of displeasure colored his eyes.
“I will help you get rid of that woman; you don’t have to be so anxious.” This disgusting girl. If he didn’t need the things she could get him, he would have already had her killed.
A pity he couldn’t kill her yet, not without getting what he wanted first. He had to endure a little longer.
“But you failed, didn’t you? What kind of trash do you have under your command? They couldn’t even beat a single second-year girl. . . ” Hua Jin complained loudly in her room to the person on the other end of the line. She was really fed up with Feng Wu.
Ming Xi returned to school suddenly but he hadn’t visited her. She only knew about him returning second hand from other people.
Most people at school didn’t know Ming Xi’s true identity, so in their eyes it wasn’t strange he wasn’t cozy with her. But in the eyes of those who did know, it was telling. They could see she wasn’t going to sit on the throne in the Ancient Silver Moon kingdom.
In their eyes, Hua Jin instantly became a joke and was no longer a coveted friend. What was she going to do once Ming Xi’s identity came out in the future? She had to resolve the whole Feng Wu thing soon or she would be a laughingstock!
She refused to be ridiculed! Her wish, ever since she was a little girl, was to be the most noble woman in the entire Ancient Silver Moon kingdom. She wanted all the women to bow down and kneel at her feet. Anyone who stood in the way of her dream had to be destroyed.
Before she knew it, Hua Jin’s descent to corruption was irreversible.
“When will Miss Hua Jin get me that item I wanted? I’ve already sent people to help you do what you requested, but I do not see the slightest movement on your end.” The auburn-haired man sneered slightly, murderous intent filled his cold eyes.
Hua Jin’s cursing mouth had no reply. She didn’t have high magical or martial strength, but even she could feel the killing intent in his eyes. If she didn’t give him what he wanted, she was afraid he would silently kill her. She had known when they first agreed to work together that he was perverted. But after Jia Moore backed down, she had no choice but to get involved with this guy, even though he was dangerous.
She took a deep breath to suppress the restlessness and uneasiness in her heart. “What are you worried about? That I’d lie to you? I will do as I promised; don’t worry about it.” Hua Jin hurriedly responded and ended the communication.
She let out an involuntary breath after she did so. This guys was too dangerous. Was she going to regret teaming up with him?
She didn’t know, but regardless whether she would regret it or not, she couldn’t turn back. If she failed to deliver on her promise to him, he would kill her.
Ming Xi was worried something would happen to Feng Wu, so for the next three days he wouldn’t allow her to leave campus willy nilly. The mercenary group trying to abduct her waited outside the school in vain. They couldn’t leave even though they wasted three days waiting.
It was the strangest thing. The task should have been a really easy one to complete. All they had to do was kidnap a little girl. How did things end up like this?
The stormy depression in their hearts spiraled more as the days passed. They had to complete the task, otherwise they had to repay the commission several times over. People willing to complete such shady tasks loved money like their own lives. Ask them to pay back the money? Hell no!
So even though they didn’t want to, they continued to wait outside the school gate.
The two brothers who were beaten by Feng Wu were really motivated. They had been scolded like dogs earlier when they went back empty handed.
Feng Wu didn’t know she was being targeted by the entire Hound Dog Mercenary group. Three days passed in the blink of an eye and the date for the wedding arrived.
Ming Xi helped Feng Wu ask for a leave of absence and took her back to a private villa outside the school where he normally stayed when he wanted a moment of peace and quiet. Only the people he trusted knew about it. Hua Jin obviously didn’t know.
The leave would prevent unnecessary confusion. No one knew how the duke took the girls away, so if a student suddenly disappeared, it was certain people would panic.
In order not to cause panic, Star Marshall hall kept the entire issue about the Duke of Blue Moon secret. Even the families with members who were previous victims of the duke kept their mouths shut.
The duke was too powerful for ordinary people to deal with.
Ming Xi taking Feng Wu out of school was a good move to keep the calm. What he didn’t account for, what he didn’t know, was that Feng Wu wasn’t the only girl in school who received an invitation.
Including Feng Wu, there were three girls.
It was impossible for Ming Xi to hide such a big event from the vice principal. Feng Ye was sent to the vice principal’s house for care. The vice principal reported the matter to the principal but the principal said he couldn’t do anything about the duke.
It wasn’t the first time the Duke of Blue Moon called for brides. He possessed powerful dimensional space magic and could teleport people instantly.
The principal and everyone else in the know had wondered whether the duke was a dimensional space god.
But since none of them had ever seen the duke in person, it was impossible to test the theory.
Feng Wu was sleeping in bed soundly, but once the clock struck midnight, her body transformed into small dots of lights and she disappeared.
Ming Xi was sitting beside her the entire time and watched as she disappeared. None of the barriers he set up around the premise did any good.