My Wife, The Ice Queen President

Chapter 167: Chapter 0167: Chen Xiao’s Investigation Results (Second Update)_1
 

Yu picked up the phone, and Zhang Meng’s voice came through.

“Brother Yu, how did it go, did you take care of that kid?” Zhang Meng asked anxiously.

Although Zhang Meng hadn’t personally taken action in this assassination, only mediating the deal, Dong Xuan had promised him a million in reward, so he was incredibly excited and couldn’t help but call to inquire.

Motherfucker.

In his heart, Yu cursed every one of Zhang Meng’s ancestors. If it hadn’t been for this bastard, would he have ended up in this uncertain life-or-death plight?

“It’s done,” Yu was forced to respond.

“Brother Yu is so fierce, as expected with you on the job, there’s nothing that can’t be resolved.” On the other end of the line, Zhang Meng was incomparably thrilled. “I’ll call the employer to make sure she gets the rest of the money ready.”

After that, he hung up in a hurry.

After hanging up the phone, Ye Xiong asked indifferently, “Did you just say you know the inside story of the Demon Hunting Operation from back then?”

“Yes, that year…”

Before he could finish, a flash of blade light, a streak of blood sprayed from his neck.

Yu clutched his throat tightly, not understanding why his opponent knew he wanted to retract the lie even as he died.

“Even the Dragon Leader and Chen Xiao couldn’t find out the truth about that event, and you, just a lowly fellow, claim to know? Before you try deceiving me next time, you better train your gaze,” Ye Xiong snorted coldly.

After wiping the blood off the dagger on his clothes and putting it away, Ye Xiong then took out his phone to call Yang Xinyi.

Among the three, Yang Xinyi was the calmest.

“Don’t make a sound, just listen to me until I finish. Go somewhere they can’t hear you,” Ye Xiong instructed.

Yang Xinyi had been pacing anxiously with the other three women on the spot, and now that she knew he was alright, she breathed a sigh of relief.

Only at this moment did she realize just how important Ye Xiong was to her.

If he had died, she didn’t know what she would have done.

“Speak,” Yang Xinyi said, suppressing the excitement in her heart.

“Have you called the police?” Ye Xiong asked.

“I wanted to call, but Tang Ning stopped me; she said you could handle it,” Yang Xinyi replied.

“In half an hour, you call the police. My being alive mustn’t be known to Tang Ning and Yangyang. I have some things to do and can’t expose myself for now,” Ye Xiong instructed.

“Be careful.”

“I won’t have any trouble.”

“If anything happens to you, I’ll never forgive you for the rest of my life,” Yang Xinyi said solemnly.

People only understand their hearts during crucial times.

“I haven’t made up with you or apologized yet, so I won’t have any trouble,” Ye Xiong said, becoming a bit emotional.

He had thought that Yang Xinyi had become indifferent towards him, even hateful, but now it seemed that was all just a front.

That one sentence had completely exposed her heart.

She was like a hedgehog that had defensively curled up on the outside.

“We’ll be waiting for you to come back,” Yang Xinyi hung up the phone.

In the woods, a gentle night breeze blew.

The suppressed heaviness in Ye Xiong’s heart eased.

There was nothing more important than knowing Yang Xinyi’s true feelings.

He determined in his heart that he must live well, no matter what, and absolutely not let down the woman he loved.

Looking at Yu’s body on the ground, Ye Xiong squatted down and searched him. After a few minutes, he found a small piece next to his knee in the flesh.

He pulled out his dagger and cut out the piece of flesh, scraping out a tracker the size of a mung bean.

“As expected, he implanted a body temperature detector. It seems they weren’t lying; he is one of the Dragon Group,” Ye Xiong muttered.

The so-called body temperature detector was a high-tech method of the Dragon Group. Once a member died and their body temperature dropped below the danger threshold, the Dragon Group’s technical monitoring center would sound an alert to indicate the member’s death and locate the body immediately.

This device, linked to the individual’s DNA, would be useless to remove and preserve warmth since without a living body’s DNA, it would still trigger an alert.

It was one of the Dragon Group’s most advanced technologies.

According to the timing, the Dragon Group should be able to find the body within half an hour, which is why Ye Xiong had told Yang Xinyi to call the police after half an hour.

By the time the police arrived, they wouldn’t find anything.

Capital City, underground ten levels deep.

Huaxia Dragon Group headquarters, control center.

Beep beep.

On the computer screen, an alarm went off, with two spots flickering incessantly.

The female operator in control rapidly opened up the spots, looking at the data.

“Code name Chen, code name Yu, body temperature abnormalities detected, notify the Dragon Leader immediately.”

A staff member made a phone call to inquire.

“Dragon Leader’s order: Capital City Dragon Scale members, Wind, Thunder, head immediately to the destination to investigate.”

“Dragon Leader’s order: Capital City Dragon Scale members, Wind, Thunder, head immediately to the destination to investigate.”

Orders cascaded down the chain.

Fifteen minutes later, Wind and Thunder appeared in the pine forest.

The two began to inspect the scene.

Wind and Thunder, former members of Dragon Soul, had their code names changed after Long Zaitian took over.

Members of the Dragon Group all used code names, with no one knowing their real names.

Just like Ye Xiong, whose code name was Reaper.

Long Zaitian liked simple, direct words; all members were addressed by a single syllable.

Long Tianya, on the other hand, preferred to use personal traits for code names.

“Stabbed through the chest with a dagger, plunged straight in, not done by hand, the victim had no power to resist…” Thunder concluded after his investigation, “Chen was killed with a Flying Dagger.”

“There’s mud on the knees, he had knelt before he died, it seems he had begged for mercy, the neck is neatly cut, he was killed at close range.”

Both men stood up simultaneously.

“Wind, we’re dealing with a top-tier expert,” Thunder said as he took off his gloves.

“It’s been a long time since we encountered someone this formidable. I really hope we get a chance to see them in action,” Wind remarked.

Each carrying a corpse, they vanished from the woods in an instant.

No sooner had they left than the sound of police sirens could be heard in the distance.

Ye Xiong found a place to sleep for the night, during which Tang Ning and Yangyang’s calls bombarded his phone. To avoid startling the snake, he didn’t answer.

At three in the afternoon, Chen Xiao’s call came punctually. If it hadn’t come through, Ye Xiong would have called himself.

In a few more hours, the grand jewelry exhibition of Jianghai Group would begin.

“Where are you?” Chen Xiao asked.

Ye Xiong gave his room number, and within ten minutes, Chen Xiao arrived, holding a file, some photos, and a USB drive.

“All of Dong Xuan’s information is in here. I’ve checked her ancestry eighteen generations back, even how many men she’s slept with—I found out quite a bit. Take a look for yourself.”

Ye Xiong went to the computer, reviewed the data, and filtered out valuable information.

Seeing the information he had gathered, Ye Xiong was inwardly stunned.

Chen Xiao’s ability could only be described in two words: against the heavens.

In just one day, he had collected such complete information. Without a powerful network of connections, this would have been impossible.

What’s the hallmark of an intelligence operative?

It’s not martial arts or intelligence, but that all-encompassing, omnipresent network of relationships.

“Why did you kill Dragon Group’s people? Aren’t you just asking for trouble?” Chen Xiao was speechless.

“You knew?”

“How could I not know?”

“With two members of Dragon Group killed in their stronghold, Capital City, the entire Capital City’s Dragon Group is in chaos now. Long Zaitian has deployed Wind and Thunder, two Dragon Scale members, to find the killer. I believe it won’t be long before they trace it back to you,” Chen Xiao reprimanded him. “By doing this, aren’t you clearly picking a fight with Long Zaitian? Do you know how much he values face?”

“Should I have let them kill me? They came for my life,” Ye Xiong snorted coldly, “If I really come face to face with Long Zaitian, I have to ask him what he’s turned Dragon Group into. Now its members are running around as assassins for hire—what kind of leader is he?”