Astounded!

Shen Qiang stared blankly at the Flying Sword that had broken into four pieces and fallen to the ground, his mind filled with the image of a thread slicing the space into blocks.

Bizarre! Terrifyingly powerful!

Just as Shen Qiang was feeling shocked, he heard a crisp, young woman's voice admiring him, "Shen Qiang, you really do have enviable talent and abilities, but it's a pity you're such a fool. With such terrifying disaster-level abilities, being pressured by a Yin God Realm Sword Cultivator to this extent, tsk tsk, you really are exceptionally incompetent."

Was he being despised?

Shen Qiang was furious, "Who are you? Come out!"

The crisp female voice giggled, "Why? Planning to control an illness to strike back at me? I won't give you the chance to ambush me. As a girl, I cannot allow myself to be caught with a runny nose and pants down."

Shen Qiang took a deep breath, another deep breath, and yet another deep breath.

"Stay calm, this woman, although mocking, is one of us. Otherwise, she wouldn't have intervened to save me. No need to ask, it's certain she's a member of the Dragon Group, possibly the executor of the new protector scheme, or maybe someone who received Qian Shanxue's message and came to help, but regardless, she saved me."

Considering this, Shen Qiang said, "Please be assured, I will not ambush you. I just want to meet you to express my thanks."

The crisp female voice chuckled lightly, "If you really want to thank me, then cultivate as fast as you can to the Nascent Soul Stage. Then, I will be free."

Shen Qiang's eyes lit up.

Cultivate to the Nascent Soul Stage quickly?

Isn't this the Dragon Group's new protector scheme?

"I understand, you're on a mission, but one thing at a time. You saved me, and I don't want to owe you. Do you need Elixir Pills, Magical Treasures, Secret Manuals, or maybe money, real estate, cars? Whatever you need, just say it, and I, Shen Qiang, will do my best."

After hearing this, the woman was silent for a moment before giggling, "You really are a very pragmatic person, it's just a pity you can't give me what I want."

"How do you know I can't give it if you don't say what it is?"

The woman giggled, "Beauty, can you give that?"

"No problem!" Shen Qiang declared decisively, "I am the best cosmetic surgeon. With just a picture, I can make you look however you want."

After a long silence, the woman said softly, "Would that still be me?"

Shen Qiang paused.

Just then, a distant siren was heard.

The woman said, "Shen Qiang, you should leave. Someone else will handle this situation; your presence isn't needed."

As Shen Qiang nodded in agreement,

The chat in the livestream, which had long been stopped, exploded with messages.

"Damn, He Pansy shut down the livestream because he was angry, it's been a while, and he doesn't answer calls; could something have happened?"

"Haha, if there's trouble, it's Shen Qiang who's in trouble. With He Pansy's Golden Core Stage cultivation and a Yin God Realm master by his side, if I had to guess, He Pansy probably got mad and is now beating up Shen Qiang."

"Hahaha, I would want to beat him too. He Pansy set up such a big scene just to prove that his bone setting skills were better than Shen Qiang's. Yet, Shen Qiang managed to utterly confuse him."

"Despicable! Shameless! Dirty! Lowest of the low! Bastard! How dare you mess with my grandmaster uncle, He Pansy, you're dead! I'm calling up family experts right now, if I don't flay you alive, you can write my name, Zhong Yongxi, backwards, just you wait!"

...

Five minutes later.

Standing on a street not far from the abandoned logistics center slated for demolition, Shen Qiang watched as Ding Yuhuan was loaded into an ambulance.

At that moment, his phone rang. It was a call from Qian Shanxue.

"How are you doing?"

Qian Shanxue's voice was very cold.

Shen Qiang let out a sigh and said, "Everything's been taken care of."

"Oh," Qian Shanxue replied. "Then I'll hang up."

Shen Qiang frowned and said, "Wait, I have something I want to ask you about."

"Speak," Qian Shanxue was still succinct and clear.

"Well... there's a woman, her voice very crisp, probably very young. She uses a silk thread, very powerful. Who is she? What's her name? What's her position? Is she very ugly? How old is she? Has she always been so fierce? What stage has her cultivation reached?"

This series of questions made Qian Shanxue on the other end of the line fall silent for a moment, then she said, "She belongs to the Dark Department, her identity information is confidential, and I don't know much about her. Besides, since she protected you, your safety shouldn't be a problem. Why ask so many questions?"

Shen Qiang frowned and said, "She's too fierce, and I don't want to owe her any favors, so tell me what you know. I need to repay this favor first."

"After repaying the favor, do you plan not to give her any more face?" Qian Shanxue's tone seemed to be laughing, but it was inexplicably eerie.

Shen Qiang took a deep breath and said, "That's my personal matter."

Qian Shanxue was silent for a moment and then said, "I don't know much about her, but when we were at Dragon Nest, she was a year junior to me. I remember her number was 973A, a kid who still wet the bed at eight years old. Later, she went to the Dark Department, where all identity information is kept confidential, and she only has a codename, Xiu Ju."

Shen Qiang was astonished, "Are you sure she was a kid who still wet the bed at eight?"

"Yes," Qian Shanxue's tone inexplicably softened, "Back then, those classmates from the north used to call her 'Bed-Wetter Sprite'."

This news made Shen Qiang laugh. After a moment of silence, Shen Qiang asked, "Is she very strong? What stage has her cultivation reached?"

Qian Shanxue replied, "Not sure, back then, she was mocked for wetting her bed, so she was somewhat reclusive, always sitting alone in a corner with her ugly doll."

"Doll?" Shen Qiang's eyes lit up.

"Yes, a very ugly one, missing a leg. She carried it with her all day, talked to it, and liked to make endless clothes for it."

Shen Qiang was stunned.

Reclusive girl? Likes dolls? Makes clothes for dolls all day?

Damn it!

Isn't she the one at my house making clothes for Jin Chan and Qingxuan?

"There was this one time, I remember a boy from class 97A seems to have thrown her doll on the ground and then stepped on it. She got angry; apparently, the commotion was quite big, but no one really knows what happened. After that, she went to the Dark Department, and now that I think about it, I applied several times to go to the Dark Department and never got through, but she went directly. Maybe she's a really scary person, possibly even more formidable than me."

Listening to Qian Shanxue's murmurs, Shen Qiang's brow twitched.

Could it be her, the one making clothes for Jin Chan and Qingxuan?

After hesitating for a moment, Shen Qiang asked nervously, "Is she particularly ugly?"

Qian Shanxue was surprised: "Ugly? I don't think so, she's quite good-looking, it's just that she has a lot of freckles on her face..."

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