CH 89

Chapter 89: Leading the Snake Out of the Hole

“It’s Li Rong?” Shi Qingyang was shocked upon hearing this answer. Li Rong, as the mayor of Anhang City, had given him a very good impression. If Xing Ou was someone who acted according to the way the wind blew, bullying the weak and fearing the strong, then Li Rong gave people the impression that he was practical.

The person controlling the Yin Family from the shadows was Li Rong.

“Among the things Ao Zhi said after taking the medicine, there were also some other things mentioned. There shouldn’t be any falsehoods,” Cheng Xuze sighed. “Before, when Ao Zhi was climbing around and accusing others, he also mentioned Li Rong. At that time, Li Rong also cooperated well with the investigation… I had always thought he was a good man, but I didn’t expect something like this. Moreover, according to Ao Zhi, Li Rong had also hired those people who hunted down Xiao Ran and Shi Qingyang.”

“Why?” Shi Qingyang typed a word.

“At the beginning, I was also very puzzled, but later I thought of the reason. In this election, Cheng Hong would have been Li Rong’s competitor. If anything happened to you, under his operations, Cheng Hong wouldn’t even be able to think about being the city mayor because of the scandal. At the same time, Xing Ou was under criticism, and the Yin Family could also take advantage of the situation to win over Spark City.” Although Cheng Xuze had gone through many twists and turns, he focused more on improving his strength. He believed that as long as his strength was enough, he would obtain all he needed. However, he hadn’t thought much about these other matters of power. Now he found that he had neglected this subject.

Shi Qingyang was worse than Cheng Xuze. He knew very well how to improve his strength, but he was completely blind about political matters. Now, knowing this reason, he only wished to cut Li Rong into eight pieces: “In this case, we should catch Li Rong quickly.”

“I’m afraid we can’t.” Cheng Xuze had an ugly expression: “That kind of medicine is very domineering. Ao Zhi became delirious after taking it once. Although we videotaped the situation at that time, Ao Zhi in his present appearance obviously can’t be used to testify against others. As for the video… If Ao Zhi didn’t admit anything at the start, it might have been useful to release. But Ao Zhi had accused so many people before, and Li Rong was once one of the people pointed out by him. How could such a video be useful?”

Li Rong had many chess pieces in play, which was very useful for obscuring that Li Rong was the real mastermind behind the scenes. At least, even now that they had such information, they still couldn’t get testimony against Li Rong.

Shi Qingyang didn’t type. Cheng Xuze looked at the black square of the computer because Not Starving refused to join the video call and sighed: “Besides, this medicine is too overbearing and is a prohibited product. Although I used it, I can never let others know that about it, nor can I use it in front of others.”

“Is there nothing we can do?” Shi Qingyang asked again.

“Not necessarily. Didn’t you say before to lead the snake out of the cave? I originally wanted to drag the matter out and hold the Yin Family and Ao Zhi in hand to force the hidden power to reveal themselves, but I hadn’t expected there to be no response at all after a month… Li Rong was too calm before. He should have been sure that we couldn’t find evidence, but if he knew that Ao Zhi had confessed now, I’m afraid he wouldn’t be so calm. I can still follow what Ao Zhi said to find more information and check him out. First, beat the snake, and then lead the snake out of its hole. ” Cheng Xuze finally got a little confidence: “I don’t believe he won’t respond after knowing that Ao Zhi called him out and I’ve locked onto the target!”

This plan was to wait for Li Rong to continue to commit wrongdoings. If they made good arrangements, the results surely wouldn’t be bad. Shi Qingyang was relieved at last. After thinking for a while, he suddenly wrote another line: “Cheng Xuze, are you interested in investing? At the moment there is a very good project, and you can earn a lot from investing…”

Shi Qingyang wasn’t a pharmacist; the prescriptions he could write down were the ones that were useful to him. He didn’t pay much attention to others. Therefore, for over a year, he couldn’t come up with any more prescriptions. In contrast, Cheng Ran and Ran Xue had studied and improved several prescriptions so that the Cheng family could put them into production.

However, it was just prescriptions he didn’t know more on. He still knew what would make a lot of money in the future. For example, a kind of material accidentally created by an old master in a factory would have a great impact in the future.

The master was an ordinary man. He worked in a factory that manufactured battle helmets, and was responsible for the material configuration of transparent masks. The mask produced by this factory was of very good quality, and the materials used were similar to those used to make the city’s protective cover. However, the master made a mistake and unexpectedly synthesized the wrong materials.

At that time, he was very afraid. In order to avoid being criticized, he bought a lot of materials that he had failed to make and took them home. He felt that he was unlucky. However, he did not know that the so-called failed product was actually a transparent new material, and the radiation protection effect and hardness of this new material were far better than those used today.

This new type of material wasn’t discovered until the death of the unknown master ten years later. His neighbor inadvertently took the material found in his place to identify it. Later, those battle helmets and protective covers of mobile towns were all replaced with this material. If it wasn’t for the high cost of replacing the city’s protective covers, then even the city’s covers would be replaced with it.

“What kind of investment?” Cheng Xuze immediately asked.

Shi Qingyang briefly talked about this matter and said: “This isn’t really an investment. You can ask someone to buy this technology with some money.”

Cheng Xuze was surprised and curious: “Master Not Starving, how did you find out about this?”

“Some of my agents told me,” Shi Qingyang lied.

“Master, why don’t you…” Cheng Xuze frowned. Since the Huofeng Company incident, he had categorized ‘I don’t want to starve’ as a member of a large family. In this case, why did he not give his family such good things?

“I don’t have any relatives anymore, let alone that this isn’t for you. You should give Shi Qingyang and Cheng Ran a total of 50% of the shares. Of course, you can sign an agreement to have them not participate in the management of the company, just treat it as becoming shareholders of the technology,” Shi Qingyang directly said.

Technology shares or something… ahem, he just said it this way to cheaply take advantage of it, as it would definitely be very profitable. As for that master, he thought Cheng Xuze would not treat him badly.

Even if he himself wanted to enter such a business, he couldn’t do it now. If the Cheng family hadn’t had two level-8 radiation warriors, he was afraid they wouldn’t be able to control the market situation.

“Cheng Ran?” Cheng Xuze looked at that line in surprise and said. ‘I don’t want to starve’ was good to Shi Qingyang, he’d known this for a long time. But how could there be Cheng Ran’s name there too?

“That’s right, Cheng Ran. Cheng Ran’s birthday is coming up. He also plans to marry Shi Qingyang. This is my wedding gift to them. Each of them will hold 25% of the shares,” Shi Qingyang said. Cheng Ran was two months younger than him, and his birthday was coming soon.

Originally, he’d always thought it was ridiculous to register for marriage as soon as one became an adult. Even in his last life, he was believer of late marriage. But now… Late marriage and other such things were all floating clouds. He hoped that he could be with Cheng Ran in an open and aboveboard manner.

Cheng Xuze was still struggling with Li Rong just now, but he didn’t expect that the other party would change topics so quickly that he almost couldn’t keep up.

However, by this time, he didn’t feel anything about Shi Qingyang and Cheng Ran, and he vaguely felt that Cheng Ran was lucky.

At the same time, touched by Cheng Ran’s light, his own luck was pretty good.

The next day, Shi Qingyang went out to hunt and exercise as usual, and Wang Qing followed them as usual.

When Cheng Xuze asked Wang Qing to follow Shi Qingyang and the others, Wang Qing also planned to teach them well when Shi Qingyang and the others encountered problems that they did not understand. However, he’d obviously thought too much – Shi Qingyang did not need his teaching at all. As for the others, the training methods given by Shi Qingyang were good enough.

After seeing that after fat man of the Zheng family was forced by Shi Qingyang, he was able to rely on the good quality of his battle suit to use his own body to crush the beasts to death, he was even more impressed.

Of course, in addition to admiration, he also inevitably began to stay far away from Zheng Gaoyuan – the mutant beasts that Shi Qingyang made Zheng Gaoyuan kill these days were very disgusting!

They were so disgusted that they all hid from Zheng Gaoyuan, and Zheng Gaoyuan, who was greedy for meat all day, and began to stop clamoring to eat meat.

Of course, among all these people, Wang Qing was most concerned about Cheng Ran. After discovering that Cheng Ran had made such great progress, his opinions on Cheng Hong were even greater.

Shi Qingyang trained as usual every day, leaving the city in the early morning and returning to the city in the evening. During this period, Anhang City suddenly settled down.

Since the mobile town was discovered, many people in cities such as Spark City and Anhang City had been imprisoned. The follow-up investigation still hasn’t stopped. The entirety of Anhang City had a feeling of fear and trepidation, and even Yangtze City had been implicated.

However, recently, this feeling had disappeared. Although the investigation was still continuing, it often gave people a perfunctory feeling, which made many people who were listed as suspects breathe a sigh of relief.

However, other people were relieved, but Li Rong felt worse day by day, because he felt that the investigation team from Yangtze City, after relaxing its investigation on others, was watching him closely.

All the evidence that should have been destroyed was destroyed, and Ao Zhi would not reveal him. He also brought out some evidence that he had prepared long ago showing that he had a quarrel with the Yin Family, and that the testimony of the Yin Family couldn’t be easily trusted. Yet somehow, those people still suspected him.

Not only that, the direction of those people’s investigation was very clear. For example, the contact point he arranged to contact the mobile town had been investigated several times. Fortunately, he had already destroyed everything that should have been destroyed

After logging into a junk website full of advertisements, clicking one of the advertisements, and then entering a specific account password on the page that required registration, Li Rong entered a website. He entered a string of numbers on it. A dialog box popped up.

He was a very cautious person. He had different contact methods for different people. This was the contact place between him and one of his subordinates, who was following the judicial officer of Yangtze City to investigate the mobile town.

Before, he had only contacted this subordinate once, and the information he got was favorable to him, so he did not contact him anymore. However, the recent situation was so bad that he had to click here again.

The video call was soon started. Li Rong looked at the environment behind the man and determined that it was safe. Finally, he asked, “How is he?” He asked precisely about Ao Zhi.

“I haven’t seen him for several days. Six days ago, Cheng Xuze came here. I don’t know what he said to that person. After that, that person went under protection. I haven’t seen him again.” There was some anxiety on the face opposite.

“What about the others?”

“No one else has seen him. He seems to be guarded tightly. Moreover, Cheng Xuze visits him every day these days.”

“Do you know why?” Li Rong asked again.

“I didn’t get anything useful.” The man opposite shook his head.

Li Rong frowned and thought of something else: “What about the other group?” This time he was referring to the Yin Family.

“Those people have been pressed hard recently, and they are also a little unstable… The judicial officer of Yangtze City wanted to close the case earlier a few days ago, but Cheng Xuze disagreed and is still dragging it on. Moreover, Cheng Xuze has visited them several times.”

“I see.” Li Rong quickly closed the website and then cleaned up all traces.

However, after doing so, he became more worried. When the matter first came out, he actually thought about looking for a scapegoat. Unfortunately, he was worried that he would self-incriminate and be found guilty, so he did not do so. He just planned to wait until the matter subsided.

The Yin Family had fully confessed to the crime, and he also provided evidence of his disagreement with the Yin Family so that they could not testify against him. Ao Zhi would not say anything, and had received anti-torture training…

The authorities above were pushing hard for this case, and it was necessary to settle the case quickly and stabilize people’s minds. Under such circumstances, it was reasonable not to continue to investigate further, but somehow, Cheng Xuze unexpectedly insisted…

Li Rong’s eyebrows were getting tighter and tighter. Judging from the current situation, it was clear that Ao Zhi sold him. Just letting Ao Zhi’s mother die was really letting him off easy!

Ao Zhi no longer had any use. The Yin Family would not last long. If these people came to testify against him…

It was obviously very hot in this room, but Li Rong only felt cold.

Today, the sky was mostly gray, and it was not easy to see the sun. However, today, the sun appeared in the sky very rarely.

Shi Qingyang watched as Cheng Ran run while working with Ye Jinyu to kill a locust beast using a gun. He smiled: “Everyone, go back to the mobile fortress to eat. You have an hour’s rest time. When the time comes, start exercising!”

Today, they went to this grassland to deal with locusts and grasshoppers, and now they had reaped a big bounty.

“I’m going to die…” Zheng Gaoyuan, who was digging up locust eggs, suddenly fell to the ground, crushing a large patch of grass, growing still as he laid on his back.

“For the sake of your hard work today, I planned to open a meat banquet for you. Since you prefer to lie down…” Shi Qingyang looked at Zheng Gaoyuan with a smile.

Who knew what was wrong with Zheng Gaoyuan. Now he worked hard when hunting and exercising, but after, he immediately laid on the ground…

In the beginning, he would have been kind enough to carry this guy back, but these days he didn’t want to anymore.

“I’ll get up!” Zheng Gaoyuan rolled, first lying on the ground, then “wheezing” to get up: “What can I eat at noon?” Vegetable dumplings which were completely nutritious, with no oil and only water, were definitely the food he hated most, with no equal!

“You dug up a lot of locust eggs today, so I’ll let you taste them,” Shi Qingyang smiled and said. Today Zheng Gaoyuan first held the grasshopper beast’s legs, helping others hunt down the grasshopper beast. Later, he dug out many grasshopper eggs and performed very well.

Zheng Gaoyuan’s eyes lit up immediately. He had eaten locust eggs before and thought they tasted ordinary, but now he couldn’t help drooling.

Shi Qingyang was still very good, he didn’t go too far. He was at least willing to give him meat…

Zheng Gaoyuan was full of expectation and happily sat at the table, waiting for his locust eggs to be brought up. But when the staff on the mobile fortress came up, he looked left and right, but he did not see what he wanted: “Where are the locust eggs?”

“In your soup,” Shi Qingyang smiled and said. “Today, the cook made a vegetable soup with locust eggs. Before the meat was put in, he gave you a bowl.”

What they eat was fried meat. Even if there was meat in the soup, as for Zheng Gaoyuan… It was his “show of mercy” to have some small pieces of egg drop in his soup.

Zheng Gaoyuan was angry but dared not speak out. He stared at the food in front of the others, and took several bites of his own dumplings, spending a lot of time with a spoon to find some small pieces of egg drops. “I will never believe you again! You’re just a lying, deceiving person!”

“Really? I originally wanted to say that tomorrow would be a holiday…”

“Vacation?” Zheng Gaoyuan was stunned. He had been squeezed for over a month. Shi Qingyang never let him rest. How could he have a sudden holiday now?

“Didn’t you say I was lying?”

“What do you mean? You always keep your word! No, you said you’d give me meat, and then I got to eat locust eggs!” Zheng Gaoyuan immediately raised the spoon in his hand to show the egg flower inside. After being oppressed for a long time, he finally awakened his flattery skills.

“We’ll have a day off tomorrow.” Shi Qingyang smiled.

“What day is tomorrow?” Wang Qing asked curiously.

“Tomorrow is my birthday,” Cheng Ran suddenly said. He had been thinking about this matter recently and would never forget it.

“Yes, we’ll get married tomorrow!” Shi Qingyang immediately spoke, fearing that Cheng Ran would say it first.

Although it was too early to hold a wedding, it was no problem to register in advance.

“Is there a wedding banquet?” Zheng Gaoyuan stared at Shi Qingyang fervently and swallowed his drool.