Chapter 184 : Chapter 184
Chapter 184: Righteous or Evil?
Li Mu was startled.
An Xing had called him directly by his position, which meant there were other people beside him.
Could the people looking for Li Mu at a time like this be from the Liang Family?
Li Mu estimated that it was probably them.
However, Li Mu was very puzzled. Logically speaking, An Xing did not need to fear the Liang Family either.
There should have been no need for him to call Li Mu in front of them.
“I’ll come over now.”
After saying that, Li Mu hung up.
He stepped forward and pinched Wang Yinhuan’s chin. “I have something to handle. Go back to the Research Institute first.”
“No. I’ll wait for you here.”
Wang Yinhuan saw that Li Mu’s expression had turned somewhat serious and knew that he definitely could not bring her along.
She also had no intention of causing trouble, but she had to wait here. Otherwise, she would not feel at ease.
“All right.”
Li Mu smiled and did not say anything more. Then he quickly left the Instructor Department.
When he arrived at the Commander-in-Chief’s Office, Li Mu headed straight for the Deputy Commander-in-Chief’s office.
There were actually some senior patrol guards standing in this office area, and they all saluted Li Mu and greeted him.
Farther inside, there were also several officers with fairly high combat strength. When they saw Li Mu arrive, they entered the office with him.
As soon as he entered, he saw quite a few officers from Wanren Military District inside.
An Xing stood by the door.
In the open space in the middle, there were two corpses and one man who still had signs of life but was unconscious.
One of the corpses was none other than the Man with Glasses from the Lu Family!
Li Mu narrowed his eyes slightly and looked toward An Xing.
An Xing first signaled for someone to close the door.
Only then did he say to the group of unfamiliar faces standing opposite him, “Tiger Marquis Li is here. Speak for yourselves.”
Li Mu followed his gaze.
Seven or eight sturdy men in civilian clothes stood opposite them.
Without exception, every one of these civilian-clothed martial artists had a long saber hanging at his waist.
The leader of these civilian-clothed martial artists was a middle-aged man in his forties. Judging from the aura of his cultivation, Li Mu sensed that he was at least at the Fourth or Fifth Grade of the Profound Rank!
He was only a little weaker than An Xing.
The middle-aged man first sized up Li Mu, then cupped his hands slightly.
“Tiger Marquis Li, my name is Liang Jianxin. I am the Hall Master of the Liang Family’s Law Enforcement Hall!”
“Last night, the Lu Family came to our Liang Family and said they wanted to join forces with us to assassinate Tiger Marquis Li.”
“We have preserved evidence of every conversation during that meeting.”
“The Lu Family’s strongest combatant was also present at the time. We demanded that they submit to the law, but the Lu Family refused and resisted. However, they were killed on the spot by my family.”
“Afterward, we sent people to help the military district control the other Lu Family members, as well as the Old Master of the Lu Family in East Medicine Valley.”
“This person is one of the Lu Family’s current holders of authority. He is not dead yet. We will leave the specifics to the military district for interrogation.”
“We ask the military district to send people over as soon as possible to take custody of them and make arrests.”
“This is the evidence of their proposal to murder Tiger Marquis Li.”
The middle-aged man pointed at the unconscious person at the far side as he spoke, then took out a small USB drive and handed it to An Xing.
An Xing reached out to take it, then passed it to Li Mu.
At this moment, even Li Mu was somewhat dazed.
The Lu Family had gone to the Liang Family to plot against him, and the Liang Family had directly killed the Lu Family members and sent them over?
This situation seemed to have become rather messy.
However, Li Mu still reached out and accepted the USB drive.
“What reason did the Lu Family use to ask you to cooperate in assassinating me?”
Li Mu’s question struck straight to the heart of the matter.
It was impossible for the Liang Family not to know about the spirit tree.
Of all people, the Lu Family had sought out the Liang Family for cooperation. The only possible bait they could have used was the matter of Li Mu seizing the Liang Family’s spirit tree.
Why the Liang Family was siding with Li Mu was something Li Mu had to clarify.
Liang Jianxin’s expression did not change. He said very frankly, “They said Tiger Marquis Li had seized my Liang Family’s spirit tree.”
“This matter has no evidence, only empty words. My Liang Family does not acknowledge it.”
“But assassinating a military officer with military achievements is a crime punishable by death. We were also afraid that the Lu Family would flee because of this.”
“So our methods were somewhat excessive. We ask the military district for understanding.”
After Liang Jianxin finished speaking, he looked straight at Li Mu.
Li Mu truly could not see through the Liang Family’s actions.
He could only nod.
“Good! Thank you to the Liang Family for your righteous act. We will immediately send people to take over the Lu Family and interrogate them.”
“Then we will take our leave first.”
Liang Jianxin cupped his hands again and directly led the people behind him out of the office.
An Xing and the others also made way for them.
Today’s matter was truly too strange. No one had yet fully wrapped their head around it.
But they could not possibly stop the Liang Family either. Everything would have to wait until they had reviewed the evidence and interrogated the Lu Family.
Liang Jianxin led his people to the door.
Then he suddenly stopped.
He turned back and said to Li Mu, “Right.”
“Tiger Marquis Li, my family’s patriarch asked me to pass along a few words to you.”
“Please speak!” Li Mu turned and looked at him.
Liang Jianxin said, “Although my Liang Family is not some famous great clan, we still have our own bottom line.”
“And that is that we will never become enemies of the Abyss-Suppression Army.”
“If there is anything you need the Liang Family for, you may come to the Liang Family for a discussion.”
“My Liang Family will certainly prepare wine to welcome Tiger Marquis Li, and assist you in firmly establishing yourself in Linyuan City.”
Li Mu nodded.
“Thank you.”
“Farewell.”
After Liang Jianxin said this, he quickly led his people away.
Only after the Liang Family members left did Li Mu and An Xing exchange a glance. There was also confusion in An Xing’s eyes.
“Arrest them all first,” Li Mu said as he took out his phone and called Lu Chenfeng.
The current Lu Chenfeng was the Acting Minister of the First Branch under Zhongshan District Headquarters.
After arranging the arrests, they also took the unconscious man into custody.
An Xing dismissed everyone else. He did not notify Hong Liangpeng about this either. Instead, he opened the USB drive together with Li Mu.
Inside the USB drive, they could see that it was a surveillance clip from the Liang Family.
The surveillance footage showed the Lu Family’s second son, the Man with Glasses, and a muscular mute man arriving at the Liang Family together yesterday.
At the beginning, they were still asking about the Liang Family’s spirit tree. Later, the more they spoke, the more direct they became.
In the footage, the Liang Family’s patriarch appeared to be around seventy years old.
Step by step, he followed the Lu Family members’ intentions and made them state their purpose clearly.
Only after the Lu Family stated their true goal and said they wanted to join forces with the Liang Family to assassinate Li Mu did the Liang Family directly advise them to abandon that idea and immediately surrender themselves to the law.
Of course, the Lu Family members refused. They said that they would pretend today’s matter had never happened and tried to leave.
The Liang Family stopped them. The Lu Family’s mute burly man attacked, intending to protect the two of them as they broke out.
Unexpectedly, several members of the Liang Family instantly killed him.
After watching the video, Li Mu and An Xing still could not make sense of it no matter how they thought about it.
“Could it be that the Liang Family truly has no resentment at all over the spirit tree being taken?”
Li Mu was genuinely puzzled.
An Xing looked at him irritably. So now you admit that you took it?
However, he was also puzzled. “Perhaps the Liang Family feels that they cannot afford to offend you, so they are showing goodwill?”
Li Mu slowly shook his head.
“How much do you know about the Liang Family?”
An Xing thought for a moment, then explained the Liang Family’s situation to Li Mu in detail.
The Liang Family was a great hereditary clan. Because its bloodline was unusual, it maintained a polygamous system.
It was all for the sake of propagating the bloodline, so its bloodline had spread very widely.
Once there were many branches, things became increasingly chaotic.
Some people whose bloodlines were relatively distant from the main ancestral line were also extremely strong. Relying on their personal strength, these people also held considerable status.
Therefore, the Liang Family had continued to maintain certain identity systems such as “elders,” “hall masters,” and “protectors.”
There were already several dozen people in the ruling generation alone, and basically all of them were above the Profound Rank!
Below them, there were at least a thousand people in the current middle-aged and young generations!
It was a standard famous and powerful clan.
In Linyuan City, it belonged to the first tier of families.
After hearing this, Li Mu asked An Xing, “You said that the Liang Family previously intended to reach its hand into the Abyss-Suppression Army.”
“That’s right!”
Li Mu then said, “Before Liang Jianxin left just now, he said they had their own bottom line and would absolutely never oppose the Abyss-Suppression Army.”
“He also said they wanted to help me firmly establish myself in Linyuan City.”
“If they truly wanted to deal with me, there was no need for them to kill the Lu Family members and bring them here.”
“The effect of alerting the enemy would outweigh the benefit of gaining trust! And there would have been absolutely no need to say those two sentences.”
“But if what they said was true...”
Li Mu’s words were filled with deeper meaning.
An Xing’s eyes suddenly lit up.
“You mean that when they wanted to reach their hand in before, it was not to destroy anything, but to save it?”
There was no way to continue speaking further.
Because if that were truly the case, then it meant that the Liang Family was not targeting the Abyss-Suppression Army.
Instead, it was targeting the military district controlled by Hong Liangpeng—or rather, Hong Liangpeng himself.
Their plan to reach their hand in had been an attempt to replace Hong Liangpeng.
Now that Li Mu had arrived, the Liang Family felt that Li Mu could accomplish this matter, so they had clearly and openly chosen to stand on Li Mu’s side.
This was a little frightening.
If they wanted to control the military district only to bring it back onto the right track and make it develop and grow stronger...
Then even when someone like Li Mu appeared and took their money tree, they did not say a single word about it.
Was this righteous or evil?