Chapter 194 : Chapter 194
Chapter 194: I May Not Outrank Him, but He Does!
Old Shui gazed at his wife in a daze for a long time.
It was as if, once he looked away, he would never be able to see her again.
Li Mu truly could not bear to disturb him, so he raised a hand and gestured to the black-robed man.
Then he pulled An Xing and walked outside.
The black-robed man quickly followed.
Only when they arrived before the water curtain did Li Mu say:
“We will leave first. Let Old Shui spend some time alone.”
At this moment, Mr. Liao no longer had the distant air he had shown at the beginning.
He sincerely bowed slightly to Li Mu.
Li Mu waved his hand.
As he approached the water curtain, Li Mu activated the Water-Avoidance Art again.
An Xing had not even seen where the water curtain was when the curtain that suddenly appeared before him opened with a huge hole.
The black-robed man personally escorted the two of them back to the sea surface.
Only then did he bow to Li Mu again and say:
“Thank you, Tiger Marquis Li.”
“Even I could sense that you were the one who dispelled that illusion.”
“My master must also know. He will surely remember this kindness in his heart!”
Li Mu shook his head.
“It is what Old Shui deserved.”
After bidding farewell to the black-robed man,
the two of them rode the Somersault Cloud back to the shore.
Only then did An Xing let out a long sigh.
“I have always heard that Old Shui has had no wife or children his entire life. So that was the truth.”
“It seems one really must cherish the person in front of them.”
“Otherwise, when they are lost, even an endless life will only add to the pain.”
“You go back to the Military District first.”
After sighing with emotion, An Xing put his hands behind his back and was about to leave.
Li Mu asked:
“What about you?”
An Xing did not even look back.
“I am going to buy a bouquet of flowers for that wife of mine who shared hardship with me.”
Li Mu smiled and shook his head.
Just then, his phone rang.
When he saw the caller, Li Mu’s smile became even brighter.
It was Wang Yinhuan.
Li Mu answered the phone.
“You are awake?”
Wang Yinhuan’s lazy, sweet voice came from the other end.
“Mm. Where are you?”
Li Mu smiled. She had asked where he was the moment she opened her eyes?
The transformation from a shy steam princess into a clingy little wife had taken only one night.
“I am outside handling something. I will go back now,” Li Mu said with a smile.
Wang Yinhuan said coquettishly:
“All right. I will wait for you. You are not allowed to hang up.”
“Mm. You are not allowed to get out of bed either.”
“Bad man. This is a hospital, and you are not allowed to do that today!” Wang Yinhuan scolded him softly with a laugh.
“All right.” Li Mu gave a wicked smile.
At the same time, he rode the Somersault Cloud straight toward the Abyss entrance.
As long as he made the cloud a little larger, from below, it would only look like a cloud flying so quickly that it left afterimages.
Those who did not know the truth would only think their eyes had blurred for an instant. It would not be too shocking.
Li Mu had not dared to fly recklessly in the sky before because there had been Old Shui, that “surface-to-air radar missile.”
Now that Old Shui knew his aura, he would not mark him as an enemy.
On the phone, Wang Yinhuan seemed to have nestled into a comfortable position. She said softly, with a hint of pleading:
“I do not want to live in the dormitory anymore.”
“Can we rent a small place? I can cook delicious food for you every day.”
There was even a trace of longing in her voice.
Li Mu secretly laughed in his heart.
Rent?
Sister, do you know how much money I have right now?
The forty billion from the last dividend had not even been spent, and nearly two hundred billion had already arrived afterward.
He was now someone with a net worth of over one hundred billion, at the very least.
Living together with his girlfriend and renting a small place seemed a little inappropriate.
However, Li Mu did not mind.
As long as the scenery was good and the two of them had a private space of their own, it did not matter whether it was big or small. The most important thing was who he lived with.
“Sure...”
However, before Li Mu could continue, his phone buzzed and vibrated.
Lu Chenfeng was calling him.
“Little Wang, I will take this call first. We will talk when we meet.”
“Mm! Perfect, I will get dressed.” Wang Yinhuan nodded obediently.
Li Mu immediately answered Lu Chenfeng’s call.
“Iron Ox, what is it?”
Lu Chenfeng’s voice was rarely this serious.
“One-Cudgel, I need to find someone in the death row camp of the Wanren Military District!”
“What person?” Li Mu was stunned.
The Somersault Cloud was extremely fast. By now, he had already arrived above the Abyss entrance.
“I noticed a few cases.”
“The victims were all female university students, and in every case, both parents were killed as well.”
“Although their entire families were not wiped out, there were basically no other relatives left to continue pursuing the matter.”
“After this incident drew public attention, the murderer was quickly caught.”
“More than thirty tragic cases and over eighty lives, yet they were all supposedly the work of one person!”
“I suspect he was a scapegoat.”
Lu Chenfeng spoke in a deep voice.
“I am at the Military District. Come over.”
Li Mu hung up the phone. Then he put away the Somersault Cloud, transformed into a bird, and dove straight into the Abyss entrance.
Very soon, he flew to the Medical Department of the Abyss-Suppression Army.
After finding his room, Li Mu used Gather Form and Scatter Qi to return inside, just as Wang Yinhuan was washing up.
He frightened her so badly that her white rabbits bounced wildly.
However, Li Mu was not in the mood to tease her.
He gave Wang Yinhuan several High-Grade Body-Fortifying Pills. It had already been quite some time since she had last taken one of these.
If she ate them now, they would be effective and could also help her body recover.
Afterward, Wang Yinhuan dressed properly, and the two walked out of the Medical Department arm in arm. Lu Chenfeng had also arrived.
Beside Lu Chenfeng was a female Law Enforcement Officer around twenty-six or twenty-seven years old.
She was valiant and heroic, her face full of upright righteousness!
When the female Law Enforcement Officer saw Li Mu, she immediately saluted with a snap.
“Tiger Marquis Li! I am very happy to meet you!”
Li Mu smiled and returned the salute. Then he looked at Lu Chenfeng in puzzlement.
Lu Chenfeng introduced her:
“This is the Law Enforcement Captain who reported this matter to me. Her name is Sun Yujie.”
Li Mu understood.
A thick-headed fellow like Lu Chenfeng, who was also unfamiliar with the area, could hardly be expected to discover a scapegoat situation on his own.
Sun Yujie said solemnly:
“Tiger Marquis Li, I had already secretly investigated this matter before.”
“But I always knew that the Director of the First Branch was abusing authority for personal gain and bending the law. Even if I reported it, it would be useless.”
“It was only after you took down those corrupt lawbreakers and Minister Lu took over this position that I dared to risk bringing this matter up!”
Li Mu had already roughly explained the situation to Wang Yinhuan earlier.
At this moment, Wang Yinhuan asked excitedly:
“Sister, are you talking about the female university student disappearance case from some time ago?”
Sun Yujie nodded.
“Yes! They called it a murder case, and the murderer also admitted that he had destroyed the bodies of all the female university students.”
“But he did not destroy the bodies of any of the victims’ families, yet not a single corpse of the female students was found.”
“It would actually be more accurate to call it a disappearance case!”
Li Mu nodded.
“Let us go. I will take you to the Death Row Base.”
The four of them passed through the Sub-Profound Spirit Tree area and headed straight for the outermost stationed military institution, the Death Row Base.
In the High-Martial World, as long as someone was a Martial Artist, if they committed a capital offense or received a life sentence, they would all be sent to the Death Row Base.
They would atone through service, use whatever value remained in them, and carry out missions with extremely high mortality rates.
The Death Row Base was also a fairly important system within the Abyss-Suppression Army.
The higher the mortality rate of a mission, the greater the Merit tended to be.
Death row prisoners possessed immense uncertainty. Using them to carry out missions was not that simple.
Moreover, even if death row prisoners were not twisted at first, after staying in the Death Row Base for a long time and being influenced by those evil people inside, many of them became twisted as well.
Riots occurred from time to time, so there were also more Patrol Teams here than in other places.
The military officer in charge of the Death Row Base was the Death Row Minister.
Even though no one had informed him that Li Mu was coming,
when Li Mu arrived, the Death Row Minister personally came out to greet him.
They were both military officers, and his post was the same as Li Mu’s.
Although his military rank was lower than Li Mu’s, he did not have to give a military salute.
Even so, Death Row Minister Yu Shaoheng still placed his hand across his chest and gave a simple salute.
“Tiger Marquis Li, what brings you here for a visit? Do you have any instructions?”
Sun Yujie, who followed behind Li Mu, could not help being startled.
Because of the confidentiality agreement, outsiders had no way of knowing how powerful Li Mu was within the Abyss-Suppression Army. At most, they only knew scattered fragments.
As members of the quasi-military law enforcement system, they had fairly good access to information.
Even they had only heard vague rumors about some of Li Mu’s deeds.
Unexpectedly, Li Mu was even more influential than the rumors suggested.
This Death Row Minister was also someone at the level of a Mid Tiger Marquis.
He could keep more than ten thousand condemned Martial Artists under control. She had seen him before, and no matter where he went, he had never been someone who lowered his head.
This was the first time she had ever seen the Death Row Minister salute someone else.
Li Mu said:
“Instructions would be too serious a word. I will have to trouble Minister Yu to help me find someone.”
“All right! Do you know his name and number?”
Yu Shaoheng did not waste a single word.
Li Mu looked toward Sun Yujie, and Sun Yujie stepped forward to answer:
“I do not know his number. His name is Zhou Yunhe. He is twenty-six years old and around one meter eighty in height. When he entered, he was Yellow Rank Seventh Grade. I do not know his current grade.”
Yu Shaoheng said, “Please wait a moment,” then personally entered the Death Row Base.
Not long afterward,
Yu Shaoheng walked out. Behind him, several fully armed Patrol Team members escorted a man wearing a collar restrictor.
The man was sallow and thin. His eyes were as sharp as an eagle’s, filled with aggression, as though they hid a boundless hatred.
“It is him!”
Sun Yujie confirmed in a low voice to the others.
After the man was brought close, Yu Shaoheng said:
“Tiger Marquis Li, do you want to...”
“Please give me an interrogation room without surveillance.”
Li Mu said.
“All right!” Yu Shaoheng did not ask why.
Death row prisoners had no human rights.
To put it bluntly, they were merely tools here.
Yu Shaoheng would not ask all kinds of questions on behalf of a wrench just because Li Mu had come to borrow it and wanted to be alone with it for a while.
When Zhou Yunhe heard this, his breathing clearly quickened. He clenched his teeth, and his eyes revealed a mixture of terror and monstrous hatred.
When the Patrol Team pushed him into a nearby building, he struggled fiercely, glaring hatefully at everyone.
Very soon, Yu Shaoheng found them a spacious room.
He told Li Mu to call him if anything happened, then went off to handle his own matters.
Several Patrol Team members stood guard not far outside the building.
Li Mu and the other three brought Zhou Yunhe into a secret room.
Li Mu deliberately looked around and confirmed that the four walls were indeed clean. Only then did he pull Wang Yinhuan and stand at the back.
He indicated that Sun Yujie and Lu Chenfeng could begin.
After Sun Yujie received Lu Chenfeng’s nod, she went straight to the point and said:
“Zhou Yunhe, I ask you, was the female university student case really committed by you?”
Zhou Yunhe gave a derisive laugh.
“If you are going to do it, then hurry up! There is no surveillance here, is there? There is no need to bother with all this pointless nonsense!”
Even Li Mu laughed in anger.
He spoke up to remind him:
“Idiot, use that pig brain of yours. If we wanted to kill you, why would we need to ask you these questions?”
“If you were framed, then today is the only chance you will have in this life!”
“No matter what kind of leverage someone else has over you, as long as you will not explode on the spot the moment you say it, then seize this opportunity.”
After Zhou Yunhe heard this, his eyelids twitched violently several times.
Clearly, he was engaged in some kind of internal struggle.
Sun Yujie pointed at Lu Chenfeng and said:
“This is the acting minister of the First Law Enforcement Branch in Zhongshan.”
It seemed she wanted to give Zhou Yunhe some confidence.
Unexpectedly, it would have been better if she had not said anything. The moment she finished speaking, Zhou Yunhe immediately gave a bitter laugh.
“Heh. Branch Minister? What use is that? Does he outrank the Commissioner of the Law Enforcement Bureau?”
Lu Chenfeng was amused.
“Ha, I really do not outrank him.”
Then he pointed at Li Mu.
“But he does.”