Chapter 493
Hearing these four inexplicable words, An Ruojin froze, and the depressed anger in her heart deepened.
Her eyes were full of mockery, but the corners of her mouth still smiled as gently as water: “Fengmian, are you mentally stimulated? What’s back there? I–”
An Ruojin couldn’t finish the words that followed, and her eyes instantly went black.
Almost all the air was taken away from her and it was difficult to breathe.
An Ruojin’s mind buzzed, not knowing what was going on at all.
She did hear Wen Fengmian’s voice again, still very flat: “You turn back, with a mental preparation, you won’t be too suffocated.”
Cloud Mist didn’t give An Ruojin time to react either, a hand knife slashed down at her neck, directly knocking her unconscious.
After doing this, he turned around and cupped his fist, “Miss Ying.”
“Find a basement, lock it up, and put some C*ckroaches and rats in there.” Ying Ziji pondered a little and faded, “By the way, find two people to pretend to be ghosts.”
“If she’s still alive in five days, inform the Lin family.”
The corners of Yun Wu’s mouth twitched.
Ruthless or Miss Ying was ruthless.
This vicious woman, An Ruojin, would go crazy even if she wasn’t scared to death.
Even if An Ruojin’s mental capacity was strong, they would still bring in professionals to make An Ruojin suffer from a personality disorder.
Yun Wu carried the sack away, easily.
The gatekeeper at the villa saw it and asked what it was.
Yun Wu casually replied, “There’s a bit too much rubbish”, then with his other hand, he took out his mobile phone and sent two more text messages to Yun Shan.
[Second brother, the person you set up is a member of the Ji family, I set up the main mother of the Lin family, obviously the one I set up is more valuable than the one you set up, or Miss Ying personally brought me here to set up.
[Second brother, you don’t have this treatment, are you angry ^_^]
Yunshan, who received the text message, was furious.
This is simply not showing up on the surface, but behind the scenes, it’s not good enough.
Yunshan was very angry and told Fu Yunshen: “Young master, look.”
Fu Yunshen didn’t look up: “Go and play by yourself.”
Yunshan: “……”
He was in a broken state of mind.
**
The disappearance of An Ruojin was soon discovered by the two guards.
But they searched for half a day in the shopping mall where An Roujin often shopped, but they couldn’t find it, and had no choice but to report back to the Ancient Martial Realm before.
Even if he was as good-tempered as Lin Qingjia, his eyebrows sank: “Mother has no inner strength in her body, how did you do your job?”
The two guards both had something to say: “This ……”
“Go and collect your punishment.” Lin Jin Yun was also angry, “Transfer an escort team and follow me outside.”
An Ruojin’s looks were outstanding, so I’m afraid that something untoward has happened to her.
Lin Qingjia spoke up, “Father, I also-”
“It is already late, and your herbs have not been put away yet.” Lin Jinyun waved his hand to stop, “Don’t worry, I will bring her back safely.”
Lin Qingjia pursed her lips, “Okay.”
There were some herbs that were only available in the ancient medical community, and she could only go to o continent after collecting them.
The middle-aged man also asked the mercenaries under him to help Lin Qingjia look for them together, and also struck up a conversation with her, “I wonder if Miss Lin has ever heard of Norton University?”
Lin Qingjia thought for a moment, “I know a bit about it, it’s the number one university in the world.”
“That’s more than that, it’s sealed by ordinary people.” The middle-aged man said, “Apart from that, it’s really the world’s top geniuses in there, especially in the astrology, alchemy and mechanics departments, the Taylor family employs a few diviners out of the astrology department.”
Lin Qingjia was slightly stunned, “There’s also astrology and alchemy?”
A university that actually had such courses?
“Yes.” The middle-aged man said, “If Miss Lin wants to, she can interact with them when she goes to O Continent.”
After saying that, he sighed again, “It’s a pity that all the geniuses in the mechanical department have stayed in school, even we can’t hire them.”
Lin Qingjia nodded her head, but she was a little more interested in Norton University.
She finished collecting one herb and went on to the next.
**
Two days later, after taking on a few more experimental projects for Wen Fengmian, Ying departed for O-continent.
The headquarters of Universal Pictures was in country S, which happened to be close to the Bevin family’s territory.
Xie Manyu’s film had started shooting at the end of February, but Universal Pictures had only shot two thirds of the film so far.
Fans around the world were anxiously waiting, and Ying, as the chief executive of First Light Media, was able to watch some clips first.
“You go over first.” Fu Yunshen smoothed her hair, “I’ll arrive in a few days.”
The two of them, both of them, were being watched by quite a few people and were regulars in the hot seat.
The paparazzi nowadays were very smart, and the slightest mistake would blow up the hot search.
“Mm.” Ying Ziyi nodded slightly, “It’s actually nothing, you don’t need to follow.”
“I’m also going to run an errand, so I’ll see you in s country.” Fu Yun Shen stroked her head, hooked his lips and gave a lazy laugh, “Little friend, I’ve prepared a gift for you, a sleep aid.”
Although the female secretary had become a part of the divine medicine cp, she scrupulously did her duty and would not say anything about this.
How happy it was to watch the real-life version by herself and see the others trying to p-picture it.
Apart from the female secretary, Ying also took two directors with her to visit the project in country S.
Naturally, Universal Pictures had arranged for them to stay at the most exclusive hotel.
The female secretary was itching to know what gifts Fu Yunshen had given Ying Zidian all the way.
It wasn’t until she entered the presidential suite that she spoke tentatively, “Boss, can I watch? I can pay my salary!”
The box was so big, almost two metres long, but not heavy, what was in it?
Ying thought about the boxes of children’s books that Fu Yunshen had sent her at the beginning, and thought that he wouldn’t send anything too inappropriate.
She squatted on the floor, unwrapping them while responding, “No, read it.”
The female secretary was starry-eyed.
After she finished opening it, Ying Ziji looked at the gift in the box and fell silent.
It was a very large isometric pillow with a nice feel.
The length was the same as Fu Yunshen’s height.
The features were also very detailed, not much different from the real person, and I didn’t know where they were custom-made.
Ying Ziyi remembered the phrase to help her sleep: “……”
She squeezed the head of the hug pillow, expressionless.
The female secretary had good eyes and immediately rolled away, going to the next room.
She took out her phone and trembled as she tweeted in the divine Medicine couple’s hypertext.
[Sisters, I think if they are together in the future, General Fu can’t beat Ying Shen.]
A number of people soon commented.
What else is there to say? I’m sure, didn’t Ying God fight several men with one hand when he was fighting for the people?
[A second of silence in advance for Mr. Fu.
**
Presidential Suite.
Ying Zidian still put Fu Yunshen’s equipoise pillow on the bed.
She was sitting at the table when she received a call from Lita.
“Beauty, you need eighteen kinds of herbs, I’ve found fifteen so far.”
Ying raised her eyebrows, “You’re still fast.”
As expected of the Bevin family, one of the four major plutocrats, they had found so many rare materials in three days.
She really was still poor.
“I found the most important fire source essence as well.” Lita frowned, “It’s in the hands of a team of mercenaries in the Underworld, but they have a condition.”
Ying Ziji’s eyes dropped, “What condition?”
The Underworld of the O Continent was actually the equivalent of the black market on the Chinese side, but much more chaotic and a place where many hunters lived in groups.
The title Underworld had existed centuries ago, and she had even fought in the ring during her poorest days.
“They know you’re the number one poisoner and very capable, and said that if you kill the second on the bounty list, they’ll give you the Fire Source Essence and give you an extra billion dollars.”
After saying that, Rita couldn’t help but complain again, “The problem is, I can’t find the whereabouts of the second on the bounty list, how can I kill it?”
“Second on the bounty list?” Ying Ziji opened his phone and logged into the nok forum, “Let me see.”
[Bounty list (in USD)
no.1: the god calculator, the reward amount is too high to be shown
no.2: devil, 200,000,000,000,0
Ying Zidian clicked on devil’s profile.
No.1 on the killer list, code name: Devil.
Below is a string of battle records.
In January 2016, devil managed to kill the then number two on the bounty list and was promoted to number one on the killer list.
In the same year, three more notorious transnational criminals were killed.
In February 2017, devil killed a powerful elder of the Pazzi family and emerged unharmed, with no one to trace him.
……
Fifty-nine missions in total, with the last one in late 2019.
From 2020 to the present, devil has never been seen again.
The o-continent has gone crazy looking for him, and the reward amount keeps climbing.
Ying looked at his bank card balance again and pondered.
Ah, that’s quite a lot of money, to take it, or not to take it?
“I’ll tell them you have a bad temper and tell them not to get ahead of themselves.” Rita spoke up again, “But fire source essence is really hard to find, I guess there’s only one piece of it in the whole o-continent.”
Fire, in both ancient and modern times, always had the meaning of restraining evil.
That’s why fire essence is a necessary herb to remove the toxins from the main body of the Bevin family.
Ying raised his hand and knocked on the table, “They have the location of the devil?”
“A bit of a lead, checking it out now.”
“Then let’s wait until they find out.”
“Okay, I’ll let you know if there’s any news. I’ve asked my father to take the medicine you sent me, and his condition is stable for now.”
Ying ended the call, went to the bathroom to take a shower and came out with a change of clothes.
She turned towards the bed with one footstep and opened the door to go out.
“Boss, something’s happened.” The female secretary was outside the door, answering the phone, and upon seeing the girl, she choked up just as she spoke, “Queen Xie, she ……”
Ying Ziji’s eyes cooled down, and he didn’t ask for the address, he said directly, “Go.”
Chapter 494
The film Xie Manyu is in is set in the O-continent mythology and the full title is “The Faerie Queen
She plays the female protagonist, who is a hybrid of an elf and an eastern human.
It happens to be filmed now as the heroine enters the Elven race and meets the Elven princess.
One of the plots involves the heroine and the elven princess fighting together against the enemies who have invaded the elven race.
But in the middle of filming, the actor playing the Elven Princess accidentally shoots her bow and arrow in the wrong direction.
The bow and arrow hit Xie Manyu straight on, or towards the heart.
Originally, the bow and arrow were just props and could not have hurt anyone.
But the bad thing was that the arrow had been switched to a real one.
This arrow caused Xie Manyu to faint on the spot, and now she has just been taken to the hospital, and filming has been completely suspended.
“It’s said to be accidental, but everyone knows it was deliberate.” The female secretary gritted her teeth, completely disbelieving what was said on the phone, “It was clearly two directions, how could it be a mistake due to a slip of the hand? And, the hit was so accurate?”
It was so close, a direct shot to the heart.
And, the prop was so just right to be moved.
How could it not have been premeditated?
Ying Ziji pressed her head, “What was that actor’s name?”
Even if she had the ability of divine calculation, she couldn’t keep an eye on everyone in the world all the time.
Otherwise her head would have exploded.
The female secretary hesitated for a moment, but still spoke, “Betty Bevan, a young lady from the Bevan family.”
Ying Ziyi’s buttoned hand paused: “A member of the Bevan family?”
“Yes.” The female secretary pursed her lips, “Originally, this Miss Betty was going to play the female lead, but then Universal Pictures chose Queen Xie, so she could only play the supporting actress.”
“Her scenes, too, only started filming this month, boss, we ……”
The Bevan family, one of the four major plutocrats in o-continent, is incredibly powerful.
How could they cope with being on someone else’s turf?
“Go to the hospital first.” Ying Ziyi blandly, “It’s important to save people.”
The female secretary nodded and followed the girl to the car.
Universal Pictures had allocated several cars, both sports cars and business cars, to facilitate their travel.
Ying drove the car by herself, with the speed set to the highest gear, drifting and weaving through the crowd of cars.
The female secretary had only sat there for a few dozen seconds before she became dizzy and pale.
In the midst of her dizziness, she spotted a blind spot; she didn’t seem to …… have said where the hospital was.
**
Twenty minutes later.
The hospital in the city centre.
Ying Ziji went straight upstairs.
Upstairs, in Xie Manyu’s ward, only two nurses were present.
The two nurses perfunctorily hung a bottle for Xie Manyu and stood aside.
On the bed, Xie Manyu’s face was pale and the arrow at her chest had not even been pulled out and was still seeping blood out.
“Where’s the doctor?” The female secretary changed her face at once, “You have to queue up when the place is so empty? Can’t even find a doctor anymore?”
Hearing this, a nurse raised her head and spoke sarcastically, “I don’t know that you have offended Miss Betty, once the Bevan family gives the order, which doctor dares to treat it? Unless we don’t want to die.”
The female secretary was furious: “You ……”
“Boss, I’m really useless.” Xie Manyu’s agent came back at this time, and when she saw the girl, her eyes turned red, “I’ve gone to beg them, and they won’t come.”
Ying Ziji faded: “There’s no need for them.”
She put on the medical gloves and mask she carried with her and leaned down, carefully examining Xie Manyu’s wound.
“What are you doing?” The nurse’s face changed at the sight of the girl’s move, and immediately stepped forward, “You’re not a doctor, and you can’t move.”
Betty Bevan meant to stall and delay until the end before treating Xie Manyu, as long as she couldn’t die.
What if this was touched by an outsider and Xie Manyu died in their place?
Both nurses also knew that Xie Manyu was an international movie queen, especially popular over in China.
No one from the Bevin family would dare to touch her, but the hospital would definitely suffer.
Ying Ziyi turned around, no emotion on her face.
She clasped the nurse’s hand, and with just a little force, she directly dislocated the nurse’s wrist.
Ying Zidian glanced at the other nurse: “Get out.”
The two nurses’ bodies chilled and they didn’t dare to say anything else, holding each other up and almost fleeing.
After they left the ward, they bumped into the head nurse of the hospital who was walking over.
The head nurse looked at the wretched looking nurses and frowned, “Why are you out?”
“First, the senior management of First Light Media is here.” A nurse stammered, “Told us to get lost.”
The head nurse’s frown tightened, but said nothing: “Go see another patient.”
The arrow from Betty Bevan was deep enough that the doctors in the hospital didn’t dare to pull it out easily and needed tools.
What could a few amateurs in Choritsu Media do?
The head nurse thought about it and went to ask the Bevan family for instructions.
No matter what, they couldn’t let Xie Manyu die in the o-continent.
In the ward.
Ying Ziyi finished checking Xie Manyu’s injuries and had a number in mind. She turned her head, looked at the female secretary and the agent: “You guys go out too.”
“Boss, this ……” Before the agent could finish his words, he was pulled out by the female secretary and the door was also closed.
Ying Ziji took out the gold and silver needles, and after stabbing into several acupuncture points, he began to slowly pick up the arrows.
**
Xie Manyu getting injured on the shooting set was not a trivial matter.
The Chinese side, in particular, had also been following the progress of “The Faerie Queen”.
But any little bit of news would rush onto the hot search.
It was afternoon in country S and late at night in China.
The hot search also exploded instantly.
#Xie Man Yu, alive or dead
There was a video under the topic, but not all of it, just the part filmed where Xie Manyu was unconscious from the arrow.
[What’s going on? Why would the crew have such a big accident? What is the crew doing?
[Some sources say that Betty Bevan did it on purpose, so the Bevan family can treat people’s lives like crap?
[Xie Manyu is usually so arrogant in China, but now she’s out of the country, right? How come she was the one who got hurt instead of others? She must have done something wrong.
[Don’t some people know how powerful the four major plutocrats in O-continent are? Don’t be embarra*sed just because you’ve read some books. The situation in O-continent is different from ours.
Where do you put the Laurent family?
There is a lot of attention at home, and not a little abroad.
The main thing is that there’s no way to keep this thing down, and the crew is under a lot of pressure.
Over on the set, the producer is following the public opinion on the internet and his head is about to explode.
On the other side, Betty was talking to the director, her tone bored: “I say, she won’t heal from this injury for a while, you can’t afford to delay my time.”
“Either we change the lead actress immediately, or the Bevans pull out of the project, take your pick.”
The director was about to say something when his eyes fell on Betty’s rear and, without replying, he immediately greeted her.
Betty looked cold and turned her head to look over.
Her gaze narrowed slightly as it landed on the girl, and she also took a big step forward, “What, First Light Media has found a new actor, huh?”
Her expression was scornful.
Xie Manyu was a big screen face, a typical oriental beauty.
But the girl’s beauty had transcended the aesthetic differences between East and West, and no one could deny her face value.
“Mr. Ying, I’m sorry sorry sorry.” With Betty exerting pressure, the director had a hard time saying, “We’ll definitely compensate for letting Ms Xie get hurt in our place.”
Mr. Ying?
Betty’s expression changed.
This was the executive director of First Light Media?
Surprisingly, he was so young?
At the same time, she was relieved.
Since he was the executive director, he wouldn’t be competing with her for the female lead.
“Compensation, separate calculation.” Ying Ziyi nodded her head lightly, “This matter, we will not rest in peace.”
Before the director could say anything, Betty laughed first: “Won’t let it go? Tell me, how will you not stop?”
“Do you know who I am? I am the lady of the Bevin family, oh, you Chinese, you probably don’t even know how strong the Bevin family is.”
The director also advised, “Mr Ying, you can’t mess with it, the Bevan family is really ……”
They are in the entertainment industry, they can’t afford to get tough with the big plutocrats.
Ying ignored it and turned his head, “Where’s the video.”
“Here it is.” The female secretary came forward with her tablet, “It was maliciously cut, it’s back up now and has just been sent to the PR department for a full web release.”
The video showed Betty deliberately turning around and shooting an arrow at Xie Manyu.
And laughing happily afterwards.
“Yeah, I did that on purpose.” Betty frowned, but admitted it painfully, “But so what? What can you do to me? I have top-notch hackers on my staff, and you can see if you can release it all over the net.”
She wrapped her arms around her and tilted her chin with contempt, “This is O-continent, not your country of China, I can be arrogant, you, can’t, do I need to reiterate this point?”
At these words, many of the people present turned pale.
The power of the four major zaibatsu in O Continent was so powerful that it was far stronger than any of the powerful families in the imperial capital.
Even if the Bevin family head was now terminally ill, the Bevin family’s power had not diminished much.
Like the Taylors, they have a number of top-notch mercenaries under their command who, when combined with drugs, can be as strong as ancient martial artists.
This was considered the Bevin family’s territory, and the Bevin family had the final say in everything.
“I didn’t hurt her much either did I?” Betty played with her fingers carelessly and shrugged indifferently, “Who made her less skilled than anyone else? Thirty years old, old woman, what’s the point of stealing the lead role from me?”
Without Xie Manyu, the film would have changed the lead persona and it would have been her who starred.
Betty had always thought that the matter was set in stone, as there hadn’t been any dynamic newcomers in the Chinese film industry for a long time.
Who knew that a Xie Manyu would come along in the middle of the film?
With a faint look in her eyes, Ying sent a message to Lita.
[I hurt one of your family’s ladies, is everything okay?
Lita quickly replied.
[?
[Which lady? No, when did I have a sister again?
Rita, who was still looking for herbs while holding her phone, was a little confused.
The Bevin family head had seven or eight children, but she was the only daughter, and she was indeed spoiled sometimes.
Ying raised his eyebrows.
[Betty Bevan.]
[Betty? I’ll look it up, I’ve never heard of it.
A Bevan family, just the members of this family, are in the thousands.
Rita indeed would not know them all.
Soon, she came back with the information.
[It’s true that she’s from our Bevin family, but I don’t know how much further removed from me she is, a sidekick, I guess, she’s in the entertainment business, her methods are unclean, she has a few lives on her hands, the only kung fu she knows is archery, if she messes with you, she can kill.
I’m convinced. I’m convinced, you don’t even know what you’re capable of.
She wouldn’t even dare to mess with him, would she?
“Come on, I don’t have time to be here with you.” At this point, Betty got impatient, “If you have this time, why don’t you go and find her a doctor, or else you’ll end up with some kind of organ problem and won’t be confined to bed.”
She turned her head, “Director, you’d better hurry up or your career is over.”
The director was angry too and didn’t want to pay any attention to Betty, but just looked at the girl, “Ying?”
“Yes.” Ying slowly raised her eyes and reached out, “Bring the arrows.”
The director froze, failing to understand what this meant.
But the secretary immediately went to the prop box at the back, brought the bow and arrows, and handed them to Ying Zidian: “Boss, this is a real bow and arrows.”
Ying Zidian weighed the bow, put all the arrows in the quiver on the bow, drew the string and aimed it at Betty.
The director’s expression changed: “Mr. Ying, you ……”
“What do you want? You want to imitate me?” Betty snorted coldly, “Fine, I’ll stand right here, can you shoot? Or do you dare?”
She was a member of the Bevan family, a showbiz company owner, and she still dared to touch her?
That’s really living with impatience.
Ying Ziji’s eyes faded and her fingers loosened.
“Whoosh, whoosh, whoosh, whoosh-”
Seven arrows fired in unison!