Chapter 495
The girl drew her bow and shot her arrow so quickly that no one around her had much time to react.
Betty, still disdainful, hadn’t really moved.
The Bevan family had a horse farm, a shooting range and many places to train for physical fitness, and she had practised archery since she was a child, but at most she shot three arrows at once.
This Chinese guy was really out of his depth, actually using all seven arrows in his quiver.
How strong was that?
But in an instant, Betty’s expression changed, from contempt at first to horror.
She suddenly noticed something was wrong.
These seven arrows were flying at different speeds!
She had practised bow and arrow and knew how difficult it was to control the speed and strength.
When she had deliberately hurt Xie Manyu, she had also controlled the strength very subtly.
Otherwise that arrow would have been able to kill Xie Manyu.
Cold sweat broke out on Betty’s forehead, and when she turned around to avoid it, it was already too late.
“Swish!”
Four of the arrows broke through the air, piercing her left and right wrists, and a pair of ankles respectively.
The powerful impact pressed her backwards, without even a cushion of time.
“With a bang, it pinned Betty directly to the prop wall behind her.
And that’s when the other three arrows followed.
The first, to the abdomen.
The second, through the lung.
The third, an inch off the heart, in the exact same spot as Xie Manyu’s injury.
Extreme pain swept through her body, and Betty’s mouth opened and a mouthful of blood spurted out uncontrollably.
Instantly, she pa*sed out.
“……”
The entire shooting set was dead silent.
The director’s legs went weak and he sat down on the floor with a snap.
The producer also stared at the girl in a daze, the burger in his hand didn’t even smell good anymore.
Ying Ziji threw the bow and arrow to the female secretary, her breath was not disturbed at all, she put one hand in her pocket and was calm: “Find a stretcher and carry it down, it’s unlucky to see blood in the shooting area.”
The female secretary hastily clutched the bow and arrow, still a little confused.
She turned her head silently and looked at Betty Bevan, pinned to the wall in a large shape, and couldn’t help but take a breath backwards.
By today, she finally had a new concept of their boss’s force value.
Seven arrows in a row!
No martial arts drama would dare to play out like that.
She then said why she had asked them to prepare a stretcher before she came.
The female secretary sneered, “Get on the stretcher.”
The two staff members of First Light Media immediately carried the stretcher up.
They were a bit embarra*sed: “Boss, how can we unload this?”
Ying Zigui gave the two a look.
The female secretary immediately acted as a spokesperson and was disgusted: “Don’t you usually remove the office windows? Just do it like this.”
The two staff members: “……”
They just had to start unloading people by screwing them in.
“Miss!” Betty’s agent rushed over from the backstage side, unable to look herself in the eye, “How dare you hurt Miss Betty? Are you trying to make an enemy of the Bevan family?!”
Betty Bevan has always been very dominant in the entertainment industry, just because of the Bevan surname.
Even the seniors in the film industry did not dare to offend the Bevan family and could only hold their tongue.
Once the agent arrived, Betty’s a*sistant finally found her backbone and handed over her phone with trembling fingers, “I recorded the video, she’s deliberately killing someone, without Sister Betty’s family taking action, the netizens can curse her to death.”
After watching the video, the agent’s face changed dramatically, “Send it, it must be sent, all over the internet, you guys are waiting for your reputation to fall apart!”
“Oh?” Ying Ziji wiped his hands and seemed to laugh, his voice was cool and indistinct, “I know the alliance leader of the Anonymous hacker alliance, you can see if you can post this video all over the net anymore.”
All the words were returned in kind.
To return the favor.
“Intentional murder?” The female secretary was cold, “Didn’t you have a stretcher ready for you? What, her life is a life, but Queen Xie’s life is not?”
The agent’s expression stiffened, but inwardly, he only felt ridiculous.
Xie Manyu, a movie queen in the entertainment industry, could be compared to the life of Miss Bevin’s family?
And the leader of the Anonymous Hacker Alliance?
The Anonymous hacker alliance originally mirrored that name, and apart from some hackers with regular jobs who took it upon themselves to show their identities, all the other hackers were anonymous and no one knew for sure.
There has been quite a bit of speculation that this league president is a computer program that doesn’t exist.
After all, no one had ever met one.
“Don’t worry.” Ying raised her eyes, “I have it in my heart, even if I don’t save her, she won’t die in three days.”
She crumpled the tissue paper into a ball and threw it into the trash, “Let’s go.”
The female secretary followed.
The agent gritted his teeth, a mouthful of old blood in his throat, “Quick, take Miss Betty to the hospital and contact the Bevan family, we absolutely cannot let these lawless Chinese go!”
The crowd left in a huff and the set was empty.
The director wiped his sweat and squeezed his weak legs, but his eyes suddenly lit up.
He immediately climbed to his feet and lowered his voice to ask the producer, who was still in shock, in a tentative tone, “Old chap, don’t you think that Ying is particularly suitable for the role of the Elf Queen?”
There is a very important supporting character in The Faerie Queen, the previous generation of Faerie Queens.
The role wasn’t too big, but because the persona was so perfect, even Universal Pictures couldn’t find a suitable actor.
They finally had to relent and cut the character.
Fans of the animated original also expressed their understanding; after all, if it was going to be ruined, it might as well not be made.
The producer finally came back to his senses and took a deep breath, his fingers still trembling, “Stop daydreaming.”
The director scratched his head, “Huh? It’ll blow up at the global box office, I’m confident it’ll top the global box office! No, I must go, I’m going to-”
The producer put one hand over the director’s mouth, “Shut up, you.”
If you want to die, don’t take him with you.
**
On the road.
“Boss, do you really know the boss of the Anonymous hacker alliance?”
“Masa face, Masa voice, pretty cute looking.”
Female secretary: “……”
This …… is not describing a child, is it?
“Give me a copy of the full video.” Ying Ziji said, “I’ll have it posted all over the internet immediately.”
The female secretary complied and immediately pa*sed the video over.
After Ying Ziji received it, she habitually clicked on the dialog box with Qin Lingyan, all started typing, and was about to ooh and ahh him as a hard worker.
Until she remembered something very important, exited the dialog box and clicked on another one.
[Sir, I’m in trouble.
Fu Yunshen replied quickly, using a voice with a smile: “OK, little friend, there is progress, finally knowing to look for me, brother is pleased.”
A few seconds later, a second voice came: “I’ll be in O Chau the day after tomorrow, how’s it going, are you comfortable with the gift?”
Ying Zidian: “……”
She didn’t really want to pay attention to him.
On the other side of the continent, Qin Lingyan had been staring at the words “the other party is typing” for five seconds, and was getting nervous.
But then it suddenly disappeared, and he became even more scared.
[Sister, what do you want to say to me?
I’ve been very good and obedient lately, I haven’t done anything.
Ten seconds later, Ying Ziji gave a reply.
[Used to find you, luckily, stopped in time.]]
Qin LingYan: “……”
So the tool people just don’t have human rights.
He turned to Fu Yun and poured out his grievances.
[Old Fu, can you introduce me to someone? I also want a cute creature like a girlfriend.
After waiting for a long time for a reply, Qin Lingyan sent another one.
[Lao Fu? [Shy]]
This time there was a response, and a red exclamation mark jumped out.
Qin Lingyan: “……”
F*ck, he’s been deleted as a friend.
**
With Fu Yunshen’s computer skills, soon, the full video of Xie Manyu’s injury and coma was posted all over Weibo and the extranet.
And it was hanging on the top of the hot search list of all major websites, and the heat was high.
Regardless of the country, the internet was abuzz with curses, except for Betty’s fans.
Betty’s PR team kept trying to delete the video, but couldn’t get it off no matter what.
[That’s it and you’re talking about a slip of the hand? Not intentional murder?
[I heard the “Missy” was in hospital too, so bless her, don’t come out so early.
Betty’s father, a middle-aged man in his fifties, arrived at the hospital shortly afterwards.
He looked at Betty, who was on a ventilator, and was furious: “How dare you!”
The Bevans were rich, yes.
But that was only the direct line, the treasury was in the hands of the Bevin family head.
Their side line only had a very pitiful amount of family dividends each year, divided according to their contributions, and the money they received was very small.
But the middle-aged people were different, because Betty was in the entertainment industry and had a lot of grey income, and their line was very wealthy.
But now, with Betty in this state, how could she still make money in the entertainment industry?
The middle-aged man’s face was gloomy: “Where are the people? Betty is injured like this, where is the culprit?”
The agent’s cold sweat beaded, “Mr Bevan, should, should be in the ward next door, they have patients here too.”
“Go and find someone.” The middle-aged man’s face grimaced slightly, “I’m going to make her disappear from the entertainment industry.”
The agent hurriedly went out.
The middle-aged man followed.
Ying stood at the door of Xie Manyu’s ward and was on the phone, “Have you found all the herbs yet?”
“There’s just the fire source essence left.” Lita was pleased, “That pair of mercenaries said devil might come to the Underworld recently, just waiting for you to make a move.”
The original Marksman, a hunter profession, was a great restraint on killers, but all the Marksmen who had taken on bounty missions had failed to kill devil.
But the poisoner, almost all professions, were restrained.
Ying Zigui nodded slightly, “Okay.”
“That’s her.” The agent pointed at the girl and immediately confessed, “The doctor said that Miss Betty would most likely become a vegetable.”
“Yeah, it’s you?” The middle-aged man could not restrain his anger at all, “You know the Bevan family, right? Don’t look at you as a showbiz boss, it’s easy for us to clean you up.”
It’s easy for the four major plutocrats to kill someone who has no power and no influence without a sound.
Ying ignored it, still on the phone with Lita.
“You’re still on the phone when you’re on the verge of death?” The middle-aged man kept sneering, “Who are you calling? That’s fine, our mercenaries will be here in a moment, ask her to collect your body.”
Ying finally looked at him, she held the phone, not slowing down, “Your Missy.”
Chapter 496
“……”
There was a moment of silence in the corridor outside the ward.
Ying did not disguise her voice and Lita on the other end of the phone heard it.
She was a little nervous: “What’s the situation, you’re with the Bevin family now? Who are they? I’ll send someone over immediately.”
Since the Bevin family head’s illness had started to relapse again, the whole Bevin family was in a dark tide.
Even Rita had already encountered several sets of a*sa*sinations.
If it wasn’t for her own superior strength, she wouldn’t have been able to pull through.
Lita was afraid that someone from the Bevin family would do something to Ying Zigui.
These days, there were a lot of ungodly ones.
After all, she had been very unfaithful the first time too, thinking that Ying Zidian wouldn’t shoot.
As it turned out, it was Ying Zidian’s appearance and age that were too confusing.
“OK.” Ying Zidian gave an address, “You come over.”
“I’m on my way.” Lita said, “I’m still here at the underground trade club, three hours past at the most, your safety first.”
“What Missy?” At this time, the middle-aged man finally came back to his senses, but listened and laughed, “Just you, you deserve to know our Missy? Do you know what our Missy’s name is?”
Because Rita Bevan had spent years in the underground world of O Continent, either touching guns or fighting, basically she would not show her face in front of the public.
The real core full members of the four major zaibatsu in o-continent, no one from the outside world would even know who there were.
A Chinese showbiz boss who actually said he knew their Missy, the sky was the limit.
The middle-aged man’s eyes were full of mockery and ridicule: “Don’t you know our eldest miss, then why don’t you please
“Hmm.” Ying didn’t respond, nodding slightly, lazily, “Find a few more teams of mercenaries, see you later.”
She put the phone away, didn’t look again and turned to go into the ward, and closed the door behind her.
“With a bang, the middle-aged man took a nose-dive and became even angrier.
He rolled up his sleeves and was about to kick the door open, but his agent pulled him back just in time.
The agent looked panic-stricken: “Mr. Bevan, she knows Chinese kung fu, the mercenaries are not here, we are no match.”
The middle-aged man’s face stiffened and he only managed to pull his foot back, pressing on with impatience, “Then wait a little longer, where are the doctors? Where are the best doctors here, get them all, if you can’t save Betty, you don’t have to do it!”
**
In the hospital room.
Xie Manyu had already woken up, she blinked her eyes, looking at the close face blast with a kind of unreal feeling.
It was only after a long time that she made a sound, “Boss?”
“Your wound has not yet healed, talk less.” Ying Ziji poured out a round bean from the medicine bottle and fed it to Xie Manyu.
The round bean melted in the mouth and Xie Man Yu hadn’t been able to react much: “What is this?”
“Sugar beans.”
“It’s quite sweet.”
Ying Ziji squeezed Xie Manyu’s wrist again, and was then rea*sured.
Many of the ancient doctors’ medicines were aimed at ancient martial artists, there was no way she could give it to Xie Manyu, she could only recover slowly.
“Boss, I’ve given you a lot of trouble.” Xie Man Yu also felt a lot more relaxed physically, “It was my carelessness.”
After she had received the International Film Queen’s Award, she had often filmed abroad and had encountered all kinds of unexpected situations.
But this was the first time.
Ying Ziyi didn’t say anything, she just said, “Take good care of your body, don’t worry about the drama team, they will wait for you to recover.”
Xie Manyu was stunned: “But the investment is ……”
The phone rang at that moment.
It was the director of ‘Elf Queen’.
[Mr. Ying, you’re so divine, I just sent a few clips of our movie to the email you mentioned and the Laurent family decided to invest in the movie!
[I’m telling Betty to get lost!
Ying Zidian took a look at it and didn’t reply.
This film is a big production, it’s normal to double the investment several times.
If you don’t make money, you’re sick in the head.
“Boss!” At this moment, Xie Manyu seemed to remember something and suddenly got nervous, “Boss, Betty is from the Bevin family, she has mercenaries under her!”
There were many mercenaries on the o-continent side, and it was also very confusing.
Especially on the S side, gun ownership was still legal.
“At ease.” Ying Ziji bowed his head and soothed her, “I’ll give your fans a peace of mind.”
It was now the day after the accident.
But with that injury to Xie Manyu, it was impossible for her to wake up so quickly with modern medical technology.
So Ying Ziyi used First Light Media’s official number and just sent out a Weibo post that Xie Manyu was out of danger.
The comments quickly rose.
[Thank you, thank you, the company is righteous, it’s good to be out of danger [tears]]
[If this were any other company, they would probably have been afraid of the Bevin family and given up on the artists under them.
Xie Manyu was a little sleepy and was drowsily falling asleep.
I don’t know how long it took, but the door to the ward was slammed open.
It was the middle-aged man who had gone and returned with a team of mercenaries.
“Arrest her.” He pointed to the girl and then to Xie Man Yu, “Then pull out her oxygen tanks and everything, Betty is still in a coma, how dare a little shadow queen wake up?”
Xie Man Yu’s expression changed and she struggled to get up, “Boss!”
Ying Ziyi looked up and raised her hand without moving. She inserted a needle into the acupuncture point on Xie Man Yu’s arm to calm her down.
At that moment, Betty’s agent also ran in, excited: “Mr. Bevan, someone from your family is here.”
“What? I’m on my way to greet them.” Before the middle-aged man had gone out, Rita had come in.
She looked at a ward of mercenaries and her features sank.
“Missy.” The middle-aged man was so startled that he broke into a sweat in a hurry and saluted, “Eldest Miss, you’re actually here in person?”
Rita Bevan’s status was one of the highest among the younger generation of the Bevan family, even her brothers were not as favoured as she was.
With the middle-aged man’s status in the Bevan family, he was not qualified to enter the residence where the first line was located.
Naturally he had never met Rita Bevan, only seen photographs.
Although the middle-aged man dealt with mercenaries, he only paid to hire them.
He didn’t know the real top mercenaries in the O-continent underworld, let alone the hidden section of the nok forum, the Hidden Alliance Society.
All those hunter lists, he had no right to know.
The middle-aged man had reported Betty’s injury to the Bevin family, and the family had said they would send someone.
But he didn’t expect that the person who came would be Rita.
“You can’t invite Missy, I can.” The middle-aged man was now more confident and looked more mocking, “What else can you say?”
Rita just looked at the girl, kinda upset, “I thought I said I could just kill it? Why are you being merciful?”
“Not by minding me, I don’t mind, you cleaned up for our Bevan family, I can’t thank you enough.”
The ward was instantly dead silent.
Ying yawned, “I believe in Buddha.”
“What’s wrong with believing in Buddha? I also believe in God.”
“Believing in Buddha doesn’t kill people.”
Lita: “……”
She really believed.
“Why don’t you get out of here?” Lita swept a glance at the team of mercenaries and clapped her hands, “Someone, arrest him for me, and the one in the other ward, the oxygen tube is removed, I’ll see who dares to save it.”
Ying raised an eyebrow slightly, “You’ve got good hearing too.”
Rita complained, “I can’t help it, otherwise I wouldn’t know how many times I’ve died.”
The middle-aged man’s brain buzzed and his voice changed in tone, “Miss, Missy? You, why are you ……”
What was going on, why would Missy help an outsider?
“What?” Rita sneered, “I need to report to you for my mahjong playing mahjong friends? What kind of a person are you?”
“Playing, playing mahjong? Mahjong friend?” The middle-aged man’s ears perked up, unable to comprehend what those two words meant.
But he knew that he was definitely done for.
He had messed with Rita’s friends, and it would be no use having ten teams of mercenaries.
Mercenaries were all ranked, and the one he had was the lowest rank of D.
The mercenaries he was holding were the lowest D-rank, but at the drop of a hat, they were all A-rank.
“Eldest Miss, spare my life, spare my life!” Where was the middle-aged man’s earlier swagger, he knelt down and kowtowed desperately, “Eldest Miss, I’m blind, I don’t recognise, you spare me this time, please spare.”
Rita watched with interest as the middle-aged man kowtowed, “Beauty, forgive?”
Ying Ziji gave Xie Manyu another round bean and said indifferently, “No.”
One word made the middle-aged man fall into an ice cellar, and all the blood in his body went cold.
Rita Bevan was such a proud person, never bowing down to anyone among her peers.
“Do you hear me?” Lita spoke coldly, “Take it away at once, and don’t stain my eyes here.”
The middle-aged man slumped to the floor, his face ashen and his body trembling.
On the other side, Betty’s agent was stunned.
Xie Manyu wasn’t much better, and the man was a little confused.
The ward was soon empty again.
Ying got up: “Queen Xie, you rest, I’ll go out.”
Xie Manyu nods woodenly.
The ward door closed.
“That team of mercenaries said they wanted to see you.” Rita said in a voice that only two people could hear, “They doubt whether you are the First Poisoner or not.”
“When?”
“This evening.”
Ying thought for a moment, “Go early, I have to pick up someone at the airport.”
**
The other side.
The Bevan family territory.
Evan was all anxious, “Brother Evan, Lita said she found the number one poisoner, it was even announced on the nok forum, aren’t you in a hurry?”
He knew that the ancient doctor that the Taylor family head had hired was very young and probably had only so much medical skill.
If it was the ancestral generation of the ancient doctor family, they might still be able to compete with the First Poison Master.
Lin Qingjia might as well forget about it.
“Alright, just listen to her words casually.” Evan waved his hand indifferently, “She even said last time that she went to China to hire some number one poison master, and it ended up not being a fake?”
“These list one, you can’t even hire them with just money.”
On the major hunter lists, the list ones hadn’t appeared for a long time.
The only one who is active is devil, the number one on the killer list.
But even devil had disappeared for almost two years.
“That’s good.” Evan slowly let out a breath of relief, “Big brother, you are the eldest son, the Bevan family should rightly be inherited by you, Rita will have to marry out sooner or later, we can’t let her get so much light again.”
Evan remained calm: “Isn’t she looking for some fire source essence? I specifically told those mercenaries in the underworld that what she’s looking for is 80% fake, don’t fall for it.”
With that being said, Evan was also relieved.
Evan narrowed his eyes and stood up, “Get ready, we’ll pick up Uncle Taylor and the ancient doctor tomorrow.”
Evan got up as well and busied himself with following.
No matter what, the Taylor family head’s illness could only be cured by Lin Qingjia.
**
Evening.
The O Continent Underworld.
A place of chaos where demons are dancing around.
Ying Zigui swept his surroundings, gathered the black robes around him, and his face should be completely under his mask.
Hundreds of years had pa*sed and this place was still the same.
The place was huge, so it was thoughtful to arrange a tour bus.
Soon the two arrived at where the mercenaries were stationed.
“It’s an S-cla*s mercenary group.” Lita said, “The strength is very high, the leader’s ability, not weaker than your ancient martial artists with fifty years of cultivation over there, and those members of the regiment are also equivalent to ancient martial artists with at least thirty years of cultivation.”
Fifty years was a watershed, and the highest level that ninety-nine percent of the mercenaries could reach with drugs.
Ying nodded his head.
The mercenary group had been waiting for Lita for a long time, and a young man immediately stepped out.
He took a look at Ying Zidian, who was covered in black robes, and looked scandalized, but still spoke up, “Miss Lita, your reputation is guaranteed, but you might also be cheated.”
Rita’s eyes went cold: “What do you mean?”
“It means that -” the youth said faintly, “we suspect that this First Poisoner you have found, is a fake!”
With one hand, he went straight for the girl’s shoulder.
Rita’s face paled and she immediately drew her gun: “You seek death!”
The youth’s hand, however, had already grabbed the girl’s shoulder.
Nothing had changed.
“It’s really a fake.” Seeing this, the youth let out a cold laugh, “There’s not even poison on your body, dare to lie to us, you’re dead.”
Ying Zidian inclined his head, his voice pressed down, slightly low and mute, and gave a light laugh, “You want poison? Fine, send you some.”