Ning Qingxue rubbed her swollen red eyes and picked up that anonymous letter. She knew this letter wasn’t for her. She wanted to open it but at the last moment held up that urge. She carefully packed up Ye Mo’s things and put them in a case before opening the door.
“Qingxue, what happened to you?” Li Mumei saw Ning Qingxue with swollen eyes and immediately knew in her heart that she was right. Ning Qingxue really was crying, and she seemed sorrowful as well.
“What’s inside that case?” Li Mumei looked with curiosity at the case Ning Qingxue was hugging. Ning Qingxue’s change must have been due to this box. She really wanted to know what sort of box made Ning Qingxue, who had never cried, so pitiful.
“That’s my stuff!” Ning Qingxue shook her head and didn’t give the chest to Li Mumei.
Li Mumei shook her head and said: “Qingxue, the things here have been settled. Let’s go! Today, we’ll go and do the proceedings for the divorce, then, we’ll go straight to Yu state. I don’t think your father and his big brother had a very nice negotiation. We don’t need to go Beijing anymore. Ning Family Medical Materials may be split in half now.”
“Mumei, I want to wait another two days. Perhaps, Ye Mo might come back… and, I don’t want to divorce right now,” Ning Qingxue shook her head and refused Li Mumei’s suggestion.
“Why?!” Li Mumei looked at Ning Qingxue in surprise, she really couldn’t understand how before, Ning Qingxue couldn’t wait for her to take her away, but now, she suddenly changed and even wanted to live here for an extra two days! What was this? What was so good about this place?
Ning Qingxue shook her head and didn’t answer. She was wondering when Ye Mo was going to come back. The original Ye Mo in her heart didn’t seem to be the real Ye Mo at all. However, when did she ever try to get to know him? Whether it was before or after they got married, she didn’t care about this person at all. Even the first time they met was a means to her own selfish ends. Li Mumei didn’t question Ning Qingxue further as she knew that it was useless to ask something Ning Qingxue didn’t want to say. When Xu Wei came back at night, for the first time Ning Qingxue asked about Ye Mo. Although Xu Wei didn’t really like Ning Qingxue, she still told her about what happened ever since Ye Mo came here.
Ning Qingxue didn’t think Ye Mo’s life was so simple. He just went out and came back each day. Perhaps Xu Wei didn’t even know he was a student.
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Ye Mo left Qi Nong Cliff at night. Although he wasn’t scared of the Song Family, his powers were still too weak. If the Song Family managed to find out that he killed Song Shaowen and set traps for him, he wouldn’t be able to find a stable place to grow his Silver Heart Grass, much less cultivate. Furthermore, it was only a matter of time before the Song Family would find out that Song Shaowen’s death was related to him. So, he was forced not to be found by the Song Family, at least within three years.
Ye Mo used his Cloud Shadow Steps to travel, and his speed wasn’t lower than an ordinary car. At around 6 am, he had already arrived at the Feng Tang Town. This was Feng Kou City’s medium-sized town.
Ye Mo found a little hotel and wanted to go in to wash when he realized that he didn’t even have his identity papers with him. However, small hotels didn’t necessarily require them, and Ye Mo knew that without his identity papers, it was obviously not suitable to live in the city. To avoid suspicion, Ye Mo carried a backpack with only daily necessities inside. There was some food as well as a few thousand dollars which were all scavenged from Song Shaowen and his henchmen. Now, he just wanted to go to the mountain districts of Gui Lin, find a stable place to settle down and cultivate near the border of the country.
Standing outside the gas station at Feng Tang Town, Ye Mo was troubled. If he left using a car, there was a great chance that he would be exposed since he had no identity papers with him, and there were many traffic police patrol that would stop long-distance buses to check identities. It would be better to go by train yet there wasn’t a single train station at Feng Tang Town.
“Friend, are you going anywhere? Do you need a ride?” A 30-or-so-year-old man walked over and asked. Ye Mo had carried his backpack and stood out at the gas station for a long time. He was probably noticed by people, and they immediately came over to see if they could start a business.
Ye Mo could tell with one glance that these people were doing illegal transport. It was probably to escape taxes or something similar. Usually, people wouldn’t want to take these cars, but some people still chose to take these illegal cars to save money because it was cheaper. However, Ye Mo liked this type of transport because these cars would usually take off routes in the forest instead of highways. This way, they could avoid a lot of trouble.
“Where does your car go?” Ye Mo asked casually.
“Qi City, 55 dollars, how about it? Does that pass where you need to go?” the man asked full of hope.
Ye Mo knew Qi City, although it was a bit far from where he wanted to go, it was in the right direction. No wonder there were illegal transport markets here. Ye Mo had already seen on the electronic screen that it was 95 dollars to go to Qi City. Meanwhile, these people only asked for 55. It was almost half the price.
Ye Mo nodded: “Okay, lead the way.”
“Black Skin, I brought another one, 55 dollars to Qi City.” This man brought Ye Mo in front of a big bus and yelled.
“It’s this one, just go on,” the man told Ye Mo to go on the vehicle and left to continue grabbing customers. So, he wasn’t the driver but someone to help to grab customers. Ye Mo didn’t mind. When he got on the bus, there were around 30 or so people. Ye Mo went to find a seat at the back and sat down. He closed his eyes and meditated for a while. A few more people got on until a woman attracted Ye Mo’s attention. She wore a golden-framed glasses. Although she wasn’t very pretty, she wasn’t ugly either; however, she looked rather bulky. Her voluptuous body was also quite stunning.
What made Ye Mo notice her wasn’t her hot body but her Killer’s Qi. Although she seemed like a normal person on the surface, she had this Killer’s Qi that Ye Mo felt as soon as she got on the car. However, her glasses didn’t match her temperament at all, and he wondered if she was pretending to be a civilian.
This woman had killed people before, and not just one. As soon as she got on the bus, she immediately attracted a lot of attention. A few youth even scanned their eyes across this woman’s chest and buttocks as they swallowed their saliva. For this type of women, you didn’t even need to look at her face. Just her body was enough to conquer any man.
The woman scanned the car with her eyes as if not noticing these lewd glances. She scanned everyone including Ye Mo, her eyes were sharp but not arrogant which showed that this was a woman with a story. Ye Mo closed his eyes; he was also someone with a story; there were too many people in this world with a story, why bother about others? This was the season for long-distance travel, and the bus probably couldn’t get any more people. Although there were less than 40 people on the bus, the bus still moved.
After going for about half an hour, someone came to collect money. Ye Mo gave the transport fee and continued to close his eyes to meditate. Although they weren’t going on the highway, the car was still relatively stable. According to the driver, it would take around 4 hours to get to Qi City. Now they had gone for about two hours, it should be more than half way.
“Driver, stop the bus! I’m getting off here,” a sudden voice resounded.
“Lady, this is the Xiang Li Mountain District. There’s not even a hotel here, if you get off he—” The driver reminded her out of goodwill. However, his words were stopped half way by this woman: “That’s my business, please stop the bus.”
“There’s no other way here other than this road. If you enter the mountain here, you would be reaching the Gui Xiang mountain range. Although there are a few tourist spots, it is mostly primitive forests. If you get off here, there really is nowhere to go…” A good-hearted middle-aged man said in the car.
The woman stayed silent for a moment and went back to her seat again. It was unknown if it was because she felt that this middle-aged man was right or if it was something else. However, Ye Mo’s heart was moved. Although it wasn’t good for anyone else to get off here, it was good for him.
He knew about the Gui Xiang mountain range, its expanse went through the three provinces of Hu Zhong, Xiang Huai, and Gui Nan and was named after one of the three greatest mountain ranges of China. Gui Nan province was at the border between China and Vietnam, and the place where he wanted to go, Gui Lin, was the southernmost city of Gui Nan province.
If he wanted to go there by car, he had to keep changing vehicles at Hu Zhong, Xiang Huai, and Gui Nan, but he didn’t have his identity papers which would increase his chances of being exposed. If he left from the Gui Xiang mountain range by himself, it was much safer despite it taking more time. Besides, there were a lot of trains passing by the Gui Xiang mountain ranges. Perhaps, he could try to get on one, but even if he didn’t, there was no pressure for him, since he was able to cultivate while he walked.
“Driver, stop, I’m getting off, my friend’s car is coming,” said Ye Mo as he walked to the front.
Not only was the driver stunned but the people on the bus were too; even the woman looked at Ye Mo curiously. The reason she didn’t get off wasn’t that this was the wilderness or in the middle of nowhere, but because she was scared that people would get suspicious of her and spread the word. After all, a woman getting off the bus in the wilderness was very unexpected. Just when she wanted to find a good reason to get off the vehicle, someone actually also said they wanted to leave, which suited her perfectly.
The driver didn’t say anything this time. Saying that there was another car coming obviously meant that he didn’t want to take the bus anymore. The bus stopped, and Ye Mo got off first, followed by that woman. However, what surprised everyone was that there were another two men that got off afterward. Everyone realized that those two got off because of Ye Mo and the woman; nevertheless, the driver didn’t dare to mind others’ business and immediately started the bus, quickly disappearing at the corner.
As for why that woman got off the car, Ye Mo understood that she already had the intention to leave when she had expressed herself earlier; however, he didn’t understand why the two men behind also got off the car. It didn’t take long for him to figure out their intention as the two men had circled the woman. One of them glared at Ye Mo and said, “Punk, if you want to live a few extra days, hurry up and piss off! There’s no business for you here!”
Ye Mo had stumbled upon a case of robbery, which made him want to laugh. Although these two men looked tough, Ye Mo was sure they weren’t a match for the woman. This woman stared coldly at the two men who approached her but didn’t say a word.
“Little girl, take out your money! Don’t try to tell me you don’t have any, I saw it when you picked up the phone. There should be more than ten thousand! Hehe, we were planning on robbing the bus, but since you have that much money on you, we might as well just rob you.” The man who told Ye Mo to piss off turned to stare strangely at this woman.
Ye Mo smiled. He didn’t even want to bother himself with these sort of things since both parties weren’t good people.
“Wait!” just when Ye Mo was about to leave, the woman suddenly called.
“What?” Ye Mo turned his head and asked plainly. Seeing that Ye Mo wasn’t worried at all, this woman scanned Ye Mo again with a look of surprise. However, she really couldn’t notice anything abnormal about Ye Mo. This person was so normal and average; even his vans (shoes) were as ordinary as it could be which made her believe that Ye Mo really had a mental problem.
“Help me out with something and later...” This ferocious yet busty woman suddenly smiled and took off her glasses. Her face suddenly became lively with this smile. This was the first time Ye Mo saw such a significant change in a face just because of a smile. It was as though she became two different people.
“I don’t like fighting,” before the woman finished the latter half of the sentence, Ye Mo had already refused.
“Haha…” The woman was dazed for a moment and actually started laughing. She continued, “I don’t need you to fight, I want you to help me bury these two in the trees later.”
The two men who were surrounding the woman were originally looking at Ye Mo fiercely. When they saw that Ye Mo didn’t leave immediately and wasn’t scared, they instantaneously became vigilant toward him. Usually, people would run away if they saw someone getting robbed, so they had rarely seen someone who was fearless like him. However, when they heard that this woman was asking Ye Mo to bury them, the taller man could no longer hold it as he grabbed his knife, piercing towards the woman’s chest.
“Crack… Argh…” Two sounds, yet the man with the knife was already on the ground.
The other shorter man hadn’t even reacted, but Ye Mo saw it clearly. The woman quickly grabbed the tall man’s wrist and pushed it upward when the man pierced the knife toward her chest. At the same time, she knocked the back of the knife with her hand which flew right into the tall man’s throat.
Such a powerful woman! This whole set of moves was only a few breath’s time. If Ye Mo wasn’t at the 2nd stage now, he wouldn’t even be able to see it. Ye Mo thought that if it was at the time when he was still at the 1st stage, and he had to fight this woman, then the odds would have been unpredictable.
In other words, he wondered what would have happened if he had a conflict with this woman a month before and what the result would have been; Ye Mo didn’t like this sense of threat. The only way was to continually get stronger.
The shorter man finally woke up to the situation. Although it was just a few breaths of time, he had already understood that they had met someone too powerful for them this time and without a second thought, he turned and started to run. However, the woman suddenly kicked the knife that was still inside the tall man’s throat, then with another kick on the back of the knife, send it toward the fleeing man whose heart got immediately pierced through from the back.
“You have guts, I didn’t ask you to help me fight them and, as you can see, you don’t need to anymore. You just need to help me bury these two people in the forest, and all of their money is yours.” The woman suddenly smiled at Ye Mo once again.
“What if these two people don’t have money on them?” Ye Mo asked plainly. The woman was stunned for a moment, she didn’t think that Ye Mo was still considering this problem right now. A normal person would’ve done what she asked ages ago; they wouldn’t dare to argue.
“If there isn’t money, then this is yours.” The woman reached into her bag and pulled out a stack of notes, keeping only around half of it and gave the rest to Ye Mo.
Ye Mo casually took the notes. He saw that it was probably around 10,000 dollars at the start, but the woman kept some, so there was only around 4 or 5 thousand left which was still really generous of her. Ye Mo who needed money at this moment smiled and said, “Fine, it’s a deal.”
After saying that, he just dragged the two men laying on the ground into the forest. Watching Ye Mo going so casually into the forest as well as the ease with which he pulled the body, there was a sliver of approval in the woman’s eyes as she muttered to herself, “He has good strength and courage, it’s just that he doesn’t look manly enough.”