Chapter 225 - 185: Summary of Gains, Strength Surges (2)

Chapter 225: Chapter 185: Summary of Gains, Strength Surges (2)

’My team is certainly full of talent.’

’And my own strength is approaching the Second Grade Spirit Ability Realm.’

Leveraging the advantage of her rebirth, she advanced cautiously, taking calculated risks from time to time. Her rewards were immense.

Everything was looking up.

It was a much, much better start than in her previous life.

’I have to keep this up!’

’First, I need to secure control over the people on my team.’

’The Puppet Clan will appear in the next Mist Event.’

’There will be a way to control people there. I absolutely have to get my hands on it!’

Xia Yu quickly composed herself.

She decided to add a few extra eggs to her noodles today.

While eating her noodles,

Xia Yu added a lot of ’meat jerky.’ No matter what, her strength training couldn’t be interrupted.

She had thought today would be a happy day.

But she never expected to run into Wang Quanzhi as she was finishing her noodles and preparing to leave!

’What a coincidence.’

Xia Yu vaguely sensed something was off, but she didn’t have time to dwell on it. She casually pulled out her phone and dialed Xia Tian’s number. "Little Tian, when are you coming home?"

Xia Tian replied, "Sis, I just got out of class! If you’d called a few minutes earlier, my phone would’ve been confiscated, and that would’ve ruined our school’s reputation."

He was just making things up.

In reality, he had just finished his research for the evening and was about to test his newly modified robot vacuum.

Xia Yu said, "I have perfect timing. You don’t sound very happy to hear from me!"

She was making it up, too. In reality, she hadn’t even considered whether Xia Tian was in class; she just wanted to get away from Wang Quanzhi.

Xia Tian said, "No way! Sis, you know how I feel about you, don’t you?"

Xia Yu gave Wang Quanzhi a nod by way of greeting, then brushed past him as she continued, "I haven’t gotten a single call from you these past few days. If I didn’t call you, would you just forget you have a sister?"

Xia Tian felt a pang of guilt.

He had been a bit obsessed with his research these past few days.

He’d just been grabbing a few bites of food whenever he could, and he had indeed forgotten to call his sister.

"AHEM."

He cleared his throat and said, "Sis, I’ve been busy communicating with the school here and I just forgot. How about this: I’ll buy you a gift when I get back."

Xia Yu replied, "That’s more like it."

Just as she was about to say something else, she saw a call from Zhao Guohui and frowned. "Little Tian, something’s come up. I have to go."

「A few minutes later.」

’Something’s happened again?’

Xia Yu hung up the phone, her brow slightly furrowed.

The gist of the call was this: the officials had learned through a special channel that a foreign Spiritual Ability User had accepted an 800-million bounty from overseas. This person had already infiltrated Huayang City to assassinate the head of the Wang Family—Wang Shang—and they hoped she could help eliminate the threat.

She was told to name her price, whatever her conditions might be.

’Assassination?’

’Wang Shang?’

She searched her memories for those two ’keywords’.

The Wang Family was immensely wealthy and had recently provided a great deal of funding to the nation, supporting the construction of shelters. They also had a talent like Wang Quanzhi, who had provided small inventions like ’Jumping Shoes’ and the ’Nail Gun.’

Their contributions were substantial.

So...

the nation was placing extreme importance on the matter of Wang Shang’s life.

Besides, during this seemingly peaceful period, daring to assassinate one of the country’s wealthiest men on home soil was a direct provocation against the nation!

The perpetrator had to be punished severely!

’I don’t remember anything about this.’

Xia Yu shook her head.

After spending ten years in the Apocalypse, her mind was overflowing with memories. It was already a great feat that she could recall information about the Mist Events from before the outbreak; how could she possibly remember details like ’who assassinated Wang Shang, when, and where’?

After a moment’s thought, she picked up her phone and made a call.

"Yu."

"Hong She, contact Su Qian. I need you to help me investigate a Spiritual Ability User who recently infiltrated Huayang City to assassinate Wang Shang. I want all available information on this person."

"Right!"

「An hour later.」

Xia Yu was exercising to familiarize herself with her newfound strength. ’My physical condition is getting stronger and stronger. Regular workout equipment and routines are completely useless to me now.’

’I need to find some time to talk to Zhao Guohui and get a set of super-heavy training equipment.’

At the moment, their dealings were becoming more frequent, and they were in something of a honeymoon period.

He pretty much granted her every request.

RING RING RING.

Her phone rang. It was Hong She. "Yu, Su Qian found something."

Xia Yu was surprised. "That was fast."

Hong She replied, "We may have underestimated her influence abroad. I heard she has connections with the military in some foreign country—she can even get us weapons of mass destruction like Rocket Launchers."

"It’s just that shipping them here is extremely difficult."

Xia Yu said, "Oh?"

A Rocket Launcher.

In terms of speed, power, and convenience, it was a top-tier choice.