Guide Her to Nowhere (NPH) - Chapter 51: Shi Xi

Chapter 51: Shi Xi

Shen Qi wiped out Planting Field No. 13. Except for the highest-ranking official left for questioning and the innocent victims who had been kidnapped, he killed everyone else.

The mountaintop where Qu Tang once stayed for a while had become unrecognizable. Only a ruin shrouded in black smoke remained.

Before the black smoke, at the edge of the cliff, two people stood.

One had white hair and wore all black. He gazed coldly at the barren, burned fields at the mountain’s base. “I killed Xie Li.”

The other also wore black, but his outfit consisted of a suit, trousers, black leather shoes, a tie, and gelled hair. Every detail of his appearance was meticulous, the typical look of an upper-class elite, clashing with the surroundings.

“We agreed beforehand that Xie Li was mine. Shen Qi, this is the first time you’ve broken a promise,” the man said. He had single eyelids, but his eyes were large. Even through his glasses, his gaze carried an air of effortless authority.

“I left you the body.”

Shi Xi gave an exasperated laugh. “After knowing you all these years, how did I never notice your talent for cold jokes?”

“Forget it. He was just a lackey anyway. He wouldn’t know much,” Shi Xi said, changing the subject. “A while back, didn’t you hijack a bus going from District Six to District Seven?”

“That happened. What about it?”

“Was there a woman named Qu Tang on it?” Shi Xi pulled out his phone and opened a photo. “This is her.”

Shen Qi glanced at it.

The photo was a headshot from a resume. It was indeed the Qu Tang he knew, but the Qu Tang in the picture had a shy smile and gentle eyes—worlds apart from the Qu Tang he recognized.

“There was,” Shen Qi said. He had no reason to lie. Everyone else from that bus was still alive; Shi Xi could easily find out.

Shi Xi wasn’t surprised. The Shi family’s information network was reliable.

“Where is she?”

“She’s dead.”

“Dead?”

Shen Qi remained calm. “She killed four of Xie Li’s men during the hijacking. Xie Li kept her behind instead of sending her to grow herbs. He seemed to really like her bl00d. Halfway through, he drained her until she was barely alive. A few days later, she disappeared. Probably thrown outside the grid by Xie Li to feed the mutants.”

Shi Xi fell silent for a moment, stunned that Qu Tang would kill—and four people at that—yet shocked that she had died just like that.

At that moment, two cars drove up the winding road from the mountain’s base and stopped outside the tent area.

A少年 wearing a cat-ear cap leaned half his body out of the front passenger seat of the second car. He waved toward them and shouted loudly, “Deputy Captain, let’s go~”

“I’m heading out,” Shen Qi said.

“Yeah.” Shi Xi removed his glasses and rubbed his tired nose bridge.

How should he tell Xiao Xi that Qu Tang was dead?

No, he couldn’t tell her.

After deciding on his words, Shi Xi put his glasses back on. His gaze swept over the two cars outside the tent area. He happened to catch Shen Qi walking to the first car, smiling at the half-open door.

Smiling? Shen Qi?

From Shen Qi’s angle, he must have been smiling at someone in the back seat.

Who?

Shi Xi had worked with Shen Qi’s team several times and knew their setup. The front and passenger seats of the second car held the twins. Yi Jin sat in the driver’s seat of the first car. Who was in the back, their figure obscured? A new member?

Shi Xi didn’t dwell on it. He walked toward an armed helicopter parked inside the tent area. Just as he boarded, he received a call.

“Young Master…” Butler Zhou hesitated on the other end.

“What is it now?”

“The young master… broke Shi Jia’s leg.”

Shi Jia was their eldest uncle’s second son. He had always clashed with Shi Xi. At twenty years old, he was a Sentinel, A-rank.

“Master Shi Ling detained the young master. He said… he said you have to pick him up yourself.”

“I see,” Shi Xi replied, his eyes half-lowered. His long, pale fingers brushed off a speck of ash from his pant leg. “Tell Shi Ling that if Xiao Xi loses a single hair, I’ll break Shi Jia’s other leg.”

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Shi Ling was Shi Xi’s cousin, one of the original story’s male leads.