195: Chapter 195 The Knife-Running Rat Luo Xin: Wow! She's a rich woman!

Deep in the night, leaving the City Lord's Mansion and riding the Song Family's magic carriage back to Song Family Manor, Chu Hong had been carefully pondering the method of advancing from the Qiyuan Realm to the Energy Gathering Realm that the old City Lord Jiang Xingdong had explained to them today.

"Draining source energy in the secret realm, and then waiting for it to recover on its own?"

Chu Hong muttered inwardly.

In Jiang Xingdong's words, Pioneers in the Qiyuan Realm were just a group of fledgling birds waiting to be fed; even if the "food" was right in front of them, without a mother bird to feed them personally, these fools would only open their mouths and wait.

Meanwhile, the Energy Gathering Realm was about forcing out the potential within a Pioneer's body.

Going from passively waiting to be fed to actively feeding...

Inside the carriage, Song Jiaojiao leaned against Chu Hong's shoulder. Her clear breathing carried a hint of distinct fatigue; today, Jiang Xingdong had led them back and forth into the [Cliffside Epidemic Hospital] a full seven or eight rounds.

Chu Hong had long been accustomed to such frequent operations in secret realms.

But Song Jiaojiao and the others couldn't quite handle it.

That fat man Wang Suming was currently sitting alone on the opposite seat, tilting his head back against the seatback, snoring with his mouth wide open.

Suddenly.

Chu Hong's gaze shifted slightly.

His sharp perception allowed him to discover a suspicious figure behind the magic carriage.

"Uncle Fu, take a left at the intersection ahead..." Chu Hong instructed calmly.

Uncle Fu, who was driving ahead, froze for a moment, but without questioning, he nodded, and very naturally, the carriage soon turned left into an alley ahead.

Song Jiaojiao slowly opened her eyes, looking somewhat dazed.

"What is it?"

Uncle Fu explained, "Miss, we're being followed..."

Song Jiaojiao was startled. Daring to track them inside the base city—what were they planning to do?

Uncle Fu was on guard, but Chu Hong gently shook his head. "Rest assured, there's only one person. Hesitant and indecisive, they don't look like anyone with malicious intent."

Chu Hong stepped down from the carriage.

As the footsteps behind drew closer, and Chu Hong saw the incoming person through his source energy perception, his brows couldn't help but twitch slightly.

It turned out to be her!

That girl whose four teammates he had wiped out in the secret realm today, and who then abandoned her teammates to escape alone.

Luo Xin hadn't expected to run into Chu Hong again.

At first, she thought she had seen wrong, but when she looked closer again and confirmed that the man sitting in the carriage was indeed Chu Hong, and that the latter hadn't even changed his armor...

After agonizing for a long time, Luo Xin still quietly followed.

She was pondering that once she followed them to their residence, she would find a way to slip a letter in to warn them, so they wouldn't be helpless when trouble from the He Group came knocking on their door.

However.

Thinking of the intense, nervous aura of danger radiating all over Chu Hong's body...

Luo Xin hesitated once more.

Would that guy think she was looking for trouble and just squash her to death as casually as he had pinched the members of the Black Mantis Team to death?

While she was hesitating.

Making a turn, she ran straight into Chu Hong's calm eyes.

Luo Xin's body instantly stiffened in place, a faint paleness creeping onto her face.

"If I..."

"If you say you were just passing by, I wouldn't believe it." Chu Hong's casual sentence made the color drain even further from Luo Xin's pretty face.

Song Jiaojiao stepped down from the carriage and glanced at Luo Xin, who was frozen in place, looking terrified as if she didn't even dare to blink.

Then she looked at Chu Hong.

"Who is this? Your friend?"

Chu Hong rolled his eyes. "Do you think she looks like she just met an old friend?"

Luo Xin was almost frightened to the point of pissing her pants right now.

Even though Chu Hong currently looked casual, in her eyes...

Besides the 'SSS Extremely Dangerous' tag, there was clearly another line marked above Chu Hong's head: "Killing Intent Level: B-Rank."

B-Rank meant that the person in front of her had already figured out how to kill her.

"Here to avenge your teammates?" Chu Hong said with a half-smile.

However, looking at the "B" of the killing intent level above the opponent's head, it was faintly about to jump towards "A-Rank: Deciding where to bury her after killing her."

Luo Xin hurriedly waved her hands.

"No, no, no! I, I'm not here to make trouble for you! I... I am not in the same group as those people!"

When speaking, hit the main points; when begging for mercy, kneel first.

Under the stunned gazes of Chu Hong and Song Jiaojiao, Luo Xin dropped to her knees on the spot with a thud right in front of them.

No... why is this person's knees so weak?

Song Jiaojiao looked at Chu Hong suspiciously, her look seeming to say: "What did you do to her to scare her to this extent?"

This was still inside the base city, yet she just dropped to her knees.

If it were outside the base city... wouldn't she wet her pants on the spot?

Chu Hong was speechless. He took a deep breath. "Get up first!"

Seeing the killing intent level above Chu Hong's head—which only she could see—slowly drop from the original B-Rank to "C-Rank, where her life was basically saved,"

Luo Xin breathed a sigh of relief. Her life was saved...

She stood up and recounted today's misunderstanding, also revealing that the Black Mantis Team was backed by the He Group.

Beside her, Song Jiaojiao knitted her brows slightly.

"The He Group? You mean the He Group of Qianchongzhai Base City?"

Luo Xin hurriedly nodded. "That's right! That fellow He Zhenshan is someone who holds grudges and seeks revenge for every slight. Once he finds out that you killed his men, he will definitely find a way to retaliate against you..."

Speaking to the end, Luo Xin couldn't help feeling guilty again.

If it weren't for her in-game recording, even though He Zhenshan would certainly still be able to find Chu Hong, it definitely wouldn't have been so soon.

"The He Group, huh..." Chu Hong murmured inwardly, yet no trace of worry could be seen in his eyes.

If those few pieces of trash from the Black Mantis Team could be considered elite Pioneers within the He Group, then there was indeed nothing to be overly nervous about.

However, since this never-before-met head of the He Group possessed the fine virtue of seeking revenge for every slight, just like Captain Chu,

Chu Hong wouldn't mind exchanging some tips and techniques with each other.

"Get in the carriage!"

Along the way, Wang Suming's snoring continued.

But Song Jiaojiao sat together with Luo Xin. Under Song Jiaojiao's gentle inquiries, Luo Xin, being fellow female, revealed even more intelligence that the others didn't know.

"You actually got accepted by Longming Sacred Academy too?" Chu Hong wore a look of suspicion and... disdain.

He suddenly felt a bit regretful. Longming Sacred Academy was famous, but how could someone who drops to their knees right off the bat get accepted as well?

Luo Xin's pretty face flushed red. "I, I really was accepted!"

Chu Hong remained skeptical. "Then how did you get your elimination score? Did you kneel to the opponents and beg them to let you kill them?!"

Luo Xin: "!!!"

How could this person talk in such an ugly and harsh way?!

It's not like she kneels to just anyone.

As for SSS-level extremely dangerous Pioneers she had been able to come into contact with, Chu Hong was the only one so far.

Even a gentleman doesn't stand under a dangerous wall, let alone a woman like her who had an elder brother with a serious illness to support?

Luo Xin muttered incessantly in her heart.

The moment the magic carriage drove into Song Family Manor, her eyes couldn't help but widen.

"Th-This is the manor of the Rubiks Chamber of Commerce's Song family, you guys..."

She looked at the few of them in utter shock, and then shifted her gaze to Song Jiaojiao, who stood beside her with a gentle expression.

A rich woman!!!