Chapter 31

Despite having psychological expectations, Ding Huan was still very disappointed, but at least he knew that Qu Yi had people protecting her.

Ding Huan didn't hold much hope for the man and woman protecting Qu Yi; if they could truly protect her, then in his previous life, Qu Yi wouldn't have been captured by the Gene Alliance for human genetic experiments and lost her life.

Since he couldn't gain the trust of Qu Yi's side, he could only look for the source.

Ding Huan now knew who was watching Qu Yi: the two men staying at the Youdun High-end Hotel.

Over the next few days, Ding Huan purchased some materials for disguise; he didn't want things to become uncontrollable.

The best way was to eliminate the uncontrollable factors that posed a danger to Qu Yi.

Even though he knew that Qu Yi wouldn't be taken by the Gene Alliance for experiments until five months later, Ding Huan didn't want to take that risk.

If he hadn't just gone to the Youdun High-end Hotel to investigate, Ding Huan would have wanted to finish off these two guys a few days ago.

Ding Huan waited for over a week before disguising himself and entering the Youdun High-end Hotel.

He didn't choose to go at night; people coming and going during the day was the safest. With fewer people at night, his disguise would be more likely to be noticed.

After entering the Youdun High-end Hotel, he took the elevator directly to the 11th floor, walked to room 1123, and knocked on the door.

"Who is it?" A lazy voice asked from inside.

"Hotel service, delivering iced drinks," Ding Huan said with a slightly gentle tone.

"What iced drinks? We didn't order any..." As the person spoke, the door was opened.

Ding Huan entered the room and closed the door behind him.

"Who are you?" The person who opened the door immediately retreated several steps; it was clear he could see that Ding Huan was not hotel staff, as his attire was quite strange.

A face full of beard, wearing a peaked cap, and sunglasses that almost covered half his face.

"Get out..." The other person grabbed a knife, shouting for Ding Huan to get out, and the knife in his hand was already swung toward him.

He didn't intend to let Ding Huan actually get out.

Ding Huan didn't even dodge; instead, he stepped forward, his hand moving faster than the other's, directly grabbing the man's wrist and bending it upward with force.

With a crisp 'crack,' the wrist was easily broken.

"Ah..." A shrill scream rang out, the knife in his hand fell, and the guy who had ambushed Ding Huan knelt halfway down, as if he were paying his respects to Ding Huan.

Ding Huan flicked his foot, and the knife landed in his hand. He then looked at the other man, who was stunned, and said,

"If you dare to make another sound, I guarantee I will make you completely quiet."

"Who the hell are you? Do you know where we come from? We are..."

The man with the broken wrist was in such pain that his face turned white, yet he was still roaring wildly.

Before the man could say the words "Gene Alliance," Ding Huan swept the knife in his hand, and a jet of blood sprayed out; the head of the kneeling man was cleanly severed by Ding Huan.

The man who had helped Ding Huan open the door was so scared that he collapsed to the floor, his face equally pale and terrifying.

Where had he ever seen such a bloody scene? While it was indeed a time when genetic beasts were rampant, people like him had never been to the battlefield.

The harshness of the human living environment was only reflected in the lives of ordinary people; it had nothing to do with them.

Ding Huan patted the man's face with the knife and said, "Look, I said I would make him quiet."

"I don't know anything..." The man finally woke up from his terror and said, trembling.

"I'll ask, and you'll answer. If you lie or don't answer, you will also become quiet." Ding Huan walked to a chair and sat down.

Even though Ding Huan had sat down, the man was still terrified because of the bloody murder Ding Huan had just committed in the room.

"What's your name?"

"Chang Chongjin."

"Which organization? What are you doing here?"

"We are from the Gene Alliance, and our mission is to guard the Huaxia Martial Arts Gene Testing Building every day, looking for various special genetic bodies."

"How many have you found?"

"They are all here." The man didn't dare to hesitate or hide anything; he reached out, picked up the notebook on the table, and handed it to Ding Huan.

Ding Huan opened the notebook; it recorded at least twenty names, and Qu Yi was prominently on the list.

What surprised Ding Huan was that Qu Yi was not an exotic gene affinity body, but a coupled gene body.

He had truly made a mistake that turned out right; he had previously thought the exotic gene affinity body the guy spoke of was Qu Yi, but now he understood that the exotic gene affinity body was someone else.

This was strange; since Qu Yi was a coupled gene body, why would she be taken for genetic testing experiments?

"Have these data been submitted?" Ding Huan raised the notebook in his hand.

The man shook his head hurriedly, "No, these data are handwritten notes. After the assessment begins, we are to hand them over to Boss Quan."

"Who is Boss Quan?"

"He is the person in charge sent by the Gene Alliance to find talent during this Blue Star Top Ten Academies assessment."

Ding Huan sneered, "Finding talent? It's more like finding people to do genetic experiments, or rather, finding people to send to their deaths."

The man's mouth hung half-open; he looked at Ding Huan in disbelief. They didn't even know such things, so how did Ding Huan know?

He and his companion could only vaguely guess that these people they had recorded would basically not appear in the future.

The reason the Gene Alliance was so powerful was that people were constantly sacrificing their lives for new genes.

Every time a new gene came out, the Gene Alliance gained another money-printing machine.

Guessing was one thing, but they didn't even dare to speak of it. Who would dare to say such things? It would be equivalent to not wanting to see tomorrow's sun.

"Tell me, what is Boss Quan's name? Does he have a photo, and where does he live?" Ding Huan knew he probably couldn't get anything more out of him.

The man shook his head, "I don't know either. I only know his code name is Boss Quan. Those qualified to see him all call him Master Quan.

After the genetic assessment begins, we are to take this data to the Tinghuan Grand Hotel, and someone will automatically come to find us."

An hour later, Ding Huan left the Youdun High-end Hotel and returned to where he was staying.

The next day, when Ding Huan went to eat, he heard the news that two Gene Alliance members had been killed.

The Youdun High-end Hotel had been sealed off, officials were checking everywhere on the streets, and the people in charge of security for the Gene Alliance were acting like madmen, searching every hotel.

Ding Huan sighed inwardly; these were two members of the Gene Alliance who had been killed. If ordinary people were killed, let alone two, even two hundred, there probably wouldn't even be a news report the next day.

Such a large-scale search simply wouldn't exist.

Not to mention ordinary people, even when he killed two members of the Xidao Society in Luohe City, the matter was eventually left unsettled.

Even if that matter hadn't ended, the Xidao Society didn't dare to deal with him openly and could only do so in the shadows.

From this, one could see how great the influence of the Gene Alliance was.

Ding Huan acted as if nothing had happened, continuing to cultivate and eat as usual over the next few days.

The Gene Alliance hadn't found any results; they didn't even know what the person who killed the two members looked like.

Because that person had used a disguise and hadn't come out after entering room 1123, he must have left through the room's window.

How could someone who could leave from the window of an eleventh-floor room be an ordinary person?

Puhai was the location for the Blue Star Top Ten Academies' enrollment assessment, and as the assessment time approached, more and more people were coming to Puhai.

No matter how powerful the Gene Alliance was, it was only an international organization.

The Gene Alliance's high-profile search for the killer of its members had long since caused dissatisfaction among all parties.

Besides, Puhai was an important city in Huaxia; in the face of such a major event, the Gene Alliance couldn't cover the sky with one hand, causing turmoil and spreading anxiety.

By this time, the Gene Alliance could only scale back and could no longer continue its investigation openly.

Ding Huan didn't intend to let it go just like that; he prepared to find a way to go to the Tinghuan Grand Hotel to find Boss Quan after the Blue Star Top Ten Academies' enrollment assessment began.

It would be best to finish off this guy; in his previous life, Qu Yi must have been taken away by this person and then lost her life.

It was better for him to keep a low profile for now and let Boss Quan be arrogant for a few more days.

"Is that you? Ding Huan?"

This morning, after Ding Huan finished breakfast and was buying information about the Blue Star Top Ten Academies' assessment at the hotel entrance, he was called out.

The Blue Star Top Ten Academies' assessment was approaching, and all kinds of new information appeared every day; no matter which hotel you stayed in, you could buy it at the entrance.

Ding Huan turned his head in confusion, and then he saw Luo Xinwei standing not far away.

"Luo Xinwei?" Ding Huan was slightly puzzled to see Luo Xinwei, but he didn't take it to heart.

In his eyes, Luo Xinwei was no different from a passerby.

"Ding Huan, it really is you. Why are you here?" Luo Xinwei immediately walked over.

Regardless, she had received many benefits from Ding Huan; without Ding Huan, there would be no her today. Not to mention that she could now be a counselor at the Luohe Upper Martial Arts University.

"Oh, I'm a counselor. I'm tagging along with Teacher Geng. Teacher Geng brought a few students who are about to participate in the Blue Star Top Ten Academies' assessment, and I came to Puhai first to check out the situation."

Ding Huan answered casually.

Luo Xinwei looked Ding Huan up and down in surprise; she didn't expect Ding Huan to have landed such a job.

This wasn't an ordinary job; anything connected to the Blue Star Top Ten Academies' assessment was not simple.

She had been so sycophantic, yet she was only doing odd jobs for the team from Luohe Upper Martial Arts University participating in the assessment. At least, she had made it to Puhai.

"Xinwei, let's go." A companion's call came from afar.

Luo Xinwei hurriedly said to Ding Huan, "Ding Huan, good luck, you will definitely succeed."

After saying that, she hurriedly chased after her companion.

Ding Huan was baffled; succeed at what? He had no idea.

Hmm, something was wrong; Ding Huan felt a sensation of being watched by a venomous snake behind his back.

He turned his head again, and a black figure flashed by; it seemed like a woman was watching him? And with hatred?

Such a familiar back; who was this woman?