Chapter 205

"I have killed quite a few officials; your General Inspectorate actually dares to invite me to be an honorary consultant?"

Li Fei looked at Xia Huan with a half-smile.

Clearly there was no murderous intent, but Xia Huan felt a chill instantly, and the smile on his face froze!

Yan Shijin of the investigation team publicly helped Li Fei remove the wanted notice, using the reason that it was impossible to determine that the Green-Faced Ghost King in Datong Prefecture was the same Green-Faced Ghost who killed officials in Xingcheng.

As a result, Li Fei actually said in front of Xia Huan that he was the one who killed the officials!

This was no longer slapping his face in public, but tearing his face apart in public!

Just as the atmosphere became tense, Li Fei suddenly laughed:

"Haha, just a joke."

"Haha, hahahaha."

Xia Huan followed and laughed.

Just a moment ago, he felt that he might be finished tonight...

"Inspector Xia, you see, asking me to be an honorary consultant, the risk might be very high."

Li Fei looked at Xia Huan with deep meaning.

Xia Huan gave two dry laughs, barely maintaining a smiling face, and said:

"Why doesn't the Ghost King listen to the conditions we offer first?"

Li Fei was noncommittal and signaled Xia Huan to continue.

"As long as the Ghost King is willing to agree to become our honorary consultant of the General Inspectorate, you don't need to do anything; every year we can provide you with thirty first-grade implants and ten second-grade implants!"

As soon as Xia Huan opened his mouth, he stated a very moving condition.

Why do major forces want to buy exotic beast feed and raise exotic beasts?

It is mainly to obtain implants to cultivate martial artists.

Now the General Inspectorate can directly provide Li Fei with implants, thirty per year, which means thirty martial artists can be cultivated every year!

This quota is already quite a lot; the exotic beast breeding farm Li Fei has can produce about thirty usable implants per year.

As long as Li Fei nods and agrees, in a few years, the number of martial artists under his command can double!

And the conditions Xia Huan gave were not finished yet:

"Besides implants, the Ghost King can share information with our General Inspectorate; we can give you authority equivalent to a Secret Secretary of the General Inspectorate!"

Xia Huan is an inspector of the General Inspectorate, a level 10 official, just touching the threshold of a life official.

And the Secret Secretary of the General Inspectorate is responsible for the intelligence work of a single place, is a level 12 official, is on the same level as the Chief of a place, and is the pinnacle of life officials.

Letting Li Fei possess authority equivalent to a Secret Secretary of the General Inspectorate means he can obtain most of the intelligence of the General Inspectorate!

This is not just real-time intelligence, but also a large part of official intelligence; after all, the main job of the General Inspectorate is to inspect all officials.

This means Li Fei can use this to strike at the officials of the Poison King and Cannon King faction, and can also better manage the base of Xingcheng!

"Finally."

Xia Huan's conditions were not finished yet:

"If the Ghost King is obsessed with martial arts, our General Inspectorate can also help you obtain the high-level inheritance of the Martial University!"

Actually, this last point would make ordinary Jianghu people, even martial arts masters like "Blade King" Gu Xianfeng, feel very moved!

But it just so happens that for Li Fei, this last point has no great attraction.

In his own identity, he is already a peerless genius at the Martial University; if we really want to talk about it, the difficulty for him to obtain the high-level inheritance of the Martial University might be much smaller than the General Inspectorate.

He has already obtained "Jin Gang Seal" and "Red Sound Fire Jin Gang Method".

"Finished?"

Li Fei asked calmly.

Xia Huan nodded: "If the Ghost King has other requirements, you can also propose them; our General Inspectorate is very sincere."

"I believe you are very sincere."

Li Fei nodded, looked into Xia Huan's eyes, and said word by word:

"But, I refuse."

Actually, this honorary consultant the General Inspectorate mentioned translates into four words—imperial court lackey.

Li Fei believes that at first, the General Inspectorate would certainly treat him with courtesy and would not need him to do anything at all.

But later, all kinds of things would slowly come to him.

Li Fei's experience in his previous life made him too clear about the various involuntary situations within the system!

Those people will use all kinds of ways to make you have to compromise, use invisible ropes to bind you, and make you gradually unable to stretch your hands and feet.

Until one day, when the "ropes" on you are enough, you are successfully "tamed" and become a qualified imperial court lackey.

So from the first day Li Fei came to this world, he never thought about becoming a person within the system again.

What he seeks is to live happily, to master his own destiny; entering the system, even if he became the Emperor, he couldn't do this!

"Ghost King..."

Xia Huan wanted to persuade him again, but was interrupted by Li Fei:

"This matter need not be discussed again!"

Xia Huan was helpless and had to say:

"Since this is the case, then I will..."

He intended to say goodbye, but was kept by Li Fei:

"Inspector Xia, don't be in a hurry to leave; although we can't be honorary consultants, we can also have other cooperation."

"Ghost King, please speak."

Xia Huan sat down again.

"After Zhang Zongyang died, the General Inspectorate has been investigating, and it has been more than a month now; is there any progress?"

Li Fei asked.

If Feng Sanniang had already mastered the true culprit, it made no sense that the General Inspectorate didn't even have a single clue, right?

That would be too useless!

A smile appeared on Xia Huan's face: "So the Ghost King wanted to talk about this."

He nodded: "Of course we have already mastered certain clues."

"I want the clues that the General Inspectorate has already mastered; as an exchange, the exotic beast feed I sell to the General Inspectorate in the future can be reduced by another thirty percent from the original price!"

Li Fei said.

Hearing this, Xia Huan's eyes lit up.

Exotic beast feed is bought once a quarter; over a year, the money spent is not a small amount. If it can be thirty percent cheaper, the money saved can naturally be distributed.

Over the years, the profit in this is still quite considerable.

And money is not the most important thing; the most important thing is political performance!

I helped the General Inspectorate conclude a business and saved a large sum of money for the organization; this is solid merit.

So Xia Huan was moved, and he believed his immediate superior would certainly be moved too.

"I need to ask the officials above for instructions."

Xia Huan said to Li Fei.

"Inspector Xia, please go ahead."

So Xia Huan walked out of the elegant room to make a call.

Li Fei sat alone in the elegant room and waited quietly for more than ten minutes before Xia Huan returned.

"Sorry to keep the Ghost King waiting."

Xia Huan smiled apologetically.

"How is it?"

Li Fei looked at him.

"Hope we have a happy cooperation with the Ghost King."

Xia Huan took the initiative to reach out.

This meant that the big shots of the General Inspectorate agreed to the conditions Li Fei proposed.

Li Fei also reached out and shook hands with Xia Huan.

However, he wore a pair of thick leather gloves on his hands.

Because the people he was coming to see tonight were from the General Inspectorate, these intelligence people observed things in detail, and maybe they had some sinister ways to recognize people through some details.

So Li Fei was not careless at all.

After shaking hands, the two sat down again, and Xia Huan began to recount the intelligence and clues mastered by the General Inspectorate:

"On the night Zhang Zongyang was murdered, he went out alone and quietly headed to that courtyard to meet someone."

"Meet who?"

Li Fei asked.

Actually, regarding the events of that night, his initial doubt was this point.

Officials of Zhang Zongyang's level have corresponding specifications for travel; even if it is a "micro-service visit", there will be security personnel accompanying them.

But on the night Zhang Zongyang was murdered, no one knew in advance that he went to that courtyard; he went quietly alone.

This increased the difficulty of the investigation a lot.

After Shangguan Xiao returned to Datong Prefecture city, she also spent a lot of effort to investigate that courtyard, but did not find any clues.

Now it seems that the General Inspectorate has already found out.

"To meet a woman."

Xia Huan said, "The origin of this woman is a mystery; it was specifically covered up by someone. What we can determine at present is that Zhang Zongyang and this woman have been secretly in contact for as long as a year, and that courtyard was the place where he and that woman met every time."

"A woman..."

Li Fei's eyes became strange.

Looking at it this way, it really looks like going to meet a lover in private.

Can't a figure like Zhang Zongyang avoid being vulgar either?

"Is there any identity information for this woman? Have you found her now?"

Li Fei pursued the question.

Xia Huan: "Currently, we only know that her name to the outside world is Xiao Rui. Through investigation and the people who have been in contact with her, we produced a portrait of her, but the person has not been found yet. We only know that she last appeared in Bai Yang City, and there has been no trace of her since then."

"Bai Yang City... that is to say, she may have already left Datong Prefecture."

Li Fei murmured, and then said to Xia Huan, "I want the portrait of this woman."

"Can do; I have already asked people in the academy to send the portrait over; please wait a moment."

Xia Huan said.

"I heard that Zhang Zongyang was poisoned with a time-delayed poison before he died; have you found any clues based on this poison? Does anyone inside the Zhang family have any suspects?"

Li Fei continued to ask.

"Regarding the poison, we have already entrusted Lecturer Mo Yizhou of the Martial University to help analyze it. After he gets the results, we can tell you at the first opportunity."

Xia Huan said.

"Mo Yizhou?"

Li Fei recalled that this Teacher Mo had not come to give him lessons for a few days before, saying that he was delayed by something.

Now thinking about it, those few days happened to be when Zhang Zongyang was just assassinated.

So at that time, Mo Yizhou had already been invited by the General Inspectorate to help.

"This Teacher Mo is a master in the field of poisons; if even he cannot find clues from the poison, then no one else can do it."

Xia Huan explained.

"Hmm."

Li Fei nodded; he knew Mo Yizhou's ability better than others, especially after he summarized the "poison formula", Mo Yizhou's attainments in pharmacology could be described as advancing by leaps and bounds!

It seems that for clues in this regard, he does not need to trouble others and can completely rely on himself to obtain them.

"What about inside the Zhang family?"

"Regarding the people inside the Zhang family, we have also been investigating secretly for more than a month, and currently there are several suspects. I have also asked people in the academy to bring the specific intelligence to you together with the portrait."

Sure enough, once a state machine like the General Inspectorate investigates with all its strength, it is impossible not to find any traces.

Li Fei nodded with satisfaction.

If he could find the true culprit through the clues provided by the General Inspectorate, then the conditions promised to Feng Sanniang could be renegotiated.

"Ask someone to send the intelligence and portrait to the Zhang Mansion; I will wait at the gate of the Zhang Mansion."

Li Fei stood up and said to Xia Huan.

He had a total of three negotiations tonight.

The first was to talk with Feng Sanniang.

The second was to talk with the General Inspectorate.

The third was to talk with the Zhang family.

After finishing, he walked out of the elegant room.

"Rest assured, Ghost King, it will definitely be delivered."

Xia Huan said behind him.

Next, Li Fei got in the car and asked the driver to drive to the Zhang Mansion.

More than ten minutes later, the car stopped outside the main gate of the Zhang Mansion.

Zhang Zedong, Zhang Zongyang, and other heads of the various branches were all waiting at the main gate!

If Zhang Zongyang were still there, with the Zhang family's status, they naturally would not need to wait for someone with such fanfare.

But now, the entire Zhang family was able to survive this crisis because of Li Fei, so they naturally had to treat tonight's conversation solemnly.

Shangguan Xiao also stood at the very front of the crowd, feeling a bit emotional.

Before, it was always her bringing Li Fei to the Zhang Mansion; now it had become her waiting outside the gate to welcome Li Fei to the Zhang Mansion.

The Green-Faced Ghost King who shook the entire Datong Prefecture was actually a teenager who had been practicing martial arts for less than two years and was only eighteen years old this year.

Even if this kind of thing were said, no one would believe it.

Thinking of this, a smile appeared on Shangguan Xiao's face.

She took the lead to greet him, and the rest followed closely behind.

Li Fei got off the car.

When Zhang Zedong and the others were hesitating whether to shout "Respectfully welcome the Ghost King", Shangguan Xiao took the lead and said:

"Long time no see."

"Long time no see."

Li Fei nodded to Shangguan Xiao and said in a low voice.

Seeing that the relationship between the two was more familiar than imagined, this made the Zhang family members present breathe a sigh of relief and not be so nervous anymore.

"Ghost King, please come inside."

Zhang Zongyang's eldest son, Zhang Zezheng, said.

He was considered the eldest legitimate son of the Zhang family, but he was neither good at literature nor martial arts, so his status in the Zhang family was not high; the real head of the first branch was Zhang Zedong.

However, for today's scene, his identity was Shangguan Xiao's eldest brother, and it would be better for him to come forward to receive the Green-Faced Ghost.

"No hurry."

But Li Fei refused directly.

These words made Shangguan Xiao laugh secretly in her heart.

She knew too well what her family members were like—meek to the outside, ferocious to the inside.

Once these Zhang family members felt that the Green-Faced Ghost was one of their own, then tonight's negotiation would be very unfavorable to Li Fei.

So before Li Fei came, Shangguan Xiao said very directly to him: "Don't consider my face, and don't give the Zhang family any face at all; the more you hold on, the more honest they will be!"

So Li Fei really didn't intend to give the Zhang family any face.

"Is it starting already?"

Shangguan Xiao watched Li Fei "perform" with secret amusement.

"Ghost King, this is...?"

Zhang Zezheng looked at Li Fei nervously, his body even trembling slightly.

There was no way; this eldest legitimate son of the Zhang family not only had no aptitude for martial arts, but was also an ordinary person, and he was old; facing a martial arts powerhouse like Li Fei, he would instinctively feel great pressure.

"Ghost King, is there anything my Zhang family has not received well?"

Zhang Zedong stepped forward silently, stood beside his eldest brother, and asked.

But Li Fei didn't even look at Zhang Zedong, nor did he pay attention to him, but looked at Shangguan Xiao and said softly:

"I am waiting for something, it will be here soon."

He only explained to Shangguan Xiao alone, making the faces of the rest of the Zhang family members present change.

Yet no one dared to stand up and say a word of objection.

Under the moonlight, a group of people stood outside the Zhang Mansion gate and waited with Li Fei.

There is more tonight, asking for a monthly ticket.

(End of chapter)