Chapter 375: Falling Frost Flower (4/5, Autumn Subscription)

Bai Xiaoya screamed, but saw A Ming, whose chest had been torn open with a huge hole, weakly reaching a hand toward Bai Xiaoya's direction before it dropped completely.

"You bastard! Don't you dare leave!!"

Only now did Fang Yue roar and charge out of the exit, crossing paths with Bai Xiaoya, leaping high into the air, his whole body burning with flames, and using his knee as a crushing strike, precisely slamming into the fleeing Luo Shuang.

Boom!!

The road surface was instantly cratered into a round pit by the impact, and Luo Shuang, nearly passing out from the pain, immediately let out a miserable scream.

"Aaaahhh!!"

"You can't take me back, you can't take me back…"

Hiss!!

Before Luo Shuang could finish speaking, a bone spear whooshed past Fang Yue's eyes and pierced straight through Luo Shuang's skull, cutting her voice short.

Luo Shuang's mouth opened and closed, the light gradually fading from her eyes, and she became a corpse.

Fang Yue was stunned for a moment, turned to look at Bai Xiaoya, who was trembling all over but expressionless, opened his mouth to speak, then quickly closed it again.

Amid the exclamations of the others, Bai Xiaoya walked to Luo Shuang's corpse and pulled out the bone spear.

Another spurt of fresh blood over a meter high shot up from the wound on Luo Shuang's head, splashing onto Bai Xiaoya's face, but she didn't even bother to wipe it off, merely saying calmly: "A Ming is dead."

"…………"

"She killed him, so I have to kill her with my own hands."

The street began to turn chaotic, with many people pointing and gossiping in this direction.

But soon, gunshots rang out from the abandoned garage, and within moments Bai Su'e's group of armed subordinates came out, spraying bullets outward, scaring the others into fleeing.

Bai Xiaoya turned expressionlessly and charged straight at those gunmen, but two bangs of gunfire sent her stumbling to the ground—fortunately she'd been shot in the chest, and was wearing a bulletproof vest.

But it still gave Fang Yue a fright; he activated Synchronize and swept through those people like a wind scattering clouds, though it still stirred up some chaos.

He called the Alliance people, and within minutes a helicopter came down.

Fang Yue lifted Luo Shuang's corpse and said to Bai Xiaoya: "Let's go first, leave the cleanup to them."

"A Ming's body…"

"They'll take care of it."

"…Mm."

Once Bai Xiaoya boarded the helicopter, it quickly rose high into the air.

Looking down from the high altitude now, one could see vehicles from all directions, sirens wailing, converging on this place—clearly the Alliance's logistics team handling the aftermath.

Although today's incident caused quite a stir, with the Alliance's strength, suppressing it and locking down the news shouldn't be difficult.

"You…"

Looking at the expressionless Bai Xiaoya, Fang Yue wanted to offer a few words of comfort, but the moment he opened his mouth, Bai Xiaoya gave a slight shake of her head.

"I'm fine. Ever since I learned my whole life has been controlled by Bai Su'e, I understood that nothing can always go as one wishes. A Ming is dead, died for me—I will remember this debt of gratitude. From now on, his family and friends, I will send money to them every month and offer help."

Bai Xiaoya's thinking was unexpectedly mature; whether she'd grown used to partings of life and death or what, she seemed to have changed quite a bit from when they first met.

After letting Bai Xiaoya search Luo Shuang's corpse, they still couldn't find the anomalous artifact with the frost ability, and Fang Yue sighed.

"How about dissecting her?"

Bai Xiaoya suddenly put forward a very alarming suggestion, and in a very calm tone at that, giving Fang Yue a fright.

"No need for that, no need for that. Once we get back to the Qingshui District branch, let the tech people study it and extract the anomalous artifact—that'll do. They're the professionals."

With that said, the two of them ran out of things to talk about.

In the silent atmosphere, the helicopter soon returned to the branch.

After the windows on Team Ten's floor opened and morphed to form a landing spot for the helicopter, Fang Yue discovered Qiu Dugu had been waiting there long before.

"Fang Yue, didn't I tell you not to cause such a big commotion…"

The moment Fang Yue stepped off the helicopter, Qiu Dugu began to scold him, but upon seeing Luo Shuang's corpse clutched in Fang Yue's hand, his eyes instantly went wide.

"Luo Daoren, one of the Shadow Society's Thirteen Daoren?! How did she die? And her corpse is in your hands?"

Qiu Dugu fired off rapid-fire questions, half delighted and half shocked, and Fang Yue briefly explained the situation to him.

Meanwhile, Bai Xiaoya walked past the two of them expressionlessly.

"I'm going back to rest first."

"Alright."

Fang Yue acknowledged, watching Bai Xiaoya leave, and Qiu Dugu beside him only then asked curiously: "What's with her?"

"…Her friend died, in the fight just now."

Qiu Dugu was stunned for a moment, his expression slightly darkening: "My condolences. Partings of life and death are unavoidable—tell her to take it easy."

"Mm, I'll counsel her through it."

Then, Fang Yue continued to explain to Qiu Dugu the encounter with Luo Shuang.

"The anomalous artifact 【String-Bead Iron Cylinder】 is in your hands now? And Luo Daoren's 【Frost Glory Flower】 is still on the corpse?"

"【Frost Glory Flower】?"

"It's the anomalous artifact that lets Luo Daoren use her frost abilities!" Qiu Dugu said excitedly.

"No idea, I searched everywhere and couldn't find anything that looked like an anomalous artifact."

"Of course you couldn't find it—this thing is similar to Bai Daoren's anomalous artifact, both are implanted inside the body!"

Fang Yue:???

Damn!

Looks like Bai Xiaoya's idea earlier was actually right—you really do have to dissect it to get it out…

"Of course, taking it out is also tricky. If you mess with the corpse carelessly and accidentally damage the anomalous artifact, that'd be a huge loss."

As Qiu Dugu spoke, he had people carefully transport the corpse.

Fang Yue quickly said, "I killed this Luoshuang—the strange object should be mine, right?"

"This must be handed over to the organization! But since you've done great work this time, using this merit to claim the strange object shouldn't be a problem."

Listening to Qiu Dugu's words, Fang Yue couldn't help but feel resentful.

He did all the hard work—now the object is supposed to be granted to him as a favor based on his merit?

Just as expected, capitalists are all the same—utterly ruthless!

If they dare not give it to me, I'll go settle accounts with them!

Fang Yue still cared deeply about what he considered his spoils.

According to Qiu Dugu, by capturing one of the Thirteen Daoists of the Shadow, Fang Yue would not only receive a strange object as a reward, but also merit points, improved benefits, and increased internal recognition—all counted toward his record.

In short, it would make future promotions far more convincing.

Fang Yue naturally didn't care much about such things—he only asked, "Can I get extra leave?"

"Of course no problem! If every time you take leave you come back with results like this, I'd welcome you taking leave every day!" Qiu Dugu said cheerfully.

He was straightforward—anything that benefited the Alliance or helped save the world, he was happy to see.

In an ordinary workplace, a colleague at the same level achieving such great success would make others jealous enough to turn red in the eyes—and sabotage would be common.

(End of Chapter)