Chapter 148 Fist

A "thump" resounded.

A muffled sound.

The sound of a fist striking a head.

Gu Shen stood guard at the restroom entrance, watching Crow nonchalantly close the door and head to the sink, rinsing the blood from his fists.

"This guy used to be the Madam's bodyguard, but I found out he was taking money from Zhao Qi on the side... He was eyeing what's in the pot while eating from his bowl. That's not the kind of virtue a loyal dog should have," Song Ci explained softly while washing his hands. "'Mental Imprint' has nothing to do with him, but considering his crime of betraying the Madam, I gave him a little punishment."

Gu Shen watched the slowly spreading pool of blood on the floor, lost in thought.

"Actually, you don't need to explain."

Gu Shen said in a low voice, "I'm not that kind of bleeding heart..."

"Oh... is that so?"

Song Ci smiled, "I thought you still had some of those 'model student' virtues... like not being able to stand the sight of blood or seeing people get hurt, that kind of thing... so I held back a little when I hit him."

Saying this, he kicked the wooden partition door not far away and sighed, "Unfortunately... the blood still flowed out. You saw it. You won't think I'm a big villain, will you?"

"Aren't you?"

"That's right... I am a big villain." Song Ci shrugged indifferently.

"The more you're revered on the surface, the more you're coveted in secret. I understand that principle." Gu Shen shook his head and said, "The Madam's name is glamorous on the stage in the capital, but behind her, there are countless hidden knives and arrows, ready to be unleashed."

"Yeah, after all, she's a weak woman without any extraordinary abilities, standing so high, forcing everyone to look up. Some people are bound to feel unhappy."

Song Ci slowly and meaningfully emphasized the words "weak woman," of course, just teasing, because no one would think the Madam was a weak woman.

"Secular rules can only restrain some people."

"But fortunately... the rest are afraid of my fists."

Song Ci didn't even realize when he said these words that his eyes were gleaming with a faint smile. In Gu Shen's view, this was probably the satisfaction of finding his own value.

The Madam often said that she had an iron wall in front of her.

And being able to become the "iron wall" in the Madam's mouth was also a kind of honor.

Crow waved his fist and chuckled, "Very good, the investigation here is almost complete."

The four names on that note had all been investigated.

"All four people have been ruled out as suspects. As for the remaining one, even without evidence... it doesn't matter."

Gu Shen knew who Song Ci was referring to as the remaining one.

The unknown brother who was considered a traitor for taking Zhao Qi's money was still lying in the toilet stall, the flushing toilet constantly roaring. Gu Shen guessed that this brother's head was pressed into the toilet, and his arm was probably broken and pressed against the flush button, constantly flushing his own head.

In fact, it wasn't wrong to say he was a traitor.

Being husband and wife, why go this far?

The husband painstakingly trying to buy off the close guards of his wife. His intentions need not be elaborated upon.

Actually, there was only a thin layer of paper left between the two of them.

"Regarding Zhao Qi... I happen to have some clues." Gu Shen narrowed his eyes and slowly said, "Something happened in the Old District."

...

...

Fifteen minutes later.

Song Ci lit a cigarette and leaned silently against the large mirror.

Gu Shen roughly told Crow about the strange mist in the Old District and his encounter with Shi Li... of course, he omitted some irrelevant details and only mentioned the key points worth noting.

"You're saying... Shi Li of the Southern Division of the Chengxin Society, in the center of his eyebrows, has an identical Mental Imprint?"

"That's right."

"I'm the doctor who removes Mental Imprints for the Madam... that's why I noticed something was wrong."

Gu Shen paused, "How could there be such a coincidence in the world? The Mental Imprint planted in Shi Li's eyebrows is exactly the same as the Madam's. It can only mean one thing... the one who planted the Mental Imprint on the Madam and the one who buried the Mental Thread on Shi Li is the same person."

"Damn it..."

Crow's expression was very gloomy, and he sneered in a low voice, "No wonder Zhao Qi went to the Old District that night. This kid saw that the last Mental Imprint was destroyed, so he hurried to seek Gu again... I should have been the one to punch that night and blasted this dog thing's head off."

Gu Shen frowned.

What he was thinking about at the moment was something else.

The Mental Imprint in the Madam's eyebrows... was originally incomprehensible. Even the extraordinary beings of the tenth level of the Deep Sea couldn't sense it, but it was solved by his own Blazing Fire.

Now it seemed logical.

Because the one who orchestrated this conspiracy was the master of the Compass who manipulated Bloodfire. That was the case in the Zhou Yu case back then. He perfectly deceived the mental system extraordinary beings of the Tribunal... It wasn't that the extraordinary beings of the Tribunal were not strong enough, but that the extraordinary trait of this Compass master was very special. He should be extremely good at concealing his aura.

It was just that his own Blazing Fire was the natural enemy of the Compass Master's extraordinary trait!

"I ruined his good deeds time and time again... no wonder he wanted to send the Compass to me."

Thinking of this, Gu Shen's heart tensed up again.

The Fire Disaster case involved the Evergreen Foundation. This continuous and protracted extraordinary case was like a stretched fishing line, which could break at any time, but fortunately, every time the fishing line broke, he could always catch the other end of the line.

Gu Shen recalled that wisp of Bloodfire.

He murmured in his heart, "I will live... live to find you."

"Gu Bro—"

A voice brought him back to reality.

Gu Shen looked up and saw Song Ci's frowning and thoughtful expression. He thought for a long time, so much so that the cigarette butt burned his hand, but he still didn't notice it. He finally glanced at it and vigorously extinguished it in the sink, and said in a deep voice, "You just said that the guy with the identical Mental Imprint in the center of his eyebrows is from the Southern Division of the Chengxin Society?"

"Yes... Shi Li, the leader of the Fourth Team of the Southern Division of the Chengxin Society."

Gu Shen was stunned and said, "You want to..."

"You know... I'm a rough man, with no brains." Crow said lightly, "Since there are clues, then investigate. I can't sit idly by and let the Madam suffer such danger again."

"It's useless..."

Gu Shen frowned.

He knew very well that Shi Li's file was different from ordinary people. The Chengxin Society belonged to an underground organization. The Deep Sea was indeed huge, and it did link the five continents... but it wasn't omnipotent. The two extraordinary beings who assassinated him were still missing. Even if the Deep Sea was used, what could be found was the carefully disguised file of the Evergreen Foundation.

Just knowing Shi Li's name was useless.

The name for them... was just a code name, a person who could abandon even his life at any time, so how could he leave clues on his name?

"Shi Li's name is just a code name." Gu Shen said, "What's more, how do you plan to investigate?"

"I said... I'm just a rough man." Crow smiled, "Looking at your solemn face just now, did you think of a bunch of plans? Don't think of me as too smart. Rough men do things very simply... often just relying on intuition."

He paused.

"But a rough man's intuition is often very accurate."

"I don't like Zhao Qi, I don't like Chen Jingtan, I don't like Chen San, I don't like Chen San's four adopted sons... the facts prove that my judgment of people is quite accurate."

"The only one I can stand in the entire Chengxin Society is one guy." Song Ci said calmly, "So for so many years, I've only attacked the Northern part that the Madam circled for me, and haven't touched the Southern Division, just because that guy is still there, otherwise I would have charged in long ago."

"A person?"

Information about the Chengxin Society was limited, especially the Southern Division.

"Did you see it? The people dancing in the bar just now... had two kinds of tattoos." Song Ci said softly, while lifting a corner of his clothes, revealing the black hibiscus, "One kind... is this."

Gu Shen fell into memory.

His mind was filled with flashing lights and equally dark and hideous tattoos.

"The other kind... is a broken stopwatch." Crow narrowed his eyes and said lightly, "The Northern Division of the Chengxin Society has the 'Black Hibiscus' tattooed, which is the Madam's idea. Of course, the guys in the Southern Division can't imitate it... they tattooed the 'Stopped Clock' to distinguish the members of the Northern and Southern Divisions. The best way is to look at the tattoos."

Tattooing the black hibiscus was the Madam's idea...

Gu Shen was stunned.

Hibiscus, the character "Jin," he hadn't noticed the deep meaning before, but when it was linked to the Madam, the meaning of this tattoo became very clear.

This was a tattoo left for his younger sister, Lu Nanjin.

"After finishing the Northern Division, I wanted to say... looking at the capital, below the title, I'm invincible."

Crow narrowed his eyes.

Saying this, he sighed softly, his smile a little helpless, "But I really didn't expect that there would be a ruthless person in the Southern Division of the Chengxin Society, younger than me and more capable than me, but I don't hate him."

"Chen Mei, Chen San's biological son, a lonely and eccentric guy as his name suggests. The reason why Chen San adopted four adopted sons is because his biological son is simply not under control and doesn't want to take over the Chengxin Society at all." Crow smiled, "I admit... it's because of this very simple reason that I don't hate him."

Looking at the capital, invincible below the title.

To be able to say such a thing, he should at least be... the eleventh level of the Deep Sea?

He wouldn't lose to Han Dang.

Gu Shen re-examined Crow and thought, is this flip-flop guy really that fierce? He looks sloppy no matter how you look at him... but he quickly dismissed the idea.

It was estimated that those who had been beaten by Crow all had this idea before the fist landed on their faces.

"...Have you fought with Chen Mei?" Gu Shen asked.

"No."

Crow shook his head, "But I have a feeling in my heart... this kid, I'm very likely not his opponent."

"Why are you looking at me with that kind of expression? Not being able to beat him isn't anything shameful. I've done a lot of running away." Song Ci glanced at Gu Shen's surprised expression and said lightly, "I said I'm a rough man, a rough man should have self-awareness."

"So about... the Shi Li case, what are you going to do?" Gu Shen had a headache.

Crow smiled.

He swayed from the toilet to the swaying crowd and picked a man with a stopwatch tattoo.

With a "boom!"

A shattering sound stopped the music in the venue.

Everyone looked in horror at the man who threw the punch, and the unlucky guy who flew out dozens of meters and smashed a wall.

Crow took off his baseball cap, revealing his true face.

He raised his eyebrows at Gu Shen not far away and said softly, "Punch first... then talk."