Facing the girl's chilling gaze, the reporters instinctively swallowed. One reporter tightened his grip on the microphone and extended it towards Ming Li, asking, "Um, excuse me, are you the helpful citizen everyone's talking about online?"
Helpful citizen?
Ming Li raised an eyebrow, took out her phone, and glanced at it. She then discovered she had gone viral...
Looking at the group of reporters, Ming Li frowned. Not wanting to get entangled with them, she simply took off and disappeared without a trace shortly after.
Everyone else was left speechless...
Arriving at a deserted corner, Ming Li raised an eyebrow, took out her phone, and looked at the missed calls. After a moment's thought, she dialed one of them.
Soon, the call was answered.
A cacophony of sounds and a gentle feminine voice came from the other end, "Hello? Xiao Li?"
"Mhm."
Hearing Ming Li's voice, the woman on the other end seemed to sigh with relief and quickly said, "Xiao Li, try to stay home during this time. Don't go out. Your dad and I have run into some trouble, so we won't be back for a while. You need to be good while you're home alone, understand?"
Ming Li raised an eyebrow, "Got it."
"Good, oh, and you need to be careful... *beep beep beep*..."
Before the woman could finish speaking, the call was hung up.
Looking at the phone in her hand, Ming Li narrowed her eyes. She had heard gunfire on the call just now!
Thinking of something, Ming Li summoned the system and asked, "What exactly are the original host's parents?"
Upon hearing this, the system looked bewildered. "Huh? What kind of people? Aren't they just ordinary businessmen?"
Ordinary businessmen?
Ming Li's mouth twitched. She said, "Then explain why I just heard gunfire?"
"Gunfire?" The system was even more confused. "Host, are you sure you didn't mishear?"
Ming Li remained silent, looking at the system. The system, feeling a chill down its spine, stammered, "Um... Host, that's how it's described in the original plot. The original host's parents are just ordinary businessmen. I don't know anything else..."
Ming Li paused, then thought of something and asked, "What is the male lead's background?"
Hearing this, the system glanced at its display screen and replied, "The male lead's mother is the eldest daughter of the Ning family. As for his father, the original plot doesn't provide specific details. It only states that the male lead's mother, on a dark and stormy night, got drunk and entered the wrong room, which resulted in the male lead's birth. Her mother didn't get a clear look at his father, so the male lead's father's identity is a mystery. Moreover, the male lead takes his mother's surname."
Hearing this, Ming Li raised her eyebrows and sent the system back to the system space.
After standing in place for a while, Ming Li returned to the Ye family manor.
Slipping past Butler Liu and Aunt Wang, Ming Li went directly to the third floor. She glanced at the heavily locked study and narrowed her eyes. The next second, she flickered and appeared inside the study.
Looking at the dark and oppressive study, Ming Li remained silent and went directly to the desk, pulling open a drawer.
*Swish—*
The drawer opened, and Ming Li's gaze fell upon the gun in the drawer, which was so well-polished it could reflect light. She raised an eyebrow and spoke to the system in her mind, "Do you want to explain which ordinary businessman has a gun?"
The system was speechless...
Seeing the system's silence, Ming Li closed the drawer and went to another spot, opening a bookshelf. She then saw that on the vast bookshelf, there were only three books...
Looking at the bookshelf that could accommodate two adults, Ming Li raised an eyebrow and gently tapped it. As expected, the inside was empty.
Looking at the three books, Ming Li narrowed her eyes, placed her hand on them, and gently pushed...
*Click—*
After a faint sound, something moved beneath the bookshelf.
Ming Li looked at the opening that appeared in the bookshelf, raised an eyebrow, and descended the stairs.
After walking for a while, a door appeared before Ming Li. It was a very sturdy stone door with a combination lock below which was a fingerprint lock.
Ming Li raised an eyebrow, ignored the lock and the door, and passed directly through the stone door, like a ghost...
Entering the secret room, Ming Li saw dozens of guns and two boxes of grenades. What was even more impressive was that there were even two rocket launchers?!
Could her cheap father be some kind of arms dealer?
Thinking this, Ming Li remained silent, left the secret room, closed the secret passage, and exited the study.
That evening, as soon as Ming Li lay down, she felt something was amiss. Her gaze fell upon the window of her room, which was now open by a gap, not too big and not too small.
At this moment, the system's somewhat nervous voice came from the space, "Host, be careful, there's someone above you!"
Ming Li raised an eyebrow and walked over to deadbolt her room door.
This action caused the black-clad man hanging from the ceiling to frown deeply, a sense of foreboding suddenly spreading within him...
After deadbolting the door, Ming Li, with a click, turned off the lights in the room.
The entire room was instantly plunged into darkness.
Seeing this, the masked man hanging from the ceiling breathed a sigh of relief and landed on the ground without making a sound.
In the darkness, Ming Li’s lips curled into a smile, and she flung a sack towards the man's direction...