Chapter 36

"Miss Mo, I believe this is related to your urgent desire to seek medical help. In order to find a way to treat your mother's illness, you have interacted with all sorts of people, including those from the underworld. Among them, there must have been their people. After some inquiries, they naturally found out about the Mo family's affairs. Knowing that Miss Mo was eager to treat her mother, it was easy for them to set up a trap. Next, they just needed to find an opportunity to tell you about the Dragon Crystal Liquid. With your urgent desire to save your mother, you would certainly treat this news as a lifeline and try to find out more, thus falling step by step into their trap. Li Long, do you think what I said is correct?"

"Hmph!" Li Long grunted, turned his head away, and ignored Qin Yu's words.

"Miss Mo, please recall carefully. When did Li Long become the Mo family's bodyguard, and when did you first learn about the Dragon Crystal Liquid?"

Mo Yingxin looked up with her almond eyes and thought for a moment: "Li Long became the exclusive bodyguard of the Mo family six months ago, and I learned about the Dragon Crystal Liquid five months ago."

"Hmm, their first step was to have someone infiltrate your side. Only after completing this step could they proceed to the next: telling you about the Dragon Crystal Liquid."

"After you heard about the Dragon Crystal Liquid, you started to look for more information about it. Do you remember the old feng shui master's notebook?"

"Yes, I remember. What's wrong with it? Is there something amiss?" Mo Yingxin widened her eyes. The notebook was clearly from the Republican era and should not be fake.

"The old feng shui master's notebook is not fake, but his eldest son's notebook is questionable." Qin Yu said, his eyes flashing with an inexplicable light. After a pause, he continued: "Many pages of the eldest son's notebook were torn out. At first, I thought he didn't want the reader to find the cave, but the more I thought about it, the more it seemed off. If he truly didn't want the reader to find the cave, why not tear out all the records about the cave, instead of leaving some hints?"

"The only possibility is that the person who tore out the pages was not the eldest son himself, but someone with ulterior motives. This person wanted the reader to find the cave but didn't want too much information about the cave to be exposed. Perhaps the eldest son's notebook contained records about the things inside the cave, and to prevent leaks, he had to tear out these pages. Am I right, Li Long?"

"You... you..." Li Long stared at Qin Yu, his eyes filled with shock and disbelief. This man's intelligence was truly terrifying. What he said was exactly what had happened. If not for knowing that Qin Yu couldn't have been present at the time and that the organization's members wouldn't betray, he would have suspected that Qin Yu had a mole in their organization.

"Li Long, you actually set up a trap for the Mo family. Quickly, tell me who your accomplices are." The illness of her mother was a sore spot for Mo Yingxin. She could not forgive the organization for setting up this trap. Her beautiful face had turned cold.

"Qin Yu, these are just your speculations. Don't think you can get any information out of me."

"Ha ha," Qin Yu laughed loudly, his eyes glancing at Li Long with disdain. "I don't need your information. As long as I see He Ping, the truth will be revealed."

As Qin Yu said this, though his expression was dismissive, his eyes were closely watching Li Long's facial expressions. When he mentioned He Ping's name, he caught a significant change in Li Long's expression, though it was just for a moment. For him, that was enough.

"These red creatures must be very important to you, and it seems they cannot survive without the Dragon Crystal Liquid. If I break the jade plate in your hand, will your plan fail completely?"

"You dare!" Li Long glared, then his voice lowered as he turned to Mo Yingxin and said, "Miss Mo, it was indeed our fault to involve you in this. But if you let me take this jade plate away, the organization will surely repay you in the future."

"Hmph, if you want me to let you go, tell me why you targeted me and set up this trap." Mo Yingxin asked.

"This..." Li Long's face changed, and after a long pause, he sighed and said, "Mr. Qin is right. Our organization has spent a lot of effort and even lost many lives trying to break the Nine Stars and Three Talents Array, but we failed. Out of desperation, we had to target Miss Mo. If Miss Mo discovered the altar, she would surely try to get through it. With the Mo family's influence, it would be much easier to invite some genuine feng shui masters to help, which would be more feasible for us. We just wanted to use the Mo family's influence, and we have no deep grudge against Miss Mo."

"If there's no grudge, why did you set up this trap for me? And what are these red creatures? Why are they so important to you?" Mo Yingxin, being a very intelligent woman, caught Qin Yu's hint and continued to question Li Long.

"Miss Mo, I don't know what these red creatures are," Li Long said with a bitter smile. "I only know that they are highly valued by the organization. Don't make it hard for me. Your goal is to find the Dragon Crystal Liquid, and mine is to get these red creatures. However, the Dragon Crystal Liquid is contaminated and has lost its efficacy. The liquid in this plate is useless. Let me go."

After saying this, Li Long tried to stand up, but his knees were completely pierced. The movement caused his body to spasm, and his face contorted in pain, with large beads of sweat rolling down.

"Qin Yu!" Mo Yingxin's face showed a look of pity as she turned to Qin Yu for advice.

"You can go, but you cannot take the jade plate with you!" Even if Li Long left, his knees would be useless for the rest of his life. However, Qin Yu could not let him take the red creatures. Given the organization's methods, if these creatures had special uses, they could strengthen the organization, making Qin Yu an accomplice.

"Qin Yu, you are just someone Miss Mo hired. What right do you have to make decisions for her!" Li Long roared at Qin Yu. If he couldn't take the red creatures back, given the organization's style, he would have no good outcome, being a cripple.

"Qin Yu's words are what I wanted to say. Considering our relationship, I can let you go, but you cannot take the jade plate with you!"

Mo Yingxin's words shattered Li Long's last hope. Without the jade plate, he would be dead when he returned to the organization. He stared at Qin Yu and Mo Yingxin with a look of hatred.

"If you won't let me take the jade plate, then you will die with me!" Li Long suddenly burst into laughter, raised the jade plate, and smashed it against one of the stone pillars.

"Crack!" Li Long's action was unexpected. Qin Yu couldn't stop him in time and could only watch as the jade plate shattered on the eighth pillar.

"You madman!" Qin Yu, no longer paying attention to Li Long's maniacal laughter, grabbed Mo Yingxin and ran out of the Nine Stars and Three Talents Array. Li Long's action had triggered the Three Talents Array, and the entire formation would now change endlessly, making it impossible to escape.

"It's too late, you can't escape," Li Long said, lying on the ground, a cruel smile on his face as he watched the two run. Once the Nine Stars and Three Talents Array was fully activated, there was no way out. However, his smile froze as the stone slab beneath him suddenly split open, and a sharp, blade-filled slab emerged, piercing through his entire body, leaving him full of bloody wounds.

Li Long died, but his eyes remained fixed on Qin Yu and Mo Yingxin, as if he still wanted to see their fate.

"Be careful!" Qin Yu suddenly pulled Mo Yingxin into his arms. A sharp spike had emerged from the floor where she had just been running, and if she had continued, she would have been split in two.

Mo Yingxin's face turned pale, and she was so frightened by the sudden spike that she didn't notice her curvaceous body was now pressed against Qin Yu's.

Not only Mo Yingxin, but Qin Yu also didn't notice. He felt the stone beneath his feet moving and quickly hugged Mo Yingxin, rolling in another direction.

They rolled several times before stopping, and where they had been standing, a blade-filled slab emerged, just like what had happened to Li Long.

"This won't work. We can't go out. We need to go into the Three Talents Array." Qin Yu observed the surroundings and noticed that the inner part of the Three Talents Array was still calm, while the Nine Stars Array had traps and pitfalls emerging.

However, Qin Yu didn't see that in the inner part of the Three Talents Array, small holes had appeared on three stone pillars, and a faint red gas was being released.

"Qin Yu, be careful!"

A whistling sound came, and several crossbow arrows shot toward Qin Yu's chest. Hearing Mo Yingxin's warning and the whistling sound, Qin Yu fell flat on the ground.

"Damn! Again." As Qin Yu fell, a spike emerged from the ground. He had no choice but to contract his abdomen and twist his waist to the left, forming a bow shape to narrowly avoid the spike.

"Quick, go inside." Qin Yu got up, wiping the cold sweat from his forehead. He had just narrowly escaped death. The sharp tip of the spike glinted with a cold, lethal light. If he had been hit, his abdomen would have been pierced through, causing a fatal wound.

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