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Gu Xiaoxi had once considered herself to be quite sharp-witted, but in front of the businessman Mi Xi, she had been played several times.

"I’m drunk, I need to rest," Gu Xiaoxi turned her head away, leaving only her back to Mi Xi, then slumped onto the seat to feign sleep.

Mi Xi could see her embarrassment, but chose not to point it out.

He just found this woman increasingly eye-opening.

Although her approach to matching drinks was somewhat irrational,

she did, after all, earn a profit for the company through this bout of drinking, which he admired for her courage and shrewdness.

In this regard, she was not mistaken. People who dare to gamble and are able to win steadily are rare!

"Boss, where are we heading now?" the driver asked.

"Take Miss Ye home!" Mi Xi replied with a smile on his face.

The car stopped at the entrance of Ye family’s residential building, Gu Xiaoxi opened the car door to get out, and walked away without looking back.

Mi Xi rolled down the window and called out to Gu Xiaoxi from afar, "Ye Yuwei, consider my offer."

Gu Xiaoxi naturally knew what he was referring to, but there was no need to consider it.

She pretended not to hear.

Once inside the gate of the residential area, Gu Xiaoxi sat down by the flower bed at the entrance for a while.

Her head ached, probably from the excessive drinking before, and despite having vomited, her stomach still felt uncomfortable.

Gu Xiaoxi waited for Mi Xi to leave, then prepared to head back; once she sobered up from the alcohol, she resolved to surveil Mi Xi tonight.

She wanted to finish her mission quickly to avoid any further complications.

If there was nothing wrong with Mi Xi’s company, then there had to be something amiss with his private life.

Especially the woman who was looking for Mi Xi in the morning, the military had already investigated her background and sent it to Gu Xiaoxi’s phone.

The woman who was seeking out Mi Xi that morning was named Qing Lian.

According to the information provided by the military,

Qing Lian was elusive, wanted by several countries.

She had some connection to Mi Xi, but what that connection was, the police had not found out.

They hoped she would investigate further.

At the same time, the police provided a lead that Qing Lian was related to several recent murders, and they hoped she would proceed with caution.

Gu Xiaoxi deleted the traces from her phone and returned home.

In her room, she spent an hour in meditation to rejuvenate her spirit.

Finally, she changed into a set of black clothes, put on a black mask, and stepped out the door.

Although Mr. and Mrs. Ye were very curious as to what Gu Xiaoxi was really up to, they didn’t dare to ask more questions.

By ten o’clock in the evening, Gu Xiaoxi was already lurking in a small tree not far from Mi Xi’s house.

At midnight, Gu Xiaoxi saw the lights in Mi Xi’s house go out completely.

She thought Mi Xi must have gone to sleep, but unexpectedly, just then Mi Xi walked out, holding Mi Luo’s hand.

"Daddy, are you taking me to see mommy?" The naive voice of Mi Luo rang out.

Gu Xiaoxi pricked up her ears to listen.

MI Xi said, "Be good, don’t speak loudly. It could disturb others’ rest."

"Okay! I understand," Mi Luo obediently nodded.

After that, Mi Xi took Mi Luo into the car.

The car drove out of the villa area, and without any means of transport, Gu Xiaoxi exercised her Qinggong and started chasing them down the road swiftly.

Luckily, Mi Xi wasn’t driving too fast.

She dodged and chased, eventually following him to a secluded bar.

Gu Xiaoxi surveyed the surroundings carefully; if she remembered correctly, this was the bar where she had first encountered Mi Xi.

Previously, Mi Luo had told her that Mi Xi was not his biological father.

Therefore, Mi Luo’s mother likely wasn’t Mrs. Mi Xi.

As for who it was, Gu Xiaoxi wasn’t prepared to guess. She would wait until she had investigated more thoroughly.

At one in the morning, the bar was still bustling, with dazzling, multi-colored lights shining in faces, causing a dizzying effect.

The screams from the dance floor contrasted starkly with the quiet of the night outside.

Gu Xiaoxi saw with her own eyes Mi Xi lead Mi Luo through the bar’s back door.

However, when Gu Xiaoxi was about to follow them in, she was stopped.

"Miss, the front is for entertainment. The back door is a private space, no entry allowed," the waiter blocked Gu Xiaoxi’s path.

She had no choice but to turn back.

She ordered two fruit juices at the bar and sat waiting.

It took a full hour before Mi Xi, with Mi Luo, came out from the back.

Afterward, they left.

Gu Xiaoxi didn’t pursue them any further.

As long as she knew that Mi Luo’s mother was here, that was enough.

She had to take a look for herself.

By the time 3 a.m. arrived, nearly all the guests had dispersed.

The waitstaff were so exhausted they were listless, and Gu Xiaoxi quietly entered through the back door of the bar.

The back door led to the storeroom, which was filled with various snacks and alcohol, as well as the employee’s dormitory.

Gu Xiaoxi immediately ruled out the employee’s dormitory, for Mi Xi wouldn’t have hidden Mi Luo’s mother there.

That left only the storeroom!

Gu Xiaoxi searched the storeroom round and found nothing out of the ordinary.

Apart from shelves piled with glasses and alcohol for the bar, there was nothing else.

Since Mi Xi had been there, it meant for certain that someone was hidden in this room.

Gu Xiaoxi searched several more times until, at last, her hand touched a wall.

She placed her hand on the wall to feel for anything, but found nothing.

She didn’t give up and finally discovered a hollow floor tile in a corner.

She moved the shelves aside, lifted the tile, and found a secret underground passage.

Without a second thought, Gu Xiaoxi jumped down.

Walking through the pitch-dark tunnel, Gu Xiaoxi took out her cellphone to light the way.

The passage wasn’t deep, and she had walked merely fifteen meters or so when she reached the end.

A space about ten square meters large, with an elaborately carved stone coffin placed at the center.

Doubts flooded Gu Xiaoxi’s mind, could it be that Mi Luo’s mother lay in this coffin, dead, or, perhaps, she too was a vampire?

Suddenly, a gust of cold wind brushed against Gu Xiaoxi’s neck, an inexplicable shiver ran down her spine, and goosebumps shed in layers.

Standing before the coffin, Gu Xiaoxi didn’t know whether she should push the lid open or not.

She hesitated for a long while, feeling unsatisfied.

If human trafficking was related to Mi Luo’s mother, and if she was a vampire, could she have devoured all of those people she bought?

If she left just like this and the woman escaped, could she potentially harm more people?

"Crack!" Gu Xiaoxi’s foot unwittingly stepped on something and a loud noise startled her so much she immediately shone her flashlight at the ground.

She saw the floor covered with a layer of bones.

Gu Xiaoxi stood in front of the silent coffin, not knowing whether to go forward or back.

If only Quan Shaoqing were there, how wonderful that would be.

Gu Xiaoxi’s breathing grew heavier, and it took a while for her to regain some rationality.

"I’m scaring myself!" she thought. If Mi Luo’s mother were still alive, she surely would have leaped out by now.

Gu Xiaoxi finally decided to push the lid of the coffin open.

With her strength, opening the lid wasn’t difficult.

When she pushed the lid open, she saw a mummified corpse inside.

Not until that moment did she heave a sigh of relief.

Damn it, how she was frightened! After all the fuss, it turned out to be a dead body.

At the same time, Mi Xi, who had just returned to the villa, suddenly had a cold look in his eyes and a flash of deadly intent.

Almost reflexively, he turned and walked outside, calling out to Mi Luo, "Lock the door and don’t let strangers approach."

"Where are you going, daddy?" Mi Luo asked, not understanding.

But Mi Xi had no time to answer him because he felt the coffin had been opened.

The Healing Technique he placed on the coffin had been disrupted.

If that were the case, the consequences would be unimaginable.

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Gu Xiaoxi wiped the sweat from her forehead and carefully examined the mummified body under the light.

It was a female corpse with long hair neatly arranged within the confines of the coffin, her skin so well-preserved it seemed as if she had been drained of blood before her death.

Gu Xiaoxi looked over the corpse for a long while until she finally found a wound on the body.

There were two puncture marks on the neck of the woman in the coffin.

"Could she have died from being drained of blood?" Gu Xiaoxi’s mind was filled with even more confusion now.

Just then, her cellphone flickered a few times, signaling a low battery.

Gu Xiaoxi, looking around at the pitch darkness, hastily covered the coffin and quickly left the basement.

Not until she had surfaced did Gu Xiaoxi feel a chill spreading from her feet through her limbs.

Gu Xiaoxi didn’t dare linger and ran as fast as she could, leaving the main street and then heading back to the Ye’s home.

Shortly after her departure, Mi Xi returned to the bar and descended to the basement.

He turned on the flashlight and hurried over to the coffin and pushed the lid open.

The Healing Technique he had sealed on it had indeed been disrupted, but fortunately, he was in time, and the body inside the coffin was safe and sound.

Mi Xi narrowed his bloodthirsty eyes and a green light flickered in his hand, re-sealing the coffin lid with the green light.

He then took the lamp and carefully examined the surroundings.

Soon, he noticed a broken bone and a strand of black hair on the ground.