However, before Luo Qianqian could find someone to investigate Sky Inquiry Tower’s whereabouts, Wang Mazi and his group came visiting at the small courtyard, even bringing quite a lot of ingredients, plus two blood-dripping animals in hand.

Luo Qianqian’s face was stiff with awkwardness. Do these people really not have any psychological shadow at all?

Even though she was the one who did it, she was the one who actually carried out the act, and she currently didn’t want to eat meat—didn’t want to eat any kind of meat—but these people seemed perfectly fine?

They even looked like they were really looking forward to it... Luo Qianqian turned her head away from those bleeding prey, and hurriedly asked, "Did something happen to you?"

"Huh? Something happen?" Yang Feng was stuffing the snacks He Wenyu had placed on the table into his mouth. Hearing this, he froze, looked Wang Mazi and the others up and down, and scratched his head in confusion.

Weren’t they all fine and dandy? Where was the "something happened" coming from?

"Didn’t they say you went to assassinate the Carefree Young Master and then something went wrong, and over a dozen people from Sky Inquiry Tower died?" Luo Qianqian didn’t hide anything, directly recounting what she’d heard before.

Black lines covered Wang Mazi’s face. "Even if an assassin can’t win a fight, he’ll retreat in time. After all, before we learn how to kill, we have to learn how to stay alive."

Luo Qianqian thought about it; that logic did check out. But... those rumors were so detailed. If it were someone else saying it, she might not have believed it, but it was Bai Jian who said it.

Bai Jian had absolutely no reason to lie to her, right? They’d shared life-and-death on the Star Path, no matter how you looked at it.

"But we did lose people." Right after, Yang Feng nodded with a grave expression, his brows tightly knitted.

It was strange when you thought about it. As assassins, they rarely ran into such bizarre things, but somehow not only did they run into it, it even...

"Sky Inquiry Tower discovered an ancient ruin. The news hasn’t gotten out yet, but I don’t think it can be kept secret for long," Yang Feng said naturally to Luo Qianqian. After all, you have to repay the food you eat with something; this information was secret for now, but in a few days it probably wouldn’t be, so he might as well say it outright.

Although the Sect that discovered the ruin held absolute control over it, it was completely impossible to prevent other Sects from entering.

Right now it just happened to coincide with the period of the Sect Conference, which was more than a little suspicious. This opportunity was a bit too perfectly timed, almost like someone had manually switched it on.

Hearing this, Bai Yizhu suddenly frowned. "These next few days? So that means... our final round might be held inside the ruin?"

"If it really turns out like that, casualties will be unavoidable. Besides, the ruin is protected by a Barrier—how could it be that easy to get in?" Yang Feng shook his head, then waved at He Wenyu. "Girl, make me something to eat. I brought you a little gift."

He Wenyu rolled her eyes. "As if I’d cook just for a gift... fine, I’m going."

A pair of hammers appeared in Yang Feng’s hands, successfully shutting He Wenyu up. She immediately broke into a run toward the kitchen.

Everyone couldn’t help the same thought popping into their heads: "Where’s her dignity?"

"Right, we found something else this time out." Wang Mazi naturally put down what he was holding and took out a roll of parchment. "This is the map that went for three hundred thousand Middle-grade Spirit Stones at Freedom Town’s auction."

Middle-grade Spirit Stones... Green Spirit?

Luo Qianqian carefully washed her hands, then even pulled out a pair of white gloves before suspiciously taking the thing and examining it closely.

But forget a map, there wasn’t even a single character on it...

Just this one sheet of Blank paper was worth three hundred thousand Green Spirit?

My god...

A single Green Spirit was already a sky-high price, and this was three hundred thousand...

She couldn’t even imagine it.

"You... too much money and not enough brain?" Luo Qianqian blurted out almost on reflex.

"Cough, cough, cough..." Bai Yizhu turned away, shoulders shaking as he tried to hide the fact that he could no longer hold back his laughter. His face was bright red, his shoulders trembling uncontrollably.

He definitely didn’t think Luo Qianqian’s words were praising Wang Mazi for being rich. Very clearly, she was swearing at him.

Even Mo, who had been silent all this time, lowered his head, shoulders shaking, and the people inside the house were all silently, dramatically laughing so hard they were gasping for breath.

"..." Wang Mazi’s face twitched too, and he almost couldn’t control his facial muscles.

"Let me ask... did I buy this?" Wang Mazi said.

Luo Qianqian paused and shook her head. She’d only been commenting on the map’s supposed value.

"Uh, so you killed and looted for it?" Luo Qianqian immediately started looking around warily, lowering her voice. He clearly hadn’t done anything yet, but she already looked guilty as a thief.

Wang Mazi: "..."

"I picked it up." Wang Mazi rolled his eyes. The value of this thing would obviously make countless people flock to it. He wasn’t stupid enough to make Sky Inquiry Tower the target of everyone’s hate.

"Where’d you pick it up? With that kind of luck, it’s a shame you’re not buying lottery tickets." Luo Qianqian looked impressed, but soon turned toward He Wenyu, eyes lighting up as she dashed over to her side. Ignoring the fact that He Wenyu was still cooking, she grabbed her hand and started bouncing. "That’s right, we should set up a Guangyi Academy ’Idea Station’ too, sell lottery tickets, and make money!"

"...Your brain really jumps too fast." He Wenyu quickly pulled her hand free from Luo Qianqian’s, hurriedly flipped the egg in the pan, but her expression was also thoughtful.

"But it’s doable. It’s not like people buy books every day." He Wenyu chuckled.

Everybody has dreams of getting rich, that goes without saying—unless they’re not interested in the prize money.

But even if they’re not interested in prize money, that’s fine, because they still had other stuff...

"Help me plate the eggs, I’m going to find Cong Ying!" With that, He Wenyu tossed down the spatula and ran off in high spirits.

Luo Qianqian just stood there staring, helpless.

Bai Yizhu naturally came over to take over He Wenyu’s job. As if he’d let Luo Qianqian cook? The kitchen might not survive it.

"What’s going on?" Wang Mazi was a bit dumbfounded too.

Bai Yizhu was already thinking about how feasible backstage manipulation would be, when Luo Qianqian took the plate from him. "Go with her. The two of them will probably be too busy on their own." She sighed. "Remember to bring me back a present."

Bai Yizhu froze, but still nodded and quickly headed out to catch up with He Wenyu.

On one hand, it really wasn’t safe to go out alone right now; on the other hand, he actually was interested.

There was a different kind of light in his eyes.

Yang Feng saw that Luo Qianqian was holding the plate without any intention of bringing it to him, and, unable to wait, he directly walked over, took the plate, and stuffed food into his mouth. "Man, I haven’t had this for days, I was craving it to death."

"Oh, right. My cook just went out, so if you want to eat you’ll have to wait, or fill up on snacks first."

Luo Qianqian belatedly looked at the resentful faces of Wang Mazi and the others and shrugged.