Chapter 106: Chapter 106: Specifically Targeting You

Given that the case involved a home invasion and an underground casino, the police response was swift. The information provided by the three men was very accurate, so the police department split into several teams to make direct arrests. Before dawn even broke, Brother Liu, his men, and the Pang family had all been taken to the station.

As the victim, Su Qing also went to give a statement. By the time she returned to Lihua Village, it was already broad daylight.

An incident of this magnitude couldn’t be kept quiet, of course. The people of Lihua Village soon heard about what had happened, and many of them wanted to ask Su Qing for details. However, Su Qing spent the next two days up in the mountains, so even if the villagers tried to find her, they couldn’t.

Although the matter involved Pang Xiaofang, she was Wang Xuehong’s daughter-in-law. While everyone despised what Pang Xiaofang had done, they highly respected Wang Xuehong, who was also a village cadre. As a result, no one dared to approach him to ask for details.

For a time, all the villagers secretly wondered if Pang Xiaofang would end up in jail.

However, a few days later, officers from the county police department came looking for Su Qing early in the morning.

"Su Qing, please don’t be alarmed. We’re just here to ask you a few questions." Of the two officers who had come to her house, one was a woman. She opened her notebook and questioned Su Qing in a soft voice, as if afraid of frightening her.

After all, the officers believed that under normal circumstances, any young woman who went through such an ordeal would likely be left with psychological trauma.

"Okay, go ahead and ask," Su Qing said with a nod.

"Do you have anyone you’re on particularly bad terms with? Or, to put it another way, is there anyone you might have offended?" the female officer asked.

"Aside from some unpleasantness with the Old Su Family when the property was divided, I don’t have any major conflicts with anyone else," Su Qing said. "Officer, is someone specifically targeting me?"

The two officers exchanged a glance. The female officer then spoke softly to Su Qing. "The criminals we’ve apprehended have all confessed to their crimes, but one detail specifically involves you."

"Involves me?"

"Yes," the female officer said. "That Brother Liu was only the public face of the underground casino; the real person in charge is someone else. According to Brother Liu’s confession, this person has always been in Baihua Mountain, but their exact whereabouts are unknown. The home invasion against you was a direct order from this real boss, who also specifically emphasized that you were to be ’completely ruined.’ That’s why we suspect someone is deliberately targeting you, and we wanted to ask if you have any mortal enemies."

’Mortal enemies?’ Su Qing understood. An order like that was meant to completely destroy her, maybe even kill her. ’As for mortal enemies... besides the two men I eliminated in the mountains, I really can’t think of anyone else. Even the Old Su Family wouldn’t go this far.’

Of course, Su Qing couldn’t mention what had happened in the mountains. So, she shook her head. "I’m not sure. I don’t think I have that kind of bitter feud with anyone."

"Think again. Are you sure?" the male officer pressed.

Su Qing shook her head. "No."

Then, Su Qing asked, "Officers, I’d like to ask... you said the real person in charge is in the mountains. Who are these people?"

"We’re still investigating that, so it’s not convenient to disclose any specifics right now." The female officer closed her notebook and said to Su Qing, "If you remember anything, please let us know right away."

"Okay, no problem," Su Qing agreed with a nod.

After seeing the two officers off, Su Qing found that some well-informed villagers were already waiting at her gate. Seeing that she was preparing to head into the mountains, they rushed forward. "Su Qing! What did those two officers want? What’s the real story with this whole affair? Is Wang Xuehong’s daughter-in-law going to be sentenced?"

Having bottled up their curiosity for days, they finally had someone they could question, and the crowd bombarded her with one question after another.

Su Qing just smiled and said, "It was nothing, they just came to follow up on a few things. I don’t know the details of the case myself. Ladies, I have to go cut firewood in the mountains, so I can’t stay and chat."

With that, she bolted, disappearing in a flash before the crowd had any chance to stop her.

"Hey, that Su Qing! How can she run so fast?"

Seeing Su Qing vanish in the blink of an eye, the crowd was deeply disappointed. They still hadn’t managed to get any information. The suspense of not knowing the details of such a major event left the gossipy women feeling as if a cat were scratching at their hearts.

Su Qing dodged the gossiping women and went straight into Baihua Mountain. Gazing into its depths, she narrowed her eyes. ’According to what the police said today, those people in Baihua Mountain are specifically targeting me.’

’Could it be that they found out I eliminated those two men the other day?’

’But that shouldn’t be possible. I cleaned up the scene perfectly. Even if they found the bodies, there’s no way they could know it was me. So why are they targeting me so deliberately?’

This level of focus... she was sure of it. There had to be someone in those mountains who was absolutely dead set against her.

’Who could it be?’

Su Qing pondered for a long time but came up with no leads. She glanced toward the deep mountains. It was a terrible feeling, knowing someone was out to get her but having no idea who they were.

Su Qing hated this feeling. ’If this were still the apocalypse,’ she thought, ’the first thing I’d do is nip this threat in the bud, before it can grow into a future disaster.’

’But this is an era of peace. I certainly can’t act as recklessly as I did in the apocalypse. The only reason I killed those two men was because they were trying to kill me first.’

’Some of the laws of the apocalypse no longer apply here, but... they can always be adapted.’

After a moment of thought, Su Qing found a secluded spot and disguised herself to look as she had when she saved Zhang Erlai. Tossing her back-basket into her pocket dimension, she headed toward the location where she had eliminated the two men.

Those two had appeared in this area, which meant their base of operations couldn’t be far. All she had to do was go back there and use her creeping vines to conduct a slow, thorough search. She was sure she would find them.

Once she reached the area, Su Qing used her creeping vines to conduct a thorough, grid-like search. To her surprise, she found two stalks of Purple Danshen, and by the looks of them, they were quite old.

Putting the search aside for the moment, Su Qing carefully dug up the two Purple Danshen stalks. Examining them in her hand, she saw that one was over sixty years old, while the other was over one hundred and ten.

A Century-old Purple Danshen!

Su Qing was instantly overjoyed.