Chapter 222 Canglong

In the end, she still managed to trick Ling Mo into going along with her.

Her method was pretty simple—just work hard to get stronger.

I don’t know whether to say Ling Mo is easy to fool… or if he just likes this kind of talk…

That being said, it’s definitely something she needs to be cautious about.

In her past life, she only gained her abilities much later, but she kept a low profile until she developed enough for others to notice her spunky presence—back then, she also faced situations like today, where some clueless small factions pressured her to form cliques.

Her response? She blew that entire organization to smithereens.

However, Ling Mo now doesn’t have the ability to do that. Put simply, if he only has physical strength and no abilities to back him up, any half-intelligent ability user could easily take him out.

But right now, Ling Mo has already attracted quite a bit of attention, which is ahead of schedule compared to her last life. If everyone’s abilities emerge according to a fixed timeline, it means she has to find a way to protect him until he activates his abilities.

That’s not exactly good news for Xia Xinyan either.

So, she’s actually quite eager to see whether reality will unfold like how she just tricked Ling Mo—maybe with her as the butterfly, this lifetime’s trajectory has already been completely altered.

But before that, she first needs to deal with the current mess.

She’s really curious about the ins and outs of today’s incident.

Meanwhile, on the other side, Summer Jincang has already investigated what happened today.

Good heavens, the more he looked into it, the more dumbfounded he became—his sister actually split someone in two, and the first person to find the scene was sent straight to a psychiatrist.

Then, that night, the police issued a report—an unidentified corpse was found in a narrow alley in a certain area, with no signs of anyone else at the scene, preliminarily judged to be a suicide.

After helping his sister tackle the surface-level troubles, Summer Jincang continued to look into the information behind that gang, but at this stage, those smaller factions knew a thing or two about keeping a low profile, and with minimal traces left on the surface, he couldn’t dig up anything concrete for the time being.

To put it plainly, both sides are still bound by today’s surface-level peace rules—even major forces, under the current mainstream background rhythm, can’t act too high-profile, which does weaken some of their power.

If it weren’t for the Summer Family’s true strength, they might have already taken down Canglong the next day.

Although Summer Jincang is a bit of a sis-con, he’s also the most likely future leader of the Summer Family. When handling serious matters, he never misses a beat; even when it concerns his sister, he wouldn’t let the Summer Family fall into danger.

If you had to say, he’s actually not a qualified sis-con.

Instead, it was Xia Xinyan and Ling Mo who got a hold of relevant info ahead of time.

It was pretty lucky for them—the chubby guy in reality has two friends who were sucked into that Canglong organization, giving him some understanding of this little outfit. It’s said they’re quite bold; while they keep a low profile most of the time, they’re extraordinarily high-profile when it comes to recruiting new members.

Once they lock onto a suitable new member, they’ll directly approach them at the right time and hit them with a straight question—join or die.

It sounds like the antics of some delusional kids, but there’s a bit of logic to it.

Because rejecting them now means exposing oneself, which, at this stage, isn’t good for the organization, so it’s better to root it out completely.

Pretending to agree to join and then finding a way to escape supposedly doesn’t work; once you agree, they’ll take you straight to the organization base, and through a method even the chubby guy doesn’t know about, they’ll determine whether the newcomer is genuinely loyal. If you fake it, you’ll end up dead too.

As for the chubby guy’s two friends—they genuinely want to join.

And they later approached the chubby guy, dropping hints that once he activates his abilities, he can join Canglong; they could recommend him, and the chubby guy played along, mostly responding with “Definitely, definitely.”

After learning about this organization, he even used his connections to investigate it; most of what was mentioned earlier was uncovered by him.

To sum it up in one sentence, the organization is filled with a bunch of dreamers and lunatics.

“So how do your two friends feel about you?” Ling Mo asked the chubby guy sitting across from him in the café.

The chubby guy scratched his chin. “They think I’m really close to them, you know?”

“Aren’t you planning to get them out of this organization?”

“How am I supposed to do that? It’s just like a pyramid scheme; it’s easy to get someone out, but getting their minds out is hard. They believe all that nonsense about ruling the world. Why should I stir up trouble?”

“Got it,” Ling Mo nodded. “Then if something happens to them, would you have any thoughts about it?”

The chubby guy paused. “What do you mean?”

“What you’re thinking.”

“Wait…” The chubby guy was stunned. “What’s going on? Did they mess with Miss Summer? But last time, didn’t they say it was Old Ling they targeted?”

“It’s my thought,” Xia Xinyan spoke up beside Ling Mo. “I just want to ask them how they found out where Ling Mo was.”

Once she said that, the chubby guy quickly grasped her meaning: “You suspect there are others behind them?”

“Very likely,” Xia Xinyan nodded. “I really hate those worthless ones who don’t dare to get their hands dirty and only know how to use others as scapegoats, do you understand?”

Most importantly, she wants to eliminate this hidden danger.

The chubby guy looked conflicted for a moment. “Alright then, what do you plan to do?”

“Where’s the Canglong base?” Xia Xinyan asked.

“I really don’t know,” the chubby guy shook his head. “I’ve only interacted with a few Canglong people, and they are tight-lipped about the base’s location. My two friends are completely loyal too—I suspect there might be some ability in their organization that brainwashes people, otherwise, how could they find so many gullible idiots?”

Xia Xinyan: “…Are you insulting your two friends?”

“They can’t hear me anyway.” The chubby guy shrugged. “I’ll be straight with you—I can’t get involved in this, but I can recommend someone to you. She’s really interested in Canglong.”

“Don’t want to have trouble?” Ling Mo chuckled.

The chubby guy met his gaze for a moment, then shrugged. “I don’t have abilities, bro.”

“Alright, I get your meaning.” Ling Mo didn’t press him further. “The person you’re recommending, are they part of the Canglong organization?”

“Nope, she’s just a college student working on a research project about ‘the development trajectory of emerging forces under the new world order.’ Canglong is her research subject.”

“?”