I gave Xie Yi a call.
When he heard the words "Peng Hui," his tone turned serious. "Are you sure they really are from Peng Hui?"
"That woman said so. As for whether they really are from Peng Hui, I'm not sure either. But I don't think she had any reason to lie to us, right?"
Xie Yi sounded puzzled. "That shouldn't be the case. Xiaobai, do you know who runs Peng Hui?"
"Who?" Of course I didn't know. This was even the first time I'd heard of Peng Hui.
Xie Yi gave a bitter laugh. "The Mu Family. Actually, Peng Hui isn't a bounty guild like you think. The so-called bounty hunters are merely a means of concealing Peng Hui's true identity."
I froze for a moment. "What exactly is going on?"
Xie Yi said, "Peng Hui can be considered an external organization of Unit Seven. They gather intelligence from various places under the guise of bounty hunters. You know as well as I do that official methods alone make it difficult to obtain certain special sources of information. There are too many limitations. But Peng Hui is different. They were already part of the martial world, and news travels fastest there. Using an organization like this to gather intelligence often produces unusual results."
I seemed to understand a little. "The Mu Family you mentioned—is it the Diannan Mu Family?"
"That's right, that Mu Family. The Mu Family has deep ties with Old Shu, and Old Shu was the one who first authorized the establishment of Peng Hui."
I fell silent. If that was really the case, then the people we had encountered were very likely not from Peng Hui at all. Of course, perhaps they really were from Peng Hui, and it was simply that Old Shu and