Divine Eye Old Zhang, Ghost Eye Lao Qi

Every rough stone had cracks.

Rough stones with absolutely no cracks weren't nonexistent, but they were rare.

Ordinary people couldn't see anything through those cracks.

But beneath Lin Xiaosu's Heavenly Dao Insightful Eye, he could still vaguely sense the myriad wonders within through the cracks.

One rough stone, then another—he had already begun to grasp the skill of observing the inside through cracks.

And sure enough, he really did spot several fine pieces.

The kind whose exteriors looked utterly ordinary while hiding a whole different world within.

If he had truly come to buy rough stones today, he could probably have called it a day. But he hadn't!

His steps slowly shifted toward a particular spot, a crucial spot.

He slowly set down the rough stone in his hand, braced himself against the rack before him, and raised his head.

"Mr. Li, if you haven't found anything satisfactory, there are a few more over there. I'm sure Mr. Li will like them." Boss Zhang smiled broadly and pointed to the left.

"I knew Boss Zhang had hidden away the good stuff..." Lin Xiaosu smiled faintly and turned around.

As he turned, his fingers seemed to casually tap a spot on the inside of the shelf...

With that tap, the shelf in front of him silently split apart, revealing a section of flooring below.

Boss Zhang's expression changed sharply, as did the expressions of the three men beside him...

Zhou Mei abruptly turned her head. Miao Ruolan did not move at all, but her gaze suddenly sharpened.

Lin Xiaosu smiled. "So this is where Boss Zhang hides his good stuff?"

He walked toward the floor panel, which had a handle on it.

"Mr. Li, there... there really isn't anything good inside, just some waste material!" Boss Zhang's smile bloomed again. "Don't dirty your hands. Let's go over there!"

"Boss Zhang, you must be joking," Lin Xiaosu said. "How could something stored so securely possibly be waste material?"

He reached out, grabbed the handle, and yanked upward!

The iron panel weighed seventy or eighty pounds, but Lin Xiaosu lifted and flipped it aside in one motion, revealing a pile of rough stones beneath it.

Boss Zhang was still smiling, but at that moment, the smile no longer looked real.

The three men beside him exchanged glances, unsure of what to do.

Out in the workshop, dozens of eyes lifted, their gazes filled with intense unease.

Yet no one made a move. Everyone seemed to be waiting to see how things would develop.

The hidden room had been discovered, but no one knew whether it had been intentional or accidental.

The rough stones before them had been exposed, but no one knew what would happen next.

Lin Xiaosu bent down and lifted a rough stone. His gaze locked onto a crack, one nearly invisible to the naked eye, but beneath the Heavenly Dao Insightful Eye, it seemed magnified countless times.

His heartbeat finally accelerated...

Boss Zhang extended a hand, smiling as he reached for the rough stone. "Mr. Li..."

"Sorry, my surname isn't Li! My surname is Lin—Lin Xiaosu, from the Feng City Detective Agency!" Lin Xiaosu said.

His tone suddenly changed. He was no longer speaking standard Mandarin, but the local dialect.

Boss Zhang shuddered.

"You probably have another identity too—Ghost Eye Lao Qi!"

Zhou Mei's entire body jolted.

Boss Zhang was still smiling. "I don't understand what you mean..."

Lin Xiaosu said, "You won't shed tears until you see the coffin. A common human failing! Today, I'll let you see your coffin..."

Pop!

The rough stone in his hand suddenly split open. Inside was not stone, but a plastic bag. The bag fell, burst open, and white powder scattered through the air!

Boss Zhang's expression truly changed.

Whoosh!

A blade swept out from beside him and stabbed toward Lin Xiaosu's throat like lightning. It was the skinny young man who had been following Boss Zhang all along.

He had been polite the whole time, smiling the whole time.

His smile had stiffened after the hidden room was discovered. Now that he struck, his attack was precise and ruthless.

At the same time, another man suddenly appeared beside Zhou Mei. A blade flashed out as well, stabbing toward her.

Outside in the workshop, the machines continued to roar.

Under that roar, this sudden disturbance would likely be swallowed by the noise.

The blade was less than a foot from Lin Xiaosu's throat.

Boss Zhang's smile had turned savage.

Suddenly, Miao Ruolan's cheongsam flared apart beside Lin Xiaosu. Boom!

The skinny young man who had already lunged to Lin Xiaosu's side flew high through the air and crashed into the shelf behind him.

Over by Zhou Mei, the blade was only three feet away when a pitch-black gun barrel suddenly pointed at the man's head...

The man froze. Bang!

The gun fired!

The shot did not strike his head. It hit his arm!

His blade fell to the ground.

Whoosh, whoosh, whoosh...

Four figures leaped up at once and lunged at Lin Xiaosu. Three held knives, while one wielded a steel rod clearly grabbed on the spot, yet every attack was precise and vicious.

Miao Ruolan spun, blocking Lin Xiaosu. In an instant, she knocked down the first man, sent the second flying, and as the third thrust his steel rod through, she raised her slender hand and caught it. With a slight exertion of force, the man's palm split open in bloody ruin. Amid his scream, the steel rod swept across and smashed heavily into his neck. His head tilted, and he passed out. The fourth man's dagger was already close at hand, but the steel rod in Miao Ruolan's hand shot forward, piercing straight through his palm. The dagger fell.

Before the dagger hit the ground, Miao Ruolan flicked up her toe, sending it through a graceful arc. Whoosh!

It embedded itself in the workshop floor, sinking two inches into the boards!

The dozens of workshop workers rushing forward all froze when they saw that cold, gleaming dagger before them.

But immediately afterward, twenty or thirty of them charged at once.

The entire workshop and storage room fell into chaos.

Dozens of workers transformed into killers, crazily charging at Lin Xiaosu and the other two, because they knew their deepest-hidden crimes had been exposed. Their only option was to kill all three immediately and prevent the information from leaking.

Killing them naturally carried risks, but of two evils, they had to choose the lesser. If they killed them, there was still a slim chance.

If they didn't kill them, they were doomed for certain!

Unfortunately, the people they had encountered were all monsters!

Zhou Mei had a gun. The shots rang out repeatedly, dropping four men.

It also kept everyone else from daring to approach.

Miao Ruolan had no gun, so everyone naturally assumed she would be easy to kill. But once her ancient martial arts came out, she swept through the entire scene. No one who reached her could withstand even a single move.

What about Lin Xiaosu?

He did not move from where he stood, nor did he take the initiative to attack.

But stones flew from his hands one after another.

Every stone struck a person with perfect accuracy, and anyone hit inevitably went down.

A figure suddenly appeared to the left. It was Boss Zhang. He sprang out from behind a shelf, and in his hand was a gun!

He aimed the muzzle at Lin Xiaosu and roared, "Die!"

Whoosh!

A stone flew out!

Boss Zhang's right wrist was pierced through!

His gun fell to the ground. The gun he had gone to such trouble to find never fired a single shot.

"Don't move! Hands up!" A commanding shout came from the perimeter.

It was accompanied by a crisp gunshot.

The entire workshop was like a bowl of cold water poured into a vat of boiling oil...

A burst of chaos, several rounds of fighting, several gunshots...

More than thirty police officers rushed into the workshop...

Miao Ruolan spun once more and knocked down the last man, then saw Captain Zhang's face filled with murderous fury.

Zhou Mei had just fired the last bullet in her gun and was somewhat flustered as two thugs closed in from front and back. Suddenly, both figures fell at once. Miao Ruolan appeared before her, while Captain Zhang appeared behind her.

The three of them headed left together. There, a man clutched his right wrist, blood streaming through his fingers, his face deathly pale. It was Boss Zhang. Beneath the shelf in front of him lay another gun.

"Where's Lin Xiaosu?" Captain Zhang swept his gaze around.

"Don't worry, he won't be in danger," Miao Ruolan said.

Captain Zhang nodded and turned toward Boss Zhang. "Ghost Eye Lao Qi, we've finally met!"

Boss Zhang's disheveled hair trembled slightly, but his eyes slowly closed.

"Speak! Where are the records of your operations in Feng City?" Captain Zhang demanded in a low voice.

"You can forget about getting anything out of me, forget it!" Boss Zhang screamed hoarsely...

"There really is no need to get it out of your mouth," a voice said. "I've already got it!"

Captain Zhang looked up and saw someone walking toward them through the wrecked workshop. He wore a snow-white suit and a pale yellow shirt, looking calm and composed as he drifted over. In his hand was a red ledger.

Boss Zhang stared fixedly at the ledger in his hand, his lips trembling slightly...

His eyes were filled with utter disbelief.

"Don't forget, I'm a detective." Lin Xiaosu lightly patted his shoulder. "Finding your secrets wasn't as difficult as you imagined!"

"Lin... Lin Xiaosu! You'll pay for this! Our people will kill your whole family!" Boss Zhang ground his teeth, his expression incomparably savage.

Lin Xiaosu smiled faintly. "That's exactly why I needed to find your ledger—to wipe out your people completely!"

He handed the ledger to Captain Zhang. Captain Zhang took one look, and his eyes lit up...

Inside was a complete chain of illegal goods transactions. The key figures were the Five Tiger Generals...

There were detailed records of what goods had been supplied at what time, who the supplier was, and who made the handoff...

There were also the protective umbrellas they had already dragged into the mud. Everyone Wang Donghe had spent three years investigating was listed there. Beyond that, there were many additional names. Some of them were so shocking that even Captain Zhang was startled...

That was how underground organizations worked.

Breaking through from the outside was fraught with difficulty. Even if they found the outer-ring personnel, it was hard to breach the organization's true core.

But once they broke through from within, from the highest level, it was like pouring hot soup over snow. Everything about this criminal organization would be exposed beneath the sunlight.

Lin Xiaosu and the other two left the jewelry store.

Everyone in the jewelry store was squatting against the wall with their hands over their heads, while police cars outside continued arriving one after another, sirens wailing...

South City was completely shaken.

Even the bridge was jammed with traffic.

Zhou Mei drove the extremely luxurious Solence Dreamshadow back to the wedding planning company.

They changed back into their clothes, removed their disguises, returned the car, and the total came to thirty-eight hundred.

Naturally, Zhou Mei paid for it. It could be reimbursed.