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Chapter 184: This Is Your ’No Trouble’?

Late at night, the lights in the room turned on again.

Qin Feng opened the basement door and climbed down the ladder.

He had climbed this ladder for many years, but after the place was abandoned, he never came back.

He just never expected that, sixty years later, a group of outsiders would bring new life and hope back to this place.

A dozen or so elderly people were gathered there. Seeing Qin Feng approach, they excitedly crowded around him.

"Mr. Qin, I can’t believe it. After sixty years, our country has finally captured a new ’fuel’ source."

"It’s just a shame we didn’t catch that Shen Zhiyao fellow, but nabbing a little demon with a thousand years of cultivation isn’t bad either!"

"I never thought that after lagging behind for so many years, the Island Country would finally find a new god!"

"Mr. Qin, let’s get started! We can’t wait any longer."

Among these elderly people, the oldest looked to be in their seventies or eighties, while the youngest were in their fifties or sixties.

With a wave of their hands, several of them instantly grew younger, their appearances reverting to that of their twenties.

Sixty years ago, they had used a god to escape poverty and get rich. Now, they were welcoming a new opportunity for wealth.

Qin Feng waved his hand, signaling for everyone to be quiet. "Open the door to the inner chamber," he ordered.

The door to the chamber swung open, revealing a large torture room filled with every kind of instrument imaginable.

Master Qin’s body had been discovered in the attic directly above.

The upper and lower floors were identical in layout; this lower level was just much more concealed.

Chained to the wall of the inner chamber was a woman in tattered clothes.

As Qin Feng approached, Meng Xiaoxiao’s eyes flew open. She glared at him and roared, "Kidnapping is illegal! What do you want with me?"

Qin Feng smiled, but it was a vicious smile, and even his eyes were filled with malice.

He stared greedily at Meng Xiaoxiao on the wall. "It’s been nearly a hundred years, but our country has finally found new material for our cultivation!"

Meng Xiaoxiao was wearing a dress. The iron chains below the hem were lined with barbs.

Every movement gashed her ankles, and blood ran along the barbs, seeping into the chain’s links and flowing down into a bucket below.

Qin Feng sighed admiringly. "You’re more beautiful than the last god, and your Spells are stronger, too! Every drop of blood you shed will become a Spiritual Medicine to enhance the villagers’ cultivation. Every time you cultivate, your progress will be distributed among us. What’s more, every part of you will help us get rich! You will also become the new raw material for producing Chi Ling. I believe it won’t be long before our Island Country enjoys a second spring!"

Meng Xiaoxiao struggled twice, a flicker of unease in her eyes. "You were targeting me from the very beginning! You went through all this trouble just to trap me, to make sure I’d be captured?"

Seeing her pitiful state only made Qin Feng feel more excited.

Qin Feng grabbed her by the face. "You probably don’t know this, do you? The last raw material our country used to produce Chi Ling looked exactly like you. That’s why the moment you arrived in the Island Country, Master Qin sensed the dense Spiritual Power on you. But the old fool was scared out of his wits! He started screaming that A zi had returned for revenge! By the time you got to the factory, he had lost his mind, kept spouting suspicious nonsense. I was afraid he would expose everything, so I strangled him with a chain..."

Originally, Qin Feng had planned to drain the residual Spiritual Power from Master Qin’s body, turn him into a dried-up corpse, and toss him into the sea to feed the fish.

But he never expected the production crew to open a secret passage and discover Master Qin’s body.

Once things blew up, it would have been hard to contain. Fortunately, everyone in their country was of one mind!

Qin Feng had the police arrest them and pinned the murder of Master Qin on them.

Then, he would find a chance to lure Shen Zhiyao out.

But he didn’t expect them to be so stubborn. They actually doubled back to investigate the cause of Master Qin’s death.

So Qin Feng had his men give them a brutal beating and take them into custody.

To his surprise, Shen Zhiyao never showed up. But as luck would have it, Meng Xiaoxiao ran out in the middle of the night, giving them the perfect opportunity.

Meng Xiaoxiao sneered, "I bet you don’t know this! I’m an A-list celebrity in Hua Country. Kidnapping me will bring you a world of trouble!"

Qin Feng laughed mockingly. "So, what makes you so confident we would ever let you go?"

"Your own people saw you run away! Tomorrow, we’ll leave your shoes on the island to make them think you fell into the sea and died! And you will be our Island Country’s new god, locked away in this basement forever!"

"The longer you’re trapped here, the faster your Spell will drain away. When your Spell and your blood have been drawn out bit by bit, you’ll turn back into a half-fox, half-Peacock monster! Even if your friends find you then, do you think anyone will still recognize you?"

Terror filled Meng Xiaoxiao’s face as she roared in fury, "Aren’t you afraid of divine retribution for doing this? Siphoning a demon beast’s Spell is going against nature! One day, you’ll suffer a backlash from my own Spell!"

"Backlash?" Hearing that, Qin Feng started to laugh.

Qin Feng grabbed Meng Xiaoxiao’s face. "The last one locked up in here said the same thing! So many years have passed, do you see any of us suffering a backlash? A Spell backlash is just a legend. Only an idiot would believe it!"

...

Early the next morning, a large team of reinforcements from Mango TV arrived.

Along with them came over forty police officers, who took control of the Island Country’s affairs.

Qin Feng was shocked when he saw how many people had arrived.

’I confiscated all their communication devices, so how did help get here so fast?’

’Good thing I got rid of all the evidence last night. Otherwise, we could have been in big trouble.’

After negotiations with the police, the dozens of arrested crew members were released, and their filming equipment was returned.

Once they got their phones back, several of them logged into their Weibo accounts and saw that the "Qing Qing Wo Wo" production had dozens of trending topics.

Their situation was being discussed all over the internet, and the buzz had reached an unprecedented level.

The director immediately had the camera crew start a livestream to update everyone back home on the situation and reassure the fans.

The scene was a bit chaotic. The director was reporting the situation to the staff from Mango TV.

Zhao Jing had lost a lot of blood from her head injury and had fallen unconscious during the night. She was now receiving medical treatment.

Qin Feng was busy apologizing to the police and making excuses for the Island Country’s citizens.

Shen Zhiyao asked, "Where’s Meng Xiaoxiao?"

Only then did everyone realize that Meng Xiaoxiao was missing.

"Meng Xiaoxiao ran off first last night, didn’t you see her?" a cameraman said.

The director replied, "We were wanted last night, so we were in hiding. We really didn’t see her."

They immediately went to find Gu Shi, who began pulling up the surveillance footage from the previous night.

The footage showed Meng Xiaoxiao fleeing the ancestral hall at night, then frantically running out of the camera’s range.

Gu Shi said, "It looks like she was running toward the sea cliff."

Everyone rushed to the sea cliff to search for Meng Xiaoxiao, but all they found were her shoes.

Sun Yingbin was startled by the sight of the churning, violent waves at the base of the sea cliff.

Gu Shi shouted anxiously, "Quick! Contact the rescue team immediately! Search along the coast!"

It wasn’t just the live comments that exploded; Meng Xiaoxiao’s fans began to panic as well:

[See! What did I tell you? I said they should have rescued people first! But some heartless people just had to start a livestream!]

[Oh my god! Meng Xiaoxiao’s shoes... Why are they by the sea cliff... Don’t tell me something happened to her!]

[Production crew, tell us where Meng Xiaoxiao is! We have to save her!]

[So this is what Shen Zhiyao meant by ’Meng Xiaoxiao will be fine’? Something has clearly happened! Shen Zhiyao, fuck you!]

[Meng Xiaoxiao is just missing right now, and you’re already saying something happened to her? Are you asking for a fight? If you jinx our Xiao Xiao again, I’m coming for you!]