The Fourth Financial Crisis

After the powerful spiritual energy fluctuations raging between heaven and earth gradually dissipated, the killer of Tingheyuge disappeared.

The unlucky killer used his body-protecting aura to resist Li Qingning's ultimate killing move. He didn't even have room to resist, and was directly torn into pieces by the violent aura.

Feeling Li Qingning pressing down on him, Yang Lu didn't care to appreciate the touch of the eldest lady's bumpy body, and quickly asked: "Miss, are you okay? I think you seemed to have been hit by that pitch-black fireball just now. Got it!"

"I'm fine!" Li Qingning's voice slowly sounded in his ears, and Yang Lu could even feel the slight gasp when she spoke, "How can the Qi Refining Period killer of Heyu Pavilion be my opponent, Li Qingning."

Seeing that her tone was normal, Yang Lu finally felt relieved as he raised his throat: "It's okay, it's okay, but it's a pity that there is no one left alive."

"Do you think I don't want to stay alive? The problem is that in the entire Zhongzhou Qi Refining Stage, there are very few monks who can take my full blow. If I had hesitated for a moment, you might have died without a burial place." Although Yang Lu couldn't see Li Qingning's expression, he could feel from the other party's tone that she seemed to have rolled her eyes at him.

After a fierce battle, Li Qingning's clothes were in tatters, and a large area of ​​snow-white skin was exposed. After completely relaxing, he felt the eldest lady's soft and weak body pressing against him, and the perfect body curve produced a thrilling allure. , Yang Lu even had to hold his breath and try to think of something to distract himself, so as not to become animalistic on the spot.

"Miss, should you get up from me? Murong is still watching!"

After hearing Yang Lu's reminder, Li Qingning said as if waking up from a dream: "Okay... okay, I'll get up right away!"

But as soon as Li Qingning straightened her back, she felt a sharp pain in her back, like seven or eight sharp knives stirring at the same time. She fell to her knees again in pain, her face was extremely pale, and there were beads of sweat. It kept falling along the beautiful jaw, and the body was bent into an arch shape due to pain.

Yang Lu was shocked when he saw this, and quickly called Murong to help Li Qingning up. He said helplessly: "Miss, what time has it been, and you are still trying to be brave with us! Murong, please go back to the Chamber of Commerce to find Butler Zhou. Remember to leave. Plenty of places!”

As a newsboy with more than two years of working experience, no one is more familiar with the roads of Haiya City than Murong. The girl selling newspapers did not hesitate, nodded sharply, and ran quickly to the nearest street.

Li Qingning didn't even have the energy to argue this time, and allowed Yang Lu to give orders from the side.

She just fell into Yang Lu's arms, her back dripping with sweat, and her expression was slightly painful. It wasn't until almost a cup of tea later that she took a deep breath and felt that the stinging had subsided.

Seeing that Li Qingning's expression softened slightly, Yang Lu quickly asked: "How are you doing? Do you feel better?"

Li Qingning blushed and replied in a voice as quiet as a mosquito: "I feel much better... You don't have to worry about me. I just used the protective aura to resist the opponent's killing move, and let the spiritual energy go retrograde and damage the meridians. If If it weren’t for the other party always using despicable means, I would have beaten him upright enough to make him kneel down and beg for mercy!”

Seeing that Miss Li was still speaking arrogantly, Yang Lu couldn't help but pinch her delicate little nose: "This is a life-and-death battle. Where can you be upright and upright? Next time you encounter this kind of situation, just go all out to destroy the opponent. That’s fine, got it?”

Hearing Yang Lu, a mortal, lecture him, Li Qingning didn't feel anything wrong for some reason. Instead, he said in a piqued tone: "Don't I want to stay alive? But if I try my best every time, what else can I do? To be kept alive? Until now, we don’t know who hired this Tingheyuge killer!”

Yang Lu looked at the place where the killer died and sneered: "Forty thousand spirit stone coins is not a small amount. There are only three groups of masterminds who have been offended by me recently and can still spend so much cash to pay for murders. people!"

Li Qingning ignored the pain in his body and quickly asked: "Which three groups are they?"

Yang Lu analyzed in a deep voice: "He Mingyuan, the Zhujia Chamber of Commerce, and the Luanshicheng Xuantie Mine... He Mingyuan can first rule out that the real man behind the scenes is none other than the Zhujia Chamber of Commerce, or the Luanshicheng Xuantie Mine! "

Li Qingning asked curiously: "Why not the other Qingning Chamber of Commerce bugs that you captured?"

Yang Lu changed into a more comfortable position and hugged Li Qingning, and then analyzed it point by point: "It is a capital crime to hire a murderer from Heyu Pavilion. In order to prevent others from being accused, normal people will definitely not let others know. It is unlikely. Many people join together to commit crimes. Although there are many corruption cases in the Qingning Chamber of Commerce, they are relatively scattered and the amount of corruption is relatively small. Even many manager-level moths can hardly come up with tens of thousands of spiritual stone coins. So far. , there are only two major cases worth 100,000 yuan that we have investigated, namely He Mingyuan's rat warehouse case and the Luanshicheng mine corruption case, and they are the only ones with the conditions to commit the crime. He Mingyuan is a spy sent by Liu Hanxing, representing The leaders of the Wuliang Sword Sect have no motive for committing the crime at all, so the only possibility of committing the crime is the Luanshicheng Mine."

Hearing this, Li Qingning straightened up slightly: "I think the Zhu Family Chamber of Commerce is more suspicious!"

Seeing Li Qingning's face full of determination, it was Yang Lu's turn to say in surprise: "Why did you say that?"

Li Qingning flipped up his hair and said with a serious look: "You may not know much about Ting He Yu Pavilion. Speaking of the origin of Ting He Yu Pavilion, it has something to do with the founder of Lingshi Reserve Bank, President Lu!"

Yang Lu was puzzled: "The dignified president of the Lingshi Reserve Bank actually founded a killer organization?"

Li Qingning couldn't help but laugh and said: "Of course Listening to Heyu Pavilion was not established by Governor Lu himself! Governor Lu only proposed the concept of a third-party trading platform for the first time 500 years ago. It is based on the concept of this third-party trading platform that Listening to Heyu The Pavilion gradually emerged more than 400 years ago. Tinghe Yu Pavilion is not the name of a certain sect, but an underground trading platform across Kyushu, specifically used to broker murder-for-hire transactions between killers and employers."

Hearing this explanation, Yang Lu almost laughed out loud.

At first when he heard the name Heyu Pavilion, Yang Lu thought it was a highly capable killer organization. Maybe its headquarters was in a place like a snowy mountain or a gloomy castle in the Western Regions. Unexpectedly, it turned out to be a place similar to Earth. The third-party platform of "Dida Ren", its quality dropped several notches in an instant.

But if you think about it carefully, the existence of Ting He Yu Pavilion does have its economic principles.

The training cycle for full-time killers is long and the cost of training is high. They are a typical capital-heavy industry. Under the constraints of Kyushu Tiandao, if a professional killer organization is established to train full-time killers, then after the full-time killers kill a certain number of targets, they will be forced to retire due to lack of merit, and it will be difficult to keep the organization confidential.

Everyone in the world is interested in profit. Just like a capital-heavy taxi company, it cannot compete with a capital-light online ride-hailing platform. Compared with cultivating full-time killers, hiring part-time killers who want to make extra money is obviously more in line with the interests of the boss of the killer organization. demands.

Li Qingning did not notice Yang Lu's strange expression, but continued to explain: "Tinghe Yuge is a membership-based killer platform. Whether you are an employer or a killer, you need to be invited by an introducer before you can register in Tinghe Yuge. Best wishes. The Family Chamber of Commerce may have a chance to get in touch with Tinghe Yuge, but the corrupt elements in the Xuantie Mine in Shicheng are just ordinary mortals, and it is unlikely that they will find a way to Tinghe Yuge."