Shi Jin soon threw Shi Weichong’s episode out of mind. He dumped the documents his brother left behind into a bathtub filled with water, making them nothing but a pile of waste paper.

Three days later, the official liaisons arrived. There were three in total, two men and a woman. The woman, who was in her fifties and had a kindly grandmother look, was sent to help Old Ghost and Fei Yujing search for the missing Phantom members. Her name was Wen Baozhu, and she was a lawyer of high repute.

She and Fei Yujing clearly knew each other: when the two groups met, she took the initiative to greet him and called him by name without honorifics. Her attitude was very familiar.

Fei Yujing faced her with a polite and respectful manner. He deferentially called her “Teacher Wen” and personally briefed her about the situation. He couldn’t have been more considerate and thoughtful.

Because it was a general meeting, Shi Jin was also there. As he watched Fei Yujing play a sweet, lovable junior in front of Wen Baozhu, he thought about the man’s usual ‘All of you can get lost, I only care about what can benefit me’ attitude and shuddered, rubbing the goosebumps on his arms.

Do all the descendants of the Shi family get strange skills, like changing faces in the Sichuan opera, or Oscar-winning level acting, or bullshiting someone into believing anything, and so on?

“Are you cold?” Lian Jun asked attentively, noticing his movements.

Shi Jin shook his head. He stopped paying attention to Fei Yujing and Wen Baozhu, flipping through the documents in front of him instead. “The government liaisons are already here—when do we leave for the Southeast?”

Lian Jun closed the file back. “In three days at the earliest. They need to organize the details and establish contact with the southeast side, so there will be some delay.”

Shi Jin nodded his understanding, quite satisfied with this schedule. “That’s very good—by then, I should be well enough to accompany you.”

Lian Jun looked at him as if he was a fool and reached over to hold his hand. We’re going to a dangerous place, how can you be happy because of this, silly?

In the next three days, Shi Jin actively cooperated with the treatment much more than before and finally succeeded in getting a clean bill of health from Uncle Long on the day of their departure.

Aboard the plane, he saw Long Shi.

The man’s hair had been shaved short, his face was a bit gaunt, and he wore the simplest casual clothes. He would’ve looked inconspicuous if not for the black metal choker around his throat.

Perhaps feeling Shi Jin’s gaze, Long Shi, whose head was lowered until now, suddenly looked up. His expression was indescribably ferocious.

Xiao Si exclaimed angrily, <JinJin, your progress bar went up—Long Shi wants to kill you since the moment he saw you!>

Shi Jin glanced at his bar, which jumped to 550, and his eyebrows rose. He returned Long Shi’s stare, then bared his teeth and raised his hands, fingers forming a strange small shape by the edge of his ears.

Long Shi’s expression changed—apparently, he recalled a bad memory. Hate and fear in his eyes, he couldn’t help but turn to Gua One, who walked beside him: “Why don’t you believe me? Shi Jin is a monster, he will eat you sooner or later!”

He might’ve as well not bothered because Gua One treated him like air.

Refusing to be ignored, Long Shi pulled the sleeve of a man passing by and said earnestly, “Shi Jin really is a monster, don’t be confused by his fake human form! Kill him before he kills you!”

The person he grabbed happened to be Fei Yujing. The lawyer gave him a sideways glance, his eyes behind the glasses’ lenses indifferent. He pushed Long Shi’s hand off with his briefcase, patted his sleeve, and strode away.