Medical and Martial God

Chapter 405: Bountiful Harvest

"I’m telling the truth. I really brought him and his mother to Han Jin City to help Qin Ming. There’s no other reason!" Ma Zixiong roared. He remained defiant, even with a gunshot wound in his knee and Ye Xiu’s gun pointed at him.

He knew perfectly well that if he told the truth now, the Xu Family would not let him go, and his own family would suffer along with him. If he continued to stonewall, Ye Xiu might torture him to death, but at least his family would be safe.

"Are you worried that if you tell the truth, you and your family will face retaliation from the Xu Family?" Ye Xiu asked coldly, seeing right through him.

Ma Zixiong was secretly shocked. Can Ye Liangchen read minds? He feigned ignorance, saying, "I don’t know what you’re talking about. I’m an orphan. I don’t have any family."

"Is that so?" Ye Xiu said with a cold smile and sent a text message to Qing Luan. Just three minutes later, she sent back Ma Zixiong’s file.

"Your father’s name is Ma Nanshan, and your mother is Nie Xunmei. Your older brother is Ma Zifeng, your wife is Pang Juanjuan, your son is Ma Xiaoguo, and your daughter is Ma Nuonuo..." Ye Xiu read the information unhurriedly. As Ma Zixiong listened, his face turned deathly pale and his eyes flickered with terror. Ye Liangchen somehow knew everything about his family.

"Do I need to send someone to your home to greet your family?" Ye Xiu asked coldly.

"Don’t!" Ma Zixiong cried out in panic. "I’ll talk! I’ll tell you everything! Please, I’m begging you, don’t hurt my family."

Ye Xiu smiled. "Go on."

Ma Zixiong took a deep breath and said, "The Xu Family discovered that Qin Ming was a PhD in genetics. He was blacklisted and ostracized by the scientific community for secretly researching cloning and genetic modification technologies..."

Holy crap, is my father-in-law that impressive? I always thought he was just a construction worker. Ye Xiu was stunned.

Ma Zixiong continued, "The Han Jin City International Entertainment Club is an entertainment venue on the surface, but in reality, it’s a secret laboratory for the Fire Seed Company..."

What? There’s a Fire Seed Company branch in the country too? A chill flashed through Ye Xiu’s eyes as he stood up. "Take me to the laboratory right now."

"I can’t!" Ma Zixiong said bitterly. "The lab is underground, and the only elevator to it is in my office on the fifth floor. I don’t have the authority to use the elevator, and I’ve never been to the underground lab.

"Furthermore, both the elevator and the lab are rigged with a self-destruct device. If anyone tries to use the elevator rashly, the device will activate automatically, leveling everything within a three-kilometer radius."

The faces of Song Yushu and the seven booth princesses changed drastically. The seven princesses, in particular, were terrified by the realization that they had been working on top of a bomb every day and broke out in a cold sweat.

Ye Xiu suddenly realized that saving Qin Ming and destroying the Fire Seed Company’s lab would be incredibly difficult and would come at a high cost.

It seems I can only wait for the Xu Family to arrive, seize control of them, and have them use the fifth-floor elevator to get me into the underground laboratory.

Remembering that he had ordered his men to stir up trouble here, Ye Xiu quickly sent a message to Mo Luo, "When you arrive, lie in wait around the club. Don’t come in yet."

Mo Luo replied, "Understood!"

"I’ve told you everything you wanted to know. Can I go now?" Ma Zixiong asked tentatively. The pain in his leg was excruciating, and if he didn’t get to a hospital soon, his left leg might be crippled.

"You can leave when the Xu Family gets here," Ye Xiu said.

Reluctantly, Ma Zixiong nodded. He grabbed a bottle of alcohol and poured it all over his wound. It was the most basic form of disinfection, meant to prevent the wound from getting infected while he waited.

「Twenty minutes passed in the blink of an eye.」

"Why isn’t the Xu Family here yet?" Ye Xiu asked. "Call and hurry them up."

"Okay!" Ma Zixiong immediately took out his phone to call the head of the Xu Family, but the phone was turned off. He then tried calling other members of the Xu Family, and all of their phones were turned off as well.

How could this be?

He looked at Ye Xiu in panic. "The Xu Family members’ phones are all off. They—"

Ye Xiu’s expression changed dramatically. His first thought was that the Xu Family had abandoned Ma Zixiong and the Han Jin City International Entertainment Club and was about to remotely activate the self-destruct sequence. But on second thought, if they were going to do that, they would have done it twenty minutes ago, not waited until now. Moreover, as an Ancient Martial Family with the Fire Seed Company backing them, they wouldn’t hastily abandon the club without first identifying their enemy. Either something had happened to the Xu Family, forcing them to turn off their phones and temporarily ignore the lab, or they were using the shutdown as a tactic to test how he would treat Ma Zixiong and the club in order to gauge their enemy’s strength and intentions.

So the Xu Family is very cautious!

"I’m leaving now. When the Xu Family asks what happened, you know what to say, right?" Ye Xiu asked as he got up. Tonight had been quite fruitful: he had learned what Qin Ming was doing here, confirmed this was a Fire Seed Company branch, and identified the Xu Family as their partner.

"I know!" Ma Zixiong nodded.

Ye Xiu nodded and left with Song Yushu. He believed Ma Zixiong wouldn’t try anything funny, because if he told the Xu Family the truth, he would be the first to suffer.

After Ye Xiu and Song Yushu left, Ye Xiu did not tell Mo Luo and the others to retreat, believing that leaving them in place might lead to an unexpected gain.

Sure enough, less than five minutes after Ye Xiu and Song Yushu had gone, he received a text from Mo Luo. "Young Master, people from the Xu Family have arrived. There are two of them. One addressed the other as ’Young Master Xu.’ Should I capture him?"

Ye Xiu thought for a moment. ’Young Master Xu’ is probably a small fry. If he doesn’t have the authority to use the elevator, capturing him would just tip our hand. I’ll leave them be for now.

Meanwhile, just as Ma Zixiong was about to leave for the hospital, Young Master Xu arrived in the private room.

"You said on the phone that a Martial Artist came here causing trouble. Where is he?" Xu Zhiqiang asked, slumping onto the sofa with the full demeanor of a spoiled heir.

"He shot me and then left," Ma Zixiong replied with a bitter smile.

"What exactly happened?" Xu Zhiqiang demanded.

Ma Zixiong recounted the story he had fabricated. "It’s all Lili’s fault. She didn’t serve the man properly and angered him. She asked Xiaoniu for help, but when Xiaoniu went to the man, he got beaten up. Xiaoniu called me, so I brought Squad One to this room to deal with him. First, I threw a smoke grenade... I was too arrogant, so he shot me. I paid him some compensation, and he left."

Xu Zhiqiang narrowed his eyes and stared at Ma Zixiong for a long moment before saying, "Get Lili in here."

"Okay!" Ma Zixiong immediately called Lili.

Soon, Lili arrived, her face a mask of fear.

"How did you offend that Martial Artist?" Xu Zhiqiang asked.

Ma Zixiong stared intently at Lili, his heart in his throat. If Lili told the truth, he, Master Niu, Squad One, and the seven booth princesses would all be silenced.