Are you stupid? I am the villain behind the scenes

Hua Chaochao, who was standing by, heard their conversation getting more and more off-topic.

Weren't we talking about the male lead? How did we end up talking about the Flying Tigers?

This won’t do. We have to bring them back to the topic.

"Sister, aren't you curious why Brother Ji's people would risk their lives to enter such a desperate situation?" Hua Chaochao asked.

Hearing this, Moni immediately agreed, "Yes, could it be that this 'Big Brother Ji' is actually a hostile force of Jue Jing, and he sent his men here to gather intelligence?"

Then, she speculated, "Or maybe he already knew your identity and used his beauty to get close to you!"

After spending two days with Hua Chaochao, Moni has been completely led astray. She used to be quite steady and would not be like she is now, with problems popping up one after another.

Facing the two people's repeated questions, Hua Xi did not answer directly, but said: "Let's put this matter aside for now. Now, we should prioritize investigating why Li Ying was poisoned."

"Li Ying" is the A-level mercenary who was struck by eternal silence.

Compared to exploring Ji Xianchen's identity and background, Hua Xi was more concerned about Li Ying's poisoning.

To be able to become an A-level mercenary in Desperate Situation, his strength must be very strong, so the matter of Li Ying being poisoned must have something complicated behind it.

Hua Chaochao saw that Hua Xi did not follow her wishes and curled her lips slightly: That's fine, the result is the same anyway.

The poison Yongji is only sold on the underground black market, so Hua Xi plans to go to the underground black market to investigate in person.

But before setting out for the black market, Hua Xi took the antidote and first went to find Li Ying to remove the poison from his body, and then asked him about how he became poisoned.

Coincidentally, Li Ying's mission location was right near the black market.

He told Hua Xi that his employer sent him to a house near the black market to pick up an important item. Unexpectedly, there were many traps inside. He easily avoided the "open guns" but fell into the "hidden arrows".

He had just avoided a trap and hadn't even stood firm when suddenly a large bucket of blue liquid was poured at him.

He tried his best to dodge, but some of it accidentally got on his skin and he was poisoned.

"It's my own fault that I'm not strong enough and made you worried, Chief." Li Ying said with a guilty look on his face.

The leader's whereabouts have always been erratic, and he hasn't appeared in desperate situations for a long time.

This time, she had just returned and had an accident, so she had to trouble the leader to come and detoxify her. This made Li Ying both happy and ashamed.

"It's okay, this is not your problem." Hua Xi did not blame Li Ying.

According to his description, the situation was indeed quite dangerous.

Since the other party has prepared a large barrel of Eternal Silence, it is obvious that he is planning to take ruthless action.

"What's the situation with your employer?" Hua Xi asked. She wanted to find out if the problem was with her employer.

Li Ying understood what Hua Xi meant and quickly told her the specific information about the employer:

His employer was a low-level martial artist who did some business and made a lot of money over the years. Then he began to think about divorcing his wife.

However, his wife did not agree to a divorce and seized the safe where he kept his money.

In desperation, he hired Li Ying and asked Li Ying to help him take out the safe from his wife's residence.

The man's wife knew that her husband was unwilling to give up and would definitely come to take back the safe.

Since she was good at designing traps, she carefully designed a series of traps to ambush in the house, and combined with the eternal silence poison bought from the black market, she guaranteed to make men fall.

With the idea of ​​putting the man to sleep and letting her torture him, the woman waited for him to fall into her trap. However, she didn't expect that the man was not her husband, but Li Ying, whom she hired.

This is what happened. Li Ying was caught in the crossfire this time and was dragged into this marital dispute.

After learning that Li Ying's poisoning might have been an accident, Hua Xi's suspicions remained.

The price of Eternal Silence is not low, and its sale is restricted. Moni could only buy a small bottle on the black market at the time, but the wife of Li Ying's employer was able to buy a large barrel of Eternal Silence poison water, which undoubtedly shows that the problem lies in the black market.

Therefore, Hua Xi had to go to the black market this time.

Wherever Hua Xi went, Hua Chaochao would naturally follow. As for Moni, she thought that she hadn't been to the black market for a while, so she decided to go with them.

……

Xuanzhou underground black market.

Locals usually call it the "black market".

This place is a mixed bag, with all kinds of weirdos from Xuanzhou gathered here.

These weirdos sell all kinds of strange and bizarre items they collected from all over the place on the black market, both normal and abnormal.

Hua Chaochao stepped into the black market, and all she saw was a bustling and prosperous scene.

Many vendors set up stalls and shouted loudly to attract customers to buy their goods.

"Wow, this place looks similar to the market over there." Hua Chaochao couldn't help but sigh, "Hearing the name, I thought the black market was a chaotic place."

"The black market was quite chaotic five years ago." Mo Ni explained to Hua Chaochao, "It's so honest now because the black market manager has been replaced by a ruthless guy. They can't fight him, so they all become cowards."

Before the change of managers, the black market lacked strong people to control these weird vendors, leading to fights every day. Until five years ago, when the black market manager was replaced, this person used ruthless means to clean up the black market right from the start.

After some rectification, both the weird vendors and the customers who came to the black market to buy things realized the power of the new black market manager. They restrained their temper and edge and did business honestly.

"From what you said, this black market manager is quite powerful." Hua Chaochao nodded, "Then who is more powerful if he is compared with my sister?"

This question stumped Moni, "Well... I can't say for sure. No one knows the true strength of this black market manager."

Hua Xi did not join their conversation. She approached a nearby vendor and asked, "Excuse me, where is the old man Guo who sells Eternal Silence?"

As everyone knows, all the Yongji in the black market are descendants of one person. His surname is Guo, so everyone calls him Old Man Guo.

"Old man Guo." Hearing Hua Xi's question, the vendor enthusiastically pointed in a direction, "Hey, he's setting up a stall over there."

"Thank you."

"You're welcome."

After confirming the location of the target person, Hua Xi turned to Hua Chaochao and Mo Ni and said, "We found the person, let's go."