Chapter 125: Chapter 122: What Constitutes Evil?

Night, eleven o’clock.

Shao Shuangshuang drove home alone.

Even though Changqing Liquid Group’s status had climbed steadily during this time, her quality of life hadn’t improved much.

She merely replaced her car worth one hundred and eighty thousand with one worth eight hundred thousand, while the house remained the very same.

The reason it hadn’t changed was that she was used to living here, and besides, she had been too busy lately to find time to move.

In fact, Shao Shuangshuang was planning to move soon; she intended to buy a villa on Hu Qi Mountain and find a day to relocate.

The neighborhood had been noisy and dirty at night recently.

Because an old lady who liked to pick through trash had moved in, she would dig through the garbage bins daily and then drag a bunch of junk around the neighborhood, making it filthy.

That would have been tolerable, but the key issue was that sometimes, when she collected a lot of trash, she was reluctant to keep it in her house, so she piled it up at the staircase landing and even inside the elevator.

Sometimes when Shao Shuangshuang returned, there was simply no place to step in the elevator, with the space filled with trash, cardboard boxes, and junk.

The once clean elevator had been rendered filthy by that old lady.

It was still manageable in winter, but in summer, it would likely attract a lot of flies.

It led many residents to complain to the old lady, but not only did it have no effect, they were also scolded in return. The old lady probably wasn’t very educated; her insults were unbearable, and she once made a female student on the floor below cry with her vile language.

The residents had no choice but to complain to the property management, but even faced with their complaints, the old grandmother still cursed directly at them. Due to her old age, they couldn’t retaliate physically, and the people of the community could only endure.

Several renters had already moved out these past few days.

Thinking about all this, Shao Shuangshuang planned to move away soon.

As Shao Shuangshuang arrived at the entrance to the underground parking garage, she discovered several cardboard boxes blocking the way.

Needless to say, it must have been the doing of the junk-picking old lady.

Shao Shuangshuang had no choice but to stop the car, open the door, and step out, intending to move the cardboard boxes aside.

Just then, her phone vibrated a few times. She took out her phone and looked at the screen while walking forward; the message was from Jiang Ning, who had sent her information about some strange materials, signaling her to arrange their purchase.

Shao Shuangshuang replied using the screen; she would take care of every task Jiang Ning assigned, no matter the cost.

Shao Shuangshuang reached the cardboard boxes.

Suddenly, late at night and fifty meters above, a brown wine bottle fell from a window.

The beer bottle descended, tearing through the air and speeding up, accelerating under the force of gravity. If it were to hit someone, it could kill them instantly!

The glass bottle crashed down towards Shao Shuangshuang’s head, seemingly set to strike her directly.

Shao Shuangshuang only felt a stir in her chest as a gust of wind arose.

The Spirit Array that came with the Protective Jade Pendant activated in response, the invisible Spiritual Power rippling, her hair billowing.

The beer bottle that was supposed to hit her head shifted slightly in angle and landed in front of her.

“Bang!” A loud noise, it hit the cement ground, shattering into pieces.

The sharp glass shards fortuitously avoided Shao Shuangshuang, with not a single piece hitting her.

Shao Shuangshuang was so startled by the noise that her body froze, her heart clenched, and she instinctively stepped back.

An electric scooter’s alarm sounded in the distance, and Shao Shuangshuang’s heart raced.

She looked down at the heap of glass on the ground, a small pit in the cement, with some glass reduced to powder, showing the formidable force of the object.

Shao Shuangshuang felt a chill down her spine.

Just one step away, just one step, if she had stepped forward once more, she would have been killed.

Initially relieved, she immediately became enraged, anger welling up inside her.

If she had been hit by the beer bottle today, even if she had managed to survive by luck, she would have resulted in a vegetative state. How heartbroken would her family be then?

She looked up, trying to locate the perpetrator. If she could find the culprit, she would make them pay.

In the residential building above, there were many lights on, making it impossible to find the assailant.

“Fingerprints, yes, fingerprints!” As long as the beer bottle remained, by checking the fingerprints of everyone in the community, she could find the offender.

Shao Shuangshuang thought angrily, still unsettled by the ordeal.

But would that really lead to finding the culprit?

What if there were no fingerprints on the beer bottle?

And besides, it was now shattered to pieces.

Even if the culprit was identified, could they truly be punished severely?

After all, the beer bottle hadn’t hit her.

Shao Shuangshuang became uncertain; as she thought about it now, her anger surged even more.

It was late at night, and though the sound of the beer bottle falling was loud, it hadn’t caused much commotion in the neighborhood.

If she really had been hit today, she might have simply collapsed in front of the parking garage, lying tragically on the cold ground.

With the temperature below freezing, in an unconscious state, it wouldn’t take long for her to be frozen to death.

Lying here as a corpse, it might take a long time, maybe even until tomorrow, for someone to find her. Shao Shuangshuang felt a boundless rage.

After the harrowing experience, she gripped her phone tightly, her emotions violently turbulent.

She calmed herself for a while, the fury in her eyes slowly dissipating, and finally, it faded away.

Coming up with something, she turned on her phone and sent Jiang Ning a message:

“Sorry, Jiang Ning, I almost died just now, so I was a bit late in replying to you.”

Perhaps after facing the great terror between life and death, Shao Shuangshuang needed to pour out her emotions to someone, and she chose Jiang Ning, who had just sent her a message.

A row of rental houses on the river dam.

Jiang Ning looked at the message from Shao Shuangshuang and pondered for a moment,

‘I almost died, so that means I didn’t die. If nothing goes wrong, it must have been the Protective Jade Pendant that worked.’

‘I didn’t expect it, but it really came in handy.’

Otherwise, he would have lost a major player.

“Let’s hear it,” Jiang Ning replied.

Shao Shuangshuang hurried past the cardboard boxes, into the garage, and pressed the voice button to rapidly describe to Jiang Ning how she had narrowly escaped being crushed to death.

“Understood, send me the address.”

Shao Shuangshuang hesitated for a moment, “Do we really need to?”

“Quickly.”

Shao Shuangshuang sent the address to Jiang Ning.

Jiang Ning glanced at it, six kilometers away, and responded:

“Wait for me on the spot for two minutes.”

Shao Shuangshuang was a bit surprised as she sent another message to Jiang Ning, suggesting he didn’t need to come, but she received no reply.

On the other side, Jiang Ning pushed open the door, performed the Concealing Qi Technique and Divine Step, and leaped directly from the courtyard wall.

In the dead of night, his body suddenly moved, shooting out at high speed.

On this journey, Jiang Ning took no detours, speeding in a straight line, stepping over the Huishui River’s surface, crossing to the opposite bank, and then passing through the city’s skyscrapers to arrive at the community where Shao Shuangshuang was.

Shao Shuangshuang was fiddling with her phone when she saw Jiang Ning in black appear before her.

Shao Shuangshuang stared at Jiang Ning in disbelief, “That was fast?”

Jiang Ning didn’t answer her but instead pointed to a pile of glass shards on the ground and asked,

“Is this them?”

Shao Shuangshuang immediately replied, “Yes, that’s it. I almost got crushed just now, and we can’t find the culprit.”

“I plan to get the officials to investigate tomorrow. We must find the culprit!” Shao Shuangshuang said resentfully.

Jiang Ning looked at Shao Shuangshuang, no longer bothering to conceal his disdain.

In some sense, Shao Shuangshuang was his spokesperson and his person. Her life could only be held in his own hands.

And the greater his power, the more Shao Shuangshuang would revere him.

“How do you want the person to die?” he asked.

“Die?”

Shao Shuangshuang looked at Jiang Ning, whose calmness and disdain for life sounded slightly eerie in the dimly lit underground garage.

She was seeing this side of Jiang Ning for the first time.

Instinctively, Shao Shuangshuang felt some fear, but she knew Jiang Ning was helping her, so she was no longer afraid.

“It doesn’t have to be death, but they must pay the price they deserve.”

“Understood.”

Jiang Ning walked over to the location of the glass bottle, stepped down, invoking Mana and muttered in his mind,

‘Wanxiang Tracking.’

The Qi was stripped away, and he instantly locked onto the scent.

Then he lifted his head and locked onto the twenty-second floor—the target was inside.

“Go back first. I’ll handle this,” he said.

Shao Shuangshuang looked at Jiang Ning, and after two seconds, she kicked away a cardboard box blocking her path and drove into the underground garage.

Jiang Ning’s Divine Sense extended out over one hundred meters, cloaked in the night.

He stepped directly up the walls, leaping seven or eight meters with each bound, quickly reaching the balcony of the twenty-second floor.

There was a security grate outside the balcony window, which was slightly open.

At that exact moment, a broken porcelain cup was thrown out from a room inside, arcing towards the edge of the sill but fortunately bouncing back, not falling downstairs.

With a sweep of his Divine Sense, Jiang Ning saw the room was a mess, full of various waste paper and bottles.

In the middle of the night, an old lady was tidying up, making loud clanging noises, quite a racket.

Such noise in the late night was indeed unseemly.

Jiang Ning’s Divine Sense reached down to the residents below; a young girl was being disturbed by the noise, tossing and turning in bed.

“Disturbing the peace, maliciously throwing objects from a height, nearly causing a death.”

“If not for me, Shao Shuangshuang would now be dead.”

“The worse people get as they get older, the more brazen they become.”

Thinking this, Jiang Ning activated his Spiritual Power, and a large Spiritual Power hand slapped down.

“Bang!” A massive force instantly distorted the entire steel security window, shattering the glass window into a large clump of pieces.

Yet ominously, the clump of glass shards miraculously hung suspended in the air.

“Who’s there? Who’s on the balcony!” The old lady’s shrill, unpleasant voice rang out.

With a light wave of his hand, Jiang Ning wrapped the clump of glass shards in Spiritual Power, turning it into a whip that struck the old lady’s legs, throwing her against the wall.

Then, Jiang Ning descended from the twenty-second floor.

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