I Pursued My Scummy Ex’s White Moonlight – Chapter 73

Not Investigating for Now

The closer she got to the sound of gunfire, the taller the surrounding buildings became. There were no guards around; they had clearly been sent away. Ordinary people who heard the gunshots hid in their homes, not daring to go out, completely unaware of what was happening outside.

Su Wenwen hid behind a wall, peeking her head out to look around. The setting sun was about to sink behind the mountains, which would obstruct visibility to some extent, but she was still two thousand meters away from the sniper’s position. Based on the distance, she had a rough idea of which building the sniper was hiding in, allowing her to evade being sniped.

She ducked into a small alley and sprinted, using the terrain to hide her figure. As expected, the sniper did not fire again.

But the alley, after all, did not extend forever. Before long, Su Wenwen ran out onto a wide street.

Her nerves were taut, and she didn’t dare to turn off her five senses. Her stamina and mental energy were being consumed extremely quickly, and the system items were also being used up faster than she had imagined. However, she still had some attribute points in reserve. If the items weren’t enough, she could buy more from the shop.

Bang!

The instant the bullet left the chamber, Su Wenwen was the first to capture the sound coming from another tall building. That sharp, merciless killing intent made her scalp tingle. Her body’s reaction was faster than her brain’s; she raised both hands to protect her head. The bullet pierced her right arm and entered her left. Blood flowed all over her body, and the pain made Su Wenwen’s face turn white.

She quickly rolled over, tumbling to the corner of the building to hide. If it weren’t for her equipment’s twenty-five percent damage reduction effect, that last shot could have directly taken out eight thousand of her blood¹.

Su Wenwen wasn’t sure if the other party had moved their sniping point or if there were two snipers in ambush. In any case, she had to be wary of her surroundings and quicken her pace. Otherwise, if this consumption continued, it would be hard to say who would win or lose.

She used another high-grade gauze. After the wound healed, Su Wenwen shot out with a cold look in her eyes, protecting her head with both hands and forcibly sprinting towards the sound of the gunfire.

The man on the upper floor saw Su Wenwen’s perverse recovery ability through his sniper scope and immediately cursed under his breath, “Damn, didn’t the Adjutant say she has no special abilities?”

However, Su Wenwen was constantly protecting her head, which was clearly her fatal weakness. The man put down the sniper rifle in his hands and opened a box beside him. This was a heavy sniper rifle. Paired with armor-piercing rounds, it could penetrate a ten-centimeter steel plate. He refused to believe that Su Wenwen’s two thin arms could be harder than a steel plate.

Aiming at Su Wenwen’s head once again, the man revealed a crazed smile this time, as if he could already see the beautiful and tragic scene of Su Wenwen’s head exploding. Just as he was about to pull the trigger, he heard a strange movement behind him.

“Are you taking the Commander-in-Chief too lightly?”

Hearing the voice, the man broke out in a cold sweat. He quickly turned around, his hand reaching for the handgun at his waist, but his reaction was still half a beat too slow. He was knocked unconscious by a single punch from the newcomer.

By the time Su Wenwen ran up to the rooftop, she saw Lin Yu had the sniper tied up like a five-flower bundle². Su Wenwen recognized that sniper; it was the same Guard Captain who had made things difficult for Luo Xi during the physical examination before.

Lin Yu said to Su Wenwen, “Your ability is indeed very strong, but don’t be so impulsive next time. You should flee when you have to. The Commander-in-Chief naturally has other ways to catch this person.”

“I’m sorry.” Su Wenwen lowered her head. She saw the heavy sniper rifle on the ground and only then understood that she had underestimated her enemy. If Lin Yu hadn’t subdued the man in time, she would have been headshot by now.

Lin Yu was taken aback for a moment, then said somewhat awkwardly, “I’m not trying to blame you. I was just afraid that if anything happened to you, Miss Luo would be heartbroken.”

“I’ll be more careful in the future.” Su Wenwen looked at the unconscious man and asked, “So how should he be dealt with?”

“Originally, he could have been locked up in prison, but since he saw your ability, he cannot be left alive…”

From Lin Yu, she learned that the man had specifically chosen the gap during the guards’ shift change to snipe Su Wenwen. The old man from the hospital was not only used to attract Su Wenwen’s attention but was also an excuse for the man to evade responsibility.

He could say that the old man had run out of the hospital, turned into a zombie after freezing to death, and he happened to see it. While sniping the zombie, he had accidentally implicated Su Wenwen. It was obvious the man had planned an escape route, intending to retreat after the assassination failed, but no one had expected Su Wenwen to proactively charge over.

“But this is also good. It makes it so Luo Tianyang can’t figure out our true strength, so he won’t dare to easily send people to assassinate you again.”

Su Wenwen nodded. Seeing that there was nothing else to do here, she went home.

She lay alone on the sofa, thinking about the day’s events. She had originally wanted to help Ji Qingshuang deal with Luo Tianyang, but she didn’t expect to have almost helped backwards³. She sighed helplessly; she was ultimately not suited for these schemes and plots.

Her clothes were all stained with blood, sticky and uncomfortable. Su Wenwen didn’t want Luo Xi to see, so she dragged her exhausted body to the bathroom for a shower.

It was a pity about the meal she had just made; it had all been spilled on the road. Taking advantage of the fact that it wasn’t too late, Su Wenwen planned to cook again after her shower.

She quickly finished her shower and went to the kitchen. Her hair was still dripping wet, and playful water droplets trickled down the tips of her hair onto her clothes, blooming into a faint, pure white skin tone. Su Wenwen was completely unaware, focusing her entire being on preparing the ingredients. Forgetting the afternoon’s thrilling danger, her mood improved considerably.

Kachak. A sound of the doorknob turning brought Su Wenwen back to her senses. She turned and walked out of the kitchen, only to see Luo Xi standing at the doorway, her eyes and brows so cold it made one feel a sense of unfamiliarity. On the clean white clothes under her black coat were a few red specks.

Su Wenwen quickly put down the ingredients in her hands and walked to Luo Xi’s side to look her over. She discovered that the red specks carried the smell of blood, but Luo Xi didn’t look injured. She asked in confusion, “Whose blood is on your clothes?”

“It’s the butler’s.” Luo Xi’s voice was a bit low and hoarse.

After Luo Xi hung up the phone with Su Wenwen, she had been considering how to wake up the butler. Since Luo Qi had used mental power to control the butler, as a mental power ability user herself, she should also be able to invade a person’s mental world. So, she directly avoided the guards and found the butler, attacking him with her mental power without another word.

But she had been wrong about her own ability. Her mental power leaned towards object control⁴, so the moment it invaded the butler’s mind, it instead caused the butler’s head to feel like it was splitting with pain. He immediately spat out a mouthful of blood, which splattered onto her clothes.

Her mental power was too domineering. Although the butler woke up, his brain had suffered severe damage. Luo Xi tried to interrogate the butler, but he seemed to have become demented, crying one moment and laughing the next.

Seeing the butler become like this, the anger in Luo Xi’s heart reached its peak, because it seemed all the clues had been terminated here. If Ji Qingshuang hadn’t called in time, Luo Xi wasn’t sure what else she might have done.

“What happened to the butler?”

Luo Xi glanced at the freshly changed clothes on Su Wenwen, shook her head, and only said that the butler’s situation was not good. She didn’t want Su Wenwen to know this other side of her. She immediately changed the subject, asking, “Why did you shower and then cook?”

Normally, people cook, eat, and then shower. After all, there are kitchen fumes. Su Wenwen didn’t know how to explain and said casually, “Can’t I?”

Luo Xi’s eyes darkened, her mood somewhat bad.

【Blackening Value +6】

It had been a long time since she had encountered a situation where Luo Xi’s blackening value rose. Su Wenwen had almost forgotten that this great villain’s personality was actually as unpredictable as sunny and cloudy weather⁵. She had gotten too carried away by success⁶ during this period, so much so that she had forgotten to restrain herself in front of Luo Xi in what she said and did. She didn’t know what she had just done to make Luo Xi unhappy.

【Host, based on past experience, giving the villain lots of kisses and hugs will quickly lower the blackening value, da!】

Hearing this, Su Wenwen reached out and took Luo Xi’s hand, an ingratiating smile on her face. “Forget it, let’s not talk about this for now. Are you hungry? I’ll go make you something to eat.”

Luo Xi stood in place without moving, her brows tightly furrowed as she observed the expression Su Wenwen had deliberately faked. For some reason, she felt a long-lost sense of distance, just like when Su Wenwen had proactively kissed her in the car back then. It was the same casual carelessness⁷. That astringent and sour feeling once again assailed her heart, leaving her somewhat at a loss for what to do.

“Wenwen…” Luo Xi wanted to say something.

Su Wenwen looked back at her. “What’s wrong?”

“My dad’s matter, let’s not investigate it for now.”

“Why?” Su Wenwen had just been persuading Luo Xi on the phone in the afternoon, but Luo Xi’s attitude had clearly been very firm. She didn’t understand why Luo Xi had changed her mind.

“My mom told me about you being assassinated.” Luo Xi gripped Su Wenwen’s hand tightly. “Wenwen, I shouldn’t have put you in such a dangerous situation for my own affairs.”

Who knows what Ji Qingshuang had said to Luo Xi, but it had scared the child so much that her face was still pale since she got home. Su Wenwen put on an unconcerned look to comfort Luo Xi, then spun around in front of her to show that her body was doubly great⁸, and that nothing was wrong at all.

Perhaps Luo Xi was truly frightened. No matter what Su Wenwen said, there was little change in Luo Xi’s expression. Helpless, Su Wenwen had no choice but to kiss Luo Xi and place her hand on her own cheek. “See, am I not perfectly fine?”

Luo Xi only came back to her senses after feeling the warmth on her palm. She lowered her eyelids and said, “Then can you promise me that no matter what you encounter in the future, any matter or any danger, you can’t report the good news but not the bad⁹.”

Su Wenwen nodded lightly. After she agreed to Luo Xi’s request, the blackening value went back down. She probably understood why Luo Xi had been in a bad mood just now. It was precisely this personality of hers, of reporting the good news but not the bad, that always made Luo Xi worry and feel insecure. Yet, Luo Xi couldn’t bear to lecture Su Wenwen, so she could only sulk in silence.

A Luo Xi like this, was truly too cute.

“I’m so hungry, I’m going to cook.”

“I’ll help you¹⁰.”

Luo Xi followed Su Wenwen into the kitchen. Some ingredients were still in the sink. As Luo Xi prepared the ingredients, the corner of her eye was constantly on Su Wenwen. Like an abandoned little milk dog¹¹, her gaze was both aggrieved and tinged with a bit of cautiousness.

Su Wenwen caught a glimpse of Luo Xi’s gaze and couldn’t hold back. She went up and kissed her on the lips. Luo Xi sensed that Su Wenwen was still as intimate and without any gap¹² with her as before, and her brows relaxed. She then hooked the back of Su Wenwen’s neck, biting her lip and licking it little by little, gradually being soothed.

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