I Pursued My Scummy Ex’s White Moonlight – Chapter 74

Going Out to Sea for Support

The next afternoon, Su Wenwen received the news of the butler’s death through Lin Yu’s phone. It was said that high blood pressure had compressed the blood vessels of his cranial nerves, causing the blood vessels to rupture, and he died because a large area of congested blood could not be drained.

The butler’s family, however, was taken by Old Master Luo to be looked after in the backyard, and no one was allowed to approach them.

Su Wenwen carefully glanced at the calm-faced Luo Xi. Although Luo Xi hadn’t said last night how the butler’s blood got on her clothes, she could more or less guess a few things. Despite Luo Xi’s usual obedient and gentle demeanor, whenever it concerned Father Luo, Luo Xi would become less than calm, making it easy for her to do something irrational to the butler. Su Wenwen could understand all of this.

But now that the butler was dead, she didn’t know what Luo Xi planned to do next.

Luo Xi said to Su Wenwen, “Ask Lin Yu who the doctor that treated the butler was.”

Su Wenwen asked Lin Yu on the other end of the phone, and after hearing the answer, she hung up and said to Luo Xi, “It was the Luo family’s family doctor, surnamed Liu.”

A family doctor. Generally, wealthy people would have a private doctor, whose medical skills were not bad, and who was on call at any time. This Doctor Liu, in the book, the only time he had appeared was on the day of Father Luo’s death.

Luo Xi took Su Wenwen’s hand, her eyes holding a trace of unease, and asked, “Wenwen, do you believe me? The butler’s death has nothing to do with me.”

“As long as you’re the one saying it, I believe it all.” Su Wenwen in turn interlocked her fingers with Luo Xi’s and said softly, “Tell me, what exactly happened last night?”

Luo Xi hesitated for a moment, only giving a simple verbal description of the situation at the time, omitting the evil thought that had flashed through her heart. “I just wanted to wake the butler up at that time. I didn’t expect to damage his brain, but I absolutely would not have caused his blood vessels to rupture.”

“So you suspect Doctor Liu?”

Luo Xi nodded. It was only after hearing Doctor Liu’s name that she remembered her father had been examined by Doctor Liu before his death, after which Doctor Liu issued the death notice, stating the cause of death was a heart attack. The Luo family deeply believed Doctor Liu’s words without a doubt, and naturally associated it with the matter of Luo Xi’s engagement being broken off in public.

Thinking about it now, after Father Luo died, he was never even taken to the hospital for emergency treatment. Naturally, there was no death certificate issued by a hospital either; it was all retroactively processed afterward. And Father Luo’s matters after death, which should have been handled by Ji Qingshuang, were instead forcefully handed over to Luo Tianyang by Old Master Luo, as he already disliked Ji Qingshuang, and Father Luo’s death only made him detest her more.

Afterward, the portion of the inheritance rights and estate belonging to Father Luo were all taken back by Old Master Luo. Ji Qingshuang did not fight or compete for it at the time and only received some shares. Luo Xi and her brother were the same, receiving only a small portion of shares.

Luo Xi had been immersed in the matter of having caused her father’s death, so she naturally had no opinion on such a distribution. But her brother was different; he felt that Old Master Luo was being too excessive, because Old Master Luo had also taken back the new media company that Father Luo had built up himself. This company was something Ji Qingshuang and Father Luo had invested their heart-blood¹ into, with a market value of over a billion, and was completely unrelated to the Luo family.

But Old Master Luo said that even if it wasn’t related to the Luo family, it had borrowed the Luo family’s name. Moreover, the shares given to Ji Qingshuang were enough to buy this company, and as someone from the bottom-stratum², the fact that Ji Qingshuang obtained so much money in one go was all due to her connection with the Luo family. It was already considered merciful that Old Master Luo didn’t point at Ji Qingshuang’s nose and tell her to roll away like an egg³.

In a fit of anger, Luo Xi’s brother ran off to become a soldier, declaring that even without the Luo family, he could still cover his mother and sister from wind and block the rain⁴.

Thinking about it now, the only person who could command Doctor Liu and threaten the butler was Luo Tianyang. He had also single-handedly managed Father Luo’s matters after death, so only he could have destroyed the evidence without gods or ghosts knowing⁵. Furthermore, he was also a beneficiary with vested interests in Father Luo’s death, being Old Master Luo’s only legal heir.

“Then do you plan to investigate Doctor Liu next?” Su Wenwen asked.

Luo Xi shook her head, rested her chin on Su Wenwen’s shoulder, and closed her eyes, covering the killing intent that was about to overflow from them. She said, “Let’s not investigate for now. My mom’s side is lacking hands, I have to go over and help her.”

“Then I’ll go too.”

“Okay…”

The complex affairs of the base all had to be looked over by Ji Qingshuang before they could be approved. However, with the two of them helping out, Ji Qingshuang was not as busy these past few days and was more or less able to get off work on time and go home.

As the cold winter approached, the electricity reserves in the base gradually failed to keep up with consumption. Priority could only be given to the hospital and school in the restricted zone, while others could only wear a few more layers of clothing to fend off the cold.

But as time went on, the weather grew colder and colder. Many people caught colds from being frozen, and these few layers of clothes seemed like a cup of water on a cart of burning firewood⁶, simply not enough.

Fortunately, the supplies brought by Wang Kelin had already arrived on the opposite shore of the base. To ensure it was ten thousand without one miss⁷, Ji Qingshuang selected twenty people to go and provide support, including Su Wenwen and Luo Xi.

The person in charge of leading the team was Lin Yu. The travel gear was the latest wetsuit developed by the Ao family. The wetsuit was inlaid with huge fish scales, located on the shoulders, wrists, back, knees, and other positions. According to Ao Ge, although the ordinary fish in the sea had not turned into zombies, their bodies had also evolved. Their scales had very good insulation effects, were extremely hard, and had a certain protective function. However, the Ao family had only made twenty of these wetsuits for now, so Ji Qingshuang could only select twenty people.

Su Wenwen and Luo Xi changed into the wetsuits in the changing room.

The wetsuit was a bit difficult to put on because the areas with fish scales had no elasticity. It took a long time to finally get it on, but the wetsuit’s insulation effect was very good. As soon as it was on, she was enveloped in a thread of warmth.

Su Wenwen tied her long hair up, and when she turned around, she saw Luo Xi’s exquisite and delicate body outlined vividly and thoroughly by the wetsuit. It clearly wasn’t the first time she had seen it, but Su Wenwen still felt shy, and a blush gradually appeared on her cheeks.

Luo Xi noticed Su Wenwen’s gaze, smiled slightly, and reached out to pull Su Wenwen to her side. Without allowing for explanation, she lowered her head and kissed her. Through the wetsuits, they couldn’t feel the temperature of each other’s skin, but it didn’t affect their scalding-hot, close-fitting hearts.

After the kiss, Su Wenwen was too embarrassed to look Luo Xi in the eyes and quickly ran out of the changing room. Luo Xi looked at the opening and closing door and smiled helplessly. Even though the two of them had already done the most intimate things, Su Wenwen was still just as easily embarrassed.

The team of twenty boarded an armored vehicle and headed for the coastal port. Lin Yu distributed some supplies to everyone, including a compass, a walkie-talkie, and several signal flares. Su Wenwen put them all into her spatial backpack.

In this twenty-person team, half were ability users. Lin Yu introduced everyone’s respective abilities within the team, then said, “The supplies transported by Wang Kelin are divided into two groups. One group of people will protect the space ability user and set off first, taking a raft. The other group can only move the supplies onto a ship, taking a freighter.”

“Our mission is, the ordinary people will go to support the raft, and the ability users will support the freighter.” After Lin Yu finished speaking, he glanced at Su Wenwen. “Of course, if someone doesn’t value their life and insists on supporting the freighter with us, I won’t stop them.”

Su Wenwen understood Lin Yu’s meaning. Before they set out, Ji Qingshuang had specifically instructed that Luo Tianyang might try to cause trouble during this support mission. The team with the space ability user was actually carrying few supplies—after all, the space was limited. The bulk of it was on the freighter. If the supplies couldn’t be transported back in time, a group of people in the base would very likely freeze to death, and the newly established base would certainly experience turmoil.

Then Luo Tianyang could take the opportunity to come out and preside over the overall situation, and could easily overthrow Ji Qingshuang. Even if he couldn’t overthrow her, it would still leave behind the hidden problem of Ji Qingshuang’s insufficient capability.

If Ji Qingshuang had guessed everything correctly, then the troublemakers must be ability users. Besides Lin Yu and Luo Xi, the remaining eight were water-type, wind-type, and strength-type. As long as they were on guard, it shouldn’t be difficult to deal with them.

At the coastal port, twenty small wooden boats floated quietly on the water’s surface. The wooden boats were not large, able to accommodate only two people. The boats had sails and oars, but no engines. This was to avoid the noise attracting underwater zombie creatures.

The people Ji Qingshuang selected all knew how to row, except for Su Wenwen.

As a former office worker⁸, Su Wenwen would never have had the leisure time to go rowing, let alone control a sail to travel with the wind. So she decisively raised her hand and requested to share a boat with Luo Xi. Lin Yu didn’t say anything and nodded in agreement to her request.

However, the moment Lin Yu agreed, Su Wenwen keenly felt a gaze on her like spikes on her back. She turned to look, but everyone was busy with their own tasks on the boats, as if it were just her imagination.

【Host, one o’clock direction.】

Su Wenwen followed the direction the system indicated and glanced over. It was a man with a full beard, wind ability.

Su Wenwen walked to Lin Yu’s side to quietly inquire about the man’s foundation⁹. Lin Yu subconsciously observed the man with the full beard a bit more and said, “This person’s wind ability is very strong. If he wants to destroy the supplies, only Miss Luo can defend against it.”

In other words, only Luo Xi could restrain the man. No wonder the man revealed a murderous aura when he saw Su Wenwen and Luo Xi sharing a boat. He probably intended to deal with Su Wenwen secretly, but with Su Wenwen and Luo Xi together, it would be difficult for the man to make a move.

When the team set off, it was just noon. Luo Xi was responsible for controlling the sail. At first, the sailboat’s speed was not fast, but after moving away from the island, the wind on the sea surface became much stronger, and the sailboat’s speed was almost catching up to a speedboat.

Su Wenwen subconsciously glanced at the man with the full beard. The man just waved his hand, and a strong gust of wind came from nowhere, increasing the speed of the sailboats once again.

The small wooden boats swayed on the sea surface. Occasionally, some seawater would splash onto the wetsuits. Facing the cold wind, the water droplets on the wetsuits were about to freeze into ice.

Su Wenwen gently patted off the ice beads. In her hand, it was somewhat bone-piercing¹⁰. Only then did she realize how low the temperature truly was. If not for the wetsuit’s waterproof and insulating functions, going out to sea in ordinary clothes would probably mean freezing to death.

Lin Yu carried a radio on his back, used to contact Wang Kelin’s team. After several back-and-forth calls, he finally confirmed the specific location of the first team, the one with the space ability user.

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