The entire office was in an uproar because of the dead cat incident.

They had run the newspaper for so many years, reporting countless news stories. Reporters had received many letters, and even the number of packages they received wasn’t small, but this was the first time they had received something like this.

Wang Mingzheng directly called the police. Dingsheng Building was in the center of Pinghu District, under the jurisdiction of their Public Security Bureau. The police arrived very quickly, and He Yuling was among the officers who came.

He Yuling was a clerical worker and usually didn’t go out on field duty, but there had been so many things happening recently that everyone who could be mobilized had been. He Yuling had no choice but to come. When she arrived at the newspaper office, she found out that the person who received this threatening package was Lin Shuyue.

He Yuling instantly thought of the widely discussed poisonous rice cereal incident. She had read the report about it, and the reporter was Lin Shuyue.

After diligently taking a statement, she called Lin Shuyue aside to talk. “Were you scared?”

Lin Shuyue nodded. Before doing this report, Lin Shuyue had prepared herself to be threatened, but when she faced this scene, Lin Shuyue was still a bit unaccustomed. She thought it would have been better if the package hadn’t contained a cat.

He Yuling patted her shoulder. “Be more careful during this period. If anything feels off, just call us. You have my phone number and Team Leader Hang’s number. We’re on call 24 hours.”

He Yuling had a particularly good impression of Lin Shuyue. The two had added each other as QQ friends privately, and they would usually chat online when they were free. Lin Shuyue called He Yuling “Elder Sister,” and He Yuling treated Lin Shuyue like a younger sister.

The several articles Lin Shuyue had reported recently had all made He Yuling admire her very much. Especially the Taixida matter.

Reporters nowadays are no longer like reporters of the past. Reporters are now increasingly succumbing to capital. In many reports, they didn’t dare to directly name the company when they found problems, for fear of offending people.

Reporters like Lin Shuyue, who dared to tell the truth, were becoming fewer and fewer.

“Okay, thank you, Elder Sister Yuling.” Lin Shuyue thanked He Yuling.

He Yuling thought for a moment and said, “Ah Yue, I have a friend who came from the military. She now runs a martial arts gym. Do you want to go and learn a few moves?”

He Yuling knew that Lin Shuyue had some training, but no one knew Lin Shuyue’s level. He Yuling felt that Lin Shuyue hadn’t received formal training and that the martial arts she knew were limited.

She felt that with Lin Shuyue’s personality and this job, it was still very necessary to strengthen her training in this area. Putting aside everything else, at least she would have a way to save her life when she encountered danger, wouldn’t she?

Lin Shuyue’s eyes lit up. That was exactly what she was planning! The original owner wasn’t like her. She had received training from her parents since she was little and had also formally learned martial arts after entering the police academy. The original owner’s martial arts experience was just the martial arts club in college. Although she had done very well in it, there was still a big difference compared to someone with formal training.

Lin Shuyue had been planning to find a martial arts class to “further her studies” after finishing her voice-over training and put the story of her martial arts skills out in the open. He Yuling’s words were like sending Lin Shuyue a pillow just when she needed it.

“Thank you, Elder Sister Yuling. That’s exactly what I was thinking. Where is your friend’s martial arts gym? I’ll go over there in the next two days.”

He Yuling liked people who were motivated. “I’ll pick you up after work tonight and take you there by the way.”

“Okay, thank you, Elder Sister Yuling.”

He Yuling waved at Lin Shuyue and left.

Huang Qiang and Li Weisheng walked towards Lin Shuyue.

Huang Qiang had experienced threats from others before. He reached out and patted Lin Shuyue’s shoulder. “I’ll pick you up from work these next two days.”

Li Weisheng immediately said from the side, “I’ll go with Mentor Huang.”

The three of them had gone undercover together, but because Lin Shuyue was the author of the first report, she became the target of those people’s retaliation. Huang Qiang had expected this, but he hadn’t expected those people to be so unscrupulous, actually sending things to the workplace in broad daylight.

After going through the undercover operation together, Li Weisheng felt that he and Lin Shuyue were comrades in the same trench. He felt that he had also contributed to this matter, and there was no reason for him to just watch from the sidelines while Lin Shuyue was being threatened.

“Thank you, Mentor, thank you, Ah Sheng.” Lin Shuyue, like Huang Qiang and the others, called Li Weisheng “Ah Sheng.”

A smile appeared on Li Weisheng’s face, but was quickly suppressed by him.

The package containing the cat’s corpse had been taken away by the police for investigation, but Lin Shuyue still remembered the return address written on the package. This letter was sent from Guancheng.

The original owner had no enemies in Guancheng. After she transmigrated, apart from this Taixida poisonous rice cereal incident, she hadn’t made any enemies with the people of Guancheng. So, the people who could do something to threaten her were undoubtedly those Taixida executives who had been arrested.

She sat down at her workstation and opened her mailbox as usual. An unread email appeared at the top of the inbox.

Without even opening it, Lin Shuyue knew that this must be another threatening letter.

Because this was a newly registered mailbox after she transmigrated, it was usually used for work and hadn’t been made public. Her usual emails were work-related correspondence. Generally, such emails came with a subject and sender information. This was the first time she had seen such an unfamiliar email.

Lin Shuyue mentally prepared herself and clicked on it. There was no text information, only pictures. The pictures were all of various items stained with blood.

Lin Shuyue scoffed. She had loved watching horror movies since she was little and loved listening to her old man tell various forensic stories. How many times have things like sending threatening emails and mailing terrifying packages been shown on TV dramas?

She wasn’t afraid at all. She clicked the reply button, edited the reply content, and just before clicking send, she called He Yuling. He Yuling had just stepped into the unit’s door. After hearing Lin Shuyue’s words, she frowned. “Ah Yue, forward that email to me as a copy.”

“Okay.”

Lin Shuyue put the drafted reply email into the drafts box, copied the file, and sent it to He Yuling.

The two chatted on QQ.

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Inside the Public Security Bureau.

He Yuling opened the email Lin Shuyue sent and frowned as she looked at it. Zhao Youcheng came down to get something and inadvertently glanced at He Yuling’s computer. He exclaimed, “Elder Sister Yuling, where did you find these pictures? They’re so bloody, and I have to say, quite scary.”

Zhao Youcheng and the others had been busy with a case recently and hadn’t slept well for two consecutive days. Suddenly seeing such photos, he had to admit, it instantly woke him up.

He Yuling copied the email address and sent it to her colleagues in the technical department, replying casually, “This wasn’t sent to me, it was sent to Lin Shuyue. You know, the reporter who exposed the Taixida poisonous rice cereal incident.”

Zhao Youcheng nodded. After taking his things back to his second-floor office, he mentioned this. Hang Jiabai thought for a moment and sent another message to Lin Shuyue.

Lin Shuyue was a bit surprised when she received Hang Jiabai’s message.

She didn’t have much contact with Hang Jiabai. The last time they had contacted each other was on the day Ah Qin passed away. She had been going to Teacher Liu’s for lessons every week during this period, but hadn’t run into Hang Jiabai.

Teacher Liu would occasionally mention Hang Jiabai’s situation to Lin Shuyue during lessons, such as him being very busy recently and not having been home for over half a month.

Lin Shuyue replied to Hang Jiabai’s message and then put her phone aside.

She was busy until she got off work and only then saw Hang Jiabai’s reply. The two chatted via text messages. After work, Huang Qiang and Li Weisheng waited for her to leave together. When they heard that she was going to learn a few moves at He Yuling’s friend’s martial arts gym, Huang Qiang didn’t say anything, but Li Weisheng was very interested.

The two waited downstairs with Lin Shuyue for He Yuling to arrive.

He Yuling arrived quickly. Seeing that Li Weisheng wanted to go too, she was quite happy. After all, her friend’s martial arts gym wasn’t doing very well, and having one more person sign up would mean one more tuition fee, wouldn’t it?

He Yuling commuted by motorcycle. Li Weisheng drove behind them, and Lin Shuyue put on a helmet and sat on the back seat of He Yuling’s motorcycle.

He Yuling’s friend’s martial arts gym was in Pingjiang District, not far from Lin Shuyue’s hometown of Ping Sha Village. It was only two bus stops away.

She had rented a very old factory building. Inside the main gate, on the sandy ground on one side, seven or eight children were doing military calisthenics with “hei hei haha” sounds. A woman in a green training uniform stood by the side watching.

He Yuling stopped her motorcycle. “Jiang Xinxin.”

The woman in the green training uniform turned around, looking somewhat happy to see He Yuling, and walked towards them. “Yuling.”

“Brought you two students.” He Yuling said with a smile, introducing Lin Shuyue to Jiang Xinxin. Li Weisheng also parked his car outside and walked in.

He Yuling said to Lin Shuyue, “Xinxin and I have been friends for many years. It’s just that later, I went to university, and Xinxin joined the army after graduating from high school. Then, I became a police officer, and Xinxin became a female reconnaissance soldier. If she hadn’t been injured during a mission before, she wouldn’t have retired.”

He Yuling felt very regretful when she talked about her friend’s retirement from the army.

Those who could become reconnaissance soldiers were all one in a hundred in terms of various qualities, and female reconnaissance soldiers were even rarer. Not to mention Li Weisheng, even Lin Shuyue was very curious about her.

Jiang Xinxin, however, had accepted her retirement well.

He Yuling had chatted with Jiang Xinxin before coming. Jiang Xinxin glanced at Li Weisheng and said to Lin Shuyue, “Yuling said you have a foundation in martial arts. Come, let’s spar a bit.”

Lin Shuyue readily agreed.

The Body Strengthening Pill that the system had rewarded Lin Shuyue had improved her body. Her strength had increased a lot, and she rarely got sick. She usually did some training at home as well. But apart from Duan Taoyong, she hadn’t fought anyone.

To be honest, her hands were itching for a fight.

She followed Jiang Xinxin to the sandy ground beside them. Jiang Xinxin asked several children who were practicing military exercises to sit aside and rest, and then she sparred with Lin Shuyue.

He Yuling held Lin Shuyue’s bag.

As soon as they started, both of their eyes changed.

Lin Shuyue was an offensive-type fighter. She attacked Jiang Xinxin first. Jiang Xinxin dodged sideways, and the two became entangled in close combat.

Jiang Xinxin lived up to her name as a reconnaissance soldier. Her close-quarters combat ability was very strong. Moreover, she was over thirty years old this year and had served in the army for more than ten years. Her combat experience was not something a rookie like Lin Shuyue could compare to.

Lin Shuyue had indeed learned for many years and was not bad, but her practical combat experience was lacking. Half an hour later, she was pinned to the ground by Jiang Xinxin.

Soon, Jiang Xinxin released her hand and pulled her up from the ground. “Not bad, not bad. Your strength, reaction, and moves are all very good. It’s just that your stamina hasn’t kept up. If your practical combat experience wasn’t lacking, it would have been hard for me to win against you.”

People who had served in the army all cherished talent, especially Jiang Xinxin. Before she retired, she had already been the platoon leader of the reconnaissance platoon. Many male soldiers couldn’t beat her.

Seeing such a good prospect as Lin Shuyue now, her liking for Lin Shuyue almost became tangible. “Such a good prospect, why be a reporter? It would be so much better to just join the army!”

He Yuling handed Lin Shuyue’s bag to Lin Shuyue. Hearing Jiang Xinxin’s words, she said, “What’s wrong with being a reporter? It’s also serving the people.”

“Right, that’s right.” Jiang Xinxin nodded readily and looked at Li Weisheng on the side. “Come, you come and practice with me too.”

Li Weisheng subconsciously took a step back.

Li Weisheng didn’t graduate with a journalism major. He majored in literature when he was in college. Essentially, he was a weak scholar. Although he usually ran and worked out to stay healthy, he couldn’t beat Jiang Xinxin, who came from the army!

He probably couldn’t even last ten moves under Jiang Xinxin!

However, a man couldn’t say he couldn’t do it. Li Weisheng went up.

Then he was repeatedly abused by Jiang Xinxin for more than half an hour.

When he finally lay on the sandy ground, it was the first time he felt that the evening sky in Pengcheng was so beautiful.

Hazy, and I have to say, just like his current mood.

At this moment, He Yuling’s phone rang. She answered it, and the smile on her lips instantly disappeared. “Female corpse found by the Xijiang River? Okay, I’ll go over right away.”