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Chapter 191 Building an Island Villa and Digging the Secret Road

Cradle Island was successfully bought at a price of 3700 million.
After buying the island, Liu Xing immediately launched a new plan to build a villa on the island.

The plan to build the villa is just to deceive people, his real purpose is to dig the book coffin under the island.

Because Cradle Island will be shaken, no developers are willing to build real estate on the island so far.In fact, with the earthquake resistance of modern buildings, it can fully withstand the vibration of Cradle Island.

It's just that most people don't know the reason for the shaking of Cradle Island, and they lack a sense of security in their hearts. Therefore, both developers and ordinary people stay away from Cradle Island.

Liu Xing has now basically found out the reason for the vibration of Cradle Island, which is caused by the volume change of the book coffin.When the volume of the coffin increases, the island will vibrate.However, the vibration was not very violent, the destructive force was only equivalent to a magnitude 4 earthquake, and the duration was very short.

If the volume of the coffin no longer increases, the vibration will stop.
Therefore, the risk of building a building on Cradle Island is lower than imagined.

Of course, risks still exist. Liu Xing does not intend to invest too much in bonuses all at once. He only invests 1000 million in the first phase of the villa, and builds a small villa first.

With the villa, the work of excavating the book coffin can be fully launched.

After making the decision, Liu Xing handed over the plan to build the villa to General Manager Sun Jiang, and he was fully responsible.At the same time, Liu Xing also sent a killer code-named "White Dolphin" from Bohai Bookstore to secretly monitor Cradle Island.

After arranging the island villa, Liu Xing started busy with the third quarter essay contest.

Every day, he receives many submissions, among which the most important submissions are those from the Writing Department of Yufeng Fiction Academy.

……

Yufeng Novel Academy.

On the lawn of the library square, Liu Xing and Zhang Yaxin were sitting together. On the grass between them, there was a thick stack of manuscripts, all of which were submitted by students of the writing department to participate in the essay competition.

There are a total of 28 novel manuscripts, and Liu Xing tested them one by one.

28 of the 25 manuscripts have reached the level of star novels, including 14 one-star novels, 10 two-star novels, and one three-star novel. He is a boy in class 1 of the writing department.

This boy once played basketball with Liu Xing. Inspired by Liu Xing's playing style, he created this basketball novel based on Liu Xing.In the novel, the protagonist is a talented basketball player during the day, and a shadowy man who eludes people at night.
[Book Title] "The Shadowman: The Talented Basketball Player"

[Type] Competitive Fiction
【Grade】Three-star
[Matching degree] 33.4%
After the test, Liu Xing felt a little happy.

The matching degree of this novel is more than 30%, which meets the standard of ecstasy. In this way, the number of novels that can be engrossed in the shadows has reached three.

"By the way, Liu Xing, some boys told me that their submission might be delayed for a few months." At this moment, Zhang Yaxin said suddenly.
"Why the delay?"

"They said they couldn't write it." Zhang Yaxin said, "They haven't seen the Sombra, and they can't find inspiration for their creation. Also, the Sombra hasn't appeared for a long time, which also affects everyone's enthusiasm for creation. In retrospect , it seems that there has been no news of the shadow man for more than half a year."

Hearing what she said, Liu Xing suddenly realized that the shadow man might be the best advertisement for the essay contest.

If the shadow people make more news, more excellent works will likely emerge in the essay contest.

"Liu Xing, do you think something happened to the shadow man?" Zhang Yaxin asked seriously.

"He is so supernatural, it should be very difficult to think of something."

"But, if the shadow man is safe and sound, why hasn't he shown up for so long?"

"The black shadow man is a middle-aged uncle. Maybe he is enjoying the family happiness with his wife and children. How can he have time to stroll around? Why, do you miss him very much?"

"..."

……

two months later.

Bohai Book City, underground secret room.

Liu Xing was sitting in front of the computer, watching a video about Cradle Island, which was shot by General Manager Sun Jiang from Cradle Island.

After more than two months of construction, a small villa has been built on the hillside of Cradle Island.However, the interior of the villa has not yet been renovated.

Liu Xing is not going to decorate for the time being, but considers digging the book coffin.

Now that this villa is used as a cover, if the book coffin is excavated in the villa, the outside world will not be able to detect it.

The only problem is: the book coffin is buried at a depth of 56 meters, how to dig it?

"Di!"

At this time, an alarm sounded from the console in the secret room, and it was Black Eagle's call.

Liu Xing picked up the phone.

"Boss, I received a bounty mission 5 minutes ago." Black Hawk reported, "Someone paid us a lot of money to hire us to kidnap some writers. The kidnapping location is Yufeng Fiction Academy..."

Liu Xing was slightly startled: "Kidnapping a writer?"

"Yes." Hei Ying explained, "The benefactor wants us to sneak into the Yufeng Fiction Academy and find a way to kidnap the students of the writing department. Kidnapping 1 student, the bounty is 200 million. Kidnapping 10 students is 2000 million, the number of kidnapped No upper limit."

Liu Xing asked: "Who is the funder? Why kidnap so many writers?"

"The benefactor should be from the Money Book Club." Black Eagle speculated, "Judging from their behavior style, the kidnapping of mental patients last time should also be initiated by this benefactor."

Liu Xing frowned. The kidnapping of a mental patient last time was initiated by the organization of the Golden Gunners, and then it was blamed on the Money Book Club. Could it be that the organization of the Golden Gunners has a new activity?

"Yufeng Fiction Academy is heavily guarded, it's not easy to even enter the campus, how can we kidnap?" Liu Xing felt strange.

"According to the sponsor, they have already dug a secret underground passage leading to the dormitory building of Yufeng Fiction Academy." Hei Ying introduced, "Through this secret passage, we can directly reach the dormitory building of the Fiction Academy, and then grab Capture the students of the writing department. After capturing, leave from the secret passage, the whole process only takes ten minutes."

Liu Xing suddenly realized that it seemed that the organization of the Golden Gunmen came prepared and actually dug a secret underground passage.

The secret passage can directly lead to the dormitory building, which means that the length of the secret passage is likely to exceed 500 meters...

"How did you dig out such a long secret passage?" Liu Xing was a little curious.

If a secret passage is also dug under the ground of Cradle Island, then it will be possible to directly access the book coffin underground...
"The patron said that as long as we agree to participate in this mission, he will tell us the entrance to the secret passage." Hei Ying asked, "Boss, can we accept this kidnapping mission?"

"Accept!" Liu Xing said, "However, you don't need to really participate in the kidnapping, you just need to help me find out who dug out the underground secret passage, and find a way to find this person."

"Yes."

After the conversation is over, Black Hawk immediately executes the task.

As for Liu Xing, he decided to go to Yufeng Fiction Academy.Although he had asked Black Eagle not to participate in the task of kidnapping the writer, the gold master may have found other kidnappers to perform this task.

Out of caution, Liu Xing is going to take a look at the Fiction Academy.

……

One o'clock.

Even though it was late at night, the campus of Yufeng Fiction Academy was not quiet at all, and students could be seen moving around in every corner.

On the lawn in front of the girls' dormitory building, a group of girls are sitting and chatting together. They are all students of class 401 of the writing department.

Among the girls, there was a girl in a white dress who looked particularly eye-catching, and it was Zhang Yaxin.

This group of girls are all seniors this year, and in two months, they will end their four years of university life.

At this time, they were talking about their plans after graduation.

"Yaxin, are you really going to be the host of the Fiction Channel?"

"Well, it's an interview program called "Interview with Yaxin." Zhang Yaxin said, "I major in biographical fiction. This interview program can meet celebrities from all walks of life, so it's very suitable for me."

Zhou Xiaolan asked seriously: "If you go to a TV station to be a program host, will the shadow people know?"

Zhang Yaxin frowned: "What do you mean?"

Zhou Xiaolan said solemnly: "The shadow man is your fiancé. Shouldn't you discuss such a big matter with him?"

"..." Zhang Yaxin's beautiful eyes widened, "Zhou Xiaolan, is it itchy?"

Zhou Xiaolan giggled and said, "What I said is the truth! Since the black shadow man helped you catch the purple crown and green snake in the story city and saved your life, according to the relevant regulations of the personal announcement, he is your fiancé." .”

Another girl agreed: "Xiaolan is right, this is Yaxin's first public solicitation for marriage, so the shadow people can't play tricks!"

The third girl added: "This black shadow man is real. It's been such a long time. Why hasn't he come to marry Yaxin? Yaxin is about to graduate soon. What does the black shadow man mean? He won't." You want to escape marriage..."

Bang!
A dozen or so girls were chatting. At this moment, the ground beside the grass suddenly sank, and a hole with a diameter of about one meter appeared!

Before the girls could react, they saw a man in white crawling out of the hole in the ground!
No.1 man in white just climbed out, and No.2 man climbed out again...

In less than a minute, eleven men in white clothes climbed up from the hole in the ground.

Seeing this scene, all the girls looked at each other in blank dismay, and a question arose in their hearts at the same time: Why is there a hole in the ground, and who are these men?

"Are you students of the writing department?" At this moment, a man in white asked.

"Yes, who are you?" Zhou Xiaolan stood up, and the other girls got up one after another.

"I didn't expect there to be so many beautiful writers, and I really made money tonight!" The man in white made a gesture and ordered, "Take them all away!"

With an order, more than a dozen men in white clothes rushed over at the same time and began to arrest people.

The girls realized that something was wrong, and quickly turned around and ran away.

"Come on, help!"

"Security, there are kidnappers!"

The girls yelled desperately as they ran away.

Some girls ran slowly and were caught by the men in white clothes. They screamed in fright, and some girls even burst into tears in anxiety.

The scene was chaotic.

"Let go of me, what do you want to do, let me go... woo..."

Zhang Yaxin was running forward when suddenly a familiar girl's cry came from behind. Looking back, she found that Zhou Xiaolan had been grabbed by a man in white and was being dragged towards the hole in the grass.

"Xiaolan!"

Zhang Yaxin was about to think of a way to save her, when another man in white rushed towards her.

"Don't come here..."

Zhang Yaxin was so frightened that her face turned pale, and she ran away quickly.

It's just that she was wearing a long skirt and couldn't run fast at all. In a panic, her right foot tripped over the corner of the skirt, she lost her center of gravity and fell forward...

"what!"

A scream sounded, Zhang Yaxin thought she was going to fall.

It's just that when her body fell out, a black shadow suddenly flashed in front of her eyes. Immediately afterwards, she felt a pair of powerful hands hugging her waist, lifting her up, and then... her whole body was suspended in mid-air middle.

After regaining her senses, Zhang Yaxin took a look, only to find that she was hugged by a man in black. The man was wrapped in black cloth, so he couldn't see his face clearly.

Seeing this, Zhang Yaxin's watery eyes couldn't help but brighten up: "Black...the shadowy man?"

"Don't run so fast if you wear a skirt, you won't be so lucky if you fall next time." Liu Xing said.

"..." Zhang Yaxin was at a loss for words for a moment, she didn't expect that the other party would talk to her about such a topic, "Are you really a shadow man... Ah, be careful, there are people behind you!"

Zhang Yaxin yelled anxiously, but before she could finish speaking, a man in white rushed over and swung the steel rod at Liu Xing's back fiercely.

Bang!
The moment the steel rod hit the back, the Jiuyang Zhenqi in Liu Xing's body was suddenly activated. With a surge of true energy, a surge of internal energy surged out, and the steel rod bounced back directly, hitting the man in white. on the forehead.

Turning his eyes white, the man in white fainted and lay limp on the ground.

Seeing this scene, Zhang Yaxin was stunned immediately, fixed her eyes on the man in black in front of her, and asked with concern: "Man in black, are you injured? I'm sorry, I shouted too late..."

"Don't blame yourself, I'm fine." Liu Xing let go of his hands and put Zhang Yaxin back on the ground, "Stay here and don't move, I'll save the others."

"Be careful..."

Before she finished speaking, the shadowy man had already left like lightning, and in the blink of an eye, he was already 50 meters away, and quickly approached several men in white clothes...

"what!"

"what!!"

Immediately afterwards, amidst the chaos, one man after another in white was knocked unconscious to the ground with the screams of men one after another...

At the same time, some students who were watching from the side started talking in low voices.

"So fast! What is that black shadow...?"

"Is it the shadow man?"

"It's a miracle, the legendary shadow man actually appeared in Yufeng Fiction Academy!"

"Just now I saw the shadow man hugging Zhang Yaxin, the flower of the Department of Writing!"

"No way?"

"I heard that the shadow man is Zhang Yaxin's fiancé!"

……

(End of this chapter)