Great, I'm surrounded by villains.

“Ding-ling-ling, ding-ling-ling——!”

Duan Mingyuan's cell phone ringing scared Zheng Liu. He looked around and felt that this city was full of dangers. Even the ramen restaurant manager who looked honest and simple had become a Breaking Bad guy, trying to poison their bowls to silence them.

Duan Mingyuan was not picky about food and was not affected at all. He ate with gusto and answered the phone call.

"Hey?"

"Hello, is this Mr. Duan Mingyuan?"

The voice of a middle-aged man came from the other end of the line. He introduced himself, "I'm Xinghe, the person in charge of the Siyang City Liaison Station."

The voice sounded as if it was a generation older than Oe. He had been a veteran in the association long before the fall of the previous Imperial Hunting Court. He had much more experience than Oe in maintaining relationships with relevant departments.

"Hello."

"There is an urgent matter, so let's make it short."

Xinghe's voice was a little hurried, and he said, "I know you are eating at a ramen restaurant in the port area now. Someone has tampered with the car. After eating, you must not return to the car. Try to choose public transportation to go to the association."

"Ah."

The phone hangs up.

"What happened?"

Zheng Liu heard Xinghe's instructions intermittently, but still found it a little unbelievable.

Someone tampered with his car?

That's a police car, public property!

"Maybe someone planted a bomb in your car and wanted to kill us."

This kind of thing is common in movies. According to movie lover Jiuyue, the more public the car is, the more likely it is to be blown up. "Well, the duck legs in sauce at this ramen restaurant are good, but it's a pity that Jiuyue didn't come."

"Old Duan, is it time to eat now?"

Zheng Liu slammed the table and stood up. They were now being targeted by assassins. He really didn't know how Duan Mingyuan could still eat at this critical moment.

"Man is iron and rice is steel."

Duan Mingyuan said that since they had been targeted by the killer, he didn't think the killer would have compassion and let them go just because they had one less meal.

Especially at times like this, we should stay calm and think about our current situation.

"Why did the killer plant a bomb in your car?"

"Is there any need to ask? We must know too much."

Zheng Liu was completely panicked. Even if they avoided the car bomb, the killer would still resort to other means. With the strength of the three of them, how long could they survive in this city?

The first thing he thought of was to report the matter to the police station, but then Zheng Liu hesitated.

Who can guarantee that people in the bureau have not participated in underground transactions?

If they report it to the police, their whereabouts might be exposed to the killer.

"No, she's the only one who knows too much. It was after she told us about the underground exchange that we were targeted by the killer."

"……Feel sorry."

Xing lowered her head.

She did drag Duan Mingyuan and Zheng Liu into this, so it was reasonable for them to blame her. Perhaps her quiet death in the alley was the best outcome for this matter.

"I'm not blaming you, but I'm curious as to why they knew you leaked the information to us."

Normally, people involved in underground transactions would not think that a person who had been silenced would come back to life. When they rushed to the alley, they only met an old police officer from the Port District Police Station. Before saying goodbye, he specifically told the other party not to mention this to anyone else after returning, and to say that the body had been taken over by the Hunters Association. This was also for the safety of the old police officer.

"You mean... that old police officer betrayed us?"

"I thought so until the store manager put poison in our bowls."

In addition to the old police officer, the manager of the ramen restaurant and the few diners in the restaurant all witnessed them and Xing, who was supposed to be dead, enter the door.

And this is all thanks to their deceased friend Mr. Poison.

Mr. Old Poisoner is proficient in poisons and is a top-notch poisoning expert in the court. Compared with the Old Poisoner, the store manager's poisoning skills are far inferior.

Hearing this, the store manager behind the counter paused.

The diners and waiters in the restaurant quietly moved towards the door, pulled down the roller shutter, and hung up the closing sign.

"If you're still waiting for us to die from the poison, I'm afraid we'll be disappointed."

"vomit--!"

Zheng Liu stuck his fingers into his throat and retched. "I knew it. No wonder I felt the noodles tasted weird when I was eating them just now. I thought it was just a psychological effect!"

He clearly ordered tonkotsu ramen, but he tasted apple in it.

This time even the store manager looked confused.

Although I don’t know how Duan Mingyuan detected it, the poison he used was colorless and odorless. How could a mere police officer taste it?

Xingye retched, "I was just about to say that the noodles tasted like apples!"

"I have neutralized the poison in the noodles. I added the apple flavor. I think apples paired with tonkotsu ramen may have a more flavorful impact... Why, are you not used to it?"

If you are used to eating it, then there must be something fishy!

For a moment, everyone stared at Duan Mingyuan, and the same thought came to their minds.

Who would add apples to tonkotsu ramen?

"Huh, it looks like you missed an easy way to die."

The store manager snorted coldly. In order to prevent the atmosphere in the store from developing into a funny direction, he felt that he had to stand up and say something, "If you obediently let yourself be poisoned to death, you can still avoid some physical pain."

As he spoke, the black muzzle of the gun was pointed at Duan Mingyuan and others in front of the counter.

"Since you've discovered the poisoning, it seems the only possible outcome is being shot to death."

Duan Mingyuan also finished eating the duck leg in the spirit of not wasting anything, and placed the bones and empty bowl neatly on the plate. He reminded, "Generally speaking, assaulting a police officer is a serious crime. In a situation like this, we should persuade you to lay down your weapons, surrender obediently, and try to get a lighter sentence, but you seem to have made up your mind..."

He stood up and faced the gunmen who surrounded them. If they pulled the trigger, they could shoot all three of them into pieces in an instant.

"In that case, please do not lay down your weapons and fight to the end. After all, we are public officials. It would be unreasonable to attack a group of unarmed people."

Thanks to kongxiangonlys for the reward of 1500 Qidian coins!

(End of this chapter)

Chapter 211 Siyang City has its own market situation

The owner of the ramen shop and the employees he hired are all pure killers. They don't need to know the specific identity of the target, nor do they need to know the reason why the employer wants to buy their lives. As long as the money is received, they will kill.

To Duan Mingyuan's regret, the killers in the ramen shop were so pure that they usually had never even met their employers, leaving him with no way of knowing their employers' specific identities.

These are what Duan Mingyuan learned afterwards.

He also learned that there were many killers like the owner of the ramen shop in Siyang City. The convenience stores you have visited, the gas stations you have passed by, and even the sanitation workers passing by on the street may be members of this killer organization, and their way of making a living is to help their employers get rid of some overly curious people.

Duan Mingyuan glanced at the soy sauce bottle sitting quietly on the counter of the ramen shop. Just now, they had a harmonious and friendly conversation. The ramen shop owner opened his heart to him and told him everything he knew.

This incident is another typical example of "leniency to those who confess" in Siyang City.

Although he failed to learn the secrets of his employer and the underground exchange, on the bright side, Duan Mingyuan at least gained the ramen experience honed by the ramen shop owner over decades. From now on, he is also a ramen master, and when he returns to Yunhai Academy, he will be able to show off his skills to Jiu Yue.

"Are you guys okay?"

Duan Mingyuan looked at the two people who were stunned. They stretched their bodies straight and looked like small animals targeted by their natural enemies. They looked panicked and pitiful.

He thought of something and said, "Don't worry. Although the owner and the staff of this ramen shop are killers, they will not dismember their targets and cook them into food. The ramen is made with fresh pork bones bought from the market every morning. The quality is guaranteed."

He could assure them that although ramen was the boss's side job, it was taken seriously, and the boss was very particular about both the ingredients and the craftsmanship.

"That's not the problem. Oh, no, that seems to be a problem as well."

Xing originally wanted to complain, but when she thought about what Duan Mingyuan said, her face suddenly turned pale and she couldn't help but take a look at the pork bones in the bowl that she had only eaten a few bites of.

If there was human flesh in this bowl, she would probably never be able to eat meat again in her life.

However, what really put her and Zheng Liu into a state of stress was what Duan Mingyuan had just done. If she had not seen it with her own eyes, she would never have believed that all the killers in the room turned into seasoning bottles, bowls and chopsticks and other items in the blink of an eye, and fell on the table without making any sound.

If someone broke into the ramen restaurant at this moment, they would never imagine that there were many people here besides them a few minutes ago.

"Are they... still alive?"

Zheng Liu asked in a low voice.

Although Duan Mingyuan regarded himself as a public official, he did not give these people any chance to regret surrendering. The next second after he blinked, the ramen restaurant became completely quiet.

Duan Mingyuan said, "Live in my heart."

In the form of life energy.

This answer made the two of them feel even colder and colder.

This person claimed to be a medical assistant who was not good at fighting, but he was much more decisive than a real killer when it came to killing people, and he did not show any anxiety or guilt afterwards.

This made the two realize a terrible fact.

This was definitely not the first time Duan Mingyuan had done this. It seemed that to him, killing people was no different from eating bread.

You won't feel bad or guilty about eating a piece of bread.

"Let's go, the person in charge of the contact station is still waiting for us."

Duan Mingyuan interrupted their thoughts and took the lead in opening the shutter door of the ramen restaurant.

Before leaving, he looked back at the quiet ramen restaurant again and saw the soy sauce bottle on the counter.

In this way, the store manager and his employees can stay with the ramen restaurant they cherish forever. For a group of killers who live on the edge of a knife, returning to ordinary life may not be a bad ending.

About half an hour later, Duan Mingyuan finally met the person in charge of the Siyang City Liaison Station.

This man named Xinghe gives people the image of a shrewd middle-aged man at first glance.

Names like Xinghe and Dajiang are nicknames given to them after they become stationmasters. From the moment they become the person in charge of the liaison station, their past names and identities have nothing to do with them anymore.

After the meeting, Xinghe asked Zheng Liu and Xing to stay in the cubicle to rest for a while, and took Duan Mingyuan into the room inside the bar.

Compared with Dajiang, who uses his home as a liaison station, the economic situation of the Siyang City Liaison Station is obviously much better off.

"The situation is very bad now. If the girl is alive, many people in Siyang City will not be able to sleep well."

After locking the door of the small conference room, Xinghe said solemnly.

It is foreseeable that for a long time to come, those who can't sleep will try every means to get rid of Xing.

"If she died in the alley, that would be the end of the matter, at least as far as the association is concerned."

Xinghe didn't know Duan Mingyuan, but if he was a former high-ranking official in the Imperial Hunting Court, he would never do something like resurrecting the dead.

This would cause big trouble for themselves and the entire association.

"Did you reveal her whereabouts?"

Duan Mingyuan asked.

"I didn't need to do that. I just didn't stop her. She's just like her master. She never listens to advice."

Xinghe took a deep breath and said, "I have advised her master many times not to continue investigating. It will not benefit them, but they all turned a deaf ear to my words... However, now is not the time to talk about this. You and that young policeman are also on their list. Now we should discuss how to remedy the situation."

"remedy?"

"I used my connections to find someone who can talk to them. They made a request that you, as the representative of the association, jointly issue a statement with the local police. No matter what method you use, make the citizens believe that the company's case has been resolved. In short, just suppress the matter as much as possible. After that, they will let you leave Siyang City safely."

"What about Zheng Liu and Xing?"

“They know too much.”

Xinghe quickly noticed the difference between Duan Mingyuan and his predecessor Yu Shouting. The newly appointed leader seemed to have no sense of the overall situation at all.

It is precisely because of this that the association has fallen into such a passive situation.

It all started from the moment he brought Xing back to life. This action completely ignited the anxiety in those people's hearts, so much so that they hoped Duan Mingyuan would remain quiet rather than Xing.

This made them wonder, since Duan Mingyuan could bring Xing back to life, he could also bring back to life all those who had been silenced in the past.

In this way, no one is safe anymore.

"I see. You didn't invite me here to solve the case from the beginning."

Duan Mingyuan suddenly understood.