That day, Mu Jinyu had Su Zijin, Mei Yinxue, and Gu Xiyan put aside their work to accompany him to Capital City.
As for the operation of Jinyu Group, Mu Jinyu found a professional manager to help run it temporarily.
Although he knew these professional managers usually weren't very reliable, the situation was pressing, and he had no choice; he couldn't let Xu Qingya and Lin Qiaoxia risk danger by working for him at this time, could he?
He could only hope to quickly deal with Nameless and San Liu, these two super assassins, and then have them return to their posts.
Capital City, Su Family Courtyard.
Mu Jinyu had Su Zijin help arrange rooms for the women, thinking thankfully that the courtyard was large enough; otherwise, it would have been difficult to accommodate so many people.
After the arrangements were made, Mu Jinyu looked at the tightly guarded courtyard and felt somewhat relieved.
With Nameless targeting his family, the women who were closely guarded by the female hall officials of Dragon King Hall would not easily fall prey to a surprise attack from Nameless, giving him the chance to react and settle accounts with Nameless.
"Jinyu, what exactly happened? Why do we need to be so cautious?"
Wen Rou had finished tidying the room and, followed by several expressionless female bodyguards, came to Mu Jinyu's side, asking with worry in her voice.
The female palace attendants of Dragon King Hall, dressed as bodyguards, approached with vigilant eyes, constantly observing their surroundings with hands ready to strike at any moment. When Wen Rou spoke to Mu Jinyu, they didn't greet the Dragon King but just nodded slightly.
"It's nothing serious, just a small trouble, don't overthink it."
Mu Jinyu stretched out his hand and tousled Wen Rou's hair, not saying much, not wanting to cause undue panic.
In truth, being targeted by Nameless wasn't all that severe; Mu Jinyu might have been making a mountain out of a molehill.
After all, according to the information from Xiang Mantang, Nameless's style usually involved lurking in the shadows, seeking an opportunity to assassinate the target, never resorting to desperate measures, even if it meant capturing the powerless to threaten the target into compliance.
However, Mu Jinyu worried, what if he wasn't like Nameless's usual targets, so easily dealt with? If Nameless couldn't get the better of him over a long period, might he change his tactics and resort to any means necessary just to complete his mission?
"Oh." Seeing that Mu Jinyu was reluctant to elaborate, Wen Rou still felt very concerned but didn't press further, not wanting to annoy him.
That night.
Mu Jinyu sat alone at the stone table in the courtyard, silently observing his surroundings, trying to detect if Nameless was lurking nearby.
But he didn't feel any presence.
Still, he didn't dare to let his guard down.
In the meantime.
Gu Xiyan, Mei Yinxue, and Wen Rou had all come to his room, wanting to sleep with him, as it had been Mu Jinyu who said that he was used to sleeping with someone and found it hard to sleep alone...
Despite their concerns, they didn't know the specifics of the situation and could only try to comfort him in this way.
However, after their arrival, they were all sent away by Mu Jinyu.
Although he found the opportunity to share the bed tempting and felt a little excited, considering Nameless's existence, he gave up the chance.
After all, they were an old married couple and would have the opportunity to be together eventually.
Now that he was targeted by Nameless, who knew if Nameless would take the opportunity to strike during his relaxed moments?
Moreover, who knew whether Nameless was male or female? He couldn't possibly let someone else live broadcast while he was intimate with his wife.
So he had to painfully give up on this opportunity.
The quiet night.
Mu Jinyu sat cross-legged on a stone stool, holding a ring-pommel sword forged from Mysterious Iron, standing still.
The night wind blew the leaves, making a rustling sound.
It was past three in the morning.
Mu Jinyu hadn't slept all night and was beginning to feel drowsy; the ring-pommel sword was still gripped tightly, but his eyelids began to fight each other, and his head occasionally nodded forward, only to wake with a start before drifting back into a half-sleep state.
Half-asleep and half-awake, Mu Jinyu's rest was cut short as time gradually approached the early hours of four in the morning.
This was the moment before dawn, the very second when day was about to break.
When a faint glimmer of fish-belly white quietly crept up in the eastern sky.
"Whoosh!"
All of a sudden, an unusual sound appeared out of nowhere.
A sharp weapon shot out from the darkness amidst the howling cold wind, its sound melding with the gale in such a way that even the vigilantly watching Dragon King Hall Members failed to detect anything amiss.
And Mu Jinyu, still in a drowsy haze, seemed to have not noticed anything either.
"Clang!"
It was at that moment, a metallic ring echoed abruptly!
The sound, blending with the cold wind and a weapon coated in black paint that reflected no gleam under the moonlight, was suddenly caught between two slender fingers just as it was about to hit Mu Jinyu's temple.
At the same time, two flashes of cold light flickered briefly across Mu Jinyu's opening and closing eyes!
"I've been waiting for you for a long time!"
As the words were spoken,
Mu Jinyu's figure, sitting cross-legged on the stone stump, began to slowly dissipate.
It turned out to be just an afterimage.
As Mu Jinyu spoke, he had already traced the direction of the strange sound and given chase.
"Whoosh!" "Whoosh!" "Whoosh!"
Mu Jinyu closely pursued a figure blending into the darkness of the night, an eerie presence so well hidden in the shadows that one would fail to notice a nearly illusionary figure there without careful attention.
And as Mu Jinyu relentlessly pursued, running out of the courtyard in an instant, Nameless realized the dire situation, having fallen for Mu Jinyu's ploy, and intermittently shot hidden weapons backwards.
But Mu Jinyu, swinging his ring-pommel sword, easily shattered the hidden weapons, leaving a trail of broken iron filings in his wake.
And Mu Jinyu's ring-pommel sword, made of special material, remained undamaged even after clashing several times with the hidden weapons propelled by Nameless's dark energy.
"Do you think you could escape?"
Mu Jinyu continued the pursuit, forcing Nameless to run in one direction while extending his Divine Sense from the Spirit Platform, locking tightly onto Nameless's form. Even when his figure turned completely transparent, invisible to the naked eye, Mu Jinyu was still aware of his whereabouts.
'Invisibility? Is it a special ability? Or some kind of high-tech suit?'
Mu Jinyu couldn't help but mutter to himself as he saw Nameless's figure vanish from his sight once again.
Then, waving the great sword in his hand, Mu Jinyu unleashed a terrifying blast of Great Sword Qi forwards, forcing Nameless to avoid escaping in another direction and continued the chase!
The two of them, one chasing and the other fleeing.
Unbeknownst to them, the sky had already brightened.
And they had already run out of the original street, coming to another street.
This street was wider and also had many small alleys. Upon arriving, Nameless didn't hesitate and immediately aimed for an alley reeking of a strong fishy odor.
He believed that Mu Jinyu had been able to follow him so closely by relying on his keen sense of smell, so he wanted to douse himself in a fishy stench to cover his original scent and thus, hopefully, escape to safety.
"Boom!"
However, just as Nameless was about to flee into that alley.
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