However, Zhou Ziwei was soon greatly disappointed, because after carefully sorting through the soul memories carried by the soul power he had just absorbed, he found no soul memories related to makeup or disguise.
If the soul that Zhou Ziwei just captured really belonged to a fox, then there would be no reason why he couldn't find any related soul memories. Since this phenomenon has occurred, there is only one conclusion... that the guy disguised as driver Lao Wang is not a fox at all, but just a pawn being manipulated by the fox.
Could it be... that the guy impersonating me at home is the real fox?
Zhou Ziwei suddenly had this idea. Although he felt that the possibility was not very high, he could not find any other suspects.
Fortunately, whether that guy is a fox or not, he shouldn't have the same abnormal ability as Kyzylem to resist hypnosis. So, we'll just have to go back and hypnotize him a bit and we'll know everything.
Zhou Ziwei pulled Wang Xuewei into his arms and checked her body. Seeing that there were no signs of assault, he breathed a slight sigh of relief. It seemed that even if he was being cuckolded, it wasn't too bad.
Wang Xuewei's coma seems to have been caused by some kind of drug. It's estimated that simply splashing some cold water on her face or waiting for a while will wake her up naturally, and it shouldn't have any impact on her health.
A dozen minutes later, Zhou Ziwei returned to the Zhou family compound carrying two unconscious women in his arms. His ghostly figure flashed slightly in the darkness and appeared in the main hall of the courtyard.
Liu Xiaofei was still lying unconscious on the sofa, just like before, while the guy who had impersonated Zhou Ziwei was bleeding from all seven orifices and had stopped breathing... He had been dead in a coma for quite some time...
Volume 2, The Assassin's Nightmare, Chapter 447: Kun Chong Formation
This guy is dead. He's actually dead.
Zhou Ziwei's brows furrowed as he looked at the man lying dead on the ground.
He remembered clearly that just before leaving, he had deliberately used his soul power to invade the man's brain and knock him unconscious. If he hadn't personally cured him, the man might not have woken up even after three days and three nights.
A person in a coma shouldn't be able to commit suicide, right? Could it be that someone else broke in during this time?
Zhou Ziwei looked around and found that none of the Kun pets he had arranged in this room were missing; they were clearly still lurking in the room, protecting Liu Xiaofei nearby.
Since these Kun pets are still around, how could someone have broken in and killed this imposter Zhou Ziwei?
Zhou Ziwei had considerable confidence in these Kunchong. Even if a top assassin from the world's top ten came here, he might not be able to kill the people in this house without alerting them, unless... that person also possessed a superpower like Zhou Ziwei's, such as a soul roar. Even through walls, or even at a distance of tens or hundreds of meters, if Zhou Ziwei were willing to use liquid soul power to unleash a soul roar, he could still kill someone silently without anyone noticing.
However, Zhou Ziwei didn't think there was anyone in the world who possessed the same superpowers as him. The probability was too low. Even the top three of the legendary world's top ten assassins probably weren't that powerful!
Zhou Ziwei stopped making wild guesses and immediately connected with the Kun pets guarding the room using his soul consciousness, beginning to receive their soul memories from this period of time.
A moment later, Zhou Ziwei had read the soul memories transmitted from Kun Chong, but he had gained almost nothing.
In the memories of those Kun Chong, the imposter Zhou Ziwei had been lying there quietly, unconscious, and no one had come into the room during that time. However, about twenty minutes ago, bright red blood suddenly flowed from the imposter Zhou Ziwei's seven orifices, and then the man twitched slightly a few times before dying.
Could it be poisoning? Or perhaps he took poison before coming to carry out the mission, but this poison doesn't take effect immediately. It only takes effect and he dies if he doesn't take the antidote in time.
This possibility cannot be ruled out. Modern medicine is very advanced, and even poisons can be put into slow-release capsules for people to take. These slow-release capsules can delay dissolving for several hours after a person takes them, and before they dissolve, even the most toxic poison will not cause any harm to the human body.
However, after Zhou Ziwei lightly touched the blood flowing from the corner of the man's mouth with his finger and sniffed it a few times, he concluded that the man had not died from poisoning.
"Master... your scanning ability is stronger than mine. Can you check if there is a chip in his brain? Hmm... or a broken chip..." Just as Zhou Ziwei was confused, Xiao Xin reminded him in his mind.
"A chip? How is that possible?" Zhou Ziwei said somewhat dismissively, "This guy looks like a nobody. The black market assassin network wouldn't waste so much money and resources to control someone like him with a chip, would they?"
After a chip was implanted in Zhou Ziwei's brain, he felt like he had a fishbone stuck in his throat. Naturally, he did a lot of research on the chip and knew how powerful it was. He figured that the cost of producing such a chip must be astronomical.
If this chip weren't so powerful, how could he have spent 120,000 units of soul power to create Xiaoxin, this powerful independent soul entity?
While the Black Market Assassin Network is very wealthy, even the richest person wouldn't be so wasteful as to casually install such an expensive chip on just any Tom, Dick, or Harry.
There are many ways to control people, and not everyone is entitled to be controlled by such expensive means.
Moreover, this wasn't the first time Zhou Ziwei had come into contact with people from the black market assassin network; these ordinary people didn't have this chip on them at all.
Even though he didn't quite believe it, Zhou Ziwei still followed Xiao Xin's advice and casually scanned the corpse's brain with his soul power.
Because the person was already dead and all signs of life had dissipated, Zhou Ziwei could easily scan the body using the method for scanning non-living objects. However, upon scanning, Zhou Ziwei was stunned, because he discovered that... there were indeed many fragments of foreign objects in the brain of this corpse. The texture of those fragments really resembled the residue left after a chip exploded.
This guy... how come he has a chip in his brain? Could it be... that he's not actually some insignificant nobody, but... is the fox that Kyzylmer was talking about?
Zhou Ziwei suddenly realized that he might have fallen into a misconception. After hearing Kyzylmer's introduction, he formed a subjective impression of the guy nicknamed "Fox". He thought that since the guy was good at makeup and liked to play mind games, but had no practical combat ability, he would not take risks so easily.
Now that they have successfully abducted Wang Xuewei, the fox must have already retreated. Why would it stay behind to negotiate with Zhou Ziwei? It's even possible that the fox never actually sneaked into the Zhou family compound. The fox is timid yet cunning, and only in this way can it fit its fox characteristics.
It was precisely because of this idea that even when Zhou Ziwei used his soul power to invade the head of this imposter Zhou Ziwei and knock him unconscious, he did not think to search his head for the presence of a chip.
In reality, Zhou Ziwei had never even seen the fox's face, nor had he ever interacted with it before. To judge a person's character and actions based solely on a few words from Kyzylmier was clearly unwise. Or perhaps... Kyzylmier himself was lying to him...
Zhou Ziwei shook his head helplessly. Since this guy was already dead, it didn't matter whether he was a fox or not. If he really was a fox, that would be even better, so that he wouldn't have to be on guard against such an elusive enemy who could transform into a familiar person around him at any time.
If you were to get entangled with such a cunning fox, it would be far more troublesome than facing a werewolf's attack directly.
Next, Zhou Ziwei searched around the Zhou family compound again, trying to see if the soul of the deceased was still lingering nearby, but he found nothing. Zhou Ziwei even recited the Six-Syllable Mantra again, but he only absorbed some scattered soul power, which were the residual and weak soul energy left by the dead small animals. There was no human soul present.
Since they couldn't find the guy's soul, they had no choice but to give up. So Zhou Ziwei used a low-level soul bead to completely turn the man's corpse into powder and scattered it in the garden behind the courtyard.
After doing all this, Zhou Ziwei finally managed to wake Wang Xuewei and Liu Xiaofei up.
Unexpectedly, after the two woke up, they immediately questioned Zhou Ziwei about who he was with tense expressions.
Zhou Ziwei realized that they had just been tricked by someone impersonating him, and that they were probably mistaking him for the imposter. So he wasn't angry. He simply whispered a few secrets in each of their ears, which only they knew. Only then did the two women confirm that the person in front of them was indeed the real Zhou Ziwei.
After questioning the two women, I learned what had happened.
It turned out that after Zhou Ziwei went to Kyzylmier's room, Wang Xuewei pulled Liu Xiaofei into the main house and asked her to stay there for the night.
Although Liu Xiaofei felt a little shy about the invitation, she had waited for Zhou Ziwei for three years and was finally able to welcome him back. Naturally, she was reluctant to leave even for a moment. Knowing that Zhou Ziwei would definitely come back to stay here later, she gladly accepted.
After the pilot plane trip, Wang Xuewei's personality had changed a lot. Although she was still cold to unrelated people, she was very warm to Liu Xiaofei, who was no less important to Zhou Ziwei than her. The two chatted for a while and found themselves getting along very well.
As they were talking, Zhou Ziwei walked in from outside. Once inside, he ignored Liu Xiaofei and started talking to Wang Xuewei about his adventure and what happened after returning to the capital. He was very skillful in his speech, only revealing a third of what he said each time, as if he was reliving his experience, but in reality, he was trying to get information out of Wang Xuewei.
Wang Xuewei didn't pay much attention at first, and casually mentioned a few things about water splitters. After all, Liu Xiaofei wasn't an outsider, and Zhou Ziwei's plan to develop a civilian product using water splitters would ultimately have to be implemented through Liu Xiaofei, a business genius. So, she would have to tell Liu Xiaofei about these things sooner or later.
However, when this topic came up, she keenly noticed that Zhou Ziwei seemed a little off, because when he heard Wang Xuewei talk about the human use of the water decomposer, he showed the same shock as Liu Xiaofei.
Moreover, he quickly revealed a clue in the few words he said next.
Wang Xuewei immediately became alert and suspiciously questioned Zhou Ziwei about why he suddenly had so many questions about things he already knew. Just then, Wang Xuewei and Liu Xiaofei suddenly smelled a faint jasmine fragrance, and their consciousness gradually blurred as they both fell into a deep sleep…
Zhou Ziwei helplessly realized that he seemed to have become someone who was guilty of possessing a treasure. Obviously, the reason why the Black God kept coming to him was not because Zhou Ziwei had done anything to betray the Black Market Assassin Network, but probably because of the things he brought back from the pilot plane.
Even though he has already handed over everything, he hasn't been able to get rid of the trouble completely.
This is really a headache... Next... Zhou Ziwei knew that if he couldn't completely get rid of that guy Black God, or rather, the Black Market Killer Network, then he would probably never have a peaceful day again. Especially after a while, if he started to develop the civilian technology of the water decomposer, it would definitely provoke the Black Market Killer Network to frantically use all kinds of means to seize the technical data he possessed.
But how easy is it to get rid of this cancerous black market assassin network? At least until now, Zhou Ziwei doesn't even know which way the black market assassin network's doors are open. Even if he wants to fight someone to the death, he has to be able to find their shadow first...
Moreover, the most disadvantageous factor for Zhou Ziwei is that he has too many people on his mind, and every one of them could potentially become a bargaining chip that Heishen uses to threaten him.
This time, even though he was still at home, Wang Xuewei was still kidnapped. Zhou Ziwei can't be with these people he cares about 24 hours a day, can he? If he has something to do and is separated from Wang Xuewei and Liu Xiaofei, then... kidnappings like this could very well happen a second or third time.
In addition, there are Zhou Ziwei's parents from his previous life and Yu Xiaoru in Zhongdu. These three people are also people that Zhou Ziwei cares about a lot. Even if Zhou Ziwei can take care of these people in Dangyang, how can he take care of those in Zhongdu as well?
Others may not know the relationship between Zhou Ziwei and Yu Xiaoru, but the Black God, whose eyes and ears are all over the earth and who knows almost everything, must have some suspicions. Back then, Zhou Ziwei had contacted Yu Xiaoru and his parents from his previous life more than once. These things had long been under the surveillance of the black market assassin network.
Moreover... Zhou Ziwei, in his capacity as the Vice President of the Black Market Assassin Network's Asian region, had the Black Market Assassin Network's agents in Zhongdu secretly protect these three people. If Black God couldn't see how important those three people were to Zhou Ziwei, then Black God wouldn't be Black God.
It seems... the matter in Zhongdu also needs to be resolved thoroughly as soon as possible...
Next, Zhou Ziwei called his old superior again to inquire about Anirias's whereabouts, only to be told that Anirias had left on his own shortly after he and Wang Xuewei left.
The military naturally couldn't afford to ignore this mysterious figure, but after sending men to track him to the bustling downtown area of the capital, they quickly lost track of him, and Anirias's whereabouts are now unknown...
Zhou Ziwei was not surprised by this result. How could ordinary people or military personnel possibly track someone like Anirias, who ranked fourth among the world's top ten assassins? Losing track of her was normal. If they hadn't... then Zhou Ziwei would have suspected that the beautiful snake was setting up some kind of trap or playing some kind of trick again.
With so much happening today, Zhou Ziwei has temporarily given up on those games that every man enjoys with the two beautiful women. Instead, he gave the main courtyard to the two women and went to the courtyard where Liu Xiaofei usually lives, saying that he needed to be alone tonight to think things through...
Kyzylmer was thrown back into her guest room by Zhou Ziwei. Although Zhou Ziwei still had many questions in his mind, he did not intend to interrogate Kyzylmer any further.
Since he couldn't control this woman through hypnosis, Zhou Ziwei would have a hard time discerning the truth from her words, no matter what she said. If he wasn't careful, he might fall into her trap instead.
Since Zhou Ziwei dared not easily believe what Kyzylmer said, he might as well not ask any questions to avoid being misled again.
The sun was just as round the next day, and it didn't respond in the slightest to anyone's sentiments.
Zhou Ziwei worked for half the night before finally creating over a hundred insect pets. These insect pets included various different species. Zhou Ziwei previously only knew that mosquito insect pets would develop a powerful venom attack ability after inhaling a deadly poison, and that fruit flies had an amazing flight speed that could be used to transmit messages and detect enemy activity.
As for what kind of mutations would occur when other kinds of insects created an independent soul within their bodies, that was beyond Zhou Ziwei's knowledge.
However, it doesn't matter if we don't know. Anyway, Zhou Ziwei's soul power is still extremely strong. So, no matter what kind of insect it is, as long as he catches an insect, he will immediately create an independent soul body in its body. As for whether these insect pets can develop special abilities, such as the powerful flight speed and hard shell of a ladybug, that depends on Zhou Ziwei's luck.
Having created so many Kun pets, Zhou Ziwei naturally wouldn't let them do nothing. So, he used the dozen or so little Kun pets that had followed him since the beginning and made countless contributions to him, and then divided these newly captured Kun pets into eight teams to take turns monitoring the safety of everyone Zhou Ziwei cared about.
In this way, even if Zhou Ziwei is not with the people he cares about, with the protection of the Kun Chong Squad, it is likely that unless Black God sends one of the top ten assassins, no one will be able to abduct anyone from under Zhou Ziwei's nose.
Zhou Ziwei's powerful soul energy gave him seemingly inexhaustible energy; even after a sleepless night, he showed no signs of fatigue.
This morning I have to attend a board meeting... but this board meeting is being held at Xinda Daily Chemical. As the largest shareholder of Xinda Daily Chemical, Zhou Ziwei has decided to take back everything that belongs to him first...
Volume 2: The Assassin's Nightmare, Chapter 448: The Warrior
Wang Guohui only learned that his youngest daughter and son-in-law had returned to Dangyang when he received a notification from Attorney He. This left the old man sitting there for more than half an hour, unable to recover from the shock.
"Darling...why are you sitting there daydreaming?"
Yuko Ono wore a semi-transparent gauze dress, but underneath, she wore a set of bright red sexy lingerie covering her most intimate areas. The contrast between the two accentuated the fiery desire emanating from beneath Yuko Ono's beautiful skin.
A pair of snow-white hands gently climbed onto Wang Guohui's shoulders, and her rosy lips exhaled a captivating fragrance as she whispered in his ear, "Darling... what are you thinking about? Why don't you come and keep me company?"
The company's development has been on the right track. With the strong support of the entire Santian family, Xinda Daily Chemical's two new products, vaporized laundry detergent and high-grade fur cleaning liquid, are selling quite well in the international market. A steady stream of profits is flowing into Wang Guohui's pocket through the Santian family's commercial channels in Asia and Europe.
This is probably because, from the very beginning, these two products were positioned at a relatively high level, almost directly targeting mid-to-high-end consumers overseas. As a result, these two products performed poorly in the domestic market.
Needless to say, high-end fur cleaning solutions are something only the wealthy can afford. Ordinary people... need to own fur to even use such cleaning solutions... However, due to the overseas pricing issue, when Wang Guohui tried to remarket the company's products in China, for some unknown reason, he resolutely refused to adjust the prices to a reasonable level based on the actual situation in China. Instead, he directly brought back the prices that were sold in developed countries such as Europe and America.
As a result... due to the rapid development of Xinda Daily Chemical and Zhou's Group, they are no longer the small companies that can be bullied and suppressed at will. No one dares to step forward to stop Xinda Daily Chemical from promoting its products in China.
But... the price of that high-end fur cleaning solution is just too high. It's so high that buying a bottle of this cleaning solution to clean your fur at home is still a little more expensive than taking your fur to a dry cleaner. So... consumers aren't stupid, who would be willing to spend so much money to buy this stuff and make themselves go through all that trouble?
Therefore, when Xinda Daily Chemical's new product, premium fur cleaning liquid, was launched in China, even after a six-month peak sales season, their distributors in fifteen major cities across the country failed to sell a single hundred bottles.
This sales figure made Wang Guohui feel quite ashamed, but the high-end fur cleaning solution was selling quite well in the overseas market. So Wang Guohui simply cut off the domestic supply and focused on developing his overseas business.
Vaporized laundry detergent has a certain market and sales volume in China due to its novel characteristics. However, because the product price is directly in line with international standards, the price is so high that most ordinary people cannot afford it. Therefore, vaporized laundry detergent has basically become a luxury item exclusively for some wealthy families in China.
Within the company, Wang Xuewei's son, Wang Feng, has always been in charge of production, while Chairman Wang Guohui primarily focuses on sales.
However... now that the company's products are mainly sold overseas, and overseas sales are entirely handled by Mita Co., Ltd. in Japan, Wang Guohui naturally doesn't have much to do. Otherwise, he wouldn't be spending the whole day at home with his newlywed wife.
Wang Guohui's new wife is indeed a former movie star, with endless techniques and tricks for sex. Fortunately, after his first wife passed away, Wang Guohui was too busy with the struggling business of Xinda Company and worrying about it to have time for a life of pleasure. So, despite his age, he is still quite vigorous and can easily spend an hour or two in bed with Ono Yuko.
But Ono Yuko was like a bottomless pit that could never be filled. Whenever she was in the mood, she would not care whether there were other people at home. She might pounce on Wang Guohui at any time and make all sorts of provocative moves. It seemed that she would not feel comfortable unless Wang Guohui immediately knocked her to the ground and had sex with her.