Turning her head, Kang Zi was nowhere to be seen behind her.
"Damn! Where did he go?"
He Ka Lingchuan was stunned for a moment, looking left and right. "Hey? Kang Zi? Kang Zi?"
He called out a few times, but no one responded.
"What the hell is going on? We got separated while walking?"
He Ka Lingchuan stomped his foot in anger, turned back, and wanted to find Meng Jingwei and Xiao Cheng, and then go to meet Anthony.
Retracing his steps down the mountain, he saw not only Kang Zi, but also Meng Jingwei who had fled, and Xiao Cheng.
Finally, he reached the spot where everyone had separated, and even Anthony had disappeared.
"What's going on? Where did everyone go?"
He Ka Lingchuan kicked a nearby tree in anger. "I went through all this trouble to team up with you guys, just to watch the show. You bastards, you all ditched me!"
Although he was idle and unrestrained, having been immersed in royal power struggles, he was certainly not an idiot.
It was precisely because he knew these people were deep in scheming that he wanted to follow and watch the drama.
Who would have thought that as he followed, he lost track of everyone.
"No fun!"
He Ka Lingchuan's head ached with anger, and he lost interest in going further into the mountain.
After all, he was not vying for the position of Hidden Master, so there was no need for him to win. Thus, other than going home, he had no other choice.
On the other side.
Meng Jingwei had only been separated from Xiao Cheng for ten minutes. As she walked, she heard the faint sound of someone moving through the grass behind her.
She continued to walk forward, but her hand had already gripped her dagger, her peripheral vision glancing behind her.
The moment the person behind her lunged, she dodged sideways, evading the opponent's move, and kicked him in the chest.
"Mmph..."
The man who was kicked, caught off guard, stumbled back two steps, clutching his chest.
The two faced each other.
Meng Jingwei gripped her dagger tightly and looked at him. "Old friend, how long do you plan to pretend?" Her red lips curved into a cold smile.
"When did you find out?"
Kang Zi, holding a dagger in one hand and rubbing his chest with the other.
"When I found out is not important. What's important is that you and I have no enmity. In Dongpu Village, you tried to kill me twice. Not only did I save you once, but I also let you go once. Are you so ungrateful?"
Meng Jingwei remembered all the events that had happened in Dongpu Village as if they were yesterday.
At that time, she had been too kind and let Kang Zi go, but she didn't expect it to be like releasing a tiger back into the mountains.
If time could be reversed, she probably wouldn't be like she was before.
"I was just working for someone else. Taking money to do things is only right. Even if I didn't come to kill you, others would have taken your life."
Kang Zi sheathed the dagger in his hand. "Considering you spared my life in Dongpu Village, I can let you die without pain."
Saying this, he took out a pistol and aimed the muzzle at Meng Jingwei.
Meng Jingwei was not surprised by this.
She raised an eyebrow on one side, shrugged, and said calmly, "Since I'm going to die, I might as well die with some understanding. Are you Anthony's person, or Heika Qing Tang's person?"
There were some things she wanted to clarify.
"Heika Qing Tang."
Kang Zi did not hide it and truthfully told her.
"I didn't die in Dongpu Village back then. Has Heika Qing Tang stopped sending people to harm me?" Meng Jingwei had always been curious about this.
"Of course, there were. However, not only did Old Chen protect you in secret, but the Li Fu'an couple also secretly saved you. After that, when you met Qing Muye, he helped you more often."
Speaking of this, Kang Zi sighed. "If it weren't for them, you would have been a skeleton long ago."
"So, every time Li Yun'er schemed against me, Heika Qing Tang was secretly 'fanning the flames'?"