They soon received news from those searching the Yantai floating island. Unsurprisingly, there were no valuable clues.
The mark Xin Berg left here was that he once had a one night stand with a female student. But even when Symphony's people captured that female student, Xin Berg still didn't make a move at all.
"Restrain that student. Chop off two fingers and send it to her parents. Just announce that she's been kidnapped for ransom and make a big deal of it," Gu Nan ordered calmly.
Although Ghost Sea World was a feudal society, its level of science and technology wasn't low.
The three floating islands they suspected Xin Berg might be hiding in were all in the same area. Making a big deal of it here meant Xin Berg would hear about this.
Of course, it was best if it could alarm Xin Berg, but it also didn't matter if it couldn't. This move was merely an afterthought.
Symphony quickly mobilized his team, but his thoughts were preoccupied by what Gu Nan said earlier—the relationship between Xin Berg and Zhu Qin or even her older sister.
'Come to think of it, it's not impossible…'
...
The clues from the other two floating islands still needed some preparation before they could truly start testing them out.
So Gu Nan and Ying Ge were temporarily separated from Symphony's team.
"Do you really think Zhu Qin has a connection to the target?" Ying Ge circled around Gu Nan, asking such questions.
"We can't rule out this possibility." Gu Nan thought for a moment and said, "But this has nothing to do with you, right?"
"I'm also here to complete the mission! What do you mean, it has nothing to do with me?"
"Haha." Gu Nan expressed his attitude clearly with two words.
"Alright, alright." Ying Ge made a well, whatever you want to believe expression. "What are you going to do next? Wait for further news?"
Gu Nan just shook his head in response to this question.
Ying Ge's gaze had been sizing him up nonstop. All of Gu Nan's facial expressions, movements, gazes, and even his subconscious habits were captured by her.
For this descendent of the Blood Ancestor's self-inheritance, although her body changed from generation to generation, her will was still the same as that of the first generation.
Of course she didn't deliberately stay by Gu Nan's side purely for fun.
Gu Nan's bizarre behavior in Champions World also piqued Ying Ge's curiosity. She wanted to know what exactly was so strange about Gu Nan.
'That one must have her own considerations in driving him over to my side. Perhaps I can glean her goal from Gu Nan.'
"Since Zhu Qin seems suspicious, why don't we just ask her?" Gu Nan gave such an answer.
...
Inside an exquisite villa in the central part of a city on a certain floating island.
Zhu Qin pushed the door open and quickly walked in with a frosty expression, as if someone owed her five million dollars.
Of course, with her status, it would actually be easier to resolve if the problem was merely someone owing her five million dollars.
"Bastard! Fool! Psychopath!" Zu Qin immediately flew into a furious rage as soon as she entered the room and threw the objects around her. "How can there be such a person?!"
The room wasn't empty. A young man and young woman were already inside.
The man chuckled slightly when he saw Zhu Qin acting like this. "What happened now? Who dares to provoke the anger of our Royal Highness?"
Zhu Qin glared at him and snorted coldly. "Another person from our organization came over, and he's a lunatic! He told them to seal three floating islands as soon as he arrived!"
"This kind of person actually exists?" The man was amused. He shook his head, laughing in spite of himself. "What a wild imagination he has! Brother Xin truly made the right decision in leaving your organization early on."
The woman beside him also remarked with a smile, "Little Qin, your organization really is interesting. A random newcomer wants to seal off three floating islands?"
This made Zhu Qin frown slightly. She wanted to retort but didn't know where to start.
These two were her half-brother from the same father but different mothers—Zhu Wen—and his fiancée Yan Xuexin. They were also rather impressive cultivators.
It's just that the two of them were born in such a small plane like Ghost Sea World, so their horizons naturally weren't very broad.
They weren't like Zhu Qin, who was able to join Astral Gate early on with her sister's support. Only then did she learn how big the outside world truly was.
While it was true that the person she met today was indeed a psycho, Astral Gate was by no means a simple organization, but a real behemoth.
Thinking of Big Brother Xin's defection from the organization and how he was still being hunted down, Zhu Qin felt another wave of inexplicable irritability.
Of course Zhu Wen and Yan Xuexin couldn't understand Zhu Qin's thoughts, but their suggestions were genuine and sincere.
"Little Qin, your organization keeps sending people over. Big Brother Xin will be exposed sooner or later." Zhu Wen said seriously, then lowered his voice, "Why don't we manipulate some matters from within the organization—"
"Absolutely not!" Zhu Qin got a fright and hurriedly interrupted Zhu Wen. Her attitude was even firmer than before.
After all, stopping Symphony's plan was because of her sense of social responsibility, but stopping Zhu Wen was purely because she didn't want to court death.
It was one thing to refuse to cooperate with the mission team, but if she publicly obstructed Astral Gate's operations, it would trigger retaliation from the organization.
Zhu Qin even somewhat regretted letting her brother and sister-in-law meet Big Brother Xin.
These two couldn't help with much, but the consequences of their provocations might just be fatal.
Zhu Wen and Yan Xuexin clearly disapproved of Zhu Qin's cautiousness. Yan Xuexin chuckled. "Little Qin, you don't usually stay in this plane for long, so don't sell us short."
"That's right." Zhu Wen put down his wine glass with an invigorated expression. "The items that Sister Yue brought back over the years have helped our overall strength increase greatly. Our growth is not something you can imagine!"
Zhu Yue was Zhu Qin's biological older sister, a Void Cutter genius who walked out from Ghost Sea World.
As a powerful Void Cutter cultivator, it naturally wasn't hard for her to support her hometown.
"And Little Qin, don't forget," Zhu Wen added, "even Sister Yue acknowledges Brother Xin's genius."
Zhu Wen tried his best to persuade Zhu Qin, hoping that she would agree to help instead of just secretly giving them inside information like this.
He just didn't expect that a shadow had secretly infiltrated the villa already.
"So your paranoia turned out to be right!" Ying Ge said calmly. Rather than admiring Gu Nan's correct guess, her tone was more mocking.
Zhu Qin and the other two suddenly turned around. They saw Gu Nan standing quietly at the door with Ying Ge.
Zhu Qin naturally recognized Gu Nan at a glance. She exclaimed furiously, "It's you! Hmph, do you think finding us will force us to reveal Brother Xin's whereabouts?"
With her older sister as backing, Zhu Qin naturally wasn't worried about people from Astral Gate making things difficult for her for no reason.
Next to her, Zhu Wen was even more confident in his backing. He believed that even if an outside organization was a dragon, it still had to coil up and shrink back in Ghost Sea World—his own territory.
So he said leisurely, "I don't know if Your Excellency—"
Zhu Wen's voice didn't get to travel far before a jet-black shadow instantly lunged at them, splitting into three and charging at the three of them.
Zhu Wen and Yan Xuexin didn't even grunt in pain before they were directly submerged by the shadow, while Zhu Qin also failed to react in time, but the pendant on her chest lit up with a white light, gradually revealing the figure of a woman.
At this time, Gu Nan's satisfied voice rang out, "Now this is the person I was looking for."