Cultivating in Different Professions

Chapter 144: Chapter 112: Night Raid

"Sir, as long as you can avenge my son, I am willing to offer the entire Shen Family fortune to the East City Bureau! I just want those people dead!"

Shen Yizhi knelt before Su Mu, tears streaming down his face as he spoke.

Su Mu was carefully examining the case files on several recent merchant caravan robberies when Shen Yizhi came seeking an audience.

The moment he entered, he dropped to his knees before Su Mu with a thud and began to weep, snot and tears everywhere.

He was a man of several decades, yet he cried like a child.

"Get up and speak. Otherwise, you can leave right now."

Su Mu said with a frown, having no patience for such displays.

"Hunting down criminals and eliminating bandits is the duty of the East City Bureau. I’ll do it whether you ask me to or not.

The East City Bureau won’t give this case special treatment just because the victim was your son."

Su Mu’s authority had been growing daily, and when he adopted such a stern tone, Shen Yizhi stopped crying.

He stood up and silently wiped away his tears.

"Sir, I know where those bandits are hiding!"

Shen Yizhi said suddenly.

"Hm? You know?"

Su Mu looked up from the case files and asked Shen Yizhi doubtfully.

He had already sent Zheng Wang and his men to investigate, but they had come back with nothing.

Even Chen Song, a constable from the East City Bureau, had been taken down, showing just how formidable this group of bandits was.

So far, Su Mu hadn’t found a single clue in the East City Bureau’s case files.

’Then again,’ Su Mu thought, ’Shen Yizhi is a local bully in the East City District; it makes sense that he’d have his own methods.’

’These local bullies might not be powerful in terms of raw strength, but if you underestimate them, they can surprise you when you least expect it.’

"Sir, you know that we businessmen inevitably have to deal with all sorts of people. After what happened to my son, I used every connection I have to track down those men. In the end, I bought a piece of information from the Golden Wind Tower!"

Shen Yizhi said in a heavy voice.

Although he didn’t say so, one could imagine he must have spent a fortune in silver for that information.

His eldest son and heir, whom he had painstakingly raised, had been murdered. Shen Yizhi was on the verge of madness. He would stop at nothing to get revenge, even if it meant spending his entire fortune—let alone a bit of silver.

"The Golden Wind Tower?"

A thoughtful expression appeared on Su Mu’s face.

He had heard of the Golden Wind Tower but had never had any dealings with them.

The Golden Wind Tower wasn’t a local Wuling City power. Its reach extended throughout Da Xuan, with a presence in nearly every major city.

It was arguably the largest underground organization in the Da Xuan Dynasty—an organization of assassins that specialized in selling information and carrying out murders.

Unlike Ghostwriters, the assassins of the Golden Wind Tower had no scruples. As long as the price was right, they would kill anyone.

While Ghostwriters also took money for their services, they had at least some semblance of a conscience and wouldn’t accept every job.

Of course, the assassins of the Golden Wind Tower were far stronger than Ghostwriters, and they earned far more as well.

The requirements to become a Golden Wind Tower assassin were also much stricter than those for becoming a Ghostwriter.

Su Mu had once heard that the Golden Wind Tower had even succeeded in assassinating a Rebirth Realm Martial Artist.

But Su Mu’s main impression of the Golden Wind Tower was that they were expensive.

To hire the Golden Wind Tower, you needed money—and not just a little. You had to be exceptionally wealthy.

A few thousand taels of silver likely wouldn’t even make a ripple in a single transaction with them.

Although Shen Yizhi was one of the wealthiest merchants in the East City District, it was clear he must have paid an exorbitant price this time.

"Where are the bandits hiding?"

Su Mu asked in a low voice.

As soon as he heard the information came from the Golden Wind Tower, Su Mu’s doubts vanished.

The Golden Wind Tower was expensive, but you got what you paid for. Their information was almost never wrong.

The Golden Wind Tower’s name carried a great deal of weight in the Da Xuan Dynasty.

"They are in a valley in the eastern suburbs. There are forty of them in total. Two are at the Fourth Stage of Body Tempering, ten are at the Third Stage of Body Tempering, and the rest are at the Second Stage of Body Tempering."

Shen Yizhi said, "They all wear masks, so their identities are currently unknown."

As he said this, a look of hatred crossed Shen Yizhi’s face.

It wasn’t that the Golden Wind Tower was incapable of discovering the bandits’ identities, but that he, Shen Yizhi, could no longer afford their price.

The silver he had on hand was only enough to buy this much information.

If he wanted to know more, he’d have to pay more.

Of course, if he paid enough, the Golden Wind Tower could have taken care of all the bandits for him.

But even if the Shen Family liquidated all their assets, they couldn’t afford to hire the Golden Wind Tower to kill forty people.

Just getting this much information had already depleted all of the Shen Family’s liquid assets. He couldn’t produce any more silver unless he started selling off property.

The Shen Family was one of the most prominent merchant families in the East City District, yet they were nearly bankrupted just by purchasing this single piece of information. It was a testament to just how profitable the Golden Wind Tower’s business was.

But then again, they truly had the ability to justify the cost.

They had effortlessly uncovered what the constables of the East City Bureau could not.

"Sir, if the East City Bureau decides to send out its forces, my Shen Family still has twenty or thirty Hospital Martial Artists. I am willing to place them all at your command!"

Shen Yizhi said earnestly.

If Su Mu wouldn’t avenge him, then he would sell off all of the Shen Family’s assets and hire the Golden Wind Tower to do the job.

His son, his heir, whom he had spent over twenty years carefully raising—he was the only child he and his first wife ever had!

"Have your Hospital Martial Artists report to the East City Bureau and await my command. Also, give me the precise details of the bandits’ hideout."

Su Mu said after a moment of thought.

’Forty men, and only two at the Fourth Stage of Body Tempering... With that level of strength, they dare to cause trouble on the East City Bureau’s turf?’

Shen Yizhi handed Su Mu a map he had already prepared.

"Sir, as long as you avenge me, from this day forward, my life—Shen Yizhi’s life—is yours. I’ll do whatever you command—"

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