The train went down the rails, with the indifferent girl still grabbed by Li Mo.
Once the tension eased from the train cart, the girl started having an epilepsy attack.
“Call a doctor!” Someone cried.
Li Mo chuckled.
The conductor came right back and took the girl to the infirmary.
The girl sneaked a smug look back at Li Mo, one filled with taunt.
The train cart calmed again.
Li Mo didn’t chase her. Just then she sent him a sound transmission she’d slaughter everyone if he did.
Now that she was in the infirmary, she no longer facked. She sneaked out of the room as a twenty-year-old silky-smooth black-haired babe.
The resemblance to the girl was still there, but not the clothes.
She picked up the phone and texted. “I failed.”
“Head senior sister, are you ok?” A reply came.
“Yes.”
“Great. That Li Mo character isn’t simple. Now you believe me?”
“I do. Next time I won’t be so careless.”
The babe paused then went in the opposite direction of Li Mo’s cart.
Her age was different, her clothes, even her features, but it was best to be on the safe side.
Six hours later, the train arrived in Chuan Province’s East Station. In the evening sky, they all went to the Wang Estate convoy waiting for their arrival.
Chuan Province’s base leader, Wang Yexing, wasn’t among them. Sending his son, Wang Yue, and cousin, Wang Ying.
Wang Estate’s procession was a convoy in the truest sense of the word, with 20 classy SUVs.
“Welcome team leader Zheng to Chuan Province.”
Wang Yue went to shake Zheng Hualong’s hand.
Li Mo, as usual, was treated as air standing next to Zheng Huahu.
Wang Estate was known for its pretty boys and pretty girls. Wang Yue and Wang Ying were no exceptions. They shined like movie stars.
“Are you Li Mo?” Wang Ying went to him.
“Do you know Wang Yanyan? She is my kid sister.” Wang Yanyan snickered.
“Should I?” Li Mo quipped.
“Humph, cut the act. You viciously picked on my sister in Feng City!”
“Oh, you mean that empty-headed prissy girl?” Li Mo recalled.
Wang Ying was ready to blow, “And what does that make you? Think you’re better?”
“Why are you here? To fight?”
“You are the headquarters’ inspection team leader and I am but a base member. From the strength standpoint, I’m no match, but I can never accept anyone picking on Yanyan. No one dared to in her life. I decided to brave death and challenge you to a mortal duel!”
Li Mo smiled.
‘Being so roundabout then go for a challenge? Couldn’t you just get to it from the start than waste time?’
‘Oh, now I get it.’
‘He challenges me, who got to a high position from the lowest in order to make me look weak to others.’
Wang Yue urged, “Brother Ying, this is no place to fight. Let’s go back to the estate first.”
Wang Ying nodded, “Fine. Since you came from afar, you need to at last get your belly filled or people might think we’re rude.”
“Team leader Zheng, please.”
“Brother Huahu, please follow me.”
“Brother Liu, brother Yan, it’s been ages. Let’s go together.”
Wang Yue smiled at Lin Qingrou, “Silver Heroine, will you do me the honor of going in my car?”
Lin Qingrou nodded.
As the greetings passed, only one person was overlooked, left in the cold evening air, Li Mo.
No one invited him. Wang Estate’s stance was clear.
Wang Yue facepalmed, “Oh dear, we haven’t gotten team leader Li a car. But they’re all full. What are we going to do?”
“Team leader Li, terribly sorry for the inconvenience. Would you take this instead?”
Wang Yue pointed at a car smaller than even a golf cart on three wheels. The driver instantly nodded.
Roars of laughter everywhere.
For the second inspection team leader to go around in such a ‘car’ to Wang Estate, it would be a disgrace.
To which Li Mo smile, “Sure.”
Li Mo hopped in.
They all laughed again, with Wang Yue and Wang Ying even crying tears of joy.
Li Mo got cozy in the ‘car’ and rang, “Vice-chief Lan, we arrived. En, just now. The car the Wang Estate prepared is classy…”
Wang Yue’s smile froze.
“What’s wrong brother Yue?”
“Nothing. It won’t matter even if the headquarters will look into it. Humph, the worst will be just an apology. Let him make a fool of himself.” Wang Yue was having a hard time pushing back the foreboding feeling he had.
“Yeah.”
Wang Ying nodded and shouted at the ‘car’ driver, “You know of Wang Estate? Take this honorable guest there.”
“I know, I know.”
He drove the ‘car’ with on and off bangs from the exhaust.
“Ha-ha-ha…”
And another round of laughter from the folks.
“Who’d ever take the same car with you? Morons.”
Li Mo started refining the memory metal.
He’d been so busy these few days that he never got the chance.
He used the Celestial Eye while employing Fortune of Heaven and Earth Art on memory metal.
Memory metal was only good for its recovery property and quite weak to be turned into magic weapons in its unprocessed form. To make it tough, he first had to remove the extra elements.
“Sir, take it slower. There’s no rush. I’ll pay you double if you’re slow enough and triple if you keep it steady.”
Screech~
The driver hit the breaks to a halt, then started a low-speed cruise.
Wang Estate’s convoy flitted by the ‘car’, not forgetting to laugh at him when each car passed.
Li Mo couldn’t care less. His focus was on the memory metal, a far too important task.
To a layman, the elements making up memory metal couldn’t be found. Only a sharp eye, akin to Celestial Eye or Spirit Eye, would let one perceive the hidden world. Without them, even a top tool refining grandmaster would be stumped on how to approach this grueling task.
Li Mo had a lot of patience. An hour later, and a brow full a sweat, his effort finally paid off, taking a fine black thread out of it.
It may look slow, but without a good eye, that thread alone would take anyone else anywhere from three to five years.
“Slower, sir. I’ll add to your pay.” Li Mo yelled.
“Will do!” The driver cranked down the speed.
