NovelYeni Chapter 91 : Chapter 91
Chapter 91 : Chapter 91
Chapter 91: I Have Rendered Meritorious Service to the Military District—Will You Do Nothing if Someone Tries to Kill Me?
As the number of onlookers kept growing, the scene became increasingly noisy.
Li Mu had not been sleeping deeply to begin with. He had only been dozing there.
In the end, the clamor of the crowd woke him up.
Li Mu looked around at the surrounding crowd.
He rose from the rattan recliner, let out a long yawn, then pointed at the two people hanging above while wiping away the tears at the corners of his eyes.
“Everyone, take a look. Does anyone recognize these two, or has anyone seen them somewhere before?”
“Last night, these two tried to assassinate me inside the Military District!”
“They had no reason at all. They just came at me and tried to kill me.”
“I’m very confused!”
“But I’m also extremely grateful that I was their target.”
“Because if they dare to casually attack and kill even officers in the Military District, then if their target had been one of our Military District soldiers—”
“The consequences would have been unimaginable!”
“So this matter must be thoroughly investigated. We must be given a stable and united Military District!”
“Don’t you all agree?!”
Li Mu already had considerable influence among the soldiers.
And after hearing that speech, there was no way they would not empathize. If they dared not support something like this—what if one day it really happened to them? They were not confident they could kill their attackers in return.
Who wanted to live on edge even inside the Military District?
“That’s right!”
“That’s right!!”
“That’s right!!!”
For a moment, countless soldiers raised their arms and shouted in unison. Their voices shook the heavens, even alarming the soldiers from the other bases and drawing them over.
The crowd grew larger and larger. In the blink of an eye, there were already over a thousand people.
They were packed together, asking one another what had happened.
Li Mu raised a hand to stop their shouting.
Then he called out loudly again: “Everyone can rest assured. The Investigations Department of our Military District isn’t useless!”
“I believe they will definitely uphold justice for us and drag out every last person stirring up trouble!”
“As members of the Abyss Suppression Army, we should also take the initiative to do our part!”
“Take pictures of these two and ask around everywhere for clues!”
At once, all the soldiers pulled out their phones and started snapping photos.
Even if they did not know anything, it would still make great gossip to spread around.
Other than actual battles, there was usually nothing especially fresh happening in the Military District.
This matter was definitely the biggest piece of gossip in recent days.
Before long, people from the Investigations Department and the guard unit came flooding over.
Naturally, every senior leader in the Military District had already received the news as well.
When Wang Longcheng heard the report and learned that Li Mu had actually been the target of an assassination attempt, he slammed the table in fury and shot to his feet.
“That brat got hurt?”
Adjutant Zhang replied, “No.”
“Two Fifth Grade Martial Artists were both killed by Li Mu. Their corpses are hanging in the plaza in front of the base right now for everyone to see.”
When he heard that Li Mu had hung the corpses in the plaza, Wang Longcheng first froze in surprise, wondering what Li Mu was trying to do.
But very quickly, he connected it with what had happened yesterday.
There was no way Zhang Qing had orchestrated this personally, but it was highly possible that Zhang Qing’s son had done it!
At that thought, Wang Longcheng’s eyes lit up.
“This little demon king is trying to tear a hole in the sky!”
At the side, even Adjutant Zhang’s mouth twitched slightly.
He had not expected Li Mu to pull something like this either.
Li Mu definitely already knew that Zhang Kang had sent the assassins.
The killers might not have directly confessed it.
But even if they had, without actual evidence, it would still have been useless.
So Li Mu was not after evidence at all.
He had chosen instead to blow the matter up.
The bigger, the better!
Just think about it. If Li Mu had been targeted for assassination and chosen not to alert the enemy, then he would have had to deal with two corpses himself.
And if anything went wrong, the side in the right could easily end up looking like the side in the wrong.
As for reporting it directly to the Investigations Department, they would not publicize the matter on a large scale either. At most, they would begin a covert investigation.
And that would have given Zhang Qing room to exert his influence.
Even if Wang Longcheng stepped in, he still would not have been able to firmly control the overall situation.
After all, in terms of influence within the Military District, Wang Longcheng was still slightly inferior to Zhang Qing.
But blowing the matter up was wonderful.
The bigger the commotion, the greater the pressure on the investigations department.
If several top leaders intervened together, no one would be left any room to engage in favoritism or fraud.
Unless this matter was investigated down to the roots, there would be no way to bring it to a close!
As the saying went, move one hair and the whole body trembles.
As long as Zhang Kang ran into trouble now, Wang Longcheng would very likely be able to seize on that and catch Zhang Qing by the handle.
Still, it had to be said—Li Mu had truly gone too far this time!
He actually dared to openly challenge a Deputy Commander-in-Chief!
“Boss, then should we...” Adjutant Zhang asked in a low voice.
He was somewhat worried about Li Mu.
Wang Longcheng gave a cold laugh, picked up his coat, and walked outside.
“Let’s go. That brat is waiting for me. If we don’t go, this play of his won’t be easy to carry on.”
Adjutant Zhang smiled.
That was true.
What Li Mu was doing was partly for his own sake.
But it was probably also partly for Wang Longcheng, because Wang Longcheng had long since accumulated enough Military Merit to be promoted to Junior Tiger Marquis.
The reason his military rank and post had remained suppressed all this time was because he had not reached the Upper Profound Rank.
But one should not think that this was unfair treatment toward Wang Longcheng.
If one’s strength was insufficient, commanding troops became extremely difficult.
If Wang Longcheng’s strength failed to rise, then if all those ranks and posts were pinned on him, serious problems would soon follow.
But now, Wang Longcheng’s strength had reached the Profound Rank.
The higher-ups were already looking for a suitable position for him.
Li Mu was trying to make Zhang Qing vacate a place for Wang Longcheng...
It was just that both of them understood very clearly that Li Mu’s thinking was still a bit too naive.
Wang Longcheng had not yet been promoted to Tiger Marquis. He was still a Wolf Guard.
But Zhang Qing was a Mid Tiger Marquis! His rank was two full levels above Wang Longcheng’s!
Without truly fatal evidence, it would be far too difficult for Wang Longcheng to bring down a Mid Tiger Marquis.
Although Li Mu had seized a very good opportunity this time, the timing still had not arrived, so in the end, it could only be a pity.
At that moment, in the base plaza, the people from the guard unit and the Investigations Department were circling around Li Mu, trying to placate him.
They wanted to take the two corpses down first.
But Li Mu strongly opposed it.
The moment they tried to persuade him, Li Mu started acting like a hooligan!
“I just rendered meritorious service to the Military District, and now someone wants to kill me! I’m waiting for the leaders to uphold justice for me!”
“If you dare take them down, then you’re accomplices! You’re trying to harm me!”
The people from the Investigations Department truly did not dare do anything to Li Mu.
Control him in front of so many soldiers?
Would that not be courting death?
The brat might be unruly, but he was in the right.
But this matter was getting bigger and bigger. If it kept escalating, they would have no way to explain it to the higher-ups. Even if they wanted to investigate, they had to take the bodies down first, did they not?
Surely they could not leave the corpses hanging there until the matter was fully investigated and let them rot away.
What kind of place would that make the Military District look like?
Just as they were trying to talk sense into Li Mu— “The Commander-in-Chief has arrived!”
Someone shouted. Commander-in-Chief Liang Huajun and Deputy Commanding Officer Wang Longcheng quickly pushed through the crowd.
With two top leaders present, the people from the guard unit and the Investigations Department all withdrew to the side.
“What is the meaning of this? You even dare hang corpses in the Military District plaza? This is utterly improper!”
Liang Huajun symbolically gave him a few words of reprimand.
At once, Li Mu began to complain tearfully.
He rolled out the same speech he had just used.
In essence, it was: someone tried to assassinate me, so are you going to do something about it or not? If you do not even protect a meritorious contributor, then who would dare render meritorious service in the future?
Liang Huajun was so angry he nearly exploded.
You little bastard, your reward had not even been approved yet, and you were already using it to force my hand!
But he was genuinely furious as well.
Someone had actually dared carry out an assassination inside the Military District, and the target had been Li Mu. This matter might even be connected to the Mother Crystal.
That was absolutely a grave crime!
He glared at Li Mu and said irritably, “All right, enough. I know you’ve been wronged. The Military District will definitely uphold justice for you!”
“This matter will absolutely be investigated to the very end! Now take these two corpses down first!”
What he meant was clear enough to Li Mu.
I’m handling this matter now, so you can drop the act.
But unexpectedly, Li Mu pointed at the female clown and said, “Commander, these aren’t two corpses. That man is dead!”
“This woman is still alive!”
“I couldn’t force anything out of her, but if she’s handed over to the department, maybe she can directly identify the mastermind behind all this!”