Volume 1 Chapter 42: Winning the First Time

Investigate the Bai family?

Why investigate the Bai family?

Maybe Amber only said it casually, but Bai Muxue knew how quickly this girl acted once she decided something. She was completely stunned.

Although Bai Muxue usually acted freely in order to keep up the image of a villainous rich young lady, the worst thing she had probably done was forcing a perfectly innocent girl like Shen Jingyi to sign a servant contract...

That should not be enough to get her family placed on a magical girl’s investigation list, right?

Besides, even though the Bai family worked in both industry and business, they had never secretly worked with disaster beasts or strange monsters.

So why did Amber suddenly mention them?

Bai Muxue forced the corners of her mouth upward into a stiff smile and tried to look normal.

“The Bai family? Amber, do you mean our Bai family in Wangdu? The very rich one? Why did you suddenly bring that up?”

“Mm, it’s nothing much. I just suddenly thought of a few things.”

Amber did not notice Bai Muxue acting strange. She rested her cheek on one hand and spoke to herself.

“I just feel like something is not right...”

“What is not right?”

Bai Muxue lost her usual calmness and quickly asked.

“For example...”

Amber turned toward Bai Muxue and raised one finger.

“Even though the disaster beast is dead, what exactly was that core inside its body? And why did it explode the moment we touched it?”

“Disaster beasts don’t normally have things like that?” Bai Muxue was surprised.

This was truly outside her knowledge.

After all, in a way, this was only the second time Bai Muxue had personally dealt with a disaster beast. In her previous life, she mostly handled support work in the Disaster Management Bureau.

So in this area, she knew far less than Amber or Shen Jingyi.

“Nope.” Amber shook her head. “I’ve defeated so many disaster beasts, and this is the first time I’ve seen a so-called core. If every disaster beast had such an obvious weak point, why would every battle be so hard?”

“That makes sense...”

Bai Muxue silently remembered this information and nodded.

“And that’s not all.”

Amber raised two fingers this time.

“After that broken jellyfish was defeated, the strange effects in the amusement park should have disappeared too. So why did we almost drown in the underwater tunnel afterward? Xiao Xue mentioned that before too, didn’t she?”

“I really did...”

Bai Muxue nodded without thinking.

At that time, before she could think deeply about it, the rushing floodwater had swallowed her.

She had not expected Amber to keep thinking about it this whole time.

Thinking carefully now, the amusement park incident seemed solved, but there were still many suspicious points behind it.

“But even if something was wrong behind the scenes, how did you connect it to the Bai family?”

Bai Muxue hesitated, but in the end asked the question she cared about most.

She had once suspected that there was another mastermind behind this event...

But she would never randomly suspect her own family the way Amber did!

Besides, that so-called Empire mentioned by the blonde bat woman sounded far more suspicious.

“Ah, very simple.”

“Hehe, didn’t I say before that when I sneaked in here, I looked at the building layout map? Did you forget?”

“This amusement park was built by a developer from the Bai family.”

Amber casually shook her head and dropped another shocking bombshell.

“What did you say???”

The moment she heard that, Bai Muxue froze completely.

She quickly turned her head in shock, confusion flashing across her pretty face. She almost could not keep her usual calm expression anymore.

This amusement park was built by her family? How did she not know that?

Her eyes, filled with shock and a little panic, met Amber’s golden eyes for a moment. Then she quickly looked away.

“Hm? Why are you reacting so strongly, Xiao Xue? Did I say something wrong?”

Amber tilted her head in confusion.

“Ahaha, no... I was just surprised... that the Bai family might be behind this. Their family is already so rich.”

Bai Muxue scratched her cheek and stiffly turned her eyes away.

She always called herself a villainous young lady, but she had never imagined her family secretly working with disaster beasts!

What was this supposed to mean?

If the upper beam is crooked, the lower beam will be crooked too?

“Mm, actually, I can’t say for sure that the Bai family is the mastermind... But since this amusement park was developed by them, they must know something.”

Amber touched her fair chin and quietly organized her thoughts as she spoke.

“And since that jellyfish created all of this by taking memories from children... then maybe the mysterious painting in the underwater tunnel also came from someone’s memories? I’m thinking that maybe that girl is connected to the Bai family too.”

Hey, hey... you say you’re not suspicious, but you’ve already decided the Bai family is the mastermind.

Hearing Amber’s reasoning, Bai Muxue’s mouth twitched as she complained in her heart.

Still, she really did not expect this.

Amber looked carefree and careless on the surface, but she was surprisingly thoughtful.

Bai Muxue suddenly gained a new understanding of the blonde girl in front of her.

And Amber’s reasoning did make some sense...

Maybe somewhere she did not know, someone in the Bai family really was connected to disaster beasts.

Tch. Looks like I need to investigate this myself...

But Bai Muxue’s silence was understood differently by Amber.

Amber showed a playful smile, then mercilessly knocked her little hand against Bai Muxue’s head.

“Ow! That hurts!”

The girl cried out and looked up in surprise after being pulled from her thoughts.

But before Bai Muxue could speak, Amber grabbed her soft cheeks and pinched them.

“Come on, I already said I’ll handle this matter. What are you worried about? Don’t be scared, Xiao Xue. You don’t have to investigate anything.”

“Hmph. I don’t care how rich or powerful the Bai family is. If they really are planning something bad, I’ll go find the person leading them right now!”

Amber raised her long brows and declared boldly.

That person is standing right in front of you...

Bai Muxue quietly added in her heart.

Tch. How old are you and still pinching people’s cheeks...

Even I don’t tease Xingwan like this anymore!

But because she was afraid Amber might notice something strange, she did not dare say anything.

She could only pout weakly and let Amber knead and squeeze her cheeks.

“By the way, Xiao Xue, has anyone ever told you that your cheeks feel really nice? Like a doll~”

Amber laughed softly as she kept rubbing them more and more happily.

With her cheeks being squeezed, Bai Muxue could only weakly mumble,

“No...”

Poor Bai Muxue.