In a few seconds, Wang Ke's earpiece buzzed as a smile spread across his face but then his smile froze.

'An orphan?'

The thought of using that woman's family disappeared from his head as he let out a silent laugh and suddenly spoke, "Investigator Mo Mingzhi! What do you think you are doing!?"

Mo Mingzhi was suddenly startled as her gaze fell on the person who called out her name. She abruptly thought that the person who called her should be an acquaintance but when she saw the person, she couldn't recognize him.

"Who are you?" Mo Mingzhi couldn't help but narrow her brows.

She instantly understood that the other party had searched for her identity in the database. After all, she also did the same for her work against normal people.

"Oh, I didn't realize I was being rude. I am General Wang Ke of the special forces battalion." General Wang Ke spoke as he smiled as politely as possible but under the smile was a devious and calculative tongue hidden underneath his mouth.

Mo Mingzhi spoke perfunctorily, "So it is General Wang Ke... I wonder what general meant?"

General Wang Ke shook his head, "Investigator Mo Mingzhi misunderstood. I questioned the young cultivator assuming that he had kidnapped you or have taken you away against your will."

"Could it be that I was wrong, Investigator Mo Mingzhi?"

Mo Mingzhi looked at the smiling expression on his face and understood what he's getting at but she couldn't understand why.

Using propaganda against cultivators? Was this man insane? Treating a cultivator as a mortal?

What use was it exactly even if the cultivator really kidnapped her?

Could it be that the government is going to file a case against the cultivator and move to save her from the clutches of the mighty cultivator?

Ridiculous!

It was more like they would trade her off for other benefits if possible.

Mo Mingzhi inwardly sneered and was about to speak when she heard a Soul Transmission.

"Tell them that I've kidnapped you."

Mo Mingzhi turned startled as it was the first time something echoed within herself but her expression didn't change on her face from long years of being aware of her surroundings while living alone.

Besides, the hallucinations caused by the drug, causing the illusory Tian Long to whisper in her ears were startling than the Soul Transmission she received.

Just like Mo Mingzhi, Davis was also aware of General Wang Ke's machinations since he knew how information manipulation in the modern society worked.

There were numerous lens pointed at them, whether if it was from a drone or a camera, all of them could record their speeches and actions.

They could use this to turn the opinion of the people or even the other governments to their side by manipulating the opinion the world has on cultivators.

For what end?

Davis inwardly sneered as he knew, or could guess with a certain thought process.

What weapon would actually be useful against a powerful cultivator?

Nuclear Weapons!

To gain approval of the usage of nuclear bombs against the unknown and powerful threat known as cultivators.

But to this scheme of theirs, Davis didn't give a crap about what they were planning and told her to say that he had kidnapped her.

Mostly because he believed that nuclear weapons couldn't do anything against him, not against his Mature Soul Stage Cultivation which was at the Sixth Stage.

Maybe they could do some damage against Fifth Stage Cultivators if they were to release a gigaton nuclear bomb but that would mean nuclear winter for that part of the world....

Unless he pushed humanity to dire straits, he doubted that they would even use it in the first place.

Mo Mingzhi's face blossomed into a smile, misunderstanding his intentions.

She took a deep breath and her lips parted, "I'm following Young Master Davis of my own will to the cultivation world. Thank you for your concern, General Wang Ke."

Young Master Davis?

Davis's eyes twitched as he heard her call him with that honorific.

General Wang Ke slightly glanced down as he imperceptibly grinned. He lifted up his head and spoke with an angry expression on his face, "Investigator Mo Mingzhi, does this mean that you're betraying the country!?"

Davis sighed inwardly as he shook his head.

There was it! He knew this would happen and that's why he told her to say that he had kidnapped her.

He turned to look at Mo Mingzhi's expression and saw that she had a calm expression on her face as if she expected that it would turn out to be like this.

Davis turned a little bit amused as he was interested in seeing how this petty battle of wits would play out.

Who would be the first one to have their face turned ugly from defeat?

"Betraying the country? I did nothing harmful to the country but if you want to assume that I betrayed the country, go ahead, I don't care." Mo Mingzhi spoke as she floated in the air.

General Wang Ke's expression turned a little bit solemn as he imagine that this woman would be a tough nut to crack; right from the start.

All he had to do was break her will by threatening that she had betrayed the country and have Davis promise them for some benefits in exchange for her.

However, it seemed like...

"You are a citizen and even a member of the police of this country and you belong here. Leaving without the country's permission would mean betrayal, don't you understand?" General Wang Ke spoke, his voice echoing with an intent to berate the other party.

"Then take it as I simply betrayed... Actually, why are you so concerned when I didn't do something such as harming the country... Could it be that I don't have the freedom to make a choice?" Mo Mingzhi nonchalantly spoke, her expression still calm as if she didn't give a crap about what other's thought about her.

General Wang Ke secretly clenched his fists. The other party was an investigator and yet held no love for the country and no respect for his status.

Thinking that he could use this against her, he provoked the other party of betraying the country but the woman just brushed his words off and told him to scram indirectly.

He turned pale as he refused to believe it but then his eyes flashed with anger, "You!"

"Y-You! You already sold your body to him in return for a ticket to the cultivation world, didn't you!? You bitch!"

Mo Mingzhi's expression was as nonchalant as ever but her pupils dilated when she saw the general's head explode into a burst of meat pieces, painting the location he stood with red blood and white matter.

General Wang Ke's body fell on the ground as it made a rather disgusting 'thud' sound and blood spilled as it spurted out from the neck.

Davis froze but then took a look below to see his finger pointed at General Wang Ke's headless corpse.

The whole area descended into absolute silence as the others couldn't believe their eyes.

Davis blinked as he reasoned to himself, 'Did I just kill him?'

He moved his hand closer to his face and opened his palm, only to close it before moving his hands behind to stand like an expert.

'Well, looks like the one who lost the battle of wits is none other than me...'

Battle of wits? Such a thing didn't take place because he had ended it when it was at the point of arguments before he even knew it.

Davis didn't know why he killed General Wang Ke out of an impulse.

Was it because of anger or was it the remnant protective nature he had for Mo Mingzhi since he indirectly took care of her from the shadows?