Doomsday Code

Chapter 260 Guessing the Person Who Hired the Killer

Let’s put aside Mocha’s tragic working journey. His target, Chen Cheng, had been walking on the street with Finier for most of the day. After not noticing any suspicious people following them, Chen Cheng stopped Finier who was looking at jewelry at the stall.

"What do you think of it, Miss? If you like it, let's buy it."

Finier turned her head and rolled her eyes at Chen Cheng and said:

"You have no manners. Don't you know that what we like about shopping is shopping? What's the fun in buying everything?"

After hearing this, Chen Cheng smiled awkwardly at the stall owner.

The stall owner smiled and said:

"My dear little brother, your sister is right. When girls go shopping, they really mean shopping. If you are tired of standing, I have a stool here. You can sit down and take a rest."

However, when Fenier, who was happily looking at the jewelry in her hands, heard the boss' words, she suddenly felt a little unhappy in her heart. Then she put down the jewelry and said coldly to Chen Cheng:

"Let's go, my dear brother. I dare not keep you waiting for too long."

Finier emphasized the words "brother" and "sister" so much that Chen Cheng thought that Finier was acting like a spoiled little girl again.

After Finier left, the boss was scratching his head, wondering what he had said wrong just now. Why did this young lady suddenly become unhappy?

Just after Finier left, Chen Cheng pointed at the pieces of jewelry that Finier had just looked at, and then ordered a few more pieces of jewelry that were more suitable for middle-aged women, and then said to the boss:

"Boss, please pack these jewellery for me. Put them in two boxes."

Chen Cheng pointed to the ones he had chosen and showed them to the boss.

When the boss saw that his business was not lost, he immediately took out the prepared gift box and packed the jewelry.

"Ten gold coins for a sincere favor."

Hearing the staggering price and seeing Finier about to walk out of his sight, Chen Cheng did not bargain and simply took out his purse, took out a ten-gold note and handed it to the boss.

Chen Cheng put the two gift boxes he had chosen into the space bag, and then quickly caught up with Finier, carrying the jewelry gift box that Finier had just been looking at for most of the day.

When Finier saw Chen Cheng catching up with her, a barely perceptible smile flashed across her angry little face.

Then she said coldly:

"Why are you following me? You are my brother."

This brother was very harsh, and Chen Cheng was not a fool. He knew that there was something wrong with the title.

But he was not an emotional master, so how could he know whether Finniel disliked this title or for some other reason.

All he could do was take out the gift box, hand it to Finier and say:

"Miss, here are the jewelry you just looked at for a long time. I bought them all as my apology."

Finier stopped and said unhappily:

"What are you buying? That boss has an eye problem. We are obviously the same age. Why does he say you are my brother?"

After saying this, Finier, with a slightly flushed face, glanced at the gift box in Chen Cheng's hand, and then said hypocritically:

"The jewelry he has there isn't pretty at all."

When Chen Cheng saw her like this, he knew that the girl was moved. From her eyes just now at the stall, Chen Cheng knew that Finier really liked these jewelry.

Seeing Chen Cheng making a gesture of handing over the jewelry, Finier finally couldn't resist the temptation of her favorite jewelry and could only continue:

"I'd like to make it clear that I accepted it because I saw that you spent a lot of money on it and I didn't want you to waste it. In my opinion, the jewelry owner still doesn't have good taste."

After walking around with Finier for a while, Chen Cheng looked at the boxes of items on his body and begged for mercy:

"Miss, is that enough? I can't even take this."

Finier snorted and said:

"This is your punishment for wasting so much money on substandard jewelry."

Then she saw Chen Cheng begging for mercy, and she changed her tone and said:

"Remember, there must not be a next time. Let's stop here today and go back."

Hearing that Finier was finally going back, Chen Cheng also breathed a sigh of relief.

Ever since Mocha’s assassination, Chen Cheng has been living in fear every time he follows Finier.

And Finier did not bully Chen Cheng anymore, but directly hired a carriage to take the two of them back home.

After putting down the things he bought today, Chen Cheng reported to Finier:

"Miss, today is Chinese New Year. I want to go and wish our teacher a happy new year. What do you think?"

Chen Cheng was also a little afraid of Finier's spoiled daughter temper, so it was better to tell her.

Although Finier is willful and capricious, she is very sensible and will never act recklessly in truly important occasions.

And today she had already tormented Chen Cheng for a long time, and she knew that she needed to stop, otherwise she would become annoying.

Finier rolled her eyes and said:

"Then will you come back for lunch today? Have you prepared a gift for the teacher? Why didn't you tell me when you were on the street just now?"

Chen Chengshi really couldn't figure out Finier's pulse and could only give a vague answer.

"Idiot, what are you talking about? If you want to go, go ahead. We don't have the custom of paying New Year's greetings here, so I won't go with you."

Finier reached out and touched his forehead, saying with an angry look on her face.

Chen Cheng also smiled, and then got directly into the carriage that had just brought them back.

When Chen Cheng went to pay New Year's greetings to Melinda and the others this time, it was not just for the purpose of wishing a happy new year. After all, there was no custom of wishing a happy new year on New Year's Eve in his previous life.

This was also because of the inexplicable assassination in the morning.

Although he was shopping with Finier, all he could think about was why the killer wanted to kill him.

The only reason he could think of now was the fight for succession between Huidun and his brothers.

Since those guys are so desperate that they want to rely on blockade to completely make Huidun City disappear from this world, it is very likely that they will spend money or use their own manpower to eliminate the capable people around Huidun.

Among these people, the easiest to kill is undoubtedly this little slave who can enter and leave the Earl's Mansion at will.

Although he guessed all this, Chen Cheng did not think of looking for Huidun.

This was not only because he wanted to withdraw from the Huidun interest group, but also because Huidun simply did not have that many experts to help him.

Now, apart from the Adventurer's Guild, the academy is the strongest force in Huidun City.

Between the two, his relationship with the students is naturally closer.

In addition to these, Chen Cheng had another suspicion that was not a suspicion, and that was the alchemist from that time.

What was captured at the beginning was just a puppet body of the alchemist, and he lost so much that he was willing to trigger a beast tide to destroy Huidun City.

Chen Cheng didn't believe that the alchemist would give up his revenge on Huidun City.

Especially himself, who was the direct cause of the failure of the plan he implemented when he first came to Huidun City.

So Chen Cheng also wanted to ask, after Principal Adolf and others reported the situation here, whether the College Alliance had any news about the alchemist.