<h4>Chapter 358: Demise and Downfall</h4>


    Chen Simu sat on the sofa as he watched the daily news. "My goodness, can you believe how many people have joined this craze of hunting the Musi n? Someone''s even developed a device for testing for Musi blood! Wait a moment, this device looks surprisingly familiar..."


    He shouted toward the kitchen, "Lily, why does this device look like the virus scanner you used on me yesterday?!"


    "What? Oh, what I used on you was the Musi blood-testing device."


    "What?!"


    The beautiful girl draped in an apron walked out with a tter of food. She couldn''t helpughing. "I borrowed it from a friend for fun."


    Chen Simu frowned, feeling that something was wrong. The beautiful girl in front of him was heralded as one of the beauties of their campus, and she had only recently be his girlfriend. He had admired her for a very long time, and although she had rejected him whenever he confessed, she suddenly epted him a few days ago, and she even agreed to move in with him. Chen Simu felt as though he was about to reach the pinnacle of student life.


    "What did the test reveal?" he couldn''t help asking.


    Lily ced the food in front of him and smiled mysteriously. "Guess."


    Chen Simu didn''t have to. His parents loved and cared for each other, and he knew his ancestry quite well. How could he have anything to do with the once-majestic Musi n?


    Nevertheless, he replied, "Lily, if I really were a member of the Musi n, would you chop off my head?"


    Lily smiled, a beatific expression on her face. "Of course I would!"


    "In that case, what should I do? I''ve brought you right to my house!"


    "Does that make you unhappy?"


    "Oh, no, I''m very happy!"


    Lily smiled even wider as she went back into the kitchen to prepare more food.


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    Chen Simu continued looking at the news. "What? Our''s decided that the hunters of the Musi n aren''t to be considered human beings, so killing them won''t result in legal punishment... that''s far too cruel!"


    In the kitchen, Lily replied cidly, "Believe me, our won''t be the first or thest one to do so. The moment the champion of the Void Cup announced his bounty, the Musi n was done for. I even heard that, a few days ago, an organization wanted to designate the Musi n as a critically endangered species, but the head of that organization was assassinated the day he made that announcement—and that was that!"


    Chen Simu sighed as he nced at the ceiling. "Lily, when do you think we might be able to encounter a member of the Musi n? Killing one would be sufficient to pay your tuition, and if there were more, we could even get a big mansion on a better!"


    "There''s no need to daydream. Come, wash your hands and let''s have dinner."


    As Chen Simu walked into the kitchen and smelled the mouthwatering dishes, he murmured in bliss, "It''s so fragrant! Lily, I can''t believe you''re such a talented cook as well."


    Lily pointed at one particr dish. "Quick, try some of this. I''ve prepared each of these specially for you!"


    Chen Simu had a bite, then asked, "Lily, just what did you add to this to make it taste so good?"


    "Guess."


    Upon failing to guess the secret ingredient a few times, Lily had him taste a few more mouthfuls. In the end, Chen Simu gave up. "I can''t tell."


    Lily leaned over and whispered in Chen Simu''s ear, "Actually, I added a sleeping pill inside."


    Chen Simu''s eyes widened. "What? Surely you must be joking, Lily..."


    "Chen Simu, didn''t you say that you loved me? That you were willing to die for me?"


    Lily pulled out a cleaver from underneath the table, causing Chen Simu''s eyes to bulge in fear. "Lily, w-what are you nning on doing?"


    "Didn''t you want to encounter a member of the Musi n?" Lily''s smile gradually turned horrifying. "He was right by our sides all along, because... you''re from the Musi n."


    "That''s impossible, impossible!" Chen Simu scrambled up and tried to flee, but he found that his limbs were almostpletely paralyzed.


    "Don''t struggle futilely. I added quite a number of drugs in this food, so you''ll be paralyzed for quite some time."


    Chen Simu shouted urgently, "Lily, Lily! Believe me, I''m really not a member of the Musi n. My surname''s Chen!"


    "Remember how I used the Musi blood-testing device on you? Its false positive rate is negligible."


    "Could the result have been—"


    Lily smiled. "To be frank, I''m a bit surprised myself. I can''t believe that you were actually a bastard son of the Musi n—or, well, perhaps it''s to be expected."


    "That''s impossible! I''m not a member of the Musi n, surely not!"


    Lily countered, "Don''t you think it strange? Your mother doesn''t have to work, but there''s always money in your bank ount. And what of your name? When I heard about this from your friend, I suspected that you were someone''s bastard son—and it turns out that I was right!"


    By this time, Chen Simu had been entirely paralyzed by the poison. "Y-You''ve never loved me? You only got close to me because you thought I was part of the Musi n?"


    Lily rolled her eyes at him. "Love? What''s there to love about you? You were nothing but a loser, but now, you''re a moving vault of gold! Well, then, I hope you enjoyed yourst few days with me, my darling gold vault," Lily crooned, then chopped his head off with her meat cleaver. The fountaining blood stained her pale hands red, but she didn''t stop what she was doing.


    Chen Simu''s encounter wasn''t unique; simr situations were ying out all throughout the Milky Way.


    It seemed likely that the Musi n would go extinct within half a month—and all this had been caused by one single bounty and vials of Potion #1. The impact of the bounty shocked the world federation.


    The Musi n was a massive conglomerate that had taken over multiples, but it had copsed in a matter of days. Except for the n head and several other powerful members of the n, who were isted in secluded cultivation somewhere in the third realm, the n had almost died out entirely.


    No matter where they hid, it seemed that someone was always able to find them. Those hiding in the dimensional world found that their locations had somehow been divulged; those hiding in the real world found their houses broken into.


    The Musi n had, overnight, turned into Public Enemy #1. The members of the Musi n, no matter how they hid, found one confluent fate waiting for them: beheadment.