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Beyond these three items, the Props Box lay quietly containing two more things.

A key and a dagger.

"The key to the safe..."

Looking at such a key, Qin Fang was somewhat puzzled. Normally, such an item shouldn't become an important prop that could be "dropped" unless there might be something very important inside the safe.

Without any hesitation, Qin Fang quickly walked to the front door of the mansion where Chen Liang lived.

He kicked the door.

Crack!!

The originally secure and shut door opened abruptly, as if it had never been locked. However, that wasn't the case; it was mainly the result of Qin Fang's Lockpicking Skill.

Although he had just used the Mind Reading Technique on Chen Liang and had learned quite a few of his secrets, Chen Liang did not seem to mention this safe, so Qin Fang did not pay attention to it.

However, since the key could become a special prop, it must have had its special significance.

Qin Fang did know the location of the safe—it was in Chen Liang's bedroom, not difficult to find at all. Qin Fang entered the mansion quickly and in less than half a minute he was in Chen Liang's bedroom, in front of the safe.

"Quite a high-end safe!"

Gazing at the safe embedded in the concrete wall, Qin Fang couldn't help but admire it. Just like the one he encountered while burglarizing for Fan Ning, this safe was also a dual security system with a password and mechanical lock, its precision on par with, if not greater than, the previous one.

However, compared to the identity of the owner of that previous mansion, Chen Liang's was almost incomparable, yet Chen Liang's safe seemed to be even more intricate.

Without a doubt, this safe was not domestically made!

But this wasn't going to stump Qin Fang. He vaguely felt the System might be hinting at something by producing this key, so he immediately took out the key and inserted it into the keyhole.

Click-click-click-click~~~

Soft mechanical sounds followed until they paused at one particular position. The digital lock seemed to be electrified and started flashing, displaying several numbers while roughly eight other spaces remained blank.

"This kind of looks like a primary school homework problem..."

Qin Fang couldn't help but give a wry smile. The password lock was a lengthy 13-digit code, with five numbers already displayed, but the remaining eight numbers required his input.

And he did not have a decoder device at hand.

With no other option, Qin Fang resorted to a more brute-force approach—the foot-kick lock-opening technique!

Bang~~~

The height of the safe was quite suitable; Qin Fang raised his leg high and kicked it hard.

As a strong man with +20 Strength, this power was something he could exert from any part of his body, not just his fists but his legs too, and even his Second Brother...

Using the most vulnerable part of a man, his Second Brother, to strike an unlucky foe with a +20 Strength blow seemed like a good option... as long as Qin Fang could bear the instant agony!

Beep-beep-beep-beep~~

Qin Fang's brute-force lock-picking method was quite effective; it even worked on digital locks. The numbers on the display kept changing, making a beeping sound, until they gradually stabilized.

Click~~

This process lasted quite a while, possibly because of the high difficulty, but in the end, it did not disappoint Qin Fang. As the sound echoed, the safe truly opened.

The contents of the safe were not plentiful. The safe had two compartments; the top held stacks of currency, with red RMB notes, green US dollars, and Qin Fang even noticed a gold bar inside.

As for the bottom compartment, the contents were much simpler—just a laptop.

"A notebook?"

Qin Fang was somewhat puzzled. There didn't seem to be many things in the safe, nor did anything appear to be of great value.

The RMB and US dollars weren't particularly enticing to Qin Fang. Now that his net worth exceeded a hundred million, he really didn't care much about the hundreds of thousands of US dollars before him.

Qin Fang didn't believe the System would make such a low-level mistake, to present the key in the form of a prop just for this amount of money from Chen Liang's body.

If that were the case, many other items on Chen Liang such as a full set of keys to the villa, a mobile phone, and a wallet, would have likely dropped as well, but that wasn't the case.

Clearly, the System had provided a hint. The truly important things were obviously not these coins; they meant nothing to Qin Fang, and even less to the System. Otherwise, the most common drop from defeating enemies would have been gold coins or the like, yet that never happened.

So the only possibility left was the notebook that had been deliberately placed inside the safe.

Chen Liang's public profession was a teacher who usually needed to spend his time giving classes at school, and only came home after work. This was an upscale villa community, with thieves often targeting such places. A burglary could lead to severe losses.

Though Chen Liang was an assassin, he couldn't spend every day at home on guard against thieves, so he would definitely have kept important items secure. A notebook might not be worth much, but if it contained something extremely important, then it had to be handled with the utmost caution.

The more he thought about it, the more Qin Fang felt there was something fishy about this notebook.

Just as Qin Fang was about to open the notebook to look at its content, he heard a disturbance outside the villa, faintly hearing the shouts of the community security guards. It seemed that Chen Liang's body had been discovered.

Qin Fang knew he no longer had much time. He quickly closed the safe again, removed the key, and then walked out of the villa as if he had every right to be there, not forgetting to glance at the last piece of spoils dropped by Chen Liang.

"A poisoned dagger... He was indeed an assassin!"

As for the last item among the spoils, it was a dagger that seemed very ordinary. The blade wasn't particularly sharp, but Qin Fang was extra cautious because the System had warned him that it was a poisoned dagger.

Qin Fang used his Scouting Skill on the dagger and, as he suspected, the blade was coated with the extreme poison of Five Poisons Powder. Because the powder was colorless and odorless, the dagger didn't look any different from an ordinary one, but a stab from such a dagger could be fatal—not necessarily from the dagger itself but from the poison it carried.

The reason Chen Liang had done quite well in the world of assassins was not only his own formidable strength and the explosive power of Tiger's Rush, but also the lethal toxicity of the Five Poisons Powder.

This dagger was clearly Chen Liang's trump card. Usually, he fought with fists and kicks, but should he encounter particularly strong opponents, this dagger could well decide the outcome.

The Five Poisons Powder on the dagger was very potent, nearly as potent as the poison Chen Liang had used to commit suicide. It seemed he intended to kill his enemies with a single strike using the dagger.

This type of poisoned dagger, while loaded with toxins, was mostly a one-time use because Five Poisons Powder is highly soluble in water. Just a touch of any liquid, and it would dissolve easily, which is why Chen Liang always chose to kill on clear days.

Of course, blood was no exception, and the poison's dissolution would intensify and hasten its lethality.

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The community security guards discovered Chen Liang's body and immediately called the police.

No sooner had Qin Fang stepped out of Chen Liang's villa than the police arrived, led by someone Qin Fang recognized, the head of the special investigation team and also a member of the Wu Family.

Not only that, the Wu Family's people had also arrived quickly. They weren't far from here, and perhaps Chen Liang had purchased this house to be near the Wu Family.

"Xiao Qin, what on earth happened?"

Wu Ming had come in person, accompanied by Luo Youheng and his daughter Luo Xi. They belonged to the police force, while Qin Fang's master, Cai Pingyuan, wasn't present.

Although the Wu Family Members knew that Old Master Wu had been attacked by a young man not very old, there were many such young people, and the dead Chen Liang certainly couldn't prove anything.

"Brother Wu, you see for yourself..."

Qin Fang pretended to find the Feng Yuan Pei in his pocket, then took a moment to observe the spiritual tablet for Chen Qingsong placed in the villa's study, which he had stumbled upon while passing by earlier.

"The Feng Yuan Pei!"

Upon seeing the exquisitely carved jade pendant, Wu Ming's eyes instantly widened in disbelief, mixed with intense excitement and agitation.

If Wu Ming had been somewhat skeptical before, he was now mostly convinced.

Chen Qingsong had no descendants; Chen Liang was his only disciple, essentially his only family. Even though Chen Liang hated him deeply and had killed him, there were still feelings from the many years of fostering, so Chen Liang had set up this spiritual tablet for Chen Qingsong at home.

As for the Feng Yuan Pei, as one of the Wu Family Members and someone who had once owned it, Wu Ming recognized it at a glance. It had always been with Chen Qingsong, and now it was here in Qin Fang's hands.

Now, without any hesitation, Qin Fang was restoring this treasure to its original owners, to the Wu Family...(To be continued. If you like this work, welcome to Qidian (qidian.com) to cast your recommendation votes and monthly tickets. Your support is my greatest motivation.)

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