Stuck in a Chinese novel - Chapter 144

Chapter 144: In motion (Bonus: Reveiw)
Bonus chapter thanks to the review of ‘Eldrik_craddle’

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Chapter 144

“Why isn’t he on his way to the hospital?” Lin Ruan worriedly asked because Wei Jun was still being checked on the spot while Xia Lu had long been taken to the hospital.

“Because there’s no need to,” Wei Jun said. “I’m perfectly fine.”

“There was a rod in your leg,” Lin Ruan said.

“Which I took out and it healed soon enough. Nothing to worry about.” Wei Jun said while placating Lin Ruan. Lin Ruan looked at him incredulously but refrained from saying anything.

“It seems you have angered someone you couldn’t handle yourself.” Sun Ruan said, actually mocked by his tone because clearly, Wei Jun had lost.

Wei Jun said nothing. He was sure he could still win even though Run Long had become even stronger than before. He hadn’t used that one thing he had Zi Huan custom-made. A cultivator of Run Long’s level wouldn’t be able to survive against it.

“It won’t happen again,” Wei Jun said before he stood up. Actually, he was all better ever since he was taken out of the rubble. Even Xia Lu wasn’t injured, she was just taken to the hospital because of oxygen deficiency but it was nothing dangerous.

All these events just showed either how lucky they were, or how strong Wei Jun was who had held up the rubble of an entire building on his back.

“Any news on the attacker?” Wei Jun asked.

“Lao Chen managed to capture him. He is in the custody of the cultivator special forces though.” Lin Ruan informed Wei Jun.

“Why them?” Wei Jun asked.

“Old man Ouyang Na involved them. Since it was logically their job to deliver justice, there wasn’t much we could do,” Lin Ruan replied.

“I will contact some of the people on the inside. No one can attack my family like this and get away with it.” Sun Ruan said while combing his white beard.

“He’ll still get out so don’t bother.” Wei Jun said before he turned around and walked away while saying, “I need to sleep for a while now.”

“If you think I will stop, then you’re delusional,” Lin Ruan said, referring to Run Long’s case.

He looked at her, with a smile and said, “You’ve already done me a big favor.”

“What?” Lin Ruan asked.

Wei Jun just smiled and turned around to leave. He couldn’t tell her that because of her he was able to get so strong so fast.

Wei Jun was provided with a car since his collection was destroyed along with the villa. Wei Jun got into it but didn’t go anywhere else but to the hospital where Xia Lu was admitted. He wasn’t going there for Xia Lu though. He was going there for Zhan Yi.

He wanted to see if his arm had regenerated or not.

As he arrived at the hospital and made his way to the hospital room, he saw Zhan Yi and Quan Li chatting with each other. Zhan Yi didn’t have any resentfulness on his face while Quan Li looked a lot guilty.

However, Wei Jun turned his eyes to Zhan Yi’s arm which hadn’t regenerated. It had, but only halfway through. Wei Jun suspected it was because Zhan Yi wasn’t only damaged on his arm but somewhere else as well and most of the phoenix’s tears went there to fix that just like in his case.

They both noticed Wei Jun and said, “Boss!”

Zhan Yi tried to sit up straight but he couldn’t because there was pain in his arm. Wei Jun remained quiet and moved to Zhan Yi. He purchased another Phoenix’s tear, spending eighty million yuan on just that but it was worth it.

He gave it to Zhan Yi and said, “I want you to know what you did was stupid.”

Zhan Yi’s head dropped from that sentence but Wei Jun wasn’t finished, “But I did the same stupid thing so I’m one to talk.”

Wei Jun turned and walked out of the room and then from the hospital. He made his way to the downtown garage and went straight to his bike locker.

For him, there was still a lot of work left to do.

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“Where is the family head Na?” A potbellied man asked.

“He is off cashing his favors with the cultivator special forces.” Another man replied.

“Do we need to worry about anything?” Another man asked.

“Other than our reputation at the rock bottom, riots against us for further disfiguring tens of thousands of people, we’re doing just fine.” A man sarcastically replied.

“We didn’t know it would turn out like that. We believed in the name of the miracle healer,” A man replied.

“In the name, not in himself. It wasn’t him was it? It was his disciple, a young and inexperienced man and we bet everything we had on him,” Another man replied with an angry red face.

“For now, let us not escalate this issue any longer.” A man advised.

“We don’t need to. The Ruan family is doing that for us,” Another man said.

“Those opportunistic bastards!” A man said in anger.

“Can you blame them though? We took full advantage of their fallout with the public too.” Another man said.

“It won’t help to discuss all this. We need to see if there are any solutions to our problems,” Another man said.

“I don’t there is one.” A man replied.

“Yes. The boy would be able to save his neck by cutting a deal with the cultivator’s special forces. But we won’t be able to. Our losses are permanent.” Another man said with regret.

“There must be something we can do,” A man said.

“Yes. We can wait for the young man to not forget our favor or we can change sides and go beg the Ruan family,” Another man suggested.

“Will they even accept us?” A man asked.

“They would have to. Because if they don’t, we can still hinder whatever they are doing. Our cooperation will be helpful to them.” A man said.

“Yes, that does make sense,” Another man said.

“Or we can just kill you all,” A voice entered their ears. Before any of them could react, gas began to emit from their feet and encased the entire room.

“Luckily the old man Ouyang isn’t here. Otherwise, things would have been difficult,” The man who was standing behind them said, stepping into the light from the shadows.

As they all saw the man, they couldn’t do anything. Because they were paralyzed. They didn’t even cough under the influence of the gas. They simply went limp.

“Don’t worry. The gas isn’t permanent. It will wear off in an hour at most. Not only that, its traces would also be erased.” The man said as he began to set something in the room.

“Of course, that would also mean no one was here and the explosion that happened here would be natural,” The man in the helmet said as he finished setting everything up.

“Oh, as for these explosives, they won’t leave any traces behind so the police would be stuck between an accident or intentional. But they won’t be able to move past that,” the helmet man said as he tapped the shoulder of a man and stepped out of the room.

Then he simply snuck out of the place as he entered, not alarming anyone because the explosives would go off in just two minutes.

With his speed, he was easily able to make it out of the blast radius when it went off.

He looked at the scene of fire for a second before he turned around and left. He made his way to the bike and dialed a number.

“Yes, boss?” Li Wei asked from the other side.

“Find him. Let Noh Tian know,” The helmet man said in the microphone before he hung up the phone.

He then made his way to a few of the factories all over town and did the same to them.

It wasn’t the fire like a few days before when the Ruan building and its surroundings were targeted by a terror attack. But it was still something and the entire Yuan Yin city came to know of the rivers of fire all over the city.

Alas, the police were too busy taking care of the issue to look into who it was but the suspect was still the same, the terrorist group who had done the same thing to the Ruan family building.

As for the so-called terrorist, he finally received a call after the whole night. He checked the caller ID and picked up the phone.

“Speak,” He said to the other person on the phone.

“I managed to convince him,” The man on the other side, none other than Noh Tian replied.

The helmet man smiled and said, “Make sure it is the right box. There would be a small D on the bottom corner of it.” The helmet man instructed.

“How am I supposed to take things from the cultivator’s special forces?” Noh Tian asked.

“He trusts you, doesn’t he? Make it happen.” The helmet man hung up the phone and decided to end it for the night as dawn was approaching the city.