Stuck in a Chinese novel - Chapter 171

Chapter 171: Who was it?
Chapter 171

“Apologize!” Zhao Hui’s senior yelled at him. Wei Jun stood with a smile on his face while Zhao Hui had a pissed-off expression.

He looked at Wei Jun and said, “For what? I only followed the standard procedure.”

“What standard procedure? You brought the victim here when he should have been taken to a hospital.” The superior yelled once again.

“The paramedics cleared him. Only then did I bring him here.” Zhao Hui argued.

“You!!!” The superior yelled and from the looks of it, there was more about to come when Wei Jun said, “It’s all right, chief. Detective Hui didn’t offend me in any way.”

“It’s sergeant.” Zhao Hui said.

“Zhao Hui!” The superior once again yelled to shut Zhao Hui up before he turned to Wei Jun and said, “I’m so sorry this had to happen, Mister Ruan. If you want to file a formal complaint, the police department would understand.”

“That won’t be necessary. Sergeant Hui was just doing his job.” Wei Jun said with a smile.

“Then I can only thank you for your magnanimity.” The Chief said. Wei Jun nodded in reply while Zhao Hui swallowed all the curses on the tip of his tongue back in.

Wei Jun left after he was cleared out, again with an apology. He found Lao Chen outside the police station with a car prepared for Wei Jun.

Wei Jun nodded at him and got into the driver’s seat. Since Lao Chen was there with another car, he didn’t follow Wei Jun in his car.

As Wei Jun got in his car and drove off, he heard a voice from his backseat, “I hope you don’t think that you have repaid me with just this.”

Wei Jun calmly looked into his back seat where a blue-eyed girl was sitting. She looked so enchanting that anyone looking at her would be lost in her eyes.

As for her beauty, well, it was already hypnotizing but with a smile on her face, men would willingly jump off a building just to catch a glimpse of that smile.

“I hope I did some of it.” Wei Jun said.

“You did. Thanks for not getting my uncle in trouble. He has the incurable disease of justice.” Yan Rong said as she leaned forward in the middle of the front seats.

She was awfully close to Wei Jun. Wei Jun, however, showed no apparent change in his expression. He calmly turned his head, their faces so close as he said, “I forgot to say thanks the other night.”

Yan Rong smiled as she leaned in closer, their lips almost touching as she said in a hushed voice, “Happy to save you.”

Wei Jun turned his attention back on the road and said, “That was an opponent stronger than you. How did you defeat him so easily?”

Yan Rong laughed at Wei Jun’s question but she still replied, “Because I’m strong as hell. There is no one stronger than me.”

“I know of a few.” Wei Jun said. Wei Jun for a fact knew that Sun Ruan would be stronger than Yan Rong.

“Well, obviously. They are now but in just a few months, a year at most, I will be stronger than them.” Yan Rong confidently said as she leaned back in her seat.

“I was born with this power. It grows every day. I don’t even need to consume elixirs or train for it to grow. Ten years ago, I was a simple human. Now, without even a day of struggle, I can take down Qi masters.” Yan Rong said with confidence flowing in her voice and words.

The only difference was that Wei Jun didn’t just sense the overconfidence, he also sensed the fact in those words.

Yan Rong was as strong as she said she was.

[No wonder]

[She hasn’t learned a divine rank technique]

[She was born with it]

‘Are there really such ridiculously and illogically strong people?’ Wei Jun asked. What the system was saying went beyond the protagonists. At least they put in some effort in doing so.

[I was born with two]

The system said. Arrogance in its tone was as bright as sunlight.

Wei Jun tutted as he replied, ‘Of course you were.’

“What?” Yan Rong curiously asked when she heard Wei Jun tut after a few moments of silence.

“Just thinking how unfair life is. Here I am, busting my everything while spending millions to just increase my Qi by a bit yet there you are, who grows stronger by just sitting there.” Wei Jun bluntly said.

“I guess that’s true.” Yan Rong said and once again leaned closer to Wei Jun and whispered in his ear, “You don’t need to bust anything. Well, just one thing. But as long as you keep me around, I can protect you.”

Wei Jun ignored the suggestive words she said and focused on the more interesting one.

“Are you really in cultivator’s special forces?” Wei Jun asked.

“Quite a high-ranked one.” Yan Rong replied.

“And is Zhao Hui really your uncle?” Wei Jun asked again.

“Of course. How do you think the cultivator’s special forces were mobilized here so easily?” Yan Rong asked.

“My father favors Uncle Hui a lot. So much so that he offered him a position in the cultivator’s special forces even though he wasn’t a cultivator.” Yan Rong said.

Wei Jun remembered the scene when Yao Tian had attacked him in a bar and Zhao Hui had stopped his butler by saying that he would get the cultivator’s special forces involved.

As far as Wei Jun’s knowledge went, it wasn’t so easy to involve the cultivator’s epical forces but Zhao Hui had threatened with that very easily. So much so that Wei Jun thought he was bluffing. But now he realized that he needed to tread lightly around Zhao Hui.

At least for some time.

Wei Jun decided to move on from the topic and asked, “You know who bombed my car?”

“I know.” Yan Rong said before she added, “But she was just a hire. She broke before I could extract any information from her.”

“Something tells me you’re not very experienced in this case.” Wei Jun said before he added, “But then again, the state of that elder proves me otherwise.”

“It’s not that. Being who I am, torture comes along with the job but the difference between people is still something. I can’t be held responsible when a fragile person ends up dying with just a slight tug.” Yan Rong explained before she added, “That elder was strong so he lasted quite a long time. But unfortunately, he didn’t fess up anything even when I badly messed him up.”

Wei Jun nodded in return. It would have been surprising if an elder would have turned on the entire sect. Confession wouldn’t have just involved the elder that stood opposite Sun Ruan, it would have affected the entire sect.

A war wasn’t very favorable between both factions. The elder knew what his testimony would represent so maybe that was why he didn’t fold. Or it was just that Yan Rong was lying about that.

“But you know who it was, don’t you?” Yan Rong asked.

Wei Jun didn’t reply. It was true that he had an idea who it was. It wasn’t any of the usual suspects. It wasn’t his wife, Liu Yu, or the competing faction of Sun Ruan.

No, it was someone very new. Someone whose territory was threatened by Wei Jun.

Wei Jun smiled and said, “I know how to deal with him. Unless he comes at me straight on, he wouldn’t be able to do anything to me.”

“Straight, as in like this incident?” Yan Rong skeptically asked.

Wei Jun chuckled and said, “It’s okay. It was an amateurish attempt anyway. He didn’t properly cover his tracks. Being a mercenary.”

Wei Jun didn’t need to find the one who planted the bomb in his car. Wei Jun could find that person by himself by just following the obvious lead everyone was ignoring.

The explosives in question were used to blow up mines and dig underground.

They usually had a strict supply so if something went missing, it was easier to find them out if someone just looked properly.

Unless it was some heavily restricted mine, Wei Jun was sure that he would be able to find the information he needed. Besides, Shao Chen’s employee wouldn’t have been able to obtain the explosives from a restricted place anyway. It had to have come from a place where the workload was high so small glitches in inventory weren’t found unless dug deeply.

“How will you find him?” Yan Rong asked.

“Being a mercenary, his job is to do the task and run. Not cover his tracks.” Wei Jun said.

An assassin takes that approach, not a mercenary. Hence the difference between their professions.

Obviously, Shao Chen was more worried about the job done, not covering his tracks. Like always, before anyone would be able to get to him, he would have long disappeared.