41: Chapter 41, "Statement of Understanding Regarding Forgiving the Shorty and Hidden Blade"
Su Yun's room.
The door was locked.
Su Qing stood by the door, her hands clutching the hem of her clothes tightly.
The little girl, who usually ran rampant at home, was as quiet as a quail right now.
Su Yun sat on the edge of the bed, crossing his legs, and examined his younger sister's miserable expression with great interest.
"Xiao Qing, what exactly is your relationship with that Dark Blade?"
Su Yun leaned back, pillowing his head with his hands, and slowly dangled the bait.
Su Qing took a deep breath and began to act.
"We are… online friends!"
Su Qing suddenly raised her head, blinked twice, and tried to squeeze out some sincere tears.
"I met her while lurking on a forum. She's usually a nice person, just a bit short-tempered, like someone with road rage."
Su Yun drew out an "Oh."
"Online friends, huh? You came running to your own brother to humble yourself for an online friend you've never met? You know what she did to me, your brother, right?"
Su Qing gritted her teeth, forcing a smile.
"After all, she's just a girl, and now she's being hunted all over the city by the Investigation Bureau. How pitiful."
"Pitiful?"
Su Yun rolled his eyes.
"She didn't think I was pitiful when she hauled me into the sky and threw me down. Every time I close my eyes now, I can still feel the weightlessness. My fragile heart has suffered extremely severe trauma; can that be smoothed over with a simple 'sorry'?"
Su Qing roared internally.
Bullshit!
You were clearly laughing more pervertedly than a Strange Tale! You were even shouting in the sky yesterday asking if you could jump again!
But she didn't dare to expose him. Exposing him would be equivalent to revealing her own identity.
"Brother~"
Su Qing dragged out the tone, reached out, and tugged at Su Yun's sleeve.
This was her trump card for dealing with their father, Su Jianguo, and it worked every time.
"Just forgive her this once. She guarantees she won't appear in front of you ever again! Plus, she's willing to pay to compensate for your emotional distress!"
Su Yun pulled his sleeve back and slowly brushed off his clothes.
"Talking about money is so tacky. Besides, you're just a middle school student, how much can you front for her?"
"I'm not fronting it! She's transferring it to you!" Su Qing quickly distanced herself.
"Fine." Su Yun took out his phone, opened his WeChat payment QR code, and handed it over. "Five hundred thousand. Not a penny less."
Su Qing almost spat out a mouthful of blood.
Five hundred thousand?!
Why don't you go rob a bank!
The pocket money and field subsidies she got from The Watchers every month added up to less than one hundred thousand after saving for half a year.
Selling her wouldn't even cover five hundred thousand!
"Brother, this is too exaggerated…"
Su Qing said with a bitter face, "She's just a laborer doing manual work; where would she get that much money? Can you give her a ninety percent discount?"
Su Yun put his phone away mercilessly.
"No money? Then don't apologize. Let the Investigation Bureau catch her and throw her in jail. I heard that when A-rank wanted criminals are caught, they're sent directly to the front lines of the Abyss Rift as cannon fodder."
"Tsk tsk, she's so short, her legs are short, she can't even run fast; she'll definitely be swallowed by the Strange Tales one by one. What a pity."
A miserable image of herself being thrown into a pile of Strange Tales and torn apart flashed through Su Qing's mind, and she shuddered violently.
"I'll pay! Five hundred thousand is fine! I'll make her pay in installments!"
Su Qing gritted her teeth, her heart bleeding.
Sister Ye will definitely help her, right!
"Wait." Su Yun raised his hand to interrupt her and shook a finger. "It was five hundred thousand just now. Now the price has gone up; you need to add supplementary terms."
Su Qing's eyes widened: "Don't go too far!"
"Take it or leave it." Su Yun made a move to get up. "I'll call our eldest sister; she can stop by on her way back to the bureau to help me finalize the case."
Su Qing lunged forward and hugged Su Yun's leg.
"I agree! I'll agree to whatever you want!"
Su Qing completely gave up struggling.
Su Yun sat back down and nodded with satisfaction.
"First, you're in charge of doing the dishes at home for the next three months. Including weekends."
"Second, you are responsible for buying my late-night snacks at the street corner every night. You pay."
"Third, you must call me 'Good Brother' when you see me."
Hearing these three humiliating rules, Su Qing clenched her fists until they cracked, her knuckles turning white.
She could grit her teeth and endure the first two, but the third one was truly soul-crushing.
"The first two are fine." Su Qing lowered her head in humiliation. "Can we change the name for the third one…"
"No."
"…Good Brother."
These three words were harder to spit out than eating bitter melon.
"I didn't hear you clearly, your voice is too quiet."
"Good! Brother! Brother!" Su Qing shouted at the top of her lungs.
"The attitude is acceptable."
Su Yun was finally satisfied and fished out a sheet of white paper and a signature pen from his drawer.
He scribbled a few lines.
After finishing, he handed it to Su Qing.
Su Qing took it, and her vision went black.
On the paper, it was written in bold: "Letter of Forgiveness Regarding the Shorty Dark Blade".
"I, Su Yun, in the spirit of humanitarianism and caring for the disabled, hereby solemnly declare: I forgive Dark Blade, who is not only short-tempered but may also have some kind of brainstem development defect. That was just an extremely boring farce. Hereby forgiven."
This wasn't a letter of forgiveness.
This was basically a public execution order!
If this thing were handed to the Investigation Bureau and read out by their eldest sister at the branch meeting… the codename Dark Blade would be infamous forever in the underworld.
"Can we modify the wording a little…" Su Qing tried to salvage the situation.
"Change one word, and I won't sign this."
Su Yun took the pen, signed his name with great flair, and casually pressed a red thumbprint on it.
Su Qing snatched the statement paper and rushed out of the room. She was afraid that if she stayed for even one more second, she wouldn't be able to stop herself from going to the kitchen, grabbing a cleaver, and hacking this bastard to pieces.
Watching Su Qing's retreating figure as she stormed out and slammed the door, Su Yun smiled and leaned back against the headboard.
Teasing his younger sister was addictive.
Ten minutes later.
The door was knocked on again.
Su Chen pushed the door open and walked in.
He had already changed into a black hooded trench coat, the zipper pulled all the way to the top.
"Is the matter handled?" Su Chen glanced in the direction of the hallway. "What was Xiao Qing looking for you for?"
"She needed money to buy study guides, so she asked to borrow some."
Su Yun told a lie offhandedly.
Su Chen didn't delve into such trivial family matters.
"I'm ready to set off. My people are already in hiding and waiting around the industrial zone in the east of the city. We'll launch the first wave of feint attacks in five minutes sharp."
Su Chen walked to the window and looked at the slightly gloomy sky outside.
"The Firmament is tough. I can help you buy a twenty-minute window at most. The security at the Northern Reservoir is tight; be careful going there alone."
Su Yun stood up and straightened his clothes.
"Worry about yourself. That outfit of yours…" Su Yun looked his elder brother up and down.
Su Chen pulled up the hood of his trench coat with both hands and snapped the silver-white mask onto his face.
The twisted rune on the forehead of the mask exuded a cold, metallic texture in the dim light.
In an instant, that gentle and elegant elder brother vanished without a trace.
Replacing him was an extremely dangerous, oppressive, and terrifying aura. It was a sense of slaughter that could only be accumulated after years of wandering through mountains of corpses and seas of blood.
This was the leader of the Salvation Society, Bai Cang, who ranked in the top five on the global bounty list.
"Remember."
Bai Cang's voice had changed; it came from behind the mask with a hoarse, heavy bass. "If the plan goes off track, prioritize survival. Don't force it."
"You too." Su Yun nodded.
Bai Cang turned around, and his entire body suddenly dissolved.
There were no footsteps, no air currents. He turned into a puddle of transparent water, seeped directly through the cracks in the floor outside the door, and disappeared completely.
Top-tier application of water-element abilities, physical-level concealment and escape.
No wonder he had the confidence to toy with S-rank powerhouses.
Su Yun cracked his neck, his bones popping crisply.
It was his turn to work.
Go to the reservoir and crash the party.