44: Chapter 44 Teacher Su, who follows Yun Zhuo's example in everything.
"Family Head, news just arrived from the Temple of the God of Wealth. Yun Zhuo has already captured Liao Hu and successfully lured out Chen Bo. They have agreed to meet at the town near Farm No. 3."
At the Ling Family's Cloud Top Villa Estate, Ling Lingyi finished reading the message just received and bowed to report to Ling Lifeng.
"So fast?" Ling Lifeng sat up straight instantly and questioned, "Are you sure? Can that kid be this fast?"
"I have confirmed it with Ling Lingjiu. Two minutes ago, Chen Bo departed for outside the city under the protection of a group of mercenaries. He is currently less than twenty-seven kilometers from the city gate."
"On the road from the city gate to the town, are there any places suitable for an ambush?"
"Green Wolf Hollow. Ling Lingwu has already taken his men and set off, waiting for your orders at any moment."
Ling Lifeng tapped the armrest of his chair, stood up suddenly, and paced on the balcony.
A moment later, he pressed his hands on the railing, looked at Dawn City beneath the sea of clouds, and asked the breeze blowing toward him: "What do you think of that kid, Yun Zhuo?"
Ling Lingyi thought for a moment and said: "Before eighteen, other than being handsome, he was a useless ordinary person. After eighteen, he became sharp-tongued, shrewd, and while he knows it's hard to act, he is very persistent; he won't stop until he achieves his goal. For an eighteen-year-old youth, being able to grasp such a sense of propriety is very rare."
"Therefore, my opinion is that this person looks like a loafer, but in reality, he is extremely calculating. If not for the accident during his Awakening this time, he might have continued to hide his identity as an ordinary person."
"Most importantly, he is incredibly bold; he actually dared to lie to Second Miss."
Ling Lifeng shook his head: "What I want to ask is, can he be tamed?"
"This..." Ling Lingyi thought for a moment and said: "Intelligence says he once promised Zhou Libin that he would buy No. 8 Middle School after he made it big."
"I'm asking you, can he be tamed?"
Ling Lingyi thought for a moment, steeled his heart: "He can be tamed, but he likely won't be content to live under others."
Yun Zhuo dragged Scar Brother to Green Wolf Hollow.
Just as he walked up a mountain ridge, a vast sea of red sand came into view, like crushed sunset clouds sinking onto the wilderness. Even the wind blowing through carried a hint of scorching dryness.
The hills on both sides were undulating and scraped bare by the wind and sand.
Dark red rock strata were exposed, ground into rough textures by the passage of time.
Red sand flowed down the slopes of the hills, slowly streaming from both sides toward the valley in the middle, accumulating into a sea of sand.
The terrain in the valley was open, with black stones of various sizes scattered randomly in the sea of sand.
A black asphalt road ran through the middle.
Yun Zhuo had walked this road twice—once this morning to Sunset Plain, and the other time returning to Dawn City from the Temple of the God of Wealth.
Originally, he thought he would feel a sense of familiarity when seeing this road again.
As it turned out, it felt incredibly strange.
A convoy consisting of five armored vehicles rounded the foot of a distant mountain and appeared at the end of his vision, looming on the distorted horizon.
"They're here." Teacher Su's voice sounded a bit tense.
Yun Zhuo lay on the ground and looked at Scar Brother beside him: "Scar Brother, where do you think Chen Bo is in the convoy?"
Scar Brother shook his head: "I don't know."
"Then what use are you to me?" Before Yun Zhuo's voice had faded, he plunged a hand blade into his mouth.
With Teacher Su's five-meter-tall Physique, that hand blade was like a shovel. It instantly shattered his front teeth and sheared off half of his head.
Before Scar Brother died, his eyes widened. 'Not cool, buddy. Do you not even need to build up any emotion before killing someone?'
"Why did you kill him?" Teacher Su was startled.
"If I don't kill him, should I keep him for the New Year? Or wait for him to shout when the convoy passes by us, and give us a 'fortune'?"
Judging by Yun Zhuo's tone, he had just crushed an ant.
"What fortune?" Su Qingyuan didn't react in time and asked subconsciously.
Yun Zhuo deliberately drew out his tone: "We couldn't be born in the same year, same month, and same day, but we can die in the same year, same month, and same day. Isn't that a fortune?"
"Pah! Stop saying such unlucky things! No, couldn't you have given me a hint before you acted? You gave me a fright. And why did you use my hand to stab him? It's so dirty."
Yun Zhuo lifted Teacher Su's delicate hand to look at it: "It's not dirty. I only realized today that Teacher Su's mecha has such strong anti-contamination capabilities. Not only does it not get stained with blood when killing, but it's also always like new. Look at Wu Song and his wife's beast god mecha; they're as dirty as sand bandits. I don't even know why he doesn't wipe it down for his wife."
Speaking of this, strange footsteps came from behind. In the blink of an eye, a guy riding a mecha lizard appeared in front of Yun Zhuo.
The man had a center-parted long hairstyle, a gray sand scarf covering his mouth, and was wearing dusty tactical gear. He didn't look like a good person.
Yun Zhuo subconsciously gripped his long spear. The other party stopped and pulled down his face mask.
"Yun Zhuo?"
Seeing that Yun Zhuo didn't speak, the man knew he had found the right person, so he continued: "My name is Ling Lingwu. Second Miss should have met me."
"Is this who Second Miss was talking about?" Yun Zhuo asked Teacher Su.
"I have an older sister above me, but I have no memory of this person."
"She says she doesn't know you."
Ling Lingwu was stunned and explained: "Second Miss, five years ago at the Rose Garden in Tianding City, I roasted sweet potatoes for you. You even asked me to help you keep it a secret."
"Nonsense. What secret is there to keep about eating a sweet potato? Can't her family afford a sweet potato?"
"You don't know, Second Miss's Physique is special..."
Just as Ling Lingwu said this, Teacher Su urged in Yun Zhuo's consciousness: "Quickly tell him to stop talking."
"Why can't he say it?"
"No reason!"
Ling Lingwu was also sensible. He shut his mouth when he reached this point and changed the subject: "Second Miss, do you remember me now?"
Teacher Su said in Yun Zhuo's consciousness: "He is my uncle's man. It seems your guess was right. My uncle is indeed fanning the flames behind the scenes, and he might even be the one who planned the whole thing. The fact that he suddenly appeared in the training room back then might also be part of his plan."
After hearing this, Yun Zhuo looked at Ling Lingwu: "You must have a reason for coming to find me, right?"
"That's right. The Chen family's armored vehicles have all been specially modified. They are not only larger and more heavily armored, but they can also completely shield external perception. We are currently unsure if Chen Bo is actually in the convoy. We need you to verify it. Don't worry, we have already arranged everything. And even if we had ten times the courage, we wouldn't dare to joke about Second Miss's safety."
Yun Zhuo looked at him and said to Teacher Su in his consciousness: "Does your uncle usually love you more, or your sister more?"
"I don't know. But he only has my mother as a sister. When he was studying at the Tianding Academy, he lived at our house, and he treated both of us sisters very well."
Then, Teacher Su's tone became exceptionally firm: "If you go, I will go with you. If you don't want to go, I'll tell him to get lost."
After hearing this, Yun Zhuo said to Ling Lingwu: "Tell me about your plan first."
...
Chen Bo's convoy had already driven into Green Wolf Hollow. Just as they wanted to accelerate through, the convoy suddenly slowed down and finally came to a stop.
Chen Bo, who was sitting on the sofa drinking an iced beverage, was startled. He then pulled open the small window of the driver's cabin and looked at Blade on the passenger seat.
"What happened?"
Blade was the captain of their mercenary squad. He had a square, crew-cut hairstyle, and a large pair of sunglasses couldn't hide the large scar on his right eye.
He didn't answer immediately, just watched the front quietly and pulled out a cigarette to put in his mouth.
In the driver's seat, the older, mature woman with shaved temples and a single long braid down the middle was his War Princess.
She subconsciously took out a lighter and lit the cigarette for him.
Blade took a puff and exhaled smoke, which dispersed in the airtight vehicle.
Chen Bo choked. Li Wanqing, who was sitting opposite him, coughed a few times and kept her mouth shut, not daring to speak.
At this moment, the communicator in the car rang: "Boss, there's a kid blocking the road ahead. Earth Rank Middle Grade, Level 10. We haven't found anyone else around for the moment."