Chapter 40: Kill Him, Grind His Bones to Dust!

At that moment, in the distance.

The man had just boarded a sightseeing cart and was slowly approaching along the path.

“Bzz…”

The silence persisted, yet Su Ze’s phone vibrated.

As though sensing something, he picked it up and glanced at it, discovering a text message from an unfamiliar number.

The message consisted of his personal information.

It ranged from the network of his relatives all the way to the deals where he had earned money; although it was far from a 100 % investigation, it was still enough to display the sender’s arrogance.

… A small fry like you can be laid bare with a mere flick of my finger.

The silence continued.

Su Ze kept his eyes fixed on the man in the sightseeing cart.

Qin Yushi finally realized that Su Ze seemed to be staring at something, so she followed his line of sight.

『Bai Zhimao?』

『He showed up pretty fast; no, he must have been in the park for a while already… what a psycho…』

By listening to Qin Yushi’s inner voice, Su Ze confirmed the man’s identity.

He continued to observe the man calmly without blinking.

Before long, the sightseeing cart slowed to a stop.

It did not park beside Su Ze and Qin Yushi but instead halted where Chen Keqing and her friends were flying kites.

The distance was a bit great, so Su Ze pushed his focus to the limit and, relying on the Father God Listens talent, barely managed to catch the voices over there.

“You are Chen Keqing, right?”

The man stopped in front of several high-school girls and offered a gentle, refined smile.

“Mm…”

Chen Keqing nodded dumbly, and the classmates beside her looked the man over curiously.

“I was sorry to hear about your parents’ passing; when I have time, I will burn a stick of incense for them.”

The smile on the man’s face remained warm.

After saying what he wanted to say, he turned away with an air of absolute superiority.

He boarded the sightseeing cart again, patted the driver’s shoulder, and the driver, understanding, headed back the same way.

On the return trip, the man continued to lock eyes with Su Ze from afar.

“Heh.”

Su Ze gave a barely noticeable smile.

Now he was certain that the earlier incident in which Prince Xin and Sun Bin were dragged into a vehicle had also been orchestrated by this young master of the Bai family.

It was just like how he had deliberately revealed Chen Keqing’s closely guarded secret in front of her classmates a moment ago.

His target was Su Ze, and he wanted to tell Su Ze…

… I can crush you at will, and the people around you had better be on guard as well.

“Just now he…”

Qin Yushi also saw Bai Zhimao approach Chen Keqing.

Of course, she had no idea what Bai Zhimao had said.

All she could see from a distance was Chen Keqing sobbing, while her two female classmates stood helplessly nearby, unsure whether to speak or stay silent.

At this moment, Su Ze finally opened his mouth.

His tone remained calm, with a faint smile. “Where did we leave off? Oh… let me ask you something: do you like that Bai family’s second young master?”

Qin Yushi shook her head and answered without hesitation, “No. Who would like a lunatic like that…”

She was not exaggerating.

She could guess that Bai Zhimao had just hurt innocent people again.

And this was probably only the beginning.

Just like the beating he ordered last night; if Su Ze had accepted the beating, admitted defeat, and disappeared, there might have been no follow-up, but because Su Ze kept resisting…

“Since you don’t like him,” Su Ze looked toward the direction Bai Zhimao had gone, put away his smile, and said, “then I will kill him for you.”

“What?” Qin Yushi froze, and a brief look of surprise flashed through her beautiful eyes.

Whoosh…

A demonic gale suddenly swept past.

Qin Yushi’s hair was blown into disarray; she raised her hand to smooth it, and then she heard Su Ze laugh again.

“I’m joking. If you want me to act on your behalf, you should first think about what price you’re willing to pay.”

After uttering that meaningful sentence, Su Ze saw Bai Zhimao return to the campground, where there were many obstructions.

Su Ze was waiting for the optimal moment.

Whoosh…

A raging wind howled.

It was even fiercer than the previous demonic gust.

Qin Yushi shielded her eyes and protected her hair, afraid it would get even messier.

At that very moment, without her noticing, an arrow pierced Bai Zhimao’s head in the distant campground; he collapsed without a sound, and a white flame devoured him in an instant.

Not even a speck of ash remained.

One of his companions had merely turned away to handle some ingredients and, when he looked back, found that the man was gone.

However, the companion noticed nothing odd and soon looked elsewhere.

“This wind is really strange.”

“It is a bit noisy.”

Su Ze spoke in a bland tone.

If it had been after doomsday’s arrival, someone might have seen the towering phantom of guardian deities behind Su Ze.

The arrow just now had been loosed with pinpoint accuracy by the guardian deities.

The turbulent wind was merely the aftershock that Su Ze deliberately released when drawing the bow.

Now he had given his answer.

That answer, however, was directed at the Bai family’s young master.

“What were you talking about a moment ago? Oh… kill him. I think that’s fine; I really do dislike him,” Qin Yushi picked up the earlier thread, smiling sweetly.

She believed she had obtained Su Ze’s answer as well.

The earlier silence had been the answer.

Since that was so, she naturally would not make things difficult for Su Ze and simply dropped the topic.

“Sorry, I need to go comfort my girlfriend first.”

Su Ze seized the moment to speak, left Qin Yushi, and walked straight toward Chen Keqing.

“What a pity.”

Watching Su Ze’s departing back, a complicated glint crossed Qin Yushi’s eyes.

She had really hoped that Su Ze would choose to take the hard road; had he done so, she might have accompanied him to the end and fulfilled the promise she had made last night.

Unfortunately…

She sighed silently, picked up her phone again, and glanced at the message on the screen.

The vibration earlier had been a message from Bai Zhimao.

He had invited her over for a chat.

Qin Yushi headed there now.

However.

When she arrived, she could not find Bai Zhimao anywhere.

She asked the others, and they were equally baffled, saying that he had been standing right there a moment ago.

“Kill him…” Su Ze’s words suddenly echoed in Qin Yushi’s mind.

She quickly shook her head, refusing to think about such an unrealistic possibility.

Elsewhere.

Su Ze had arrived at Chen Keqing’s side.

The girl was still shedding pearly tears, unable to stop crying.

The two female classmates hunched their shoulders and kept silent beside her.

Right now they felt as though they were sitting on pins and needles.

Even if they had not understood at first, they certainly did now.

Even they, who were Chen Keqing’s best friends, had not known what had happened in her family, clearly because she had not wanted the people around her to know.

Yet now, because of a stranger, they had learned the secret as well.

“Sob… sob…”

Crying sadly, Chen Keqing saw Su Ze appear in front of her and began to cry even harder.

She simply could not stop.

The tears were not from grievance, nor from fear that more people would learn of her family tragedy.

It was an indescribable sorrow.

At 18, during her second attempt at the college entrance exam, she had suddenly lost her parents; such a blow made even the most intense crying understandable.

Su Ze felt that Chen Keqing had handled things quite well.

At school no one had sensed her secret, which was proof enough of her strength during this period.

After thinking for a moment, Su Ze sat down in front of Chen Keqing as well.

Then he began, “Actually, when I was very young, my parents passed away too.”