Chapter 56: A Taste of Their Own Medicine!

The air in that moment seemed to freeze.

Every breath felt excruciatingly difficult.

The impact from the overturned dump truck would have terrified the cars stopped at the traffic light.

If not for the last-second swerve, the truck would have slammed directly into those parked cars.

Once it hit them, it would have caused an outright crushing with no chance of survival.

“Damn it, who drives like this?!”

On the side of the two-lane road, a driver stuck his head out, cursing in lingering fear.

His car had been parallel to Su Ze’s, and if the truck had struck then, he would have been doomed too.

“What happened? What was that deafening noise?”

“Oh man, there’s been an accident!”

“Holy shit, someone must be dead, right?!”

Passersby shouted in astonishment.

They stood at various distances, watching the commotion.

Yet no one knew that this so-called accident was a botched assassination attempt.

Chen Keqing had no idea, or rather no certainty, that the speeding truck had been intentionally orchestrated.

She had no mind to analyze or contemplate it now.

Surviving an encounter with death did not feel wonderful.

Her entire body tensed, and every cell seemed to scream.

Yet her expression remained frozen, her pupils reflecting sheer terror… it was as if she were too stunned to react.

It was only when Su Ze’s right hand reached over and gripped her clenched fist that she began to awaken.

She finally recovered from her panic enough to breathe again and not suffocate herself.

“Where were we?”

Su Ze said calmly.

Of course, he was not speaking to Chen Keqing but to the Bai family Young Master on the other end, and the crash had not cut off the call.

“Hmm…”

A thoughtful murmur came from the Bai family Young Master over the phone.

The unexpected turn of events clearly forced him to reconsider his words.

But Su Ze, handsome and kind-hearted, spared him the embarrassment by steering the topic for him.

“You think the real enemy is Qin Yushi, or rather the people behind her, so you viewed someone like me as expendable, right?”

The other side fell silent.

Su Ze’s accusation had struck home.

It could not have been more accurate.

They had never regarded Su Ze as a true opponent; they had simply suspected his connection to Bai Zhimao’s disappearance and used him as bait.

They intended to kill Su Ze to show some hidden forces that the Bai family’s methods were equally ruthless.

“So now that you see I’m still alive and your plan has failed, aren’t you a bit surprised?”

Su Ze continued with an unhurried tone, smiling as he spoke.

“Hardly, I don’t know what you’re talking about…” After a brief pause, the Young Master realized the charade was useless.

He switched to an icy tone and said, “Fine, it seems I underestimated you.”

“Heh.” Su Ze chuckled and added, “You could have asked more directly from the start; I’m not that wicked, and I would have told you if you had just asked.”

“Really? So you know exactly where my brother is.” Perhaps feeling his aura suppressed, the Young Master added coldly, “Let me warn you not to spout nonsense… you won’t be this lucky every time.”

“Lucky?” Su Ze scoffed, “Actually, we have something in common: we both underestimate each other. Just as you thought killing me would cost you nothing, I saw erasing your brother from the world as crushing an ant… so why overthink it?”

“You killed him…”

Before the voice on the phone could finish, a massive flowerpot fell from above and struck the BMW behind Su Ze’s car with a deafening crash, sending bystanders trembling anew.

“What the hell is going on? Where did that high-altitude projectile come from?!”

Passersby shouted, looking around yet unable to spot any building from which such a large pot could have been thrown.

Inside his car, Su Ze hung up the phone.

His gaze fell on the rearview mirror.

The person in the backseat of the smashed BMW was the Bai family Young Master.

He must have followed Su Ze to observe the scene in person.

Relying on Infinite Domain’s powerful malice detection, Su Ze had identified this enemy early, though he had hesitated to confirm if he was the Bai family Young Master.

Only when the man had called and revealed his identity did Su Ze confirm the target.

“Not bad, the new Talent is really useful.”

Su Ze said without emotion as he covertly observed the BMW using the Talent’s ability.

The pot’s fall was just a distraction; the true killer lay in its shattered fragments.

One sharp shard was used by Su Ze’s guardian deities to sever the Young Master’s throat.

Of course, with Su Ze’s current power, he could have killed the man a hundred other ways.

But seeing that the Young Master had tried to make his death look like an accident, Su Ze chose to repay him in kind.

At that moment, someone approached the BMW to investigate.

“Oh my! He’s dead!”

“This is terrifying… stop looking, stop looking!”

“Call the police, there’s been another incident!”

Bystanders’ frantic shouts kept coming.

Su Ze felt satisfaction and allowed a slight smile before withdrawing the Talent’s power and ceasing to observe.

“Infinite Domain…”

“The part that steals abilities is temporarily useless, but the malice sensing and long-range observation are available anytime, which is much more convenient than before.”

Su Ze pondered silently, evaluating the proper use of his new Talent.

Without its support, he probably would not have foreseen this assassination attempt.

But even if he had only detected the killing move at the last moment, it would not have mattered.

Against such an absolute strength gap, small tricks held no sway.

Restarting his car, Su Ze bypassed the overturned truck, glanced at Chen Keqing, and asked with a smile, “Scared you, didn’t it?”

“No…” Chen Keqing’s breathing was still uneven; she uttered one word, paused, and then completed the sentence, “No, not peeing myself is already me holding it together.”

“Heh…” Su Ze couldn’t help but laugh.

If Qin Yushi had said that, he would have asked just how tightly.

Chen Keqing had indeed been thoroughly terrified by the consecutive emergencies.

After they had driven a short distance, she began to recover somewhat.

Rubbing her rounded chest to calm her racing heart, she cautiously asked, “That truck just tried to ram us, right?”

“Mm.” Su Ze nodded calmly and said, “You heard my call earlier, so you know what happened, don’t you?”

“Uh…” Chen Keqing stopped, unsure what to say.

Su Ze was listening in on her thoughts, and at the moment her mind was a bit chaotic.