Chapter 198
Chapter 198
“All right. Leave it to me!”
Liu Ye drew a knife and approached Zhao Hui. Just then, a frightened voice rang out behind them.
“Who are you? What are you doing?”
Liu Ye and the Driver turned. A boy in his teens stood there, holding up his phone.
“Let go of my dad! I’m warning you, my brother is the chairman of the Zhao Group, and he’s on his way. If you hurt my father, he won’t let you get away with it.”
“Hey, you’ve misunderstood. We came here to treat your father,” Liu Ye explained.
The boy clearly didn’t believe him.
At that moment, a commotion sounded outside. Two people rushed into the room.
“Xiao Jiang, are you all right?”
The voice sounded familiar. Liu Ye looked over. What a coincidence.
“John? Xu Fei?”
The two newcomers were equally surprised to see him.
“Brother Liu?”
They had never expected to find Liu Ye here.
“Brother, you know them?”
Hearing John’s tone, the boy immediately realized he might have misunderstood.
John’s expression changed.
“Xiao Jiang, go to Third Uncle’s house. Then call your younger sister. Do not come back without my permission.”
Xiao Jiang didn’t know what had happened, but John’s expression told him the situation was serious. He immediately took out his phone and left.
Once Xiao Jiang was gone, John raised his phone.
“Quickly, evacuate everyone from the Golden Splendor villa community. I repeat…”
After giving the order, he turned to Liu Ye.
“Brother Liu, go ahead and blow it up.”
Liu Ye stared at him.
“Blow what up? I only came here to tell someone’s fortune. Then he suddenly passed out, so I’m giving him emergency treatment.”
Understanding dawned on John. He raised his phone again.
“Pick up the pace. Pick up the pace. Brother Liu is about to blow the place up.”
Then he asked Liu Ye, “Brother Liu, would you like me to prepare some explosives for you?”
This might be his own family’s villa, but if Liu Ye wanted to blast it, John was perfectly willing to sacrifice it.
Liu Ye had no words.
John could hardly be blamed for his nervousness. Liu Ye’s recent record had been far too explosive. Wherever he went, nothing remained standing.
John knew Liu Ye had recently taken up fortune-telling, but he assumed Brother Liu was carrying out another operation. To support him, John had even sent people to buy everything Liu Ye put on his stall.
As for whether Liu Ye needed money? What a joke. Did a man with Brother Liu’s abilities look short of cash?
He had blown up so many buildings without hesitation. Clearly, he regarded money as dirt.
There had to be some major reason for him to appear here.
[Ding! Fixed Mission activated!]
The System’s half-dead voice sounded in their minds. John’s and Xiaoshuai’s expressions changed instantly.
[Mission: Return Home]
[Objective: Travel to the Zhao family’s ancestral residence, attend the grave-relocation ceremony, and survive until the ritual ends.]
[Reward: Unknown]
[Mission participants: Zhao En, Xu Fei, Liu Ye, Zhao Teng, Zhao Jianghe, Zhao Tiande, Zhao Zhihua, Zhao Dawei.]
When it reached Liu Ye’s name, the System audibly paused.
Liu Ye was delighted. It had been a long time since he last heard the System.
“Little System, don’t worry. I promise I won’t cause trouble this time!”
[No! Cause trouble! Kill every last one of them! I don’t care who they are-if you see one, kill one! The players, the mastermind behind it all, the final boss-none of them gets to live! Hahaha… Nobody gets to live! Kill them all! Ahahahaha!]
Liu Ye fell silent.
Had Little System suffered some kind of trauma?
“Little System, have you misunderstood me? I’m a law-abiding citizen. I don’t do illegal things.”
[Whether you do or not, the final result is always the same.]
The System’s voice actually began to choke with tears.
[And they call this ‘Return Home.’ At this rate, there won’t be a home left to return to.]
With that, the System’s voice disappeared.
Liu Ye had nothing to say.
John walked over and looked at Zhao Hui on the floor. He immediately understood. This man must be the trigger for the mission.
Just as expected, John thought. Brother Liu never did anything without purpose.
“Brother Liu, can you tell me what happened? He’s my Fourth Uncle.”
Liu Ye immediately recounted the entire sequence of events. John’s expression darkened, while Xiaoshuai’s looked even worse. Xiaoshuai hurriedly took out his phone and began tapping frantically.
“What are you doing?” John asked, baffled. “My Fourth Uncle is in trouble. Why do you look even more upset than I do?”
“I bought stock in your group yesterday. Brother Liu shows up today. If I don’t sell now, I’ll be trapped in the position!” Xiaoshuai said tearfully.
The Driver, John, and Liu Ye fell silent.
“Xu Fei, I feel like all of you have misunderstood me somehow…”
Xiaoshuai burst into tears.
“Brother, there is no misunderstanding. I used to be something of a celebrity, and you put an end to that. Of course, I didn’t care much about it.
“But not long ago, the value of my properties on Fortune-Telling Street fell tenfold in a single month. Now I can’t sell them even for the price of cabbages. I finally scraped and borrowed enough money to make one gamble, so I bought stock in Poker Face’s family group. Then you showed up again. At this rate, I really will have nothing but thin rice porridge to live on.”
Xiaoshuai covered his face and wept.
Liu Ye stared at him.
The Driver looked at the miserable Xiaoshuai and found his mood improving for some reason. So their group wasn’t the only one Liu Ye had ruined.
“Brother Liu, I was hoping you could take a look at my grandfather as well. Since the opportunity has come up, please make the trip with me,” John said.
Xiaoshuai stared at John in shock.
“What grievance do you have against your grandfather? Why would you try to murder him this way?”
Liu Ye was speechless.
“Little Xu, I really think you’re going too far.”
Thud!
The moment Liu Ye said this, Xu Fei dropped to his knees. A true man knew when to bend and when to stand tall.
Liu Ye had no words.
Meanwhile, the Driver stared at John in excitement. He knew this man too: John was the current chairman of the Zhao Group and possessed enormous wealth. One fortune reading for him could make them rich!
At the same time, the Driver resented Liu Ye a little. If the kid had connections like these, why hadn’t he brought them out sooner? A tiny fraction of the man’s wealth would feed Liu Ye for life.
John, however, felt a chill crawl over him. After entering the room, Xiaoshuai had told him that this man was a Fiend. The Driver might be Brother Liu’s subordinate, but his presence was still terrifying.
But… wasn’t this Fiend being a little too polite?
John next had the Fiend Investigation Bureau take Zhao Hui away.
He did not let Liu Ye treat Zhao Hui because the man’s condition interested him. He wanted to know how Zhao Hui had survived as well.
After reporting the matter to Swan, John took Liu Ye and the others toward the Zhao family’s ancestral residence.
On the road, he briefly explained his family’s circumstances.