Chapter 106
Chapter 106
“What the hell are you doing? Are you still looking for the Soldier King or not? I take my eyes off you for one second, and you’re already hugging someone? Not to nag you, Wu Xiaojiu, but no matter how close you are with an old acquaintance, you can’t hug them for a full hour!”
It was a man.
His face was full of anger.
Hands on his hips, he glared impatiently at Wu Xiaojiu, one leg bouncing nonstop.
“Why are you still staring at me? And this acquaintance of yours-why does he keep glaring at me? He looks so vicious. If I didn’t know better, I’d think he was some lunatic who escaped from Evil Valley.
“Wu Xiaojiu, hurry up and get out here. Let’s keep moving and try to find the Soldier King before dawn.”
As the man spoke, he raised his flashlight and deliberately swept the beam over Bo Suihan.
Then, with an overbearing air, he strode into the dolphin pavilion-only to shudder from head to toe when the smell of blood hit him in the face.
“Holy crap, that smell, that concentration… it’s too pure! Did you two secretly kill someone? I’m telling you, murder is wrong. Hurry up and apologize to the victim, then find a tank and toss them in.”
As he spoke, the man pinched his nose and waved his hand in front of his face, trying to fan the odor away.
Wu Xiaojiu couldn’t help laughing at his words. He lowered his head with a chuckle, then pointed at Bo Suihan like he was presenting a great achievement. “He really is an old acquaintance of mine. But you should know him too. Come take a look yourself. One glance and you’ll know who he is.”
Maybe Wu Xiaojiu’s tone was too mysterious, and with Bo Suihan standing there in the shadows, bristling with menace, the whole thing seemed even more enigmatic.
The man’s mouth twitched, and he instinctively waved a hand.
“Don’t try to trick me. Wu Xiaojiu, don’t tell me you’re really a traitor. The smell of blood in here is this strong-don’t tell me the killers in the Soldier King’s attic were slaughtered by the two of you working together? How vicious.”
The man loved making wild suspicions whenever he had nothing better to do. Wu Xiaojiu burst out laughing at him.
He stood on tiptoe and pinched the soft flesh of Bo Suihan’s cheeks.
“He is the Soldier King. You know Bo Suihan, don’t you?”
That one shout frightened the man so badly that his head went blank. For a moment, he was too flustered to speak, pointing at Bo Suihan and stumbling over you, me, him without getting a single sentence out.
Excited, the man instinctively leaned forward to look. After carefully making out the figure in the darkness, he realized the man really did look eighty to ninety percent like the Soldier King. In an instant, he became almost unnaturally thrilled.
“No way, he really is the Soldier King! Wu Xiaojiu, you’re incredible. You actually rescued the Soldier King just like that.”
After finally untangling his tongue, the man spoke excitedly, his whole face glowing with energy. The admiration in his eyes as he looked at Wu Xiaojiu was practically overflowing.
Seeing him like that, Bo Suihan silently shut his mouth, afraid that if he made even the slightest sound, his aide would get so excited he would keel over.
Only after the man had taken a long while to come back to his senses did Bo Suihan finally speak softly and issue an order.
“It was indeed thanks to Wu Xiaojiu. I’m safe now. You can come up and verify my voice and appearance. If you don’t find anything abnormal, then let’s get out of here together.”
After saying that, he calmly kicked Han Fu. The man let out an “ow,” confirming that he was still alive. Bo Suihan casually pointed at him.
“Take him with us and lock him up at the local station. I’m afraid he’ll try something.”
Once he finished speaking, the male aide accepted the order and came forward, carefully checking Bo Suihan’s appearance and voice. After confirming that the Soldier King had only suffered some harmless injuries, he immediately nodded.
“The brothers are all waiting outside. If you’re all right, I’ll notify them by walkie-talkie to send two luxury passenger jets over. Wu Xiaojiu is our hero, so there’s no way he can ride back in a helicopter. As for the man under your foot, his injuries are honestly too severe. The fact that he’s not dead yet is already a miracle. We’ll need to arrange for doctors to come separately.”
Bo Suihan nodded. He had a self-healing ability to begin with, and the white blood cells in his body were more than a hundred times stronger than an ordinary person’s. During the time they had just spent confessing their feelings and talking with the adjutant, his wound had already healed by eighty percent.
At a glance, he was basically fine. Forget the danger of fatal tetanus-at this rate, there probably wasn’t even any risk of scarring.
“Don’t put too much effort into treating the one under my foot. As long as he doesn’t die, it doesn’t matter even if he’s crippled. Put him on the helicopter. He’s taken enough passenger planes for one lifetime.”
The adjutant scooped Han Fu up in one smooth motion and gave Bo Suihan a nod to show he had received the order.
Then he took a walkie-talkie from his pocket and informed the people lying in ambush outside that there was no longer any danger inside the aquarium.
The three of them walked out without a scratch.
The outskirts were quiet, with only birdsong and the distant, lingering sound of an organ drifting through the air.
Most of the dark clouds in the sky had scattered. The road underfoot was wet, and the air carried the scent of morning dew.
The moment Bo Suihan showed himself, sighs of relief sounded from every direction.
A dozen or so foot soldiers from Dragon King Island surrounded him and draped the cloak that symbolized the Dragon King over Bo Suihan’s shoulders.
Han Fu had already been taken away by the others, dragged onto a helicopter to be handed over to the doctors for treatment.
The adjutant also went off to arrange the other boarding matters.
Of those closest to Bo Suihan, only Wu Xiaojiu remained at his side.
“What an impressive entrance.”
Once the soldiers withdrew, Wu Xiaojiu tilted his head and said it to him with a grin.
“Aside from the Dragon King, Dragon King Island has one other honored position. Want to know what it is? If you can guess it, I’ll appoint you to it.”
Bo Suihan tilted his head too, until their foreheads touched.
“The moment you say it, I know. Is that position called the Dragon King’s Wife? Or maybe the Dragon King’s Senior Lady?”
Wu Xiaojiu took it for granted that aside from the Dragon King, the only person with a noble status on Dragon King Island would naturally be the Dragon King’s spouse.
“What kind of tacky names are those? Neither. Family members aren’t allowed on Dragon King Island. Aside from the Dragon King, the person as honored as the Dragon King is the Next Dragon King.”
Bo Suihan straightened and, in front of several hundred people, cupped Wu Xiaojiu’s small face in his hands.
“Do you want to be the Next Dragon King and enjoy this kind of grand treatment, same as me?”
Before Wu Xiaojiu could answer, the whir of helicopter rotors suddenly sounded in the distance. Since Bo Suihan, the Dragon King, had not boarded yet, the people of Dragon King Island naturally would not take a helicopter and leave before their Dragon King.
Just as Wu Xiaojiu was wondering where such a loud noise was coming from, a voice suddenly rang out from the sky.
“Next Dragon King? Bo Suihan, you really take the Dragon King face you’ve been given and use it like this? You got yourself into such a miserable state, even got injured, and before you, the current Dragon King, are even dead, you’re already trying to decide who gets to be the next one? Aren’t you cursing yourself? If you really care about him, just make him a Co-King of Equal Rank!”
It was an especially familiar female voice.
Wu Xiaojiu looked up at the sky.
A brilliant streak of red cut through the night. Lin Yang had once again made her entrance with full pomp, swaggering and overbearing as ever.
But unlike last time, this time there were two more aircraft following behind Lin Yang, each one more extraordinary than the last.
And the final one was a plane Wu Xiaojiu had only ever seen on his phone.