Chapter 133: Gamble (Bonus Chapter)

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Hao Ren sat on the bench for a few moments, and the guards came rushing him. He said, "I am fine." They were concerned because gym was an injury prone place and the sudden power cut could have resulted in a serious injury. Hao Ren fished out his phone from the pocket and typed, "Xiao Mei turn on the lights and give me a narration on what Hao Mei is doing." Xiao Mei replied in his ear, "Alright, boss. Also, Harvey Skye has been located, I also looked into his identity." Hao Ren picked up the barbell and said, "Go ahead." Xiao Mei said, "He is an employee in the Business Association. He lives in the Siphon Tower near the bund. There are five people in his family and one of them is chronically ill, and admitted in the terminal ward of the Meridian First Hospital." Hao Ren raised his brows and asked, "What is the illness of this patient and what is their relation to Harvey Skye?" Xiao Mei replied, "The patient is vegetative, Subarachnoid Bleed. The blood clotted in a place where none of the modern technology can cure it. It appears that the person has been admitted for over a couple of years. She is called Lilac Skye, age twelve years, and is daughter to Harvey Skye." Hao Ren smiled widely as he lifted the barbell to the maximum height. He asked, "What about Hao Mei?" ... Hao Mei was flying through the void, she had a small glass bead in her hand. This bead was flicking with purple light and as she was flying the blinks were getting smaller and the light was getting brighter. If normal humans looked at the sky, they would not see anything different. Hao Mei was clever, she was using a concealment array to hide herself from the people. Within a few minutes, she came to a stop and looked down at the road. She spotted a bike and a mini-van moving at a high speed. She took out her sword and vanished from her position. Tim was riding his bike looking for any signs of attack or intersection. He was the strongest warrior in this batch and it was his task to protect both his team and the targets. Sometimes, the cultivators were ruthless, in order to hide their tracks they would kill the targets. ... In the minivan, Hao Xinyuan sighed and asked, "Do you guys have any water in the car?" The people exchanged gazes with each other and a young lady nodded and picked up a water bottle, and handed it to Hao Xinyuan. The old man accepted it with a smile on his face, and unscrewed the cap on top. He drank a mouthful before passing the bottle to Tang Zen. Except for the driver, all three were gazing at the old couple. They were not as chill about the surrender as Tim. Suddenly, the driver exclaimed, "What the fuck?" Every one shifted their gaze, Hao Xinyuan held the cap of the bottle between his thumb and fingers and flicked it towards the driver aiming at the back of his head. The cap was flicked with so much power that had it collided with a normal human skull, the person would have died from a cranial explosion. The cap hit the driver, and the latter was knocked out. The passenger reacted quickly and tried to take over the wheel, but Hao Xinyuan had taken out three pennies from his pocket and flicked them at the three people before him. He might be old, and he might have sealed his cultivation but his skills were still good enough to hand three foundation establishing youngsters. After he was done with that, he held Tang Zen in his embrace as the car came to a sudden stop. The old lady sighed and said, "We could have taken these people out when they showed up at the market, but we didn't because that would only trigger higher level investigations. What will we do now?" After half an hour, Roy found him standing before an abandoned house in the city sub-urbs. This place was on the outskirts of the city, and did not have much human activity at this hour. He got down, took out the packet from the back seat, placed it next to the wall of the abandoned house and left the place. Those were the instructions and he was smart enough to know that sometimes it was better to know less. ... Hao Mei watched the entire scene from a distance and only when the tail lights vanished in the distance did she pick up the packet and brought it inside the house. Hao Xinyuan and Tang Zen were sitting on the dirty floor and the five people were tied up before them. Tim said, "Mister Hao, what you are doing is strictly against the rules set for the cultivators from the Spirit Shimmer Continent. If I did not report to my seniors by the morning tomorrow, you will be facing an even bigger trouble." Hao Xinyuan nodded and said, "I know, but sometimes we have to gamble. What I don't understand is, how come your seniors have never been suspicious of us before? I mean, me and my wife have worked through the years and done a lot of things for our county sincerely. Yet, the DEHB is treating us as if we are your mortal enemies. This does not seem fair, does it?" Tim was about to say something when the door was pushed open by Hao Mei, who came over with a parcel in her hands. She handed the parcel to Han Xinyuan who quickly checked the content and said, "Well, Mister Tim, I would have loved to talk to you, but it seems that I need to see you off now." .net Tim frowned and said, "You can run but you can never hide from the eyes of the DEHB." Tang Zen pinched her fingers and asked as the rest of his crew members shivered in pain, "Can you tell me, who is the superior officer involved in this investigation?" Tim smiled and replied, "You will know soon." Hao Mei flickered from her place and knocked them out. She said, "These people would rather die than talk. Don't worry about it. What did Ren say?" Hao Xinyuan took out a small bottle from the packet and opened it revealing a green paste stuffed inside. He then used his finger to smear this paste on the lips of the seven people, and whispered something in their ears. The process was completed quickly. Tang Zen asked, "Did you just tried to sooth say them?" Hao Xinyuan nodded and replied, "Xiao Ren sent this medicine because it can make them amnesic. They will forget everything that happen for the past twelve hours. What I said would become their memory and we will be clear of investigation." Hao Mei was surprised and asked, "What did you tell them?" The old man replied, "I told them that we do not have any cultivation capability and we are just ordinary mortals with old injuries that makes it impossible for us to cultivate." Hao Mei asked doubtfully, "Do you really think that would work?" The old man replied, "I am not sure where the kid came up with all these ideas but so what, this is the moment we should have some trust in him, after all, he saved us without making a single move. So, it is worth it, even if I go down, I will trust Xiao Ren." Hao Mei sighed and said, "If only you could have been like this before." The trio then devoured the food before they cleaned up the place and left no traces of their existence and even untied the five of them. She noticed that the layer of paste was not where to be seen on the bodies, the medicine had been absorbed by the skin slowly.

Chapter 133: Gamble (Bonus Chapter)

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