Shadow Heir II: Dark Glory - Chapter 62

Bai Xuyang watched Cheng Chong kowtow to Su Wuji with complicated eyes, but he said nothing more.

He waded into the water again because Xiao Pang had swum about ten meters from the shore.

“Quick, swim over here, grab my hand!” Bai Xuyang shouted.

However, Xiao Pang ignored him. Carrying the truck driver, he stood up directly from the water. With his height of over two meters, the water near the shore couldn’t even cover his head.

This guy was truly a stamina monster. Su Wuji had stayed underwater for a few minutes and was red-faced and gasping for breath, while Xiao Pang, who had held his breath for so long, didn’t even need to take a deep breath now!

Thud.

Xiao Pang reached the shore and threw the truck driver directly onto the ground.

Bai Xuyang thought Xiao Pang was going to perform CPR on him too, but unexpectedly, Xiao Pang then punched the man heavily in the stomach!

The driver folded in half on the spot and vomited a large mouthful of water! He clutched his stomach, curled up on the ground, looking incredibly pained.

Bai Xuyang shouted, “Quick, restrain him!”

Several bodyguards rushed forward, pinned the driver face down on the ground, and firmly held his limbs.

Meanwhile, Su Wuji waved his hand at Cheng Chong and said, “Don’t make such a big deal out of it. What’s with the kowtowing?”

Saying this, he reached out and pulled the man up. However, his movement stopped halfway, and then he supported Cheng Chong with both hands, carefully helping him sit down, Su Wuji saw that Cheng Chong’s ankle was severely twisted and deformed.

Cheng Chong completely ignored the injury to his ankle and said very seriously, “You are my savior. A kowtow is really nothing.”

Su Wuji smiled. “Might as well give some money then.”

Cheng Chong took it seriously. “With just one word from you, all the assets I, Cheng Chong, have saved can be offered with both hands.”

Su Wuji shook his head and laughed. “Hey, it was just a small effort.”

He spoke lightly. But Bai Xuyang’s voice rang out from the side, “That was no small effort.” There was a clear complexity in his tone.

Su Wuji: “That’s just because you’re too weak.”

Bai Xuyang: “…”

Cheng Chong continued, “I was conscious at the time, but my ankle and arm were broken, and my body was pinned by the deformed car frame. I couldn’t break free at all. If not for you…”

At first, Cheng Chong was dizzy from the impact. After falling into the water, he wanted to struggle but choked on several mouthfuls of water. After two minutes, his consciousness began to fade.

However, before losing consciousness completely, he watched helplessly for half a minute as Su Wuji tried every means to pry open the car frame! In that half minute, Cheng Chong had an unprecedentedly strong will to survive!

Yet, prying open a severely deformed car frame with bare hands was hard enough on land with tools; in the oxygen-free environment underwater, it was almost impossible!

Watching Su Wuji trying to save him, Cheng Chong finally lost consciousness. When he woke up, he found himself already on the shore.

Su Wuji said to Cheng Chong, “It was also a coincidence. The frame was almost broken by the truck, otherwise, I wouldn’t have been able to move it.”

As to whether that was truly the case, only Su Wuji knew.

Cheng Chong said, “It was really too dangerous at the time. The truck was pressing on my car. If it tipped over, you wouldn’t have been able to escape either… I don’t know what to say to express…”

Su Wuji waved his hand. “Alright, stop saying these things. I didn’t save you expecting anything in return.”

Bai Xuyang looked at Su Wuji. “Brother Chong is very important to me. Since you saved him, do I have to kowtow to you too?”

Su Wuji took off his jacket, wringing the water out of it, and chuckled. “Forget that. If you kowtow to me, I’ll have to give you lucky money.”

To this remark taking advantage of seniority, Bai Xuyang surprisingly didn’t retort.

However, immediately after, his gaze froze. Because Su Wuji had finished wringing out his clothes, but the clothes were stained with quite a bit of dark red!

That was blood!

Looking at Su Wuji’s hands again, they were dripping with blood! In his palms, there were several deep cuts! They must have been caused when he pried open the deformed car frame!

Cheng Chong looked at his own chest. His clothes were also stained dark red, but because it was a black suit, it wasn’t as obvious. But before, Su Wuji had used these cut-covered hands to forcefully perform CPR on him!

How painful must that have been?

“Respect,” Bai Xuyang took a deep breath.

“Don’t. I can’t afford Young Master Bai’s respect,” Su Wuji said.

Bai Xuyang: “I was a soldier for a few years, and I don’t think I have your willpower… In fact, I’m far from it.”

Su Wuji: “The soldiers I know have much stronger willpower than you.”

Bai Xuyang: “…”

Qin Guilin’s voice finally sounded. “Um… about that kick just now, sorry about that.”

Su Wuji gave him a grumpy look. “If you hadn’t kicked me in the stomach so hard it hurt, I could have saved him a little faster.”

Qin Guilin scratched his head, took a cigarette pack from his pocket, pulled out a cigarette, and handed it to Su Wuji. The latter took it and dangled it from his mouth.

Qin Guilin took out a lighter, leaned in, and actively offered to light Su Wuji’s cigarette.

If the young masters of the Capital’s elite families saw this scene, many jaws would probably drop!

However, Su Wuji pushed the lighter aside and said, “I don’t smoke.”

“What?”

Qin Guilin was dumbfounded. “Big brother, if you don’t smoke, why do you keep a cigarette in your mouth?”

Su Wuji glanced at him sideways. “I’m posing. What, got a problem with that?”

Qin Guilin looked at the bloodstained wet clothes, thinking about his own footprint on them earlier, and felt a bit awkward.

“Sorry about before,” he felt a bit guilty. “I’ll compensate you for your clothes.”

Su Wuji: “My clothes are expensive.”

Qin Guilin said, “How much? I have money, I can afford it.”

Su Wuji, cigarette dangling, narrowed his eyes. “Custom-made by Italy’s most famous craftsman, Gasaye. A set costs eight hundred and eighty thousand.”

Eight hundred and eighty thousand?

Bai Xuyang felt this number sounded a bit familiar.

Didn’t I act as the sucker for this before?

Qin Guilin’s first reaction was: “Italy’s Gasaye? Didn’t he die several years ago?”

Su Wuji raised an eyebrow. “I ordered it before he died. Is it any of your business?”

Qin Guilin seemed quite straightforward at this moment. “Fine, I’ll pay!”

Su Wuji unceremoniously took out his phone. “Scan the code, pay up.”

However, after scanning the code, Qin Guilin’s face turned a bit ugly. “Why is my card limited? I only have a limit of twenty-eight thousand left!”

“Trying to renege and not pay?” Su Wuji chuckled.

“Really not. It’s probably my dad’s doing!” Qin Guilin said. “How about this? Wait until I return to the Capital…”

“No, don’t wait until you go back. right now,” Su Wuji said. “Giving twenty-eight thousand first is fine too.”

Mm, getting twenty-eight thousand means earning at least twenty-seven thousand eight hundred.

That green suit jacket was a bargain hunt for less than two hundred!

“Deal!”

Qin Guilin paid the money crisply.

At this moment, several police cars had arrived. After all, such a serious traffic accident was rare in the entire Linjiang Province.

Bai Xuyang had intended to suppress this matter and solve it himself, but it seemed impossible now.

He thought for a moment and called his father’s old subordinate, Li Hongcheng.

“Brother Li, I came to Linzhou. Something happened; I was almost killed in a crash.”

“What happened?” Li Hongcheng’s voice immediately rose an octave.

“I’ve controlled the driver who caused the accident. I’m not sure if it was attempted murder. I’ll hand him over to you guys; you interrogate him.”

As Bai Xuyang spoke, he turned to stare fiercely at the truck driver. The driver seemed to have lost the will to live, not struggling, his eyes somewhat vacant.

“Okay!” Li Hongcheng said immediately. “I’m in a meeting at the Provincial Department. I’ll go back immediately. Give me the location; I’ll have the Hubin Branch take over this case right away!”

If something happened to Bai Xuyang in Linzhou, Li Hongcheng really didn’t know how to explain it to his old chief!

Ten minutes later, Park Yanxi arrived at the scene with the criminal police team.

“Damn, this female officer is really beautiful!” Qin Guilin’s eyes lit up. “Seems no less than Mu Qianyu!”

Indeed, Park Yanxi in uniform exuded a dashing aura. Even with a hat on, it couldn’t hide her stunning beauty.

Bai Xuyang also felt Qin Guilin was right. It seemed that after seeing this girl, his heart, which was still reeling from the shock, calmed down.

“Hello, Officer. I am Qin Guilin, twenty-six years old this year.”

Qin Guilin stepped forward first, extending his hand enthusiastically to Park Yanxi. “I am a witness to the car accident. Officer, you can ask me any questions you have.”

However, Park Yanxi didn’t shake his hand. Instead, she raised her hand in a salute and asked, “Where are the perpetrator and the injured?”

Immediately after, she saw the shirtless Su Wuji holding a bloodstained suit jacket.

A light of worry instantly surged in Park Yanxi’s eyes!

“Are you the injured person?” Park Yanxi asked.

Su Wuji saw the worry in Park Yanxi’s eyes and shook his head. “The car frame was deformed. When I pried it open, I scratched my hand a little. It’s nothing.”

Park Yanxi said, “So, you witnessed the whole process?”

“That’s right, from beginning to end,” Su Wuji said.

Park Yanxi looked around the scene and arranged, “Leave one group to examine the scene. Take everyone else back to the station for questioning.”

Then, she pointed at Su Wuji. “You get in my car. I’ll question you personally.”

NOTES

“Lucky money” or “Red envelope money.” Traditionally given by elders to juniors during the Lunar New Year. By saying he’d have to give Bai Xuyang lucky money if he kowtowed, Su Wuji is jokingly implying he is Bai Xuyang’s elder/senior.