Chapter 44: Hunt Qi Chuan!
After seeing Qi Chuan wolf down his food until he was almost full, Su Chen waited a while longer before slowly walking in.
Qi Chuan’s shoulders slumped, and he looked up, a flash of venom in his eyes disappearing as he forced a bitter smile, “Little Brother Su… I finally see you. Must it come to this?”
“I…” He sighed, “I’m just unwilling, that’s all. I couldn’t control Jiang He, so I thought back then… to murder.”
“Later, an accident happened, and I wanted to figure out exactly what happened that night.”
He immediately brought up the root of their contact, appearing very sincere, and he earnestly apologized for contacting Hu Xiang.
“Honestly, seeing you so young, handsome, and dashing, jealousy consumed me, which is why I harbored killing intent. From now on, I will never harbor any ill intentions towards you again.”
“Is that all?” Su Chen’s reaction was very calm.
“Little Brother…” Qi Chuan said helplessly, “You must have checked my information. I’m just a live-in son-in-law. Jiang Rong keeps a very close eye on me, and I don’t get any kickbacks in the Research Department.”
“Who is behind you?” Su Chen asked directly.
“I…” Qi Chuan’s eyes flickered, and he looked troubled. “Please don’t ask. It’s not good for anyone if you do. I didn’t contact him this time. I’ll honestly stay here for these few days, consider it my atonement.”
“We’re all in the same line of work. Give me an opportunity.”
As he said the last sentence, he hinted slightly.
Su Chen stared at him. He could bend and stretch; truly impressive.
Last time, when he mentioned being in the same line of work, the other party almost lost control. This time, to dispel his vigilance, he apologized, complimented him, and finally brought up those four words himself.
“Jiang He came to save you,” Su Chen said with a touch of emotion. “She’s upstairs.”
Upstairs? Qi Chuan gritted his teeth inwardly but managed a smile. “After all, we were married once.”
“Sign this, and you can leave tonight,” Su Chen produced a leather scroll.
Qi Chuan knew what it was but wasn’t surprised. He sighed, “It should have been like this long ago.”
He looked very casual, took it, and signed his name. The characters on the leather scroll flashed with a faint light, and the entire scroll disintegrated.
Su Chen took it, turned, and left. “After the evening banquet, I’ll let you out.”
“I believe you, Little Brother,” Qi Chuan said gently. He wasn’t going to stay for many days anyway; he would get out sooner or later.
BOOM!
The cell door slammed shut again. Qi Chuan snorted coldly inwardly, but suddenly felt a tug in his heart, a faint, stinging pain.
“What’s going on…” He touched his heart. The feeling quickly disappeared, but the hunger in his abdomen tormented him ceaselessly, every cell in his body screaming.
“I can only endure a few more days.”
However, what he didn’t expect was that after only three to four hours, around ten o’clock at night, Su Chen actually let him go.
“I can leave?” Qi Chuan was still somewhat surprised.
“If you don’t want to leave, you can stay,” the person guarding him said expressionlessly.
“Let’s go, let’s go.” Qi Chuan was starving and had initially wanted to retrieve his belongings from before his imprisonment.
However, he was informed that the person in charge had finished their shift and that he could only retrieve them tomorrow morning.
“Never mind.” Qi Chuan turned and left. The Inspection Department was in the Inner City, and it would only take three to four hours to walk back. By tomorrow morning, who knew what other complications might arise.
The night was dim, and at this hour, there were very few people on the streets.
“Why hasn’t it taken effect yet? Is it because the dosage was too low?”
In the distant shadows, Su Chen, wearing Shadow-Evading Clothes and holding a telescope, followed Qi Chuan from afar, but with a different face.
It was the Mimic Mask given to him by Yuan Chenyang. He could use it for disguise when he felt uneasy when going out, and it was a Ranked Item.
【Mimic Mask（First Order）: Crafted from the skin of a Ghost Ghoul, it can simply alter facial features.】
“I wonder what stage the plan has reached?” Qi Chuan subconsciously walked in the shadows, thinking to himself.
“I originally planned to take my time. With Jiang He’s death, I would gain Jiang Rong’s support, then use the Holy Word Stone’s theft as an opportunity to eliminate Yuan Chenyang. Jiang Rong would support Zhou Xian in succeeding the Minister of Inspection, and then I would just have to wait a year… Unfortunately, it went wrong from the start!”
He couldn’t help but get angry. “How did Su Chen even appear?!”
This guy had too many secrets. He didn’t believe the outside rumors that Yuan Chenyang had long taken Su Chen as a disciple, laying a trap from afar and going undercover in the City Patrol.
“…Damn it!”
The hunger in his stomach, the humiliation in his heart, the cuckoldry, and the subservient attitude he had to adopt when facing Su Chen just now all fueled Qi Chuan’s rage.
“Sooner or later… Su Chen, Jiang He, I’ll make you… unable to live, unable to…”
“Ugh!”
Suddenly, Qi Chuan, whose face had been changing in color, collapsed to the ground, struggling to breathe. His heart ached intensely, and green patterns began to appear on his arms.
“What is this? Corpse Shadow Poison!” His pupils contracted. “When did I…”
“Antidote potion!”
The sudden life-threatening crisis made Qi Chuan disregard other thoughts. He abruptly turned and headed towards the Outer City.
“What is he doing?” Su Chen was quite surprised, his eyes narrowing as he quickly followed.
Qi Chuan was a Second Order Professional, but he had been starving for days and was suffering from a potent poison. He stumbled, and his speed was not fast, allowing Su Chen to easily keep up.
Qi Chuan’s face was pale, his forehead covered in cold sweat. After rushing for three to four hours, he reached the edge of the Inner City, only one step away from the Outer City.
Su Chen was afraid he would die halfway, but he stubbornly endured.
Qi Chuan stopped in front of a dilapidated building, rushed to the top floor, didn’t even use a key, and forcefully broke open the door. Dust flew everywhere, and tables, chairs, and benches were overturned.
Bang!
He pried open a section of the wall, took out a metal iron box from within, hastily verified his fingerprint, and then took out a glass bottle, gulping it down.
At this moment, the green patterns had already crawled almost to his neck.
“Huff… huff… huff…” Qi Chuan gasped for air, fell onto the ground on his back, his body convulsing uncontrollably, as if he had snatched his life back from the god of death.
As his highly tensed nerves relaxed, he subconsciously began to think about when he had been poisoned.
He had been staying in the Inspection Department during this time and had hardly come into contact with anything from the outside world, except… the food at the Inspection Department!
Qi Chuan quickly pieced together his thoughts, his face becoming extremely grim. A name then surfaced…
But suddenly, a chill ran down his spine, and he turned his head.
He saw a blurry shadow, which had already attacked from outside the door. The crackling sound of a long, thin whip striking made him tremble with fear.
Before he could react, his head suddenly exploded, as if a needle had pierced his temple, but he could still withstand this impact.
“Who!”
He roared, and intense flames erupted from his eyes, instantly expanding into a wall of fire.
But it was ultimately too late. The whip strike tore through the wall of fire and fell upon his head. Qi Chuan subconsciously raised his hands, and fierce flames burned intensely.
However, the end of the whip suddenly scattered like a celestial maiden scattering flowers, transforming into thin strands that fiercely whipped down!
“Ah!” Qi Chuan let out a wailing cry, the metallic strands, like high-speed saws, forcibly cut into his arm, and flesh and blood exploded!
“Second Order Item? Who, who exactly wants to kill me?!” Qi Chuan was terrified. His body’s weakness had severely reduced his strength, leaving him with less than one-tenth of his power.
“Su Chen, it must be him!” In a flash, Qi Chuan understood.
Poisoning, tracking, ambush, only Su Chen.
“How insidious!” He was shocked and furious, but it was too late.
Two iron wires, winding like venomous snakes, traversed through the gaps in his arm and directly pierced his eyes, churning violently in his brain.
Splatter! Eyeball fragments mixed with blood sprayed out!
“Ugh!”
His body stiffened, and Qi Chuan fell silent. The flames around his body gradually dissipated.
【One of the promotion conditions: Hunt a Second Order Professional without being noticed by others（Completed）】
