Chapter 32: 32. Criminal
“Actually… I wasn’t really after your pocket money, I just asked casually,” Qing Chen said sowhat awkwardly.
At this mont, even he felt a little sheepish.
Really getting obsessed with money here…
However, Qing Chen had realized that Li Tongyun was also suspecting him to be a transmigrator.
Perhaps it was because of his keen interest in the Inner World, always asking questions, or maybe because he had guessed her secret.
When he unhesitatingly said he did not need the Inner World’s money, the other party dismissed their suspicions.
Overall, Qing Chen had quite a fruitful evening, at least confirming Li Tongyun’s identity as a transmigrator.
Now that he was involved in the Qing’s Family shadow struggle, having one more friend was better than none.
Even though Li Tongyun was only ten, she might be of help soday.
Just like when he first transmigrated and prayed to the Buddha, the preparation work had to be done beforehand.
Taking advantage of Jiang Xue still not having finished washing the dishes, Li Tongyun whispered to Qing Chen, “I really don’t have much pocket money in the Outer World, why don’t you change the condition, Brother Qing Chen?”
“Change to what condition?” Qing Chen asked.
“I don’t know, but you can’t tell my mom,” Li Tongyun pressed her voice lower again.
“All right, you owe one for now,” Qing Chen glanced at Jiang Xue’s silhouette in the kitchen: “Rember to take good care of your mother in the Inner World, I hear it’s pretty chaotic in there.”
“Yeah, don’t worry,” Li Tongyun said contentedly: “When you have a chance to transmigrate to the Inner World in the future, I will protect you guys!”
Qing Chen was sowhat amused; the promise of a child was so pure and simple.
He said goodbye to Jiang Xue and went downstairs, finding his own ho much lonelier in comparison.
No family and no one to talk to.
Qing Chen opened his phone and glanced at the class group. Inside, there was still blind and uninformative discussion going on. There are probably only him and Nan Gengchen as transmigrators in class 2-3, right?
He opened Weibo and imdiately noticed two trending topics rapidly climbing: an overseas mysterious organization was offering a hefty reward for purchasing chanical limbs and future technology items from the Inner World.
Soone posted a screenshot online, and the organization even listed an inventory of items: NECE anti-aging drugs, EDE-002 genetic potions…
Among them, there were even various targeted drugs for cancer, none of which had been developed in the Outer World yet.
The list of these future technology items actually shared common characteristics: life-saving, life-prolonging, maintaining youth, and enhancing physical functions.
The organization claid to have tested the effectiveness of the drugs, which indeed worked on Ordinary People from the Outer World.
They even openly taught transmigrators thods for carrying the items: wrap the tablets with protective film and place them in the mouth or swallow them, or insert them into the rectum.
Qing Chen frowned upon reading this, these people resorted to using a drug mule’s thods to bring things back from the Inner World.
You have to understand, the value of targeted drugs, anti-aging dications and the like are incalculable. If a wealthy person was dying of cancer and their only hope was a life-saving drug from the Inner World, what price would they pay?
What price is equivalent to a life?
Of course, there are many other life-saving items like bionic kidneys and hearts, but those can’t be transported.
Qing Chen was sowhat reflective, just when he was still figuring out how to beco a Transcendent, so people had already started doing business.
But this thod, he couldn’t use it right now.
If you want to do a physical transaction, you’ll inevitably expose your identity.
Of course, you could also bring back technology on a USB drive, but what ordinary transmigrator could access the core technologies of the Inner World? Maybe in the future, but it seems there’s no one like that now.
So far, Qing Chen had hardly been able to access outside information from within that No. 18 Prison.
The most important thing was to build a good relationship with Uncle Li Dong.
Wait, Qing Chen suddenly realized, the mysterious organization was also buying chanical limbs!
A few days ago, a transmigrator had their legs cut off, and now these people are paying sky-high prices to purchase sothing, which likely would further encourage such cris against transmigrators!
At that mont, Qing Chen suddenly rembered the two strange n he had seen in the courtyard on his way ho from school!
He moved quietly to the window and carefully pulled back the curtain to peek outside.
However, the two n who had been squatting outside were now nowhere to be seen.
Qing Chen hesitated only for three seconds before he imdiately dialed 110, “Hello, my address is Building 12, No. 4 Xingshu Road courtyard; I spotted two very suspicious n in the evening, and I think they have bad intentions.”
He hesitated because if he was wrong, he would have made a false alarm.
The female dispatcher on the other end of the phone confird, “You are at No. 4 Xingshu Road courtyard, right? Let confirm with you again, you have seen two strange n in the community…”
Before she could finish, a piercing scream from Li Tongyun suddenly ca from upstairs!
“Please dispatch the police imdiately, thank you!” Qing Chen said and then hung up the call.
His judgnt was not wrong; these two people were indeed targeting Jiang Xue.
When he had passed by the two n, they had looked in four directions, and one of those was towards Jiang Xue’s ho window!
Qing Chen grabbed the entrenching shovel he had purchased earlier from the kitchen, and as he was about to leave, he hesitated again.
He was just an ordinary 17-year-old student; he had seen death, but he was still only an ordinary person!
The assailants were two grown n, possibly even more; could he handle them?
With a click, Qing Chen turned the doorknob and, holding the entrenching shovel, burst out the door.
He was not so kind of saint; he was quite selfish, as he had been unmoved by the sight of his classmate going mad in Prison No. 18.
But to stand by as a child like Li Tongyun faced harm, Qing Chen couldn’t do it!
At one point, he thought if he had gained supernatural abilities but did not have the courage to match, such abilities would be useless.
But just as he opened the door, he saw that a middle-aged man had just tumbled down the stairs.
The man’s arm was twisted in an unnatural way, he had already collapsed unconscious on the sloped staircase.
A spring knife lay scattered by his side.
When Qing Chen looked up, he saw Jiang Xue, her face sared with blood, standing above on the stairs; her white long-sleeved T-shirt stained with lines of blood.
One of the woman’s sleeves was torn, revealing a chanical arm glowing with blue light, slender yet powerful, beautiful but tough.
She was trembling all over, but her eyes were gradually firming up.
The emotion of a mother protecting her daughter is sothing ordinary people can’t understand.
At that mont, Jiang Xue had a unique allure, sowhat hardcore.
Jiang Xue glanced at Qing Chen, then at the entrenching shovel in his hand, and cald down before saying, “Thank you.”
She knew Qing Chen had co to help, and she had to rember anyone who would lend a hand in such a situation.
“Was there only one of them?” Qing Chen asked.
“There was another, he ran away,” Jiang Xue replied.
“Is Xiao Yun okay?” asked Qing Chen.
Jiang Xue said, “She got scared.”
Qing Chen frowned, “You take care of Xiao Yun first.”
After speaking, he rushed out of the stairwell just in ti to see a figure sprinting away in the night.
Jiang Xue wanted to stop him, but before she could even speak, the youth had already disappeared into the night.
However, she suddenly realized that the man was running in a different direction.
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