CHAPTER 284: CHAPTER 284 A FAVOR TO ASK_1

After a few ragged gasps, Du Yuanzheng fell silent.

The man in the white coat checked Du Yuanzheng for breath, placed the respirator back over his mouth, and quietly left the hospital room.

A short while later, a scream shattered the quiet in Du Yuanzheng’s hospital room.

"Ah! He’s dead!"

Two patrolling nurses had made the shocking discovery that Du Yuanzheng was dead!

"What?"

"Yuanzheng is dead?"

When Du Zilong received the notice from the hospital, he immediately rushed over with his men. Seeing that Du Yuanzheng had already breathed his last, his eyes blazed with hatred.

He automatically blamed Su Xuan for Du Yuanzheng’s death.

A feud to the death! This is a feud to the death now!

But who exactly was the man in the white coat who had killed Du Yuanzheng?

"Madam, everything is proceeding according to your plan."

The man in the white coat had already left the hospital and changed out of his uniform. He slipped into a car parked by the roadside, gestured for the driver to go, and made a phone call.

"You’ve done well. The money will be transferred to you in full," Mrs. Bai’s voice came through the phone.

Yes, the man in the white coat worked for Mrs. Bai.

She hadn’t anticipated that Du Zilong and his group would go looking for Su Xuan tonight. She had merely sent someone to monitor Su Xuan’s home, hoping to find an opportunity to cause him some trouble. As it turned out, the perfect opportunity had just fallen into her lap.

Thinking fast, she had her man follow them to the hospital and finish off Du Yuanzheng, creating a mortal enemy for Su Xuan.

She eagerly awaited to see what kind of revenge Du Zilong and his men would exact upon Su Xuan.

「The next morning.」

The sky was somewhat overcast.

RUSTLE!

A strange noise came from Su Xuan’s room.

He was sanding a rusty iron rod with sandpaper, but to his disappointment, he wore through several sheets without removing a single speck of rust, as if it were an innate part of the rod itself.

He had no choice but to give up and go eat the breakfast Wang Xuehan and Old Steward Liu had prepared. It even featured stewed pheasant!

KNOCK, KNOCK!

Just as he finished breakfast, someone knocked on the courtyard gate.

"Someone’s here to make trouble for Brother Su!"

"Great, let’s go see who it is!"

At the sound of knocking, the young siblings’ eyes lit up, as if they were genuinely excited for someone to cause Su Xuan trouble.

"You two!"

Su Xuan chuckled, told the siblings to behave, and went to open the gate himself, revealing two familiar faces.

It was Zhao Ling and Wei Haojie from the Five Poisons Sect.

"Brother Su, we’ve come to seek revenge," one of them said.

"Are you free today?" the other asked.

The moment they saw Su Xuan, their words were so absurd he nearly did a spit-take.

This was because Su Xuan had previously told them to be straightforward if they wanted to cause him trouble again, instead of sneaking around. Having developed a peculiar ’rapport’ with Su Xuan, they felt that acting covertly was no longer appropriate, so they had come openly.

"I was about to go drive for Didi," Su Xuan said, scratching his head. "But no matter. Just make it quick."

"Right, right!"

"We’ll be fast!"

Zhao Ling and Wei Haojie nodded and followed Su Xuan into the courtyard.

As soon as they entered, Old Steward Liu and Wang Xuehan came over to ask what was happening. After a brief explanation, Su Xuan told the two men to hurry up and start.

The two siblings watched with great interest from the side, one brandishing a kitchen knife and the other clutching their lower back. They truly loved these days filled with constant trouble.

"Brother Su, I’ll go first!"

Zhao Ling rolled up his sleeves and took a fighting stance before Su Xuan.

"Um..." Su Xuan said, puzzled. "You’re not using any of your little critters?"

"No... no more critters."

Zhao Ling’s facial muscles twitched.

You stole all our critters, where would we get more? Besides, even if we caught some incredibly venomous new ones, we couldn’t train them this quickly!

"Then let’s begin," Su Xuan said, standing tall and beckoning to Zhao Ling.

"Watch out!"

With a sharp cry, Zhao Ling lunged forward, swinging a fist toward Su Xuan’s temple.

But in Su Xuan’s eyes, the motion was painfully slow.

Ever since his physique had been repeatedly enhanced by the system, everything seemed to move in slow motion!

THUD!

Without any fancy moves, Su Xuan simply lifted his foot and kicked Zhao Ling in the stomach.

OW!

Zhao Ling immediately screamed, curling up on the ground with his hands on his belly, looking to be in extreme agony.

The sight left Su Xuan dumbfounded.

I barely used any force. Does it really hurt that much?

"Brother Su, you’re too ruthless!"

Wei Haojie put on an angry expression, assumed a desperate fighting stance, and swung his fist at Su Xuan.

But Su Xuan merely raised an arm to block.

Wei Haojie shrieked and crouched on the ground, clutching his arm and wailing that Su Xuan had broken it.

Wang Xuehan couldn’t help but let out a soft laugh at the scene.

Did these two come here this morning just to be comedians?

The young siblings pouted with disinterest. They thought they were getting champions, but they got a couple of bronze-leaguers instead. So boring.

"I mean... what is this...?"

Su Xuan stared at them, dumbfounded. A single thought popped into his head.

An extortion racket! Are they using ’revenge’ as a pretext to shake me down?

"Brother Su, can we have a word in private?"

A moment later, Zhao Ling seemed to have recovered and spoke to Su Xuan in a serious tone.

"Fine," Su Xuan said, leading the two men into the banquet hall where he usually ate breakfast.

"Wow, Brother Su’s breakfast is so lavish!"

Upon seeing the unfinished meal on the table, the eyes of both men lit up.

"We haven’t eaten yet," Zhao Ling said, rubbing his hands together. "Could we have a bite here?"

"If you don’t mind leftovers, help yourselves," Su Xuan shrugged.

"We don’t mind, not at all."

Zhao Ling and Wei Haojie promptly sat down at the table and began to eat.

Zhao Ling’s stomachache had miraculously vanished.

Wei Haojie’s arm was fine now, too.

"Brother Su, that kick of yours was truly magnificent!" Zhao Ling said while gnawing on a pheasant bone. "Good thing I skipped dinner last night, otherwise you would have kicked it right out of me!"

"Brother Su is seriously skilled!" Wei Haojie chimed in. "Luckily I do push-ups every day, otherwise my arm really would have snapped!"

"What do you two actually want?" Su Xuan asked, completely baffled.

"We... hehe... have an awkward request." Zhao Ling wiped his mouth with an embarrassed look. "Brother Su, we didn’t bring much money with us this time, and you... well, you relieved us of our funds last time. Things are a little tight, so we were hoping to borrow some money to get by..."

"Uh..."

Su Xuan’s mouth twitched. If this wasn’t an extortion racket, it was certainly close enough. He then asked, "How much are you looking to borrow?"