43: Chapter 43 Seeing Through the Truth: In the Face of Interest, Everything Else is Ignorant

In the Chen Family's Cloud Garden, Li Wanqing knelt before the coffee table, peeling grapes.

The peeled grapes were piled into a small tower on the plate, but Chen Bo's mind was not on this at all.

She continued to peel, acting as if there was nothing wrong, but when the boss is nearby, one must always find something to do.

Suddenly, a phone ringtone sounded from Chen Bo's wristband.

Chen Bo sat up from the sofa with a start, startling Li Wanqing so much that the grape in her hand fell to the floor.

She watched the wristband on Chen Bo's wrist; as he answered the call, she leaned in to listen.

"Hello?"

"Young Master Chen, it's done. The brothers are packing it up right now. Should we send it to your residence, or to No. 8 Middle School?"

After listening, Chen Bo gave Li Wanqing a look.

She immediately opened her own wristband, and as the holographic screen popped up, she swiped across it a few times.

At this moment, Scar Brother on the other end of the line said again: "Hello, Young Master Chen, I think No. 8 Middle School would be better. I heard that was where that kid caused you to lose Face last time. This time, you can take the opportunity to establish your authority over him."

At this, Li Wanqing nodded and whispered: "The sentry tower has confirmed it. He intercepted Yun Zhuo outside the Temple of the God of Wealth, and both he and Teacher Su are heavily injured."

Chen Bo then said to Liao Hu: "Going to the school is fine, but my dad will say I'm being arrogant again."

"Then, should we send it to your residence? Will Boss Chen be unhappy?"

"Go to the Desert Small Town."

"Go to the Desert Small Town?" Liao Hu felt a surge of joy in his heart; he hadn't even used many tricks, and the target had already agreed to leave the city on his own.

To avoid making Chen Bo suspicious, he added: "In that case, wouldn't it be unsafe for you, given your current situation, to leave the city... especially to the Desert Small Town, which is a place where all sorts of people mix?"

"It's fine, the town is full of my family's people. Who would dare touch me?"

"Alright, I'll send people to the city gate to pick you up right away."

"No need, I have my own people."

After hanging up the phone, he turned to Li Wanqing and said: "Accompany me on a trip."

"Shouldn't we tell Uncle Chen?"

Chen Bo stepped forward, patted her cheek affectionately, and smiled: "Don't worry, my dad has already arranged everything."

As he spoke, he took her hand and entered the cloud-top elevator.

Arriving at the first floor, three black armored vehicles the size of minibuses were already parked there, looking like three black panthers crouching on the ground.

As soon as they arrived, the front door opened, and a muscular man with a crew cut and a scar over his right eye jumped out of the car to greet them: "Young Master Chen."

"I'm going out of the city."

"Understood, this way please." After speaking, the muscular man walked quickly to the middle armored vehicle and opened the door for Chen Bo.

Chen Bo smiled and asked: "Do you know where I'm going?"

"Boss Chen has already given instructions: Desert Small Town."

Hearing this, Chen Bo looked back at Li Wanqing triumphantly.

Li Wanqing smiled and slapped him lightly: "Why are you looking at me? When have I ever doubted you?"

Chen Bo smiled slightly and continued to ask the muscular man: "Didn't my dad say anything else?"

"Boss Chen said that as the future successor of the Chen Family, it is time for you to see the world."

"Successor? Isn't he busy making me a little brother right now? He really thinks highly of me."

After saying this, he took Li Wanqing's hand and got into the car.

The Wasteland.

Yun Zhuo turned back to look at Scar Brother on the ground: "Is it settled?"

"Settled. We agreed to go to the Desert Small Town to trade—no, I mean, to meet."

After Scar Brother finished speaking, seeing Yun Zhuo walk toward him, he immediately added: "I'm still useful. With his suspicious personality, he will definitely contact me on the way. If I die, the ruse will be exposed."

"Look at how scared you are; I didn't say I was going to kill you. But listening to you, you seem to know the Chen Family very well. Tell me, will he leave the city alone?"

"No." Liao Hu, looking like a prisoner seeking leniency, hurriedly said: "He has bodyguards, heard they came from Tomorrow City, and every one of them is a battle-hardened veteran."

After saying this, Scar Brother regretted it again. With such bodyguards around Chen Bo, does this guy in front of him still have a chance to make a move? Hearing this, will he take his anger out on him?

However, Yun Zhuo's next sentence left Scar Brother stunned.

"If it were you, where would you choose to ambush them?"

"Huh?" Is this guy really not afraid of death? Or did I not make myself clear just now?

Yun Zhuo said again: "I'm asking, along the road from the city gate to the town, if it were you, where would you choose to ambush him?"

"This..." Liao Hu wiped the sweat from his forehead and thought for a moment before saying: "Green Wolf Hollow, I suppose."

Yun Zhuo nodded: "The same as what I thought."

Scar Brother didn't know what he meant by this, so he asked subconsciously: "You aren't still thinking about ambushing them, are you? Those kinds of people are not small-time thugs like me. If you go, you're just throwing your life away."

Yun Zhuo didn't deny it, but after thinking for a moment, he asked again: "How did you know I was at the Sunset Plain?"

If it were tracking, Wu Song couldn't have failed to know. The only explanation was the sentry towers located every five kilometers on this wasteland. But this was just his guess; he needed to confirm it.

"Boss, you might not know what it means to provoke the Chen Family yet."

"How would I know if you don't tell me?"

"That's no surprise; Boss Chen is usually too low-key. But if I tell you that all the resources in Dawn City are controlled by the Qi, Ling, and Chen Families, would you understand then?"

"Including these sentry towers?"

Liao Hu nodded: "Just to have them monitor a..." He paused here; he couldn't say to his Face that he was just a little brat. So he changed his words: "A normal student, the city defense army wouldn't dare not give Boss Chen some Face."

Yun Zhuo smiled slightly, stopped wasting words with him, grabbed him from the ground, and started walking toward Green Wolf Hollow.

Teacher Su asked in Yun Zhuo's consciousness: "Wait, are you really going?"

"Don't worry, there aren't just two of us; we also have your uncle."

"My uncle?"

"I wasn't sure before, but now I am. Teacher Su, look at the sentry towers around us; those are all cameras monitoring us. That means the people from the Chen Family know everything we are doing here. Since they know, how could Scar Brother still manage to lure them out?"

"Are you saying my uncle is helping us hide the information?"

"Helping us?" Yun Zhuo sneered in his heart. He thought he had already imagined human nature as bad enough, but now, looking back and piecing everything together, he realized he had still thought too highly of human nature.

But the other party was still Teacher Su's uncle, so he still had to give some Face.

"He is helping himself even more. Didn't you hear what Scar Brother said? All the resources in Dawn City are controlled by the Qi, Ling, and Chen Families. If I'm not mistaken, the City Lord's surname is Qi, and the Ling Family in the middle is your uncle's family. Otherwise, where would he get the Face to make the guild open the doors for him after they've closed? And to keep the identification results off the records."

"Simply put, the cake in Dawn City is only this big, and now three people are eating it. If one person can be kicked out, the remaining cake is divided between two people; wouldn't they get to eat more? If things are managed well, the Chen Family could be swallowed by one of the others, becoming the sole hegemon in Dawn City."

"What you say isn't unreasonable, but how much certainty do you have? What if it's not as you think?"

Yun Zhuo smiled: "What do you mean 'what if'? Teacher Su, it's not like we have to fight them. We're just going to take a look. If someone is there ambushing Chen Bo, then we go up and pick up the spoils. If not, we turn around and leave. We'll just wait for the next window of opportunity."

"I say, Teacher Su, when it comes to being a person, you can't be sluggish, but you also can't be impatient for success. Everything requires the right timing; this is what the ancients called the cultivation of Qi—you need to be able to keep your composure. You're already in your twenties, and you call yourself a teacher? How can you be a teacher when you're so rash?"

"You brat, you're actually lecturing me? I really should have punished you by making you copy more homework back then, so you'd know the dignity of your teacher."