Chapter 238 - The Encounter with Su Xue Again

Chapter 238 The Encounter with Su Xue Again

After checking with Li Tielan, Qin Hao took his Spirit Sense back. He knew why Li Zhanwu had brought her to here.

But he didn’t say anything but sat in the car quietly. Without caring about others’ feeling, He stretched out his hand and hugged Shi Bingying’s soft body, letting her lean against his chest.

Shi Bingying was a little shy at first, but soon naturally lean on Qin Hao’s chest, cherishing the precious sweet moment before the battle.

“Hey, Qin Hao, a little later…” Li Zhanwu, who was on the seat beside the driver, turned his head and wanted to say something to Qin Hao. But the moment he saw the two were holding each other he felt embarrassed and turned back his head. He had to swallow his words and complained in heart: It was too much. Nowadays these young people behaved intimately regardless of occasions.

Qin Hao didn’t care about Li Zhanwu’s thought. He was holding Shi Bingying while looking outside of the car enjoying the view on the way.

Seriously, he hadn’t really enjoyed the scenery around the place.

One hour later, these cars had gone out of the Cloud Gazing Mountain and into the busy and noisy city.

Qin Hao had seen too many of such scenes of cities. He was not interested and therefore closed his eyes for a rest while holding Shi Bingying.

Suddenly, Qin Hao seemed to have felt something. He opened his eyes soon and looked out of the window.

At the door of a mall, he saw a familiar figure.

She was wearing clothes as white as snow. She was Su Xue, who was his teacher while he was in college in Chang Hai City, who risked her life to follow him to the Indian Ocean. She was such a spoony woman.

At the door of the mall, the beauty wearing a white skirt was exactly Su Xue. She was walking out of the mall, followed by a young man in a black suit. The man was carrying something, which might be bought for Su Xue.

Su Xue seemed to have felt something too. She had been about to leave the mall, but she stopped suddenly to look around. Finally, she rested her eyes on a military vehicle that was moving rapidly in front of the door of the mall.

On the other side of the window, she seemed to feel that there were the familiar eyes staring at herself.

She didn’t know why she would have such a feeling, which was amazing and nearly mysterious.

“Xue, what are you looking for? They’re just several military vehicles. Let’s go.” said the young man behind Su Xue. He looked at the military vehicles and said, “If you like it, I’ll find one such car for you.”

The man was saying arrogantly. It seemed that to find a military vehicle was just a piece of cake to him.

Some people near him heard what he had said. They disdainfully whispered: Who did he think he was? Were such military vehicles available to ordinary people?

The young man heard those people’s whispers. His face turned cold with his eyes showing an aura of killing. He turned around and was ready to rush to those people. But Su Xue stopped him, “Jian, don’t mind it. Let’s go.”

The young man’ family name was Fan. His full name was Fan Jian, which could easily be mistaken for “being bitchy” in Chinese if one didn’t pronounce it correctly.

Fan Jian wouldn’t like to disobey Su Xue’s words. He forced himself to stop while uttering a humph and said, “You’re lucky.”

It was when they had just walked for a few steps that they heard “Vroom, vroom.” Several military vehicles that were full of armed soldiers were approaching. “Clunk, clunk.” These cars stopped near them.

After these cars were pulled over, the door of one cab was opened. A uniformed officer jumped out and shouted toward these cars, “Quickly quickly quickly, get off, get off!”

In the sound of “hula hula”, soldiers in the back part of these cars swiftly jumped out and ran to an unoccupied place to line up.

It was in the daytime. Seeing such a scene, every resident of the city was curiously looking at these soldiers who showed up suddenly. They didn’t know what they were going to do.

They had never seen such a big scene.

But soon they knew what was going on.

Several soldiers, who were in charge of propaganda, were respectively holding several loud-speakers, which were targeted at different roads and directions. They started to shout toward residents and shops: “Ladies and gentlemen, we’ve received orders from our higher level that we’re going to do military exercises here for one day. So from now on, this place will be a military exclusion zone. Please leave this place immediately and shut up shops. All residents must evacuate…”

This order was not pleasing to some people. Passersby didn’t care about leaving, since they were just passing by this place. But merchants here had to do business. Residents had to live in here. They lived in here happily with no one wanted to leave. Even soldiers couldn’t let them go.

Cowardly people followed the order. But others who were braver didn’t care. Some people protested immediately. They were shouting that they would never leave, that even if they would die they would never leave. Just like those nail households, they were nailed here.

“All citizens, ladies and gentlemen…, please evacuate as soon as possible. To those who don’t evacuate within half an hour, we will conduct compulsory execution!”

These soldiers had already known that this would happen. So they conducted compulsory execution, which was for the good of those people’s lives.

At first, some people thought what those soldiers shouted was to frighten them. But half an hour later, they received the treatment of compulsory execution soon.

Soldiers rushed one after another. They captured those “nails” and pushed them into their cars. To deal with those who resisted, they simply chose to capture them in pairs. What’s more, while they were capturing one or two people, the gun went off leading to bleeding accidents.

Some people thought that those soldiers would stop compulsory execution when seeing bleeding accidents. But they were wrong. The compulsory execution continued. More and more military vehicles were coming from all directions, with more and more soldiers were sending this area guarding its surroundings.

These soldiers knew that what they were doing was to avoid more bleeding accidents later.

It was very possible that, soon after, this place would turn into a battlefield, where they were supposed to fight. They were soldiers. They could sacrifice their lives, but these citizens were innocent. They would not let these innocent people pay with their blood for nothing.

To see that those citizens didn’t understand them and even detested them and loudly cursed them now, they tolerated all, firmly executing orders.

Orders continued to be executed. People’s clamour and shouts, the roar of military vehicles, the sound of running feet of soldiers, occasional sound of gun…, all of these filled the whole wide area.

…

“Jian, why did there suddenly turn into a military exercise zone?”

In the car, Su Xue who was on the seat beside the driver asked casually. While she was asking, she was actually thinking about the military vehicle that she saw at first. There must be someone with whom she was familiar. Otherwise she wouldn’t have had such kind of feeling.

Fan Jian, of course, didn’t know what Su Xue was thinking about. He thought she was simply asking him. So he thought about it and answered, “It may be a sudden order from military authorities. Who knows what the hell they are doing. If you want to know, I’ll ask it for you later.”

“No. I was just asking casually. We’d better go home.” said immediately Su Xue.

“Uh, Xue, haven’t you meant to go shopping today? It’s early now, why don’t we go somewhere else?” It was a rare chance to go out with Su Xue with no others. Fan Jian wouldn’t go back easily.

But Su Xue had already lost interest in shopping. She shook her head, “No, I don’t feel good. Let’s go home.”

“Don’t feel good, so let me take you to hospital.”

“No need. I just need to go back and have a rest. It may be caused by tiredness.”

Fan Jian was unhappy in his heart. It wasn’t a long time since they’d gone out. How could she be tired? But the beauty said so, and he wouldn’t want to insist. So he said, “Um…, well, let’s go home.”

He had no one but those soldiers to blame for ruining his plan. If it weren’t for them, Su Xue’s interest in shopping wouldn’t have been interrupted, and she would have continued to go shopping.

…

Su Xue was from the Su Family, one of the Four Families, in the capital city. Su Family was always seen as the head of the Four Families. The luxury and magnificence of the Su Family Mansion was more than twice as much as Mu Family Mansion. The Su Family Mansion was like a little independent kingdom.

High buildings were rising to the sky. What a grand and magnificent scene.

Facilities such as amusement park, artificial lake, man-made waterfall and fountain amazed others so much.

Coming into here, one had to exclaim how luxurious on earth the Four Families were!

Su Xue’s car went into the mansion and the parking lot. Of course, there were servants and bodyguards opening the door and washing the car for them.

Not far from the parking lot was a lawn, on which there were a white-haired old man and a black-haired old man slowly practicing quan (a basic element of kung fu, kind of like boxing), pushing hands back and forth.

The black-haired old man saw the young couple－Su Xue and Fan Jian walking out of the parking lot. He then laughed, “Elder Qiong, the two little kids are back.”

“Um?” The white-haired old man stopped punching. He turned his head and took a look, “Hey, they are really back. They finished shopping in such a short time?”

“Grandpa, grandpa Wu.”

Su Xue walked out of the parking lot and saw the two old men. She, always obedient, walked up to the two elders and greeted.

The white-haired old man was Su Xue’s grandfather, the former head of the Su Family. The black-haired old man was the Elder of Clan Guarding of the Su Family, called Wu He, a Martial Cultivator in the Peak of Perfection Stage. Among the Elders of Clan Guarding of the Four Families, Su Family’s Wu He was the only one in the Peak of Perfection Stage. He was the strongest one. No wonder the Su Family was seen as the head of the Four Families.

Wu He was actually much older than Su Qiong. But due to martial cultivating, Wu He, who had a full head of black hair, looked over ten years younger than Su Qiong, who had a full head of white hair.

“Haha, how can they come back so soon? We haven’t even finished our morning exercise.” The two old men stopped their morning exercise. Servants who were waiting beside sent washbasin and handkerchief for them to wipe sweat and wash hands.

Hearing the two old men asking, Fan Jian gloomily answered before Su Xue, “Grandpa Su, Shifu, it was all caused by those soldiers. Xue and I were shopping happily, but a group of soldiers suddenly came, saying about military exercise and listing that whole area as an exclusion zone, which ruined Xue’s interest. So we had to go back.”

Wu He was exactly Fan Jian’s Shifu. Fan Jian was already a Martial Cultivator in the peak of Inner Stage. Considering he was just 24, he was really outstanding, for which Wu He was proud of all the time. Wu He also liked and spoilt him very much.

So when he knew Fan Jian was fond of Su Xue, he thoughtfully arranged this shopping journey for them, meaning to enhance their bond. However, who knew they would come back so soon?

“To have sudden military exercise in the downtown area, I haven’t heard such a thing in my life.” Su Qiong was confused with a frown.

But Wu He who was beside him seemed to know something. He became serious and asked, “Jian, what were you saying? It’s in the Sunset District?

“Yes, Master. What’s up?” Fan Jian saw Wu He’s look. He didn’t get it.

“Brother Wu, what’s the matter?” Su Qiong also asked curiously. While he was the former head of the Su Family, when facing Wu He, he had to call him with a “brother” ahead.

“Elder Qiong (adding “Elder” before Qiong was a kind of polite way to call Su Qiong), in the capital city, something big may happen. We have to prepare for that. Fire in the city gate brings disaster to fish in the city moat, immortals fight on the heaven leaves mortals to suffer on the earth. We have to prepare for it, just in case.”

Hearing his words and seeing Wu He’s serious look, which seemed not to be joking, others became even more curious, including Su Qiong.

“Brother Wu, what kind of big thing will happen?” Su Qiong asked anxiously.

“Elder Qiong, do you remember that the special troop Eagle force is going to challenge the Dragon Group? The date is exactly on today and the arena is exactly in the Sunset District.”

Wu He’s reminding made Su Qiong come to his senses at once. His raised his snow-white eyebrow, “Are you saying about the group of people who are trained by the youngest Major General Qin Hao are going to challenge the Dragon Group?”

Qin Hao was going to challenge the Dragon Group was something confidential, but ordinary people would never know. Su Qiong wasn’t ordinary people, so it was not strange for him to know this. Besides, due to the relation between Su Xue and Qin Hao, they had once investigated Qin Hao. So they knew Qin Hao more than others.

The moment Su Qiong finished his words, before no one had reacted, Su Xue screamed immediately, “Qin Hao. Grandpa, are you saying Qin Hao?”

No one had known Su Xue would suddenly react so violently. While they were about to say something, Su Xue started to talk to herself.

“Qin Hao, Qin Hao. I remembered that, just now at the door of the mall, the man in the car…, the man…” “It was him. It must be him…. If it weren’t, I wouldn’t have had such kind of feeling…”

“Qin Hao, Qin Hao. No, I have to find him…”

Su Xue continued to talk to herself and didn’t care about others. While everybody was surprisingly watching her, she suddenly rushed out with the speed like a gust of wind, which did have frightened them a lot.

“Little Xue, what’re you going to do? Come back.” shouted Su Qiong.

“No, grandpa, I have to find him, I have to find him.” shouted Su Xue while crying. She had already run out of the gate of the Su Family Mansion. No one had figured out that why her speed became so fast today.

“Little Jian, quickly, go and talk to her.” Wu He seized the opportunity soon and commanded Fan Jian who was beside him. Right now was the best opportunity to project himself.

Fan Jian got Wu He’s intention and answered loudly, “Shifu, grandpa, leave it to me. I’ll take good care of Xue.” While he was still speaking, he had already rushed out like a gust of wind.

The direction where the two were heading was, of course, at the Sunset District.

At the center of the Central Plaza of the Sunset District, there was a provisional built 20-meter high arena. The surrounding grandstand was made with a ladder-like shape and the same height with the arena.

Outside the plaza armed soldiers were on guard. All people coming in and out must accept inspection.

In addition to fixed sentries there were also the patrol and those mysterious black-suited bodyguards on duty.

Qin Hao and others had already come to this place and sat where they were placed on the grandstand. At the area on the grandstand where the Dragon Group were placed, some people were sitting at the edge, leaving the central place empty. They seemed to be waiting for someone important to come, but the important one didn’t come yet.

All the people were curious about who they were waiting for. Would Long Taibai come in person?