Rebirth As a Fatuous and Self-indulgent Ruler

Chapter 282: Mr. Chen’s Death (I)

Translator: Storm in a Teacup

In the middle of the night two days later, Long and Shi were lying on the bed.

Long said, “Qingzhou, Liu Suifeng has locked himself in the room for two days. He asked us to give him three days. Do you think... he’ll make it?”

Shi thought for a while and said slowly, “He should be able to do it.”

Long turned his head. “What? Should he?”

“Yes,” Shi said calmly, “Basically Liu Suifeng has done everything that he promised. Since he said that, he should be able to make it in three days.”

Long blinked. “Really? You have so much confidence in him.”

Shi smiled faintly. “We asked him to do it, so we should have confidence in him. Well, we just need to wait for one more day anyways. Let’s sleep.”

“Okay.” Long thought for a while and found that was right, so he closed his eyes and fell asleep.

Lying beside Long, Shi also closed his eyes.

The next day, there was another message from Tianji Sect.

It said several people had been to the place where Mr. Chen was staying. Moreover, those people consciously scattered all over the imperial city.

Tianji Sect asked if they needed to take action.

Long looked at Shi. “What do you think, Qingzhou?”

Shi didn’t answer directly. He turned to look at Long and asked, “What do you think?”

Long touched his chin. “If we take action... Chen Mengxing will know that he’s been exposed.”

“There are advantages and disadvantages,” Shi said slowly, “If he knows he’s been exposed, he will move to another place. Perhaps he’ll be well-hidden like he is now. Or perhaps not. As long as Liu Suifeng can make some special poison, it won’t be a big problem. What I worry about is if he moves... we won’t be able to know his whereabouts.”

“I’m not worried about this,” Long hurriedly said after hearing Shi’s words, “Qingzhou, you have to know that he escaped from Songye city earlier because we were not familiar with that place, and the guards there couldn’t be compared with those in the imperial city. Most importantly, the Shadow Guardians are much more familiar with the imperial city! Besides the Shadow Guardians, we also have Tianji Sect!”

Long’s analysis made sense, so Shi nodded. “You are right. I forgot to take those aspects into consideration. This is our turf anyways. If he still can do whatever he likes here, we’d be too useless! All right, let’s give the order to take action now!”

“Yes, let’s take action now!”

Their decision threw the imperial city into turmoil again!

When those people were arrested, Mr. Chen was both shocked and furious.

“Long Xiaoyuan! Shi Qingzhou! Good! You’re good! You’ve even known this place! I won’t let you go!”

Mr. Chen angrily threw away everything in front of him.

Then he clenched his fists.

Anyway, since this place had been exposed, he couldn’t stay here anymore, otherwise...

Mr. Chen really escaped to another place, but he didn’t know that even though he did it very secretly, his action was still known to others. He couldn’t be compared with local people, who were familiar with the imperial city, so his action was full of loopholes in those people’s eyes!

The place where Mr. Chen went to was known by Tianji Sect again.

The reason why the people of Tianji Sect were sent to do it was because the Shadow Guardians might alert Mr. Chen.

In addition, Tianji Sect had been working here for so many years, so they had some better methods of getting information than the Shadow Guardians!

In other words, Tianji Sect was more professional than the Shadow Guardians!

Therefore, the task of stalking Mr. Chen was handed over to them.

In the imperial palace.

Long came in from outside and asked once he saw Shi.

“Qingzhou, how is it going?”

Shi smiled faintly. “Seven people were arrested and six committed suicide. The remaining one told us something, but we still don’t know whether it’s true or not.”

“Oh? What did he say?” Long asked immediately.

“The task Mr. Chen gave them was that each person should be in charge of ten households and put the powder that Mr. Chen gave them into the wells after the order was given.”

“What?” Long raised his eyebrows. “Is that poison?”

“The powder has been sent to Doctor Zhang Yuan for testing. It is hard to tell now.”

“Tsk.” Long curled his lips. “That evil creature. He can only think of such dirty tricks.”

“Mhmm,” Shi responded calmly, “We can just wait now. We must kill him with a single blow.”

Long sighed. “Is there any news from Liu Suifeng?”

“There’s still a little time left. Let’s keep waiting,” Shi said, looking at the sky outside.

Long pursed his lips and said softly, “I hope that he will bring us good news when he comes out.”

“I hope so...”

Later that night, Liu finally came out of the room.

Long and Shi were already asleep, but they had said that they must be told once Liu finished his task, so the Shadow Guardians reported it to them at once.

Both Long and Shi sat up from the bed.

“Qingzhou, you’re going, too? Why don’t you just take a rest?”

Shi shook his head. “No. Let’s go together.”

Since Shi insisted, Long didn’t say anything and had to go with him.

The two of them got out of the bed and got dressed. Then, they rushed to Yushang Palace where Liu was staying.

When they got there, Liu was eating like a horse.

It could be seen that a lot of energy had been consumed in the past three days, but he still looked good. Seeing Long and Shi coming over, Liu waved his hand immediately. “Here you are.”

Long and Shi went in hand in hand, and then sat opposite him.

“You’re just like a beggar who hasn’t eaten for ages,” Long joked.

Liu rolled his eyes. “You are so cold-hearted. I haven’t had a good night’s sleep or eaten a good meal in these three days. Now I can finally eat something, but you still made fun of me. Do you want to burn the bridge after crossing it? Remember that you haven’t crossed it yet!”

“Well...” Long blinked and thought about what he had said. “Well... it was indeed a little rude...”

“Not a little. That was really so rude!” Liu said firmly.

“You’ve worked hard for three days. Is there any result?” Shi asked directly.

Liu blinked. “Of course. If there wasn’t any result, why would I come out?”

Long’s eyes lit up after he heard that.

“Oh? You’ve made it?”

“Yes.” Liu pointed to the direction of the cabinet behind. “My result is in there.”

Long blinked. “Is that poison?”

“No. It’s a kind of drug that our enemies won’t resist. Don’t open it.”

“Good. Now that you have come out, let’s act after you finish eating.”

Liu nodded. “Okay, wait for a while.”

It didn’t take long for Liu to finish the whole table of food.

Then, Long and Shi stood up together.

In fact, the guards had been arranged long ago, and they were all waiting for the order of taking action.