Chapter 28: That punk Shi An, why does he have such scary eyes?

Chapter XXVIII

Shi An: "Eh? No pay?"

Looking at the puzzled face of the young man in front of him, Zhuo Fu was under great psychological pressure.

But ...... where did he know what Mu Hang had promised the other party for payment?

Zhuo Fu could only say stiffly, "That, uh, in fact, this matter is not so easy to end, there are still a lot of information fragments that we have not completely pieced together for the time being, we may still need you to continue to cooperate, after everything is over, uh, we will then talk about the matter of compensation."

Shi An lowered her eyes in defeat, "So."

Zhuo Fu felt that on top of his own psychological pressure, another layer of guilt was pressed on him.

He couldn't help but ask, "By the way, what did Mu Hang promise to pay you?"

Shi An thought for a moment and said, "I haven't gotten around to telling him yet."

At that time he called and asked, "Any kind of payment?"

Mu Hang replied, "Yes."

Shi An : "That's good."

--and so it was somehow abducted in a haphazard manner.

"......"

After listening to Shi An's story, Zhuo Fu fell silent.

He did not expect, Mu Hang actually agreed directly without knowing what the other party s conditions were, either he was confident enough that he could easily do whatever Shi An asked for himself, or ...... it was the depth of his obsession with dragons that he had reached the point where he did not care about anything else at all.

Based on Zhuo Fu's knowledge of Mu Hang, it is very likely that both points are correct.

In due course, Shi An spoke up understandingly:

"Don't worry, I'm not going to make any difficult requests on purpose, I want to be paid very little."

It's just a book, plus at least ten tons of gold and silver!

Looking at the innocent looking teenager in front of him, Zhuo Fu sighed with some relief and couldn't help but reach over and rub the top of the other party's soft hair.

Oh, what a good boy!

*

Shi An returned to the villa.

Old Butler greeted him at once, with a worried look on his face, as if he had just returned from some tiger's den:

"Young master, are you alright? Did someone give you a hard time?"

Shi An: "Don't worry, I'm fine."

Butler Sr. looked Shi An up and down and was relieved to see that his arms and legs were intact:

"By the way, Young Master, the Master's side called just now."

Shi An frowned, impatiently, "What does he want?"

Instead of correcting Shi An's extremely disrespectful tone, Butler sighed and continued at length, "His Lordship would like you to be able to move back in today, and should be sending someone to pick you up in a few moments."

Shi An yawned, "No go."

Old Butler : "But ......"

"No go."

It was at this moment that the sound of an engine driving came from outside the door, followed by the ringing of the doorbell.

Butler glanced at Shi An, hesitated for a second, but turned forward and opened the door.

Shi Rui stood in the doorway, still with that gentle and good-natured demeanor, "Greetings, father asked me to come and fetch my brother back to the main residence."

Before Butler could reply, the teenager's impatient voice came from behind him:

"Ah ...... what a pain in the ass."

Butler moves out of the way.

The slender teenager stepped out from behind him, his brow furrowed and his deep black eyes fixed.

An extremely puzzled look crossed his face, "Are you all the ones who don't understand human speech?"

Shi An thought to herself that she spoke the universal human language fairly standardly, and that she should have no language barrier with humans.

But those two, one of them was a mouthful of a brother, and one of them had to make him move.

-Really annoying!

Shi Rui : "But ......"

The teenager in front of him narrowed his eyes slightly, and a crimson dark aura flickered in the depths of his deep black pupils.

He smiled down, the pretty face with little offense seemed to glow in the sunlight, not much emotion in his voice, but it just somehow sent chills down the spine, "But what?"

For some reason, Shi Rui felt as if something was jammed in his throat.

His heart rate soared in a short period of time, he opened his mouth, and the words he had already prepared to say could not come out in half a word at the moment.

What, what's going on?

Shi Rui looked at Shi An, who was standing not far away, in panic.

The distance between them was so close that they only needed to take a few steps to get to each other's side, but it inexplicably gave Shi Rui a lingering illusion of-

Between those few short steps, it seemed as if there was a bottomless abyss of darkness.

"If you have something to say once it's enough, don't always make me repeat it."

Shi An turned around, but his eyes still fell on Shi Rui's body, and in the depths of his dark eyes, a bit of scarlet fire lit up, like a dark fire burning at the bottom of an abyss:

"Leave me alone."

The soft tone of the teenager's voice seemed like a petulant complaint, but there was a bit of a frighteningly icy undertone deep within it.

Shi Rui stood still.

It wasn't until Shi An turned to leave and the door to his room closed mercilessly in front of his face that he finally came back to his senses.

The sunlight overhead was hot and bright, spilling over his shoulders, but it couldn't dispel the chill from Shi Rui's body.

He stared in disbelief at the closed door panel before him for a long time, unable to move his feet.

Was ...... an illusion just now?

Shi An, that punk Shi An, why does he have such horrible eyes?

*

Shi An turned around and went back inside the villa.

He yawned and stretched greatly.

It hadn't been a great day of exercise, but it didn't stop him from going back to catch up on some more sleep.

Shi An walked towards the upper floor, but before he could take a few steps, the phone on the round table beside him rang, and the shrill ringing of the bell echoed in the empty room, making his brain hurt to hear it.

Here we go again!

Shi An's expression immediately darkened.

-These two humans are so annoying! Why don't you just burn them?

He stepped forward with a low air pressure and reached out to pick up the phone, his voice vicious as he said, "Hello?!"

The other part of the phone was quiet for a long time.

A few seconds later, a somewhat familiar-sounding voice rang out from the other side of the microphone, "Is that ...... the Shi An family, please?"

Eh? Not Shi Zechun?

Shi An was stunned.

He hesitated and asked in a whisper, "And you are?"

"Hello, I'm Wang Li," the other party sounded refined and extremely polite, "I wanted to thank you for your help that day--"

Grass.

Shi An remembered.

The voice, it was the same human that had been rescued from the flock of gray crows that day!

Shi An quickly replied, "Mistaken identity!"

Immediately afterward, he hung the phone back up quickly.

Listening to the busy signal from the microphone, Wang Li took a deep breath and smiled.

"Well? Are you sure?" Zhao She probed over and inquired curiously.

Wang Li: "Nine times out of ten."

Zhao She showed an incredulous expression, "Are you serious? Shi An?"

Although the other few people didn't open their mouths to agree, from their expressions, I'm afraid that they were thinking the exact same thing as Zhao She.

Shi An, the one who couldn't detect any magic for three years in a row and got into the academy only because of his family's connections?

There must be some kind of misunderstanding here.

Chen Meng looked down at the report card in Wang Li's hand, and couldn't help but snort when he saw the alarming string of numbers hanging behind Shi An's name, "No way? That's all you got? That looks like a system glitch, right?"

Wang Li shook his head, "Not exactly based on that."

Although the other party's voice did sound similar, after all, it was difficult to fully confirm it from memory alone, so he tried to swindle a little bit - hanging up the phone in such a fearful manner without knowing any of the causes and consequences, an attitude that was exactly the same as the mysterious benefactor who had saved them that day, but had refused to show his face.

"Wait ......"

Zhao Meng reacted, raising her eyebrows in incomprehension, "No way, you think this is Shi An's real score?"

Wang Li stroked his chin and said, "If the one who saved me that day was really him, then I think that it's not impossible."

Several others gazed at the long list of astronomical figures in front of them and fell into silence in unison.

They didn't believe that Shi An was really the person Wang Li was looking for, but they were still surprised by the possibility Wang Li raised.

Such a terrible score? Is it real?

*

Shi Zechun swept a glance behind Shi Rui, who had returned alone, and frowned deeply, "Where's Shi An? Didn't come back with you?"

Shi Rui had returned to his usual perfect appearance at this moment as he shook his head and said:

"Father ...... I'm sorry, brother he doesn't want to come back and, and said ......"

Shi Zechun : "What else?"

Shi Rui : "I hope you won't bother him again."

Shi Zechun's expression became extraordinarily grim as he gritted his teeth:

"What? Bother him?"

He admitted that he did kind of want to take this son seriously again now, after all, the other party didn't seem as useless as he did before, but after being rejected several times in a row, even a man of clay would have to have a little bit of fire in him, not to mention him.

Shi Zechun's face was clouded with a brewing outburst of anger: "You go again and tell him that if he doesn't come back this time, he shouldn't come back in the future either!"

Surprisingly, Shi Rui, who had been very obedient, stood still.

A look of hesitation crossed his face, and he seemed to show a hint ...... of trepidation at what Shi Zechun was asking?

Shi Zechun frowned, "What's wrong?"

Shi Rui : "No, nothing ......"

Returning to normal almost instantly, he said, "I think that if you tell your brother that, you will instead provoke him into a rebellious mood, perhaps ......"

Shi Zechun was stunned and fell into deep thought.

Indeed.

According to the dog temper Shi An had shown during this period of time, if he said that, the other party might really rebel to the end.

And he didn't really want Shi An to never come back; after all, he and the officer seemed to be really close, and such a good opportunity to move up the ladder should never be passed up.

Shi Rui : "But brother is also ...... obviously food and shelter are provided by father, and now he is so disobedient to you, it is really too ungrateful ......"

Yeah.

Shi Zechun was awakened.

He sneered and said, "Rui'er, you're right, I gave him everything he has, so who is he to disobey?"

Since the soft ones don't eat, we'll have to come up with the hard ones.

As long as he cut off the source of income, Shi Zechun believed that in a few days Shi An would beg to come to him!

*

Shi An flung herself onto the bed and rolled in happiness.

His pillow, brought back from school, was filled with treasures scavenged from the Gray Crow's nest, while the mattress beneath his body was stuffed with the piles of gold and silver he'd scavenged from the villa that had failed to pass security and been returned.

They all clanked and clattered crisply underneath the body.

Ah, what a wonderful sound that is!

What a happy sound!

Shi An buried her entire body in it, letting out a satisfied sigh.

He rolled over and lay on his back, looking up at the ceiling and sighed, "Such a shame, I was expecting to get paid today ......"

Magic Worm: "......"

"Think about it any way you want!"

After all, you've said almost nothing!

Shi An winked and said, "But it looks like they want to buy me dinner later."

"And it's still the highest specification, the kind that lets me just let loose and eat!"

Fumbling, he pulled his cell phone out of his own pocket, turned on the screen, and showed the Demon Worm the new message Zhuo Fu had sent him.

Devil Worm padded over to take a look, "...... No."

It said with a grimace, "This says, "I hope you'll go and cooperate with the investigation every week from now on" ...... or something like that."

Shi An: "Eh? Like this?"

He sighed in disappointment, "Human language is so hard to learn."

The corner of Devil Worm's mouth twitched.

That's not right, you shouldn't see cooperating with an investigation as a treat even if you don't recognize human writing anymore!

What kind of eye candy does this have to be!

So ......

You simply want to be invited to dinner, don't you? ！！！！

Shi An reached for the nightstand and fished out the small box.

Black Smoke watched as his hiding place was pulled away from him no-!

It cried out inwardly, twisting its head with fondness towards the box that it had disliked for tens of thousands of years, but which had inexplicably become the love of its life recently.

I don't want to leave--

But no matter how arm-twisting it was, the black smoke was still forcibly yanked out of that safe little space.

It looked at the seemingly harmless teenager in front of it and asked warily, "Lord Dragon, you, what are your orders?"

Shi An pinched at the body of the black smoke and tugged absently:

"You hurry, I'm going to sleep."

Black Smoke: "?"

Shi An : "I want treasure, snacks, and video games."

Black Smoke: "......"

Shi An shook it mercilessly, "Don't you make people dream? Hurry up."

That's really not how I use it!

As it was preparing to sadly meet its fate and start dreaming for Shi An, suddenly the haunting doorbell rang downstairs once again.

Shi An wrinkled her brow.

What? That Shi Rui still has the guts to come?

He smiled a little, fire blazing under his eyes, the lines of dragon scales looming at his fingertips.

The magic worm and black smoke sensed the murderous low pressure from Shi An's body and subconsciously shrunk backward, they had a heart to heart with Shi An quieting down and quietly shrinking into corners for fear of being caught in the wave.

Shi An jumped out of bed and headed downstairs.

He waved at Butler who stepped out, a harmless, affable smile on his face, "I got this."

--By the way, send annoying bugs to hell.

Wrenching the door open, an unfamiliar face appeared.

Shi An : "......?"

Not Shi Rui?

He outwardly looked a little puzzled, "And you are?"

Wang Li: "Hello, my name is Wang Li, I just got off the phone--"

Before he could finish his words, he only saw the door in front of him close without hesitation.

"Wait!" Wang Li took an eye-opening step forward and pressed against the door, "You hear me out first-!"

"Not interested." The teenager's muffled voice came through the door panel.

The tone of voice, it was definitely him.

Wang Li was energized.

He said as fast as he could while pressing against the door with all his might, "You should remember that school mission thing I told you about before! Basically, first year students are unable to receive any well-paid quests, so if you're in need of receiving quests you can consider thinking about us-"

At the word "pay", Wang Li sensed that the force of the push on the door was slightly less.

He hastened to seize the opportunity, and continued; the

"We have recently accidentally obtained a very precious and at the same time very dangerous mission, in urgent need of fire-type powerhouses to join us, the location of the mission is the ruins of a former abyssal rift, and based on the intelligence I have compiled and gathered, I feel that there is likely to be an elven ruin as well as a treasure there-- "

The power of the door was completely loosened.

The teenager cautiously peeked halfway out of his face, he was fair-skinned and good-looking, he didn't look half as aggressive, and his beautiful black eyes blinked slightly as he looked fixedly from the doorway, repeating in a small voice:

"Treasure?"

--at the same time.

Administration.

Zhuo Fu once again entered Mu Hang's office, and habitually used his loud voice to disturb the silence of the room:

"Officer Mu Officer Mu! I have a mission here--"

Mu Hang doesn't even look up, "No go."

Zhuo Fu: "It's not the ones released by the previous clans, but I've carefully looked through them, and the pay for the mission is very generous. ......"

Mu Hang: "Take the door with you on your way out."

Zhuo Fu didn't move.

He sighed in a feigned manner, lifted the folder containing the mission, and gently tapped his shoulder, ''Ah since it's like this, should I tell you that this mission is actually related to the mercenary group that the Administration has been paying special attention to lately? They seem to have been searching for this location with all their connections lately, oh yeah, there's one more thing I forgot to mention, this mercenary group seems to be ...... Oh yeah, the one that's been searching for the dragon's traces everywhere before- "

Mu Hang stops moving.

He raised his eyes, and his cold and calm gaze shot straight at Zhuo Fu standing in the doorway.

The man's voice was low and slightly hoarse, and he repeated it with a clear bite:

"Dragons?"