Chapter 211: Bringing It Upon Themselves

City A, Wangu Square.

Old Chen and the fat bald man stood by the fountain and waited for half an hour. Seeing that the appointed time had already arrived, Chen Feng was still nowhere to be seen.

At the urging of the fat bald man, Old Chen had no choice but to take out his phone and call Chen Feng. Of course, the call didn’t go through. He tried again, and it was the same.

“I can’t get through,” Old Chen said with a helpless expression.

“Send a WeChat message, send a text message,” the fat bald man ordered with a bad expression. He was fat and had been living a comfortable life for many years. If it weren’t for this big fat sheep, he wouldn’t have personally participated in this role-playing, and he wouldn’t have stood here like a fool with Old Chen for more than half an hour, his two feet aching.

Hearing this, Old Chen sent a WeChat message and a text message to Chen Feng. After a few minutes, there was no response. He immediately felt that something was wrong.

“Still no reply?” the fat bald man stared at him with an unfriendly expression.

“Maybe… maybe he’s on his way. Let’s wait a little longer,” Old Chen said, biting the bullet.

The fat bald man waved to the car on the side of the road, and his number one henchman and fighter immediately got out of the car.

Old Chen looked at the big man who got out of the car with fear in his heart. He had been stuffed into the car like a little chicken by this person before.

“You take him to the hotel to see if that person has already checked out and left.”

As the boss, the fat bald man managed a lending company, so he definitely had a brain. He immediately thought of the possibility that Chen Feng might have already left and wouldn’t be so foolish as to continue to stand here and wait.

The big man nodded, put his arm around Old Chen’s neck, and was about to walk towards the hotel.

Just then, the fat bald man’s phone rang with a “ding-dong.” He picked it up and his face immediately changed.

The message was from his brother-in-law, who was his company’s accountant and strategist.

The content was simple: [It’s raining, bring in the quilts.]

This was a code they had agreed on a long time ago, meaning that the police were at the door and they should prepare to run.

So, the fat bald man said nothing and quickly got into Old Chen’s car on the side of the road, started it quickly, and drove away.

This scene stunned the big man and Old Chen.

After the big man came back to his senses, he quickly took out his phone and called the fat bald man.

The fat bald man answered the phone while driving. Before the other party could speak, he said first, “Listen to me, take the men back to the countryside to hide for a while. Don’t worry about anything else. By the way, bring that person with you.”

After saying that, the fat bald man immediately threw his phone out of the car window and accelerated towards the outskirts of the city.

The big man was stunned for a few seconds before continuing to put his arm around Old Chen and quickly walking towards the van.

“What are you doing? Aren’t we going to the hotel?” Old Chen asked nervously.

“Shut up, or I’ll deal with you.”

The big man glared at him fiercely, and Old Chen immediately shut up obediently.

Soon, the two of them got into the van.

“Brother Xiong! What’s going on? Why did the boss drive away by himself?” the person in the car quickly asked the big man.

“Cut the crap, Liuzhi. Do you still remember the way to my hometown? Go to my hometown, now.”

Hearing this, everyone’s heart skipped a beat.

One of the timid ones immediately asked with a trembling voice, “Brother Xiong, what happened?”

The big man, Brother Xiong, glared and waved his hand, hitting him on the head, “I told you to cut the crap, didn’t you hear me?”

The car was suddenly quiet. Brother Xiong was a man who had killed before and had always been their leader. When he said this, no one dared to say anything more.

The van started quickly and drove towards the outskirts of the city.

Brother Xiong’s hometown was in a small mountain village in the next city. Most of the people there had moved out, and only some lonely old people still lived there. Even now, the mobile phone signal was not good, and there was no running water. In principle, this was an abandoned village.

If they hid there, the police might not be able to find them for a while.

But in this way, it was really hard for Old Chen.

He was originally a complete outsider and was only involved because of his third uncle. Now that this group of underworld people were about to run away, they were still taking him with them, which obviously meant that they were treating him as a hostage.

This was still a good outcome. A bad one could be life-threatening.

Old Chen could only pray in his heart that they would treat him as a hostage and not harm him easily. It would be even better if they could let him go halfway, but this possibility was very slim.

It wasn’t that he hadn’t thought of jumping out of the car or escaping, but this group of people were all armed, and they even had guns. He really didn’t have the courage.

He had also thought of shouting for help when the car passed through the toll booth.

But the other party seemed to have anticipated this. The car windows were all tightly closed, and they didn’t let him sit by the window.

More importantly, their car didn’t go through the toll booth at all. It only drove on some old roads, and some of the roads were very bumpy, which made him feel nauseous and want to vomit.

And so, all the way, there was no suitable opportunity for him to call for help or jump out of the car.

When the car turned into a mountain road, he had even less chance of escaping.

This was a muddy mountain road, winding and very bumpy. It took more than an hour before it finally stopped on a mountain path.

Only then did they get out of the car.

Seeing the endless trees and layers of mountains, Old Chen’s eyes immediately became moist, and his legs trembled. He seemed to have a premonition of his bad end.

Two days later, the fat bald man, who was hiding in a mountain villa hundreds of kilometers away and had completely cut off contact with the outside world, found that something was wrong. He immediately drove to the town to call his relatives in City A, and then learned that his wife had not come back after going out the day before yesterday. As for whether the police had come to the door, of course not.

The fat bald man immediately felt that something was wrong. He immediately called his wife, and sure enough, he couldn’t get through. The same went for his brother-in-law, and he couldn’t get through to his several subordinates either. Finally, he called his most trusted mistress.

This mistress had given him a son, and he spent most of the year living with her.

After this mistress went to his company to check in person, he finally confirmed that he had been tricked. And it was very likely that his company’s money had been taken away by his brother-in-law and wife.

He was so angry that he immediately rushed back to City A as fast as he could. He first went to the bank to check his company’s account, and then he found that there was not a single cent left in his company’s account. Originally, his company’s account could basically maintain a deposit of about ten million every day, and at its peak, it even had thirty or forty million.

And two days ago, because he had received nine million from the Chen family, the deposit in their company’s account had reached more than thirty million.

It was obviously at that time that his brother-in-law and his wife had the idea of running away with the money.

As for why his wife would participate, it was also very simple. The legal person of his company was his wife, and the account holder of the company’s bank account was also his wife. And his brother-in-law was his company’s accountant and cashier, so it was too easy to run away with the money.

As for why his wife and brother-in-law would betray him together, the main reason was his wife. His wife had been with him for more than twenty years, since she was a teenager. She had had several miscarriages when she was young, and later she became infertile.

After his wife found out that he was keeping a mistress outside and had a son, although he didn’t say he wanted a divorce, he came home less and less, which naturally made his wife feel a sense of crisis.

And because of this, his wife’s brother, his brother-in-law, an accountant who had graduated from a university of finance and economics, also lost his sense of security.

This was easy to figure out, but he had never thought that his wife, who had been with him for more than twenty years and was devoted to him, would betray him.

When he rushed to the company, two connected two-story houses in the suburbs, with a large gate, iron fence, and courtyard.

When he arrived, the gate was tightly locked, and it was quiet inside. But there was no seal.

Fortunately, he had always carried the key to this place. He immediately opened the gate, then went in and opened the door of the house, rushed to his general manager’s office on the second floor, and opened it with the key again.

He saw the two Chen family members, grandfather and grandson, lying on the ground, barely breathing.

Their hands and feet were tied behind their backs, and their mouths were wrapped with several layers of tape. They were unconscious.

Seeing this, the fat bald man couldn’t help but curse. He quickly reached out to check their breathing. The old man was on the verge of death, and the young man was a little better, but also in a bad state.

The fat bald man was so angry that he cursed several times.

When he was going to role-play, he had asked someone to tie up the grandfather and grandson, but he had not asked them to tape their mouths, nor had he tied them so tightly, and he had certainly not let them go without food and water.

Undoubtedly, this was done by his brother-in-law.

If something happened to the grandfather and grandson, the blame for these two lives would definitely be on his head.

This was a really ruthless calculation. Fortunately, he had come in time.

The fat bald man’s eyes flickered several times. He was fierce for a moment, hesitant for a moment, and fearful for a moment. After a long while, he still went over and picked up the landline on the desk to call for an ambulance and the police.

The ambulance and the police car arrived at almost the same time. The Chen family’s grandfather and grandson were first taken away by the ambulance, and then the fat bald man was also handcuffed and taken away.

A day later, the big man, Brother Xiong, and his group were also arrested by the police. Old Chen was finally in trouble. When the police came to arrest Brother Xiong and the others, he didn’t want to be a hostage and ran away in a hurry. But in his panic, he fell down a hillside, broke both his legs, and was seriously injured.

While the three Chen family members were having bad luck, Chen Feng, who was from the same family as them five hundred years ago, was having a great time with two women in a big city hundreds of kilometers away.

The matter of Old Chen and his uncle had long been thrown to the back of Chen Feng’s mind.

The city he was in now, City W, had a permanent population of more than ten million. It was a veritable big city with many tourist attractions, and more importantly, a lot of delicious food. Hot dry noodles and paste soup noodles were the representatives.

The three of them had been here for five or six days and were still reluctant to leave. And Chen Feng was not in a hurry to buy the calligraphy, paintings, and photographic works he needed, so he had a more comfortable and pleasant time playing.

Their slow travel style was something that ordinary people couldn’t do, especially without worrying about money.

The three of them stayed in this big city for more than ten days. In the end, Chen Feng even wanted to buy a house here, so he could come and play whenever he had free time.

But in the end, he still resisted the impulse to buy a house.

That day, Wu Mengting received a call from her mother, who said that her father was hospitalized.

At first, Wu Mengting thought her mother was lying to her. Her mother had done this before. But this time it was not. Her mother directly had a video call with her. The place was in the hospital ward. Her father was lying on the hospital bed with a pale face, looking much thinner.

Seeing her father like this, Wu Mengting’s eyes immediately turned red, and she quickly asked what was wrong.

Only then did her mother tell her that more than twenty days ago, her father had suddenly started coughing and had a high fever that wouldn’t go away. Then he went to the hospital. At that time, they thought it was just a severe cold, but when they went to the hospital for a check-up, it turned out to be pneumonia, so he had to be hospitalized.

They had originally planned to go to Xiuzhou to talk to Chen Feng, but they couldn’t go because of this pneumonia.

And so, more than a week later, her father finally recovered and was discharged from the hospital.

After recuperating at home for a few days, the couple discussed going to Xiuzhou to talk to Chen Feng again. Then, the next morning, when her father got up and was taking a walk in the neighborhood, he slipped on a banana peel and fell, injuring his tailbone, so he had to be hospitalized again.

This time, the injury was a bit serious. Moreover, it takes a hundred days for a broken bone to heal. He had been in the hospital for more than ten days and had not yet recovered. So, the couple, especially Old Wu, finally started to miss their daughter.

They hadn’t told their daughter about the pneumonia last time, but this time, after Old Wu had injured his tailbone and had been in the hospital for more than ten days, Old Wu really wanted his daughter to come and visit, so he contacted Wu Mengting.

And when Wu Mengting learned of her father’s situation, of course, she couldn’t continue to travel happily. She immediately booked the earliest flight to Lushi.

Without Wu Mengting by his side, Sun Xiaorui was very happy and lived with Chen Feng, but Chen Feng, on the contrary, began to feel unaccustomed.

So after staying in City W for another two days, he simply took Sun Xiaorui back to Xiuzhou, and at the same time, he brought back the seven calligraphy and painting works he had acquired here during this period.

Although he now had four oracle bones in his hand, and they seemed to contain a lot of energy, they were not inexhaustible.

The tortoise shell that he had absorbed energy from at the beginning had only been absorbed by about one-third after more than ten days. So, this one oracle bone seemed to be enough for him to absorb for more than a month.

Of course, this was under the condition that he was going at full throttle, absorbing for at least two hours a day.

If he only absorbed for half an hour each time, then the time could definitely be extended a lot.

But even so, the matter of acquiring energy calligraphy, paintings, and photographic works had to continue. It was just not as urgent as before.

In addition, he had now added several more calligraphers, painters, and photographers who met the requirements for energy works, so there should be no shortage of sources in the future.

After the two returned to Xiuzhou, Chen Feng devoted himself to being a homebody, staying at home to absorb the energy in the tortoise shells, and also began to ponder the matter of practicing qigong to cure his illness.

This was similar to many cancer patients. After they found that medicine could not cure their terminal illness, they would often turn to theology and supernatural abilities to seek even a little bit of hope.

And Chen Feng did not lean in this direction at the beginning because he had not yet faced his “Emperor of Europe” attribute, let alone his suddenly very sensitive sixth sense.

This sixth sense had started to appear when he was in City A, and in the following ten days, Chen Feng had verified it on others several times.

Therefore, he strongly suspected that he might have developed supernatural abilities because of the tumor in his brain. If he could develop and utilize it through practicing qigong, he could make better use of this sixth sense. If he extended it, he might even be able to cure his terminal illness.

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