My Job Is Quite Unique Chapter 44

Chapter 44: Hunting Qi Chuan!

After seeing Qi Chuan gobble down his food, Su Chen waited a while before slowly walking in.

Qi Chuan’s shoulders twitched, and he looked up, a flash of resentment in his eyes, but then he forced a bitter smile, “Brother Su… I finally see you. Why has it come to this?”

“I…” He sighed, “I was just unwilling, that’s all. I couldn’t control Jiang He, so I thought… of killing someone back then.”

“Later, an accident happened, and I wanted to find out what exactly happened that night.”

He immediately brought up the root of their previous interactions, appearing very sincere, and seriously apologized for contacting Hu Xiang.

“It was truly because I saw how young and handsome you were, and jealousy took over my heart, that I harbored homicidal thoughts. I promise I’ll never have any ill intentions towards you again.”

“Is that all?” Su Chen’s reaction was calm.

“Brother…” Qi Chuan said helplessly, “You must have checked my background. I’m just a live-in son-in-law. Jiang Rong controls me very tightly, and I don’t get any extra income in the Research Department.”

“Who is behind you?” Su Chen asked directly.

“I…” Qi Chuan’s eyes flickered, looking troubled, “Don’t ask, it’s not good for anyone if you know. I didn’t contact him after I came in this time. I’ll stay here honestly for these few days, consider it my atonement.”

“We’re all in the same boat, give me a chance.”

At the end of his words, there was a subtle hint.

Su Chen stared at him. “He’s truly impressive, able to bend and stretch.”

Last time he mentioned they were in the same boat, the other party almost lost control of his emotions. This time, to dispel Su Chen’s wariness, he apologized, praised him, and finally brought up those four words himself.

“Jiang He came to save you.” Su Chen said with a slight sigh, “He’s upstairs.”

Upstairs? Qi Chuan gritted his teeth inwardly, but forced a smile and said, “After all, we’re husband and wife.”

“Sign this, and you can leave tonight.” Su Chen pulled out the parchment.

Qi Chuan knew what it was, but he wasn’t surprised. He sighed, “It should have been like this long ago.”

He looked quite composed, took the parchment, signed his name, and the characters on the parchment flashed with a faint light before the entire scroll disintegrated.

Su Chen took it and turned to leave. “You can go out tonight.”

“I trust you, little brother.” Qi Chuan said gently. He couldn’t stay for many days anyway; he would have to leave sooner or later.

Rumble!

The cell door closed again. Qi Chuan snorted inwardly, but suddenly felt a sharp, faint pain in his heart.

“What’s going on…?” He touched his heart, but the sensation quickly vanished. The hunger in his stomach tormented him incessantly; every cell in his body groaned.

“I can endure a few more days at most.”

However, to his surprise, only three or four hours later, around ten at night, Su Chen actually released him.

“I can leave?” Qi Chuan was still a little surprised.

“If you don’t want to leave, you can stay.” The guard in charge was expressionless.

“Go, go.” Qi Chuan was already starving. He had intended to retrieve his belongings from before his imprisonment.

But he was informed that the person in charge had already left work, and he would have to wait until tomorrow morning to get them.

“Forget it.” Qi Chuan turned and left. The Supervision Department was in the inner city; it would only take three or four hours to walk back. If he waited until tomorrow morning, who knew what other troubles might arise.

The night was dim. At this hour, there were very few people on the streets.

“Why hasn’t it taken effect yet? Is the dosage too small?”

In the distant shadows, Su Chen wore Shadow-Hiding Clothes and held a telescope, trailing far behind Qi Chuan, but with a different face.

It was the Mimicry Mask Yuan Chenyang had given him. If he felt uneasy going out during the day, he could use it to disguise himself. It was even a ranked item.

[Mimicry Mask (Tier 1): Made from Ghost Monkey Skin, it can simply alter facial features.]

“I wonder how far the plan has progressed?” Qi Chuan subconsciously walked in the shadows, pondering.

“I originally intended to plan slowly, with Jiang He’s death, I would gain Jiang Rong’s support, then, using the theft of the Holy Word Stone, I would seize the opportunity to get rid of Yuan Chenyang. Jiang Rong would support Zhou Xian to take over as the Director of Supervision, and then I would just have to wait another year… Unfortunately, something went wrong from the very beginning!” He couldn’t help but feel annoyed, “How did Su Chen suddenly appear?!”

This guy had too many secrets. He didn’t believe it was truly as the outside world said, that Yuan Chenyang had long ago taken Su Chen as a student, planning ahead and embedding him as an undercover agent in the city patrol team.

“…Damn it!”

The hunger in his stomach, the frustration in his heart, the metaphorical cuckoldry, and the subservient attitude he had to adopt when facing Su Chen earlier, all fueled Qi Chuan’s rage.

“One day, sooner or later… Su Chen, Jiang He, I will make you beg for life, beg for…”

“Ugh!”

Suddenly, Qi Chuan, whose face was constantly changing, collapsed to the ground, breathing with difficulty, his heart in excruciating pain, and green patterns emerging on his arms.

“What is this? Corpse Shadow Poison!” His pupils constricted. “When did I…?”

“Ant… antidote!”

The sudden threat of death caused Qi Chuan to forget everything else. He turned abruptly and headed towards the Outer District.

“What is he going to do?” Su Chen was quite surprised, his eyes narrowed slightly, and he quickly followed.

Qi Chuan was a Tier 2 professional, but he had been starving for many days, and coupled with the severe poison, he stumbled and his speed was not fast. Su Chen could easily keep up.

Qi Chuan’s face was pale, his forehead covered in cold sweat. After running for three or four hours, he finally reached the edge of the inner city, just a step away from the Outer District.

Su Chen was worried that he would die halfway, but he managed to endure it.

Qi Chuan stopped in front of a dilapidated building and went straight to the top floor. He didn’t even bother with keys, forcefully breaking the door open. Dust flew, and tables and chairs lay scattered.

Bang!

He dug into a wall, pulled out a metal box, and after quickly verifying his fingerprints, he took out a glass bottle and gulped down its contents.

At this moment, the green patterns had almost crawled up to his neck.

“Hoo… hoo… hoo…” Qi Chuan gasped for air, collapsing backward onto the floor, his body twitching uncontrollably, as if he had just snatched his life back from the grim reaper.

As soon as his highly tense nerves relaxed, he subconsciously began to wonder when he had been poisoned.

He had been in the Supervision Department all this time and had hardly come into contact with anything from the outside, except… the food from the Supervision Department!

Qi Chuan quickly sorted through his thoughts, his face turning extremely ugly, and a name surfaced…

But suddenly, a chill ran down his spine, and he looked to the side.

He saw a blurred shadow, already attacking from outside the door, a slender whip making cracking sounds, chilling him to the bone.

Before he could react, he felt his head suddenly explode, as if a needle had been driven into his temple. But he could still withstand this slight impact.

“Who!”

He roared, his eyes spewing out blazing flames that instantly expanded into a wall of fire.

But it was too late. The whip tore through the wall of fire and landed on his head. Qi Chuan subconsciously raised both hands, and blazing flames burned fiercely.

However, the tip of the whip, like a goddess scattering flowers, dispersed into thin threads and forcefully struck down!

“Ah!” Qi Chuan shrieked. The metal threads, like high-speed wire saws, cut into his arms, and blood and flesh exploded!

“Tier 2 item? Who, who wants to kill me!!” Qi Chuan was terrified. His weakened body severely diminished his strength, leaving him with less than a tenth of his original power.

“Su Chen, it must be him!” In a flash of insight, Qi Chuan realized.

Poisoning, tracking, ambush—only Su Chen could be behind it.

“How insidious!” He was both shocked and enraged, but it was too late.

Two iron wires snaked like venomous snakes, piercing through the gaps in his arms and straight into his eyes, violently churning in his brain.

Poof! Fragments of eyeballs mixed with blood spurted out!

“Ugh!”

His body stiffened, and Qi Chuan made no further sound. The flames around his body gradually dissipated.

[One of the promotion conditions: Hunt a Tier 2 professional without being detected by others (Completed)]

(End of chapter)