Above the Galaxy
Chapter 347 - 226: New Year’s Eve, Blood Night!

Chapter 347: Chapter 226: New Year’s Eve, Blood Night!

Under the reluctant gaze of Tang Fei, Zhong Jiayuan led the brothers from the Supervision Bureau Fifth Division to the next door.

Tang Fei closed the courtyard door, and Little Fatty immediately came up to him and asked, "Bro, is everything okay?"

"It’s okay for now," Tang Fei lowered his voice, whispering, "Where’s Bai Wuxin?"

"In the storeroom," said Little Fatty. "I was afraid they would come in and search, so I buried him in wine bottles."

The storeroom was plentiful with wine stocks, more than enough to bury someone.

"Just don’t crush him," Tang Fei said.

Bai Wuxin’s wounds were not yet healed, and the multiple wine bottles were quite heavy; they could easily agitate his wounds or break his bones.

"Should I go dig him out now?"

"Let’s go, together," Tang Fei said.

The two men arrived at the basement. Indeed, the storeroom was filled with wine stocks.

Tang Fei and Little Fatty worked together to move the wine bottles above, finally revealing Bai Wuxin lying in the concave at the bottom.

Tang Fei helped Bai Wuxin up from the ground and seated him on the sofa in the rest area, asking with concern, "Are you okay?"

"I’m fine," Bai Wuxin wiped the blood trickling from the corner of his mouth and spoke, "What about them?"

"They’re gone."

"Gone? They didn’t come in to search?" Bai Wuxin asked in confusion.

The Monitoring Bureau, coming out during the holidays to carry out a mission and focusing on this area specifically, proved they had found significant clues.

They shouldn’t have given up any corner so easily, so why did they leave in such a hasty manner?

"I invited them, but they refused," said Tang Fei.

"..."

Bai Wuxin pondered for a moment, eyeing Tang Fei and asked, "How did you manage that?"

"I happened to receive a phone call; they were afraid of the person calling, so they left..." Tang Fei explained.

"Zhong Yu, Xiu Xue?" Bai Wuxin asked, suddenly realizing.

"Yes," Tang Fei nodded.

He knew Bai Wuxin held a grudge against the Imperial Family, but there was no need to lie about this matter; it was not something one could deceive about.

"Before you had Little Fatty send me down here, you sent a message... Was that message asking for her help?"

"I didn’t ask for her help," Tang Fei spoke. "I just sent her a message, asking her to call me when she had the time... I didn’t expect her call to come at such a timely moment..."

Of course, Tang Fei knew Phoenix would call him back as soon as possible, understanding her character; he had taken the initiative to send her a message, telling her to call him back when she had the time.

Phoenix, unaware of the situation over here, would certainly call back at the first opportunity...

"I don’t know what your relationship is with her, but you must understand, she is a member of the Royal Family... Once she realizes, she will definitely find things suspicious. Eventually, suspicion will fall on you..."

"This was the best option," Tang Fei spoke out.

Tang Fei was also aware of the risk; with Phoenix’s intelligence, it wouldn’t take her long to suspect there was more to this event.

But he had no better solution.

To stop the Monitoring Bureau from searching, he needed a powerful figure to intervene.

Tang Fei couldn’t possibly make the call to Xuanyuan Mingjing; Xuanyuan Mingjing was a formidable man, and Tang Fei dared not play tricks before him.

He had tried before but conceded to his failure.

Moreover, Xuanyuan Mingjing didn’t typically use a cell phone.

Therefore, Phoenix was the best and only option.

After sending that message to Phoenix, Tang Fei cleaned up the dishes and utensils Bai Wuxin had used, erasing any trace of his presence.

He also deliberately delayed opening the courtyard door; on one hand, to make it easier for Little Fatty to completely conceal Bai Wuxin, and on the other, to wear out the patience of the Monitoring Bureau’s soldiers...

He wanted to make them angry and lose their temper, thus uttering inappropriate remarks and exhibiting crude behavior...

That way, it would be easy to complain to the Princess later, listing their offenses.

He needed them to ’bully’ him, so when Phoenix made the video call, they would then feel ’guilty’.

When he invited them in to search, they didn’t want to upset him a second time and chose to ’decline’.

Even if they did come in, they’d only make a show of it and definitely wouldn’t search as thoroughly as they would in other homes.

Besides, he had laid much groundwork earlier; the disciple of Xuanyuan Mingjing, the senior apprentice of Shen Xinglan, the ’intimate boyfriend’ of the Princess, the Imperial Guard vice captain personally appointed by the King...

His multiple identities caused a subconscious belief that such a person could not possibly harbor a criminal.

Tang Fei hadn’t studied psychology; he just understood human nature.

An unexpected boon was the Monitoring Bureau Fifth Division being led by someone surnamed Zhong, a relative known to Phoenix.

With that link, he definitely wouldn’t trouble Tang Fei.

As long as he wasn’t a fool, he wouldn’t risk offending Phoenix...

"What if she hadn’t made the call?" Bai Wuxin asked.

"That wouldn’t happen," Tang Fei said. "I trust that she’d call."

All previous actions were a prelude; Phoenix’s phone call was the definitive key.

If Phoenix truly hadn’t called, Tang Fei would have pretended to call carelessly...

There was always a way to make the call.

There were always more solutions than problems.

When shameless enough, one could easily break through their own limits.