Imperial Treasure
Chapter 363 - 253: A Melon Seed

Chapter 363: Chapter 253: A Melon Seed

Elder Tang and his people left the next day, while Sui Yi’s top-quality 140 jin spring-colored jade was already sent back last night by Feng Sha and others who arrived in a private jet.

It was, after all, worth over 700 million yuan; a helicopter isn’t exactly splurging~~

However, the swift transfer by Sui Yi and his people caught many with sly intentions off guard, such as the local forces in Urumqi who were getting ready to make a move when they suddenly got the news... by then, the private jet had already been gone for half a day..

It made them spit blood!

"What kind of people are these, so damn crafty, not leaving even a little opportunity.."

"Damn it! Too sly! Otherwise, let’s just kidnap those two women.. They must also have several hundred million on them.."

"Are you stupid? I heard those two women have significant influence in Jiangdu, kidnapping them would be like stirring up a hornet’s nest, it’d be cleaner to rob a bank!"

Gong Jiu and her party’s identities were the best shield, and in actuality, part of Sui Tang Square’s shares had already been entrusted to the two by Sui Yi, implying mutual loss and succession within the same line.

They hadn’t cared before because the total assets of Sui Tang Square were only tens of millions back then. They had a good relationship, and their personalities were forthright; to refuse would have been too pretentious, so they accepted very casually at the time.

But now things were different, with those jades sent back, Sui Tang Square’s value would inevitably soar to over ten billion. And that’s just for now—what about the future brand effect?

The shares Gong Jiu and her party received were worth fifty or sixty million themselves. Although they didn’t lack that money, it was still a significant sum, so they made careful and thorough arrangements for the helicopter and the escort, including Sui Tang Square’s security... all bundled together!

With nothing to worry about behind them, the three of them casually got into an off-road Hummer and took to Urumqi’s highway entrance...

As soon as the car got on, Gong Jiu, who was driving, curled her lips. "Three cars are following us. They really can’t see, probably just some small fry," she said.

The somewhat scaled organizations in Urumqi could find out something about their background and knew these two women weren’t purely businesspeople and had quite a bit of blood on their hands. They wouldn’t be foolish enough to make a move on them two just for a few hundred million unless they were utterly confident.

But this world never lacks annoying pests.

Gong Jiu, full of interest, led them onto the rarely populated highway...

Sui Yi and Flower Demon, indifferent to this person’s wicked sense of humor, one was fiddling with an object at hand, and the other was watching a downloaded Korean drama on the car computer.. munching on melon seeds and criticizing as she watched..

Warm sunlight and fresh air...

The three of them resembled young people out on a scenic trip...

That Hummer, that exterior.. definitely appeared like a juicy sheep in the eyes of many highway bandits..

"Oh boy, they’re speeding up to surround us," Gong Jiu exaggeratedly cried out in feigned horror... Yeah, the acting was a tad overblown.

"Ram into them! The car belongs to Big Head Niu anyway!" Flower Demon said, not taking her eyes off the drama.

"Don’t bother, we still need this car next... Okay, stopping the car now," Gong Jiu said.

Gong Jiu brought the car to a stop, and the people in those three cars were overjoyed when they saw it, getting out of their cars in a rush.

They all fit the ruthless character of desperadoes quite well, looking tall, mighty, and ferocious, muscles bulging; fifteen strong guys were brandishing sticks and knives as they approached.

"Gorgeous, get out," one of them said.

"Let’s not make it hard for your brothers... Although brother doesn’t mind coming up for a good time," another taunted.

Just as one guy was about to knock on the window with his stick, he saw the window was already rolling down, revealing Gong Jiu’s face.

At a glance, the guy’s eyes widened as he yelled, "Yo, she really is pretty, even prettier than the picture..."

"Cut the crap, there are two more women, even prettier! Quick, everyone get out..." another urged.

Originally, Gong Jiu had planned to amuse herself by playing along with these guys, but upon hearing what that person just said, the feigned frailty on her face instantly turned fierce!

Whoosh!

The car door suddenly swung open, smacking into the guy. Then she swung out her long leg while the guy, covering his face and about to curse angrily..

A foot came flying in!

Thump!

The guy was kicked flying away.

"Blind are we? What do you mean prettier? Clearly, I’m the first!" Gong Jiu shouted with her brows furrowed indignantly.

A certain person’s face flashed through her mind along with his aloof and imposing glance. After a pause, she added, "At the very least, I’m second!"

"Damn wench! Brothers, charge!"

A group of people was about to rush forward, but they couldn’t stop Gong Jiu, who was too fast and too ferocious. She plowed through them with a barrage of slaps and flying kicks, moving like flowing water—snap, crack, snap! Twisted arms and broken legs were followed by a cacophony of screams...

Soon, Gong Jiu was standing on someone’s head when she heard the car door behind her open, and turned around, rolling her eyes, "I say, you two sure are leisurely, finishing a whole episode of your pickled dramas..."

Before she could finish, a scream rang out behind her, followed by the clatter of a gun hitting the ground.

Gong Jiu turned around and saw a middle-aged man in the driver’s seat, clutching his eyes and wailing, with a handgun lying on the ground next to him.

"Wow, there’s a gun too!" Gong Jiu frowned and cursed herself for being careless, then quickly stepped forward, dragged the man out, and threw him in with the rest.

"Idiot, your vigilance is getting worse. Someone behind you has a gun and you don’t even know it. Lately, you’ve really gotten too lax, your body’s going rusty." Since she had just made a mistake, Gong Jiu scoffed coldly and ignored her, then turned to ask Sui Yi, "What did you use just now on his eyes... I didn’t notice at all?"

She could sense bullets, but Sui Yi’s move...

"Sunflower seeds," Sui Yi’s response caused Flower Demon, who was cracking seeds, to stiffen up. She, along with Gong Jiu, gave Sui Yi a unified look and thought silently about how strong this man’s combat power actually was...

"If you’re this deadly with sunflower seeds, if you used your sword instead, wouldn’t you be able to kill all those old men from the Yun Family?" Flower Demon Jie Jie marveled, walking up to the gang and kicked the middle-aged man’s stomach.

"Armed with a photo and a gun, you came pretty well-prepared, but not really shrewd, definitely an inferior group’s doing. The one who could hire you lot can’t be much good either... I wonder, who could be behind this attack on us..."

Gong Jiu’s eyes flickered, "Only one person’s style matches these inferior methods."

Flower Demon turned her head to look at Sui Yi with a light laugh, "Seems like our Miss Pan isn’t favored by Third Master Yun, eh? Look at this trash coming out of their brains, not a single bit of the master’s shrewdness..."

"It’s probably because they don’t have anyone guiding them from behind..." Sui Yi said. Yun Li wouldn’t wake up for three days; Pan Ling was just a temporary tool for his use. They surely didn’t know the dirty tricks between them, nor understood their combat power. That’s why they picked a method that’s lethal to the common folk but a joke to them as a means of retaliation...

"So, what do we do now?" Gong Jiu scratched her short hair.

Flower Demon: "Kill them and toss them in the forest over there."

Gong Jiu: "That’s too cruel... What about the car, the police will catch us... Maybe we kill them and throw them in the car to make it look like a car accident."

The people on the ground were utterly devastated. Oh heavens, Pan Ling was just too diabolical! They call these unarmed, weak women?

It was a trap!

While Gong Jiu and another strained their brains plotting murder and disposing of bodies, Sui Yi asked the middle-aged man, "Are you guys newly hired by Pan Ling this time, or have you done some dirty work for her in the past?"

The middle-aged man hurriedly said, "This is our first time... and also her first time hiring us. We truly didn’t know the three of you..."

Before he could finish, he heard Sui Yi say indifferently, "You’re lying."

"..." The expression of the middle-aged man stiffened.

"You’re not speaking with a Xinjiang accent, and your dress and customs aren’t from Xinjiang either. You can only be outsiders. If you were to target us, there was no need for her to hire people from out of town, whether premeditated or a spur-of-the-moment decision, unless she’s accustomed to using you all..."

Sui Yi narrowed his eyes: "Perhaps you already have many lives on your hands. As the saying goes, a life for a life..."

Those words clearly implied they could kill to eliminate threats and dole out justice! They had thought the youngest and most idealistic Sui Yi would be most likely to show mercy, but now these people were panicking, the middle-aged man covering his injured eyes in terror, "No, no, we really haven’t killed many..."

With a glance from Sui Yi, Gong Jiu immediately stepped forward, her palm flipping to press the gun barrel against the man’s temple.

"I really don’t like being lied to..."

"No, no... I’ll talk, I’ll talk... It was just that one time, just that once. We didn’t do it ourselves, it was... during the incident at the Pingzhou Public Plate last year, about a year and a half to two years ago... She had us help dispose of a girl..."

"Did you kill her?" Flower Demon’s eyes grew sharp, and another gun was aimed at the man’s head.

"No, we didn’t... It’s a misunderstanding!" These people were on the verge of tears, damn it, each of them was a tough cookie. Screw that soft sister nonsense!

"By the time we took over the job, it was already a corpse... We just dealt with the body, tried to make it look like a violent death," he said.

So she had already been killed?

"Do you remember how she died? Don’t try to be sly with me. I don’t believe you can’t tell," Gong Jiu pressed.

"Uh..." The middle-aged man’s eyes darted around before he finally said, "There were strangulation marks on her neck. It seemed like she was strangled... Her death looked quite horrific, I didn’t look too closely at the time..."

Flower Demon narrowed her eyes, "Strangled to death... Was it Pan Ling who contacted you?"

"No, at first it was someone from the Pan Family... Then it was Pan Ling, asking us to take care of some things she couldn’t be seen dealing with. Pan Ling is really a bitch, all those things were instructed by her... She even went after her own classmates... There were several girls prettier than her around her who she had plotted against..."

To save his own skin, the middle-aged man didn’t dare hide much, perhaps scared stiff by Sui Yi’s earlier words that saw through to the heart of the matter. (To be continued. If you like this work, you are welcome to vote for it on Qidian, cast your monthly ticket, and support me on the mobile site at m.qidian.com. Your support is my greatest motivation.)