The Beautiful Boss's Personal Bodyguard
Chapter 519 - 518

Chapter 519: 518

Although he was verbally respectful, the handshake was very casual, not at all proportionate to his courteous words.

Joe Johnson didn’t mind these details; after shaking hands with Ye Tian, he went straight to the point.

"I don’t like to beat around the bush. I’m here today because of your situation. If I hadn’t come, you could certainly try to escape, but you’d definitely be pursued by a large group of people. If you’re confident you can handle what you’re up against, I can leave right now. Now, you need to make your first choice."

"Of course, it’s cooperation."

Ye Tian was thick-skinned; if he could take a shortcut, he would never take the long way around. If there was a penny on the ground, he’d stoop to pick it up. Since someone was offering to solve his problem, he was quite happy about it.

Joe Johnson nodded, "Good. You’re more straightforward than I thought."

"Hehe, Mr. Johnson, could you make things simpler for me? Although I might be thick-skinned and loathe trouble, I never believe in pie falling from the sky. If you’re straightforward, so am I. I’m limited in what I can do, I may not be of great help, but I can certainly lend a hand with smaller matters."

"Very well. I’ll assist you with the trouble. I’ll take care of last night’s incident, but I also need your help. My visit this time is just a friendly one. Specific matters will be discussed in detail by someone I’ll send to see you. Oh, and the items from the museum, it’d be best if you don’t touch them for now. I’ll naturally deliver them to you once this situation settles down."

"So, it was you who took the things?"

Joe Johnson didn’t say yes or no, but simply smiled again, shook hands with the three people in the room, and then left. A bespectacled individual with the air of a secretary gave Ye Tian a complex look at the door, then followed suit. Ye Tian vaguely remembered this man was the one who had visited Jenny in the hospital last time.

After the few who followed Joe Johnson left, the inn’s owner curiously glanced at Ye Tian, then halved their rent, even suggesting they stay a few more days.

After sending off the good-hearted owner, Ye Tian turned to Chu Tianying, "What’s going on?"

Chu Tianying shrugged, "What else could it be? Incidents happen every other day in the slums. It’s not a big deal if one or even seven or eight people die there, nobody cares. But this time the Minister of Commerce personally came to inquire, what else do you think is wrong?"

"We’ve been marked, haven’t we?"

"What do you think?"

That was it.

But how did that Thai State Preceptor get mixed up with the Minister of Commerce?

Chu Tianying seemed to guess what Ye Tian was thinking and said, "For him, the Minister of Commerce, it’s not worth making a personal trip for just the two of us. He must’ve run into some trouble with the officials. High places are cold, and sometimes they need small figures to handle certain tasks. Forget it, since we can’t guess, there’s no use speculating here. Didn’t he say someone would come talk to us? Let’s wait for that person."

Ye Tian never expected that after getting involved with the Seizing Body Conference he would attract the attention of the Minister of Commerce. Indeed, fate is laden with troubles. On top of that, dealing with an unknown descendant of that Thai State Preceptor, the days ahead were likely to be even tougher. Who could tell whether some mysterious bug might come crawling up to bite him while he slept?

Spending his days on edge was quite uncomfortable for Ye Tian. He lay on the bed, pondering strategies. At present, with everything up in the air, instead of passively waiting, it would be better to take the initiative.

"Yingzi, what did your boss say? Has there been any contact?"

Ye Tian suddenly remembered that Chu Tianying had the backing of a mercenary group, and perhaps he could get some clues from there. However, the latter’s answer was somewhat disappointing, "No, they’re still in Africa. I’m just a side mission; if they find me, great, if not, it’s no big loss. There’s still money to be made anyway."

"Oh, I see." Ye Tian’s mind raced, wanting to ask why he was still here, but thinking it inappropriate, he kept his mouth shut.

Soon enough, someone did send a message. It was a folder. Ye Tian opened it and despite cursing Johnson for being pretentious, he read the letter patiently. Indeed, there were several dense pages; if his English wasn’t strong, he would probably be clueless.

But there’s an advantage to verbosity. If this were back in Huaxia, those poor literati types would probably just write a sentence or two and leave others to guess the rest, just to show off how impressive they are. Foreigners have a directness that Ye Tian admired.

"What’s the matter? Murder or political coup?"

Ye Tian glanced at him and snorted, "That lad really knows how to do business. Both of the things you mentioned, we’ve got involved in."

Chu Tianying sighed and lay on the bed, saying no more.

...

The Forbidden Land of the temple was off-limits to everyone. Not to mention the prohibition, just the Five Elements traps along the way were enough to daunt anyone. Moreover, at the very end, there were three Masters guarding the place; even if one managed to walk in, they’d probably be carried out. However, today, there was an additional presence, a hunchbacked old man in tattered monk robes. With disheveled hair and a scruffy beard, his face gloomy, his appearance was indeed shocking. Even more so considering he had a gold-colored snake coiled around each of his hands, constantly hissing at the three men in front of him, looking quite terrifying.

"How have you three Masters been?"

Shangjia Moti bowed his head in reverence, but his expression didn’t match his gesture; it remained gloomy as if hiding deep-seated hatred.

The middle Skull Master was impassive, wondering what the State Preceptor was doing here this time.

"State Preceptor usually doesn’t like to associate with our Buddhist folks. What brings the Preceptor here this time?"

Indeed, Shangjia Moti hadn’t died, not only was he alive, but he was also thriving, and the Ice Worm Gu King was still well in his possession. As the most talented Master of Gu Refinement in centuries, Shangjia Moti’s pride wasn’t merely in the Ice Worm, but in his ability to handle any Gu. With self-taught efforts, he miraculously learned and corrected errors in many ancient texts, and he had even created numerous new Gu nurturing techniques. Among them, the most significant was the development of the Corpse Refining Technique.

The Corpse Refining Technique required one main material: a corpse, and the requirements for this corpse were also very high,