Chapter 14

Chapter 14: Phoenix's Blood [3]

Translator: Xah

Li Shu suddenly turned around.

Zhang Qiu, who was carrying a bag of broken thoughts, slammed into Li Shu’s chest with a bang. His nose was sore from the bump. His tearful eyes looked up at Li Shu. “What’s wrong?” He saw Li Shu looking at the back. He looked at the back; there was nothing to see in the mall.

“Nothing.” Li Shu retracted his gaze and looked down at Zhang Qiu’s watery eyes; his lips slightly raised, “Walk with eyes on the road.”

Zhang Qiu: …

I really want to kill Li Shu!

“Let’s go.”

When the two people came out of the shopping mall, the heat wave hit. It was noon, at the end of the day and the most toxic days at the end of June.

Zhang Qiu slowly moved to Li Shu’s back; a trace of cool air seemed to emanate from Li Shu. Feeling comfortable, he smiled and happily said: “It’s noon, we’re eating out, going home to cook is troublesome.”

Li Shu turned around and saw that Zhang Qiu smiled somewhat cunningly but very cute.

“You decide.”

Zhang Qiu was too lazy to go into the mall. If he passed the lingerie store, he could be ashamed to death. He pointed to the Pizza Hut.

After entering the restaurant, Li Shu’s appearance attracted the attention of a group of people. After buying underwear, Zhang Qiu always felt that the customers in the restaurant looked at them strangely. He pulled Li Shu and said, “Let’s sit at the back.”

Li Shu had no objection. The little girl by the side smiled sweetly.

Before the meal was served, Zhang Qiu had already dried up a few glasses of lemonade, which caused his stomach to swell a little, then he whispered, “I’m going to the bathroom.”

“Do you want me to accompany you?”

Zhang Qiu waved his hand in embarrassment, then saw Li Shu’s smiling eyes and knew he was played by Li Shu again. His teeth itched, but went to the bathroom, panic-stricken.

How could he be eaten by Li Shu? Almost unscientific!

The toilet was for both male and female, and there seemed to be someone inside. Zhang Qiu thought about waiting outside. As a result, the door of the toilet opened and a man in black came out. Then, the outside door was pushed open. In, came a man in black. The two men dressed as though they knew each other.

“Hello, please excuse me.” Zhang Qiu felt something was wrong with them. A handkerchief passed from just behind him and held tightly over his mouth and nose. He tried his best to make sound and managed to just make a murmur. Then, his consciousness slowly blurred.

“Come on, listen to LaoDa. The people outside are very fierce.”

“Don’t rush.”

After that, Zhang Qiu completely fainted.

–

Woke up again in a car, his stomach rolled, but he still refrained it. His ears heard voices; the voices were familiar, which belong to the two people who had tied him up.

“… People contacted. We made the rounds this time.”

“How long will it take?”

“Quick, two hours. You watch the person behind, do not want him to be running away. There’s no way he still fainted.”

“Rest assured, I keep watch.”

Zhang Qiu slowly opened his eyes. His hands were tied to his body and he was in the back row of seats. His feet were tied up; they couldn’t move at all. He didn’t know if he was tied up for a long time, but the blood was not running smooth and his arms felt numb and uncomfortable.

The driver and co-pilot in front were the two who tied him, and the speed quickly increased.

He didn’t know the two people at all, and he couldn’t figure out why the two men tied him and had to make him sleep. He was just closing his eyes, the co-pilot man turned his head and looked at Zhang Qiu in the back seat. He saw that Zhang Qiu didn’t wake up and started talking.

Zhang Qiu didn’t know what they were talking about going down a pit, dumping a fight, and wedging Lama[1]. Not until he went down to the tomb with the group of Jin LaoDa, he discovered a line of terminology in which the tomb was called a pit and they claimed themselves as Earth Masters.

Turned out, they were tomb raiders who tied him up.

Zhang Qiu wondered why, he had nothing to do with the group. Why did they have to tie him up? Then he heard that the other party’s ultimate goal was Li Shu. Li Shu had a map in his hand; this was what the group wanted. They didn’t dare to tie Li Shu, so then they tied him up.

Fucking chicken! Did his face write ‘good to tie up’ ah?!

Zhang Qiu was somewhat angry. This group of tomb raider was really not a thing; bullied the weak and feared the strong.

And then he remembered that Li Shu was holding something last night and in the morning. It was a palm-sized yellowing thing when he was it at night. After he took a bath, Li Shu put it away and stuffed it into his bedside cabinet. It was a map of China when he saw it in the morning. That big stuff should be what this group wanted.

Zhang Qiu thought for a while. He wondered if it was the cause of the drug residue because his head felt faint and then he fell asleep again.

–

By the time he woke up again, he was already in a hotel bed; trussing up to resemble a Zongzi, and heard a talking outside.

“… Fellow Li Shu, you can rest assured, we have worked together before. Last time things, we laughed and forget our enmity, OK.”

“The person.”

Li Shu’s voice was very cold, carrying anger. On the bed, Zhang Qiu was ale to imagine Li Shu’s current appearance when he was at the door. Just like when he first met him on the train, the other party was estimated to be scared to death.

Sure enough, the other person laughed awkwardly and said, “I haven’t hurt a hair on the person, he’s asleep inside. Eh, Fellow Li Shu, don’t worry about it first.” Then the other person stopped talking. The next second he heard the push of the door and a hot glance swept over him. Zhang Qiu, who was like a corpse on the bed, opened his eyes quickly. It was just happened to meet with Li Shu’s eyes.

All of a sudden, he was covered by dominance.

The next second however, Li Shu’s face changed; his eyes were much softer, as if he had just killed a ghost not him, and then he walked straight over.

“Li Shu!”

Zhang Qiu cried happily and then found Li Shu’s eyes were a little cold. The air temperature seemed to be low. The man behind him hastily laughed and said, “He’s just tied up. He’s not hurt.”

When he saw someone coming in, Zhang Qiu was stunned. It turned out to be Jin LaoDa.

Jin LaoDa was about to untie the rope, but Li Shu was quicker. The dagger was already in front of Jin LaoDa’s hand. As long as Jin LaoDa dared to reach over for one centimeter, his hand was not needed. Jin LaoDa was so frightened that he pulled back his hand and turned pale.

“You do it, you do it.”

Li Shu held the dagger and waved it off, and the rope was cut off.

Zhang Qiu immediately got up from the bed, but he was weakened and fell down again, but was caught in Li Shu’s arms. Frowning, Li Shu asked, “What’s the matter?”

“No food and numb all over.”

Li Shu directly embraced the Zhang Qiu and held him up as a standard princess-carry.

The Zhang Qiu, who boasted of being a big man, was flushed and looked outdoors.

Immediately he whispered, “You, let me down, it’s so ugly, we two gentlemen –” and the next words were muted in Li Shu’s faint eyes.

Zhang Qiu, a reddish-faced man with deep-fried hair, was carried back to the other room by Li Shu under Jin LaoDa’s neutral expression.

–

Back in the room, Zhang Qiu touched his mobile phone; it was already seven o’clock in the evening. There were more than a dozen unanswered phone calls, all from his mother, so he quickly he dialed back.

“It’s okay. It’s nothing. I’m having fun. I forgot the time. Li Shu has never been anywhere. I’ll take him around for two or three days. Hmm, I know. ”

Hanging up the phone, he saw Li Shu watching him, he snorted; there are many chances for you to use the ability to tie me ah!

Li Shu was disinclined to pay attention to Zhang Qiu and stared at things in his hands.

Zhang Qiu had just had a full meal and was playing with his mobile phone on the sofa. As a result, the power wasn’t enough, it was turned off. He threw his mobile phone on the bed. After a while, he touched the sofa next to Li Shu and asked, “What did Jin LaoDa want you to do?”

“Going down the tomb.”

“I know, they’re a bunch of tomb –” he was going to say tomb raider, after seeing Li Shu, he took it back, and put it another way. “That’s what the Earth Masters do. I mean, where are you going with them?”

Li Shu looked up at Zhang Qiu, “curious?”

Zhang Qiu nodded his head. Li Shu handed the yellowing thing in his hand. Zhang Qiu touched it; the texture was a little hard, like what leather was made of. A small mountain sketch, the size of his palm, with black lines; it was a broken ancient map.

He looked over and over again and again without noticing anything. There was no coordinate on this map. It was just a landscape, a river, or a fragment.

“Where is this?”

“Xiangxi.”

Knock, knock, knock.

Someone knocked at the door. Li Shu stood up and opened the door; it was Jin LaoDa. He didn’t come in, he just handed Li Shu an envelope. Li Shu shut the door directly.

“What is it?”

“Ticket.” Li Shu looked at Zhang Qiu. “I’ll send you back tomorrow.”

Zhang Qiu hesitated, “are you going to Xiangxi?” He was a little silly asking this, somehow he knew what to ask, he paused. He wanted to ask what he had always wanted to ask, “You don’t seem to be going down for antiques, so why on earth?”

“Rescue someone.” Li Shu said no more.

Zhang Qiu was obsessed with Li Shu’s answer all night, and he also didn’t know what he would be up to. The next day he woke up and said, “Don’t send me off. I’ll go with you guys.”

He thought Li Shu was going to persuade him, and he already figured out the excuses; he had archaeological responsibilities, he couldn’t watch Jin LaoDa destroy antiquities. Anyway, he could have persuaded him to do something about it.

As a result, Li Shu nodded in agreement.

Zhang Qiu’s words all choked back. No need to mention how uncomfortable it was.

He didn’t know how Jin LaoDa did it. Anyway, he had his ticket when boarding. The two-hour plane landed at Changsha Airport. At the entrance of the airport, an off-road vehicle was parked. There were two tattooed men in it. They wore suits and sunglasses in this summer, and they did not look the same way as Jin LaoDa.

The two people had a general attitude towards Jin LaoDa, and Jin LaoDa didn’t mind, but laughing and introducing Li Shu.

Li Shu had always been cold. He did not speak, he directly boarding the car.

Zhang Qiu followed, and when he turned back to close the door, he was stunned. There was a very familiar person in the crowd at the airport gate. It flashed by, as if he had seen it somewhere. But the more he thought about it, the more he couldn’t remember it. along the way. All the way, it grasped at Zhang Qiu’s heart and scratched his lungs.

Such a stunning face should not be forgotten.

Breathtaking!

A face suddenly came up in his head. Zhang Qiu grabbed Li Shu’s arm nervously. Li Shu looked at him and said, “What’s the matter?”

Maybe his expression was so obvious that Jin LaoDa in front of him noticed it and looked back. Zhang Qiu blurted out, “I’m hungry.”

Li Shu believed it.

“When we get off, I’ll take you to dinner.”

Jin LaoDa heard this, clicked his tongue and turned away.

Zhang Qiu thought about getting off the car, but he couldn’t hold his breath. He touched his mobile phone, typed a line and handed it to Li Shu.

Li Shu looked down and looked at the phone.

I saw the Pixian Hui Wang.

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Footnote:

[1] spiritual teacher in Tibetan Buddhism

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