National Guardian's Gone and We're Done-Chapter 98: Which of Us Here Isn’t a Billionaire?
’Someone actually recognized me?’
Chu He looked toward the source of the voice, astonished. It was Shang Yifei.
At that moment, Shang Yifei was looking Chu He up and down with a puzzled expression.
People in real life always look a little different from how they appear on screen.
It was like when a celebrity suddenly appears before you—
no matter how you look at them, they don’t quite match their television image.
The same was true for Chu He. Although numerous news outlets had reported on him, there was still a difference between his appearance in person and on TV.
For this reason, Shang Yifei only thought he looked a bit like Chu He and didn’t dare to definitively say he was the man himself.
Besides, Chu He was acclaimed as Blue Star’s strongest expert. Why would he be wandering alone on the Black Continent Grassland?
"Shang Yifei, so you also think he looks like Chu He! I actually saw him in the car’s rearview mirror, which is why I had them stop the car.
You can’t really be Chu He, can you?"
Yu Qianqian asked, incredibly excited.
Shang Yifei pointed at the gesticulating Yu Qianqian and said to Chu He, "Yu Qianqian is Chu He’s die-hard fan. She’s admired him for years and always says she hopes to marry him someday."
"Hey, don’t just say things like that! It’s so embarrassing if someone hears."
Yu Qianqian immediately grew shy, but she still blinked her sparkling eyes,
looking at Chu He expectantly as she waited for him to answer her earlier question.
"My name is indeed Chu He."
Chu He said with a nod.
"You? You?" Qu Chengping was instantly displeased. "If you’re Chu He, then I’m the leader of the Lighthouse Empire."
Qu Chengping stepped in front of Yu Qianqian and said, "Yu Qianqian, you’re just too naive.
How many of the people who dare come to the Black Continent Grassland are good news?
When I went to the Great Xia Empire with my dad for overseas trade, I had dinner with Chu He. He even toasted my dad three times."
"Had dinner with me, and even toasted your dad three times? Why don’t I remember any of this?"
Chu He asked in surprise.
He hadn’t attended a single dinner party since going to the Great Xia Empire.
"Of course you don’t know, because you’re not the real Chu He," Qu Chengping said.
"Alright, stop arguing.
The situation on the Black Continent Grassland is quite strange, and there are Evil Spirits everywhere. It’s truly dangerous for you to be walking around alone, so why don’t you get in our car?
Besides, there’s no day or night on the Black Continent Grassland anymore. It’s always this foggy." Shang Yifei cut Qu Chengping off and turned to Chu He.
"Shang Yifei, why are you inviting him too? You never used to be like this. Don’t tell me you’ve taken a liking to this pretty boy?"
Qu Chengping demanded, exasperated.
In truth, Qu Chengping also thought the man looked remarkably like Chu He.
He had always liked Yu Qianqian, but her heart had always belonged to Chu He,
and she hoped that even if she couldn’t marry Chu He, she could find a man who was just as outstanding and exceptional.
Now, someone who bore a seventy to eighty percent resemblance to the real Chu He had appeared,
and Qu Chengping immediately felt a sense of crisis.
"We’re all young people out here, and it’s not easy for anyone. If we can help each other out, we should, right?"
Shang Yifei pointed to the middle vehicle and said, "Ride with us. We’re all young, so maybe we’ll have something in common to talk about."
"Then, thank you," Chu He said.
’Sometimes, that’s just how it is. No one believes you when you tell the truth.’
Both Yu Qianqian and Shang Yifei agreed that Chu He should travel with them.
Qu Chengping was outnumbered and powerless to object. Any protest would be useless anyway, so he had no choice but to swallow his pride and accept it, glaring at Chu He with hostile eyes.
After everyone got in the vehicles, the convoy continued on its way.
"Is your name really Chu He?" Yu Qianqian asked, full of curiosity, after they got in the car.
The one driving was the security captain, Uncle Dog, who also kept studying Chu He through the rearview mirror.
"Yes, my name is indeed Chu He," Chu He replied with a nod.
"Can you stop pretending to be something you’re not?"
Qu Chengping asked, his face full of dissatisfaction.
In his eyes, this guy must have noticed Yu Qianqian’s feelings for Blue Star’s strongest expert,
and so he decided to play along, using his looks to impersonate Chu He.
Chu He shrugged without explaining. The matter was unimportant to him, so he changed the subject. "Would it be alright if I asked about the intelligence you have on the Black Continent Grassland?"
"Of course."
Yu Qianqian was clearly quite interested in Chu He.
She took a map out and said, "This is a map of the Black Continent Grassland from before the bizarre tide occurred.
From our current position, there’s a canyon about a hundred kilometers away that’s filled with White Bone Grass.
Do you know what White Bone Grass is?"
"No," Chu He said, shaking his head. He had indeed never heard of it.
"See? I told you he wasn’t Chu He, Blue Star’s strongest expert. I’ve had dinner with Chu He before.
Chu He even taught me a couple of moves, but I was just too lazy to learn them.
How could I, someone who’s met Chu He in person, not recognize him?"
Qu Chengping immediately seized the opportunity,
wearing a look that said, ’See? I was right.’
The reason Qu Chengping was so certain
was his firm belief that a big shot like Chu He would never walk alone on the Black Continent Grassland.
When a person of that stature travels, what kind of entourage should he have?
Qu Chengping already knew from the news that the Great Xia Empire was now treating Chu He like one of the Deities,
giving him the most luxurious treatment. Even when he was the National Guardian War God in the Great Jing Empire, he wasn’t as celebrated as he was now in the Great Xia Empire.
A flash of disappointment also crossed Yu Qianqian’s eyes.
In her mind, someone as amazing as Chu He must be omniscient.
After all, even she knew what White Bone Grass was, but this "Chu He" didn’t.
Still, she began to explain, "White Bone Grass is a new type of bizarre product.
According to research from the Lighthouse Empire, when a human fuses with an Evil Spirit, it puts a huge strain and causes great damage to the body.
If you continuously consume White Bone Grass during the fusion process, you can greatly reduce that strain and damage, increasing the success rate of human-Evil Spirit fusion.
That’s why the price of a single stalk of White Bone Grass has been driven up to over thirty million, and it’s still rising.
For an ordinary person, finding just one stalk of White Bone Grass would instantly make them a multimillionaire."
"Are you going to dig up White Bone Grass for your own use or to sell?"
Chu He truly had never heard of it. This was because anything derived from Evil Spirits,
especially things used for human-Evil Spirit fusion, was something Chu He had never bothered to learn about.
"For our own use, of course. Everyone here comes from a family of billionaires. Money is just a string of numbers to us."
Qu Chengping said smugly.
[Thanks to the boss, quizze, for the 588 Book Coin donation. Hope you become a billionaire soon, boss! Thank you, boss!!!]
