The Ice King's Little Trouble Maker-Chapter 540 - 504: I Am Too Shocked

Hospital

Once the wound was bandaged, Qiao Yuxian’s eyes flickered slightly, as if she’d snapped back to reality.

She glanced lightly at her own arm.

The wound had already been wrapped up.

The nurse had thoughtfully wiped the bloodstains from her arm and hand with saline solution.

"Doesn’t it hurt?" Liu Zhou asked, his voice hoarse from exerting himself the whole time.

Qiao Yuxian lifted her eyes to look at him, adjusting her hat brim with her right hand and said, "It hurts so much my skin’s crawling."

"Then why didn’t you react at all?" Liu Zhou asked.

"It hurt too much. My whole body’s gone numb." Qiao Yuxian’s voice was a bit mechanical, seemingly from pain too, "What kind of reaction could I have."

Liu Zhou: "......"

Qiao Yuxian continued to feel numb from the pain for a while.

After the wound was disinfected, three medicines were applied to her.

One for stopping the bleeding, one for pain relief, and another to accelerate healing.

After waiting for a while, Qiao Yuxian felt the pain relief starting to take effect, and she said, "What are you doing standing at the ER entrance for?"

"Yuan Wei came over. He’s upstairs with President Wen." Liu Zhou said, "It was too stuffy in there, so I came out for a smoke."

"No trash can at the inpatient department entrance?" Qiao Yuxian asked.

Liu Zhou looked at her, paused, and then smiled, "The trash can at the inpatient department entrance was surrounded by some D Continent people, so I walked a few more steps over here."

Qiao Yuxian: "......"

"What a coincidence," Liu Zhou said.

"Yeah," Qiao Yuxian paused and said, "Since Yuan Wei is upstairs, you can take me back."

"Why not stay here for a night?" Liu Zhou suggested.

"No need. It’s fine, just a minor wound." Qiao Yuxian said.

Liu Zhou drove her back to Taohua Manor.

As the car started, Liu Zhou couldn’t help but ask, "Sister Xian, where did you go?"

Qiao Yuxian curled up in her seat, looking small.

Her voice lowered, muffled through her mask, "Didn’t you already guess?"

Liu Zhou tightened his grip on the steering wheel.

Guessing and having her confirm it herself were two different things.

And even though Qiao Yuxian was standing right in front of him now.

He couldn’t help but feel terrified.

That was Wuqi, the top assassin on the dark net’s ranking list.

Liu Zhou felt goosebumps all over, and the hairs on his body stood on end.

Qiao Yuxian’s words to him outside the hospital room that night seemed to still echo in his ears.

"Am I crazy? Am I just a reckless person? He’s so powerful, how could I go looking for him."

"Am I just going to waste this good life of mine?"

"With so much power, why would I go looking for a single fight with him? That would be foolish."

"I’ll devise a strategy, get ready, because we might be in for a tough battle..."

Liu Zhou remained silent.

Thinking back, he felt like Qiao Yuxian was talking to him as if he were a child.

And he actually believed it.

"Didn’t you say you wouldn’t go?" Liu Zhou asked.

"Yes," Qiao Yuxian replied earnestly, "I didn’t go that night."

Liu Zhou: "......"

"Are you angry?" Qiao Yuxian asked.

"No," Liu Zhou said, then asked, "Wuqi..."

"The dark net’s top ranking needs updating," Qiao Yuxian said calmly.

With just one sentence, Liu Zhou’s car swerved into two S-curves on the road.

The tires screeched sharply against the pavement.

Qiao Yuxian was thrown to the left inside the car, caught by the seatbelt, then quickly flung to the right.

Quickly slapping the car window with her hand, she managed to stop her head from banging against the side and getting a concussion.

Just as she steadied herself, the actions repeated themselves.

The car finally pulled over to the roadside.

Qiao Yuxian swayed forward once more before she settled back into her seat.

The honking of a few passing cars only stopped when their car came to a halt.

Another car slowed down as it passed them, lowered its window, and pointed at them.

From the lip movements, it seemed like something nasty was being said.

Liu Zhou lowered their car window as well.

Then the other car sped up, raised its window, and drove off.

Qiao Yuxian watched the rear of that car disappear from sight, then turned to Liu Zhou and said, "Driving like that, and you still act all arrogant."

"No, I was trying to apologize," Liu Zhou said, suddenly looking at Qiao Yuxian, "Are you alright? How’s your arm?"

"I should never have asked you to drive me back," Qiao Yuxian said, "It’s safer for me to ride a motorbike with one hand."

Liu Zhou: "......"

Qiao Yuxian’s left arm was fine, but her right arm, which had slapped the car window twice, made her shoulder a bit uncomfortable.

Now that uncomfortable feeling had intensified.

She moved her shoulder a bit and said, "One S-curve would have been enough, but you gave me two."

"I was too shocked. I almost couldn’t hold onto the steering wheel," Liu Zhou said, his hairs standing on end again, "That was Wuqi, after all."

"I went looking for him, Wuqi." Qiao Yuxian said.

"You..." Liu Zhou was momentarily speechless.

He didn’t know what to say.

His mind went blank.

He knew Qiao Yuxian was formidable.

He thought he was familiar with Qiao Yuxian’s skills.

After all, they had gone on many missions together.

But he felt that Qiao Yuxian was becoming more and more formidable.

This level of skill had surpassed his imagination.

Or perhaps... Liu Zhou’s left hand tightened on the steering wheel.

She had never shown her true strength in front of him, or many others.

"I suddenly think that just getting stabbed once, the wound is too light," Liu Zhou said.

After all, it was Wuqi.

The one who sent tremors through major assassin rankings.

Qiao Yuxian: "...Go away. What kind of talk is that."

Liu Zhou stopped talking.

Exactly.

What kind of talk is that.

The car stayed parked by the roadside and, after a moment of silence, Liu Zhou asked, "Did Gu Yanjing know you went to find Wuqi?"

"No," Qiao Yuxian replied.

"Then what about the wound? How will you explain it to him?" Liu Zhou asked.

After this question, Qiao Yuxian suddenly fell silent.

For a long moment, she clicked her tongue lightly: "What to do? I don’t know what to do? I have a feeling Gu Yanjing might get angry."

Because this wound, which was incurred while she felt "confident," "sure about it,"

Could very likely stir up something between them.

"You’re afraid of him getting angry?" Liu Zhou asked.

"The way you say it. You’re asking me, aren’t you because you think I’m afraid of him getting angry?" Qiao Yuxian said, then paused and added, "I’m afraid he’ll feel hurt."

"Heh," Liu Zhou clicked his tongue as well.

"What are you clicking your tongue for?" Qiao Yuxian asked.

"Clicking my tongue for being a single dog, why do I care about your business?" Liu Zhou said.

Qiao Yuxian was silent for a moment, then chuckled, "Quite the self-awareness you have."

Liu Zhou: "......"

The two fell into silence again, for some unknown reason, the car did not move.

It remained parked by the roadside.

After a long while, just as Qiao Yuxian was starting to feel a bit sleepy,

Liu Zhou asked again, "Who hired Wuqi?"

"Gu Zhengyu." Qiao Yuxian answered calmly.

Liu Zhou was stunned once again.

What kind of day was this?

"Is Gu Zhengyu trying to use Yunzhong Building against Gu Yanjing?" Liu Zhou asked, "Using President Wen as a pawn."

"Yes," Qiao Yuxian responded.

Inside her thoughts: If that shocked him, what she hadn’t mentioned would shock him even more.

He even hired Wuqi to kill his own son.