Chapter 1480: Chapter 584: "Cold Case" (Part 2)

The pride engraved in the bones of the Korean people would never allow them to compromise with those despicable Huaxia people on something like this.

Listening to Li Lina describing her plan with that gleeful look in her eyes, as if she could already see that man surnamed Zhou groveling and begging for mercy at her feet, Song Zhesuo opened his mouth, then closed it again.

But after hearing her out, it didn’t sound like there was anything wrong with it; it seemed completely doable, and he knew there was no way he could stop Li Lina anyway, so Song Zhesuo just nodded.

"Lina, you’re a real genius, I totally agree... so, shall we head back to the hotel now?"

Song Zhesuo swept his gaze around; the alley was still quiet, but for some reason, he suddenly felt a little uneasy.

He kept feeling like a pair of eyes was staring at him from somewhere, making his whole body feel uncomfortable.

Seeing that Li Lina had nodded in agreement, after getting his bearings, Song Zhesuo hurriedly pulled her along and headed out.

They turned through several streets and alleys in a row; seeing that the main street was just up ahead, less than far away, Song Zhesuo couldn’t help but breathe a sigh of relief. Just as he was about to speed up and take Li Lina straight out, a shadow flickered, and a dark-skinned man stepped out to block their way.

The shabby shirt couldn’t hide his burly frame, and there was a greenish tattoo on his arm. As for what race the man was, Song Zhesuo wasn’t too sure, but he looked kind of like he was from Southeast Asia.

Seeing the man’s clearly ill-intentioned expression, Song Zhesuo was just about to pull Li Lina back, when footsteps sounded behind them and several more dark-skinned men appeared, staring at them in silence.

Both Song Zhesuo and Li Lina were creeped out by the way those men were looking at them. Forcing himself to stay calm, Song Zhesuo said:

"Wh-what... what do you want?"

"Money, money!"

The man blocking their way rubbed his fingers together and said an English word in a not-so-standard accent.

Hearing that it was just a mugging, Song Zhesuo inexplicably felt relieved. He was just about to pull out his wallet to pay them off when Li Lina, beside him, refused to play along.

Her expression was haughty, her voice sharp: "You bunch of dumb mutts who don’t know your place, do you even know who I am? You dare to rob me? Believe it or not, the moment I call the police, the Huaxia cops will mobilize the whole damn force and drag every last one of you in. I’d say you’re just tired of living..."

Hearing Li Lina cursing them out, cold sweat immediately broke out on Song Zhesuo’s back. Luckily, she was speaking Korean. All he could do was pray that these men of unknown nationality couldn’t understand what she was saying.

They really did seem like they didn’t understand, but Song Zhesuo overlooked one thing: even if they didn’t understand the words, facial expressions and tone of voice are universal no matter where you are in the world.

The leader seemed instantly enraged by Li Lina’s bossy, commanding face. Without the slightest hesitation he raised his hand and slapped Li Lina across the face.

Smack!

The blow was so heavy that one side of Li Lina’s face immediately turned bruised and purple, and her recently corrected nose seemed to have been knocked crooked again...

After a brief moment of daze, Li Lina still didn’t feel any fear. The intense pain and the humiliation of her nose possibly being ruined again made her scream the moment she came back to her senses.

"Bastard, I’m going to kill you..."

Smack!

Her scream only earned her another backhanded slap from the man.

Seeing Li Lina knocked to the ground, the man impatiently gestured to his companions behind him. They immediately rushed forward, ignoring Song Zhesuo’s pleas and the woman’s shrieking, pressing the two of them to the ground and raining punches and kicks down on them.

Once the two had been beaten to the point they couldn’t make a sound, the men quickly searched them from head to toe, stripping them of everything valuable. About a minute later, the alley grew quiet again, leaving only the groaning of Song Zhesuo and Li Lina.

No one knew how much time had passed when the dizzy, dazed Song Zhesuo felt someone helping him up. He was just about to beg for mercy when he saw that the people standing in front of him were two uniformed patrol officers.

Another hour later, having just had her wounds bandaged at the hospital, Li Lina was still yelling in disbelief:

"What do you mean we have to patiently wait? Wait until when?"

She simply couldn’t believe what this officer was saying. What did he mean "that spot just happened to be a blind zone for the surveillance cameras"? What did he mean "they were possibly transient foreign laborers committing opportunistic crimes"?

So basically, what he was saying was that this case simply couldn’t be solved, right?

"I’m going to file a complaint against you. A bunch of useless trash, all of you are trash!"

Li Lina had no intention of listening to the officer’s explanation. She stared at him with her one eye that could still open, and her voice went sharp again.

The officer who’d come to give them an update was already sick of this Korean woman. From the moment they started dealing with her to now, she’d said the word "complaint" at least a dozen times. Com-plain, com-plain, complain your f*cking mother, why don’t you?

So he just coolly tossed out his badge number and walked away without looking back.

"Ahh, I’m going to kill them, bastards, all of them are bastards... Zhesuo, how can they be like this? I’m so mad and so upset!"

Li Lina swept everything off the bedside table onto the ground, venting as she cursed. Then she looked pitifully at Song Zhesuo, who was also wrapped in bandages all over, trying to find some comfort.

She had no idea that with her face all swollen and bruised, the way she looked in that moment actually made Song Zhesuo feel a little sick, but he didn’t dare show it. He could only force a smile and say:

"Lina, how about we just go back home early..."

"Go back home? No way, I haven’t finished getting revenge on that bastard surnamed Zhou yet..."

Before she could finish, Li Lina suddenly realized something. She frantically started feeling around left and right. "My phone... no, my phone got stolen by those guys too!"

Song Zhesuo was speechless. Once again, he had to reassess Lina’s IQ. What kind of robber is going to kindly leave you your phone?

Not to mention your phone is inlaid with diamonds...

As he was thinking this, Song Zhesuo suddenly froze.

It just so happened to be a blind spot with no surveillance, the perpetrators just so happened to be people whose identities couldn’t be traced, and it just so happened that right after Li Lina talked about taking revenge, this group of people "coincidentally" showed up, not only robbing them of everything they had, but also inexplicably beating them senseless.

And you had to know, at the time they were less than ten meters away from the main street entrance...

A chill crept into Song Zhesuo’s heart. He sat up straight on the hospital bed and looked around in panic. He didn’t see anything, but that creeping sense of being preyed upon surfaced in his mind again.

Go back home, he had to go back home!

No matter what that crazy woman Li Lina said, he wasn’t going to care anymore. He was going to get on tonight’s flight and leave immediately!

...

"Got it."

Listening to Lai Yuanbao’s quiet report, Zhou Wang, who was trying on a watch in a Rolex boutique, had a flash of surprise in his eyes. Then he nodded, signaling that he’d heard him.

"So... are we letting them go?"

Lai Yuanbao lowered his voice to ask for instructions again.

"What do you girls think of this Rainbow Daytona?"

Zhou Wang first smiled and asked the girls’ opinions. After listening to their chirpy responses, he signaled to the clerk to go ahead and write up the bill. Only then did he turn to Lai Yuanbao and say, "Do I look like I’m in the mob to you?"

"Uh... no, you don’t."

Lai Yuanbao shook his head immediately.

"Exactly."

Zhou Wang said irritably, "I don’t know where those robbers popped out from either, ahem... but there’s a will of heaven in the dark. They’ve already gotten the lesson they deserved, that’s about enough. What, you still want to have them tied up and chop off their hands and feet or something?"

"Mr. Zhou is right, I understand."

Lai Yuanbao hurriedly bowed his head in reply.

"That’s that then."

Zhou Wang checked the time. It was already past ten at night, and the shops in Harbour City were more or less starting to close. Figuring it was about time, he pulled out his phone and sent a message to Qi Jiayi.

"Where are you?"