The Tale Never Ends Chapter 58 The Bet

Zheng Shuang gave the order to the other policemen to stay there and clean up the aftermath. Then Zheng Shuang and the three of us took the child and headed to his home.

Seeing that we entered the house, the hostess ran to us and grabbed the child to her arms. The child started crying out loud after going back to his mother. At this moment, standing on the side, Zhou Kun got shocked, with his face full of doubts. I turned to him, shook my head a bit, and smiled. Seeing that I smiled at him, Zhou Kun also smiled with embarra.s.sment. Then his cell phone rang. After he picked up the phone and heard the other person through the phone, his face got stiff with his eyes wide open. He became totally speechless. Looking at his face like this, I teased him on purpose and said, "What happened? Did they dig out the timber pile?" Zhou Kun got stunned after hearing this and asked, stammering, "You, you, how do you..." I laughed and interrupted him, "You want to know how I know that, right?"

The truth was that when we carried out the plan with Zheng Shuang, Zhou Kun already sent someone to follow us. When we exited the building with the child in our arms, the guy who followed us saw us and rang Zhou Kun's phone to inform him that we brought the child out. However, Zhou Kun still didn't believe it at that time. After all, he didn't see that child with his own eyes and couldn't identify if that was his son or not. Therefore, he immediately ordered some men to go to the tomb of the child and dig out the coffin to check. While we went into the house with the child, the men were opening the coffin. And after that, they found that it wasn't a child in the coffin but a timber pile! Then they called Zhou Kun and reported it to him. When he heard the news, he had mixed feelings of grief and joy. At once, he got astonished.

I looked at the slack-jawed Zhou Kun, and said, "It's not difficult for us to know this kind of trivial matter." Then I lit a cigarette for him and said, "The man we arrested today was no ordinary man. He knows Nanyang Arcana. By throwing dust in your eyes, he camouflaged a timber pile with your son's face. Then he stealthily subst.i.tuted it for your son. That's why you thought that your son was dead. In fact, your son was just stolen by him."

Zhou Kun flushed after hearing what I said. He said, "Young Master, I... I don't know what to say! The day before yesterday I... Ah! I am speechless. Thank you all for your effort!" To show that he didn't need to so courteous, I laughed and shook my head. However, Zhou Kun insisted and took out his phone, said, "Young Master, we have a bet. And now I have lost one million to you. But it's spent wisely on something good! Tell me your card number..." I waved my hands hastily and said, "No no no, that was just a joke. I had to goad you under those circ.u.mstances. Otherwise, you wouldn't have agreed. In fact, I didn't have that amount of money to gamble with you. There's no way for me to have a million dollars. It was all a lie! I can't accept the money!" I thought that Zhou Kun wouldn't bring up this matter again according to his temperament. After all, one million dollars was a lot! It wasn't like 30 or 50 thousand! However, he dared to pay this amount of money! But still, I couldn't take it. However, he was really a straight-tempered man. I thought he would have bought what I told him. But he insisted with a stubborn expression on his face and said, "No! I can't! I admit defeat for our bet! Otherwise, I would lose face if this got spread out!"

For a while, Zhou Kun didn't stop trying to persuade me to accept the money until Zheng Shuang finally gave him a wink. After we walked out of the door, Lin Feng asked me, "Shiyan, that's one million dollars, why did you turn it down so firmly?" Chongxi then patted on his shoulder and said, "Brother Lin, don't you remember Mr. Yinyang who got killed in the Northeast last year? Do you think finding this child was worth one million dollars? But it's okay that you don't know because you don't study the paranormal." After hearing what Chongxi said, Lin Feng immediately understood. However, at this point, I said, "It's not that serious. The one million dollars were chips of the bet, not a reward! Therefore things are different from what happened to that dumba.s.s in the Northeast. Even if we took it, we wouldn't get in trouble. The reason that I didn't take the money was that it would ruin our reputation. Think about it, if we take one million dollars, how many people would complain about our price tag in the future? Could we get any jobs then?" Now the two men nodded their heads and said, "Right."

The three of us waited for Zheng Shuang outside the door, smoking. In about a dozen minutes, Zheng Shuang walked out of his uncle's house. Right after, he asked me hastily, "Brother Yan, you said earlier that things have not ended, what does that mean? Is it because the last of the criminals is still on the loose?" I nodded, took a whiff of the cigarette, and said to Zheng Shuang, "That's why I said it's not over. Although we have caught Lao San and killed Lao Shisan, the head of them is still in the shadows. In terms of magic arts, he must be a lot more powerful than us because he is the big brother of this group. If he wants to rescue Lao San by force, I am afraid none of your men could hold him down. And it's very likely he would cause casualties! If a comrade sacrifices himself because of this matter, I am afraid that all the leaders of the county would lose their jobs, let alone you!"

Zheng Shuang got shocked at once, breaking out in a cold sweat! He asked, "What should we do!" I smiled and said, "Don't be nervous. Some things are hard to tell if they are good or bad. It depends on how you see them. They often seem to be dangerous. But in fact, they are opportunities. The only thing that you need to do is to inform all policemen to keep it strictly confidential. Do not leak out even a word, especially to the press and the TV stations. Last but not least, no one should take videos to put online. I will do some preparations. Then tomorrow we will meet up and discuss the solution. Send more men tonight to secure this 'Fool'!"

On the way back, I didn't go back to the center. Instead, I let Lin Feng drive me straight to the Sinology Center to consult my father. After all, I knew nothing about this so-called Big Brother and his power. If my father didn't help me this time, I feared that I couldn't handle it.

The next morning, I was woken up by the SMS tone of my cellphone. Then I checked the phone. It was a text message sent from the bank. After I clicked to see it, I found that one million dollars entered my bank account! Before I could take a closer look, Zheng Shuang arrived. He asked, "Did you receive the money?" Then I realized that it was Zheng Shuang who offered our bank account information to his uncle. I cut the small talk and answered casually. "I did." Then I called Lin Feng and Chongxi to go downstairs. The five of us started to make a plan in the house secretly. After we planned the course of action, we split up and took action respectively. Lin Feng and Chongxi brought their tools and headed out together.

I followed Zheng Shuang, arrived at the detention house, and then found a suitable room. Zheng Shuang and I both got very busy. He looked for an electrician and prepared the materials. And I carefully checked every link to make sure that everything had fallen in the right place. There was no time to elaborate! In the afternoon, the TV and press stations took turns to broadcast the news that Lao San, who was a member of the cult, was arrested. On Wechat, short videos revealing this arrest in the county were spreading all over. "Lao San, a member of the cult, was arrested in the county and charged with the conspiracy of stealing a child! So far he is put in the detention house. This case is now being tried..."

On the evening of that day, outside the detention house, darkness started to fall. Only the streetlights at the gate shined with dim lights with a bunch of mosquitos flying around the bulbs. A shadow approached the detention house from far away, hovering around. After hovering for a while, it darted down to the room in which the window was open like an arrow! After a sizzle, with an arclight, the high power spotlights in the house were all turned on at the same time. It was so bright that people couldn't even open their eyes. The shadow was obviously injured. And after a few struggles, it flew out of the window, flying off in the air! Zheng Shuang and I rushed out of the ambush point, shouting frustratedly, "s.h.i.t, he got away..."

In everyone's opinion, we had failed today. It was a crushing defeat. The policemen were also dejected. I went into the room, checked on the policeman who was disguised as the foolish Lao San, and asked, "Are you hurt?" He shook his head. I winked at Zheng Shuang, and said, "I will try to figure out something else!" After that, I left. On the evening of the day, Zheng Shuang came to me. Then he drove me to a police station in town. In the police station, sitting on a chair opposite a police officer, the real criminal Lao San was being interrogated. After we entered the room, I asked, "How is it going?" The police officer stood up, made a salute, and reported, "No breakthrough yet. The suspect won't start talking..." Before we could ask more, a shadow from outside dived down and grabbed Lao San, trying to escape with him. However, to its surprise, under the coat, there was a safety belt fastened on Lao San's waist, which was buckled tightly from his back to the chair.

The chair was already attached to the ground. The shadow could only grab his prison clothes away. At this moment, my sword had already flown up. The monster made a strange cry and then flew away, stumbling.