The phone call lasted about ten minutes.
Snap!
As soon as he hung up the phone, Zhang Fenglin's hand shook and his cell phone slipped out of his hand and fell to the floor at his feet, smashing the screen and powering off.
"What's going on???"
Liu Hangong and Chen Zhonghe looked at each other, both realizing something was wrong.
"It's him."
After a long pause, Zhang Fenglin finally regained his composure from the shock and panic, gritted his teeth and nodded: "It really is him! I don't know why, but he got out of prison two months early!"
"What's more, before he got out of prison, that fool Su Wenchao went to Qingcheng Prison No. 4 specifically to choose a husband for Su Muqiu, to suppress her. Out of all the prisoners there, he just happened to choose him!"
When they heard this, Liu Hangong and Chen Zhonghe's hearts immediately sank to the bottom.
They were not stupid.
They were the only three who knew the details of what happened five years ago. The Su family, from top to bottom, including Su Bingtian and Su Muqiu, didn't even know Xiao Zhan, let alone Su Wenchao.
What a coincidence?
Su Wenchao didn't know Xiao Zhan at all when he went to Qingcheng Prison No. 4, but he just happened to choose Xiao Zhan at first glance!
It was obviously a trap!
They couldn't understand how Xiao Zhan had been imprisoned in Qingcheng Prison No. 4 for five full years, and was disowned by the Xiao family in Beijing, nothing more than a useless loser, how could he still have so much power to set a trap for Su Wenchao?
Things that can't be figured out are the most terrifying.
"Could it be..."
After thinking for a moment, Liu Hangong said in a deep voice: "A thin camel is still bigger than a horse. Five years ago, after all, he was the young master of the Xiao family in Beijing, cultivated by the Xiao family patriarch as the heir. He must have secretly supported his own power."
"Do you think it's possible that those still loyal to him five years ago are unwilling to give up and want to make a comeback and take revenge?"
Chen Zhonghe nodded: "The possibility is very high!"
"The key issue now is that we don't know which of his forces are in Qingcheng, let alone whether he still has any contacts left in Beijing."
"With how generous he was this afternoon at Ruiding Shopping Mall, beating up Qian Yiming without Qian Yiming daring to fight back, it shows the power hidden behind him is not trivial."
Zhang Fenglin's expression was grave: "Not only that!"
Then, Zhang Fenglin told Liu Hangong and Chen Zhonghe in detail what had happened at noon today at the gate of Qingcheng Prison No. 4.
After listening, both of their faces turned green!
"The army???"
"How...how is this possible!!!"
Looking at the whole Qingcheng city, when it comes to money and power, tycoon Qian Bancheng is undisputedly number one. But even Qian Bancheng only has some connections in the political and military circles, he absolutely can’t mobilize active duty soldiers in the army!
"If I guess right, those men in black should be people sent by the Xiao family in Beijing to deal with Xiao Zhan."
Zhang Fenglin took a deep breath and said, "Not only that!"
Then Zhang Fenglin told Liu Hangong and Chen Zhonghe in detail what had happened at noon today at the gate of Qingcheng Prison No. 4.
After listening, both of their faces turned green!
"The army???"
"How...how is this possible!!!"
Looking at the whole Qingcheng city, when it comes to money and power, tycoon Qian Bancheng is undisputedly number one. But even Qian Bancheng only has some connections in the political and military circles, he absolutely can’t mobilize active duty soldiers in the army!
"If I guess right, those men in black should be people sent by the Xiao family in Beijing to deal with Xiao Zhan."
Zhang Fenglin took a deep breath, and said, "Not only that!"
Then he told Liu Hangong and Chen Zhonghe in detail what had happened at noon today at the gate of Qingcheng Prison No. 4.
After listening, both of their faces turned green!
"The army???"
"How is this possible!!!"
Looking at the whole of Qingcheng, when it comes to money and power, billionaire Qian Bancheng is without a doubt number one. But even Qian Bancheng only has some connections in officialdom and the military, he absolutely cannot mobilize active duty soldiers in the army!
"If I guess right, those men in black suits should be people sent by the Xiao family in Beijing to deal with Xiao Zhan."
Zhang Fenglin took a deep breath and said, "The army took Xiao Zhan away, personally sent Xiao Zhan to the Royal Hotel, and made Xiao Zhan and Su Muqiu get engaged. Obviously they are friends not enemies."
"Also, they made Su Wenchao choose Xiao Zhan without knowing it, then escorted Xiao Zhan to the Royal Hotel. This is clearly two small steps in a bigger plan. Since the military was involved in the second half, we have reason to suspect that Xiao Zhan's backer is someone in the military, someone in the army helped him get out of prison and carry out the whole plan..."
"This!"
Liu Hangong stood up abruptly in shock and cried, "You mean he can mobilize people in the army???"
Cold sweat kept pouring down his forehead.
If it was really like that, it would be too terrifying.
No wonder!
No wonder even Qian Yiming didn't dare fight back after being beaten by Xiao Zhan. Someone with the army backing him, who the hell would dare provoke him? If you provoke him, like this morning, he can casually call over a couple hundred soldiers, each holding a submachine gun, wouldn't they be able to wipe out a big family in minutes!
Chen Zhonghe was also scared. He secretly glanced at the clock on the wall, and couldn't help feeling relieved that he had the foresight to book plane tickets for his son and wife tonight to take refuge in Beijing!
Otherwise, the consequences would be unimaginable if Xiao Zhan sought revenge!
"So..."
Liu Hangong wiped the cold sweat from his forehead, and said in horror, "What should we do next? We can't just sit here waiting for him to come to us, can we?"
"Five years in prison, plus his mother Miao Xiangzhu's death, this is a blood feud. Now that he's out, he definitely won't let it go!"
Despair was audible in his trembling voice.
"Don't panic!"
Although Zhang Fenglin was equally shocked and afraid, he was much calmer than the panicked Liu Hangong. After thinking for a moment, he sneered, "So what if a thin camel is still bigger than a horse? We are horses. We can't beat him, but don't forget, we only dared to do that back then because we were following orders from the Xiao family in Beijing. His mother Miao Xiangzhu knelt to death outside the Xiao family's door!"
"The Xiao family in Beijing is the real camel!"
"He has an army background, but does the Xiao family in Beijing have one? So as long as we notify the Xiao family in Beijing of his release from prison as soon as possible, once the Xiao family's people arrive, he'll be finished!"
Liu Hangong's eyes lit up.
"Yes, yes, yes, the Xiao family! The Xiao family in Beijing is now controlled by the old matriarch. The old matriarch hates him as much as us and wants him dead as soon as possible! You also said earlier that those men in black suits are likely people sent by the Xiao family in Beijing!"
Saying that, he immediately and eagerly took out his cell phone, and said excitedly: "No time to lose, I have the Xiao family's number in my phone. I'll call them right away and have the Xiao family investigate his background thoroughly, then nip him in the bud!"
Zhang Fenglin didn't stop him.
Now it was a race against time. If Xiao Zhan used his military connections to target the three families, they had no ability to protect themselves. So they could only pin their hopes on the Xiao family in Beijing making a move against Xiao Zhan before he made a move against them, eliminating this threat.
But when Liu Hangong made a call, after a moment, what came from the phone was a familiar electronic voice: Sorry, the number you dialed is busy, please try again later...
...
In Beijing, the Xiao Family.
As one of the top two or three most prominent families in Beijing, the Xiao family manor covers over ten acres, with buildings everywhere and majestic halls, indescribably magnificent.
At this time, in one of the attic rooms, a man in his thirties held a cell phone. As he listened to the voice coming from the phone, his expression gradually became serious, and his deep eyes also grew colder.
"Xiao Zhan?"
After a moment, the middle-aged man hung up the phone and murmured to himself: "He's so lucky to be alive! With dozens of people going after him, he actually wasn't captured, and instead went to the Su family as a son-in-law!"
After speaking, he turned and walked out of the attic, heading straight for the main hall.
m back to his original world. In the end, he realized he had overthought things. [Hey, why is Shen Manni, the female lead, acting strange? Shouldn't she be fawning over the male lead at this point?] [Zhou Qiaoqiao, are you sick? Weren't you supposed to break off your engagement today?] [Damn it! An Youyi, please do your job as an undercover agent and sell my information to the protagonist, you idiot!] ... At this moment, Xu Mo himself didn't know that these female leads had already heard his inner thoughts. Then they decided not to play by the rules. Xu Mo: Please respect my profession as the big villain!
nd fell into a coma while saving his younger sister from an out-of-control car. He became a vegetable. No one knew that his consciousness had crossed into a world of cultivation. Over the course of sixty years, he began as the lowest kind of mine slave, struggling to survive amid mountains of corpses and seas of blood. By sheer chance, he eventually obtained the complete memories of a fallen Immortal King. Alchemy, medicine, formations, feng shui, physiognomy, artifact forging… Every great inheritance of the cultivation world was now his. But when he opened his eyes again, he discovered that ten full years had passed in the modern world. To pay for his treatment, his father had sold the family’s shop and house, leaving himself covered in lasting injuries and illness. His mother had cared for him day and night, and more than half of her hair had already turned white. His younger sister, who had been only fifteen back then, was now twenty-five. To help repay the family’s debts, she had been forced to lower her head and put on a smiling face in places of glittering lights and endless revelry. Only then did Chen Xuan understand that what he had lost was not merely ten years. He had lost the life his entire family was meant to have. The good news was that he had brought back the memories of an Immortal King’s entire lifetime. The bad news was that his soul had returned alone—his cultivation had not come with him. Spiritual energy was scarce, resources were depleted, and the modern world still had firearms, surveillance, capital, and laws. If he wanted to protect his family, break free from everyone’s control, and become truly invincible beneath the heavens, he would have to start all over again.
e, Immortal Body, Transmigration, System, Progression Fantasy, Academy Setting, Third-Person Perspective. Alternate Title: Transmigrating into a High Martial World and Reading Live Comments. Bad news: I transmigrated. This is a terrifying high-martial world, and my original, pathetically weak body fell into a coma and never woke up. Good news: I got a Popularity Points system upon arrival. I can see live comments and even create an unkillable alternate identity. Starting out, the alternate identity has all stats at 1. The system tells me that to grow stronger, I must participate in the plot, gain popularity points to allocate stats and grow stronger, and ultimately awaken my original body. And so, carrying my original body on my back, I officially entered Huaqing Academy, where the story's protagonist resides. From that moment on, Chen Guan kicked the original plot to pieces. Live Comments: [Doesn't anyone find this mysterious coffin guy creepy? He can summon indescribable grey misty hands.] [Is this guy a hero or a villain? What kind of onion became a spirit?] [By the way, does anyone know who's in the coffin? Shouldn't the debt for saving his life be repaid by now?] [According to unofficial histories, the person in the coffin was Chen Guan's first love. Their love was once passionate and earth-shattering, but they were separated by life and death due to worldly circumstances. What a star-crossed pair.] ... Years later, the world knew of a demon god born from a coffin, shrouded in grey mist, impossible to gaze upon directly. His foremost divine emissary often wielded a scythe, reaping lives like the god of death. As war approached, facing former friends and a boundless sea of enemies, Chen Guan merely raised his scythe. "Would you like to dance as well?"
s + Rent Collection Wealth】 At the start, he inherited a rundown house in the urban village from his grandfather. The house had no tenants, but the moment he was diagnosed with a terminal illness, a self-proclaimed empress from the Tianxuan Continent arrived as his first tenant. Ye Chuan soon discovered that with every new tenant moving in, not only did he receive massive daily payments, but he also obtained unique items related to their backgrounds. 【Acquired Bai Qianshuang’s related item: Tiger Strength Pill—dramatically enhances physical power!】 【Acquired Bai Qianshuang’s related item: Deer Blood Pill—significantly boosts vitality!】 …… From that day on, all sorts of bizarre tenants began appearing in the house: the empress from Tianxuan Continent, an apocalyptic sorceress from the Magic Realm, a mysterious scientific girl who fell through a spacetime rift… Every single day, he received strange, powerful items and endless money. Then one day, he suddenly realized—he had become invincible. Enough, enough! Stop giving me more!
