Chapter 20
The mountain path was narrow, and as Zhang Lisheng walked up the path, the villagers dodged to the side of the road to make way for him, forcing a smile as he passed by . The noise of their discussion was not as soft as they thought—Zhang Lisheng could clearly hear what they were discussing but they were all more or less the same .
It was then that Zhang Lisheng faintly understood the reason everyone in the village seemed to be nice to his father in the past, but his father still maintained a straight face without a smile every single day with his strange and introverted character .
He found out that the villagers' politeness and respect was a result of the distance they kept from the Zhang family . Such a distance had been kept for hundreds of thousands of years, and it separated the Zhang family from the commoners as if they were in two completely different worlds .
After letting out a gloomy sigh, Zhang Lisheng put on the heavy latches and locked the door tightly .
The corpses in the courtyard had been moved away by the police officers . What was left were the four human-form sketches with white chalk that replaced them .
There were still bloodstains on the ground . Together with the human-form sketches, it was a very ghastly sight .
He had finally arrived home after a day and night of interrogation . After his anxiety faded away, Zhang Lisheng felt tired and did not have the mood to clean the courtyard anymore .
He got a bucket of water from the well, washed his face, and returned to his bedroom before falling into a deep sleep .
The moon was hanging among the starlit sky when he woke up . Zhang Lisheng rolled up from the bed and walked to his dead father's bedroom . He picked up a couple of thick working clothes from the wooden box that was filled with clothes .
He then started to recall the last thing that Yang Zhengqi had told him in the police car . He slowly understood that the death of the 'Third Brother' who wanted to buy his own life with money at his hands could have dire consequences . He would have to be on alert since there might be people who would take matters into their own hands and seek revenge upon him .
Facing revenge, Zhang Lisheng would naturally have to possess the power to defend himself again as soon as possible .
As a Rank 1 Wizard, the power he talked about was no doubt a wizard worm .
Therefore, he put on the thick, heavy working clothes before sealing his folded sleeves and the bottom of his pants with black tape . He then walked with light steps out of the old house and went on his way for a worm hunting adventure in the jungle .
The time was around 4 a . m . in the middle of the night . All the villagers and tourists in the entire mountain village had fallen into their dream . It was chilly as Zhang Lisheng walked on the quiet stone roads .
Since his wizard power was almost a single-fold more powerful now, he estimated that the times where he refined the wizard worm should be able to amplify his power from two-fold to four-fold . However, without Qing Hong's protection, he knew very well that his midnight jungle adventure this time was no doubt more dangerous than his first time there .
He definitely could not enter deep into the jungle with blind faith . It would be best if he hunted for worms between the farmland and the jungle restoration boundary . As Zhang Lisheng made up his mind and arrived at the village entrance, he suddenly saw two police cars parked in the empty space at the village entrance with the help of the moonlight .
The lights in the police car were off, so people from the outside would not be able to see what was going on in the cars . No police officer opened the car door to question why Zhang Lisheng was going out of the village so late .
However, Zhang Lisheng could faintly feel that Yang Zhengqi was looking at him through a piercing gleam at the back of the tinted window in one of the cars .
Zhang Lisheng carefully thought about it and dismissed his initial plan without any hesitation . He quickly turned around and walked home following the path that he came from .
In the lead police car, the young police officer, who was falling asleep on the driver seat, said with excitement when he saw Zhang Lisheng's back who was getting further away, "Chief, you're amazing . You guessed it right, this fella really has big guts . He committed such a major crime, and he is already getting back on track after being released .
"Unfortunately, the police car is parked in an empty space this time which makes us an obvious target . Otherwise, judging by his fearlessness, we'll definitely catch some clues . "
"It's good that we're an obvious target . We're not here to catch Zhang Lisheng's weakness but to prevent any conflicts that he might have with the people from the Eastern Guangdong Yuehai Group .
"Song Lihua and Song Liguo aren't like us where we talk about evidence . Since Song Lisheng died in Zhang Lisheng's house, they'll definitely take Zhang Lisheng's life to pay for Song Lisheng's death no matter what the reason is . Otherwise, they'd lose face in the underworld . "
"Chief, doesn't that mean we're protecting the suspect?" the young police officer asked in shock .
Yang Zhengqi, who was sitting on the passenger seat, wound down the window a little bit and lit a cigarette while letting the chilly wind blow at him . He then said in a deep voice, "Of course, we're not protecting the suspect, but instead preventing a crime from happening . "
"Xiao Li, do you have any idea how many foreign tourists are there in this little mountain village before your eyes? If a major crime case happens here one more time, I'm afraid the municipal bureau and even the provincial office's leaders would have to suffer the consequences .
"But don't you worry, we don't have to keep an eye on him for too long . I've got a friend from the provincial office, and they've already received the letter . According to him, the Chengdu consulate has already successfully contacted Zhang Lisheng's mother . If everything goes as planned, he'll be leaving China within two to three days at most . "
While Yang Zhengqi was pointing things out to his underling who he thought highly of, Zhang Lisheng returned home with a gloomy face .
At the same time, another event took place in the central zone of China's most developed economy, Eastern Guangdong Province's capital, Guangdong, which was close to the sea . The place was filled with bustling city noises and bright street lights .
A slightly plump middle-aged man with a kind face and a friendly expression in a black suit slowly walked out of one of the earliest landmark buildings of Guangzhou—the 79-floor Sheraton Hotel .
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