432: Chapter 426: Return to the Country 432: Chapter 426: Return to the Country In the following days, apart from going out to buy a new phone and SIM card, Chen Hai spent most of his time cooped up in his hotel room.
The news he could browse on the TV was ultimately limited.
Online browsing through his phone, on the other hand, revealed an explosion of information.
Focusing most of his thoughts on browsing various messages, the heartache brought about by Ye Qingqing’s matter seemed to have been diluted quite a bit.
During this time, Kobashi Miku came to visit twice.
One of those times was in the middle of the night when she claimed there was a cockroach in her room and she was too scared to sleep there.
What exactly was this girl up to?
Chen Hai was crystal clear about it.
Alas, he was still unable to shake off the shadow cast by Ye Qingqing’s affair.
He truly had little interest in these matters!
Because of this, Chen Hai even went out of his way to a 24-hour convenience store to buy her a can of insecticide.
Luckily, the travel group led by Kobashi Miku left Shimizu Town the next day for other places.
Otherwise, her harassment of Chen Hai might have continued for a while longer.
Without her harassment, being all alone in his hotel room, Chen Hai became much calmer.
“Ye Qingqing is now over fifty, and although she is still beautiful, she simply can’t conceal the marks that time has left on her face!”
“She married Vice President Li some fifteen or sixteen years ago, having waited for me for over a decade.
In her relationship with me, she truly did her utmost.”
“With things as they are, what needs to be faced must ultimately be confronted!”
“Someone as important as Vice President Li, I’ve been sleeping with his wife for over a year, he’s the one who should be depressed, not me.
What do I have to be sad about!”
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While browsing various pieces of information on his phone, Chen Hai would occasionally console himself.
Though his consolation was somewhat akin to the self-deceptive optimism of Ah Q, his mood did improve somewhat after all.
How could life always conform to one’s wishes?
The path of cultivation is destined to be accompanied by loneliness!
If I were to seclude myself for cultivation, that could mean decades or even a century, by which time they would probably have turned into a pile of dirt with an ordinary lifespan.
In the past, immersed in the mundane world, I simply couldn’t see through all this!
They say one is not wise until one undergoes a trial.
This time, Ye Qingqing’s matter, while painful for me, has ultimately led me to many realizations.
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July 4, night, Lu Province, Qin Island City, a desolate beach.
A storm had just passed, the dusk was thick and dark, with neither the bright moon nor the stars visible in the sky.
An old fishing boat slowly approached from the distance at sea.
Mooring off the coast, a lifeboat then made its way from the fishing boat and finally settled in a suitable spot on the desolate beach.
“Sir, this is Qin Island City, already within the territory of Yanhuang Country,” they told me.
“Having delivered you here, our mission is considered perfectly accomplished!”
The two men rowing the lifeboat, one tall and one short, even under the dark night, squat tattoos could be seen covering their exposed skin.
Regrettably, in front of Chen Hai, they were like mice in the presence of a cat, their faces full of fear, their entire beings tensed to the utmost.
“Finally stepping into the territory of Yanhuang Country, huh?”
Sighing lightly, Chen Hai leaped off the lifeboat.
The closer to home, the more complex his feelings became, and he couldn’t help but feel an intense surge of apprehension.
The fishing boat on the sea and those two strong men in the lifeboat in front of me are affiliated with a certain organization under the Sumiyoshi-kai.
Unable to resolve my identity issues, wishing to return to Yanhuang Country through normal means from Hokkaido was nothing more than wishful thinking.
Fortunately, I am not a pedantic person.
If I cannot return through normal channels, then I must use abnormal ones.
The organization I sought out has some smuggling operations in Yanhuang Country.
Initially, I approached them with the intention of discussing a deal, offering some money in exchange for them bringing me back.
Unfortunately, some people just ask for a beating.
When you try to speak to them nicely, they act all high and mighty!
No choice, Chen Hai had to waste a bit of energy and helped this little gang to elect a new leader.
And now, those guys are obviously much more obedient in front of him!
Aboard the fishing boat, in an attempt to please Chen Hai and entertain him, a few of the men even performed a pole dance around the mast on the deck for quite a while.
Leaping off the lifeboat, he landed on the rugged stones of the desolate beach.
With his hands clasped behind his back, Chen Hai didn’t even turn his head; his body seemed like a phantom.
In just a few blinks of an eye, the two burly men on the lifeboat could no longer see him.
“Finally, we’ve sent off that scourge, let’s go, hurry…”
The two burly men looked at each other, then began paddling quickly towards the fishing boat’s location.
Hundreds of shots fired at once, hitting the man’s body with tinkling sounds but failing to even break his skin.
With one stride, he could cover nearly ten meters.
One slap from his hand could turn a person into minced meat.
If they hadn’t seen such preposterous things with their own eyes, they would never believe that such a terrifying person could exist in this world!
In the presence of such a being, even sneezing would require extreme caution,
for fear of displeasing this frightening individual and being casually crushed to death.
After all, the scene where their former leader and several confidants were slapped into meat patties by this man remained vividly etched in their memories to this very moment.
Chen Hai left without making their lives difficult.
A euphoria of having survived a calamity washed over them and they dared not linger any longer; all they wanted now was to get back to the fishing boat and put as much distance between them and this place as possible!
Not caring about these small fries, Chen Hai left the beach, feeling like he was somewhat directionless.
But that wouldn’t bother him at all; overcoming mountains and woods was no issue for him.
Now that he was running at full speed, he figured he could easily outpace any car.
In less than half an hour, he had reached a decently smooth and wide road.
Here, he had to slow down his pace.
While he could access information about Yanhuang Country through networks in Japan, there were things that were just unsearchable.
But Chen Hai knew that nowadays Yanhuang Country was densely packed with surveillance cameras everywhere.
His ability to run faster than cars, if captured by these cameras, wouldn’t scare him, but it would definitely cause him a lot of trouble.
Ye Qingqing was already married, and he was no longer the son-in-law of the Ye Family.
If anything were to happen now, there’d be no one above to cover for him.
His strength was undoubtedly terrifying, but unless absolutely necessary, he wouldn’t want to start any major conflicts with those above.
After all, such conflicts could potentially attract some indescribable terror.
He had a cell phone, but he didn’t have a Yanhuang country sim card; without a network connection, he couldn’t use his phone’s map navigation feature!
He could only proceed along this road.
The pace of his running was kept at the level of an average person running a marathon.
Even if the cameras caught him running on the road, it wouldn’t draw too much attention.
He paused whenever a truck or a car passed close by, waving his hand trying to hitch a ride.
Unfortunately, as a big man, he wasn’t very welcomed by the drivers.
After trying to hail over a dozen vehicles, he had no success at all.
Not knowing where this road led, Chen Hai guessed that he must have already covered twenty to thirty miles.
Sadly, he still saw no sign of any nearby city.
“Hey handsome, where are you headed?”
Finally, a Mazda MX5 sports car stopped not far ahead in response to Chen Hai’s waving.
A long-haired woman poked her head out from the car and called out to Chen Hai.