Ch52 - Bridge (1/2)
Evidently, Chen Yekai hadn’t been aware of this, so it came as a sudden shock to him. Zhou Sheng asked, “What else did you talk about in the flower cafe that afternoon?”
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Chen Yekai, “That……”
Zhou Sheng, “Has Liang Jinmin been a victim of long-term domestic violence? And she wanted a divorce? So she wanted to collect some evidence, and approached you to expose that scum?”
Yu Hao, “……”
Zhou Sheng, “A few days after Lin Xun heard your conversation through his monitoring, he continued to beat Liang Jinmin, and on the night of the 30th, he was prepared to kill her so that she wouldn’t be able to reveal anything. That was why he planned a car accident……”
Chen Yekai, “That’s what Huang Ting and I suspected! But we have no evidence!”
Zhou Sheng, “How could Liang Jinmin not use a seat belt?”
“Yeah!” Yu Hao said, “I’ve been in that car, if you don’t fasten your seat belt the alarm will go off!”
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Zhou Sheng began speaking at the pace of a machine gun, “He most likely struck Liang Jinmin unconscious at home, or drugged her before moving her into the car. After he inserted the seat belt buckle, he got on the expressway, then with one “bang”, the deed was done. Have you seen the CCTV?”
“There’s no surveillance!” Chen Yekai practically shouted, “The building he lives in is located in a new residential area that the college just built; the garages there are all separate!”
“That’s it then.” Zhou Sheng said, “I’m no longer curious about what the two of you talked about. In short, he was afraid that his past actions would get exposed, so he wanted to kill Liang Jinmin in an attempt to silence her. Which means that Liang Jinmin must know quite a lot!”
A deathly still and horrifying silence engulfed the room.
Yu Hao said, “Chen Laoshi, has Lin Xun performed any psychological intervention on you?”
Chen Yekai, “……”
Zhou Sheng swore, then said to Chen Yekai, “It should’ve been quite often ba. During the days you accompanied your Shimu, the two of you didn’t even meet once?”
Chen Yekai said, “I asked him. Afterwards, there was only one time when we actually met and held a conversation, it didn’t even last half an hour. It was the first day of the New Year, that night when the two of you came and left.”
Yu Hao felt so shocked that he couldn’t possibly be stunned any further. That day, they played games with Chen Yekai for a long time in the hospital. Yu Hao had even packed dinner for Chen Yekai after that and saw him kneeling in front of Liang Jinmin’s bed as he wept.
Zhou Sheng murmured, “No ba. Kaikai, I remember you saying that you wanted to introduce us to Lin Laoshi that day?”
Chen Yekai said, “At that time, the two of you were just students, and his psychological manipulation of Ryuusei was just Liang Laoshi’s conjecture, so that was the only thing I could say. Otherwise, how else was I supposed to phrase it? As a matter of fact, after Liang Laoshi and I met up in the cafe, Lin Xun behaved as usual, so I started to doubt whether it was Shimu whose emotions weren’t very stable…… After the two of you left, that night in the ward, I couldn’t help but completely lay everything out on the table to question him. But that day, I still didn’t know that he caused the car accident……no, that still remains unconfirmed.”
“That’s not important.” As soon as Zhou Sheng said that, he apologised, “Sorry, Kaikai, what I meant was, that matter is not our top priority. Right now, what we need to make sure of is whether or not you’re afraid of him, and how we should deal with him if he appears in your dream.”
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“Lin Xun?” Chen Yekai laughed bitterly, “I want to kill him, so do you think I’m afraid of him?”
Yu Hao also considered this question. He asked, “What did he say to you that day when you guys were in the hospital?”
Chen Yekai said wearily, “I can’t really remember the details clearly. He has always been very arrogant, as if there is nothing in this world that can affect him. His belief in himself is too strong.”
Zhou Sheng muttered, “I’m beginning to regret telling you so much.”
Yu Hao, “Then……how do we defeat Lin Xun?”
Zhou Sheng, “Shoot him, or just go up to him and beat him up. You can do whatever you want.”
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Chen Yekai said, “Now I really just want to kill him, I’m not afraid of him anymore. But you have to understand that ever since I graduated from my undergraduate studies, I’ve always been following Lin Xun. In fact, even now, I still feel very conflicted about all this……”
Zhou Sheng, “Oh my god, I reeaaally regret our conversation today.”
Of course, Yu Hao understood what Zhou Sheng meant. This conversation provided yet even more reinforcement for Lin Xun in Chen Yekai’s mind that would make the Lin Xun in his dreams even more difficult to fight.
Chen Yekai, “He used to be my most respected……”
“Stop! Stop!” Zhou Sheng and Yu Hao’s expressions changed at the same time.
Yu Hao, “Stop giving yourself any more suggestions!!”
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Yu Hao thought, perhaps on that night, Chen Yekai had already summoned up enough courage to set fire to all his bridges, so he no longer feared him anymore.
“It’ll be alright.” Yu Hao said to Zhou Sheng, “I think the most difficult hurdle is still Ryuusei. The gatekeeper won’t be more difficult to deal with than Ryuusei.”
Chen Yekai fell silent again.
After Zhou Sheng scooped out the water in his ears, he said to Chen Yekai, “Now we have to work together to seize back the totem in the depths of your heart.”
“Totem?” Chen Yekai asked.
“Your source of strength in your mental world.” Zhou Sheng said, “The beliefs you’ve built up for yourself and firmly held fast to ever since childhood. What do you think that will be?”
“I……I don’t know.” Chen Yekai muttered, “If there really is such a thing, then I think, it could be the ideal future I once wished for ba.”
“Concrete representation.” Zhou Sheng explained, “Understand it in concrete terms. Everything that appears in your dream has a physical form.”
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Chen Yekai became engrossed in his thoughts, and in the end, Zhou Sheng added, “Don’t be anxious, you can look for it while you think. It’s fine as long as we’re clear on how to deal with the enemy. Let’s try our best to deal with the gatekeeper Lin Xun together ba. As for Ryuusei……”
Yu Hao said, “I could already be in front of his totem.”
“Then, wait for the answer to reveal itself.” Zhou Sheng said, “You’re responsible for finding the totem, and you have to remember what we discussed before.”
Yu Hao recalled that letter, then nodded.
Chen Yekai understood, “Okay.”
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“We’ll talk about the rest after you wake up.” Zhou Sheng laid on the bed, and Yu Hao instantly tensed up. He turned his head to look sidelong at Zhou Sheng.
Zhou Sheng, “???”
Yu Hao and Zhou Sheng were sleeping in a single bed together, and Zhou Sheng was only wearing a white bathrobe!
Yu Hao, “……”
Zhou Sheng, “What’s wrong?”
It wasn’t the first time Yu Hao had slept with Zhou Sheng in the same bed. When he went to Zhou Sheng’s house during the New Year, the two of them had slept together. But Zhou Sheng had always slept bare chested while wearing a pair of sports shorts, and had never slept like this before.
“Nothing.” Yu Hao took a deep breath and tried to lay flat so that he wouldn’t have any strange reactions.
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“Sleep ba.” Zhou Sheng said, “If you have anything to say, we’ll talk in the dream. Yu Hao, take care of yourself, we’ll be there soon.”
“Okay.” Yu Hao was so sleepy he could barely keep his eyes open. But the more tired he was, the more arousedhis subconscious sexual urges were. He only wanted to turn around and hug Zhou Sheng, and that was the natural reaction of his parasympathetic nerves after his sympathetic nerves were suppressed. He could feel his own arm draw closer to Zhou Sheng’s chest, and Zhou Sheng’s skin was very smooth and delicate. Fragrance from the shower gel he used wafted from his body, which made Yu Hao’s blood vessels almost rupture for a moment.
The Golden Crow Wheel emitted a scorching light; the place Yu Hao appeared in was the bridge in Zhou Sheng’s dream world that led to the Golden Crow Wheel.
“What’s the matter?” Yu Hao said.
“He hasn’t slept yet.” Zhou Sheng was in much higher spirits now as he explained to Yu Hao, “When he falls asleep later, we’ll get sucked into the Golden Crow Wheel.”
Yu Hao thought, why hasn’t Chen Yekai fallen asleep? Maybe he was too agitated, so perhaps he wouldn’t be able to fall asleep for awhile. He tried to flutter his wings open and fly up, “Oh right, aside from us, can other things cross through the Golden Crow Wheel?”
“What?” Zhou Sheng’s mind was enshrouded by fog.
Yu Hao, “The military generals in my dream, and that dragon in yours. Can they leave our respective dreams?”
Zhou Sheng, “Ah? The things from his dream can’t cross over here, but whether or not the things from our dreams can enter his isn’t something I’ve considered before.”
From Zhou Sheng’s reaction, Yu Hao realised that he seemed to have raised a question that Zhou Sheng hadn’t thought of. But this didn’t require a very huge hole in one’s brain, so with Zhou Sheng’s intelligence, why didn’t he think of it before?
Yu Hao spread his wings open and flew above the sea of clouds, searching for the dragon that Zhou Sheng summoned from the clouds that day. Meanwhile, Zhou Sheng remained on the bridge and fell into contemplation. Yu Hao looked left and right; never mind his soldiers, but if the dragon could reach Chichén Itzá, then it could end up playing a very significant role.
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“Don’t wander around!” Zhou Sheng snapped out of his trance and shouted at Yu Hao, so Yu Hao flew back.