Ch64 - Boarding the Cruise (1/2)
“Young Master, morning~”
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Zhou Sheng’s classmate saw them as he walked over from one of the paths within the college. He grinned as he looked at Yu Hao and wanted to say something, but after noticing Zhou Sheng’s expression, he held back and whistled at Yu Hao.
Yu Hao, “??”
“You’re still angry?!” But Zhou Sheng misunderstood Yu Hao’s silence. He draped his arm over Yu Hao’s shoulder and said, “I said I won’t do that again!”
Yet Yu Hao changed the topic, “Your nickname is Young Master?”
Zhou Sheng responded with an “un”, and casually replied, “After my Dad treated them to a meal, they gave me that nickname.”
Yu Hao thought of something else and said, “Then have you heard of any other nickname for me?”
“No.” Zhou Sheng answered very quickly, “No one calls you Eyelash Baby anymore.”
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Yu Hao said, “You said you wanted to discuss something with me last time, what is it?”
Zhou Sheng thought about it before he answered, “Another day ba.”
Yu Hao said, “I have something to say too.”
Zhou Sheng looked doubtfully at Yu Hao. Yu Hao came to a stop. The rain was growing heavier and heavier. Zhou Sheng held the umbrella, and the two stood to one side of the college’s path.
“Let’s talk in the canteen.” Zhou Sheng said, “What could it be that you must talk about it here……”
Students passed by one after another, each one eyeballing them as they passed by. Yu Hao’s brows were set in a deep furrow. Just as he was about to speak, his line of sight suddenly passed Zhou Sheng and landed upon a figure below the teacher’s dormitory in the distance.
“Look!!” Yu Hao hastily motioned to Zhou Sheng. Zhou Sheng turned around, and his brows immediately scrunched up.
Lin Xun was holding a single-person umbrella. He walked down the dormitory building, bypassing the canteen, and walked towards the college’s East gate.
“He’s going to the hospital?” Zhou Sheng wondered, “Notify Kaikai?”
Right now, Yu Hao couldn’t concern himself with the other things weighing on his mind. He took out his phone and dialled Chen Yekai’s number, but he must be busy as no one picked up. After Zhou Sheng and Yu Hao arrived at a tree, Yu Hao nervously asked, “He didn’t pick up. Should we follow him?”
Zhou Sheng asked, “Are you hungry?”
Yu Hao couldn’t cry or laugh, “Why are you asking if I’m hungry at a time like this? This is clearly more important! Can you even be cured anymore?!”
Zhou Sheng, “You lose your temper more easily when you’re hungry, so of course you have to eat first! Why are you scolding me?” As he spoke, he handed the umbrella to Yu Hao, then turned around and ran.
“Where are you going?” Yu Hao shouted. Zhou Sheng braved the rain and ran away. Yu Hao was going crazy. He quickly called Chen Yekai. By all rights, Chen Yekai and Huang Ting should’ve already set up their trap as they waited for Lin Xun in the hospital, so there shouldn’t be much of a problem. However, Yu Hao still had some misgivings.
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Yu Hao hid behind the tree and peeked at Lin Xun, who was waiting for a car and looking over his shoulder from time to time. Zhou Sheng sprinted back towards the dormitory building like he was in a 100m race and returned in no time at all. He threw Yu Hao a sports jacket and put on a jacket of his own.
Zhou Sheng said, “Follow him and see what he’s doing!”
They were both wearing slippers as they quickly waded through the water beyond the college path. After they exited the college’s gate, they saw that Lin Xun had booked a cab online that he was hurrying into now. Zhou Sheng merely glanced once and said, “Follow him! He’s not going to the hospital!”
Yu Hao immediately hailed a cab. They got on and Zhou Sheng said to the taxi driver, “Follow the car in front.”
The taxi driver was tactful and followed the car Lin Xun was on without asking many questions. Yu Hao asked, “How did you know that he isn’t going to the hospital?”
“He’s carrying a laptop bag.” Zhou Sheng said, “If he was rushing to the hospital, he wouldn’t carry such a huge bag. How did the news leak out? He’s going on the run!”
Yu Hao immediately gave Chen Yekai a call, but there was still no answer. The taxi driver interjected, “This isn’t the way to the airport.”
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The car in front didn’t veer off onto the expressway. Zhou Sheng’s brows furrowed deeply, then he started to call Huang Ting. This time, Huang Ting picked up and Zhou Sheng immediately said, “That guy’s on the run, his destination is unknown. We’re following him now.”
“Send me your location through the phone.” Huang Ting said on the other end and hung up.
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“Are you two students?” The taxi driver asked.
Zhou Sheng responded with an “un”. They passed a traffic light, and the taxi they were following had shaken them off and was now several cars away from them. This junction quickly changed to a red light, creating a jam shortly after. The taxi they were in didn’t cross the intersection, and Lin Xun’s cab had already driven away.
“Crap!” Yu Hao said.
“Don’t worry.” Zhou Sheng said, “We might be able to catch up after we cross the intersection.”
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The taxi driver said, “This road should head out to the pier, if my guess isn’t wrong.”
Chen Yekai called. Yu Hao picked up and asked him to immediately notify Huang Ting to dispatch people to the pier. Chen Yekai said, “Strange, how did the news get leaked?”
Huang Ting said, “Look at this.”
“Fuck.” Chen Yekai said, “That guy installed a bug under the bed!”
Huang Ting took the phone, “Think of a way to stall him, we’re relying on you guys now. The traffic’s pretty bad at the moment, so stall him for at least 20 minutes. The first time we called him into the station without any evidence, he retaliated fiercely in front of my superiors. This is the second time now, I’m under pressure from above, and it’s a very thorny situation. We need to wait for the victim to completely regain alertness, and under the premise that she’s proven to have mental capacity and identifies Lin Xun as the one who planned the premeditated murder, then can we begin going through the process.”
Chen Yekai said from beside the phone, “The entire process requires some time. Right now, Liang Laoshi is beginning to recall more details. She’s been unconscious for too long, so there are gaps in her memory, I’ll strive to……speed it up.”
“Okay.” Yu Hao hadn’t expected that it would be so troublesome just to arrest someone.
The taxi driver said, “We’re here, nuo, look, the pier.”
Lin Xun’s cab had already left. Yu Hao quickly took his phone out to pay, Zhou Sheng held the umbrella, and they hurriedly walked down the pier. From higher ground, Yu Hao glimpsed people walking to and fro under the umbrellas of various shapes and colours as they boarded a cruise ship by the river.
“Which one?” Zhou Sheng said, “Do you see him?”
Yu Hao, “That one’s leaving soon, it must be that ship! I saw his umbrella!”
“Smart”! Zhou Sheng praised.
“Learnt it from you.” Yu Hao answered.
Story translated by Chrysanthemum Garden.
The rain didn’t seem to be letting up at all as it whooshed down the steps by the road. Yu Hao slipped on the steps and nearly fell. Zhou Sheng quickly grabbed him, “Careful!”
The road was covered in water and was really too slippery. There was a sign erected by the river with the words “Five Days and Four Nights Cruise” on it; after setting out from Ying City, they could go upstream with beautiful scenery on both shores — this cruise’s itinerary was practically the favourite of the retired elderly. After Zhou Sheng and Yu Hao walked down the big steps, they had to walk down smaller steps too and saw nearly 40 retired elderly moving slowly and arduously.
Yu Hao, “……”
Zhou Sheng, “……”
Their anxiety was unparalleled right now; they only wanted to board as soon as possible to drag Lin Xun back, but the queue in front of them was getting slower and slower. Yu Hao said, “Where’s Huang Ting’s people? They’re not here yet! What do we do after we get on?”
Zhou Sheng, “Start a fight once we meet him and make a scene, then the ship won’t be able to set sail anymore.”
A tour guide was still doing an introduction for the elderly group in front. Zhou Sheng saw a gap, then folded up his umbrella and squeezed in by the side of the tour guide. He turned around, grabbed Yu Hao’s hand, and dragged him over.
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At the entrance of the cruise ship, two crew members were checking their tickets. Yu Hao said, “We can’t go any further, what do we do?”
Zhou Sheng thought for a moment, then asked Yu Hao to wait. He went to the pier, and a short moment later, he had returned with two mangoes that he had bought. He threw one to Yu Hao and Yu Hao caught it.
Yu Hao, “??”
“Leave it to me, don’t talk.” Zhou Sheng, along with Yu Hao, casually squeezed to the front of the group before walking straight in. A crew member said, “Hey, you two!”
Zhou Sheng said, “We got off the ship to buy fruits.”
“Where’s your nametag?” The crew member pointed to their chest.