Chapter 135 part1 (1/2)

Yu Hao turned around, and Chen Yekai shouted, “Go down!”

The sand wave crashed down, forming a passage, and Yu Hao utilised his experience with skateboards to the utmost as he brought Zhou Sheng and Chen Yekai with him to rush through the passage with a whoosh. A dense mass of flying mosquito men rushed into the passage as well, and with a loud rumble, they were all buried within the gravel.

The sand wave swept them into the ancient city. The three of them shouted loudly at the same time as they brutally smashed into it.

Yu Hao’s head was spinning from the crash. Zhou Sheng’s left hand, clad in iron armour, began grasping around madly as his body was already buried. Chen Yekai and Yu Hao moved forward to drag Zhou Sheng out of the sand.

Zhou Sheng took off his helmet and a lot of yellow sand poured out of it. The three of them had already been swept into the city, and they were gasping for breath within the sandstorm.

“Go up.” Zhou Sheng pushed them onto a tower at the side, “Don’t ask any questions, I don’t know anything!”

Zhou Sheng took off his armour that was filled with sand as he walked. He took off his helmet, removed his breastplate and war boots, thereby exposing his chest. He put two of his left fingers together, drew a line on his chest and his iron armour turned into leather armour. He held Yu Hao’s hand and quickly climbed up to the top of the tower.

The top of the tower was beyond the sandstorm area. Yu Hao rushed into the top floor and realised that he had arrived at Fu Liqun’s safe haven —— the house they had rented together in the past.

Sofa, dining table, coffee table…all the decorations were exactly the same.

Chen Yekai went to the balcony, pulled the landing windows open, opened the balcony door, and looked out.

Zhou Sheng collapsed onto the sofa, gasping for breath. He spat a few times, and it was all yellow sand.

“I was planning to pick you two up…” Zhou Sheng said, “But that dragon turned dumb for some reason, just like data in the Matrix……”

Chen Yekai said, “Zhou Sheng, look at that in the distance.”

“I saw it.” Zhou Sheng said, then got up and went to the refrigerator for drinks.

Yu Hao treated Zhou Sheng’s wounds and went to the balcony. He saw that under the building near the center of the ancient city, there was a proliferation of insect breeding nests that looked like malignant tumours. The whole ancient city was filled with enough flying mosquito men to blot out the sky, and they were flying out of the breeding nests continuously like an uninterrupted flow of water. They were searching for their whereabouts.

The dream world began to shake. Yu Hao said, “Gege’s about to wake up.”

Zhou Sheng said, “Get ready to pack up once we’re awake. We’ll take a plane to the South.”

The dream world started collapsing, layer by layer. Chen Yekai said, “Okay, let’s meet in reality.”

The ancient desert city and safe haven disintegrated instantly; bricks and tiles fell and drifted away, and in the next moment, Yu Hao woke up from the dream. Zhou Sheng turned his head sideways, and Yu Hao shifted over and kissed him. Both of them got up a bit wearily. Zhou Sheng started packing up and called his company to take leave.

Work of the investigation office had reduced as it approached the Spring Festival. Zhou Sheng told his company that he needed to go back earlier in advance for the New Year, and the other side readily agreed. Yu Hao had just come over after brushing his teeth. He was still thinking about the words Chen Yekai said in the dream.

“Do you trust him?” Yu Hao roughly told Zhou Sheng what Chen Yekai had said. He could tell that Zhou Sheng seemed a little irascible. In fact, there was something off about him recently, like he had something on his mind.

“What about you? Do you trust him?” Zhou Sheng looked down to check the camera and placed it in his bag as he asked absentmindedly.

“Zhou Sheng.” Yu Hao said, “I think we need to talk.”

“What do we need to talk about?” Zhou Sheng looked up and glanced at Yu Hao. He quickly folded clothes, “About Gege?”

“No.” Yu Hao said, “About you. I feel like there’s something wrong with you recently.”

Zhou Sheng, “What’s wrong with me? Don’t overthink so much.”

Yesterday, the dispute over Fu Liqun was just a fuse, and Yu Hao had keenly sensed that ever since Zhou Sheng had come to Beijing, he seemed to be planning something. To be precise —— after he had found his new job.

Zhou Sheng placed his books in his bag. Yu Hao said, “Zhou Sheng!”

Zhou Sheng, “?”

Yu Hao, “Don’t avoid my question! We agreed on this.”

“There really isn’t any problem.” Zhou Sheng said, baffled, “What’s up with you?”

Am I the one overthinking? Yu Hao frowned deeply and sat at the edge of the bed. He used his phone to print out fake introductory letters. He rummaged around for a kraft paper document bag and stuffed materials and the introductory letters into it — the official seals on them had all been photoshopped. This was an important proof they needed to conceal their identities; it was better to be prepared just in case.

Zhou Sheng pushed a swivel chair over, sat on it, crouched slightly, and looked into Yu Hao’s eyes. He asked, “What do you think is wrong?”

“Chen Laoshi’s words.” Yu Hao said, “That dragon…you making so many Golden Crow Wheels…”

The furrow between Zhou Sheng’s brows slowly began smoothing out. A hint of a smile could be seen in his eyes as he patted Yu Hao’s face, then he glanced at the clock, “We still have ten minutes, what do you want to ask? Ask ba.”

There was a messy ball of thread in Yu Hao’s heart, but he didn’t know where the end of the thread was. Waking up in the morning while lacking sleep made him slow-witted. He thought about it over and over again, then said a little angrily, “Forget it.”

“Do you think he’ll betray us?” Zhou Sheng said, “You might have even guessed that right. But he has no way of activating the Golden Crow Wheel, right?”

Yu Hao said, “I don’t think he will, but that’s not the main thing I wanted to talk about…”

Zhou Sheng said, “Do you remember how I first evaluated him?”

Yu Hao’s heart almost stopped. Zhou Sheng threw him ambiguous blinks and smiled. Yu Hao clearly remembered that ever since Zhou Sheng met Chen Yekai, he hadn’t seemed to like him very much.

“What was in his memory?” Yu Hao said, “No, I believe he won’t betray us.”

“Don’t worry.” Zhou Sheng said, “I don’t trust who he is as a person, but I do believe in one thing — at the very least, he won’t harm you.”

Yu Hao said, “Why did we come back to this problem again in the end…?”

Zhou Sheng, “Didn’t you sense something yourself?”