“Oh?” Luo Chen raised an eyebrow slightly.
“Friend, if you are willing to leave the stone behind, then everything is negotiable. If you are not willing to leave the stone behind, then when the police arrive later and discover any illegal items here, you will be in trouble.” Shi Wang sneered repeatedly. He had already made his calculations.
“How so?” Luo Chen was also very curious about what Shi Wang was planning.
“The stone I just gave you, I selected it very carefully. If you break that stone open, you should find something very interesting inside. White powder!” Shi Wang leaned against the front of the car, looking quite calm.
“By the way, let me remind you that the stone has that girl’s fingerprints on it. When I handed over the stone earlier, I was wearing gloves.”
“So what do you think? Wait for the police or hand over the goods? You choose for yourself.” Shi Wang had plotted this in advance. How could he allow others to take away raw materials worth one hundred million?
So the stone he gave to Xia Jingqing had been tampered with. It was not a real stone. He had hidden drugs inside it.
And when he passed it to Xia Jingqing, he was wearing gloves.
Her fingerprints were already on it.
“So, have you thought it through?” Shi Wang smiled as he looked at Luo Chen, seeming to wait for him to give in.
Luo Chen was originally somewhat interested. But after hearing such a clumsy trick, he immediately lost interest.
“Although you call yourself the Stone King, I think your luck may not be very good.” Luo Chen snorted coldly. He felt this guy was truly unlucky.
“What do you mean?” Shi Wang sensed something was wrong. Luo Chen seemed far too calm.
“Wait for the police to come. That is what I mean.” Luo Chen shook his head and smiled. He had actually tried to frame Xia Jingqing. This guy really had nerve.
“Friend, you should think carefully. Hiding drugs is not a small matter.” Shi Wang stood straight and pointed at Luo Chen as he threatened fiercely.
“No problem.” Luo Chen sat back in the car and seemed very unconcerned.
“Fine. I want to see how you handle this later.” Shi Wang now seemed determined to deal with Luo Chen completely.
The sound of police sirens soon rang out. It was not just a few officers but a large team of armed police.
“Who called the police?”
“Police comrades, I called the police. These people have white powder. It is inside the stone that girl is holding.” Shi Wang pointed at the people in the car with a cold smile.
“I told you that you would regret it.” Shi Wang walked over to the car window and spoke quietly to Luo Chen.
“Arrest him!” Suddenly a loud shout came from inside the car. Then Xia Jingqing stepped out of the vehicle with a dark expression.
“Officer Xia?” Someone among the armed police recognised her. After all she was the famous police beauty.
“Officer Xia?” Shi Wang was stunned.
“You have a lot of nerve. You actually dared to frame your grandmother.”
“You?”
“Open your dog eyes and look clearly. What does your grandmother do?” Xia Jingqing took out her identification.
Shi Wang was immediately shocked.
“You are under arrest.” It was only when Xia Jingqing took out the handcuffs that he came back to his senses.
“You actually have a police officer with you?” Shi Wang panicked. He had tried to frame a police officer.
It was extremely unlucky.
“No, Officer Xia. I was just joking. Please listen to my explanation.”
“Go explain it to the judge. Also, everything you said just now was recorded on my voice recorder. You can explain it to the judge yourself later.” Xia Jingqing handcuffed Shi Wang directly.
“Take this. It is evidence.” Xia Jingqing was very angry and handed the broken stone to the police.
Someone actually dared to frame her. He really had a lot of courage.
Although Shi Wang did big business, he did not have the nerve to challenge the police.
He could only surrender obediently and stare at Luo Chen with resentment.
However stares could not kill. If he had not tried to frame Luo Chen, he would not have ended up like this. Once investigated, he would be imprisoned for at least ten or more years.
This was truly lifting a rock only to drop it on his own feet.
After all, who could have expected that the beautiful woman beside Luo Chen was actually a police officer!
“Luo, I will not let you go!”
Luo Chen did not take this matter to heart. To him this was just child’s play. Soon there was news from Hong Biao’s side.
Eighty million was quickly received into Luo Chen’s account.
Luo Chen was thinking that since he now had the starting capital, it was time to contact his old classmate and begin the construction of Panlong Bay.
In fact, the main reason Luo Chen acquired Panlong Bay was that he could use its natural advantages to set up a large spirit gathering array.
No matter what city life was like, cultivation was always the first priority. After all, Luo Chen had a very long term vision. His real opponents were the three great heavenly venerables from the myths. Therefore Luo Chen needed to seize every moment to begin cultivating.
The spiritual energy on Earth was dried up and extremely scarce. He could only gather spiritual energy through the spirit gathering array.
So regarding the Panlong Bay project, Luo Chen was actually quite anxious.
That night Luo Chen made a phone call. It was to an old classmate of his in Tongzhou.
In fact Luo Chen still had many classmates in Tongzhou. However many of them were not on the same path even when they were students, so they had lost contact.
The one Luo Chen contacted now was a classmate who was still fairly close with him.
“Hello, Luo Chen?” The voice on the other end sounded very surprised.
“You have been out for almost a year and you only contact me now. That is not very nice!”
“By the way, where are you now? I am doing quite well in Tongzhou these days. If you come to Tongzhou to visit, I will cover all your food and accommodation.” Wang Fei’s voice sounded very excited.
“I am in Tongzhou right now.” Luo Chen nodded.
In fact it had been a long time since he and Wang Fei last met. Moreover Wang Fei was the only one who could get relatively close to the otaku Luo Chen back then.
The two agreed on a time. Then Luo Chen returned to the hotel.
Early the next morning, Luo Chen took a taxi to where Wang Fei was located.
It was a bar. Of course it was not yet open for business. The reason for coming so early was also at Wang Fei’s request.
“How about it? Your brother is doing quite well in Tongzhou, right?” When he arrived at the meeting place, a young man dressed in a flashy style with dyed golden long hair and tattoos on his arms greeted Luo Chen arrogantly.
This made Luo Chen slightly surprised. He almost did not recognise him.
Because this was completely different from the school grass in his memory who wore glasses and a clean white shirt.
That is right. During university Wang Fei was the school grass. People often found flowers given by girls in the dormitory. However at that time Wang Fei’s dream was to get a doctorate. He looked particularly refined and had no interest in romance.
Even the otaku Luo Chen had found love. Wang Fei remained single for all three years of university and buried himself in books.
But seeing Wang Fei’s golden hair, earrings and tattoos now, Luo Chen could not help but sigh. Society really was a big dyeing vat.
“What do you do now?” Luo Chen looked at Wang Fei and examined him carefully.
“Heh, actually it is not that great. I just opened a bar.” Wang Fei looked very showy and boastful.
“Did you not study design and architecture?” Luo Chen frowned and asked.
Wang Fei placed one hand on Luo Chen’s shoulder and spoke with a cigarette in his mouth.
“People need to make a living, right?”
“By the way, how are things with you and Zhang Xiaoman?” Wang Fei seemed unwilling to talk more about this matter and changed the topic.
“We broke up.” Luo Chen replied calmly.
“Sorry.” Wang Fei suddenly realised something. Because he knew how deep Luo Chen’s feelings for Zhang Xiaoman were. It was the kind that would last forever.
If they had broken up, one could imagine how painful it must be for Luo Chen.
Luo Chen just smiled slightly and did not say more.
The two did not talk much more. They chose a place for lunch. Wang Fei recalled that after university graduation Luo Chen had decided to work together with Zhang Xiaoman.
He also knew how low the salary was there. Suddenly he felt emotional. How had Luo Chen fallen to this level?
After the meal Luo Chen prepared to leave.
“Luo Chen, if you have any difficulties you can tell me. I can still help with one or two thousand yuan.” Wang Fei thought Luo Chen had come to borrow money but was too embarrassed to ask.
Luo Chen smiled and did not say anything, then left.
Until night fell, Luo Chen quietly drove back to this bar once more.
He returned without informing Wang Fei.
Entering the bar there was rhythmic heavy metal rock music accompanied by the twisting bodies of young men and women. It was like the city revealing its other side under the cover of night.