Supernatural Insight Eyes
Chapter 244: Mysterious Person’s Intentions

Chapter 244: Mysterious Person’s Intentions

Guozi followed behind Lin Qiao’er, having remained silent for quite a while. The shock in his heart was no less than Lin Qiao’er’s.

Ye Qiu’s disappearance was related to that monster, which made Guozi feel a tremor in his heart. He wasn’t afraid of facing villains, not even the fierce thugs who bathed the streets in blood, but this time, investigating such an unknown force, something akin to a beastly transformation, was the first time his heart pounded with fear.

After holding back for a long time, Guozi mustered his courage and asked Lin Qiao’er, "Boss, was that thing we saw earlier real?"

"Scared?" Lin Qiao’er, clearly understanding Guozi’s implication, asked with a smile.

Hearing this, an instant surge of manly spirit flooded his heart, and Guozi straightened his back, "When has Guozi ever been scared? Since you, boss, want to investigate and find Ye Qiu, I will follow you to the end."

With an appearance of fearing neither heaven nor earth, Guozi made Lin Qiao’er suddenly laugh, her waist shaking as she turned her head and walked towards the office.

Guozi watched Lin Qiao’er’s retreating figure, gazing transfixed, and after a long while, he shook his head and followed.

...

In the campus, these days, no one talked about the video scandal involving Chu Yao anymore. Under Ye Qiu’s frightening and double-pronged assault, Wang Zifeng had been scared to the bone and wanted no further encounters with the non-human Ye Qiu.

Wang Zifeng utilized all sorts of connections to have the video deleted and addressed the rumors about Chu Yao.

Wang Zifeng had significant influence, but if he weren’t truly frightened of Ye Qiu confronting him again, Chu Yao would definitely have been unable to endure the immense public scrutiny and might even have dropped out.

After exerting tremendous effort, Wang Zifeng managed to settle the matter tightly, and he no longer wanted to touch anything related to Chu Yao, lest Ye Qiu find him again.

As the main character of the incident, Chu Yao had endured tremendous injustice and hurt, until these last few days when Wang Zifeng’s clarifications reduced the public discussions about her.

Even though Wang Zifeng used a far-fetched explanation about shooting a movie for clarification, there were still some who talked about it secretly, just not openly anymore.

"Chu Yao, now that everyone has stopped talking about it, you shouldn’t dwell on this matter either. That shameless man, Wang Zifeng—we’ll just pretend we don’t know him," said Zhang Qinqin, comforting Chu Yao as her close friend.

"Thank you, Qinqin." These days, only Qinqin had stayed by her side, worrying about her, and Chu Yao felt extremely grateful to her female classmate.

"What are you saying? We are close sisters, there’s nothing to thank me for. Let’s just let this matter pass," Zhang Qinqin, having a tomboy character, wouldn’t have stood up for Chu Yao otherwise, directly confronting those who talked about Chu Yao behind her back.

Chu Yao nodded but still harbored a question in her heart. Seeing Chu Yao frowning, Zhang Qinqin asked, "What’s wrong?"

Not wanting to keep her thoughts to herself, Chu Yao looked directly at Zhang Qinqin and said, "Qinqin, can you tell me why Wang Zifeng would suddenly do this? The video leaked because of him at first, and he just wanted to make me regret it; there’s no reason for him to go to such lengths to help me out of this situation now, I don’t believe he suddenly developed a conscience."

Hearing Chu Yao’s words, Zhang Qinqin’s mind stirred. She knew Chu Yao was perceptive and must have been puzzled by Wang Zifeng’s actions.

Zhang Qinqin no longer planned to keep it a secret and revealed, "Chu Yao, actually, I saw you were upset earlier, so I sought help from someone. The reason Wang Zifeng came forward to clarify might be related to that person."

"Who did you find?" Suddenly, Chu Yao grabbed Zhang Qinqin’s arm anxiously.

Looking into Chu Yao’s eyes, Zhang Qinqin uttered two words: Ye Qiu.

Upon hearing that name, Chu Yao’s expression froze, and she was momentarily lost in thought.

"So it was him who helped me..." Chu Yao murmured to herself.

...

A thousand mountains with no birds in flight, ten thousand paths with no trace of man.

A vast expanse of white filled the air, imbued with poetic grace. A well-read scholar arriving here might have composed the most beautiful lines of poetry. Unfortunately, Ye Qiu had no interest in appreciating the surrounding beauty.

He was immobilized by a mysterious figure, unable to use his True Qi, and couldn’t leave the cave halfway up the mountain.

The techniques of the mysterious man were beyond even Ye Qiu’s ability to decipher. His True Qi was locked within his Dantian and couldn’t circulate. Staying in the cave, Ye Qiu was utterly bored.

His mind raced, wondering why the mysterious man had captured him and why it happened at the place he had encountered Fujikawa Ueno. Could all this be a coincidence?

Ye Qiu continuously speculated, but without confirmation from the mysterious man himself, his guesses were all just wild conjectures.

On the fifth day of being left in the cave, the mysterious man finally showed himself.

In those five days, Ye Qiu survived only on the snow water for a bit of energy, having no food to eat.

His mouth almost tasteless, the mysterious man finally appeared before him, as if fate decided it.

Looking at the man from whom he had secretly learned the art of the True Qi shield, Ye Qiu said, "If you’re going to kill or maim, give me a quick end."

"Hehe." The mysterious man suddenly laughed, a sound that Ye Qiu found eerie. When they first met, this person had almost crippled him. Now his laugh seemed more like a terrifying echo to Ye Qiu.

However, next, Ye Qiu heard the mysterious man speak for the first time.

"Young man, how did you learn my True Qi shield?"

At the mysterious man’s words, Ye Qiu was shocked. He looked into his eyes, which were clear and lucid.

Wasn’t he a madman? What was going on now?

Ye Qiu couldn’t understand and didn’t speak, while the mysterious man continued, "Though your True Qi shield is immature, it indeed has some form to it, quite interesting. Who did you learn it from?"

Ye Qiu awkwardly scratched his head. He obviously couldn’t say he had learned it stealthily from him.

However, the mysterious man now gave a completely different vibe, no longer profound and intimidating as before.

The man before him now seemed more like a kindly old sage.

All Ye Qiu could do was equivocate, "I unintentionally learned a little from a master, but sadly, I only grasped the basics and missed the essence."

"I see. To think someone else reached the same point and learned the True Qi shield as well. I really would like to meet them!"

Ye Qiu felt embarrassed by the mysterious man’s words, deeply uneasy inside. He wanted to say that the master was actually the mysterious man himself.

"The day I saw you perform it, I was thrilled and decided to bring you back," the mysterious man said.

"You have good potential. Do you have a master?"

Ye Qiu was stirred. Could it be that the mysterious man intended to take him as an apprentice, which is why he brought him here? For some reason, Ye Qiu had mixed feelings about this.

"I see you have potential; would you like to take me as your master?" Before Ye Qiu could fully form the thought, the mysterious man voiced the idea that had just flickered through Ye Qiu’s mind.

So, he had been brought here merely to be made an apprentice?

Ye Qiu couldn’t help but smile at the thought, a grin forming at the corner of his mouth.