Chapter 245: Scamming Too Much (1)
With his injured body, Zheng Yunhui slowly left the training center. He had a cautious look on his face. Right after he stepped outside, a masked man appeared. Alarmed, Zheng Yunhui was about to shout when the masked man showed him something.
Zheng Yunhui shut his mouth and followed the masked man away.
In the restaurant next door.
A few elders had departed to tail the mysterious visitors earlier. Only Jia Mingzhen was left. When he saw another masked individual, he was stunned. Why were there so many people? And why was Zheng Yunhui following that person away? Who was this person? He was suspicious. His body flickered and vanished from the room.
At the same time.
Heart Cultivating Pavilion.
Wan Tiansheng had an odd look in his eyes. He smiled and sat back down. He was just about to leave, but he smiled and decided to wait further. There was no rush.
...
Zheng Yunhui followed the mask man doubtfully. This person had appeared with Su Yu's cultural weapon. Was this Su Yu's helper? Otherwise, there was no way he would give his cultural weapon away so easily. Of course, there was also the possibility that Su Yu had been murdered and robbed...
But that possibility was too small. Assassinating a genius student within an academy was basically a declaration of war that would not end until one party was dead. The academy would do everything they could to hunt down such killers.
"Where is Su Yu?"
After walking for a while, Zheng Yunhui felt tired and asked. His injuries were quite heavy.
"We're nearly there."
The masked man replied. A short while later, the two arrived in a restaurant. They went upstairs and entered a room.
There, Su Yu was nursing his injuries. When he saw Zheng Yunhui, he smiled and asked, "Is it done?"
Zheng Yunhui looked at the masked man curiously before looking at Su Yu. With a frown, he asked, "Who's this?"
The masked man took off his mask. Zheng Yunhui was still curious. He did not recognize this face.
"My martial uncle," Su Yu replied indifferently. "Don't worry. I'm just worried that you would run off with the money so I had my martial uncle bring you over."
"..."
He was way too blunt.
Zheng Yunhui was speechless. But since he knew who the masked man was, he hurriedly greeted, "Greetings, Head Manager Chen."
Chen Yong nodded but didn't say anything. Instead, he was looking at Su Yu curiously. Clearly, the data was fake. In that case, how had Su Yu produced the special blood essence? Bai Feng had not told anyone about Su Yu's special ability.
Su Yu wasn't too worried. He knew what the two were thinking so he said, "Teacher wrote me a willpower text before. I formed a unique Divine Character through that text, allowing me to temporarily extract the ability within blood essence."
Understanding dawned on the other two.
Zheng Yunhui asked in astonishment, "Such a Divine Character exists?"
"There are too many different Divine Characters in existence. How many of them do you know?"
Su Yu sounded confident. In the past, he didn't know too much about Divine Characters. But now, he knew that there were simply too many Divine Characters in existence. All sorts of abilities existed. Even two identical characters could produce different abilities once formed.
Thus, although a Divine Character capable of extracting racial abilities was quite special, it was still acceptable. He had even heard that some Divine Characters could travel through time. That was even more unbelievable.
"How much did you get? Who did you sell to?"
"Liu Hong..." Zheng Yunhui spoke angrily, "That asshole saw through our ploy..."
"Hmm?" Su Yu blanked out. "What do you mean?"
"He saw through us!" Zheng Yunhui explained everything that had just happened. He sullenly said, "Then, he reported a price of 80,000 from Zhou Pingsheng and only gave me 30,000. He swallowed 50,000 merit points himself!"
"Looks like the dogs are starting to turn against each other."
Chen Yong snorted coldly.
Liu Hong was truly too bold. He actually dared to report a fake price to his higher ups. He even dared to complete the transaction after knowing that it was a scam.
Su Yu frowned and said, "And you agreed?"
"What else could I do?" Zheng Yunhui helplessly said, "If I had disagreed, he would have exposed us. We would have earned nothing."
"Bullshit!" Su Yu frowned, "That fellow is extremely greedy. How would he give up on this chance? But he is really quite bold. Is he not afraid that we would snitch on him?"
Chen Yong said, "He's not afraid. The single character faction wouldn't trust us..."
He sighed, "Even if we look for Zhou Pingsheng right away, he would think that we're only trying to get the data back instead of believing that the data is fake. Liu Hong has nothing to fear. Even if the lie is eventually exposed, Zhou Pingsheng would take all the blame, not him."
Su Yu frowned, "He sure has a big appetite, eating 50,000 merit points all by himself..."
He looked at Zheng Yunhui and asked, "So you only accepted 30,000 merit points?"
"Yeah!" Zheng Yunhui sighed, "6,000 drops of source qi liquid and 10,000 merit points. The rest have been paid as down payment...Since we managed to sell it for more than we had expected, I won't ask for more. Apart from my down payment, I'll be happy with taking only 4,000 drops of source qi liquid."
Beside them, Chen Yong was out of words.
These kids...were crazy.
They had actually scammed so much money with a single ploy.
Tens of thousands of merit points!
Su Yu shot Chen Yong a glance and thought for a bit before saying, "According to our original agreement, we need to split the profit three ways. So you're entitled for 10,000 merit points. Since you've already accepted the down payment worth 2,000 merit points, you only need to take 8,000 merit points..."
Zheng Yunhui said pitifully, "But I'm badly injured, right? I need money to heal up or it will take me months to make a full recovery. Can't I get more after receiving these heavy injuries? Be thankful that I'm being honest. I could have told you that I had only received 20,000 merit points. It's not like you would check with them..."
Su Yu said, "You can take 3,000 drops of source qi liquid. I'm not going to bother asking how much you have actually swallowed behind us. The remaining 3,000 drops of source qi liquid and 10,000 merit points are mine."
"That's too little..."
But Su Yu merely stared at Zheng Yunyui without saying anything, to the point Zheng Yunhui felt a chill crept up his spine.
"Zheng Yunhui, do you really think I'm a fool?"
Zheng Yunhui coughed awkwardly and said, "I'm telling the truth! I only took 30,000 merit points! Liu Hong took the rest of the money!"
Su Yu ignored Zheng Yunhui and tossed a card out as he said, "Transfer 10,000 merit points to me. No, scratch that. Transfer 5,000 merit points to me. My martial uncle can take the rest. Give 3,000 drops of source qi liquid to my martial uncle as well."
"Su Yu..."
Chen Yong was about to say something when Su Yu interrupted, "Martial Uncle, use the money to plug the hole. I'm giving Teacher's share to you. I only need 5,000 merit points for myself."
Chen Yong was speechless. He was feeling quite awkward. It was truly embarrassing to have a student giving them money.
"Martial Uncle, you can't lose your position in the books depository. I intend to enter the Top 100 Ranking before the year ends."
Su Yu solemnly declared, "I will avenge Senior Sister. I will get payback from Huang Qifeng. After I clean up the Top 100 Ranking, Senior Sister only needs to win a single challenge to get back into the ranking. And if you can also plug the hole in time, then you should be able to keep your position."
Chen Yong nodded. He looked at Su Yu and sighed, not saying anything else. He didn't know what to say. Today, Su Yu had surpassed all his expectations.
Su Yu returned his attention to Zheng Yunhui and asked, "Why are you still here?"
"I..." Zheng Yunhui gloomily said, "Are we going to forget about Liu Hong? Su Yu, he was our initial target. But now, he is the one who has profited the most!"
"You profited a lot as well." Su Yu rolled his eyes, "Don't think that I'm completely clueless. I'm merely letting you off because of your injuries."
Zheng Yunhui had an awkward expression. Damn it! Was he so bad at lying? Why was everyone capable of seeing through his lies?
"As for Liu Hong..." Su Yu softly said, "I guess it's not a bad idea to have him help conceal this matter. We will get more time and grow as much as possible. It is only a matter of time before the single character faction discovers the lie."
"So we're letting him off so easily?"
"Yes." Su Yu smiled, "Isn't it good that we have someone else helping us out?"
"But..." Zheng Yunhui was unhappy, "I still feel terrible. That bastard was the one who had lost my Skybreak Technique."
"It's mine now."
Su Yu had nearly forgotten about that willpower text. He had given Zheng Yunhui the text as part of the act after losing the fight. He did not hold back and directly took the text off Zheng Yunhui's body. Zheng Yunhui was speechless. Why was Su Yu acting like this?
"You can leave now. 3,000 drops of source qi liquid, the stuff you used as down payment, and the merit points you had swallowed behind our backs can probably add up to around 20,000 merit points. You made a killing, Yunhui!"
"That's not true!"
Zheng Yunhui denied vehemently.
Su Yu sneered, "Would you be so calm if your share is actually smaller than mine? I can see through people like you with a single look."
"..."
Right after saying those words, Su Yu coughed and reinstated the silly smile on his face. His martial uncle was still there. He couldn't appear too sly.
Looking at Su Yu's fake smile, Zheng Yunhui felt like he was looking at a copy of Liu Hong's face. Disgusted, he scolded, "Don't smile at me! Yes, I took a little bit extra, but I deserve it! I took a big risk coming here with my family's blood essence! But I only took 3,000 extra merit points..."
Yes. He was still trying to lie. Su Yu couldn't even be bothered to give a reply and waved him away. Naturally, Su Yu did not forget to make sure that Zheng Yunhui had paid up before leaving.
...
Zheng Yunhui left while leaving a string of profanities. Su Yu had received 5,000 merit points.
Chen Yong had received 5,000 merit points and 3,000 drops of source qi liquid. All in all, everything he had received was worth 14,000 merit points in value. He was feeling very awkward.
Su Yu did not seem to mind. He smiled and said, "Don't be like this, Martial Uncle."
"Su Yu, why don't you take the source qi liquid? Just 5,000 merit points are enough for me. That is not a small sum of money."
Chen Yong seriously said, "Your teacher and I had not given you much. We have only given you many troubles. How can we have a student giving us money?"
"Martial Uncle, I call this risk sharing." Su Yu smiled, "With my puny strength, I won't be able to withstand the single character faction's wrath alone. Once you take the money, you have to face them alongside me."
"Sigh." Chen Yong sighed again. He felt like a bleak hero that had grown old.
"Zheng Yunhui had probably kept a lot of the money for himself. Are you really letting him off? If you had asked for more earlier, he would agree."
"Nope." Su Yu smiled, "Zheng Yunhui is taking a high risk doing this as well. There is no guarantee that he can leave with his family's blood essence."
"Hmm?" Chen Yong blanked out.
Su Yu explained, "This is supposed to be a secret transaction, but in truth, many parties are already aware of this. Is the academy still totally unaware of this? The academy generally loves catching the big fish and sparing the small fish. Our transaction is too big. I suspect the academy is already paying attention to us.
"That was why I had you escort him here. I don't want him to get captured right after leaving the building. Of course, the possibility of that happening is quite small. The transaction is over. He is leaving with his own stuff. The academy has no reason to create trouble for him."
Su Yu wasn't too bothered about that. What happened to Zheng Yunhui had nothing to do with him.
Instead, he gnashed his teeth and said, "Liu Hong is the real bastard here. He had not put any effort into this whole plan and had instead taken the biggest cut. Both Zheng Yunhui and I had to fight desperately to make the act convincing while he only needed to sit there, watch a show, and rake in the profit. In his dreams!"
Chen Yong sighed, "You can't do anything to him. The only thing you can do is get your teacher to challenge him, but even if your teacher can defeat him, you won't be able to get much from him. Even reporting him is pointless. The single character faction won't trust us."
Su Yu nodded, "I never thought of reporting him. It's pointless. That would only expose us. In fact, I intend to thank him. Thank him for not exposing us."
"Huh?"
Chen Yong was getting confused. What was his martial nephew trying to say?
Su Yu smiled, "Hadn't I earned 5,000 merit points from this? I am going to pay Lin Yao his 300 merit points back. I also need to look for Liu he and fawn over him with 1,000 merit points. Next, I'll give Assistant Liu 1,000 merit points as a gift."
Su Yu said with earnest gratitude, "Without his help, I wouldn't have gotten anything! I need to thank him properly. I only need to leave a little bit of money for myself. He can have the rest! I will give him the money with great fanfare...of course, all that would only happen if he's not tactful enough."
Su Yu clenched his teeth and said, "If he didn't spit out some of the money he had swallowed, I would kneel in front of his office and call him my master. Martial Uncle, remember to explain this to Teacher. I might have to betray our faction for a bit. Assistant Liu is too kind to me. Without him, I would have never reached this far. I must thank him for all his help!"
"..."
Chen Yong was dumbfounded.