Chapter 2440 — Not Smart Enough

The classmates on the bus who knew nothing of the truth, upon hearing Right Panhu's words, immediately felt they made perfect sense. Indeed—Wei Zhao was so capable, so why hadn't he helped them recover their losses? And so, these students who had been robbed all cast contemptuous looks toward Wei Zhao's side...

"How much do you think I could stuff inside my clothes? I didn't even manage to get back Jingjing's phone, or Bai Weituo and the others' wallets and phones—so how could I possibly have gotten anyone else's back?" Wei Zhao said flatly.

Wei Zhao's words instantly enlightened the classmates who had been despising him! That was right—Wei Zhao hadn't even bothered with Han Jingyi's phone, nor with Bai Weituo, his best friend from the same dorm. How could anyone else possibly come before them? And Wei Zhao was quite right: how much could his clothes hold? If he had taken too much, wouldn't the robbers have noticed?

"This..." Seeing the expressions of sudden understanding on his classmates' faces, Right Panhu knew his attack on Wei Zhao had failed, and he felt rather embarrassed.

"All right, hurry up and help Kang Jinglong back. That intellect of yours is a bit lacking—I don't blame you," Wei Zhao said. "Birds of a feather really do flock together. You and Kang Jinglong are both missing a few screws—otherwise you wouldn't have asked such a foolish question, and he wouldn't have done such a foolish thing!"

"I..." Right Panhu cursed a silent "damn" in his heart, helped Kang Jinglong back to his seat, and was so furious he was practically steaming—yet he didn't dare do anything to Wei Zhao!

"Hiss..." Kang Jinglong had barely sat down when he drew in a sharp breath. The knife wound on his rear end, though it hadn't damaged bone or tendon, hurt terribly, so that the moment he sat down he stood right back up again. "Brother Right. Help me apply the medicine... hurry..."

"All right!" Right Panhu hastily produced a bottle of Divine Physician Kang's Golden Wound Medicine, deluxe edition, and sprinkled a generous amount onto Kang Jinglong's rear! Though the Kang family's pharmaceutical company had shut down, the Kang family still had plenty of stock on hand.

It had to be said, the deluxe Golden Wound Medicine worked remarkably well. Kang Jinglong's rear soon stopped bleeding, and only then did he sit back down with somewhat better color in his face, beginning to dab the deluxe Golden Wound Medicine on his own face. As for his eggs, kicked so swollen they had nearly burst—he could only take some anti-swelling medication for that. But the Kang family had no special remedy of that kind; he had only brought along some common supplies for wilderness survival, so the swelling would take much longer to subside...

"Phew..." Kang Jinglong finally let out a breath of relief and said rather unhappily, "Brother Right, what on earth is going on here? Why are these people really hitting us? And hitting so viciously?"

Of course, Kang Jinglong didn't dare fall out with Right Panhu outright at this point—after all, Kang Jingming hadn't yet become an elder of the Xuandan Sect. Besides, Kang Jinglong would have many more favors to ask of Right Panhu in the future, so he was merely venting the fury in his heart!

Still, he believed this hadn't been Right Panhu's intent. Right Panhu wasn't stupid either—having gone to such lengths to devise a clever "hero saves the beauty" scheme, would he then deliberately botch it? That would be plain madness, idleness for its own sake.

"I don't know either!" Right Panhu said with a bitter expression. "I explained my intentions to Grandfather beforehand, and he said he'd send a Heaven-rank expert to help. Who knew things would turn out like this? I'm sorry, Brother Kang, about this mess. I'll definitely give you an explanation!"

"Forget it, don't make things hard for your grandfather. Heaven-rank experts are all bound to have some pride, I suppose!" Kang Jinglong waved his hand. He didn't want to fall out with the Right family over this either—venting at Right Panhu was fine, but he wouldn't dare confront Elder Right himself.

"Let me ask Grandfather what happened first..." Right Panhu nodded and reached for his phone. Finding nothing, he realized he had already handed his phone over to those robbers earlier. He gave a bitter laugh. "My phone's gone. I'll find a public phone to ask once we reach the ski resort..."

"It's fine, no rush..." Kang Jinglong said, grimacing through his teeth.

Earlier, Wei Zhao hadn't paid any attention to Right Panhu and Kang Jinglong. Though he was an Earth-rank expert with keen senses, he still had to actively use his perceptive power to sense his surroundings. In ordinary times, when nothing was amiss, it was impossible for him to keep his spirit concentrated, using true qi—or directly entering his jade pendant space to use his divine sense—to perceive what everyone around him was doing and saying!

Even a Heaven-rank expert couldn't constantly keep watch over such things—otherwise, would he have time for anything else?

However, Wei Zhao had been puzzled earlier as to why Kang Jinglong had suddenly jumped out. And since Right Panhu and Kang Jinglong had both just come off worse, Wei Zhao feared they might resort to some trick to retaliate, so he had kept a bit of attention on them—never expecting to overhear their conversation!

From the sound of it, those robbers earlier had been hired by Right Panhu? Or was one of them a Heaven-rank expert? But why hadn't Wei Zhao sensed anything of a Heaven-rank expert at all? When the kidnappers had arrived earlier, Wei Zhao had deliberately used his golden finger to probe them—all four robbers were ordinary people. Their leader was at most a bit stronger than an ordinary man, but hadn't even set foot in the Yellow rank; he was merely half a step into it. Where was this Heaven-rank expert supposed to be?

Could there have been an Outer Family Heaven-rank expert among them? Wei Zhao shook his head—that didn't seem very likely either, did it?

As for the "hero saves the beauty" scheme Kang Jinglong had arranged—that was even stranger. No wonder the kid had suddenly jumped out; he'd meant to put on a show. It was just that circumstances had changed, and the performance had flopped!

Wei Zhao was only puzzled: these people had been brought in by Right Panhu—were they there to help Kang Jinglong, or to sabotage him? Why did it feel like they were there to wreck the place?

Shaking his head, Wei Zhao shifted his attention away from them, because Kang Jinglong, grimacing in pain, had fallen silent and simply closed his eyes to rest...

The look Wang Xinyan gave Kang Jinglong carried a trace of pity. Though she didn't like Kang Jinglong, he had after all been injured standing up for her. It was rather like the saying, "I did not kill Boren, yet Boren died because of me"—which gave Wang Xinyan a headache. How was she ever to repay this debt of gratitude?

"Student Kang Jinglong, are you all right? Shall we take you to the hospital first?" Team Leader Bai, seeing Kang Jinglong's condition, asked with some concern. Though Team Leader Bai knew Kang Jinglong had applied medicine, he still asked out of care.

"Teacher Bai, I'm fine, it'll be better in a moment..." Kang Jinglong hastily shook his head and said. RQ