Chapter 2436 — Youpan Hu Frowns
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Memory cards were worth next to nothing; for the robbers to take them back would be pure chicken ribs, and besides, with those things inside the cameras and phones, the loot would be a pain to fence.
Youpan Hu, seated not far off, knit his brows. What sort of people had Grandfather sent him, anyway? A robbery was a robbery, so why put on such an act? Just take the cash and be done with it; what did they want with all this junk? What a waste of time!
Kang Jinglong caught Youpan Hu's frown and guessed at his thoughts, so he offered some reassurance. "Brother You, your grandfather has thought this through very carefully. If these men come up and grab only cash, leaving the other valuables behind, would they still be robbers? This whole busload of students, even if they took only money, how much could they get? Otherwise, with Wei Zhao's sharpness, he'd surely notice something was off. When Heaven-Rank experts show up to commit a robbery, isn't that using a sledgehammer to crack a nut?"
"Hmm... I suppose you have a point..." Youpan Hu suddenly remembered that his real aim was Han Jingyi's tablet. If they didn't rob the others of their phones, cameras, and laptops first, how were they supposed to rob Han Jingyi of her tablet?
It seemed he had been a bit too impatient. Grandfather really was the cunning old fox! If they robbed only Han Jingyi, Wei Zhao would certainly grow suspicious, but if they robbed everyone, then Wei Zhao would never suspect a thing. The only thing that galled Kang Jinglong was: was this so-called third robber brain-dead or what?
He actually had the students keep their memory cards and just wipe the data off their phones. What if, when the time came, Han Jingyi wiped the data off her tablet too? Wouldn't he have gone to all that trouble just to carry a piece of junk home?
On the face of it, this operation looked like the Hidden You family currying favor with the Kang family, helping Kang Jingming create an opportunity to play the hero and save the beauty. But what the Hidden You family had sent out were early-stage Heaven-Rank experts! The Hidden You family did keep several Heaven-Rank retainers, and Old Master You was himself a Heaven-Rank expert, but these Heaven-Rank retainers were not the Hidden You family's subordinates; they merely held the fort there for the sake of mutual benefit.
The Hidden You family supplied them with rare cultivation treasures or pills, and in return these people lent a hand when the You family ran into trouble. If not for the exorbitant price Wei Zhao demanded for his information, the man gobbling up all sorts of fine things like a bottomless pit, Old Master You would never have thought of seizing Han Jingyi's tablet under the guise of currying favor with Kang Jinglong.
It was fair to say Old Master You was no fool. An opportunity to kill two birds with one stone, pleasing the Kang family while secretly lining his own pockets, was not something he would let slip. If it were merely to curry favor with the Kang family by sending out a Heaven-Rank expert, Old Master You would certainly never do it; that would be sheer idle foolishness.
Of course, Youpan Hu could not tell Kang Jinglong about this incidental motive, and so Kang Jinglong was deeply grateful to him.
"What are you two students muttering about back there?" The second robber shot Kang Jinglong and Youpan Hu a glare and barked, "Shut your mouths and hand over the good stuff like good little lambs!"
"Oh..." Youpan Hu nodded. He's putting on quite the show, he thought. This way, no one would ever suspect these robbers had any connection to him!
Taking in the scene before her, Han Jingyi sighed in resignation and pulled out her tablet, preparing to wipe all the data from it. After all, it contained a great many of her alchemy notes and insights, and she did not want them circulating.