Chapter 2440 — Not Smart Enough
The Blossom Guardian · Page 2 of 2
"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