Chapter 98 – I Promised I Would Do Everything I Could to Protect Her

Killing a few pieces of human trash was nothing to Su Lifeng. What did give him pause was how quickly the situation was deteriorating.

When he reached the neighborhood, Su Lifeng was surprised to find that the patrol officers at the intersection had been replaced by a few ordinary policemen. They were no longer watching the residential compound. Instead, they sat in their car, waiting for any calls to come in from the area and occasionally stopping passersby to question them and check their IDs.

“They gave up?” Su Lifeng stood there silently observing for a while. Then, thinking of the Xenospecies corpse he was carrying, he decided to climb over the wall back into the compound.

When he got home and opened the door, a faint smile appeared on Su Lifeng’s face.

Jiang Yushi had actually made it back before him. It looked like Jiangnan Biomedical Group’s lawyers were pretty effective after all.

“Yushi, they didn’t give you a hard time, did they…” But the moment Su Lifeng opened his mouth, he could no longer smile.

Jiang Yushi gave him a wry smile. From behind her, a middle-aged man in an overcoat stepped out.

As he carefully lifted his foot to avoid the supplies piled along the wall, he said, “Young man, you’ve turned your home into a warehouse.”

Then he raised his head, revealing a face that bore some resemblance to Jiang Yushi’s. He extended a hand toward Su Lifeng. “Forgive the sudden visit. I’m Jiang Fusheng, Jiang Yushi’s father.”

…Su Lifeng had heard a little about Jiang Fusheng before. But seeing him in person was still unexpected.

Unlike the rather domineering impression Su Lifeng had gotten from hearsay, Jiang Fusheng himself looked very refined. Like Jiang Yushi, he had a gentle, understated air about him, the sort that made people feel as if they were basking in a spring breeze.

Liang Junyu had come with him as well. He was inside talking to Cheng Xiaomei and Su Lian, though neither woman was paying him much attention. When he saw Su Lifeng come home, he immediately came forward and reached out to greet him. “Team Leader Su, I didn’t see you at the lab. I never expected you’d gone out shopping. Sigh, you really made President Jiang wait a long time…”

However, Su Lifeng ignored him too.

The smile on Liang Junyu’s face froze. A flash of hostility passed through his eyes, and he withdrew his hand with an awkward laugh. “But it’s good that you’re back. President Jiang has been wanting to speak with Team Leader Su…”

“All right. If we’re going to talk, we should sit down first.” Jiang Fusheng cut him off, glancing at Su Lifeng with some surprise. In Liang Junyu’s report, Su Lifeng had been described as a man who was greedy and obsessed with profit. Although Jiang Fusheng would not take Liang Junyu’s words entirely at face value, he truly had not expected Su Lifeng to act so… calm when they met.

Su Lifeng behaved as if Jiang Fusheng were merely a neighbor dropping by. After shaking his hand, he invited him in to sit first, then walked toward his own room as if nothing were wrong. He even ignored Liang Junyu right in front of him without the slightest courtesy…

“President Jiang, I told you, didn’t I? This person has no manners at all…” Liang Junyu muttered resentfully beside Jiang Fusheng’s ear.

“He dislikes you, that’s all. Don’t you dislike him too? The difference is that you didn’t show it.” Jiang Fusheng turned to look at Liang Junyu and smiled. “You make life too exhausting for yourself.” Still, this young man had actually left him hanging too. The feeling was rather… novel…

Even more novel was the fact that he was sitting in the middle of a huge pile of “Sufei”…

Su Lifeng had not intentionally left Jiang Fusheng waiting. It was not as though he could discuss matters with someone while carrying a corpse.

After taking the main body of the E-class Xenospecies “Wang Zhao” out and putting it into the freezer, he washed his face, changed into a clean T-shirt, and only then walked out of the room.

Before leaving his room, he rubbed his temples, trying to make himself look a little more alert. He had not escaped tonight unscathed. Although, while digging out Wang Zhao’s main body, he had already absorbed most of Wang Zhao as well as all the energy it possessed as an E-class Xenospecies, that energy was being digested with unusual slowness and had not done much to repair his injuries.

Su Lifeng felt as if the energy from these E-class Xenospecies had scattered through every part of his body like tiny sparks, but for the time being, none of them had ignited. This was the first time Su Lifeng had encountered such a situation, and for the moment, he had no solution.

As for Wang Zhao’s main body, in reality, it could only be considered a small remaining husk…

“Sorry. My clothes were too dirty earlier,” Su Lifeng said after sitting down across from Jiang Fusheng.

“If you’re going to make an excuse, at least come up with a better one…” After being lectured by Jiang Fusheng in return, Liang Junyu’s mood had sunk straight into irritation. By now, he could not be bothered to hide it and spoke the moment he opened his mouth.

Su Lifeng did not even spare him a glance. Jiang Fusheng, meanwhile, smiled and said, “So that’s what it was. Team Leader Su isn’t like the researchers I’ve met before. Most of them were rather unkempt, but Team Leader Su cuts quite a good figure.”

“I’m not really a researcher yet,” Su Lifeng said.

“Haha, Team Leader Su, you’re being modest. If you can run a laboratory, how can that not make you a researcher?” Jiang Fusheng smiled, then suddenly reached out and tapped the tabletop. “Still, there are two things that surprised me about coming here today. First, my daughter is living here, not at the laboratory. Yushi is not a child who lies. This is the first time she has ever lied to her family. If Junyu hadn’t told me, I might still be in the dark. Second, this is already the second time my daughter has had dealings with the police. Last time, it was because Zhu Hao committed murder and fled. This time, incredibly, it was because she was street racing with the police.”

At this point, he lifted his head, and the look he gave Su Lifeng sharpened in an instant. “Team Leader Su, or if you’ll allow me to overstep a little, Lifeng. I know my daughter has known you for a long time. You two are good friends, and I am grateful that you saved her at sea. But ever since she came back, trouble has followed one thing after another. Can you tell me why?”

“Dad, this has nothing to do with Lifeng…” Jiang Yushi could not help cutting in.

“Don’t speak,” Jiang Fusheng said, his gaze still fixed on Su Lifeng.

Su Lifeng was silent for a moment. Then he looked up and said, “Does President Jiang truly not know why? If you wanted to ask me why, you would have come as soon as Yushi moved into my home. Ordinary people don’t know much about what’s happening outside, but you should be different, shouldn’t you?”

Jiang Fusheng’s pupils contracted slightly at once… Indeed, with his connections and abilities, he had heard vague rumors about what was happening now. But at most, they only reached the level of “some disaster is spreading.” No matter how he used his contacts to pry for details, he could not obtain accurate information. Still, from the market’s steep plunge and the worsening economic situation, it was clear that this disaster would not be small…

As for Jiang Yushi’s situation, she was his daughter. How could he not know? Su Lifeng was right. Jiang Fusheng had learned the news the moment Jiang Yushi moved into his house. But at the same time, he also knew that with Jiang Yushi’s personality, once she decided to do something, stopping her was impossible.

The bigger reason was that Jiang Yushi had just escaped death. Although Jiang Fusheng was angry and helpless, he also understood his daughter’s feelings very well… When she had been helpless at sea, this young man had saved her. That was, in truth, a precious thing. If not for that, he would probably have used his own influence long ago to teach Su Lifeng a harsh lesson.

He had actually lured his daughter away!

Sigh… He couldn’t get angry. He couldn’t get angry. At his age, he had to stay calm…

Jiang Fusheng’s expression shifted uncertainly. When he looked at Su Lifeng again, his eyes were filled with complicated emotion. “How much do you know?”

“A lot.” Su Lifeng’s eyes were calm, his tone firm. “So if you came today to take Yushi away, then I have to apologize. I promised I would do everything I could to protect her. I can’t break my word.”

“She was street racing with the police today… and this is how you protect her?!” The breath Jiang Fusheng had only just forced down nearly surged back up again. He had never seen anyone so shameless!

However, he thought of what Jiang Yushi had said to him before Su Lifeng came back.

“If something really happens, if my life is threatened, he will save me without the slightest hesitation.”

Jiang Fusheng had assumed Jiang Yushi was talking about what had happened at sea, unaware that what had been in her mind then was also the moment she had nearly been killed by Li Yi.

Perhaps it was from that moment on that Jiang Yushi’s feelings toward Su Lifeng had truly begun to change…