Qin Siyang sprinted quickly to the school gate.
On the way, he sent a mass text.
He notified Principal Zhao Longfei, and also professors at Miracle Building like Li Tianming, Zhang Kuang, and others.
The message content was also designed to get as much support and help as possible, [Everyone at the school, hurry to the school gate to help! My crimson crystal was stolen!]
When Qin Siyang arrived at the school gate, Zhao Longfei was already standing there waiting for him.
Zhao Longfei's eyes were wide, his expression fierce, "Little Qin, who stole your crimson crystal?"
Before his words finished, Li Tianming and the others had already arrived.
Except for Lu Daoxing, who was secludedly working hard to make God-hunting tools to try to repay debts early, and Chang Tianxiang and Hao Liang who were away attending meetings, the other professors all came to help.
Even while at a meeting, Hao Liang was the first to reply to Qin Siyang's message, asking if he needed him to hurry back to lend a hand.
Everyone wore serious faces.
"Little Qin, who tried to steal your crimson crystal?"
"Has it already been stolen, or not yet?"
"Isn't your crimson crystal already contracted? Even if it's stolen, he can't use it, and we can report him to the United Government for a warrant! You don't mean your stolen crimson crystal hasn't been contracted yet, do you?"
Facing everyone's questions, Qin Siyang didn't pay much attention.
Instead he stood at the gate, looking around in all directions, searching for Hu Chan's figure.
Seeing that Qin Siyang didn't speak and kept scanning the surroundings, the others stopped asking questions.
A principal and several professors stood around Qin Siyang, silent and still, expressions stern, forming a striking sight at the gate of South Glory University.
As Qin Siyang's gaze wandered, Zhao Longfei, Li Tianming and the others watched each newcomer warily.
Not just people, even a dog arriving would be stared at.
They would not miss any living thing that might threaten Qin Siyang.
At that moment, a car sped up.
As it neared the school gate, the car door suddenly opened and two heavy objects tumbled out of the vehicle.
The car didn't stop at all; it drove off.
On closer inspection, it turned out to be two people.
They did not come in peace.
Zhao Longfei and the others immediately shielded Qin Siyang behind them, ready to fight.
"Protect Little Qin…"
But the two people seemed gravely injured, both gasping for breath, looking close to death.
"Help… help…", one of them muttered twice, then went quiet.
The two men who tumbled from the car attracted the attention of the surrounding people.
Qin Siyang studied their faces a little.
One young man was sallow and thin, like a sickly person.
The other had a plain face and looked dependable.
Qin Siyang thought carefully, relaxed his brow, and finally recognized one of them as Hu Chan.
'He must have altered his appearance to avoid being recognized and drawing attention.'
Hu Chan's face wasn't real; it was disguised.
He had changed his face to look like the sewer repairman Qin had seen last time.
Qin Siyang felt a little impressed.
Judging from Hu Chan's current state, he had breath in but seemed barely hanging on. Even if he wasn't dead, he had already met the grim reaper.
If Qin Siyang hadn't been here, it would have been bad news.
Even with such a critical situation, he still thought of disguise details.
'Truly a person who does big things.'
No wonder he was the orphan second only to Qin Siyang in the safe zone.
"No need, no need, don't stop them, they're one of ours!"
Qin Siyang stepped around Zhao Longfei who was protecting him, moved forward, and looked at the two men who were already barely conscious.
"I know this man, take him to the guesthouse."
Saying that, he hoisted Hu Chan, preparing to have someone else help carry the other unknown man.
Perhaps because Hu Chan had fainted, his limbs were weak, making his body feel soft when lifted.
Zhao Longfei and the others all stared at Qin Siyang.
"What are you looking at us for? Help out, can't you see they're about to die?"
Wu Yu adjusted his gold-rimmed glasses, "Little Qin, we all know what kind of person you are. Even if you aren't a great villain, going out to save people like a living Bodhisattva isn't something you'd do."
"Huh?"
"So, who are they?"
"Uh…"
Qin Siyang hesitated, thinking Hu Chan didn't want others to know his identity, so he forced himself to say, "The one I'm carrying is the plumber who came to the guesthouse a few days ago to help me unclog the drain. His skills are pretty good, next time your toilet clogs, you can call him…"
When Qin Siyang finished, the others looked even more surprised.
Li Tianming sneered twice, "You brat, are you treating us like monkeys? You couldn't even be bothered to make up a proper lie?"
"I'm not lying to you. If you don't believe me, check the guesthouse surveillance, he really is a plumber."
They looked at Qin Siyang indifferently, making him feel uneasy.
But then he thought, he didn't owe them anything, so he straightened his back.
"I'm just too lazy to make things up, so what! Anyway, you use my stuff and come out to help me with such a small favor and you can't even do that?"
If reasoning with them didn't work, he'd fall back on old logic.
With thousands of paths, Qin Siyang could always find one that fit him.
Zhao Longfei then said, "Let's treat things separately…"
"Especially you, Principal Zhao, why didn't you tell me in advance about using my crimson crystal as collateral for that business plan of yours?"
Using Qin Siyang's crimson crystal as collateral to start a business, Zhao Longfei hadn't told him at all.
This kind of act of cutting first and reporting later, no, it was just cutting without reporting, made Qin Siyang angry when he brought it up.
Zhao Longfei shrank his neck, gave an awkward smile, took two steps back, and said nothing more.
After Qin Siyang spoke like that, the others stopped giving him cold looks.
Wu Yu, who had just obtained the Blood Moon Blind Spider's eye, even volunteered to hoist the thin sickly man, preparing to return to the guesthouse with Qin Siyang.
Zhao Longfei rubbed his scarred head and asked, "Didn't you say your crimson crystal was stolen? Why, after you came out, not only is nothing happening, you instead saved two people?"
"If I hadn't said anything, would you have come out to help me?"
Zhao Longfei spat, "There were only two people in total. You're ridiculously strong; you could've carried both away with one hand each, yet you still called us out…"
Half complaining, Zhao Longfei noticed Qin Siyang's expression as he glanced back with a slightly probing look.
Zhao Longfei stopped talking and followed Qin Siyang's gaze.
Not far from the school gate, two gray sedans were parked.
Among the row of cars parked outside South Glory University, these two gray sedans didn't look striking.
But on closer look, even his powerful high-sequence vision couldn't see inside the cars through the perfectly clear windshields.
Something was odd.
Looking back, Qin Siyang was already carrying people back.
Zhao Longfei and the others exchanged a glance and also left.
Qin Siyang couldn't see who sat inside the gray sedans, but he knew in his heart, they were most likely the people chasing Hu Chan.
Maybe, the Zephyr Sect's red-robe guardian Chris and blue-robe guardian Jin Shengyu were both inside.
Inside the gray sedans.
"Zhao Longfei, Li Tianming, Zhang Kuang, Wu Yu, unexpectedly, Hu Chan could call so many tiger-branded people."
"Hu Chan only called Qin Siyang; those people were called here by Qin Siyang."
Jin Shengyu sighed, "I didn't expect Qin Siyang to arrive so fast. If he'd been a minute slower, I would've had him."
Chris watched Qin Siyang and the others enter the gate, his eyes solemn, and said, "If we don't kill Hu Chan today, it'll be more trouble later. Jin Shengyu, I'll put up a thousand bottles of sequence magic; you make sure Hu Chan is taken care of."
Jin Shengyu sneered, "I'll put up two thousand bottles of sequence magic; you make sure Hu Chan is taken care of, how about that?"
[T/N: New novel is up—🔥I Became a Character in Honkai: Star Rail🔥. Enjoy~]
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