299: Chapter 295 Mobile Phone 299: Chapter 295 Mobile Phone Within the Capital City, inside a Japanese embassy office.
Murakami Taro’s face was wracked with anxiety as he paced back and forth in front of his desk.
It was he who had arranged for a delegation, led by Hirano Keiji, to come from Japan to the Capital City.
He had also arranged their accommodations.
But now, since that night when he had informed them about Chen Hai staying at the courtyard house in Liuhua Alley,
Hirano Keiji and his group had been missing for several days.
“Ring ring…
Ring ring…” The telephone on the desk rang.
“Hello, who is this?”
“Aren’t you the ones who claim to be the local powers of the Capital City, saying there’s no one you can’t find?”
“These are three citizens from Japan, ‘alive we want to see the person, dead we want to see the body’, and now you are telling me that you can’t find any trace of them, as if they had evaporated into thin air?”
…
Furious after a few words, Murakami Taro directly hung up the phone.
He had put much effort in the past two days to trace Hirano Keiji and his colleagues, doing a lot of work.
Regrettably, he had only found out that the car driven by Hirano Keiji and the others had been abandoned by the side of a road not far from Liuhua Alley.
Beyond that, he had no other leads.
“Hirano Keiji and his colleagues must have gone missing while trying to confront Chen Hai!”
“But before Chen Hai gained support from the Ye Family, he was powerless and merely a poor student.”
“Why would a truly accomplished sage be continually guarding him?”
“Hirano Keiji is an Upper Ninja from the Iga School.
With his abilities, someone wiped him out without a trace.
How powerful must the person behind Chen Hai be?”
…
The more Murakami Taro thought, the more baffled he became.
After all, many parts of the inferences he made didn’t logically make sense.
However, he was certain that continuing to stay in the Capital City would pose a significant risk.
For someone who could easily eliminate Hirano Keiji and his companions, getting rid of him unnoticed would not be difficult at all!
If that unknown sage, through Hirano Keiji and the others, traced back to him…
Thinking of this, Murakami Taro broke out in a cold sweat.
Although he had planned earlier to follow Senior Sister Ono in death once she had her revenge, to accompany her on the Netherworld path,
Now, Chen Hai had not stirred troubles, and that mysterious sage backing him hadn’t even shown his face…
Full of unfulfilled ambitions, how could Murakami Taro be content to die?
“Let’s go, hurry!”
“Capital City is too dangerous, I need to return to Japan!” His eyebrows knitted tightly together, and after a brief silence, Murakami Taro made up his mind.
After slightly tidying up the files on his desk, he strode towards the door.
…
In the Cultivation Room inside the courtyard house of Liuhua Alley,
After contemplating for a long while, Chen Hai finally slowly stood up.
Faced with the dual paths of cultivation, ‘saint’ and ‘vegetation’, he had only briefly wavered before quickly making up his mind.
As his thoughts became more resolute,
The ‘saint’ path he chose grew slightly clearer, but nothing else changed.
However, the ‘vegetation’ path he abandoned rapidly became vague, until it completely vanished.
What was even more bizarre to Chen Hai was that not only the ‘vegetation’ character had suddenly disappeared from his mind.
Any memory related to this technique, as if under the influence of some mighty power, had been forcibly erased from his mind.
When Chen Hai stretched lazily and truly rose from his meditation cushion, he had not only completely forgotten the “Dao” character but also the Curved Eel that was trapped inside the Black Water Leech Emperor.
He simply remembered that a few days ago, through visualization, he had glimpsed the Black Water Leech Emperor and received “Saint” inheritance.
“After reaching perfection in the Object Controlling Realm, I can directly step onto the path to Ascension to Sage.”
“Unfortunately, I don’t know when my injuries will recover.
Reaching perfection in the Object Controlling Realm seems even more indefinitely far away!”
“Visualizing such a terrifying existence as the Black Water Leech Emperor is too dangerous.
Now that I know the path ahead, it’s better not to visualize recklessly anymore…”
Chen Hai’s memory had inexplicably vanished, and he seemed to have no awareness of it.
He moved his body a little and, dragging his still weak and exhausted body, headed outside the cultivation room.
“Have you been in the cultivation room all day again?
Are you feeling better?”
“You, always immersed in cultivation!
I haven’t come over for just a couple of days, and you’ve managed to exhaust yourself half to death!”
In the living room, Ye Qingqing, who was watching television, hurriedly got up and welcomed him as soon as she saw Chen Hai appear.
Although she was scolding Chen Hai with her words, she was still full of concern, carefully helping him so he wouldn’t fall, and helped him to sit down on the sofa.
“It was an accident, a complete accident.
I never thought I’d end up like this!” Chen Hai chuckled dryly as he explained.
His body was in terrible condition, swaying as he walked, looking like he could fall at any moment.
His physical state was something he couldn’t hide from others.
After settling Bai Xiaohang in the hospital and coming back, Chen Hai was immediately noticed by Ye Qingqing that something was not right with him.
These past few days, to take care of Chen Hai, she even seldom went to Tsinghua University.
As for the godson and goddaughter she had recently taken in, after arranging their school and lodging, they could handle the rest themselves, so Ye Qingqing didn’t need to worry too much.
After settling Chen Hai on the sofa, Ye Qingqing walked a few steps to the TV cabinet, picked up two rectangular boxes, and then sat back down next to Chen Hai.
“Here’s a gift for you, pick one!” She pointed at the boxes and spoke with a smile.
“What is this?” Chen Hai was startled.
Driven by curiosity, he finally picked up one of the boxes and carefully opened it.
Inside the box was a black, long bar-like object, slightly larger than a palm.
It had a screen on top and buttons below, and at the very top, there was something like an antenna that was as thick as a little finger.
“Pager?
Doesn’t look like it.
Phone?
It’s so small, can fit right in the pocket, how is that possible?”
Holding the object, Chen Hai examined it closely for a long time and finally found the instruction manual inside the box.
“This is called a mobile phone, Nokia 2110, just entered Yanhuang Country this year.”
“From a friend, I heard about this and immediately got two units.”
“For the two of us, one each, this device is compact and can be carried with you.”
“To make a call, just press the buttons on it and dial the phone number.”
“Compared to the big bulky old models, this phone is not only lighter but even the signal is much stronger…”
While Chen Hai was reading the manual, Ye Qingqing covered her mouth and chuckled, explaining to him.
Hearing what Ye Qingqing said, Chen Hai became interested.
With these two mobile phones, both starting with the number 139, he chose one and handed the other to Ye Qingqing.
Then he tried making a call to communicate with her.
“Hello, Qingqing, I’m in the gazebo outside, can you hear me?”
“Hello, Qingqing, I’m in the cultivation room, how is the signal there?”
…
Having received such a novel toy, Chen Hai was extremely delighted.
It was more than half an hour later when his novelty began to fade a bit, and he returned to the living room sofa.
“From now on, my mobile will be on 24 hours a day.
If anything happens, you must call me right away, understand?”
Seeing how much Chen Hai loved the gift she gave him, and how spirited he seemed, Ye Qingqing was also delighted.
She smiled at Chen Hai, who had just sat down, and reminded him.