SAYE [Run Freely]

Chapter 9

"What are you doing?" Jiang Cheng looked at him.

"Looking for some weapons," Wang Xu said. "Hou Zi and the others are familiar with this area, so this is just in case they arrive here before Gu Fei, okay?"

Jiang Cheng sighed. He grabbed his schoolbag and searched around until he eventually fished out a knife and threw it at his feet. "Use this."

"The fuck!" Wang Xu was completely shocked when he saw the knife and turned his head to stare at him. "Are you really a fucking xueba?[2] What kind of xueba has nothing better to do than to go out with a knife!"

"I've never used it," Jiang Cheng said. "The edge of the blade isn't sharpened. It's specially used to scare people."

Wang Xu picked up the knife and looked at it with earnest for a moment then went over to crouch in front of him. "Jiang Cheng, I can't afford to offend you."

Jiang Cheng glanced at him without speaking.

"The beef between us has already been settled." Wang Xu continued to say, "In the future, we can just mind our own business. How's that?"

"You can remember these words for yourself," Jiang Cheng said. "Our xueba will be busy studying, he can't blindly waste his time with you."

Once he finished, the two no longer spoke and took to crouching in silence face to face.

After a while, Wang Xu spoke: "I'll give you a word of advice."

"En," Jiang Cheng looked at the cigarette butt between his fingers - the rising smoke twisted frantically in the wind and quickly disappeared without any traces.

"If Hou Zi arrives first, just cower," Wang Xu said. "No matter how jackass we are, we're still students. We can't put our life on the line against those guys who mingle in society."

Jiang Cheng looked at him in shock, this idiot unexpectedly has the intelligence for survival instinct.

"Gu Fei said that," Wang Xu added.

Hearing that, Jiang Cheng almost wanted to put out the cigarette on his face.

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In truth, Gu Fei's arrival was not considered to be slow. It took him roughly ten minutes to appear on his bicycle, but what made it hard for Jiang Cheng to understand was how he brought Gu Miao along with him.

The little girl held onto a rope that was tied to the back of the bicycle as she rode on her skateboard.

A whole family of mental cases!

Just as Gu Fei's foot landed on the ground for support, Gu Miao jumped off the skateboard, stepped hard on the board so that it lifted up and caught it with her hands.

She walked over and stood in front of Jiang Cheng while hugging the skateboard. She smiled at him and then ran back to Gu Fei and leaned against his leg.

"Who threw the punch?" Gu Fei asked.

"Me," Jiang Cheng stood up. "Why?"

"You ran into Hou Zi?" Wang Xu asked immediately.

"At the entrance of the alley." Gu Fei turned to glance at him, "I reckon he's coming in now."

"Fuck," Wang Xu frowned. "Can we get out?"

"Depends on how you want to get out," Gu Fei said and looked at Jiang Cheng again. "There are two solutions."

Jiang Cheng knew that this time he had probably stirred up a bit of a problem. He sighed and placed his hands in his pockets as he leaned against the wall. "Say it."