Chapter 66

Chapter 66: An Outer World Deal

Many people would come to Luo City for Liu Dezhu.

Hu Xiaoniu, Zhang Tianzhen, Wang Yun, and Bai Waner were already here, but sooner or later, more would certainly come.

Those who come would certainly be loaded.

“Of course, it doesn’t mean that I can erase your crimes right now,” Qing Chen continued, “but I can promise that after I leave Prison 18, I will help you get out as quickly as possible.”

“How can you help me?” asked Liu Dezhu.

“I’ll find the real culprits and let them turn themselves in,” answered Qing Chen.

Liu Dezhu thought for a while and said, “But even if you don’t help me after you leave, I can’t do anything about it, can I?”

“Do you have any better choice?” Qing Chen asked calmly.

Liu Dezhu was silent for a moment and finally admitted to his fate, “Deal. What do you want me to do?”

“I believe that there will be people who are attracted to your superficial identity. You need to understand their needs and convince them that they can buy what they need from you,” said Qing Chen, “In short, I need you to keep in contact with them.”

“Boss, you have to offer me some rewards from this…” Liu Dezhu remarked, his voice trembling.

“Every time, I’ll give you a commission or an incentive, such as better prison meals, some news to read in your confinement room, or virtual entertainment devices brought to you,” Qing Chen promised.

Liu Dezhu was taken aback; he had not expected this third time traveler to Prison 18 to have already been granted such privileges.

“ But Boss… If I replace your identity…”He hesitated and said, “, it will be particularly dangerous in the Outer World for me.

Qing Chen looked at him calmly.

“You may have seen the news too, I got injured the day after I returned,” Liu Dezhu pulled up his sleeve and trouser, “Look, it barely even started healing.”

“Hum?” Qing Chen suddenly remembered. He had always been wondering what happened, “Tell me more.”

“According to what Kun Lun told me, someone was following me and wanted to use me to get close to Li Shutong,” Liu Dezhu explained, “They left Ezhou that morning and attacked me that same night. Fortunately, people from Kun Lun ambushed outside the school ahead of time and caught them all.”

“I see,” nodded Qing Chen.

No wonder Kun Lun didn’t show up at school that day.

No wonder Liu Dezhu appeared in school injured the next day. It turned out that it was all because of the people with sinister intentions hidden behind the scenes.

So far, there were still nine kidnappers at large, and that was only the known.

Aside from them, many more were probably closely following the time travelers secretly.

In this case, Qing Chen did feel like Liu Dezhu admitting to being him would be quite dangerous.

He didn’t care that much about Liu Dezhu, but it would be a shame if their connection to the rest of the world was severed too soon.

“So, how do you wish to develop your power?” Qing Chen inquired of Liu Dezhu.

“Genetic injection,” Liu Dezhu chose another career path in this world.

Qing Chen closed his eyes and pondered. He thought for ten whole minutes.

In the silence, Liu Dezhu felt like every second was an eternity.

Suddenly, Qing Chen opened his eyes, “I can give it to you, but you have to prove to me that you deserve it and that you understand what it means to cooperate with me.”

“I got this. Let me tell you, there are already four people trying to get close to me, and I’ve been trying to ignore them until now,” said Liu Dezhu proudly, “They are loaded! I heard that the watch they wore to class was worth well over a hundred thousand

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~15,600 USD

. Have you ever heard of any student that wears that expansive of a watch to school?”

Qing Chen’s face looked weird. It was Wang Yun’s group that he was talking about.

Liu Dezhu continued, “I’ll go find out what they need right after I return and see if we can profit from them. How about let me start with their watch first?”

Qing Chen warned, “I don’t need cash or watches. I just need unmarked gold bars.”

Cash had serial numbers, and the same would go for watches. Those valuables could easily be tracked.

Some would believe that cryptocurrencies were safe, thinking that all these transactions would be anonymous.

However, in order to hide one’s identity through crypto, one had to use a currency pool.

These pools would converge all its customers’ tokens into one wallet, and it would be difficult for anyone to trace the exact transactions.

However, those pools were managed by third parties, and if those people took off, the investors would lose everything.

So, for Qing Chen, the safest was still gold bars.

“Right, you know that I’m in Luo City Foreign Language School, right?” asked Liu Dezhu.

“Yeah,” Qing Chen nodded.

“I’m in Class 4, but there’s an idiot from Class 3 who keeps looking for opportunities to get close to me. He tried to add me as a friend on WeChat through the class group chat, but since I heard that he’s penniless, I rejected him twice before accepting,” said Liu Dezhu, “But in just two days, he added me into a chat that talked about selling magic socks and introducing rich ladies…”

Qing Chen’s expression became even weirder.

Who else would it be except for his friend Nan Gengchen?

If it wasn’t because he was under a mask, Liu Dezhu might have even guessed his identity just by looking at his face!

“Boss, how should I contact you in the Outer World?” asked Liu Dezhu carefully.

Qing Chen smiled, “Don’t worry, I will contact you.”

After that, he turned and left the confinement room.

It wasn’t until the alloy door closed behind him that Qing Chen sighed in relief.

Behind the mask, the fire patterns on his mask were quickly fading.

Voice changing was the second function of the breathing technique.

Before entering, Qing Chen already thought about how Liu Dezhu would eventually be suspicious if he kept using the e-reader to communicate, but it would also be unsuitable if he used the e-reader once and spoke later.

So, his intention was to let Liu Dezhu find out about the problem and he would solve it so the process would be more convincing.

Honestly, he was still worried at first that Liu Dezhu wouldn’t point this out. If so, he would have to use the e-reader from now on…

That would be too tiring…

…

Alone, in the confinement room, Liu Dezhu was looking at the closed alloy gate in a daze.

All he could think about was that weird cat mask.

The red lines and white on the mask are interwoven perfectly as if there was an inexplicable aura staring at him.

Powerful and mysterious.

Inexplicably, Liu Dezhu thought that even if he couldn’t get with someone like Li Shutong, following Liu Dezhu’s student would not be a bad idea.

He suddenly realized that he wasn’t the protagonist in this world.

Maybe the person behind that cat mask was.

Li Shutong, Lin Xiaoxiao, and Ye Wan were waiting outside.

“So, this is a classmate of yours? “How was it?” Li Shutong asked, smiling, “I was worried thinking that everyone from the Outer World would be like you, but after seeing him, I’m not that scared anymore.”

Qing Chen thought for a bit and said, “I need a genetic injection.”

Translated by: Summit

Edited by: Tempest