Chapter 39

Translator: EndlessFantasy Translation

Editor: EndlessFantasy Translation

On Earth, Lin Fan was spacing out…

He was very furious. How could he not after Qi Zixiao crippled his internal strength?

However, when he discovered his power and what not and became far more outstanding than when he had internal strength, he was no longer angry.

Clearly, Qi Zixiao the ‘King Trainer1’ had used his account to achieve something a newbie like himself completely did not understand.

That said, whatever that was worked in his favor considerably, and he definitely did not have to be angry. 

However, after he spoke for a bit with the owner of the mobile phone shop, he was left bemused after the owner checked his phone.

Staring at the owner, he asked, “You mean both my phones were soaked?”

“Don’t you know that your phones were soaked?” The owner said with a thick accent. “Are you fooling around with me?”

Lin Fan: “…”

Oh, good!

No wonder both his phones were broken.

That wastrel went for a soak?!

What the heck was she doing?!

Unbeknownst to Qi Zixiao, Lin Fan’s impression of her was ‘leveling up’ in every aspect.

That is, from tigress to wastrel.

At the same time, the shop owner became thoughtful after he saw Lin Fan’s blank look. “Bruh. Did you steal this phone?”

“I bought one from you.” Lin Fan glared at him. “Do I look like that type of person?”

“Yes!” The owner nodded.

Lin Fan: “…”

“Don’t you have CCTV here? Play the tape. I just bought it days ago!”

“It’s just for looks to scare people.”

What the hell…

Falling apart, Lin Fan rubbed his forehead. “Quit with the nonsense. Just tell me if they could be fixed.”

After all, he needed to contact others whatever happened, did he not?

He had to confirm with the head contractor whether there were bricks. How would he keep in touch without phones? Public phones? He would have to remember the head’s number too.

“The mainframe is not burnt, but various components are utterly drenched. I really can’t say.”

The mobile phone shop owner rubbed his chin. “Having been in this line of work for a dozen years and fixing a ton of soaked phones, I really hadn’t seen a phone as seriously drenched as yours.

“It wouldn’t have been so serious even if you dumped it in the washing machine for half an hour…”

“???”

Lin Fan was even more dumbfounded at that.

So serious?

So what on earth did that wastrel do?

Unaware of Lin Fan’s thoughts, the owner said after some pondering, “It’s almost like… how do I put it… it was placed beneath a depth of over dozens of meters of water for half a day?”

“So… kid, where did you actually get these phones?”

“I bought them myself!”

Lin Fan had two head’s worth of headaches.

What was this man playing at?

“Alright, I won’t ask you where you’ve got them. Just tell me if you want them fixed—three hundred per phone if I succeed, a hundred if I fail.”

“I have to pay even if you fail?”

“Why not? Don’t I have to charge for my work?”

“Fifty if you fail!” Lin Fan bargained, finding that too expensive.

The shop owner grinned at that.

“Deal.”

“…”

“Alright, go sit somewhere. We’ll see if they could be fixed in an hour or two.”

The owner went to work.

Lin Fan could only wait.

He only had a few hundred bucks after moving bricks, and really could not afford it.

As he waited in boredom, he began to grit his teeth again.

“So what on earth did that wastrel do? Forget not moving bricks. She even threw the phones down a depth of several dozen meters?”

“Does that have something to do with what changed in me?’

Lin Fan wondered if he should cry or laugh at that thought.

Perhaps… he should laugh?

After all, didn’t everyone keep saying that smiling handsome guys never have bad luck?

As he waited, he glanced at the tv at a corner, which was broadcasting the local news.

A beautiful news presenter sat at the ‘center’ of the TV as he read various headlines.

Suddenly, one of the headlines caught Lin fan’s attention.

“This just in: there has been a development in the incident of a man who jumped into Swan Lake.”

“The corpse had yet to be found, but the police are still maintaining a lockdown at the scene, and had even put out a reward in cash for professionals to assist with recovery efforts, indicating that there had been issues.”

“Today, however, there have been developments elsewhere…”

“According to this channel’s understanding, in less than half a day after the man had jumped into the lake, a taxi driver encountered an utterly drenched man near Swan Lake.”

“The taxi driver described him as being around twenty-five, sporting short hair, and was on the handsome side. His face was pale-white and bloodless as he asked for a ride to Cyan Hill City.”

“And yet, just several kilometers away from Cyan Hill City, the man suddenly vanished from the car.”

“Mister Chen, the taxi driver was seriously shocked when he connected his encounter to the Swan Lake suicide, and was bedridden with a serious fever…”

“And now, please watch this following footage.”

The female news presenter’s voice paused at that as the news cut into another image, now explained by text.

[This is surveillance footage of the man jumping into the lake. You could see that he did not struggle or surface after jumping in.]

On the screen, a man was displayed climbing up a fence and sitting there.

Then, as if something unknown had caught his attention, he turned for a glance behind… before he determinedly jumped down and vanished.

Another footage followed, this one taken in the taxi.

An utterly drenched man could be seen climbing into the car and taking the rear left seat, but his face could not be seen because the front seat was in the way…

And after a while…

Bang!

The door was open, the man was gone. The taxi driver promptly stopped the car and showed up in the lens as he ran behind the car to check, only to find nothing…

Lin Fan was utterly dumbstruck after watching that news!!!

He found the figure at the beginning rather familiar, as if he had seen the other person somewhere.

But when the figure ‘turned around’ and Lin Fan saw a part of his face…

‘Isn’t that me?!

‘So that wastrel went off to commit suicide in the lake?!’

And then…

He understood now!

Lin Fan got it completely.

But the problem was…

How to explain himself?

When Lin Fan turned to find the mobile shop owner looking weirdly at him, he especially felt the headaches. 

“Why are you looking at me, boss?”

“Bruh…”

The shop owner shuddered. “Everything happens for a reason, but I have neither grudge nor grievance against you… please, don’t do anything rash.”

The shop owner recognized him!

No mugshot? A side profile was enough, since the person in question was right in front of him…

Moreover, were the phones not ‘evidence’?

Still, Lin Fan almost rolled his eyes at him in response, at once indignant and amused…

“Neither grudge nor grievance? That might not be true if you can’t fix those phones.”

He spoke coolly with a vague smile.

Utterly unsettled, the shop owner almost wet himself.