Master, What Path Are You Cultivating?
Chapter 18

Fortunately Encountering a Treacherous Merchant

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Bang, bang, bang, bang—

Bullets fired at close range instantly shattered Shen Bixin's gun-wielding right hand.

Even with a bulletproof vest, Shen Bixin felt bullets penetrate her body, the immense force throwing her directly off the rooftop.

Shen Bixin felt the fall was very slow. In this not-so-brief moment, she seemed to understand many things.

The company's client is Tie Kuang Seng? No, if the company really wanted to earn his money, they wouldn't have let her participate in this operation.

Tie Kuang Seng must have had someone else purchase the service for him and implanted it in the prosthetic body in advance. Then, all he had to do was implant the prosthetic body into her.

The company didn't care who the client was, as long as someone paid.

Now that she thought about it, they, the ABCDEs, had never been able to control their own destinies. In the end, they were just more advanced tools.

Looking back, if she had to say she had ever done anything that followed her heart, it might have been sincerely wanting to save the client just now, and later killing Tie Kuang Seng.

Being sent to save the person who killed her brother was absurd for life, but it seemed normal for a tool.

Shen Bixin's falling remains crashed into several billboards in succession, eventually landing on a pile of construction sand.

Just like Shen Bitao watching the helicopter fly away, the immobile Shen Bixin watched the armed helicopter on the rooftop fly away quickly.

Trying to save Tie Kuang Seng's life first? She and her teammates didn't even need to check.

After all, for the company, the client came first.

But none of that mattered anymore, because she had already taken revenge.

It was just that she might have lived her life wrong before.

With a hint of unwillingness and relief, Shen Bixin closed her eyes weakly.

Sizzle, sizzle—

In a daze, Shen Bixin heard the sound of a cart being pulled, and at the same time, every part of her body was in excruciating pain.

Was an organ trafficker going to drag her away to sell her?

Then this person was really unlucky, because her body was so badly damaged, and her organs probably weren't very usable.

In a daze, Shen Bixin passed out again.

When Shen Bixin regained some consciousness again, the pain in her body had lessened a lot, and there seemed to be a familiar white light in front of her.

She barely opened her eyes. That's right, it was the surgical light she was familiar with, and there was an old man and a young man standing next to her.

The young man with a somewhat familiar back was bargaining with the old doctor in a white coat.

"Old Doctor Sun, I've introduced you to a lot of patients, so give me a discount this time. It's about saving lives."

"What? You didn't say that when you pushed the person in and clamored for me to save her! Didn't you say that money was no object as long as she could be saved? Are you going back on your word now? If I had known, I would have left a pair of scissors inside!"

"Tsk, listen to yourself, is that human?! Your service attitude deserves a bad review, and the payment must be deducted by 20% for the service fee."

"Damn it, do you believe I'll stab you with a scalpel? I'll stab you right now, avoiding all the vital points, just the kind that hurts!"

Listening to the somewhat familiar voice and looking at the unique hoodie, Shen Bixin remembered that the person in front of her was the owner of Ji's General Store, but she didn't remember his name. She struggled to open her mouth and said, "You profiteer..."

When Ji Qinglin heard Shen Bixin speak, he knew that she had made it through, and he breathed a sigh of relief, knowing that his money hadn't been spent in vain.

Then he turned around and told Doctor Sun, "Hey, hey, Old Doctor Sun, it seems that her memory and brain haven't been damaged, so don't prescribe any medicine to protect her brain. Every penny saved is a penny earned."

"..."

Shen Bixin recuperated at Sun Yi Medical Clinic in Xin Dong Street for a long time before her body recovered.

Ji Qinglin also told her what had happened.

Old Hu of Ji's General Store had an old property on the edge of Xin Dong Street. After the old man passed away, Ji Qinglin planned to clean up the place and sell it, because it was not peaceful in that area.

Sure enough, that night, as soon as he finished cleaning up, a fight broke out across the street, crackling and popping like the Spring Festival.

Later, when he saw that even an armed helicopter had arrived, Ji Qinglin had no choice but to leave overnight. As a result, he encountered Shen Bixin, who had just fallen.

Ji Qinglin discovered that Shen Bixin could still be saved. Because they had met once before, and the Seven-Storied Pagoda was right in front of his face, he put her in the car.

Ji Qinglin was also very clear that as a member of the Defense Mobile Team, Shen Bixin must have money to pay for medical expenses, so he unhesitatingly took her to a familiar doctor to save her.

"Cough, cough."

Shen Bixin, whose body was recovering and who was preparing to install a prosthetic right arm, sat by the window, still not quite used to smoking.

Ji Qinglin moved a stool and sat next to her:

"I'm sorry about what happened to your brother."

"You know?"

"After all, I also do some intermediary work, so I can still find out this kind of news."

Hearing Ji Qinglin's meaning, Shen Bixin told him the whole story, and finally asked, "Could you please help me confirm whether Tie Kuang Seng is dead or not?"

Ji Qinglin smiled wryly, "You think too highly of him. How could he not be dead after his head was smashed? Your company has already issued an announcement, explaining that he was killed after being found to have stolen the company's Platinum-level service privileges."

When a client dies, there must be an explanation. Ancheng Company's crisis public relations response was quick.

What the public heard was that using the stolen privileges, one could even summon the Defense Mobile Team, which showed how much the Defense Mobile Team cared about its clients, preferring to save the wrong person rather than miss one. This wave of publicity once again garnered a lot of goodwill.

Killing Tie Kuang Seng could also show off the company's muscles, so why not?

Before Shen Bixin could continue to ask, Ji Qinglin added, "Also, that shareholder you saved before is also dead. It was a few hours before you saved Tie Kuang Seng. Tie Kuang Seng should have gone to kill your old client and was then chased by his subordinates, which is why he asked your Defense Mobile Team for help. But he probably didn't expect that he would run into you even disguised like that. It's truly karmic retribution."

Remembering that she and her brother had risked their lives to save these people, Shen Bixin looked out the window and said nothing. Ji Qinglin, who was quite used to this kind of thing, joked, "What? Have you seen through the mortal world?"

"You wouldn't understand without this feeling of living two lives."

"..."

Ji Qinglin thought to himself that she had really asked the right person.

"So, what are your plans for the future?"

"Haven't thought about it yet."

"Just don't go looking for death. After all, although you've paid back the money, you still owe me a favor."

Shen Bixin gave a wry smile, "You really are a cunning merchant."

But this time, there seemed to be no aversion in her words.

Shen Bixin used her only remaining left arm to extinguish her first cigarette in life, took a deep breath, and seemed to have made a decision: "Can you help me find a place? I want to open my own medical clinic."

"That's not difficult, as long as you have money. But I'm quite curious, don't you want to leave this place of sadness?"

"It's the same everywhere. It's just that I've been living for others all this time. This time, I want to try to do some things I want to do."

Fortunately met a good person, just in time for a new flower, living together at the ends of the earth and adjacent to each other, the weather tomorrow is uncertain.

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