When Xiao Hen returned home, he happened to receive a notification from his online bank: the 11 million transfer had arrived.
"Eleven million?" Xiao Hen was delighted. Clearly, this price had exceeded Elder Wu's original estimate. Quite a few people at the auction must have taken a liking to the Golden Mask for its final price to reach such a figure. After deducting all taxes and the auction commission, he still received 11 million. Not bad. Really not bad.
Xiao Hen called Chen Xinyu and properly thanked her. After hanging up, he knew Chen Xinyu must have put in considerable effort. Elder Wu, as the host of the auction, had also done a lot to make it happen. If either of them needed help in the future, he would help if he could. It would count as repaying this favor.
After casually fixing himself something to eat, Xiao Hen washed up and went to sleep.
Early the next morning, the first thing Xiao Hen did was go out to buy a car. Not having one was indeed inconvenient. This was the Real World, after all, and it was not convenient to display his abilities while traveling. With a car, going anywhere would be much easier.
Xiao Hen was not too particular about the car. He simply chose the latest Audi model, costing a little over a million. Money made things easy; in less than half a day, all the paperwork was complete. Xiao Hen drove out of the dealership. He had originally planned to head straight home, but after thinking about it, he would be entering Warcraft World in two days. He had to make the most of his time training.
"I still need to train with the bow!" Xiao Hen turned the car around. Naturally, he would not go back to that wilderness from before. Who knew whether the police might be staking it out now? He chose another place, equally desolate.
After arriving, he parked the car and took out a target from his Storage Space. It was the target he had been using for archery practice these past few days.
He forcefully planted the target into the ground. With a flip of his hands, a reddish-brown wooden longbow appeared in his left hand. Its bowstring was pale and translucent, yet possessed terrifying resilience. Though the bow itself was made of wood, it carried an ancient, distant aura. It was clearly no ordinary wood. This Star Chasing Bow was definitely no ordinary longbow.
In his right hand, Xiao Hen held high-quality arrows he had purchased online. They were all Easton FMJ metal-jacketed carbon-aluminum arrows. With enough draw weight, these high-strength aluminum-coated carbon composite arrows could kill large creatures such as rhinoceroses.
He drew the bow and loosed an arrow. Bending the bow and lowering his stance, he aimed, then released his hand. The arrow flew out and embedded itself firmly in the target, but not in the bullseye. Even after training for so long, and with the tremendous help of his combat instincts, he was still someone who had only recently picked up a bow. He could not achieve perfect accuracy in just a few days.
"I need to keep training!"
Having made up his mind, Xiao Hen flipped his right hand and took out another arrow. He nocked it on the bow, aimed again at the target over a hundred meters away, and continued practicing his archery.
The entire morning passed in training. Xiao Hen trained peacefully, but he had no idea that all of Jiangcheng City had been thrown into an uproar over him.
In a luxurious villa district in Jiangcheng City, inside the grand mansion at its center, a middle-aged man sat in the lavish living room, staring sternly at the young man before him. This young man was none other than the one Xiao Hen had rescued the previous night.
Beside the young man, a woman clutched his hand, crying tears of joy. "Xiaofan, thank goodness, thank goodness! Heaven has watched over you. As long as you're safe, that's all that matters!"
The young man chuckled. After Xiao Hen rescued him the night before, he had called his father. His father arrived quickly. Since he had made the call himself, his father had brought the police along. They immediately subdued the two unconscious kidnappers. The kidnappers already had other cases against them; they would probably spend the rest of their lives in prison.
After something so serious happened, his father naturally had to notify his mother, who was away on a business trip. She rushed back overnight, and upon seeing that her son was unharmed, she cried with joy.
"See? I told you not to flaunt your wealth. Look at you now—everyone knows you're Jiangcheng's Richest Man, and they've even kidnapped our son. I think it would be better to send Xiaofan abroad to study with his brother!" The beautiful woman looked up at the middle-aged man.
"If we send him abroad, how often will you get to see him? You won't miss him?" the middle-aged man asked, glancing at her.
"That's still better than living in constant fear here!" Like all parents, she was only thinking about the young man's safety.
"Mom, Dad, I'm fine!" The young man clearly did not want to study abroad. He hurriedly said, "This was just an accident, an accident! It definitely won't happen again!"
"Xiaofan, tell me honestly. What exactly happened last night?" The middle-aged man looked at him. "Why were the kidnappers unconscious? Did they encounter someone?"
When he had arrived with the police the previous night, they found the two kidnappers lying on the ground, their broken machete, and the Type 54 Pistol with all its bullets fired. Yet they found neither bloodstains nor signs of a fight.
The machete had broken, and the pistol had emptied its magazine, yet there were no signs of battle?
Had the two kidnappers seen a ghost?
How could that be? Police examination showed that the machete had been severed by a sharp object, while the bullets fired from the pistol had been blocked by something hard. Could someone have charged in wearing armor, taken the bullets head-on, and knocked the kidnappers unconscious? What kind of joke was that?
As the person the kidnappers had targeted and the one who had been rescued, Li Xiaofan became the police's breakthrough.
However, Li Xiaofan remembered Xiao Hen's warning deeply and stubbornly refused to reveal anything about him. Because of Li Xiaofan's status, the police did not dare use force and could only let it go. Of course, Li Xiaofan did not actually know many details about Xiao Hen either.
"Dad, all I can tell you is that someone really did save me. But I promised him I wouldn't talk carelessly about his affairs. He said he didn't want to get involved in this kind of trouble, and saving me was only something he did in passing." Li Xiaofan pursed his lips and spoke stubbornly.
"Fine. I won't force you. Being saved under those circumstances was also your good fortune." The middle-aged man nodded and did not press Li Xiaofan further.
"You two have a good talk. I'm heading back to the company first."
"Company, company. All you know is work. Our son just went through something like this, and you still won't stay and keep him company." The woman muttered unhappily as she watched the middle-aged man's retreating back.
"Mom, it's okay. Dad is very busy with the company. Let him go. I'm fine, aren't I?" Li Xiaofan was not some heartless rich second-generation heir. He actually took the initiative to comfort his mother.
"Xiaofan, tell Mom, who exactly saved you last night? Someone who wasn't afraid of bullets—could such an extraordinary person really exist?" the beautiful woman asked curiously.
At those words, Li Xiaofan's face fell. "Mom, I really can't say anything. I already promised him. A person can't break their word. Integrity is something you and Dad taught me!"
"Alright, alright. Mom won't force you to tell me. What do you want to eat today? Mom will make it for you."
"I want to eat..."
Back at Mingyue Residential Area, Xiao Hen drove home. After a morning of training, his control over the bow had become more proficient. Xiao Hen knew that as long as he continued practicing every day, he would eventually reach the level of hitting a target from a hundred paces away. Perhaps one day, he might even possess the terrifying archery of William, the protagonist of The Great Wall.
Time passed quickly. In the blink of an eye, two days had gone by.
"Shuttle, is today the day I enter Warcraft World?" Xiao Hen asked in a deep voice.
"Yes, Host. Please make your preparations," the Shuttle replied calmly.
"Can I know what the Main Quest in Warcraft World is now?" What Xiao Hen most wanted to know was this Main Quest. He could choose to abandon Side Quests, meaning that even if he failed them, he would not be punished. But if he failed the Main Quest, he would be demoted. He was only the Shuttle's beginner-level Host now. If he were demoted again, he might risk losing the Shuttle.
"Since that's the case, then prepare for entry." After checking his equipment and supplies and finding nothing missing, Xiao Hen spoke in a deep voice.
"Preparing for spatial transit. Countdown begins..."
Heh, there was even a countdown now. Back when he was dragged into the Resident Evil world for the first time, he had not even had time to react. Xiao Hen gave a self-deprecating smile. Then his vision went black, the surrounding space twisted, and his figure vanished from the room.
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