Chapter 78: Chapter 78: Questioning
The loud noise caused exclamations throughout the carriage, with glass shattering and scattering all around.
"What happened, how did the window break?"
"What just happened?"
"Such a loud noise, was it an explosion? Scared the hell out of !"
Everything happened so quickly before that no one could see it.
Chen Shouyi watched the mysterious youth disappear and finally breathed a sigh of relief, pulling his body back in from the window, collapsing into the seat as if exhausted, not wanting to move at all.
His back felt a bit chilly, and his clothes were already soaked with sweat.
His heart was still pounding violently.
This was a near-death experience.
This mysterious person gave him the impression of a primordial giant beast, truly terrifying.
It wasn’t about aura, but rather that high-and-mighty deanor of viewing all things as ants, a transcendent sense of aloofness, that made ordinary life seem as fragile as soap bubbles in his eyes.
Even on this superordinary Earth, with his terrifying physical strength. If he unleashed his slaughter, not only this carriage, but even the entire high-speed rail would be a river of blood.
...
People quickly surrounded Chen Shouyi’s area.
"Did you see how the window broke?" a sowhat plump middle-aged man asked.
Seeing soone asking him, Chen Shouyi regained his senses, wiped the cold sweat off his forehead, and shook his head.
"That’s strange, I saw you leaning out of the window, I thought you saw sothing?" the middle-aged man was still rattled, the noise earlier was so loud, it was like an explosion, almost giving him a heart attack.
"Yeah, you were sitting right there, how could you not have seen it?"
"Could it have been him who broke it?" soone whispered.
"This is bulletproof glass, what could he have used to break it? Besides, even if he struck it, he wouldn’t be able to shatter the entire glass at once."
The crowd discussed around him, and soon people from other carriages ca over as well, creating a buzzing noise like countless flies in Chen Shouyi’s ears, making his head throb slightly and giving rise to a bit of irritation.
And after one window broke, the wind beca quite strong, making his eyes uncomfortable. He stood up, grabbed his luggage, and was about to change seats:
"Excuse !"
He said as he squeezed through the crowd.
"Could it be guilt? Maybe he really did do it?"
Chen Shouyi’s steps halted, his expression turned cold. He had just felt like he narrowly escaped death, and was in an unstable emotional state, extrely irritable. Being baselessly accused, a wave of anger surged within him.
He turned and looked at the bespectacled youth who spoke sarcastically:
"What did you just say? I didn’t hear clearly, say it again!"
Chen Shouyi was tall with a big fra, though his body didn’t seem particularly strong, a slight movent revealed his finely detailed muscles, whereas the bespectacled young man looked thin and frail.
Just in terms of physique, the bespectacled man already seed less imposing. He didn’t expect a mutter to be caught like this. His eyes shifted as he forced himself to remain calm, "I... I was just talking, can’t I speak?"
"No one’s stopping you from talking, but dammit, accusing
without evidence? I’ve got to intervene in this, there are caras in the carriage, do you think I’m guilty?" Chen Shouyi said with a laugh of anger.
Feeling the crowd’s disdainful or disgusted stares, the bespectacled man’s face flushed red and then white, and he quickly slinked away.
...
Before long, two train officers approached: "Excuse , we might need to take a bit of your ti, there are so situations we want to understand, and we hope for your cooperation."
Chen Shouyi deftly grabbed his backpack and briefcase.
"Does everyone need to go?"
"Everyone in this carriage needs to go, it won’t take much ti."
Soon the group arrived at a police office.
One officer took out a laptop playing surveillance video and placed it on the table: "Everyone look closely, do you recognize this person?"
"Never seen, was there soone sitting here?"
"I don’t recognize them either, I thought only that young man was sitting there."
"No impression, officer, is this the person who broke the glass."
...
Each person looked over but all shook their heads, everyone was surprised to realize there was a person sitting by the broken window that they had not noticed at all.
Especially the middle-aged man who was sitting just about a ter from the mysterious youth, looked as if he had seen a ghost, he had no impression of the person sitting next to him.
"The others can return, but you need to stay, we have a few questions to understand." One of the officers said to Chen Shouyi.
"No problem!" Chen Shouyi said.
He had ntally prepared for this and wasn’t surprised.
"How did you notice him?" an officer asked seriously.
"He was sitting in my seat!" Chen Shouyi said.
He suspected he might not have noticed him if not for that circumstance.
"I saw you have a conversation with him, what did you talk about?"
...
Half an hour later, Chen Shouyi left the police office and returned to the carriage.
The carriage was full of chatter and noise.
Chen Shouyi chose a vacant spot and leaned wearily against the seat.
...
"The train will soon arrive at Hedong High-speed Railway West Station. Passengers getting off at Hedong High-speed Railway West Station, please prepare in advance, the train will stop for five minutes..."
Chen Shouyi exited the station and quickly got into a taxi: "Driver, Martial Arts Assessnt Center."
The car soon drove off.
Chen Shouyi silently watched out the window.
The towering buildings, dense traffic, hurried pedestrians.
Looking at the still prosperous Hedong City, the gloom over his heart since eting the mysterious person dispersed sowhat.
"Driver, when did this place get electricity?"
"You an electricity, it’s been on since five days ago, you’re not from around here, are you? Still not there yet?"
"Not yet, our small place, who knows how long it’ll take?"
The driver imdiately beca chatty:
"I say it’s best to move to the big city, for your place to get electricity, it might take another half a year, I have a friend in the power grid, now the national electricity supply is extrely tight, even first and second-tier cities don’t have enough, waiting for small cities, who knows when that’ll be."
"But you can’t afford to buy houses here!" Chen Shouyi echoed.
"That’s true, the prices were high enough already, and with the electricity coming, Hedong’s housing prices have shot up further, fortunately, I was compensated with two houses in the past relocation, otherwise I couldn’t afford my son’s marriage house."
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