Chapter 2441 — Robbed Again

"Good, then. If anything comes up, tell me anytime!" Right Panhu nodded in relief. Kang Zhaolong came from a family of medicine and his own medical knowledge was solid; if he said he was fine, then he was fine. He turned to the other classmates. "Fellow students, a robbery has happened—no one wanted this. But since it's already happened, there's no point in brooding over it. The expenses for this trip are all on me! Enjoy yourselves, don't let it weigh on your minds, and put all the unpleasantness behind you!"

"Great!"

"Thank you, Teacher Right!"

"Don't worry, we're not that fragile..."

Hearing Right Panhu's words, the classmates on the bus all chimed in one after another. The robbery itself hadn't actually frightened them much—apart from that unlucky glasses guy, the rest had merely lost some money—but the fright Kang Zhaolong gave them by getting beaten up afterward had been rather more considerable...

Still, now that they knew Kang Zhaolong was in no serious danger, they all breathed a sigh of relief.

"Good, then!" Right Panhu nodded and said, "I see the cars up ahead are starting to move—the road will be clear soon!"

"Wonderful!" Another cheer went up from the classmates on the bus.

Wei Zhao watched the four robbers disappear into the distance, his brow furrowing slightly, though he made no other move.

In truth, he had prepared for two outcomes. If Wang Xinyan's jade pendant had been taken by the robbers, and if Wei Zhao had no chance to grab it back openly, he would have quietly followed them off the bus, found some secluded spot, and done away with those four wretches to retrieve Wang Xinyan's jade pendant. As for the other things the robbers had taken, Wei Zhao had never intended to recover them for his classmates. After all, if he did, how would he explain it?

Was he supposed to say he'd killed the robbers? That would probably mean the end of this winter trip!

Sure enough, after a little while longer, the highway opened, and the bus carrying the classmates slowly started up and headed forward...

It wasn't moving fast, though, because of all the vehicles ahead; they couldn't pick up speed for a while yet. To really get going, they'd have to wait a bit longer. Once those cars in front started moving, the bus would be able to follow.

In any case, the road being open was a great thing, and the classmates were all excited and relieved, quickly forgetting their earlier unhappiness.

About half an hour later, the bus was finally moving along the highway—but their joy didn't last long before the bus began braking hard! Because a heavy truck had suddenly appeared ahead, continually changing lanes!

Actually, rather than changing lanes, it would be more accurate to say the heavy truck was trying to force the bus to stop!

This dangerous maneuver had even the bus driver—who drove tour buses every day—breaking out in a cold sweat. He hadn't been all that afraid during the robbery earlier; after all, as a tour bus driver, he'd encountered such things before, uncommon as they were.

But robbers generally didn't rob the driver, because tour bus drivers worked for travel companies and didn't carry much cash—just a pack of cigarettes and a few hundred yuan for highway tolls. So the robbers' targets were always the passengers.

Now the situation was different. The heavy truck kept changing lanes, braking, changing lanes, braking—its intent was obvious: it wanted the bus to pull over to the side!

When the students on the bus saw this harrowing scene, they were somewhat dumbfounded! They couldn't understand why this journey was going so badly—they'd just been robbed, and now here came a reckless heavy truck. They had no idea what it wanted, or what benefit forcing the bus to stop could bring it!

"Screech—screech—"

The bus's brakes squealed again and again, quickly dropping from a hundred kilometers an hour to twenty, and then it was finally cut off by the heavy truck and forced to a halt—the driver had no choice but to brake!

When something strange happens, there's bound to be a demon behind it. In all his years, the bus driver had never encountered anything like this! Playing such games on the highway was practically murder! Yet the heavy truck didn't seem to want to kill—it had given the driver ample reaction time and braking distance.

Though the heavy truck kept trying to force the bus to stop, it wasn't impatient; it proceeded step by step, letting the bus slow down gradually before finally bringing it to a halt, minimizing the danger.

"We might be running into more robbers..." the driver said, his face pale. He had finally thought of the least likely possibility—but in fact, it was the most likely one...

"What?" Right Panhu was stunned by the driver's words! Surely they couldn't be that unlucky? They'd just been robbed, and now another gang of robbers? Could there really be such a coincidence?

The other students on the bus also changed color at the driver's words. They'd just been robbed, and now more robbers—how had all the bad luck in the world fallen on this one bus? So many cars on the highway were fine, yet theirs had run into trouble twice in a row?

As the people on the bus were saying this, the cab of the heavy truck was pushed open, and two people climbed out—one tall, one short—and after getting out, they walked straight toward the bus's door!

Upon seeing these two, Wei Zhao's eyelid twitched slightly, and something suddenly occurred to him. He glanced at Kang Zhaolong, beaten into a bloody gourd, and nearly laughed out loud! This was really too much of a coincidence!

These two who had climbed down from the heavy truck looked utterly ordinary, but with his golden finger, Wei Zhao saw their strength at a glance! The tall one was a peak late-stage Earth-rank expert, and the short one was an early-stage Heaven-rank expert!

The tall one, Wei Zhao wasn't afraid of—about on par with Old Bi, no more than a single move in Wei Zhao's hands! Wei Zhao was mid-stage Earth-rank; even back when he could only unleash the fifth form of the Frenzied Fire Eight Trigrams Palm he hadn't feared such an opponent, let alone now, at peak mid-stage Earth-rank, able to unleash the sixth form!

What worried Wei Zhao somewhat was the short early-stage Heaven-rank expert. Against this man, Wei Zhao wasn't fully confident of killing him—after all, the other was a Heaven-rank expert while Wei Zhao was still Earth-rank, and not yet at peak late-stage Earth-rank.

Fortunately, this early-stage Heaven-rank expert didn't seem too powerful—just an ordinary Heaven-rank expert, surely not the sort of figure that came from the ancient levels! Of course, this man was most likely a Heaven-rank expert sent by Right Panhu of the Right family; probably some retainer or disciple type, strong but not too strong—otherwise, someone truly formidable wouldn't be hiding out as a retainer for the Right family, but would have joined an ancient sect or ancient clan long ago.

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