Chapter 1792 — An Encounter on the Way, Part Two

But a case like the present one, with Gu Mengyao declaring that her card held a million, was a first!

"Hand over the card, and I'll take a look before we discuss anything else!" the man in black said.

"Fine!" Without the slightest hesitation, Gu Mengyao passed him her bank card, then said, "The passcode is 5201..."

The moment she finished saying the passcode aloud, she felt strangely awkward. Xiao Shu had set it, and when Xiao Shu first told her, Gu Mengyao had seen nothing wrong with it. But now, speaking it out loud, she felt... as though the sound of those numbers resembled a certain phrase?

Gu Mengyao glanced guiltily toward Tang Yun in the passenger seat.

"'I love Wei Zhao?'" Tang Yun smiled. "What a coincidence... heh heh..."

Yet anyone could tell that there was a trace of bitterness in Tang Yun's smile. It was only that, in a crisis like this, she could not afford to brood over such a thing.

"Xiao Shu was the one who set it..." Gu Mengyao did not even know why she felt the need to defend herself, but defend herself she did, and afterward she rather regretted it. It seemed the more she explained, the worse she made it sound.

"I was only joking to ease the tension a little, that's all..." Tang Yun gave a faint smile, and the expression on her face returned to normal.

Of course, after the man in black took Gu Mengyao's bank card, he called the bank's balance inquiry line, and when he heard the balance of more than a million, the smile on his face twisted into a knot, blooming like a chrysanthemum: "It really is a million, ha ha! Baldy, you and I are rich!"

"Get out, get out! Let's see whether you've got other cards or money stashed away!" Hearing the man in black, Baldy was thrilled, yet still unsatisfied. He pounded on the car window all the harder. Greed knows no bounds, especially the greed of two robbers.

To their minds, no matter how much they took, it was never enough. Having done this once and taken so much money, they must have landed themselves in serious trouble; perhaps in the future they would have to wash their hands of it all and find some place to hide away. So they had to squeeze every last drop out of this job before they left!

Gu Mengyao had assumed they would leave once they had the card, but she never imagined that more than a million would not satisfy them! After all, that card held not only the million Gu Pengzhan had transferred to her before she left, but also tens of thousands in spending money. Was that still not enough? They wanted more?

"We don't have much money on us, only a few thousand. We've given you all our cards—you have to leave us something to live on, don't you?" There was a note of pleading in Gu Mengyao's voice... Ordinarily she was proud and haughty, but in this moment, to avoid any further complications, to reach Snow Valley one step sooner, the eldest young lady could only bow her proud head and humble herself before two robbers...

"A few thousand? Why don't we believe that? Get out of the car. If it really is only a few thousand, we won't take it!" said the bald man. With more than a million in hand, a few thousand was indeed nothing in their eyes.

As he spoke, the man in black was busy transferring the money by phone. He was afraid that once Gu Mengyao and the others left, the account would be frozen and they would be left without a single cent!

Gu Mengyao looked at Tang Yun helplessly and said, at a loss: "Yunyun, what do we do now? I keep feeling that getting out of the car is a bad idea..."

"I... I don't know either..." Tang Yun was equally at a loss. She realized that, without Wei Zhao at her side, she was so very weak! Before, with Wei Zhao beside her, whether they met assassins of the Blood-Clad Yellow Springs Sect on the road or faced humiliation and provocation in the Tang family, Wei Zhao had always smoothed it all over with ease. But now, without Wei Zhao, she felt utterly useless...

In that moment, Tang Yun suddenly felt a deep longing for strength. If only she too were a ** practitioner—even if she were merely an early-stage Yellow Rank expert like Xiaoxiao—surely dealing with these two highwaymen would be no trouble at all?

These two, in Wei Zhao's eyes... even in Wu Chengtian's and Uncle Qing's eyes, were existences as weak as ants, and yet they could strut and swagger, blocking their way on the road...

"Hurry up! What are you dawdling for? Get out of the car, or don't blame us brothers for smashing it up!" Having finished the transfer, the man in black tossed the bank card carelessly onto the ground and barked at Gu Mengyao in the car.

"There's no help for it. Get out!" Seeing the two of them make as if to smash the car, Gu Mengyao knew there was no way around it. If they shattered the window, they would still have to get out. They could not drive forward now, and as for reversing, Gu Mengyao did not have Wei Zhao's superb driving skills. On this rugged forest track she simply could not handle the car; one small slip and she would crash into a tree. So running was certainly out of the question.

Since the decision was made, the others hesitated no longer and opened the doors to get out. Shen Yushu, however, did not get out; she stayed inside, her hands still pressed to Wei Zhao's arms. The whole way she had been cooling him constantly, keeping him from being consumed by the heat and keeping the seat beneath him from being burned to ashes!

Although Mo Kongwen and Old Man Wei had laid fireproof insulating blankets over the seat, that worked for a short while; over a long stretch, even the blankets would probably fail.

Once the man in black and the bald man got a clear look at Gu Mengyao and Tang Yun, a lewd gleam slid unbidden through their eyes!

It had been far too long since either of them had touched a woman, and even when they had, it was the sort of cheap streetwalker found in back-alley hair salons. How could such women compare with the two before them? Gu Mengyao and Tang Yun were each first-rate in both looks and bearing. It would have been strange if the two robbers had not been tempted.

The man in black and the bald man exchanged a glance, each instantly understanding the meaning in the other's eyes. They chuckled and said, "Little ladies, you say you have no money, so we brothers will take your word for it. But, heh heh, out here in the wilds, playing around with us ought to be quite a thrill, don't you think?"

"What are you doing?!" A trace of panic showed on both Gu Mengyao's and Tang Yun's faces. Though they asked, in their hearts they were already almost certain of the two men's intent—and this was exactly why they had not wanted to get out of the car!

Being beautiful was certainly a good thing, but at this particular moment it was not necessarily a good thing at all!

"What do you think, little lady?" The man in black grinned, baring a few big yellow teeth, then said to the bald man, "One each. I'll take the one on the right!"

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