Chapter 2437 — A Perfect Chance to Play the Hero and Save the Beauty

Meanwhile, Youpan Hu and Kang Zhaolong obediently handed over their phones, the cash in their wallets, and their digital cameras as well. In Youpan Hu's eyes, all of it would eventually be returned to him, so he had not even deleted the photos on his phone.

The photos on his phone were selfies he had taken while out visiting prostitutes. He did not care in the slightest; he simply did not believe these men would dare touch his belongings.

At last, the robbers reached the very last row of seats, where Wei Zhao and the others were sitting.

"Your turn. Hurry up and hand over your cash and anything else of value!" By this point, the robbers were growing impatient. The sooner they finished, the sooner they could move on to robbing the passengers in the other buses.

With traffic at a standstill, they could rob people as they pleased. The police cars could not get through, and once this opportunity passed, it would be gone for good.

"Oh, all right." Wei Zhao obediently took out his phone and wallet. Han Jingyi, meanwhile, pulled a stack of banknotes and a tablet computer from her backpack. She did not carry a wallet.

Han Jingyi glanced at Wei Zhao. Seeing that he had not objected, she simply tossed the tablet, her iPhone, and the stack of banknotes into Robber Number Two's woven sack.

Just as Wei Zhao was about to put his phone and wallet into the sack, Robber Number Two stopped him.

"You can keep the phone." Robber Number Two glanced at the device in Wei Zhao's hand. It was an older model that had been on the market for quite some time and was not worth much.

"Oh... all right..." Wei Zhao nodded and casually tossed his wallet into the woven sack. Robber Number Two stared in surprise. Wei Zhao did not even want the wallet? He had simply thrown that in as well?

After tossing it in, Wei Zhao slowly withdrew his hand from the sack and put away the phone he had been holding.

"You lot!" Robber Number Two turned his attention to Wang Xinyan and the others.

"All right..." Wang Xinyan, Bai Weituo, and He Meiyue did as they were told, placing their phones and cash into the robber's woven sack. They had already removed their SIM cards and memory cards, however, so they did not particularly mind losing the phones.

After robbing the last few passengers, Robber Number Two seemed to feel that the haul was disappointingly small. He had not expected the entire bus to be filled with students; they had thought it was a tour bus. If it had been a tour group, those tourists would have been carrying a great deal of money. They might have made off with several hundred thousand yuan. But now, all they had was a few tens of thousands in total, and it left him deeply dissatisfied.

His gaze swept over Wei Zhao, Wang Xinyan, and the others before finally settling on the red cord around Wang Xinyan's neck. He frowned slightly and asked, "What kind of necklace are you wearing? Take it off and give it to me!"

"Ah!" Wang Xinyan froze. She had never expected that, after finishing the robbery, Robber Number Two would still refuse to let her go and would set his sights on the necklace she wore. But that necklace was something she absolutely could not simply remove and hand over. Her face tense and pale, she shook her head and said cautiously, "This... is only an ordinary jade pendant. It is not worth anything. It is not worth much money..."

"Take it off! Didn't you hear me?" Robber Number Two had not expected Wang Xinyan to defy him. But the more she resisted, the more convinced he became that the jade pendant was valuable. If it were worthless, would she be guarding it so carefully?

"I... it really is not worth anything. It just has some sentimental value..." Wang Xinyan hesitated before explaining.

"You deaf or something? Can't you hear me when I speak? Little girl, are you looking to die?" Robber Number Two had no interest in showing mercy to a pretty girl. He flicked his dagger through the air, its edge flashing as sunlight glinted off it and struck Wang Xinyan's face. Her heart gave a startled jolt.

Wei Zhao frowned slightly. He knew that Wang Xinyan wore a jade pendant necklace, but he had never paid it much attention. After all, plenty of people wore jade pendants these days. Wei Zhao himself had one. It was hardly anything unusual.

The difference was that Wei Zhao's pendant was well hidden, while the red cord around Wang Xinyan's pendant had caught Robber Number Two's eye.

Before this, Wei Zhao had thought nothing of it. But after hearing Wang Xinyan's explanation, he found himself believing her. Sun Jingyan's jade pendant, for instance, had great sentimental value; it was something her parents had left her. Wang Xinyan's pendant was probably the same.

Should he intervene or not? Wei Zhao hesitated. To be honest, the Wei Zhao of the past would have already struck down Robber Number Two. The robber leader, Number Three, and Number Four would certainly not have survived the day either.

But inside this cramped bus, Wei Zhao could not possibly kill all four robbers in an instant. The moment he struck down one of them, the others might well attack the students or Bai Weituo.

Of course, Wei Zhao could probably take all four of them out with a single overwhelming move, the Furious Fire Eight Trigrams Palm. But the other students around them would undoubtedly be caught in the devastation.

The Wei Zhao of today had begun thinking more and more about the people around him. Even if they were classmates with whom he was not close, even if they had never exchanged a single word, he still did not want any innocent people to be hurt.

While Wei Zhao was hesitating, Wang Xinyan drew the jade pendant from her chest. His eyes swept over it in passing. The material was utterly ordinary. Since he had been refining jade pendants himself, Wei Zhao had spent quite some time cramming on the subject, and he could tell at a glance that hers was not worth much. And yet the pendant gave him a strange feeling. His heart gave a faint, sudden flutter.

Could it be because the pendant had been resting against Wang Xinyan's chest all this time? Wei Zhao shook his head. What was he thinking at a time like this?

The robber clearly had no eye for jade. The moment he saw Wang Xinyan take out the pendant, he reached for it. In his mind, the fact that she had been so evasive proved that it had to be something valuable.

"Give it to me!" Robber Number Two shouted at Wang Xinyan.

And at that tense moment, Kang Zhaolong, the gallant hero, made his dazzling entrance! He had not known beforehand exactly how the You family would go about making trouble for Wang Xinyan. After all, trouble of this sort had to arise spontaneously; it was not something one could simply summon at will. But now that Robber Number Two was stubbornly trying to seize Wang Xinyan's jade pendant, he had created the perfect opportunity for Kang Zhaolong to play the hero and save the beauty.

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