Li Dong suffered serious injuries, but Li Jianwen did not call the emergency center. Instead, he helped Li Dong into the car by himself and drove to the hospital. Thus, except for Ye Xiao, no one else knew about Li Dong's situation at school!

Standing in the now deserted corridor, Ye Xiao watched Li Jianwen's car speed away from the school and couldn't help but smile slightly. Just now, Li Jianwen indeed had the impulse to take his own life, but for some reason, after Li Jianwen learned that Li Dong had intended to force himself on Su Yun, his attitude did a complete one-eighty, even if it meant his own nephew had been humiliated. Nevertheless, Li Jianwen still asked Ye Xiao to help him apologize to Su Yun!

This made Ye Xiao's mind race with possibilities. Who exactly was Su Yun, that even Li Jianwen seemed somewhat afraid of her?

On second thought, Su Yun must not be an ordinary person either. Otherwise, she wouldn't possibly be teaching alone in this foreign place, nor could a young person who had just graduated from school have so easily become the head teacher of a high-level class—this clearly did not make sense!

Just as Ye Xiao was about to leave, suddenly, his phone rang!

Taking it out, Ye Xiao saw that it was Sun Yuze—he had saved Sun Yuze's number in his phone earlier!

Ye Xiao immediately answered the call.

Before Ye Xiao could speak, Sun Yuze on the other end urgently said, "Brother Xiao, hurry and leave the school, quick!"

Ye Xiao was instantly puzzled and asked, "What happened?"

Sun Yuze said, "Brother Xiao, I can't explain it clearly in a word or two right now. Chen Ming has hired quite a few people to get back at you, and these people are no ordinary individuals!"

Chen Ming hired people to find him? And they're not ordinary people—could it be Martial Artists? But in Minghai City, how many Martial Artists could there be?

Ye Xiao was clever. After thinking this through, another thought struck him.

"How did you know?" Ye Xiao asked.

Sun Yuze paused slightly and then said to Ye Xiao, "After I went home, I saw my dad. Just as I told him about your situation, he told me about this."

"How did your dad know?" Ye Xiao became even more puzzled.

Hesitating a bit, Sun Yuze finally said, "Although my dad is also a deputy head, he can't compare to Chen Ming's father, whose family background is much more powerful than mine. My dad can only hear about Martial Artists, while his dad can use connections to enlist Martial Artists. All this time, my dad has been... has been following Chen Ming's father's lead!"

After hearing Sun Yuze's words, Ye Xiao understood. Although Sun Yuze's father was a deputy head, he lacked a powerful background. This meant that, although he held the same title, Chen Ming's father had much more influence. To hold onto his deputy position, Sun Yuze's father, Sun Bin, naturally had to attach himself to someone else's power. Song Jianping, with his clean reputation, would naturally not partake in factionalism; thus, Sun Bin aligned himself under Chen Ming's father.

Ye Xiao smiled faintly and said, "If Chen Ming's father knew that you're now with me, I'm afraid your father wouldn't have an easy time, would he?"

Sun Yuze said, "Brother Xiao, both my father and I are betting everything on you now, but I believe I haven't misjudged you!"

"So confident?" Ye Xiao smiled faintly.

Sun Yuze said, "I've always been confident. But Brother Xiao, let's not talk about this right now. You should leave first. I heard from my dad that they have offered a high price for three Martial Artists this time, and none of these Martial Artists are locals, so they might not even show Ling Hengyu any respect!"

It was clear what Sun Yuze meant. He was telling Ye Xiao to escape quickly. No one could save him now.

Ye Xiao laughed at that moment and then said to Sun Yuze, "I understand. I still have to thank you today."

"Brother Xiao, let's not talk formalities. You should hurry and go. If you get away this time, you can always come back to fight another day!" Sun Yuze said anxiously.

Ye Xiao responded, "I won't leave. I want to see if the sky will really fall."

"Brother Xiao!" Sun Yuze was somewhat excited.

However, right then, Ye Xiao hung up the phone. At that moment, he remembered that he hadn't yet packed up Ling Shuya's schoolbag, so he immediately headed back to the classroom.

Upon arriving at the classroom, there were only a few students left, those staying behind to clean up. Seeing Ye Xiao enter, they hurriedly greeted him. Ye Xiao went straight to Ling Shuya's desk, quickly packed up her belongings, and then headed out.

However, as he reached the classroom door, a 'whoosh' sounded, and something flew rapidly toward Ye Xiao's face. Reflexively, he dodged with agile movement. At the same time, the object embedded itself in the wall—a throwing knife, with a note attached. Ye Xiao walked over and pulled the knife out.

During this brief moment, the cleaning students were taken aback, all wondering what had just happened.

"Brother Xiao, what's going on?" a student walked over to Ye Xiao.

Ye Xiao immediately said, "Stay where you are, don't move, all of you don't move. Stay put for five minutes, then go straight home!"

Ye Xiao took the throwing knife, removed the note attached, and briskly walked out of the classroom!

What was to come had eventually arrived!

Ye Xiao's face was stern. Judging by the strength and speed of the flying knife, he could tell that its owner was no ordinary person, but someone with at least mid-to-early Yellow Rank strength!

While walking, Ye Xiao unfolded the note. The message was straightforward—it told him to go to the abandoned building!

"These people really think things through," Ye Xiao smiled faintly and then headed toward the stairs!

If the issue were to be resolved in the abandoned building, no one else would know, and naturally, it wouldn't cause any adverse effects!

Ye Xiao's fingers fiddled with the red tassel of the flying knife, swinging it back and forth as he descended the stairs and then made his way directly to the abandoned building.

At this moment, the sky, which had been clear, grew dim, as though foreshadowing an impending storm!

Summer weather always changes in the blink of an eye; perhaps it will rain soon.

At this time, Ye Xiao was thinking that he should have bought an umbrella!

Right now, the abandoned building was eerily quiet as if there wasn't a soul around. When Ye Xiao was still a hundred or so meters away from the building, he had already fully entered into a state of True Qi!

Ye Xiao was confident, but not arrogant. At least for the moment, the enemy hid in darkness while he was exposed in the light, which was highly disadvantageous for him!

Therefore, Ye Xiao had to be ready to unleash his Nine Yang True Qi at any moment, especially to maximize the effect of True Qi Protection!

Also, because Ye Xiao's senses were quite sharp when he channeled True Qi, he found that there were at least dozens of people inside the seemingly lifeless building!

Ye Xiao didn't know how many Martial Artists were among them. If all these individuals were Martial Artists, then he possibly wouldn't make it out alive today. However, he was also quite certain; it was impossible. Assassins are ranked, and even the highest-ranked ordinary killers couldn't compare with the lowest-ranked Martial Artist Assassins, who possess Inner Power True Qi, giving them many advantages over normal people!

Hiring a low-level, low-grade Yellow Rank Martial Artist would cost at least a hundred thousand Northern Federation Coin, at the lowest!

Of course, that is the lowest grade. Ye Xiao believed that neither Chen Ming nor his father would spend ten million Northern Federation Coins to take his life, at least in his view, he surely wasn't worth that much. After all, in society, offers of even five million Northern Federation Coins were already considered very high, and, of course, there were also instances with no offers despite amounts in the hundreds of millions or even tens of billions of Northern Federation Coins. However, those targets were giants of certain powers!

Ye Xiao believed that making Chen Ming and his father spend a million Northern Federation Coins would be like cutting flesh from their own bodies!

After all, Ye Xiao's current identity was merely that of a student!

Ye Xiao saw clearly that these people were definitely not from his school, and by their looks, they weren't ordinary street thugs either. Each of them had a tough demeanor, calm in chaos, clearly veterans of bloodshed!

"Ye Xiao, I didn't expect you would actually dare to come!" a voice echoed from the abandoned building!

Ye Xiao did not see the speaker but recognized from the voice alone that it was Chen Ming!

Chen Ming had actually come in person. It seemed he was determined to have Ye Xiao today. Ye Xiao chuckled and said, "When Mr. Chen summons me, naturally I come. What issue does Mr. Chen have with me? Dinner time is approaching, and I'm quite hungry!"

"Hungry?" Chen Ming did not expect Ye Xiao to be thinking about eating at such a time and laughed with sarcasm, "I never realized Ye Xiao was such a foodie. However, I think you'll have a hard time eating anything in the future!"

Ye Xiao said, "Is that so? Actually, there might be some misunderstandings between us. If we clear them up, there probably wouldn't be any issues!"

Upon hearing Ye Xiao's words, Chen Ming immediately assumed Ye Xiao was scared. Last time, Ye Xiao could cope with about a dozen men, but now there was an even more pronounced disparity in numbers, and they had some of the elite fighters from society, including three hired Martial Artist Assassins. Although Ye Xiao was formidable, Martial Artist Assassins were not easily dealt with by an average person!

To Chen Ming, Ye Xiao seemed fearful, which made Chen Ming even more arrogant, excited by the sheer number of his own people.

"Haha, Ye Xiao, now you realize your mistake? Too bad, it's too late. If I don't make you pay here today, then I'm not a Chen!" Chen Ming shouted loudly.

Ye Xiao said, "Treat others with leniency, and you shall find ease yourself. Pushing too hard might backfire."

Chen Ming wouldn't listen to such talk, and immediately said to someone beside him, "What are you waiting for? Take action!"

That person nodded and gestured for his men to quickly go downstairs and surround Ye Xiao.

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