Chapter 1666: The Price is Too High

"In your eyes, women aren't important, so you wouldn't give up your principles for a woman like me?" Chuan Naizi asked.

"It's not that women aren't important; there are important women in my heart, too," Chen Yu muttered to himself, the figure of Ye Xinyu involuntarily appearing before his eyes.

"There is a woman in your heart, the kind who is very important to you?" Seeing Chen Yu like this, Chuan Naizi was slightly stunned.

"Yes, very important to me." Chen Yu smiled and said, "Alright, enough talk, I should head back."

"Who is that woman?" Chuan Naizi called out to him again.

"Why are you asking this?" Chen Yu asked.

"I want to know what kind of person this woman is, and why she can make a man like you unable to forget her," Chuan Naizi said earnestly.

Yes, she wanted to know where she had lost; they were both women, so why was it that Chen Yu couldn't stop thinking about someone else while he didn't care at all about her throwing herself at him?

"There's no need for you to know this, is there? There is no comparability between people." Chen Yu smiled and said, "You have your own shining points, and you have your own Prince Charming; it's just that your Prince Charming hasn't appeared yet."

"You're just saying that to comfort me." Chuan Naizi was extremely annoyed.

For a woman, and a woman who was very confident in her own figure and appearance, to take the initiative to throw herself at someone only to be heartlessly rejected was a huge blow to her.

Therefore, she was unwilling to accept this today, extremely unwilling.

"That's right, I am just comforting you." Chen Yu's words nearly made Chuan Naizi's lungs explode with anger.

"Alright, if there's nothing else, I'll head back first. Tell your aunt that if she really wants to solve the problem, she should go to the higher-ups; she can solve at least seventy percent of my conditions." Chen Yu said.

"Fine, I know. You go ahead." Chuan Naizi waved her hand, feeling somewhat agitated; firstly because of her frustration, and secondly because the matter remained unresolved, which also left her feeling unsettled.

"Then I'm leaving." Chen Yu gave a faint smile, turned, and disappeared into the darkness.

Watching Chen Yu leave, Chuan Naizi sighed slightly and dialed her aunt's number: "Aunt, it wasn't successful."

"What did he say?" On the other end, Xingzi had been waiting for news, and when Chuan Naizi said it wasn't successful, her heart sank slightly.

"He rejected me." When Chuan Naizi said these words, her whole person felt like she was collapsing; yes, Chen Yu had rejected her.

"Are you sure?" Xingzi was startled. In her understanding, there wasn't any man who could resist such beauty, was there?

"Yes, I... I already tried very hard, but he turned a blind eye to me. Aunt, I have never suffered such an insult before," Chuan Naizi said, somewhat angrily.

"Alright, I understand. I don't blame you; you've already tried your best." Xingzi sighed and said, "But I really can't agree to all of his conditions."

"He said you can solve at least seventy percent of the problems." Chuan Naizi said, "This is his bottom line. Aunt, I've already done my best; there really is no other way."

"Alright, I will try my best to facilitate this matter." Xingzi paused and said, "In itself, this isn't his fault; after all, it is we who owe them in Huaxia too much."

"Mm, you try your best to facilitate this matter. We can't wait any longer on our side," Chuan Naizi said.

"Good, I know. Go get some rest," Xingzi said, "You've worked hard these past few days."

When Chen Yu left Chuan Naizi's residence, it was already very late, and he couldn't catch a taxi at this time.

After all, it was a special period now, so there was generally a curfew at night; no one would choose to go out at this time, as it wasn't safe.

Helpless, Chen Yu had to choose to walk back; after all, this place wasn't back home, where there were shared bicycles everywhere.

Fortunately, the distance wasn't too far for him, but just as he was about to circulate his Primordial Qi to speed up, a sound came from a small park to the side.

Chen Yu looked toward that direction vigilantly; truthfully, the sound coming from that place gave him a bad feeling.

His figure flashed, and he was already inside the small park.

The street-center park wasn't very large and was planted with many green plants. When he walked to the center of the park, he saw a woman in a white dress lying on a bench.

There was a long trail of blood around her; it was clear that this woman had been dragged here after being harmed.

Even without going closer, Chen Yu knew that this woman couldn't be saved, because there was no aura of life left on her.

He tentatively walked forward and turned the woman's body over. Despite being mentally prepared, his heart still couldn't help but sink slightly when he turned her over.

A huge bloody hole had been torn in the woman's chest, and her heart had long since vanished without a trace.

Chen Yu was slightly startled. It seemed that Heart-Eating Ghosts had appeared in the vicinity again. It was just that things were chaotic right now; if Heart-Eating Ghosts really appeared again, it would truly be adding frost to snow for this place.

Seeing that the woman before him was beyond saving, Chen Yu intended to look for traces of the Heart-Eating Ghost nearby.

Just at this moment, two night-patrol security guards arrived. Seeing the situation before them, the two couldn't help but be stunned, and then one of them roared: "Murder!"

The two reached back to pull out their batons from their waists, pointed them at Chen Yu, and shouted: "Get down on the ground immediately, hands behind your head, hurry!"

"Are you police?" Chen Yu glanced at the two of them indifferently.

"We aren't, but we can take you to the police station at any time." One of them reached back toward his waist; this guy was actually equipped with a gun.

Recently, there were too many things happening here in Fusang, with strange occurrences appearing one after another, and the police force was insufficient, so night patrols had been converted from police to security guards.

For safety, some security guards were also equipped with guns, but most of them contained blanks; of course, this was a means of deterrence when encountering danger.

"Then why haven't you called the police yet?" Chen Yu pointed at the woman on the ground and said, "She was attacked by something; don't you have any idea?"

The two lowered their heads, looking at the woman with the hollow chest, and their expressions immediately became tense.

The two looked at each other, and one of them reached back to draw the gun from his waist, aiming it at Chen Yu.

"Behave yourself, no resisting." One of them walked up with handcuffs, his tone carrying a warning.

"What do you want to do?" Chen Yu glanced at the two of them. He felt these two had a lot of nerve; under normal circumstances, seeing something like this, even those with weapons would turn around and run.

But these two guys weren't afraid; instead, they dared to step up and challenge Chen Yu. Impressive.

Click—the one with the handcuffs reached back and cuffed Chen Yu. Once he was cuffed, the expressions of the two clearly relaxed.