Chapter 109 — Another Round and You'll Blow Yourself Up
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Naturally, Wei Zhao had not taken those brats from before seriously. True, his current identity was no more than that of a high school student, but seeing the likes of them only reminded him of Zhong Yongliang and Zou Ruoming back at school — hopelessly childish, every one of them.
"Hey, once we're back, I'll have Uncle Qing sort out your driver's license and buy you a car. From now on, when we go out, you do the driving, all right?" Gu Mengyao glanced at Wei Zhao in the rearview mirror as she spoke.
"..." Wei Zhao had his eyes closed in thought at that moment and had not been listening closely to Gu Mengyao; he assumed she was chatting with Shen Yushu.
Getting no response, Gu Mengyao grew a little annoyed. "Hey, I'm talking to you!"
"Hm? Me?" Only then did Wei Zhao snap back to attention. "You called for me, young miss?"
"Of course it's you. Who else would I be calling — Xiaoshu?" Gu Mengyao was driving and had no attention to spare for glaring at Wei Zhao.
"Oh. If you called me 'Uncle,' I'd be happy to answer that too." Wei Zhao looked at Gu Mengyao with a wicked grin.
"Hm?" Gu Mengyao froze, then grasped his meaning at once. In her irritation she stomped hard on the brake.
"Ah—" Shen Yushu was caught off guard and nearly slammed into the windshield. "Yao-yao, what are you doing?"
"Uh... sorry..." Gu Mengyao looked at Wei Zhao, who was completely unruffled, and ground her teeth in even greater fury. She had meant to jolt him with a sudden stop, but Wei Zhao came through unscathed while Shen Yushu nearly got hurt.
"Wei Zhao!" Gu Mengyao was furious now, turning her head to glare at him. "Did you hear a word I said to you earlier?"
"Said what?" Wei Zhao genuinely had not caught what Gu Mengyao said; at the time he had assumed she was speaking to Shen Yushu and had not bothered to listen carefully.
"Nothing..." Gu Mengyao had no patience left for idle talk with Wei Zhao. She thought to herself: you were hired by my daddy, so if I tell you to drive, you drive. I don't need to discuss it with you.
"Oh." Wei Zhao paid it no mind either, figuring Gu Mengyao was simply throwing one of her young-miss tantrums.
Back at the villa, Gu Mengyao stormed upstairs with Shen Yushu in tow. She thought Wei Zhao utterly detestable — a hired hand her daddy had brought in, and yet he still carried on so flippantly...
Wei Zhao, of course, did not take it seriously. She was a young miss; a bit of temper was only natural. If she were too gentle with him, that would be the real problem.
That day, after washing up, Wei Zhao could not wait to sink into dreamland. He had to find Old Jiao and question him thoroughly about this energy business — that energy could save lives was something Wei Zhao had only just learned.
He had originally assumed the energy within his body worked only for himself; he had never imagined it could help others as well.
"You've come?" Old Jiao looked as he had the day before, standing quietly in the virtual space of the jade pendant.
"Old Jiao!" Wei Zhao was rather excited at the sight of him. "Old Jiao, what exactly is the story with the energy in my body? How is it that it can help other people too?"
"All things in this world actually require energy to survive; only the means of taking it in differ. Humans and animals, for instance, eat and draw energy from food, while plants take water and nutrients from the soil as their energy... Your difference lies in this: you can draw energy directly from the natural world..." Jiao Yazi explained. "Though the energy you take in is more complex than what the body converts, its nature is much the same. This energy works on you, and naturally it works on others as well — only you can convert it and others cannot. They can merely use you as a conduit to absorb energy you have already converted..."