Beauty and the Bodyguard

Chapter 108 - Investigate Him

Lin Yi only got in Mengyao's Audi, completely disregarding what the miss was saying. He stepped on the pedal, and shot the car out of the small opening he'd just made from pushing the cars- the speed and precision involved stunned everyone present!

The opening was barely enough for a car to pass by! Barely! As in less than two centimeters each for both sides!

This sort of gap was extremely unmanageable for a normal driver- one small mistake and the car would've had a scratch on it. This Lin Yi guy, however, didn't spend one moment's hesitation before driving the car out, with clearly no effort at all! It was as if he'd never considered that he'd even scratch the other cars in the first place!

A true master- this man was an absolute master behind the wheel! Feng Xiaoxiao (Feng Laugh Laugh…) was completely stunned: she'd thought the guy was just some good looking dude with some strength to spare, someone who'd attracted the attention of another house's young miss… But she'd never expected him to be this absurdly strong at driving, too!!

Xiaoxiao frowned- she'd never hired a bodyguard before, but she more or less understood how the business worked. To get yourself a guy like Lin Yi, a guy with that kind of strength and unparalleled driving, with good looks and style to top it off… Even if you did manage to find someone of those qualities, it'd be a very large sum of money involved.

The two misses behind Lin Yi also started piquing her interest- Feng Xiaoxiao decided that she'd have them investigated later. She promptly memorized the licence plate on the Audi.

Lin Yi moved the car out without so much as glancing at Xiaoxiao and her group. He got out the car immediately before going to the back through the other door.

Mengyao finally felt that Lin Yi wasn't that irritating after all- she was feeling real proud and good right now, especially with how speechless the opposing party was! She'd usually have to call the police to have the matter settled if Lin Yi weren't here, but he'd just pushed the cars away in two moves and got the car out immediately afterward!

She eyed Xiaoxiao a little smugly as she got in the car. She slammed her foot onto the pedal, and disappeared in a trail of smoke.

Feng Xiaoxiao, on the other hand, was furious- she didn't even have any ill intentions in the first place, all she really wanted to do was to race the car's owner after seeing the new Audi S5 parked out here! She'd never expected to have to deal with a guy like that!

The car didn't belong to Lin Yi, but rather to the Miss behind him… But that guy had pissed her off way more than Mengyao had! He was a complete lackey! He was good looking, stylish as he pushed the cars out of the way, and extremely masterful with cars- but he was a lackey! He was a lackey, so what was he getting all smug for?

Xiaoxiao couldn't believe she'd just let someone's lackey step all over her!! What was up with that!?

Hmph, you'd better not let me see you again- I'll show you who Feng Xiaoxiao really is!

"Feng Sis… What do we do?" The youth said, very troubled as well. Anyone who drove an Audi S5 had to be quite something, and they weren't reckless enough to charge after people like that without some prior research. Their families did business- they weren't too powerful in the bigger picture, but they had more or less some involvement with the upper echelon of Songshan. They knew how powerful the bigger fish were.

They were people who understood the gravity of consequences- their dads had power, but they'd be fucked if they messed with the wrong people on the wrong social ladder. They weren't about to just piss off someone who drove an Audi S5 when they hadn't a clue what kind of a character he or she was.

The youth would've beat Lin Yi up with his men long ago if Lin Yi was just a random dude. He'd do anything to get Xiaoxiao's favor, but as the saying went- you had to see who the dog's owner was before you beat the dog. The girl was obviously no small fry, and the youth made sure to not act on impulse, lest he drag his dad into some serious trouble.

"What do we-? We leave!" Xiaoxiao hmphed, clearly very pissed off. "Whole thing's pointless."

"Feng Sis, maybe I can investigate that guy a little?" The youth wasn't stupid- the girl was no easy target, but Lin Yi was just a lackey- it'd be fine as long as they messed with Lin Yi without Mengyao around.

Even if something did go wrong, even if the enemy had serious background backing them up- they'd still never go to war for just one of their workers! Their families weren't too powerful, but Xiaoxiao's was a different case!

"Do it then. Look into the Audi S5, as well- AS5555, not a bad plate." Xiaoxiao hmphed.

"Understood, Feng Sis. I'll get my men on it this instant!" The youth said with a nod. He pulled his phone out and dialed someone up- he was on the phone for a while before his face changed. "What's that, Lan Bro? That car's confidential? But how… it's a citizen's plate… From the military? Okay, got it…"

The youth turned to Feng Xiaoxiao as he hung his phone up. "Feng Sis, the car's confidential……"

Xiaoxiao had heard the conversation, and wasn't looking too good herself. Her dad's car was confidential as well, and it wasn't rare for the people involved with the government to have their cars made confidential- not just anyone could look into their details.

But that comment about the military put a frown on Xiaoxiao's face- a military licence plate? It took more than just some local influence to be able to get a licence plate from the military, let alone a low-key military plate like this.

But that didn't matter- their target was the lackey, not the girl! Xiaoxiao wasn't scared of anyone from the military, not when she had her father backing her up. There was her grandfather, as well……

Xiaoxiao smiled at the thought. She turned to the youth. "Then let's leave the car alone for now- go find out who that bodyguard is, and which company he belongs to……"

"No problem, Feng Sis." The youth was feeling trouble upon hearing that the Audi had a confidential military plate- his own family, for one, wasn't powerful enough to be messing with people of that caliber at all. Xiaoxiao telling him to focus on the bodyguard instead of the girl, however, put his mind at ease. "I did manage to take a picture of him earlier, I'll get my men to look into it right now."

"Oh? Did you? You took a picture of him?" Xiaoxiao asked, stunned and delighted at the same time. "Send it to me through Bluetooth……"

Chapter 109 - Overtraining and Exploding

Lin Yi, naturally, didn't give much thought to the kiddos back there- they weren't any different from the likes of Zhong Pinliang and Zou Ruoming, after all. Lin Yi may have been a high school student, but the immaturity these people displayed was quite ridiculous to him.

"Hey, I'll get Uncle Fu to wrap up the procedures for your licence when we get back- get you another car, too, so you can drive us the next time we go out, alright?" Mengyao said as she glaced at Lin Yi from the rear view mirror.

"......" Lin Yi was currently deep in thought, too occupied to notice Mengyao's words, assuming that she was talking to Yushu instead.

Mengyao wasn't very happy at Lin Yi ignoring her. "Hey, I'm talking to you."

"Hm? Me?" Lin Yi blinked as he looked at Mengyao. "Miss, you called?"

"Yes I called! Of course it's you- who else? Shu?" Mengyao had her eyes on the road at the moment, unable to turn around to glare at Lin Yi. (The way Mengyao says this in the original sounds like she's suggesting to call Lin Yi 'uncle'... couldn't think of a way to translate that joke in)

"Oh, I wouldn't mind if you called me 'uncle'." Lin Yi said with a grin.

"Huh?" Mengyao paused for a bit before understanding what Lin Yi had meant. She slammed her foot down on the brake in a fit of rage.

"Aah-!!" Shu cried out, almost thrown out through the windshield. "Yao Yao, what the hell!"

"Ah… Sorry…" Mengyao only got even more irritated as she realized how completely unaffected Lin Yi was- she'd planned on shaking him up a bit with the brake, but almost got Yushu hurt instead.

"Lin Yi!!" Mengyao said with an angry glare as she turned around. "Did you hear what I said?"

"What?" Lin Yi asked, having missed Mengyao's words to him earlier.

"Nevermind……" Mengyao decided to leave it at that, not very keen on bullshitting with Lin Yi anymore. My dad hired you, so you have to do what I say anyway- I don't have to negotiate with you.

"Oh." Lin Yi said, not thinking much of it. The Miss was probably just doing what misses did, getting pissed at trivial stuff again.

Mengyao was still upset about the whole incident as she pulled Yushu upstairs with her. She decided that Lin Yi was a jerk after all, acting so nonchalant and relaxed when her dad had hired him as Mengyao's follower!

Lin Yi, naturally, didn't dwell on it. This was just how young misses were, he supposed- it'd actually be quite out of place if she were kind to him, as a matter of fact.

He got into bed excitedly after brushing his teeth and washing up- he'd planned to chat a bit with Jiao Yazi, hoping to learn more about the things he could do with energy. He'd never thought that he'd be able to transfer energy before Yazi had told him, after all.

"You've come?" Yazi said, quietly standing in the training space within the jade.

"Elder Jiao!" Lin Yi said excitedly upon seeing the old man. "Elder Jiao, so what's up with the energy inside me? How come I'm able to share it with people?"

"All living things have some level of energy within them, it's just something we need to survive. How we absorb said energy, though- that's what differs. Humans and animals, for example, gain energy through consuming food, while plants get it from sucking up the nutrients and water from the soil… What you do, on the other hand, is you suck in the energy from your surroundings." Yazi explained. "The energy you absorb is a bit different from the other energy I mentioned, and it gets complicated from there, but they're not too different in essence. You suck that in and your body changes it, turning it into a form another creature can receive. Naturally, this energy you absorb works on you as much as it does on other people, except you're the only one who gets to transform the energy."

"So you're saying I can transfer the energy inside me to other people whenever I want?" Lin Yi asked excitedly. The way the explanation was going, it seemed like other people would be able to absorb the energy he shared with them without even training at all.

"Well, of course not." Elder Jiao said, a little speechless at Lin Yi's statement. "At least not from what I've learned about the first stage. Its impossibility is a certainty there, but I don't know if the same rule applies to the other stages. I haven't seen the scroll, after all, so I can't say for sure."

"Then about what I did today……" Lin Yi continued, a little disappointed.

"Didn't I just explain that- what happened today happened only because of the deficit of energy inside the man's body. He didn't have enough to support his basic bodily functions, and it's only during special cases like that where you'd be able to send your energy inside of him." Elder Jiao explained. "A healthily functioning body won't accept the energy you're offering simply because it doesn't need it. Although, keep in mind that I'm explaining this without full knowledge on the Art of Dragon Mastery- it's something my master's master left behind, after all."

Elder Jiao's explanation was a bit complicated, but Lin Yi caught the gist of it. His energy could only be sent to someone else's body only when it was an emergency; it wouldn't work on a normal body with no problems whatsoever.

"So basically a person needs to have some sort of problem with their body for me to be able to send energy into them?" Lin Yi asked.

"You can say that, but think of the effects from the energy infusion as something like maintenance- meaning it wouldn't be doing anything like restoring a damaged organ to its original state." Yazi continued. "I said this earlier, as well- you can stabilize and save the old guy all you want, but curing his disease… It's just impossible."

"Well, I do actually have other ways to cure illnesses, through acupuncture needles and herbal soups in Eastern medicine- I can still help someone recover gradually." Lin Yi said, not as disappointed anymore. Just saving someone from the brink of death in an emergency was amazing enough- he could always start curing the problem after keeping the patient alive.

There was no reason for him to offer a service like that to the old man, however- the two were completely unrelated, and passionately overextending would result in negative results: people would think he harbored other intentions.

Having had his questions answered, Lin Yi then went on to calm his heart down before he entered a training posture.

"I say, young man Lin- what're you planning to do?" Elder Jiao interrupted abruptly.

"Uh, training." Lin Yi answered, perplexed. Couldn't Elder Jiao tell what he was doing, with his posture and everything?

"Why would you train the first stage again? You don't have the scroll for the second stage, and the energy you'd absorb wouldn't react very well if you didn't have the proper chant- meaning it's pretty easy for your body to overflow and explode with energy if you stuff too much into yourself!" Elder Jiao said with a glare, as if wondering whether or not Lin Yi were an idiot for setting himself up for an explosion.

"Uh……" Lin Yi wasn't expecting something like that- it really was fortunate for him to have established a connection with Elder Jiao before he tried something like this. He'd be screwed if he continued the training after somehow breaking through the first stage one day.

"But… Didn't I waste a bit of energy to heal the old guy today?" Lin Yi asked a little awkwardly. "Don't I have to replenish that or something?"

"It'll recover itself on its own after one night's sleep, you don't need any training for that." Elder Jiao said with a roll of his eyes, speechless. This reckless kid has no idea what he's doing at all!

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