TSBSPAAM Chapter 74

Chapter 74: Interrogation

Lin An stood behind the chair where Shen Bumian was sitting, lazily leaning against the wall, facing Su Qingyu’s twisted face directly: “Pfft hahaha, sister-in-law, you’re too brutal.”

He hadn’t gone on that mission, but he had eaten barbecue with his sister-in-law. Chen Hebin and the others told him what had happened in the cave when they got back. Heaven knows his jaw dropped back then.

The next day, he took a huge risk to reach for the Feng Yan at Qin Luzhi’s waist, only to be frozen in place by a sharp glare. He saw the boss’s subconscious defensive action.

That was close! But the boss was still the boss, cold and unfeeling!

At the time, he had specifically looked up Su Qingyu’s information. The reviews were excellent.

Things like “Young Master Su is as beautiful as a celestial being,” “kind-hearted and helpful,” and “not inferior to Shen Bumian.” Su Qingyu looked very well-behaved and sensible at first glance, and understood family interests.

I spit on that. After reading it, Lin An wanted to poke his own eyes out. were these people blind? Leaving aside Shen Bumian, he felt that Su Qingyu wasn’t even as good-looking as Zhou Yizhou or Xu Nanxun. He didn’t know who was putting him on such a high pedestal.

“Who do you think you are? Are you worthy of laughing at me?”

Lin An stopped smiling and snorted: “Ah, naturally we aren’t as noble as Young Master Su, but I just don’t know how much longer you can remain noble.”

“What do you mean?”

Even Shen Bumian looked at Lin An. Lin An stopped talking, lowered his head, and whispered something to Shen Bumian. After hearing it, Shen Bumian looked at Su Qingyu with an unreadable expression.

Su Qingyu was about to go crazy. He knew that look all too well; it was pity. In the past, he was the one who bestowed condescending pity on others, but how could these two look at him like that?

Shen Bumian didn’t extend the topic further. “Su Qingyu, cherish the present. I don’t want to talk too much nonsense with you right now.”

“On behalf of the Grey Heron Legion, I am interrogating you. Under the cliff in the Thirteen States, did you intentionally use your ability to hurt people? Yes or no, answer me.”

“I didn’t, I… you are framing me.”

“I’ll ask you again, yes or no?”

Accompanying this sentence were Shen Bumian’s crimson pupils. Strong A-rank ability—Truth Talk. The target will answer the caster’s questions truthfully and completely.

As long as the other party looked directly into Shen Bumian’s eyes, the ability would activate with 100% success. This ability was enough to deal with Su Qingyu.

He had deliberately provoked Su Qingyu just now. As long as Su Qingyu got angry, he would definitely let down his guard and glare at Shen Bumian, falling right into his trap.

Su Qingyu’s eyes began to lose focus. Soon, his pupils dilated, staring straight ahead, unsure if they were even landing on Shen Bumian. Shen Bumian shifted to a comfortable position against the back of the chair and said unhurriedly: “Now you can answer the question I just asked.”

Lin An was dumbfounded. It turns out it can be done like this, hmm… how should I put it, this makes us offensive ability users look like brutes.

Shen Bumian signaled Lin An to start recording on his terminal, and then turned on the recording function on his own as well.

Su Qingyu sat straight by the bed, his eyeballs moving slightly, seeming to want to struggle and break free from the ability’s control, but it was useless.

“Yes, I intentionally used my ability under the cliff in the Thirteen States, but I wanted to kill Shen Bumian. I just didn’t expect Senior Qin to notice the attack and protect Shen Bumian while dodging.”

Shen Bumian: “You are a mental type ability user, but that strike at the time was an offensive type ability move. How do you explain that?”

Su Qingyu said woodenly, “I am indeed a mental type, but I had a spatial stone with me at the time. Inside was an ability weapon I always keep ready, a short blade that can be manipulated through the air.”

Shen Bumian: “Ability weapon? Where did you get it?”

Su Qingyu: “I had it custom-made privately. There are still some in my spatial stone. I order some custom-made every year.”

Lin An clicked his tongue secretly. Look at this, this is the sweet omega with excellent reviews. Secretly ordering knives for murder, simply a viper’s heart!

Shen Bumian recalled what happened in the outpost, pondered for a moment, and asked: “At the Thirteen States outpost, an Alpha’s mental power suddenly rioted and their ability went out of control. Did you do it?”

“It was me. Marshal Qin and Teacher Gu went to find Senior Qin at the time, and Shen Bumian was still at the outpost. So I secretly approached that Alpha and attacked his spiritual sea with my mental ability. You all know that place, the Thirteen States, is unstable to begin with, so it was easy to succeed.”

Lin An’s eyes widened. He only knew about what happened under the cliff, not this incident. This young master actually dared to attack an Alpha!

He looked down at the calm and rippleless Shen Bumian on the chair. Asking this obviously meant he already knew. Then maybe his sister-in-law’s fall from the cliff was also caused by him!

Shen Bumian: “Was the fall from the cliff also planned by you?”

Su Qingyu: “Yes, I deliberately ran to the other side, and I had loosened the soil there beforehand, so it was easy to collapse. When that Alpha attacked you, I would fall down, and then I would grab the tree branches there.”

Shen Bumian: “Those omegas were afraid of you. What did you do?”

Su Qingyu: “I threatened them not to meddle, otherwise the Su family would root out their connections and power in the empire. There are many aristocratic families in the empire. As omegas, they are very afraid of having no power or influence, so they all obediently complied.”

Shen Bumian recalled for a moment. He had seen most of those omegas at previous aristocratic banquets. They weren’t from very prominent families, so they could indeed be threatened by these things.

Shen Bumian sighed silently, wondering how they weighed the pros and cons. The Su family was clearly crushed by the Shen family. If his dad spoke up, who would dare touch those few families?

But Shen Bumian shifted his thinking. Maybe the fear was magnified by the magnetic field of the Thirteen States.

“Anything else you haven’t said?”

Su Qingyu: “When I wouldn’t let go of Shen Bumian’s hand, him being hit in the shoulder by a light arrow was also my doing. I used that ability weapon I mentioned, and I added a bit of my corrosion ability, plus the weakening effect of the black qi from the crystal stone, so Senior Qin’s healing ability was ineffective on him.”

“What I thought at the time was that if he couldn’t use his ability when he landed, he would fall to his death. And I am well-versed in my ability, which would allow me to land safely at the bottom of the cliff, and then I just had to wait for someone to rescue me.”

That was the whole process of the incident. Su Qingyu targeted Shen Bumian alone throughout the whole thing and even threatened others not to help Shen Bumian. But as luck would have it, they ran into Qin Luzhi and the others who hadn’t returned from their mission.

He ended up shooting himself in the foot. In the end, he was the one who lost all face, the one who was detained, the one who was treated differently, and he even inadvertently promoted the relationship between the person he liked and the person he hated.

Shen Bumian raised his hand and snapped his fingers. “Thanks for your evidence.”

Lin An silently gave a thumbs up. Awesome, so it can be done like this. This ability is so useful. I really want the boss to hire sister-in-law.

Su Qingyu’s eyes gradually focused, finally landing on Shen Bumian to form a fixed point.

He stared blankly as Shen Bumian patted his clothes and stood up. Lin An helped him push the chair back, and the two left the room one after another.

Shen Bumian paused at the door for a while, but decided not to tell Su Qingyu that news.

“Sister-in-law? What are we doing next?” Lin An felt that Shen Bumian was becoming more and more charming. No wonder the boss also descended to the mortal world.

“Back to school. I have class in the afternoon.”

Before he finished speaking, his legs went weak, and he almost fell to the ground. Fortunately, Lin An was quick-eyed and deft-handed, supporting him.

“Sister-in-law, what’s wrong? Don’t scare me!”

“It’s nothing. Just every time I use my ability, it consumes a bit too much.”

Lin An had heard that Shen Bumian was physically weak, but he didn’t expect it to be true. Now his face was pale, his naturally light-colored lips were even lighter, and there was fine sweat on his forehead. He really looked like a sickly beauty.

Although he was supporting Shen Bumian through his clothes, Lin An still blushed a little. Besides blushing, he also had the mind to think, Qin Luzhi better not give me trouble for this.

Lin An got someone to bring a hover car over and sent Shen Bumian back to school.

Shen Bumian ate a hasty meal and returned to the dormitory. Remembering something, he opened the star-net to search.

The topic 【The Empire’s Su Family Permanently Expelled from the Shen Family Chamber of Commerce】 remained at the highest heat. Shen Bumian saw it before he even searched and clicked directly on it. It was a press conference held by his dad.

“I, Shen Rufeng, representing the Shen Family Chamber of Commerce, permanently remove the Su family from the Chamber of Commerce. As long as there is a Chamber of Commerce with my Shen family’s influence, there will be no sign of the Su family.”

As soon as this statement came out, there was an uproar in the venue, and many reporters tried to squeeze to the front.

“Mr. Shen, may I ask why you made this decision?” Shen Rufeng was a bit emotional. He only learned later that the young master of the Su family actually wanted to kill his Mian-zai. It was simply intolerable.

“Because their family touched the Shen family’s bottom line.”

With that, Shen Rufeng said no more and left directly, leaving the others looking at each other, not knowing what had happened.

He called his eldest brother directly to ask about the situation.

“What’s wrong, Mianmian? Miss your brother?”

Shen Yi’s voice was cool and lazy, just like his. They inherited it from Mu Jin.

Shen Bumian hummed randomly and asked him what happened. Mentioning this matter made Shen Yi a little angry. “Mianmian, why didn’t you tell me when you were bullied outside?”

Shen Bumian knew he was in the wrong. “Oh, my dear big brother, don’t be angry anymore. Didn’t I just get too busy and forget? You have to be understanding of your brother.”

Shen Yi was reluctant to lose his temper with Shen Bumian to begin with. Now that he said this, he couldn’t get angry at all. “Then you have to remember to speak up next time. You don’t have to tell Mom and Dad, but you must tell me, okay?”

Shen Bumian: “Mm, I promise! So tell me quickly.”

The head of the Su family came to the Shen family mansion personally to beg their family, asking Shen Bumian to be the bigger person and release Su Qingyu. Shen Rufeng then had someone investigate and learned about the small grudge between the two.

Then Qin Luzhi told Shen Yi what he knew, and Shen Yi told him. The group of them were so angry they couldn’t sleep that night.

“From now on, no one from the Su family is allowed to step half a foot near the Shen family.”

“Our Mian-zai just needs to be happy. No matter what you do, the Shen family will support you!”

Later, Shen Rufeng still felt it was better to expel the Su family. After listening, Shen Bumian suddenly remembered the origin of his name. They hadn’t planned to let him enter the First Military Academy at first.

Sleeping until the sun is high, reckoning that fame and profit are not as good as leisure.