Chapter 19: The Legendary Martial Arts Master

  After Gao Jingyi told Li Ruolan, Li Ruolan suddenly realized and asked repeatedly if Gao Jingyi was seriously affected. As a woman herself, she naturally knew how much trauma such an experience would cause to another girl.

  "Thanks to Zhou Hao, otherwise I wouldn't be able to live on later." Gao Jingyi cast a grateful glance at Zhou Hao. Indeed, if those two guys had succeeded, she would not have survived afterwards.

  Li Ruolan's gaze at Zhou Hao also carried a few points of admiration, "I didn't expect you to be a hero again." Within less than a week, Zhou Hao first killed the vicious drug dealer, and today he rescued Gao Jingyi, Li Ruolan felt that although Zhou Hao was still just a middle school student, his bravery was something that many adults couldn't match.

  Li Ruolan immediately informed the principal of this matter, and Gao Jingyi also called her own father.

  Soon, the principal and Gao Jingyi's father, Gao Houlü, arrived one after another. Following Gao Houlü were also Sutu Li and several police officers. Seeing Gao Jingyi, Gao Houlü hastily ran over to hug her, with a worried look on his face, "Good daughter, are you okay? Your father was worried to death."

  Gao Jingyi was very calm and hadn't cried since leaving the gymnasium, among all the people present, only Zhou Hao had seen her shed tears.

  "Principal Jian, how is the security work being done at your school!" Seeing that his own daughter was unharmed, Gao Houlü immediately vented his anger on the principal of Yuning Middle School, "With so many female students in the school, you let those shameless thugs roam freely around the campus?"

  Facing the mayor's authority, the principal could only endure the scolding and didn't dare to talk back, repeatedly guaranteeing that such a thing would never happen again.

  "Those two must be severely punished, and the construction team responsible for the school's renovation must also be replaced!" Gao Houlu said in a deep voice. His family had only one daughter, Gao Jingyi, who was extremely pampered and loved by them. Moreover, Gao Jingyi was an excellent student, and Gao Houlu planned to send her abroad for further studies in the future. If Gao Jingyi were really ruined, their family would collapse. He turned his head to look at Zhou Hao, and a grateful and affectionate smile appeared on his face. "Comrade Zhou, this time I really owe you one, I don't know how to thank you enough." He was more sincere than when he visited Zhou Hao in the hospital last time, after all, this time Zhou Hao had saved his precious daughter.

  "Xiao Hao, where are those two suspects?" Si Tu Li asked at this time.

  "It's right in the gymnasium, with its head buried." Zhou Hao smiled slightly.

  Situ Li patted Zhou Hao's shoulder, "I didn't expect that you made a great achievement just a few days ago, and today you saved the mayor's daughter again. You're really a young hero."

  Everyone was praising Zhou Hao, especially Principal Jian, because if something really happened to Gao Jingyi, his career as a principal would be over.

  At this time, Gao Houlu also said to Principal Jian: "Don't spread the news about tonight's incident, so as not to scare the students. However, the safety of the school must be guaranteed from now on."

  "Absolutely, absolutely." Principal Jian hastily said.

  Zhou Hao knew that Gao Houlu didn't want this matter to be spread out, was afraid of affecting Gao Jingyi.

  Later, the two unconscious workers were taken away by the police, and Gao Jingyi was also sent to the hospital by Gao Houlü. After all, she had suffered a great shock. Before leaving, Gao Houlü thanked Zhou Haotian again and again.

  "Mayor Gao thinks highly of you." Situ Li smiled at Zhou Hao: "Jianying has been mentioning you these past two days, if you have time, come to my house for a meal, my wife also wants to meet you and thank you in person."

  "I'd be happy to, Uncle Situ, I just don't want to disturb you and Auntie." Zhou Hao replied.

  "You're just saying polite words." Situ Li scolded with a smile, "Remember, before you come over, give me a call first so we can prepare at home."

  After Situ Li left, Zhou Hao also said to Li Ruolan and Principal Jian: "Teacher Li, Principal Jian, I'm going home too."

  Principal Jian nodded and said to Zhou Hao: "Zhou Hao, you did a good job this time, protecting Gao Jingyi's safety. However, you also heard what Mayor Gao just said, so don't tell others about this matter."

  Li Ruolan also said: "I just forgot to tell you, this Saturday our grade is going to Qiuning Mountain for a camping trip."

  "I know." Zhou Hao bid farewell to Li Ruolan and also left the office building.

  As he walked out of the school gate, a gust of night wind blew over, and Zhou Hao's spirits were lifted. He thought back to what had just happened, today was really suspenseful. If he hadn't left the hospital early and come to school for extra classes at night, and if he hadn't coincidentally passed by the gym, Gao Jingyi's fate would have been unpredictable. Zhou Hao even wondered if Gao Jingyi in his past life had really been ruined by those two workers during middle school, and whether that was why she never had a boyfriend afterwards.

  It's all thanks to his intuition, Zhou Hao thought to himself, but he didn't know if this intuition had any other uses besides predicting danger.

  At this time, he happened to pass by a small shop selling welfare lottery tickets. He had an idea in his mind, "Why not buy a lottery ticket and try it out." As soon as he thought of it, he turned around and walked towards the store. At that time, the welfare lottery was relatively simple, and Zhou Hao chose the self-selected number method. He thought for a while in his heart and selected six numbers plus a special number.

  Zhou Hao only bought one, originally with a try-on mentality, and naturally wouldn't invest too much money. The owner of the small shop saw Zhou Hao learning to buy lottery tickets from others at such a young age, and sincerely advised him a few words. Zhou Hao just smiled back, while looking at the notice board in front of the store, which wrote this issue's welfare lottery, with a total prize pool of over 6 million yuan for this period.

  He put the lottery ticket in his bag and continued walking towards home. However, after just two steps, Zhou Hao felt as if he was being stared at by a piercing gaze. Having experienced these things over the past few days, he already knew how sharp his intuition was, so there must be someone around here watching him, or even following him.

  Zhou Hao's heart skipped a beat, but he didn't recklessly look around, instead continuing to walk forward as if nothing was wrong. However, the direction he walked wasn't towards home, because he couldn't bring danger back to his family.

  His speed got faster and faster, and finally he turned into a small park nearby. As the sky had already darkened, there were no more tourists in the small park, and under the dim streetlights, the small park looked very gloomy and frightening.

  Not long after Zhou Hao entered the small park, a tall and slender man also followed him in. He was wearing a deep blue sportswear, with a duck-billed cap on his head, and holding a local newspaper from Xiangcheng City in his hand, which reported on Zhou Hao's brave fight against drug dealers.

  After turning into the small park, the man found that Zhou Hao was nowhere to be seen, and he anxiously looked around in all directions.

  "Who are you, and what are you following me for?" Zhou Hao's voice suddenly came from behind.

  The man immediately turned around and saw Zhou Hao standing there, staring at him coldly. Zhou Hao saw that the newspaper in his hand was reporting on himself, so he sneered: "I don't think you're here to ask for my autograph, are you?"

  "Hmm!" The man threw the newspaper on the ground, "You're the one who killed that drug dealer, aren't you?"

  "That's right, so what."

  "What's up?" The man chuckled and said, "That's my brother."

  Zhou Hao was shocked upon hearing this, and realized that the man had come seeking revenge. Moreover, Zhou Hao had previously heard from Zhao Yuqin that the drug dealer he had killed was part of a Yunnan-based trafficking group, and this man's speech carried a thick Yunnan accent, suggesting that he too was likely a member of the same group. At once, Zhou Hao became vigilant, thinking that if this man was also a drug dealer, it was highly possible that he would be carrying a gun.

  "I didn't like that brother of yours anyway, so you killed him, so what. But you've caused us to lose over a hundred million worth of white powder, and besides, Peter always traded with my brother in cash, but the police only mentioned seizing the white powder, without mentioning anything about the money." He stared at Zhou Hao intensely, "Did you take that money?!"

  "What are you talking about money? I don't know." Zhou Hao denied it outright, "That day, I didn't see that foreigner carrying any money."

  The man stretched out his hand to his waist, "Honesty is the best policy, you'd better hand over the money. I'll forgive you since you're just a kid who doesn't know what's going on. Otherwise, I'll finish you off!"

  Zhou Hao didn't know the man, but he also knew that a drug dealer's words were absolutely untrustworthy. Before the man could pull out his gun, Zhou Hao charged forward and kicked the man's hand with his foot, sending the gun flying out of his hand.

  "The little guy's skills aren't bad at all." The man was slightly startled, and didn't bother to pick up the gun. He raised his palm and struck Zhou Hao's chest instead.

  The man's movements were extremely fast, and even though Zhou Hao's eyes could see clearly, he couldn't help but be shocked by this swift and sudden strike. Without time to dodge, Zhou Hao could only raise his two hands to block in front of his chest.

  With just a loud "bang", Zhou Hao was hit by the man's palm and retreated several steps, his two arms numb and painful. He looked at the man, secretly shocked in his heart, "This guy has great strength."

  But the man was also very surprised, looking at his own palm in confusion, muttering to himself: "This kid actually didn't fall down?"

  He furrowed his brow, then took two steps forward, with both fists splitting into upper and lower routes to attack Zhou Hao. The numbness in Zhou Hao's two arms had not yet dissipated, seeing the man attacking over, hastily dodged. The man's fist hit a tree trunk as thick as a bowl behind Zhou Hao.

  The tree suddenly snapped and fell to the ground with a loud "crack". Zhou Hao was shocked, instinctively touching his own neck, thinking that this man could actually break a tree with his bare hands, was he a legendary martial arts master?

  Zhou Hao immediately didn't care about his demeanor either, and with a lazy roll, he dodged to the side and quickly picked up the handgun on the ground. Without hesitation, Zhou Hao aimed at the man and fired two shots, because this man was too dangerous for him!