Chapter 67: The Hired Thugs at the Door?

"Niuniu, if that auntie comes again, tell her to come upstairs and find her brother, okay?" Chen Shu gently patted Niuniu's head before sending her back inside the house.

Once inside, Chen Shu casually tossed Han Meili's bag aside, paying no further attention to it. If the police were to come knocking, he would naturally return it, but dealing with police reports or surveillance footage would be troublesome. When it came to dealing with troublesome people, Chen Shu had his own way of handling things.

He returned to his bedroom and summoned his golden slime. By completing the previous task, he successfully broke through to Level 6 Beast Tamer, and the slime's attributes had significantly increased, even its snoring sounded louder than before!

What surprised him the most was that the "Charge" skill of the slime had automatically leveled up. Every breakthrough had a chance for the Contracted Spirit to comprehend new skills or upgrade existing ones. Although the chances of upgrading skills were slightly higher than comprehending new ones, the odds were still ridiculously low, especially for an F-grade Contracted Spirit.

"You have to vent some frustration. From now on, smash all those rotten fish and shrimps for me!" Chen Shu patted the slime's head, then began extracting medicinal herbs for refinement.

It wasn't until the next afternoon that the slime finally finished digesting the potion, and its defense and size had both significantly increased. If Chen Shu were to activate the "Gigantification" ability, the slime would have a terrifying size of nearly ten meters, surpassing the majority of Black Iron-grade Contracted Spirits in terms of size. Although its strength was far inferior to Black Iron-grade spirits, at least it had an imposing presence!

"My Contracted Spirit is huge. The opponent probably can't stand it." Chen Shu chuckled, patting the slime's head.

In the afternoon, Chen Shu and Zhang Dali lay on the couch, playing games for the entire afternoon, successfully climbing from the Gold tier to the Silver tier.

"I'm telling you, Dali, you're playing so recklessly!" Chen Shu couldn't help but complain. They had played for the entire afternoon and only won a single match, while their opponents had two AFK players...

"How am I playing recklessly? I've stopped camping in the jungle now," Zhang Dali retorted.

"Yeah, he doesn't stay in the jungle anymore. He's started leeching off the minion waves," Chen Shu added.

Chen Shu took a deep breath and said, "It's true that you leech off the minion waves, but getting a gold medal in the mid lane is just too much, don't you think?"

"...," Zhang Dali remained silent for a while before finally saying, "Is that your reason for reporting me?"

"I'm doing it for the greater good!" Chen Shu suddenly thought of something and added, "By the way, I'm going to meet Xie Sunan tomorrow. Do you want to come with me?"

"Me? I won't go. I have to attend the Spiritual Chef training."

"Do you have confidence?" Chen Shu asked. Although Zhang Dali's culinary skills were excellent, the Spiritual Chef training tested one's ability to handle beast meat, which was much more challenging.

"I can barely aim for first place," Zhang Dali shook his head, looking dissatisfied with himself.

"Oh, by the way, when are Aunt and Uncle coming back? I'm a bit hungry."

"You just finish leeching off the minion waves and now you want to leech off meals!"

Just then, the door opened. Chen Shu's parents had returned home, accompanied by a police officer and a girl.

"Oh, so you've confirmed it's your bag? You're quite efficient," Chen Shu immediately recognized the person as Han Meili from yesterday.

"Chen Pi, mind your manners!" Chen Ping, his father, reprimanded him.

"Hello, Officer!" Chen Shu stood up and smiled, completely ignoring Han Meili.

Han Meili, at this moment, had lost the arrogance she displayed yesterday and even felt a sense of unease upon seeing Chen Shu.

The police officer spoke, "Hello, Xiao Chen. The investigation results are out. The money inside the bag was a mistake on Ms. Han's part, and the phone was accidentally broken."

"If possible, please return the bag to her."

Chen Shu nodded, took the bag from beside the trash can in his room, and said, "I'll return it to you, but you need to apologize to Niuniu again."

"Do you know that you are harming the flowers of our motherland, Auntie?" Chen Shu sternly questioned.

Hao Meili remained silent and nodded her head.

Chen Shu couldn't be bothered to argue with her and returned the bag to her.

After the two left, the other three immediately asked Chen Shu what had happened.

After he explained, Zhang Dali slammed the table and exclaimed, "Shouldn't we beat the crap out of her?"

Chen Shu looked over, with a look of agreement that heroes think alike.

...

Early the next morning, Chen Shu arrived at Xiafei Road, ready to deal with the fake medicine peddler.

Just as he reached the intersection, a voice suddenly rang out.

"Chen Shu!"

A girl with a ponytail ran over.

"Xia Bing?" Chen Shu looked at the former class monitor and immediately recognized her.

"What a coincidence? What are you doing here?"

"I live around here," Xia Bing explained. "Didn't I still owe you money? Today, I want to repay you."

"No need to rush, I'm not short of money!" Chen Shu said generously. "By the way, do you prefer WeChat Pay or cash?"

"..." Xia Bing was speechless. I thought you really didn't care? Also, I'm not rushing to repay, I calculate the interest every day...

"Let's do a bank transfer," Xia Bing said. "I borrowed 120,000 from you. If we calculate double the bank's interest rate, then..."

"Forget about the interest!" Chen Shu said generously.

Xia Bing looked Chen Shu up and down. Did you really say that? Are you not yourself anymore?

"Can you do me a favor?" Chen Shu grinned, his eyes flickering cunningly.

Xia Bing had a bad feeling. "Why do I feel like it's not a good thing?"

Chen Shu said solemnly, "How can that be? Help me catch a scammer! Uphold the city's security, as the upright and promising young people of the new era, we should take the lead!"

Xia Bing hesitated for a moment, then nodded in agreement. "Okay, fine. Consider it a thank you for lending me money."

Based on Chen Shu's judgment, Wang Bagou couldn't be the mastermind. How could a seller of mud have such audacity? There must be someone else involved, possibly related to the Beast Tamer. Would an ordinary person dare to deceive millions?

Chen Shu alone may not be able to handle it, but with Xia Bing by his side, it's a different story.

Her contracted spirit is an Ice Wolf, capable of both attack and control.

If they truly can't win, they can let the Ice Wolf delay the opponent, allowing Chen Shu to strategically retreat...

Who can refuse the opportunity of a delivered helper?