Chapter 6: Confession
Gu Qing Shan looks around.
Right now is the official prom night for the graduating high school class, all the school officials are here, as well as quite a few big shots from several organizations.
Quite a few of them have already started noticing what's going on here.
In a public place like this, I shouldn't be too conspicuous, better to borrow her family's power instead.
Gu Qing Shan lightly smiles and spoke: "Forgive me, Aunty Su, I'm just suspicious that there might be somebody taking advantage of me to hurt Su Xue Er"
Not expecting that answer, Aunty Su squinted her eyes, the grey-haired elderly man's gentle smile also went away.
"What do you mean?" Aunty Su quickly surveys the surround, lowering her voice and asks.
"Because today something very strange happened" Gu Qing Shan answered.
"What?"
"Zhang Ye sneakily put some sort of medicine in my drink, then encouraged me to confess to Su Xue Er like you saw earlier"
Seeing not only the two bodyguards but also Su Xue Er carefully listening in, Gu Qing Shan slowly explained things from start to finish.
"In case I refused to do as he says, I thought he might try some other methods, so I decided to comply, staging a scene as before to see what he really wanted to accomplish"
"You mean, you've already ingested the medicine?" Aunty Su narrowed her eyes further and questioned.
"That's correct. And there's also this", Gu Qing Shan extended his hand and caught something on his shoulder.
A black needle covered in blood was pulled out!
Aunty Su's expression clearly changed, both her and the elderly man became serious.
Ever since the Su eldest daughter started to become friends with Gu Qing Shan, the Su family have already investigated his background carefully, after two years of friendship between them, they know very well what his personal values are like.
So when Gu Qing Shan got close to Su Xue Er like normal, the two bodyguards didn't mind it.
Who knew that the problem would have sprouted from him of all people.
"Do you feel strange anywhere?" Su Xue Er was worried and carefully asked.
The two of them have a close enough relationship, so Su Xue Er didn't want anything bad to happen to him.
"Of course, I feel my libido burning right now" Gu Qing Shan half-jokingly answered.
Unable to say anything to that, Su Xue Er's face burns up red.
Aunty Su took out a dagger, swiped a small wound on Gu Qing Shan's finger and licked a drop of his blood.
"Hmph" Aunty Su tasted it for a bit, "So it really was an aphrodisiac, and a strong one at that"
Her eyes looking at him became a bit surprised: "Youngster, you can still control yourself?"
Gu Qing Shan dryly laughs: "I'm barely hanging on right now"
In reality, Gu Qing Shan only needed to circulate the spirit energy in his Dantian a little bit to restrain the aphrodisiac effects.
This world doesn't know about the concept of spirit energy yet, and Gu Qing Shan also doesn't want his secret to leak out to other people.
From the start, Su Xue Er was a bright girl, so she immediately understood everything.
She quickly pulls at Aunty Su's sleeves and sincerely asked: "Aunty, you're a master pharmacist, please help him"
Aunty Su took out a small bottle, giving Gu Qing Shan a white capsule from inside: "Swallow it"
Her eyes looking at Gu Qing Shan right now is much gentler than before.
This youngster is both bright and careful, not bad.
Gu Qing Shan received the capsule and immediately swallowed it, and continued: "Seems like, his goal was to embarrass both Su Xue Er and I in front of everybody"
Everyone there turned back to look at Zhang Ye.
Zhang Ye seeing everything already got exposed, felt a chill on his whole body.
He suddenly turned around, looking to quickly get away.
Having seen that, the two bodyguards became angrier.
At this point, everything is already clear.
Gu Qing Shan usually gets along well with the young lady, so the two of them wouldn't be too much on guard against him.
During an official occasion such as a prom night like this, they're more focused on looking out for any unfamiliar faces that appear.
If Gu Qing Shan were to suddenly do something reckless, they might not be able to make it in time to stop him.
In front of everybody like this, if the young lady was violated in any way by Gu Qing Shan, her reputation would definitely suffer, the two of them would also be confused not knowing what to do right away.
If there were any other hidden cards in this prom, it would have been very possible for them to take advantage of the chaos and find a chance to assassinate the young lady.
The elderly man's figure flashed, already stopping Zhang Ye in his tracks.
"Come brat, living is misery, why not fall into a nice dream instead"
The elderly man chants, uses his big rough hands to take hold of Zhang Ye's heah, then slowly closes his eyes.
Then something strange happened.
As the elderly man closes his eyes, so does Zhang Ye close his.
Continue chanting in a strange rhythm, the elderly man's voice is like the devil's whisper, luring mortals in: "Come, come, come, you need only to tell your secret, I will then satisfy your every desires"
A mesmerized smile appeared on Zhang Ye's face, his mouth mumbling: "I'll tell you, I'll tell you right now"
This strange scene leads to the crowd around murmuring, discussing it between themselves.
Gu Qing Shan also didn't expect that, asks: "Is this possibly, a 'God's Chosen Skill'?"
Su Xue Er standing beside him, quietly answers: "That's right, grandpa Lee is a God's Chosen who specialize in finding out the truth"
God's Chosen are Professionists who hold a unique ability, their abilities usually are mysterious, usually manifesting by itself as a person matures.
Their abilities simply cannot be gotten through any form of cultivation or training, its growth can't even be interfered with, just like they've been decided by god from birth.
Because of that, the people who possess these abilities are called God's Chosen.
In Reality, humanity's main fighting powers are divided into 4 types, which are God's Chosen, Martial Artists, Elementalists, and Heaven's Descendants, each of them specialize in a different aspect.
Aside from that, powerful mechs and the Interstellar-series warships are common war weapons of mass destruction.
If what Su Xue Er said is true, then the elderly man's ability must be a hypnosis-type God's Chosen Skill
Seeing everyone focusing on the elderly man's work, Su Xue Er lowers her voice and speaks: "Qing Shan ge, today I have to thank you"
"No need to thank me", Gu Qing Shan curtly replies, "I'm also doing this for myself, if I had really tried to do anything to you in this environment, my outcome would have been exceptionally terrible"
What he's saying is true, because that's what happened to his previous life.
Su Xue Er shakes her head and sincerely speaks again: "Qing Shan ge, a maiden's honor is very important to her, I have to thank you for helping me keep mine. And also, later on if anything happen to you, Xue Er swears to do her best to protect you"
Su Xue Er isn't a bad girl, in the past life, even when she was absolutely disappointed in Gu Qing Shan, she still kneeled in front of the Su family head for three days, begging for him to spare his life.
Because of that, even though Gu Qing Shan went through so much killing, having to risk his life amongst blood and tears every day making his heart already frozen cold to the core, right up to his very last moment in the Apocalypse, Su Xue Er still had a very important place in his heart.
That's right, this girl is like this, once she thinks of someone as her friend, she will treat them with kindness from the bottom of her heart.
Gu Qing Shan only smiled and did not say anything else.
There are some things in this world that you don't need to speak to convey.
Right now, what he's more interested in is why Zhang Ye would do this.
During his past life, this is one of the things that he couldn't find out until the end.
Gu Qing Shan silently fell into thought, not noticing the girl beside him sneakily glancing at his face.
After a while, Su Xue Er stops her eyes, finding inside herself now harboring some unknown emotions.
She keeps feeling like Gu Qing Shan today is different compared to how he always is.
Something seems to have changed about him.
Note:
-Professionist: a term used to describe people who have superhuman powers, literally "a person with a profession", since this novel has more than one system of cultivation, the word Professionist is used to describe them all, while terms like Cultivators, Elementalists and such are used to describe specific types of superhuman.