Chapter 302 - The Highest Place in the City

Chapter 302: The Highest Place in the City

"Brother, what's up?" Standing in front of the window in the living room, Shen Yan took a few deep breaths, calmed down and picked up the phone from Shen Mo.

"Do you have time? Let's have a drink together." Shen Mo's voice came from the phone.

"OK!" Shen Yan said.

Then Shen Mo did not anything else. He hung up the phone directly. Two seconds later, Shen Yan received the address sent by him. Having a look at it, Shen Yan went back to the room to change clothes, and then he went out.

In the office, Shen Mo, throwing his mobile phone on the desk, glanced at Zeng Mina standing beside him and said: "You grew up and played with Shen Yan from childhood. Don't you know what kind of person he is? You handled him with such brazen tactics. I really don't know whether you are going to handle him or yourself."

Shen Yan was better at such schemes than them even when he was three years old. It was really offering to teach a fish to swim. Shen Mo said in his mind that they deserved it.

Zeng Mina had been severely reproached by Tu Jiaojiao, and she was scolded by Shen Mo at this time. How could she not be grieved? But things had happened, and she could not turn back the clock.

"Don't swear at me anymore. I already know that I'm wrong. Now let's make Shen Yan promise to discharge Mr. Tu and his daughter as soon as possible."

Originally, it was only a small traffic accident. But when it came to Shen Yan, it became collusion between the officials and the businessmen that framed a legitimate businessman. It immediately involved a vice president and a political commissar.

However, these were only superficial effects. If the reporters continued to stay at the gate of the Public Security Bureau and the netizens continued to discuss it, it would stir up a big storm and many more people would be involved.

Zeng Mina was really scared. At this time, she really understood why people called Shen Yan a little fox.

"It is the least likely for Mr. Tu and his daughter to be spared. It has become a big deal now. Even if Shen Yan doesn't hold them accountable, the public security officers will not free them. Tu Jiaojiao stole her father's gun out and impersonated a policewoman to enforce the law with two in-service policemen. It's okay if it hasn't been exposed. But now it has caused a big scandal in the city. Who will dare to let them go at this time?" Shen Mo glared at Zeng Mina, picked up his coat and went out. He made an appointment with Shen Yan and he didn’t want to be late.

Why should she come up to him if Mr. Tu and his daughter couldn't be freed? Zeng Mina was severely pissed off by Shen Mo. Much unspeakable business of Zeng Family was handled by Tu Aiming these years.

But at this time, he just got caught by such a trivial thing? Zeng Mina couldn’t believe it. He was at least a political commissar and a member of the leadership team of the Public Security Bureau.

Zeng Mina went back home in low spirits. Her father, Zhou Jiamin and Li Tianci were all there.

"Mina, how is your talk with Shen Mo going?" Zhou Jiamin intimately helped her to the sofa.

"He has gone to meet Shen Yan. He said that he couldn't do anything to help Mr. Tu and his daughter." Zeng Mina puckered her lips. The eldest child of Shen Family was also nothing, just like anyone else.

"Alas. It was the same as I thought before." Zeng Ziqiang sighed, and he had already expected this result.

As for what the two brothers of Shen Family talked about, only the two knew it. Anyway, after Shen Mo came home, he shut himself directly in the room, and smoked constantly.

As for Shen Yan, he drove the car to the doorway. When he unfastened the seat belt and got ready to get off, he stopped. Sitting in the car for a while, he took out the phone and called Xia Yu.

Xia Yu had been a little scared and almost caught a cold because of the wind. After she came back, she took some medicine and slept when Shen Yan was on the phone with Shen Mo. She had thought she could have a good sleep, but Shen Yan just called her in the middle of the night.

"Hello?"

"Can you come out to accompany me for a while?"

"What?"

"I am in the doorway!"

Why not come in if you were at the doorway? Xia Yu almost blurted it out.

It was almost one o'clock in the morning when Xia Yu watched the time. She patted her forehead to make herself sober and then said: "Okay, I will come out soon!"

Shen Yan came out after receiving a phone call from Shen Mo. When he came back, he looked like this. It seemed that they had talked a lot. Otherwise, he would not ask her to accompany him.

Xia Yu was quick, and she appeared at the door in five minutes.

Shen Yan drove the car over quickly and then the window was rolled down. "Hop in!"

"…" Xia Yu watched him silently.

"Hop in quickly and I'll take you to a place!"

Xia Yu took a breath and got into the car. Shen Yan drove the car out of the community.

"Where are we going?"

"You will know when we arrive!"

Xia Yu did not ask then as she was already in his car anyway. Being resigned to the situation was her greatest ability, so she just closed her eyes and rested. Nobody talked on the way. She fell asleep gradually possibly because of the medicine. She didn't know how long she had been in sleep. She just felt her body was shaking and the car was bumping a bit. She opened her eyes and the car was still moving while outside the window was a stretch of murk.

It seemed that they were out of the city.

Xia Yu straightened up. "Where is it?"

Shen Yan smiled. "We'll arrive soon. I will tell you later!"

Xia Yu: "…"

The car was moving toward the place that was getting remoter and remoter. The road was very narrow, and there was no street light outside the window. So it was difficult to see exactly where it was. Maybe after another ten minutes, the tires crushed the ground and made a loud noise. Then it turned to one side. It seemed to be a large open land in front when she saw through the car lamps.

Xia Yu opened the phone to find their location, and the surrounding paths quickly appeared on the screen. The blue arrow was pointing at the location where they were at the moment, but there was nothing but a few road names around it. It was almost empty.

"We are now in the south of the city?" Xia Yu quickly made a conclusion and asked in surprise.

It was the southernmost part of the city, which was nearly a two-hour drive to the bustling city center. Because it was remote, it developed very slowly. However, the South Loop Viaduct was about to be completed and open to traffic this year. Therefore, some people predicted that this area would have a great development in the next five years. But why the man brought her here in the middle of the night?

The car barely moved forward for a few minutes, and there was no way to drive then. Shen Yan stopped and stalled the car.

"Get off!"

"Get off?"

Xia Yu looked out of the window through the murk of night, and there was nothing except the pitch darkness.

Shen Yan had already opened the door for her when she was still hesitating.

"Get off. We've arrived!"

Xia Yu had no choice but to get off the car, not minding his deliberate mystification. But she wore a pair of stiletto heels with low-cut uppers. At the time, she did not pay attention to the bumpy cobbled road. As a result, she almost stumbled.

Shen Yan held her waist from behind in time. "Be careful. The terrain was not even here."

Xia Yu turned on the flashlight on the mobile phone and shone it on the ground to see the general situation. It was worse than uneven. The road was covered with gravel and waist-high grass, and the surrounding was piled up with piles of bricks and rusty rebar as well as some abandoned building materials. It was like a construction site that had been shut down for a long time.

Xia Yu stood firmly. "What do you want to do to bring me here at night?"

Or, what on earth did the two brothers talk about, which stimulated him severely to bring her here in the middle of the night?

Xia Yu regretted it. Why did he just come out? She should have directly said that she had a headache. Could he take her out of bed recklessly?

Not answering, Shen Yan just held her waist gently: "Go!"

In the middle of the night, the two people shone the flashlight of the mobile phone and walked on a cobbled road which was overgrown with rank reeds. The gravel creaked under their feet. Xia Yu had to worry about her shoes getting stuck in the stone every step of the way out of her high-heeled shoes. She almost attached to Shen Yan completely, so it seemed that she took the initiative to be held by him all the way.

After about a few hundred meters, Shen Yan finally stopped in front of a building. "It's here!"

Xia Yu shone the flashlight on it that was clearly a waste building. It was quite tall with about twenty floors. The main structure had been set up, but the walls and windows hadn't been closed. It seemed that a gigantic monster was rearing up in front of them with many holes on it, and all the holes were steeped in darkness and a draught was blowing out from them.

Xia Yu frowned silently.

"Why do we come here?" She seemed to repeat the same question all the way.

Shen Yan smiled: "Go up!"

"Go up?"

"Yes, climb up. Climb to the top and you will know!"

In the middle of the night, driving more than 100 kilometers to the south of the city with seven-or-eight-centimeter heels and climbing to the top of a rotten building was one of the rare crazy things in the 25 years of Xia Yu's life.

Xia Yu did not exaggerate as it was really ghastly. She was half-coaxed and half-threatened by Shen Yan to climb to the zenith of the abandoned lonely building with no elevator, no lights but just wind from the walls.

The highest floor was just built on stilts. When climbing to the last step, she was completely held by Shen Yan. Then he gently covered her eyes from behind.

Xia Yu was confused. "What?"

"Go forward!"

Standing still for a while, Xia Yu could only follow his words to step and move forward, feeling the wind blowing through the hall from the opposite side that lifted her hair.

Not knowing how far they went, Shen Yan leaned toward her closer and said in her ear: "Okay, open your eyes!"

He put down his hands, and Xia Yu slowly opened her eyes. She gasped when her eyes met the light again. She couldn't help covering her mouth with her hands.

It was a stretch of golden flowing light before her, interspersed with numerous buildings tortuously. Xia Yu was overlooking the city and it became a vast tapestry in her eyes with myriads of lights and stars.

"It's so beautiful." Xia Yu could not help exclaiming.

Shen Yan smiled, walking to her side and standing abreast with her.

"This is the highest place in S city!" And he took the woman to stand here, stepping on everything and looking down the entire city at this time.

Xia Yu closed her eyes and took a breath lightly. The wind whispered beside her ears, and her heart that had been pressed all the time seemed to stretch out infinitely at that moment. She had an ineffable sense of ease.

"How can you find this place?"

Shen Yan bowed his head and smiled wryly. It should have been more than ten years. He had not graduated from junior high school at that time. He lived in school and only went back once a month. One time he fell out with his family out of something, and then he took the bag and ran out of the big house that night furiously.

He might be a runaway. He walked alone for more than four hours, and finally came here. At that time, the unfinished building was not built yet, but because of the high terrain, he could see the night scene of the most of the S city.

The teenager sat alone on the wasteland for more than an hour, until the sun in the east shed the first ray of sunlight on him. Perhaps no one knew his feelings at the time. The world was like a vast and bleak wilderness, and he was surrounded by nothing. No human, no love, no companionship and no hope. he seemingly had been abandoned by everyone. But when he was desperate and helpless, he opened his eyes, just to see that beam of light.