Back to the Peak

Chapter 45: Radiation Energy Inducers

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Gu Changjin didn’t want to hurt Cheng Ran at all.
At first, he only went to Cheng Ran because of Cheng Hong’s instructions.
But over the years, his relationship with Cheng Ran grew very close.

These days, at the beginning, he had always regretted that he had brought too much attention to Cheng Ran.
However, after he knew that Cheng Ran was going to be injected with radiation energy inducers, he felt that this matter had nothing to do with whether Cheng Ran had attracted too much attention or not.

When Cheng Hong had learned that Cheng Xuze had gone to Spark City, he immediately made this decision.
It was enough to prove that he had already arranged for it to happen.
Even if Cheng Xuze hadn’t come, all that would have amounted to was the time being postponed.

In fact, if Gu Changjin hadn’t often concealed Cheng Ran’s real condition, saying that Cheng Ran’s physical problems were very serious, he was afraid this reagent would have already been sent to him long before.

Cheng Hong should have planned to make Cheng Ran completely healthy before the injection.
If he had kept dragging on, he might have dragged it out for two years, but now Cheng Xuze had appeared…

After hesitating for a while, Gu Changjin opened the box in his hands and saw the blue liquid.

This was a high-level radiant energy inducer specially configured according to a person’s physical condition.
People flocked to buy this inducer, but it was very precious, with basically no chance to obtain it.

The country’s government injected radiation inducer agents into every teenager over the age of 16, but they were the most common ones.
Because in some cases, the incompatibility of the inducer agents with the body could lead to death, some families with power, money, and influence would find someone to tailor high-level inducers for their children.

If other parents prepared such things for their children, it surely would have been because they doted on their children.
In most secondary and tertiary cities, such things couldn’t even be laid eyes on, but Cheng Ran’s situation was different.

Cheng Ran naturally repelled radiant energy.

Cheng Ran had rejected radiant energy since childhood.
Once he came into contact with radiant energy, his body would have adverse reactions.
In this case, it was reasonable that he could not inject radiant energy inducers at all, but Cheng Hong secretly insisted on having Cheng Ran inject the inducer anyway.

After the first injection, Cheng Ran had been seriously ill.
Cheng Ran’s birthday was in April.
It was now October.
It took him half a year to recover to his current health.
Did he really want to make Cheng Ran go through this again?

Moreover, Cheng Ran had been in a very dangerous state after the last injection, and almost suffocated.
If that happened again this time…

Gu Changjin gathered up the potion.
He knew very well that if he really injected Cheng Ran, it would be no different from murdering him.
Of course he couldn’t do such a thing.
But his niece…

Gu Changjin closed his eyes and remembered the previous tragedy.

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He was born in Clear Lake City, a third-class city.
His parents died early, and then he lived with his younger sister.
He had a good talent and devoted himself to cultivation.
He never married.
His younger sister married a rich young man who had been passionately pursuing her at that time.

He was the third young master of a large family in Clear Lake City.
He wouldn’t have to worry about food and clothing all his life and didn’t have to bear the family business.
For Gu Changjin’s sister, he was the best choice.

Seeing that his sister had a home, Gu Changjin left Clear Lake City and went to Yangtze City to study and reside.

However, he did not know that the rich young master married his sister because of Gu Changjin’s strength and talent.

The rich young master didn’t have the right to inherit, so he wanted to use Gu Changjin’s power to become the heir of the family.
He left after his sister got married, which naturally made all the man’s plans come to naught.

At first, the man was kind to his sister, who blessedly conceived to a girl after a year of marriage.

At that time, the man began to invite Gu Changjin to Clear Lake City again and again, but it was a pity that Gu Changjin was at the critical bottleneck of level 5, and felt that he could not help a woman to birth a child and take care of them.
He might as well improve his strength and bring some medicine to his niece in the future.
In the end, he didn’t go.

As a result, his attitude finally made the scum think that he had a bad relationship with his sister and that his sister was no longer valuable…

After that, the man began to change how he dealt with Gu Changjin’s sister, from light to heavy.
If his sister resisted, he would threaten to hurt their daughter…

Gu Changjin and his sister were dependent on each other.
How could they not have deep feelings? Because he had never married, he even told his sister that he would ask his niece to provide for him.

However, the man never showed that he approached his sister to gain Gu Changjin’s strength, and so Gu Changjin hadn’t considered any of this.
After all, the man had always respected his brother-in-law and showed a playful but not out of line dandy image.

At first, the man didn’t commit domestic violence against Gu Changjin’s sister, but the mental injuries were endless.
Later, he slowly began to act physically…

Gu Changjin didn’t know about many things until later.
After he found out, he even felt that the man was insane.

All of this had taken place over a long period of time.
At first, his sister just felt that there was something wrong with her husband and her life was unhappy.
She didn’t tell Gu Changjin because she didn’t want to worry him.
At first, she didn’t say anything, but later she couldn’t open her mouth, and even was beaten and scolded all day.

Thirteen years later, the madman beat his daughter.
His sister couldn’t stand it any longer.
Finally, she plotted to let the man eat something that should never be eaten.
He became a useless man because of the radiation riots in his body.

The man had some power at home, and his parents were still there.
Naturally, he will try to avenge him.

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When he finally received the news, his sister had been exiled from the city, and his niece had also been driven out of the house.
When he tried hard to find his sister in a mobile town outside the city, the woman was even critically ill.

Later, Gu Changjin fought against the family, severely injuring that man’s brother, who had gone out of the city to hunt, and caused them a lot of trouble… At that time, he was going crazy, and his attacks hit extremely hard.
Although he didn’t kill anyone, what Gu Changjin did was more painful than killing.

He was so arrogant that he was arrested; he had been so agitated that he didn’t even bother to hide what he’d done.
At this time, Cheng Hong had saved him and forced the family to give up suing him.

It is precisely because he had such an experience that he didn’t immediately drive Shi Qingyang out after he learned about Shi Qingyang’s parents, and that Shi Qingyang’s revenge might involve Cheng Ran.

Now, more than ten years had passed.
The man who hurt his sister had long died of illness.
The family in Clear Lake City had also plummeted.
Even his niece, who had settled in a different city, was now married and had children.

Unexpectedly, his niece, whom Gu Changjin hardly contacted, was now being threatened by Cheng Hong…

Gu Changjin knew it wouldn’t be difficult for Cheng Hong to deal with his niece.
If he wanted to prevent Cheng Ran from getting hurt, Gu Changjin must tear all pretenses of agreement with Cheng Hong.

His mood was very complicated.
For a while, Gu Changjin could not even calm down to cook.

When Shi Qingyang and Cheng Ran came back, they saw that Gu Changjin’s state was obviously wrong.

“Grandpa Gu, are you not feeling well?” Cheng Ran asked curiously.

“Young master, I’m fine.” Gu Changjin smiled.

“Grandpa Gu, you’d better take a rest.
I can cook,” Shi Qingyang spoke.

Cheng Ran took out some lollipops and gave them to Gu Changjin: “Grandpa Gu, this is what I earned.
I’ll give you one.
You’ll feel better after eating it.”

Looking at the lollipop, Gu Changjin suddenly thought of what happened when Cheng Ran was a child.
Although Cheng Ran seldom cried when he was little, he also cried silently.
At that time, he was just asked by Cheng Hong to take care of the child.
Gu Changjin knew how to coax children.
When he saw the child crying, he put some candy in his mouth, and said that he would not cry after eating.
He would be in a good mood…

Cheng Ran remember that now.

This child, as long as others were kind to him, he would be willing to give away his own heart and soul…

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Gu Changjin’s expression changed.
Although Cheng Ran didn’t notice anything, Shi Qingyang felt it.
He then thought of Gu Changjin’s abnormality a few days ago.

At that time, he had been busy with revenge and paid most of his attention to Cheng Xuze.
Naturally, he did not pay much attention to Gu Changjin, but now when he thought about it, he immediately found that Gu Changjin had been acting strangely.

Why was Gu Changjin in this state? Was there anything that could make Gu Changjin feel so tangled?

Before long, Shi Qingyang locked the target of Gu Changjin’s abnormality as Cheng Ran – Gu Changjin’s gaze on Cheng Ran was too indecipherable.

Cheng Ran was there, so Shi Qingyang didn’t ask much.
Gu Changjin didn’t want to go back to his room to have a rest, and he didn’t insist.
However, that night, he knocked on Gu Changjin’s door.

“I knew you would come.” When he opened the door and saw Shi Qingyang, Gu Changjin sighed.
Shi Qingyang was arrogant at first, and he thought Shi Qingyang was too young and thoughtless.
But soon, after Cheng Xuze appeared, Gu Changjin knew that Shi Qingyang was obviously not simple.

“Grandpa Gu, what happened?” Shi Qingyang asked.

“Come in.
I’ll show you something.” After thinking for a while, Gu Changjin decided to tell Shi Qingyang about it so that he could discuss it with someone.

The furnishings in Gu Changjin’s room were very simple, and all of them had come pre-furnished with the villa.
Shi Qingyang sat at a small table by the door and saw Gu Changjin take out a box.

“Do you know what this is?” Gu Changjin asked, opening the box.

Shi Qingyang could not identify it with just his eyes.
“What is it?”

“Advanced radiation energy inducer.”

“What’s this for? For Ranran?” Shi Qingyang was shocked.
In the country’s history, it was true that if the radiation energy inducer’s injection failed to induce rad-energy in the beginning, one might luckily contract rad-energy later, but the process was different.

Now the world was full of radiation.
Even if ordinary people couldn’t stand the radiation outside the city, they wouldn’t reject it.
But Cheng Ran had such a condition.

The meat of a mutated beast contained very little radiation energy.
The vast majority of people could eat it, but Cheng Ran couldn’t stomach it.
His body had reached this point, so how could he still inject radiation inducers?

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“This is for Ranran.”

“Grandpa knows that Ranran is in bad health and would never give it to him.
So, is this from Ranran’s father?” Shi Qingyang thought of Cheng Xuze’s complaints about Cheng Hong before, and soon determined that the matter must mostly come from Cheng Hong.

Obviously Cheng Ran didn’t have radiant energy, but Cheng Hong still let Cheng Ran go to radiant energy school.
It turns out that he was anticipating this step!

However, during Cheng Ran’s two years in Spark City in Shi Qingyang’s last life, Cheng Ran was ill at the beginning of school.
After that, even if he often felt unwell, he would only take a day or two off.
He was not ill for a long period of time.
Therefore, Cheng Ran had not been injected with radiation inducers at that time?

As for why this time it was the advanced inducer, it likely had something to do with Cheng Xuze.
Moreover, Cheng Ran had no longer been hurt at the beginning of this school year, and his body recovered faster.
“This medicine is supposed to be injected into the young master.”

“Grandpa Gu, you can tell Grandpa Cheng about this…”

“If I could, would I be struggling for so long?” Gu Changjin smiled bitterly.

Shi Qingyang didn’t have to think about it.
He knew that Gu Changjin was being threatened.
Not only that, but when he thought about it, Cheng Xuze and Cheng Hong were father and son after all.
Cheng Xuze might be furious when he knew about it, but he couldn’t do anything to Cheng Hong.
He and Gu Changjin would be affected at that time.

“Grandpa Gu, pour out the medicine and pretend to have injected Ranran,” Shi Qingyang thought for a while and said directly.

“What about the body data?” Gu Chang frowned: “Besides, he might come over himself.” Cheng Hong had injected Cheng Ran with the original radiation inducer himself.
Later, he recorded Cheng Ran’s data.
When he saw that Cheng Ran was dying and groggy, he left in anger.

“Grandpa Gu, the body data can be duplicated according to the last time.
No, just say that it put Ranran’s life in danger.
As for the possibility that he might come over, I have a way to hold him back.”

“You really have a way?” Gu Changjin asked, “In addition to holding him back, we should also guard against the dean of Spark Academy.
Furthermore, we should also handle the medical data and related videos…” Cheng Hong would definitely make him record the process.
Even if Cheng Hong didn’t come over, the dean of Spark Academy would certainly come to observe Cheng Ran.

“Let Ranran help with the acting.
He was ill once.
It shouldn’t be difficult for him to act it out again.
We can find someone to break all the medical devices and let them display wrong data…” Shi Qingyang thought about it one by one and began to consider the feasibility.

Cheng Hong was probably worried that Cheng Xuze had noticed something and that was why he had come over.
Cheng Hong might have sent this potion to test Gu Changjin, but anyway, this situation gave them time to prepare in advance.

As for how to delay Cheng Hong… Shi Qingyang had also investigated Cheng Hong.
Although the information on the Internet was not detailed, one thing was quite certain: Cheng Hong was very interested in his children.

He spent very little money himself, but he once asked a pharmacist for the medicine to recuperate his son’s body.
If he knew the existence of the Almight Elixir, would he not be covetous?

However, this matter wasn’t easy to deal with…