Chapter 778 — Senior Sister Sect Master Qiu Lingshan

"You'll find out what I mean soon enough." With that, Wei Zhao also pulled out his phone and dialed Qiu Lingshan's number directly.

Qiu Lingshan was at the police station at that moment, putting together the final evidence against the kidney-harvesting ring. With the testimony of the two victims, Zhong Yongliang and An Liwen, the case was basically ready to be closed.

A phone rang. Qiu Lingshan took out her phone, saw Wei Zhao's name on the caller ID, and her heart gave a leap for no reason at all. She answered at once. "Good man, what made you think to call me?"

She was alone in her office at the moment with no one else around, so she didn't bother to mince her words.

"Senior Sister Song, I'm at Old Tao Alley, and I've been surrounded by the Songshan City pickpocket gang. Their second-in-command, a fellow called Black Bird Bro, is even calling in people to hack me to death!" Wei Zhao came straight out with it.

"What? You found the pickpocket gang? Their second-in-command, no less?" Qiu Lingshan's blood was instantly racing at Wei Zhao's words. She wanted to rush over and kiss him. This case-cracking speed was simply amazing. She had only told him about the pickpocket gang yesterday, and today he had already solved it for her?

Wei Zhao really was a good man, so very good to her! It seemed her little-silly-girl act was quite to Wei Zhao's liking, otherwise why would he help her like this? For a moment Qiu Lingshan was beside herself with delight.

As for that "Senior Sister Song" business Wei Zhao had called her earlier, she was rather baffled. How had she become Senior Sister Song?

"Our Flying Swallow Sect and them have been feuding for ages! Senior Sister Sect Master, you have to send some people to reinforce us. We're going all in today, a full-scale showdown with the pickpocket gang!" Wei Zhao didn't answer her question and simply carried on. "Bring plenty of people, or we'll come off badly!"

"All right, I'll bring people over right away!" Qiu Lingshan was no fool. Wei Zhao's words were a little baffling, but she still understood what he meant: bring a large force of police over!

"Senior Sister Sect Master, you're coming in person? That's wonderful! I'll be waiting for you here!" With that, Wei Zhao hung up without waiting for her to say another word, then pointed at Black Bird Bro. "Calling in people — who can't do that? Our Senior Sister Sect Master says that in view of the long-standing feud between our Flying Swallow Sect and your pickpocket gang, today we settle it here in a fight to the death!"

Off to the side, Yu Xiaoke's eyes went wide! Who on earth was Wei Zhao calling? Senior Sister Sect Master? Since when did the Flying Swallow Sect have a Senior Sister Sect Master? Her own branch of the Flying Swallow Sect had been passed down to her as a single line of descent, and she was its only disciple!

Besides, Wei Zhao wasn't even a member of the Flying Swallow Sect in the first place. Yet there he was, putting on a most convincing act.

Still, puzzled as she was, Yu Xiaoke kept it to herself and decided to watch and see how things unfolded. Wei Zhao must have his reasons for doing this. She had a premonition that this Black Bird Bro was about to fall into very deep trouble.

"Hell, give you an inch and you take a mile!" Hearing that Wei Zhao had actually summoned the Flying Swallow Sect's Senior Sister Sect Master as well, Black Bird Bro grew a little angry. "You can call in people, and so can I! Since your Flying Swallow Sect has a death wish, then today our pickpocket gang will simply wipe you out!"

Rivals in the same trade are natural enemies, and a sect like the Flying Swallow Sect, which often preyed on its own kind and robbed other crooks, was thoroughly detested by the pickpocket gang. Of course, all they knew was that Yu Xiaoke belonged to the Flying Swallow Sect; they had no idea of its structure, nor where Yu Xiaoke lived or what her real identity was. Otherwise, Yu Xiaoke would not have been able to live peacefully at the orphanage either.

In Black Bird Bro's view, the Flying Swallow Sect surely had more than just Yu Xiaoke. She was merely one of its more conspicuous members. He had never seen this Wei Zhao before, but Black Bird Bro was confident that Wei Zhao had pulled his share of black-on-black jobs too, only more discreetly.

By now Black Bird Bro had pinned every one of the gang's failures on Wei Zhao! He was certain it was the Flying Swallow Sect's meddling that had caused it all, and so his hatred for the sect had reached a fever pitch.

Black Bird Bro dialed the big boss, Giant Deer Bro, once more. "Giant Deer Bro, the Flying Swallow Sect is calling in people too, getting ready for a showdown with us. Their Senior Sister Sect Master has already set out. What do we do?"

"What? The Flying Swallow Sect is calling in people too? Their sect master is coming?" Giant Deer Bro was taken aback, then overjoyed. "If they've got a death wish, then don't blame us. I was only going to send ten men, but this time I'll bring every last member of the pickpocket gang and crush them!"

"Good, good, Giant Deer Bro, I'll be waiting for you!" Hearing that Giant Deer Bro was turning out the whole gang, Black Bird Bro felt his confidence surge. His pickpocket gang had forty or fifty members. If they all came, how could the Flying Swallow Sect possibly survive?

How many people could the Flying Swallow Sect have? Ten or eight at the very most. Black Bird Bro simply didn't take them seriously at all. In his view, if the Flying Swallow Sect had the numbers, they wouldn't be scraping by so miserably in Songshan City, and Yu Xiaoke wouldn't be so lacking in confidence.

After hanging up, Black Bird Bro pointed at Wei Zhao. "Kid, so what if your sect master's coming? Our big boss Giant Deer Bro is bringing every last member of our pickpocket gang. Just you watch us crush you!"

"What? You're kidding? Your big boss is coming too?" Wei Zhao cried out in feigned alarm, while inwardly thinking, I was afraid you wouldn't come!

The whole performance Wei Zhao had put on was aimed at making Black Bird Bro summon every member of the pickpocket gang so that Qiu Lingshan could round them all up in one sweep! Otherwise, with Wei Zhao's skills, taking down Black Bird Bro would have been child's play — but once he was down, the rest of the pickpocket gang would be far harder to wipe out completely!

With Black Bird Bro captured, the pickpocket gang would surely be on their guard now. Rounding them all up in one sweep was, for all intents and purposes, impossible.

But Wei Zhao had cleverly exploited the feud between the Flying Swallow Sect and the pickpocket gang to draw every last member of the gang out. Black Bird Bro, one imagines, would never have guessed that the person Wei Zhao had phoned earlier was not the Flying Swallow Sect at all, but Qiu Lingshan, captain of the criminal police.

In fact, that thought had never even crossed Black Bird Bro's mind. He had already pegged Wei Zhao as one of Yu Xiaoke's lot, so how could he possibly have ties to the police? Utter fantasy, nothing more.

And Giant Deer Bro, as a rule, did not show his face in person, not with police raids to guard against. But the Songshan City pickpocket gang and the Flying Swallow Sect had a long-standing feud, and Giant Deer Bro had long since wanted to wipe out the Flying Swallow Sect's people.

Today Black Bird Bro had set a trap to lure Yu Xiaoke out and teach her a lesson, and Giant Deer Bro knew about it too. That was why he had harbored not the slightest suspicion, instinctively assuming Yu Xiaoke had called in reinforcements for a fight to the death.