Chapter 235 — Tang Zhi's Prank
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"Oh, Mom, stop asking so many questions..." Tang Zhi was embarrassed and shook her mother's arm shyly.
"Why shouldn't I ask? Of course I need to know what's going on with you!" Tang's mother only grew more anxious. If Wei Zhao did not like her daughter, would their family have to go on being poor forever?
"He said that only if I agreed to go out with him would he..." Here Tang Zhi grew so embarrassed she could not go on, and without another thought for her mother standing there, she ran off into the house...
"Oh?" Hearing this, Tang's mother was rather gratified, though she shook her head all the same. "That Wei Zhao is a fine boy, after all. In that case, he'll treat Yun'er well enough in the future..."
At that thought, Tang's mother brightened again...
In the outer room of an intensive care ward at Songshan City First People's Hospital, Qiu Lingshan sat at a desk with several subordinates.
Her brows were tightly knitted as she looked at her colleagues, at a complete loss. "Do any of you have any ideas?"
Black Panther had already woken up, but he kept his mouth shut about how his strength had suddenly increased, wearing the look of a man who did not care whether he was killed or cut to pieces. There was nothing Qiu Lingshan could do.
After all, whether Black Panther had abruptly boosted his strength had nothing to do with the case. If he would not talk, Qiu Lingshan could not force him to; she was simply curious.
"Chief Song, I say we just let it go," one subordinate suggested. "He has no strength left now anyway. If he won't talk, there's nothing we can do. It has nothing to do with the case. We can just send him back to the detention center and close the file."
What he said made sense, after all; Qiu Lingshan could not probe into matters unrelated to the case... Just as she was stewing over it, a subordinate on guard duty over Black Panther came running out of the ward. "Captain Song, he talked..."
"He talked? What did he say?" Qiu Lingshan asked.
"He said that in his early years he took some kind of pill that could unleash his strength to its peak at any time, but it wouldn't last long before he returned to normal..." the subordinate said. "Black Panther wanted to sleep, and I pestered him until he got annoyed, so he told me..."
"What?" Hearing her subordinate's report, Qiu Lingshan's face immediately clouded over. Telling it that way was as good as not telling it at all; there was no usable value in it. Still, Black Panther had not actually lied. In his early years he had indeed taken a similar pill, and with the sect's secret mental techniques and incantations he could activate it, causing his strength to surge in an instant.
Thinking of how weak Black Panther was now, Qiu Lingshan believed what he said. She had no choice but to believe it. Black Panther had indeed been crippled by Wei Zhao; if he had not dropped a level, Qiu Lingshan would not have believed Wei Zhao could be so formidable.
"All right, once Black Panther's injuries have healed, send him back to the detention center and wait for the court hearing." Qiu Lingshan waved her hand. Black Panther had truly given her a hard time; she had not slept well for days. Now that the man was caught, sending him back would count as completing the mission.