護花近衛 - 第325章 等你十年 - 翰墨軒

"Admire him?" Wei Zhao curled his lip as if to laugh. "Sorry to disappoint you, but I really don't know him. And I don't think admiration is quite what I'd call it. A girl like you turns up in Blue City talking about how she worships the leader of the Water Blue Gang — you honestly expect me to believe that?"

The cool girl's expression froze for a moment, though on that cool little face of hers it was hard to tell. "Of course. What else would you think it was?"

"I'm not thinking anything." Wei Zhao gave a snort. "That Mitsubishi van behind us has been tailing us for a long while now. Do you know them or not?"

"Mitsubishi van?" The cool girl blinked, startled, and turned to look back. But when she turned around again, a flicker of indignation crossed her face — gone in an instant, smoothed back into its usual cool composure. "Never seen them."

"Never seen them? Fine, then. We lose them." Wei Zhao downshifted and floored it, and the old Santana roared like a wild stallion and shot forward, instantly opening a great gap between them and the Mitsubishi van behind. Then he started weaving through the back roads, turning left and right and left again, ducking down another side street before the van could catch up. A few exchanges like that, and the van had vanished from sight entirely.

The cool girl watched, astonished, as Wei Zhao shifted, accelerated, and handled the car with effortless skill. A flash of shock crossed her cool little face. "You... how is your driving this good?"

"You ask a great many questions. Ever since you got in, it's been one thing after another. What exactly are you after?" Wei Zhao had run out of patience for small talk with this cool girl.

He had thought her face familiar, and she was from the East besides, so he'd figured he might as well give her a ride. But Wei Zhao had no wish to invite unnecessary trouble. Anyone asking questions like that was plainly not here on a sightseeing trip, and there was a car following them besides. This was one cool girl he wanted nothing more to do with.

"Who are you, really? You're not a member of the Water Blue Gang?" Only now did the cool girl realize something was off. She had jumped to conclusions earlier — seeing Wei Zhao's getup, and watching him drive out of the Water Blue Gang's headquarters, she had taken it for granted that he was one of their men. But now it looked as though Wei Zhao didn't know the roads at all, and was simply driving at random. True, he had shaken off the van behind them, but only because he drove so well.

What tipped her off was that Wei Zhao had turned the car into a dead end. Up ahead was a garbage dump; there was no road left to take. The roadside was lined with dilapidated one-story houses, plainly long abandoned — this had to be the city's refuse collection point... Even if Wei Zhao had been driving blindly in a panic, no member of the Water Blue Gang who knew the local roads would ever steer a car into a dead end like this!

Besides, the road hadn't been a dead end right away. There had been several turnoffs before this, and Wei Zhao had driven straight past every one of them. He clearly hadn't known the road ran out ahead!

And when she connected that with what Wei Zhao had said earlier, about not knowing the Kenhe Grand Hotel, the cool girl finally sensed that something was very wrong.

"No," Wei Zhao admitted frankly. "I only went there to buy a car. The cap was a gift from them."

"..." The cool girl was at a loss for words. She frowned, a little deflated and a little stung. Was she really nothing but a hothouse flower, incapable of standing on her own two feet?

He had already grown suspicious. This mission of hers, she feared, was not going to go smoothly.

At that thought, the cool girl's hand moved — a sharp dagger was in her grip. With a light thrust, she drove it toward Wei Zhao's chest.

Smack. Wei Zhao caught her wrist.