Chapter 326 — Sorry
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Yang Qiqi was past tears. She bellowed after Wei Zhao's car, "Wei Zhao, I hate you! Just you wait..."
Wei Zhao's car answered her with a puff of black exhaust...
With no other choice, Yang Qiqi fished out her phone and dialed a number. Her voice came out a little aggrieved. "Grandpa Tombstone... were you following me just now... No? Oh, just admit it... I'm at the junkyard. I'm lost. Come pick me up, quick... All right, I'll wait..."
As Wei Zhao drove out of the alley mouth, he saw that Mitsubishi van coming straight at him. He frowned. So the van really did have something to do with the cool girl after all.
After asking a few passersby for directions along the way, Wei Zhao made it back to the hotel he was staying at. The roads were easy enough to find.
Wei Zhao planned to move at night, so he had nothing to do by day. He parked the car in the hotel lot. To ward off car thieves and any unnecessary trouble, he set the blue baseball cap York had given him on the dashboard before going inside.
He did this because he had noticed plenty of cars on the road with caps displayed just that way, and took it for a kind of sign among the Water Blue Gang's members. With a blue baseball cap on the dashboard, no thief would usually give the car a second thought.
Back in his hotel room, Wei Zhao slept first. He meant to move that night: go in, drag Xie Jinbiao out by force, and head straight home.
Meanwhile, in a suite at the Kenhe Hotel, Yang Qiqi sat beside an old man, thoroughly glum. An angry flush colored her cool little face. "Grandpa Tombstone, that Wei Zhao is truly detestable. I swear I'll kill him! He actually dumped me at a garbage dump!"
"You say that man's name is Wei Zhao?" Tombstone was visibly startled by the name.
"Yes... why? Have you heard of him, Grandpa Tombstone?" Yang Qiqi looked at him, puzzled.
"It's nothing..." Tombstone shook his head. "Why don't you skip tonight's operation? I'll speak with the head of the family and have it called off."
"No. I'm going to kill that Hugh Landon!" Yang Qiqi shook her head stubbornly. "I have to prove to Father that I'm a qualified assassin!"
"Very well then, Miss Yang. Do be careful!" Tombstone said helplessly. "But I'll be posted outside the repair shop. If anything happens, call me at once!"
"I know!" A touch of reluctance crossed Yang Qiqi's cool little face. She did not want Tombstone trailing her, yet there was no way to stop him. No doubt Grandpa Tombstone had been sent by her mother.
That night, Wei Zhao made his move. He parked the car a short way from the repair shop he had visited by day, put on the blue baseball cap, and strode inside.
The Water Blue Gang member on watch at the gate only glanced up at Wei Zhao and did not stop him, then dropped his head again to play his handheld game.
At night the repair shop belonged to the Water Blue Gang; ordinary people did not come to a place like this after dark, so it never crossed the guard's mind that a lone Wei Zhao would dare show up looking for trouble.
Wei Zhao kept his head down under the blue baseball cap, and no one paid him any attention. Inside the repair shop there were three hundred if not five hundred others dressed just like him, each busy with his own affairs.
Wei Zhao did not rush to ask where Xie Jinbiao was being held. Instead he circled the repair shop several times, committing the layout and the routes to memory.
"You lot — go take a look at Mr. Weihante's casino. Someone's *** there. Bring him back to me, and have his family and friends put up fifty thousand dollars for his release!" a coarse voice barked at several Water Blue Gang members.
"Yes, sir!" The members took their orders, piled into several cars, and sped off.
The foul-mouthed man from before turned to leave, and suddenly a blade appeared at his throat. "Don't shout, or you're a dead man!"