Chapter 545 — Qing Bo's True Strength
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He did not know whether it was because of caution or something else.
After reporting the current situation to Gu Pengzhan, Qing Bo stayed there to keep watch on Zhong Yongliang. Gu Pengzhan had arranged for Qing Bo to come precisely so that Qing Bo could find out how Gu Mengyao and Shen Yushu were doing!
In truth, neither Gu Pengzhan nor Qing Bo believed Zhong Yongliang would be so foolish as to keep both Gu Mengyao and Shen Yushu at his home; that would be purely courting death. What Zhong Yongliang had said before was nothing but lies.
What left Gu Pengzhan and Qing Bo uncertain was whether Zhong Yongliang had actually done anything to Gu Mengyao! Thus only by having Qing Bo secretly follow Zhong Yongliang and find the place where Gu Mengyao was imprisoned could they investigate clearly.
And Zhong Yongliang was indeed not so utterly foolish. Though he had not seen Qing Bo's car from the second-floor window, under the circumstances he did not dare rashly go to the cave in Shuangyan Mountain again. Before Gu Pengzhan made a clear statement, going there would be a wasted trip, and besides, the cave already had enough food and water prepared; the two girls certainly would not starve to death.
After dinner, Zhong Yongliang watched a ghost movie for a while and then went to sleep. These past few days Zhong Fabai had been following Bing Shao and Li Cihua to study the demolition matter and had no time to come home at all. With such an opportunity to curry favor with a patron, how could he possibly let it slip?
Seeing that every light in Zhong Yongliang's house had gone dark, Qing Bo did not act rashly at once. He waited a good while—over an hour, until any normal person would surely be asleep—before he vaulted over the wall into the villa's courtyard, climbed up to Zhong Yongliang's window, and peered inside through a gap in the curtains. Zhong Yongliang lay alone on his single bed; there was no one else in the room.
Qing Bo grew all the more certain of his guess: Gu Mengyao was not in Zhong Yongliang's house. Yet he dared not be a hundred percent sure, so he resolved to search the villa once through first—there could be no great harm in caution.
That Qing Bo was an outer-school expert of the Yellow Rank was a thing no one knew but Gu Pengzhan. In truth, even Gu Pengzhan had no clear notion of just how much of Qing Bo's strength had been restored.
Qing Bo's present strength had already reached the peak of the late Yellow Rank. But for an outer-school expert to break through to the Profound Rank was impossible without a fitting opportunity. That was why outer-school experts at the early Profound Rank, men like Wu Gonggao, were exceedingly few.
Because Qing Bo cultivated only his body, attaining formidable power through the flesh itself, the energy fluctuations within him differed little from those of an ordinary person, and so Wei Zhao could not perceive his true strength either! Only in the instant Qing Bo gathered his force to strike could Wei Zhao detect it.
Yet in all the time Wei Zhao had spent with Qing Bo, Qing Bo had scarcely ever made a move, and that was why, to this day, Wei Zhao had never been able to ascertain his strength.
To search out the goings-on within a villa was no difficulty at all for an expert at the peak of the late Yellow Rank. Qing Bo completed his search smoothly, and even discovered a secret chamber door hidden behind a wall cupboard in Zhong Fabai's study.