Chapter 768 — The Cards Were Stacked
The Blossom Guardian · Page 2 of 2
"Good, then let's just sit back and wait for the good news!" Zhao Qibing nodded, feeling incomparably exhilarated. What goes around comes around — the hour simply hadn't come yet. And now? However capable Wei Zhao was, however great an expert, in the end wouldn't he still be blown to death by him?
Wei Zhao got into the car. He had just started the engine when the jade pendant gave a leap — the signal of danger had come through!
There really was something wrong. Wei Zhao's heart tightened, and without betraying anything on his face, he shut off the engine again.
"Tick... tick..."
Inside the car came a faint sound, like the second hand of a mechanical clock.
A time bomb — that was Wei Zhao's first thought!
It had already been more than a month since he arrived in Songshan City, yet Wei Zhao had still not forgotten the cruelty of the battlefield.
Inside the car, no such sound could possibly have come through. But since the jade pendant had already transmitted its signal of danger, Wei Zhao naturally had no doubt that a time bomb had been planted in his car.
In an instant, Wei Zhao understood why Zhao Qibing had sent him today to discuss the demolition compensation. So this was the scheme he had been plotting.
Keep him steady during the negotiations, and then, in the deserted parking garage of the tower, fit a time bomb to his car without the slightest scruple.
That way, once he drove the car out of the building, it would take only a short while before the bomb went off, and he and everyone in the car would be blown to fragments. A fine little calculation indeed.
And so Wei Zhao also understood why Zhao Qibing had not paid by transfer but had substituted a check instead.
Once the car exploded, the check would naturally be shredded to bits as well, and the money in the bank would suffer no loss whatsoever. This Zhao Qibing was no fool.
Having grasped Zhao Qibing's design, Wei Zhao gave a faint, cold laugh. Telling him not to meddle in the shantytown demolition? What a fine pretext.
Had it been someone less alert, that person would probably have fallen for it already. Fortunately, Wei Zhao had never believed in Zhao Qibing's intentions from the very start; from beginning to end, he had kept his guard up.
Without betraying a thing, Wei Zhao started the car again and drove out of the underground garage of Qibing Tower. Once on the main road, he quickly pulled the car over into a dead corner by the roadside, a spot that could not be clearly seen from the top of the tower.
A sinister plan had already taken shape in Wei Zhao's mind, so he could not let Zhao Qibing and Li Cihua discover what he was doing now.
In fact, Zhao Qibing, Li Cihua, and the others were already wild with delight and were paying no attention at all to where Wei Zhao had gone after leaving Qibing Tower, because wherever he went made no difference. He could not escape death. So why keep watching him? Watch him too closely, and should someone later connect Wei Zhao's death to them, that would be bad.