Chapter 889 — Poisoned, of All Things
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Wei Zhao's face turned abruptly grim as a possibility came to him. "Was the bullet poisoned?"
"Poison?" Ma Zhu was briefly taken aback; plainly he had known nothing of it.
"Hahahahaha!" At Wei Zhao's words, Zhen Yingjun suddenly burst into loud and delighted laughter. "I thought you were immune to poison! It has been so long without a reaction that I assumed the stuff was useless on cultivators like you — so it was merely slow to take effect! I wondered why you had grown so clumsy. It was the poison all along! Wahahahaha!"
"It really is poisoned!" Wei Zhao clenched his teeth, his breath coming short and fast. He had not expected Zhen Yingjun to be so vicious as to coat the earlier bullets with poison!
"Master Ma, the brat's poison has kicked in — finish him quickly!" Zhen Yingjun felt not the slightest qualm about what he had done. In his eyes, killing Wei Zhao was the first and only priority! And at this moment he considered himself uncommonly brilliant!
Had Wei Zhao not been poisoned, leaping and darting about as he was, Ma Zhu truly could have done nothing to him! Ma Zhu might be formidable, but Wei Zhao's qinggong was superb, and for a time even Ma Zhu could not get the better of him! Now, though, Wei Zhao was poisoned, his movements already grown sluggish, and so Wei Zhao's death was, in his reckoning, merely a matter of sooner or later!
Ma Zhu nodded. Though he found the business of poison somewhat beneath him, the brat had been hopping about before him, dodging every strike, and it was genuinely infuriating — so Wei Zhao's being poisoned was, all in all, a good thing!
Was this the day he would meet his end here? Wei Zhao gritted his teeth, glanced at the young miss, then at Shen Yushu.
If he fled now, Wei Zhao was confident that, swift as Ma Zhu was, the man could not catch him. But what of the young miss? Yet if he did not go, once Ma Zhu had killed him, would Ma Zhu let the young miss go?
Surely he would? Otherwise, if Zhen Yingjun had wanted Gu Mengyao and Shen Yushu dead, they would already have been two corpses before he arrived. But Zhen Yingjun had not done so, which showed he wanted only to kill Wei Zhao and had no wish to move against Gu Mengyao and Shen Yushu!
With him dead, the ripples would be far smaller than if Gu Mengyao and Shen Yushu were harmed! In Zhen Yingjun's eyes, he was nothing but a hanger-on of Gu Mengyao and Shen Yushu; a hanger-on dead was simply a hanger-on dead. But if Gu Pengzhan's daughter were to die, the matter would likely blow up out of all proportion!
At that thought, Wei Zhao's heart settled somewhat.
"Brat, no use thinking about all that!" Ma Zhu looked at Wei Zhao and said mildly, "Never mind that you're already poisoned — even if you weren't, you'd be no match for me!"