Chapter 1657 — Hiring Someone to Do the Job
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"It's not that it can't be done... it's that these people are very hard to deal with. Unless there's truly no other way, no one goes to them to settle their troubles!" said Chief Zhu. "This sect is called the Bloody Garment Yellow Springs Sect. Every member they train is an assassin. But because of the sect's peculiar nature, few people have dealings with them..."
"How much would it cost, roughly, to do away with Wei Zhao?" Zhao Qibing could only seek outside help now. Since the Zhao family's people wouldn't act, he would hire someone to act!
"That I'd have to inquire about. I don't know the specifics myself..." said Chief Zhu. "If Young Master Bing has decided, I'll ask someone to help make contact. But the Bloody Garment Yellow Springs Sect has a rule: they never return empty-handed. Once they send someone to discuss a job, they won't leave with nothing. Whether you accept their price or not, you have to pay them a travel fee... Otherwise — I've heard that an employer once refused to pay the travel fee and was killed on the spot by them... That's another reason people are reluctant to contact them..."
"Oh? Then ask them how much it would cost!" Zhao Qibing gritted his teeth. "As long as it's not too outrageous, there's no problem!"
"Very well, Young Master Bing. I'll go make contact right away!" Once it was settled, Chief Zhu went to find connections to reach the people of the Bloody Garment Yellow Springs Sect.
That afternoon, the people from the Bloody Garment Yellow Springs Sect arrived — two men in black night-traveler garb, their manner exceedingly arrogant, as though they did not regard Zhao Qibing, the eldest young master of the Hidden Zhao family, as worth their attention at all.
"Young Master Bing, these two are the liaisons of the Bloody Garment Yellow Springs Sect. Both are experts at the peak of the late Yellow Rank!" Chief Zhu reminded Zhao Qibing in a low voice.
Two experts at the peak of the late Yellow Rank, and they carried themselves like this? Zhao Qibing frowned. Wasn't this a bit too arrogant?
As if reading Zhao Qibing's thoughts, Chief Zhu said quietly, "They're only the contact men..."
Contact men? And already experts at the peak of the late Yellow Rank? Zhao Qibing drew a sharp breath. If that were so, then these two did indeed have grounds for their arrogance. Their strength might not be high, but if experts at the peak of the late Yellow Rank were only small-time functionaries handling street-level contact within the Bloody Garment Yellow Springs Sect, then just how vast must the power behind them be?
These two did indeed have grounds for arrogance — and what they were proud of was not their own strength, but the power they represented!
"Gentlemen, I trust you already understand my purpose. Name your price — how much to put this man in the ground?" Zhao Qibing placed a photograph before the two black-clad liaisons. Though these two had grounds for arrogance, Zhao Qibing was not especially deferential toward them either. For him, a powerful contender to be the future young master of a Hidden family, to bow and scrape before these two was simply out of the question.
"What's this man's strength?" one of the black-clad liaisons asked.
"Peak of the late Yellow Rank — the same as you," Zhao Qibing said.
"Peak of the late Yellow Rank?" The black-clad liaison frowned, glanced at Zhao Qibing with a somewhat odd expression, then looked at Chief Zhu beside him. "Don't tell me the Hidden Zhao family can't even handle a single man at the peak of the late Yellow Rank? You do know the consequences of misreporting strength to our Bloody Garment Yellow Springs Sect?"