Chapter 2322 — For No Reason?
The Blossom Guardian · Page 2 of 2
"Stole your car? You... you're with the Mysterious Investigation Bureau?" The Third Boss was startled and asked instinctively.
An ordinary car would never have caught the Third Boss's notice, but Wei Zhao's Grand Cherokee bore a Mysterious Investigation Bureau plate—perfect cover for their drug-running. So the Third Boss had naturally paid it some attention.
"No. But your Second Boss was taken down by me." Wei Zhao said mildly. "There was also some death-squad fellow—I killed him too. And your business partner in the mundane world, the Yu family—I wiped them out as well..."
"You... just who are you?" The more the Third Boss heard, the more alarmed he became. So this man before him was a sworn enemy of the Red Conch! Yet piecing these matters together, a name suddenly came to him. "You... you're Wei Zhao?"
"You know me?" Wei Zhao was somewhat surprised. He had not expected the Third Boss to have heard his name.
"So it really is you!" A look of dawning realization spread across the Third Boss's face. "Fighting above your rank—I should have known. Who else but someone from that place could have such ability? So you are the legendary Wei Zhao!"
"Since you know me, this is simple enough. If you don't want to die in agony, tell me a few things, and perhaps I'll let you go," Wei Zhao said mildly.
"You? Let me go?" The Third Boss burst out laughing. "A mid Earth-rank expert like you, saying such things to me?"
"A mid Earth-rank can still beat you to death. Try me if you don't believe it!" Wei Zhao said indifferently. Though the Third Boss's cultivation was peak late Earth-rank, the sheer volume of his true qi was clearly far weaker than that of the Fifth Protector from before—and the present Wei Zhao could already hold his own against that Fifth Protector, let alone this Third Boss before him!
By the theory of the Frenzied Fire Eight-Trigram Palm, Wei Zhao's third form was equivalent to the sixth form of the Frenzied Fire Fist, so his fifth form was equivalent to the tenth form of the Frenzied Fire Fist—that is, an eleventh-form martial technique, with the same effect as possessing the Frenzied Fire Divine Bullet. Naturally, it could suppress the Fifth Protector's tenth-form martial technique!
Of course, in a head-on clash, Wei Zhao would likely be gravely wounded as well. That was the choice of last resort; unless it was absolutely necessary, Wei Zhao did not want to trade blows directly with the Third Boss. Even if he did kill the Third Boss, he himself would probably not come out of it well!
And most important of all: once the Third Boss was dead, everything he wanted to ask would be lost forever!
"Wei Zhao, so far as I know, our Red Conch has never offended you. The Yu family of the mundane world offended you and was wiped out—I have nothing to say about that. The Second Boss and the death-squad went looking for you of their own accord—I have nothing to say about that either. But for you to come killing your way into the Red Conch headquarters for no reason at all—do you really think we're soft persimmons to be squeezed at your whim?" The Third Boss gave a cold laugh, speaking with some vexation.
"For no reason?" Wei Zhao also gave a cold laugh. "You sent men to provoke me first, and now you've seized my girlfriend—and you call that no reason?"