Chapter 2349 — Both Hands in Favor
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Wei Zhao's internal organs had taken no small shock as well, and his meridians had suffered some damage too—but Wei Zhao could bear it. Old Bi, plainly, could not!
Yet Wei Zhao knew Old Bi was not dead. Killing Old Bi with a single move was unrealistic, but at the very least he had stripped the old man of his fighting strength—and with the hidden Zhao family's present reserves, restoring Old Bi to what he had been was impossible.
His injuries were simply too severe: more than half the meridians in his body were severed, his internal organs displaced. Even if he recovered, he would be a cripple—he could never again wield the peak strength of the late Earth rank. Holding on to the Mystic rank, even the Yellow rank, would be no small feat.
"Gah!" Zhao Qibing was dumbstruck. He stared at the ** whom he had regarded as unattainably high, someone he could only look up to—and the man could not even withstand a single move from Wei Zhao, blasted away just like that, life or death unknown!
Only then did Zhao Qibing understand that opposing Wei Zhao was truly not an option, that no wishful thinking would avail him. Before Wei Zhao, Zhao Qibing seemed never to have gained the slightest advantage—so it had been in the past, and so it was now.
"Young Master Bing, the next time you come looking for trouble, you'd best have your grandfather come in person. Though I doubt even he would do—two moves at most." Wei Zhao spoke mildly. He was injured, but he let nothing show; to Wei Zhao, who was injured so often, such wounds hardly counted.
And Wei Zhao had always excelled at disguising himself after being hurt. It was precisely that disguise that had time and again kept his enemies from gauging his true depth, and time and again cost them dearly.
"Leader Wei Zhao jests. How would I dare look for trouble? I was only joking just now—ha ha, joking, yes." Zhao Qibing said with a woebegone face.
"What did I say just now? Did you not hear me?" Wei Zhao asked.
"What?" Zhao Qibing was taken aback.
"Break both your own legs, then get out of here with your people. This restaurant is mine now. And as for this man called Lei Daming—I don't want to see him again." Wei Zhao said mildly. "As for the chairman of the East Sea Chamber of Commerce, I have someone to recommend: Gu Pengzhan, Gu Mengyao's father. What do you think?"
"Uh... I'm all for it, both hands in favor," Zhao Qibing said. "Then my legs... there's no need to break them, is there?"
"In that case, you may go." Wei Zhao nodded, and did not move to break Zhao Qibing's legs after all. "The year is nearly over. Whether you live past the New Year depends on how you conduct yourself."
"Wh-what do you mean?" Zhao Qibing froze, his heart skipping a beat.
"Do you remember what I told you before—that you would not live past this year?" As Wei Zhao said this, his face suddenly paled slightly! For Wei Zhao remembered that clash with Zhao Qibing, yet he had forgotten why he had clashed with him! It seemed to have been for someone very important to him, but who that person was, Wei Zhao could not recall?
Who was it? The young miss? Xiaoshu? Or perhaps Feng Xiaoxiao? No, it seemed to be none of them! Kang **? Kang **'s girlfriend, Xiaofen? That was it... it seemed to have to do with Xiaofen, and yet it was absolutely not Xiaofen!
Then who on earth was it? Wei Zhao's mind went "boom" into chaos, as though he had lost some important memory... This sensation was not the first or second time, and it left Wei Zhao deeply puzzled.
"You... I..." Zhao Qibing naturally remembered that harsh threat from Wei Zhao. The setback he had suffered then was seared into his memory, impossible to forget in a lifetime! He had come to Songshan City full of ambition and built the Qibing Tower, only for Wei Zhao to bring it crashing down.