Chapter 2370 — When Words Fail
The Blossom Guardian · Page 2 of 2
"I don't care who you are. A casino has a casino's rules. She is already my spoil of war, and I will not let anyone take her away!" Piao Huotai made up his mind quickly and said flatly, "This way, please!"
Wei Zhao frowned. He had not expected Piao Huotai to refuse him face even after he had killed two men in a row. It seemed the man must have something to rely on—for in Wei Zhao's view, no man, however lecherous, could be driven to such a reckless disregard for his own life.
To fight a powerful enemy to the death over an ordinary girl was a thoroughly unprofitable affair. As the King of Gamblers of Southeast Asia, what kind of girl could he not find? Was he really so short of this one?
"Mr. Piao, I do not wish to be your enemy. But if you insist on opposing me, then I have no choice but to use force." Wei Zhao's voice turned cold and grim. How Piao Huotai conducted himself ordinarily was no concern of Wei Zhao's, but today the man meant to carry Chen Xi off by force, and Wei Zhao could only act.
"Oppose you? Are you worthy of that?" Piao Huotai sneered coldly. "An early-stage Earth rank, and a peak late-stage Mystic rank—two ants of men, and you killed them, and you think that makes you formidable? Or do you think you're giving me a show of strength?"
Wei Zhao's gaze sharpened slightly, a strange light flickering across it. He had not expected that even after he revealed his strength, Piao Huotai would still say such things. The only explanation was that Piao Huotai himself was very strong—or that his support lay in the peak late-stage Earth rank expert beside him!
From beginning to end, though Wei Zhao had instantly killed an early-stage Earth rank and a peak late-stage Mystic rank expert, the strength he had displayed was that of the mid-stage Earth rank. And so this was likely what had given Piao Huotai his confidence.
"When words fail, half a sentence is too many. Since that is how it is, then let us fight!" A surge of heroic spirit rose in Wei Zhao's heart. Though the black-clad guard behind Piao Huotai was plainly no ordinary peak late-stage Earth rank expert—his strength was evident enough, yet his true qi fluctuations were far stronger than Old Bi's, verging on surpassing the peak late-stage Earth rank strength of the Five Protectors of old—this man was a formidable foe, and Wei Zhao would by no means have an easy time crossing hands with him!
Therefore, as Wei Zhao spoke these words, he also secretly sent a message to Old Master Pi and the others via his phone. This was the phone Wei Zhao always used, and he was well practiced in blind typing, needing not even to look at the screen—the most basic skill from his days as an assassin.
"Piao Laoliu, go finish him off." Piao Huotai's brows furrowed slightly, as though he no longer wished to say another word to Wei Zhao.
"Yes." At Piao Huotai's command, the black-clad guard behind him sprang into motion at once. In that instant, before the battle had even begun, the domineering aura within his body erupted, surging to its very peak!
And then Piao Laoliu's figure bore down upon Wei Zhao, his right-hand claw turning a pale red—what martial technique it was, none could tell—as he reached to seize Wei Zhao. In an instant a fierce true qi fluctuation came surging toward Wei Zhao, and that powerful, domineering pressure made Wei Zhao's breath catch slightly...