Chapter 2404 — The Hint to Zhao Qilei
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So the only way to be rid of Zhao Qilei was through some scheme like the Xuan Dan Sect's trial. Zhao Qilei had seen through the truth of it, and over these days had come to terms with much. He had all but resigned himself to his fate...
"Qitan, someone asked me to tell you one thing—go to the trial without fear!" Chief Zhu lowered his voice and spoke softly to Zhao Qilei.
"Hm?" Zhao Qilei's eyes flew open. He stared at Chief Zhu before him, puzzled. Chief Zhu was no stranger to him, but Chief Zhu had always been Zhao Qibing's man. For him to suddenly come running over and say such a thing left Zhao Qilei utterly baffled.
But Chief Zhu did not pursue the matter further. Instead he said, "The patriarch sent me to tell you that Wei Zhao is also taking part in this Xuan Dan Sect trial!"
Zhao Qilei frowned, the look in his eyes as he regarded Chief Zhu now tinged with surprise. For a moment he found it hard to tell whose side Chief Zhu was really on! If he was one of Zhao Qibing's people, then his second sentence made perfect sense—to keep Zhao Qilei from resisting, so that he would go to the trial, they had told him this piece of news.
In fact, Zhao Qilei knew very well that this was merely a scheme of Zhao Qibing's to make him go to the trial of his own accord—an open stratagem, one might say.
But the words Chief Zhu had lowered his voice to say when he first entered the room were worth pondering. On whose behalf had he spoken them?
"Chief Zhu, you...?" Zhao Qilei frowned and asked, none too certain.
"I don't want to die..." That was all Chief Zhu said before he turned and left the room...
Don't want to die? Zhao Qilei was taken aback. But he was no fool, and he soon connected the two statements... The first had been spoken on behalf of someone else; the second on behalf of the patriarch, Old Master Zhao.
And that first someone, whoever could speak words to set his heart at ease—his identity was all but self-evident. Add to that the hint contained in the two words "Wei Zhao" in the second sentence, and Zhao Qilei could be certain: it was Wei Zhao who had sent Chief Zhu to bring him word!
And the reason Chief Zhu had gone along with it was simple—he was afraid to die.
That, then, explained everything. Having worked it all out, Zhao Qilei—gloomy for so many days—could not help but grow excited! It seemed Wei Zhao truly had not forgotten him; the warning he had sent Wei Zhao before had now been repaid!
Wei Zhao must have learned of his situation through some other channel, and so had prevailed upon Chief Zhu to bring him this one sentence!
That being so, Zhao Qilei was no longer so averse to entering the Xuan Dan Sect trial. He would treat it as a chance to temper himself alongside Wei Zhao.
After ending his call with Qiu Lingshan, Wei Zhao went to the neighboring villa, the one belonging to Han Jingyi.
Han Jingyi seemed delighted by Wei Zhao's arrival. "Brother Wei Zhao, you've come to see Jingjing! That method you mentioned before, the one that could help me with my alchemy—have you thought of it yet?"