Chapter 2512 — What Does This Mean?
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That made no sense. He had specifically instructed a trusted disciple of the Law Enforcement Hall to drop a few hints to the Hidden You Family while they were searching for Wei Zhao, just enough to let them find him smoothly. So where were they?
"Hello there, Vice President. Is this bag of bones one of yours?" Wei Zhao was rather surprised when he saw the scrawny man. He had indeed expected the Heaven Rank vice president to come after him to avenge the two gatekeepers, but he had not expected this whole affair to have started with the scrawny man.
No wonder. Seeing the scrawny man, Wei Zhao finally understood. Those two gatekeepers had in fact been standing up for this bag of bones; they had simply lacked the strength to carry it off. Wei Zhao had wondered at the time what had gotten into them—he was an expert at the peak of the mid Earth Rank, and of all the people they could have picked a fight with, they had chosen him. They had clearly had nothing better to do.
"Since we have come this far and you have seen me, there is no need for the old man to keep hiding it. Quite right, he is my disciple. You snatched his blue crystal, and then you crippled two of my gatekeeping disciples. How do you propose to settle this account?" The Heaven Rank vice president looked at Wei Zhao coldly, as though he were looking at a dead man.
"Settle the account? Does this account even need settling?" Wei Zhao smiled faintly. "Your bag-of-bones disciple there was bullying others first. I merely stepped in to help them. As for those two gatekeeping disciples of yours, their own strength was lacking and they got themselves crippled. Whose fault is that?"
"Oh, you put it quite well. Then may I take it that if I kill you now, and you have only your weak strength to blame, whose fault is that?" The Heaven Rank vice president was plainly twisting logic, yet he spoke with perfect naturalness.
"Of course you may interpret it that way," Wei Zhao said mildly. "But do you really think I have been waiting here just to sit and await my doom?"
"Then you..." The Heaven Rank vice president was slightly startled. To be honest, he too found it strange. Wei Zhao stood there for no apparent reason, neither hiding nor fleeing—what exactly was he playing at? And where had the Hidden You Family people gone?
"Guards, come out and get to work! Someone is bullying the people you are supposed to protect!" Wei Zhao turned and shouted toward the boulder where the short expert and You Panga were hiding.
"Uh... ahem, ahem..." The short expert had no choice. He had to lead You Panga out from behind the boulder, his face utterly grim, yet utterly helpless. He had reached the point where he could neither advance nor retreat; he could not stay hidden any longer. But now that he had come out, the enemy he faced was the Heaven Rank vice president—that was not at all what he wanted to see.
"You Laosan, why is it you?" The Heaven Rank vice president stared in shock at the two Hidden You Family members emerging from behind the boulder. He was astonished. How had these two become Wei Zhao's guards?
"Quite right. We are this gentleman's guards..." the short expert said with some resignation. "We are currently protecting this gentleman's safety. Vice President, is there something you want?"
The short expert's meaning was already quite clear: I am being forced into this, and I have no choice. If you want to make trouble for Wei Zhao, you had best forget it for now—I am in a difficult spot myself.
The Heaven Rank vice president frowned. He genuinely could not work out the truth of the matter, so he said, "You Laosan, what is the meaning of this? Have you gotten your hands on the pure yellow jade?"
"The pure yellow jade? We don't want it anymore. We are here solely to protect this gentleman's pure yellow jade from being taken by others!" the short expert said.