Chapter 2520 — Claiming Victory, and Yet the Eleventh Stance Proved Useless Against Zhong Yongliang, Which Left Wei Zhao Utterly Stunned
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"I..." Zhong Yongliang was somewhat irritated. He rose to his feet, leaped back onto the platform, and said to Wei Zhao, "No—we fight again. Your conditions were different from anyone else's. Knocking me down doesn't count. You have to beat me outright!"
"What kind of nonsense is that? Have you no honor? You said it yourself—knock you down and I get the thousand yuan. Why is it different now?"
"Exactly. Isn't this cheating people? So eager to collect when you win, and the moment you lose you start changing the terms—isn't that a con?"
"Swindler! This guy's a swindler!"
"Right! Where are the brothers who lost money just now? Let's all go get our refunds together!" The speaker was a physical education student who had just been up on the platform; he was whipping up the others who had lost money to demand it back from Gao Xiaofu!
Sure enough, at his words the rest chimed in, and together they surrounded Gao Xiaofu, saying, "Refund us, now!"
"This... I..." Gao Xiaofu looked at Zhong Yongliang on the platform, at a loss.
"You little punk, you asking for a beating? Swindler! If you don't refund us, we'll beat you up and drag you to the school authorities, tell them you're running a scam on campus cheating your fellow students!" one student said.
"Right—and the school will definitely put a demerit on your record!" another student added.
"Might even expel you!" yet another student piled on.
"Refund them—just refund them!" Zhong Yongliang said helplessly. He really was afraid Gao Xiaofu would suffer. His own invulnerability was real enough, but Gao Xiaofu was not so lucky—if Gao Xiaofu got beaten half to death, how would that end? Refunding the money was a loss of face, true, but it was far better than Gao Xiaofu being beaten up—that would cost him even more face!
"Fine, I'll refund you all!" Gao Xiaofu had no choice. He refunded the money one by one to those who had gone up on the platform, and only then did they let him be.
As for Wei Zhao, he weighed the pros and cons in his mind and said to Zhong Yongliang, "Sorry—if you want a different kind of match, we'll do it another day. I don't have time today!"
With that, Wei Zhao paid Zhong Yongliang no further heed and leaped straight off the platform! He knew himself that he had in fact lost this fight, but the other students did not know that—all they had seen was Wei Zhao winning, striking Zhong Yongliang down!
And so, Zhong Yongliang could not use public opinion to post on the school's BBS forum and force Gu Mengyao and Shen Yushu into anything.
"You..." Zhong Yongliang was furious, but seeing Wei Zhao walk away, there was nothing he could do. He could hardly force Wei Zhao to fight, could he?
As for beating Wei Zhao with a stick—that was even less workable. In a place with no witnesses, perhaps, but under all these watchful eyes, people would think he could not afford to lose that thousand yuan and had resorted to violence with an iron rod. That would only hurt him more, so he had no choice but to let it go.
"Gao Xiaofu, where's my thousand yuan?" After stepping down, Wei Zhao went straight to Gao Xiaofu and held out his hand.
"This..." Gao Xiaofu hesitated, glancing at the indignant onlookers beside him. Afraid of a beating, he could only reluctantly take out a thousand yuan and hand it to Wei Zhao.