Chapter 2578 — Lai the Fat Man's Troubles
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"Brother Liang, could it be that something's gone wrong with your mid-grade Golden Cicada undergarment?" Zhang Naipao alone kept his composure, turning the matter over carefully before he asked.
"My undergarment? I suspected the Golden Cicada undergarment had failed too, but I found Youpanhu of the hidden You family and his men and had it examined—there was nothing wrong with my undergarment!" Zhong Yongliang said.
"Oh? Take off your undergarment and let me examine it!" The Pure Yang Heavenly Venerable also thought something might be wrong with it, and so he spoke.
"Yes, Master!" Zhong Yongliang hurried to strip off the undergarment and respectfully presented it.
"Oh? This is no mid-grade Golden Cicada undergarment!" The moment the Pure Yang Heavenly Venerable looked at the garment in his hands, his expression changed. Zhong Yongliang could not tell, but he could see the problem with it at a glance!
"Not a mid-grade Golden Cicada undergarment?" Zhong Yongliang was stunned, staring at the Pure Yang Heavenly Venerable with some misgiving: "Master, isn't this the very mid-grade Golden Cicada undergarment I was wearing before? Could it have downgraded itself?"
"Not downgraded itself—your undergarment was swapped out from under you!" The Pure Yang Heavenly Venerable pointed at the garment in his hands: "This is a low-grade Golden Cicada undergarment. It looks much the same as a mid-grade one, but I saw the difference at a glance! This low-grade undergarment can withstand attacks from any expert below the Earth Rank, but against those at Earth Rank and above it is useless. That is why you could defend against Youpanhu and his men but not against Wei Zhao and Zhao Qibing—and that Zhao Qibing must have suddenly broken through to the Earth Rank."
"What? Swapped out? How is that possible?" Zhong Yongliang was shocked and horrified: "I've worn this Golden Cicada undergarment on my body the whole time—how could anyone swap it... gah!"
As he said this, a thought suddenly struck Zhong Yongliang. There had been a time when the undergarment was not on his body—when he went to Gu Mengyao and Shen Yushu's dormitory, where he had taken a shower. And hadn't the undergarment failed the very day after that shower?
"Shen Yushu! It must be her—that little demon, she's the one, she swapped my undergarment!" At last Zhong Yongliang understood why Shen Yushu, who had always stood against him, had suddenly turned supportive. He had been pleased at first, but now it seemed Shen Yushu had deliberately set a trap for him, all to swap away the mid-grade Golden Cicada undergarment he wore!
Thinking of how Gu Mengyao had inexplicably caught a cold, of the basin of dirty water inexplicably left at their dormitory door, of Gu Mengyao's inexplicable concern, Zhong Yongliang understood: he had been played again. Those two little wenches were still secretly on Wei Zhao's side, and they had quietly swapped out his mid-grade Golden Cicada undergarment!
"Brother Liang, shall we go back and settle the score with her?" Gao Xiaofu was furious when he heard this and quickly asked—though in saying so, he was also trying to cover for Zhong Yongliang and keep the Pure Yang Heavenly Venerable from flying into a rage.
"There's no need to rush off to settle accounts." The Pure Yang Heavenly Venerable waved a hand, tossed the low-grade Golden Cicada undergarment aside, and said mildly: "This score will certainly be settled, but if you go charging over there, what will you get besides a beating?"
Zhong Yongliang and Gao Xiaofu exchanged a glance, and both fell silent. True enough—go back now and demand the mid-grade Golden Cicada undergarment from Wei Zhao? Never mind whether Wei Zhao would admit it; even if he did, what would make him give it back?