Chapter 2606 — Hypnosis
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That An Liwen could call running a casino "legitimate business" left Wei Zhao somewhat speechless—though compared with the things An Liwen had done before, it was at least the most respectable of the lot.
"Are you sure you haven't?" Wei Zhao asked. "A friend of mine was just abducted! Right inside the school!"
"No, Leader Wei Zhao—don't you know me by now? Even if I were going to kidnap someone, I'd never kidnap someone close to you. I haven't lived long enough yet!" An Liwen said with a bitter smile. "You can kill even a Heaven-rank expert in a single blow. A few elders from our Fire Wolf Gang branch together are no match for you. Do you really think I'd offend you over a few ransom payments?"
"Fine, I'll take your word for it." From An Liwen's tone, Wei Zhao judged that this business really had nothing to do with him. He was right—there was no reason for him to offend Wei Zhao over a few ransoms, unless some far greater profit could make him take such a risk.
But if it wasn't An Liwen's doing, then who could it be? Wei Zhao decided to go find Wang Xinyan first and take it from there...
Little One had gotten the information he wanted. What he wanted to do now was have Sun Jingyan lure Wei Zhao out, and then he could simply kill Wei Zhao and go back to report. Sun Jingyan had told him everything she had to tell; Little One did not believe Wei Zhao could reveal anything more. Rather than waste time, he might as well just kill Wei Zhao outright.
Otherwise—Little Eleven had already seized one of Section Chief Bai's students. If he seized another, and Section Chief Bai came looking for them, that would be troublesome! Section Chief Bai knew both him and Little Eleven. If he were to learn what Patriarch Xuanchen had done, he would certainly be furious, and that might well affect the inheritor's grand plan to open Cloud-Tier Island. That would be a real mess!
So Little One decided to kill Wei Zhao outright. By then Section Chief Bai would certainly be thrown into confusion and delayed for a time in dealing with Wei Zhao's affairs, while the matter of interrogating Han Jingyi would also be settled. Then he and Little One would take their spoils and slip silently out of Donghai City. It had to be said—his calculations were quite sound!
"All right, you can go. Your room has been requisitioned by us; we still have some other business to attend to." Little One flicked out another steel ball, and sensation returned to Sun Jingyan's legs; she could move freely again.
"You're just... letting me go?" Sun Jingyan found it strange; she could hardly believe Little One would let her off so easily! But then again, no wonder—she had been under hypnosis the whole time and had no idea what she had said. Now that she had come back to her senses, Little One was letting her go.
"You've said everything there is to say, and I have the map of the cave. Keeping you around—why, to waste food?" Little One gestured at the map of the Wulonghaote Mountains in his hand and spoke mildly. His purpose in saying so was also to make Sun Jingyan believe that he genuinely meant to release her!
Having Sun Jingyan lure Wei Zhao out would be easier than going himself to Donghai Engineering University to wait like a hunter by a tree stump for Wei Zhao to appear.