Chapter 2656 — His Sleeve Caught Fire
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In truth, Zhong Yongliang was only going through the motions of the martial technique; he could not yet channel it, but he could imitate the form and put on a show. Otherwise, if Wei Zhao collapsed on the stage, he would have no move to fall back on.
"Little Liangzi?" When Shen Yushu arrived and found that Zhong Yongliang really was practicing martial arts, she was puzzled for a moment. Had this thing been passed down to him after all? How had he turned into a **practitioner?
"Oh, Little Shu, you're here?" Zhong Yongliang stopped his martial arts practice and called out to Gao Xiaofu: "Xiaofu, go buy a few bottles of drinks..."
This was what they had agreed on beforehand. Gao Xiaofu would spray some lure agent on the drink bottles, and in this way they could entice the Hundred-Drunk Centipede to bite Shen Yushu, all without anyone being the wiser. Shen Yushu would certainly never know.
"Sure thing, Brother Liang!" Gao Xiaofu turned and went to buy the drinks, while Zhong Yongliang sat down on a nearby flowerbed. "Little Shu, be honest with me—do you really think I'm fit to be Gu Mengyao's guard? I keep feeling like you've been playing me all along."
"About that—well, I can tell you honestly, when Arrow-Brand Brother first came, we gave him no end of grief too, but he dodged us time and again and never let us get the better of him, and that's the necessary path to becoming Sister Yaoyao's guard," Shen Yushu said. "As the saying goes, to forge iron you must yourself be strong; a gentleman who fails blames his own training. So if you got played, it only means your abilities aren't up to par yet and you still need more tempering."
"Is that so..." Zhong Yongliang thought it over carefully, and Shen Yushu's words did make some sense. Indeed, at the very beginning they had not thought much of Wei Zhao either, and had even egged him on to teach Wei Zhao a lesson. It seemed Shen Yushu had not been lying this time.
But not lying this time did not mean Zhong Yongliang would let Shen Yushu off the hook. Just then Gao Xiaofu came running back with three bottles of drinks, gave one to Shen Yushu and another to Zhong Yongliang, and drank one himself.
Shen Yushu was not on her guard at all and took it directly. After all, Zhong Yongliang had always given her snacks before, and it never occurred to her that Gao Xiaofu would tamper with the drink bottles.
"Glug, glug..." Zhong Yongliang drained his drink in one go, tossed the bottle aside, stood up, and said to Shen Yushu: "How about I give you a demonstration of my ultimate move right now? See whether I can beat Wei Zhao!"
"Sure!" Shen Yushu nodded and watched as Zhong Yongliang began to perform the martial technique on the spot. This technique was performed, not channeled, but Shen Yushu naturally did not know that. Seeing Zhong Yongliang go through the motions so convincingly, she assumed he had learned some new martial technique from somewhere.
Zhong Yongliang put on his show for a while, and while Shen Yushu was not looking, he released the Hundred-Drunk Centipede...
When the Hundred-Drunk Centipede was not under attack, its default behavior was to seek out the lure solution. Shen Yushu was not far away, and the centipede locked onto her in an instant. It darted swiftly to her side, crawled up inside the cuff of her trousers, and bit down...
"Hm? What's that?" Shen Yushu suddenly felt a slight pain in her calf. Just as she was about to check what it was, a wave of dizziness and blurred vision came over her, and she collapsed straight to the ground, unconscious.
Having succeeded, the Hundred-Drunk Centipede quickly withdrew from Shen Yushu's trouser cuff and slipped back into Zhong Yongliang's sleeve.