Chapter 2880 — We Shall Meet Again
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"Heh, next time. I hope so." Wei Zhao knew Zhang Naipao was telling the truth. Zhang Naipao had absorbed Yang Qiqi's baleful qi, and Wei Zhao had checked afterward and found no problems. Perhaps Yang Qiqi had simply been exhausted these last two days and had eaten very little, which was why she had slept so long.
No one had come back to the inn for a long time. Now that someone had suddenly returned today, the trial participants inside were all astonished, wondering who could be so formidable as to return safely from the Baleful Wilderness after twenty days.
But when these people saw that the one who had returned was actually Zhang Naipao, they all showed a degree of fear; and when they saw Wei Zhao, their expressions changed even more! Rumor had it that during the trial, Zhang Naipao and Mo Ba had both been finished off by Wei Zhao. Although everyone was puzzled that Zhang Naipao had come back alive alongside Wei Zhao, no one dared to ask.
As for Zhao Qilei, Feng Shihua, Li Ciba, and Ge Xian, seeing Wei Zhao return filled them with both shock and joy!
"Boss, you're back!" The four of them immediately hurried out from the crowd of onlookers.
"You four made it out safely too—not bad!" Wei Zhao breathed a sigh of relief at seeing his four underlings safe and sound.
"Boss, how come Zhang Naipao came back with you? And wasn't he insane?" Zhao Qilei asked, somewhat perplexed.
"It's a long story. Let's talk about it in the room!" Wei Zhao waved his hand and pointed toward the upstairs.
Zhang Naipao returned to his room, somewhat dejected. He could tell that although the trial participants here still held him in the same awe, there was a glint of schadenfreude in their eyes when they looked at him. Mo Ba and Mo Jiu were both done for; the three of them had come, and only one had returned—and even he had nearly failed to make it back.
Wei Zhao returned to his own room and first laid Yang Qiqi on the bed, then recounted to them everything that had happened afterward in the Baleful Wilderness—including, of course, why he had chosen to save Zhang Naipao.
"So it was all for Yang Qiqi's sake!" Zhao Qilei said in sudden understanding. Otherwise, given Wei Zhao's temperament, seeing the crazed Zhang Naipao, he would have been doing well just not to kill him outright—how could he possibly have awakened him? Wouldn't that be a pointless extra step?
"Exactly. So I let him off for now," Wei Zhao said. "Are you all doing all right? After I left, no one gave you any trouble, did they?"
"That, no. When we mentioned your name, Boss, which of these trial participants didn't know it? Those two turncoat pieces of trash from the Dark Night Palace may be scum, but they did serve as a loudspeaker, spreading word of your deeds far and wide," Zhao Qilei said. "Oh, that's right, Boss—after you left, the young sect master of the Xuandan Sect came to pay a visit once..."