Chapter 3028 — Little Shu's Phone Call (Urgent Summons for the [Moon] Ticket—Ranking Has Dropped Again!)
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Wu Chengtian shrugged awkwardly, a little puzzled himself. Shen Yushu always said right to his face that she meant to be Wei Zhao's concubine—was there ever a time she felt shy?
"I'm going to make a phone call..." Shen Yushu said no more, and went upstairs.
Gu Mengyao wanted to follow and see, but Wu Chengtian was there too. If she went up, Wu Chengtian might think she was eavesdropping on Shen Yushu's secrets, which would be bad. Though in truth the young lady did not think Little Shu had anything to hide; on any ordinary day she would have gone up and asked outright.
Only after Shen Yushu had gone upstairs did she dial Wei Zhao's number.
Wei Zhao was at home cooking for Old Man Wei when the phone rang. Seeing Little Shu's number, he picked up at once. "Little Shu, is something the matter?"
Normally, when Wei Zhao was out handling business, neither Gu Mengyao nor Shen Yushu would call him, unless something truly had happened at home.
"Arrow-Brand Bro, it's like this—some Fire Burning Cloud from Mount Flaming Flame is coming to look for you, and right now he's camped out at the gate of our villa. Whatever you do, don't come back!" Shen Yushu said urgently to Wei Zhao.
"Huh? What Mount Flaming Flame, what Fire Burning Cloud? What does he want with me? Is he coming to do me harm? Then I'd better come back all the more!" Wei Zhao was stunned, unable to make sense of what he was hearing.
"No, no, no, absolutely not, you mustn't come back—he's a peak late heaven-tier expert. If you come back, you won't be able to beat him!" Shen Yushu said. "Wait a while before you come home, and he'll leave on his own!"
"A peak late heaven-tier expert?" Wei Zhao was astonished. "If I don't go back, won't he turn on you and Yao Yao?"
"He wouldn't dare. That... that's because the ancient level isn't allowed to casually strike at ordinary people in the secular world. Arrow-Brand Bro is a cultivator, so it's different!" Shen Yushu made this up based on bits of information she had heard from Wei Zhao.
Still, what she said might actually be true, so Wei Zhao nodded and believed her. "But shouldn't I still go back and have a look? I can't exactly hide from him, can I?"
"Aiya, no need. He doesn't actually mean you any harm—he wants to ask for your help with an extremely troublesome favor. He wants you to help him kill Zhang Naipao. Isn't that just making trouble for the sake of it? So all we have to do is make him back off!" Shen Yushu was improvising again, this time spinning a reason out of Fire Burning Cloud's earlier questions about Zhang Naipao.
"Oh, so that's how it is!" This time Wei Zhao believed Shen Yushu's words even more readily. After all, during the trial at the Xuandan Sect, a disciple from a Mount Flaming Flame sect named Young Hero Yang had been beaten to death by Zhang Naipao. That the people of Mount Flaming Flame would come to him for help in taking revenge made perfect sense.
Zhang Naipao's martial skills and divine arts were, after all, utterly heaven-defying, and at present only he himself could hold Zhang Naipao in check. So it was entirely normal for the people of Mount Flaming Flame to come asking for help. But Wei Zhao truly did not want to help, for Zhang Naipao had returned to the Tomorrow Upon Tomorrow sect. Wasn't going to make trouble for him tantamount to seeking his own death?
The Tomorrow Upon Tomorrow sect had more than just one Zhang Naipao; there were many other experts besides. That they did not come into the secular world to trouble Wei Zhao was already more than good enough. If Wei Zhao went knocking on their door himself, they likely would not let him off lightly. That was why Wei Zhao would never take on such an errand.