Chapter 3389 — Qiu Lingshan Asks for Help Again
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"What exactly is going on? Besides, aren't the hidden families outside the mysterious Investigation Bureau's jurisdiction?" Wei Zhao was puzzled.
"Actually, after Uncle Feng took up the baton as director, he wanted to bring the hidden families under the mysterious Investigation Bureau's authority as well. You know as well as I do—these uncertain factors, if left unconstrained, might do things that defy secular morality," Qiu Lingshan said. "This is an opportunity, and Director Feng doesn't want to miss it. But the matter is thorny: handle it well and fine, but handle it badly and he fears he'll lose all face and achieve the opposite of what he intended!"
"The hidden families—integrating them all wouldn't be a bad thing." Wei Zhao spoke mildly. "Uncle Feng is right. This really is an opportunity. If used properly, integrating the hidden families won't be difficult at all! Once this business is settled, issue a notice in the name of the mysterious Investigation Bureau and the Central Plains Cultivators' Alliance Association to those hidden families and ordinary sects. Tell them to join the Central Plains Cultivators' Alliance Association and submit to the restraint of the mysterious Investigation Bureau and myself! That will bring corresponding benefits as well—when they run into difficulties and troubles, I will lend a hand as I see fit. If they refuse, then they are my enemies."
"Uh..." Qiu Lingshan had not expected Wei Zhao to back her so strongly, and she was deeply moved. "Wei Zhao, you're so good... Thank you. I don't even know how I'll ever repay you!"
"Actually, I have deep ties to the mysterious Investigation Bureau too. I once trained there, and besides—you and Uncle Feng are the people closest to me. If I don't help you, who would I help?" Wei Zhao smiled. "Go on, then—what exactly has happened to the hidden Tang family?"
"This matter actually seems to have some connection to a case I've been investigating all along. Wei Zhao, I don't know if you remember—that unsolved bank robbery?" Qiu Lingshan said.
"The bank robbery? I think An Liwen did that one," Wei Zhao said flatly. "He's the only one who could conjure up those eerie puppet experts to rob banks and jewelry stores!"
"Be that as it may, I'm a police officer. Without evidence, there's nothing I can do to him. Besides, he's stopped doing it, so I can't find even the faintest trace anymore." Qiu Lingshan sighed, somewhat helpless. "But this recent case involving the hidden Tang family is quite similar to those bank robberies!"
"How so?" Wei Zhao's interest was piqued, and he asked.
"It's like this: a group of people similar to the bank robbers, who look like suicide soldiers, all possessing roughly Heaven Rank strength, went to the Tang family's properties and simply started robbing the place outright—they didn't waste words at all!" Qiu Lingshan said. "What's most impossible to deal with is that the Tang family head, Tang Taizhong, a early Heaven Rank expert, went to stop them and was beaten badly! According to him, those robbers seemed not to fear being struck at all—even with their arms broken and blood spilling from their mouths, they kept charging forward, feeling no pain and saying not a word."