Chapter 3424 — Four Masters Come Knocking
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"I don't have any grudge against him personally, but his feud with the Overseas Cultivators Association runs deep. For the sake of a man named Tang Yuyi from our parts, he killed one of our elders. After that, he wounded President He's son, then played President He and the general manager of the Red Conch for fools, setting them against each other until they butchered one another. That is a debt the Overseas Cultivators Association will never, ever let go..."
"Tang Yuyi?" Qiu Lingshan was taken aback—she had not expected it to be that affair! In truth, Wei Zhao's killing of those men from the Overseas Cultivators Association was tangled up with her as well, for Tang Yuyi had challenged Wei Zhao to a duel on her account. Had Wei Zhao not gone to that duel, how would he ever have run into that so-called elder of the Overseas Cultivators Association? How could he possibly have struck a blow? It was sheer calamity fallen from a clear sky. So Qiu Lingshan hastily said, "Xiao Rui, speaking of this Tang Yuyi—the truth is, Wei Zhao acted because of me!"
"Because of you? What do you mean?" Song Lingwei was startled.
"It's like this. Tang Yuyi came back to look for his kin, and at the time I happened to be the one handling it. You see, back when I was with the Songshan City police, I had dealt with a case involving his relatives, so Tang Yuyi asked me to help him find his family. Wei Zhao, my colleague, was there at the time. That was when the elder of the Overseas Cultivators Association showed up, demanding to take Tang Yuyi away, and when Tang Yuyi refused to go, they meant to kill him on the spot!" Qiu Lingshan fudged the timeline—she did not say she had been at the Donghai police then, but pretended she was already with the Mystic Investigation Bureau; otherwise, how could Wei Zhao have been her colleague? She went on: "Now tell me—I'm a police officer, and now the deputy director of the Mystic Investigation Bureau in charge of cultivator affairs. How could I just stand by and watch them commit murder? So I had Wei Zhao kill one of their elders. And so... if you want to trace it back, this is your sister's fault. Are you going to kill me too?"
"This..." Song Lingwei had not expected such a hidden story behind it all. And she had vaguely heard that Tang Yuyi had returned to seek his kin, which did fit with what Qiu Lingshan said. But this left her in a difficult spot. After thinking it over, she said, "Hehe, but who's to know? As long as the people of the Overseas Cultivators Association don't find out, it's fine. If I finish off Wei Zhao, he becomes the scapegoat—after all, he's the one who did it!"
"Xiao Rui, that's not right. How can you just kill people as you please?" Qiu Lingshan had not expected Song Lingwei to do such a thing.
"Sis, I'm with a mercenary organization, and this is the cultivation world—do you really think there's that much right and wrong in it?" Song Lingwei said with a bitter smile. "I'm only doing this to pay back the last shred of obligation I owe them. I won't call myself a good person, but when I've promised someone something, if I don't do it, there has to be a reason, doesn't there?"
"This..." Qiu Lingshan wanted to say, Your brother-in-law is Wei Zhao! But she feared that once she said it, it would backfire—what if Song Lingwei still insisted on killing Wei Zhao? Then there would be no room left for compromise between the two sisters at all!
"All right, Sis, just stay out of this. Pretend you don't know anything, and once I finish my task I can report back. If I don't finish it, who knows what they'll have me do next—I won't have any peace here in the country either!" Song Lingwei said.