Chapter 3718 — Killing Wei Zhao
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"So what you're saying is, this time that brat Wei Zhao somehow wormed his way through a gap, purely by dumb luck?" Xu Lingchong believed the explanation well enough, but he was still unable to let it go.
"That is indeed how it was, so this time, Young Master Xu, you truly cannot blame us for not doing our utmost—after all, man proposes, Heaven disposes," the several of them said with sighs and rueful shakes of the head.
"Then why didn't you say just now that they should be made to take the trial again? That way there would have been a chance to deal with Wei Zhao all over again!" Xu Lingchong said with a frown.
Back when he had not yet taken Wei Zhao seriously, he had felt nothing in particular; but now that he had truly set his mind to finding a way to deal with Wei Zhao, and the other had slipped through a gap and escaped him, that was something he found deeply displeasing.
By now Wei Zhao was a thorn in his eye and a spike in his flesh—so long as he was not plucked out, not a single day would his thoughts run clear.
The several experts of the Law Enforcement Hall exchanged a bitter smile. "Young Master Xu, you have seen the state we are in—without a few days of proper rest and recuperation, we simply cannot recover. And you heard what Hall Master Gongyang said; how would we dare go against his wishes?"
At this, Xu Lingchong too had nothing to say. The matter involved a man of real power and formidable strength like Gongyang Jun—even he was utterly helpless.
In truth, quite apart from a mere young master like himself, even if his own grandfather Xu Yuanzheng came in person, it was still an open question whether Gongyang Jun would show him any deference.
After all, the man was the foremost of the new generation in the North Island's Triplex Pavilion, and at the rate he was going, to stand at the very pinnacle of the Triplex Pavilion was all but a foregone conclusion. Even a giant of the Council of Elders like Xu Yuanzheng could only address him politely as "junior brother" when they met.
"That said, with the power at your command, Young Master Xu, dealing with a nobody like this ought to be as simple as crushing a bedbug underfoot! And the newcomers' trial has more than one stage—this second stage coming up, wouldn't it be even easier to pull a few strings and do him in?" the several of them suggested.
The newcomers' trial had six stages in all, and strictly speaking, the first stage—the oppressive-force trial—was in fact the hardest in which to take the opportunity to kill someone. It was the later stages that were another matter, especially this second one: if one wanted to stage a little accident and do away with Wei Zhao, it would actually be far easier to bring off.
"Well said!" Xu Lingchong's eyes lit up at once, and he said offhandedly, "The second stage is set for three days from now, and by then the lot of you should have more or less recovered. Hu Yunfeng is going to want capable hands to serve as examiners anyway, so we may as well send the lot of you to make the trip—no point in troubling two households for one job, after all!"
"Good, that is just what we had in mind as well!" The several of them exchanged a glance, and in every eye was a venomous glint. When all was said and done, they had been reduced to this state entirely because of Wei Zhao; this score, naturally, would have to be settled on Wei Zhao's own hide!
Xu Lingchong nodded. "Very well, then. Three days from now, I will bring Meng Jueming and the others to hash things out with you. They bear Wei Zhao a deep grudge, and they know all his weaknesses far better—this time, we must make absolutely certain there is no slip-up!"
He had already lost face once before Shangguan Lan'er; he absolutely could not lose it a second time!
But enough of Xu Lingchong and his crew, gnashing their teeth and scheming how to deal with Wei Zhao—the man himself had not taken these people to heart at all.