Chapter 4441 — Let Us Try Too
The Blossom Guardian · Page 2 of 2
After Hai Wuliang explained the whole business to him, Lai Zhenzi bared a mouthful of big yellow teeth, looked Wei Zhao up and down, and said with a look of disdain: "Folk who know formations are few and far between these days. And even those who do only manage paltry tricks that can't be shown in decent company. They might fool a layman, but to an expert like me, the flaws show at a glance. Just you wait, Master Hai."
With that, Lai Zhenzi, mouth twisted to one side, strutted into the Number Thirty area with a swaggering gait. Wei Zhao looked at the fellow and could not help laughing: "This is what you call an odd talent?"
"Odd talents have odd looks. Not even knowing that—have you truly never seen the world, or what? A frog at the bottom of a well?" Hai Wuliang sneered upon hearing this.
"We'll soon know who the real frog at the bottom of the well is," Wei Zhao said with a faint smile, not bothering to argue.
"Ha! A dead duck's beak stays hard!" Hai Wuliang wasted no more words and simply waited outside for Lai Zhenzi's good news. He had expected it to be a trifling matter settled in the bag—but who would have thought the wait would stretch to two full sticks of incense!
"Time's up, Chief Escort Hai. Might you call your Master Lai out now?" Qi Mingyuan said at once. The time limit for the challenge segment was two sticks of incense.
"Go call him out!" Hai Wuliang's heart gave a lurch. He had no idea what was going on inside, but he had no choice but to comply. Yet when he saw Lai Zhenzi come out empty-handed, his face turned ashen at once. Not found again?!
"Master Hai, this... you can't blame me for this... Apart from that big illusion formation on the outside... there really is no formation inside... not the slightest ripple of formation energy..." Lai Zhenzi spread his hands with a bitter, helpless look.
The whole hall was in an uproar. One and all stared at Wei Zhao with strange looks on their faces. They had searched everywhere and found nothing, and now even formations could be ruled out. Just how had this fellow hidden the cargo? So consummately—could he be a professional at this sort of thing?
"Haha, many thanks for the hundred points, Chief Escort Hai. As a senior of the trade, your Four Seas Escort Agency has spared no effort in mentoring us juniors of the Qingtian Escort Agency—truly the conduct of an elder. We'll accept these hundred points without ceremony!" Qi Mingyuan said with great delight.
Hai Wuliang's face was as dark as the bottom of a pot, but it was already too late to take anything back now.
In this segment they had earned only seventy points in total, and now they had lost a full hundred in one stroke. In the fourth round they had not only failed to gain a single point but had gone thirty points into the hole. This was far more than a huge loss—it was a bleeding wound!
By contrast, the Qingtian Escort Agency had won a sweeping victory in this round, raking in a full two hundred points at a stroke—more than the total scores of the vast majority of the agencies. It was enough to drive people green with envy.
"Next agency." Hai Wuliang did not even want to look at Qi Mingyuan and the rest a moment longer, and turned to head for the next one. Just then someone suddenly stepped forward and said loudly: "Hid so well—why not give our Dragon Boat Escort Agency a chance too, and let us have a try?"
A fresh uproar broke out. The speaker was Long Kuiba, chief escort of the Dragon Boat Escort Agency! (To be continued..) R527