Chapter 4456 — Nothing More Than That
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He was the absolute master of the Wuma Escort Agency. The moment his fury rose, the five death-sworn fighters on the arena instantly struck the pose of servants ready to die for their lord's disgrace—like mad dogs, itching to tear the Qingtian Escort Agency's people limb from limb and devour them raw. An ordinary man standing before them would likely be too frightened to even get to his feet.
Even the five fighters Wei Zhao had chosen—none of them timid or fearful—still felt like mice before cats in the presence of these opponents. It did not look at all like a contest between equals.
"A pack of nobodies who scraped up a mere hundred and sixty points—not even a fraction of our total—and you turn around and call us big-mouthed. Truly speechless. I can only answer with two words: heh heh." Wei Zhao kept his faint smile and shot back, and this calm, contemptuous manner drove Wu Conglong into a stomping fury.
Yet the spectators below saw something else entirely. For all this escort chief's tough talk, the five contestants on the arena looked cowering and shriveled, as if frightened stiff by their opponents. By no stretch of the imagination did they carry themselves like the number one escort agency should...
"Sharp tongue! And 'heh heh' me, will you? We'll see if you can still 'heh heh' in a moment!" Wu Conglong sneered, then bellowed: "Brothers, our friends here are the number one escort agency, and they don't think much of the Wuma Escort Agency! What do you say to that?"
"Whoever insults the Wuma Escort Agency shall be ground to dust!" the five Wuma fighters roared in unison.
"They really are poisoned deep—that brainwashing, tsk tsk." Wei Zhao shook his head with a laugh at the sight, then said no more, for his purpose had been achieved—and the match had officially begun.
At the presiding judge's command, a long stick of incense was lit at the arena's edge, and the five Wuma fighters, chomping at the bit, charged at the five from the Qingtian Escort Agency with a roar. Against that ferocity—hungry tigers pouncing on sheep—the five from the Qingtian Escort Agency were like so many quail, with not a trace of the spirit needed to fight back.
"The Qingtian Escort Agency can't really be all show, can it?" The spectators exchanged bewildered glances, and what happened next only confirmed their doubts.
Facing the onrushing Wuma fighters, the five from the Qingtian Escort Agency showed not the slightest awareness of what it meant to be a powerhouse of the Five Great Escort Agencies. Their reaction was even worse than the weakest of them, the Wanli Escort Agency—instead of even thinking of fighting back, they turned tail and ran!
An uproar swept the arena. Hai Wuliang and his lot were dumbstruck, and even Qi Mingyuan, who knew nothing of the plan, stared open-mouthed. In an arena match like this, to not only refuse battle but to turn and flee—this was utterly unprecedented in the history of the Southern Continent Escort Gathering!
The one consolation was that the five from the Qingtian Escort Agency retained at least a shred of shame. At least they did not bolt straight off the arena; instead they fled desperately about the field. Had they jumped down, they would have been counted out and defeated on the spot, and the whole contest would have ended there and then...
Even so, watching the chaos on the arena—five Qingtian fighters chased all over the place by their Wuma counterparts, every one of them covering their heads and scurrying, without a shred of resistance—the crowd's jaws dropped. They were simply pathetic.
"Haha, I said it all along—the Qingtian Escort Agency is nothing more than that! A pack of cowards who can only run their mouths and haven't the guts for a real, bloody fight—rats, the lot of them!" Wu Conglong jeered loudly from below the arena. (To be continued)