Chapter 782 — I Want to Report a Crime

"I want to report a crime! Officer, I want to report a crime!" Black Bird Bro suddenly shouted at the top of his voice.

"Report? Report what?" Qiu Lingshan, annoyed at being interrupted, took one look at Black Bird Bro and recognized him at once as the second-in-command of the thief gang. Her brows knitted together. "Don't try any tricks. If you have something to say, say it fast!"

"Officer, I want to report those two over there. They're thieves too, both of them—they're from the notorious Flying Swallow Sect!" Black Bird Bro knew that once he was taken in, he likely wouldn't be coming out for a good long while, so he meant to drag someone down with him on his way in—and that someone was Wei Zhao and Yu Xiaoke.

In his eyes, Wei Zhao and Yu Xiaoke were at this moment presumably still the whistleblowers; Qiu Lingshan hadn't treated them as thieves at all. That was why Black Bird Bro wanted to expose them.

"Flying Swallow Sect?" Qiu Lingshan was momentarily taken aback. She turned to look at Wei Zhao and all at once spotted Yu Xiaoke, who was hiding behind him.

Earlier Qiu Lingshan's attention had been fixed entirely on Wei Zhao, and she hadn't noticed Yu Xiaoke beside him. But with Black Bird Bro's reminder, she spotted her immediately. Wasn't this the very female thief Yu Xiaoke whom she had never managed to catch?

When Yu Xiaoke had seen Qiu Lingshan walking over earlier, she'd inwardly cried out that this was bad and wanted to run, but the thief gang's people were all around her front and back, left and right, and beyond the gang's people were the police, wrapped in layer upon layer of encirclement. How on earth could she have escaped?

So Yu Xiaoke had hidden behind Wei Zhao, praying that Qiu Lingshan wouldn't discover her. And as it happened, Qiu Lingshan really hadn't—she'd taken her for one of the thief gang and simply exchanged a few words with Wei Zhao.

Yu Xiaoke had been secretly counting her blessings when, who would have thought, that foul-mouthed Black Bird Bro had actually reported her to Qiu Lingshan! For a moment Yu Xiaoke was beside herself with fury; she truly wanted to kick Black Bird Bro's one surviving ball to bursting. The man was simply too despicable.

"Yes, Yu Xiaoke of the Flying Swallow Sect, that woman right there!" Seeing the flicker of surprise on Qiu Lingshan's face, Black Bird Bro assumed she had no idea who Yu Xiaoke was, and hurried on with his introduction: "The Flying Swallow Sect is one of the notorious thief gangs too. This woman is one of the great thieves operating within it. She doesn't just steal other people's money—she cheats other crooks as well. From our gang alone she's stolen over a hundred thousand! And the man beside her is her man, another core member of the Flying Swallow Sect! Officer, don't let them pull the wool over your eyes!"

Black Bird Bro poured out Yu Xiaoke's crimes in a single breath, for he hated her with a passion. He had come earlier to take his revenge on Yu Xiaoke, and now that the revenge had failed and he'd been caught by the police instead, how could he possibly swallow that?

So before he was taken away, he would do everything in his power to get his revenge on Yu Xiaoke!

Listening to Black Bird Bro, Qiu Lingshan could not help frowning to herself. Since when had Wei Zhao joined the Flying Swallow Sect? And become Yu Xiaoke's man? At that thought, Qiu Lingshan felt a stirring of displeasure. Yu Xiaoke was certainly lucky, wasn't she? To have actually landed a boyfriend like Wei Zhao?

Why was it that these women were one luckier than the next? She herself had worked so hard just to get Wei Zhao to stop calling her "brain-dead girl," and yet this Yu Xiaoke—who probably hadn't even known Wei Zhao that long—could already get him to do things for her?

At that thought, Qiu Lingshan felt profoundly hard done by, and she glared at Yu Xiaoke. "Yu Xiaoke, I never thought you'd finally fail to get away after all, did you? In the end you've still fallen into my hands!"

"Uh... Sister Lingshan, I'm the whistleblower here. Without me, you couldn't have caught this many members of the thief gang, could you..." As Yu Xiaoke spoke, her eyes were darting everywhere, searching for any possible direction of escape.

Seeing that Wei Zhao actually knew Qiu Lingshan, Yu Xiaoke realized she could no longer count on him for help. She could only pin her hopes on herself now, and she meant to see whether she could find a chance to slip away.

"The whistleblower? But isn't this Black Bird here a whistleblower too? And isn't he reporting you?" Qiu Lingshan was not moved in the slightest. Yu Xiaoke was a criminal, and it was naturally her duty to bring her to justice.

Yu Xiaoke had in fact long been on file at the police station. Many rich and powerful people had come to file reports after being pickpocketed—or even beaten—by her, and Qiu Lingshan had taken these cases quite seriously, having laid on several operations to capture Yu Xiaoke. Who would have thought that Yu Xiaoke's qinggong was so superb that she had slipped through their fingers every time!

Even Qiu Lingshan herself, a Yellow-Rank expert, could not keep up with Yu Xiaoke's qinggong. Her lightness skill seemed to be a unique art of her own; there was no telling how high her martial arts really were, but she ran far faster than anyone else.

Yu Xiaoke's reputation was far greater than that of the thief gangs, and for good reason: she made a point of robbing only those rich men who were rich without virtue, and such people were invariably wealthy and powerful. Once something happened to them, they would naturally go to the police station to file reports and bring pressure to bear, and over time Yu Xiaoke had become a key target of police attention.

And when these rich people filed their reports, naturally they never mentioned what they themselves had done to bring the theft upon them; they simply directed all their resentment at Yu Xiaoke. Qiu Lingshan, for her part, was not clear on Yu Xiaoke's motives for her crimes, and so she too regarded Yu Xiaoke as a thief who preyed specifically on the rich.

"This... ah, fine. Sister Lingshan, I admit defeat this time. I'll come with you..." Yu Xiaoke's face fell, and she hung her head, walking slowly toward Qiu Lingshan as though turning herself in of her own accord.

But before she had even finished speaking, Yu Xiaoke's steps suddenly changed. She darted swiftly around Qiu Lingshan and ran off in the direction behind her! Yu Xiaoke had already scouted the terrain: behind Qiu Lingshan lay the path that Wei Zhao had cleared earlier with Giant Deer Bro's body. If she could just run out along that path, there was a chance she might break through—after all, the police were all busy stuffing members of the thief gang into the squad cars, and few of them would likely notice her. By the time they did notice, they ought to be caught flat-footed.

"Where do you think you're going!" Qiu Lingshan gave a cold laugh and struck a palm straight at Yu Xiaoke's back.

Qiu Lingshan had crossed paths with Yu Xiaoke any number of times, so how could she not know in her heart exactly what sort of person Yu Xiaoke was? When Yu Xiaoke said she would admit defeat, Qiu Lingshan did not believe it for one in ten thousand. Yu Xiaoke was cunning to the core; so long as even a thread of possibility remained, she would flee for all she was worth. How could she ever willingly admit defeat?

So Qiu Lingshan had long since been on her guard. Once Yu Xiaoke drew near, Qiu Lingshan had already gathered her qi and raised her arm, ready to wound her and then take her down. That was the only way to be certain she could bring Yu Xiaoke smoothly back to the police station.