Chapter 2649 — Zhu Bo Reports In

"My name is Tang Yuqi. I am a detective, from overseas," the young man said calmly. He was a detective of some standing overseas; even if Zhong Yongliang wanted revenge, he would have to weigh who he was up against.

And the reason he had lost his temper was that he was himself a detective, and a devotee of deduction besides. When watching a film, he liked to analyze and reason things out for himself, and he had only just gotten into character and was about to begin deducing when Zhong Yongliang had blurted out the answer—naturally, he was displeased.

"Oh, so you're a friend from overseas. Xiaofu, give him a hundred yuan." Zhong Yongliang had found himself a way out, and had Gao Xiaofu hand Tang Yuqi a hundred yuan. Then he said, "Sorry for the disturbance!"

"Forget it." Tang Yuqi took the hundred yuan, turned, and left the cinema...

Watching his retreating figure, Wei Zhao frowned. Something about the man struck him as familiar, as though he had seen him somewhere before... Yet he was from overseas, which left Wei Zhao somewhat puzzled.

Could he have seen him back when he was carrying out missions? That did not fit either—he knew no one by the surname Tang. Could it have something to do with the Hidden Tang family?

Tang Yuyi, Tang Yuqi—the names sounded very much like two brothers. A pity they could not be brothers; otherwise one would not be of a Hidden family while the other was an overseas detective. The two were utterly unrelated.

As for both bearing the surname Tang and both having the character "Yu" in the middle of their names, perhaps their generation names in the family registers simply happened to match, and they might even have been kin several hundred years ago... Besides, Tang Yuqi and Tang Yuyi did not really look much alike.

That Wei Zhao found him familiar had nothing to do with Tang Yuyi.

By now Tang Yuqi had already left. Wei Zhao shook his head and went back to watching the film.

This time Zhong Yongliang had learned his lesson and said nothing more. While he nursed a grudge against Tang Yuqi in his heart, he also knew there was nothing he could do to the man. The pressing matter was how to become Gu Mengyao's personal guard!

As things stood, he had only the Hundred-Drunk Centipede and no truly formidable techniques. The Hundred-Drunk Centipede was not weak, but it came with conditions for use. So Zhong Yongliang wondered: once he defeated Wei Zhao, should he go back to his sect and beg for a few treasures?

Zhao Qibing and Zhu Bo arrived at the Gelifuliuyun Bar, and Li Cihua hurried out to greet them.

"Young Master Bing, you succeeded?" Seeing Zhao Qibing with his leg broken, Li Cihua was overjoyed. "Wei Zhao struck?"

"Yes, he finally struck!" Supported by Zhu Bo, Zhao Qibing entered the bar's inner room, then said, "It wasn't easy. Wei Zhao has gotten clever too—he won't break my leg so readily anymore. Now it's hard just to get him to lift a hand. I still need two more breaks for my Thousand Legs training. Tell me, how can I get him to break it two more times?"

"That... I think we still have to go through Wei Zhao..." Li Cihua thought for a moment. "None of us can strike properly. Only Wei Zhao can control it well..."

"True enough, but getting Wei Zhao to act now is harder than climbing to the sky. This time I went to enormous trouble, and with the Right Coil Tiger running interference on my behalf, I only just managed to get the leg broken. Next time I'm afraid we won't get such a good chance." Zhao Qibing shook his head. "Here's what we do, Cihua: keep an eye on Wei Zhao as much as you can, then win over him and the people around him, and analyze his psychology as best you can—see how we can get him to break my leg again."

"All right, I understand." Li Cihua nodded. "Tomorrow I'll give Wei Zhao a free membership card for the bar. If he accepts it, then I'll ask him for a favor..."

"Don't give it to Wei Zhao—give it to Shen Yushu. If you give it to Wei Zhao, he can't accept it; with Shen Yushu, there's still a chance." Zhao Qibing thought it over. "If Shen Yushu agrees, she can probably talk Wei Zhao into hitting me."

"That works too," Li Cihua answered.

"Then I'll head back to the Hidden Zhao family first. With my leg broken, I need to apply some herbs for my Thousand Legs training." With that, Zhao Qibing took his leave together with Zhu Bo.

After returning to the Hidden Zhao family, Zhao Qibing went to his room to apply the medicine, while Zhu Bo found a place where no one was around and dialed Wei Zhao's number.

Wei Zhao was watching the film. Hearing his phone ring, he took it out and glanced at it, and was rather surprised—it was Zhu Laoer's number.

"Hello?" Wei Zhao lowered his voice and answered the call.

"Leader, this is Zhu Laoer. I have an important piece of news for you." Zhu Bo also lowered his voice and spoke cautiously.

"Oh? What news?" Wei Zhao asked.

"It's like this—you still don't know why Zhao Qibing keeps asking you to break his leg, do you?" Zhu Bo asked.

"No, I don't. You do?" Wei Zhao had been meaning to find a chance to ask Leader Zhu about it, but he hadn't expected Zhu Laoer's call to come first.

"Yes. Since my strength has recovered and I've made a breakthrough, the old master Zhao had me attend Zhao Qibing at his side. Today was the first time I came out with Zhao Qibing, and on the way I asked him about the reason for breaking his leg." Zhu Laoer said, "The truth is, Zhao Qibing is cultivating a martial technique called Thousand Legs. To master the first form, one must have the leg broken nine times. Zhao Qibing had broken his several times before but was still a few short, so he came to you, Leader, for help..."

"Oh? Is that so?" Wei Zhao was somewhat taken aback. "So it really is a martial technique? But who ever heard of such a lunatic technique?"

Wei Zhao had considered before whether Zhao Qibing might be cultivating some martial technique, but that had only been a casual guess on his part; he hadn't expected to guess right.

"Yes, though I don't know the specifics too clearly, since I've only just started following Zhao Qibing. Some things I can't ask about too closely—I'm afraid he'll get suspicious," Zhu Bo said.

"All right then. Keep watch on his movements at all times. Also, if possible, copy out his martial technique for me to look at—I want to see just what this thing is," Wei Zhao instructed Zhu Laoer.

"Understood. I'll keep an eye on it," Zhu Bo answered hurriedly.

Only, Zhu Bo failed to keep watch for a moment, and Zhao Qibing took a phone call in his room that Zhu Bo did not overhear—which afterward very nearly led to serious trouble.

After returning to his room, Zhao Qibing applied medicine to his leg. He was just about to take out the Thousand Legs martial technique to study it when his phone rang.