Chapter 3296 — How Was It Wei Zhao Again?

Only, the moment He Dantou laid eyes on it, his expression turned utterly aghast! Wei Zhao? How had that brat managed to turn up at Red Conch headquarters? And on the day of the transaction, that Secretary Lu who had come—was he Wei Zhao in disguise?

The footage had already been annotated by Fanny with a very clear thread of events and reasoning, so He Dantou scarcely needed to exert himself—it was plain at a glance! Yet he was caught between laughing and crying. So the general manager had taken Wei Zhao for one of his, He Dantou's, own men?

He Dantou dialed the general manager's number again, and before he could get a word out, the man's interrogation came crackling down the line: "Well? Caught red-handed with the goods, weren't you? Bet you never thought I had airtight surveillance here—and our analysis and deduction were pretty slick too, eh? Dare you claim this man isn't one of your Overseas Cultivators' Association?"

"Hold on a moment!" He Dantou cut him off, a flicker of impatience in his voice, and said coldly: "First, let me make one thing clear—I know this man, but he is absolutely not one of the Overseas Cultivators' Association!"

"You know him? And he's not one of yours?" The general manager curled his lip. "Can you say something a little more convincing?"

"Don't interrupt. What I'm telling you is this: that man is not only your enemy, he's mine as well. His name is Wei Zhao. He once killed an elder of our Overseas Cultivators' Association, and just days ago our association was hunting him. This is no secret—ask around and you'll have the whole story soon enough!" He Dantou said.

"Really?" The general manager was slightly taken aback. The name Wei Zhao sounded a little familiar—where had he heard it before?

"Of course it's true. And I understand what you're getting at—you think I sent a man ahead to scout the place, then pull some tricks, all to swindle you out of your drugs?" He Dantou countered.

"Yes, so what?" The general manager was briefly startled.

"Then why would I go to such lengths? I could have simply carried an empty case and altered the account number myself—what need would I have to send another man? Wouldn't that be a pointless extra step? And it wouldn't even work in the first place!" He Dantou said. "Do you really think I'd have any reason to do that?"

"That..." The general manager thought it over, and what He Dantou said did make good sense. He had walked into a trap of his own making, assuming this Yi Ling was He Dantou's man; but now, thinking it through carefully, He Dantou truly had no need for such an operation. And whether this Yi Ling was really named Wei Zhao, and whether he was an enemy of the Overseas Cultivators' Association—the general manager need only investigate, and the truth would surely surface before long.

"All right, I'll look into it. If this really was my misunderstanding, then the drugs from this transaction are yours—consider it an apology!" The general manager was nothing if not decisive. After all, the territory of the deal was his own company; if something had gone wrong, it could only be his own problem. He could afford to lose.

"Oh? Then I thank you. I'll await your good news!" He Dantou had not expected the general manager to be so straightforward, and it caught him somewhat by surprise. His originally heavy mood lightened considerably.

What's more, to his relief, it now appeared that Wei Zhao and Yang Qiqi truly had no connection whatsoever. Wei Zhao had not gone looking for Yang Qiqi, nor sought refuge with her; instead he had fled to Ruileida Town, and somehow got wind of the deal between He Dantou and Red Conch, and gone off to sabotage it deliberately!

He Dantou never imagined Wei Zhao had been targeting Red Conch; he assumed the man was after him! After all, he had only just made an enemy of Wei Zhao, so in his mind Wei Zhao must have been coming for him—otherwise, how could the timing have been such a coincidence?

So, thinking it over, He Dantou felt a touch of guilt. True, the case of money had been lost at Red Conch Group, and the transfer had gone wrong at Red Conch Group, but when you got right down to it, this was not Red Conch's fault.

In this way, though he had lost two payments' worth of money and gained only one shipment of drugs, he felt things were quite balanced—after all, Red Conch had been dragged into this mess because of Wei Zhao too!

On the general manager's side, as soon as he hung up, he told Fanny to investigate the matter of Wei Zhao. And it proved quite easy to investigate: with a single phone call, Fanny reached Da Feng, the man in charge at the domestic headquarters!

"Da Feng, this is Fanny," she said once the line connected.

"Ah, Assistant Fanny, hello. What instructions do you have for me?" Though Da Feng was one of Wei Zhao's people, on the surface he remained exceedingly respectful to Fanny—after all, she was his direct superior.

"It's like this: there's a man named Wei Zhao—do you know of him?" Fanny asked, coming straight to the point.

"Wei Zhao? I know him... I reported on this man to headquarters some time ago! He's the hidden boss behind Guan Daifu Pharmaceuticals, and earlier Zhuge Junshi clashed with him and was wiped out by him—that's the man. You even told me to be careful not to provoke cultivators of that caliber from home in the future..." Though Da Feng could not fathom what Fanny meant, or why she had brought Wei Zhao up again, he dared not speak carelessly, and introduced him truthfully.

"Oh? Wei Zhao... him?" Fanny was startled. She had not expected Wei Zhao to be a great enemy of Red Conch—it was he who had done away with Zhuge Junshi. And according to An Liwen, both Red Conch and the Fire Wolf Gang were deeply entangled with Wei Zhao!

"All right, I understand." Fanny asked no more; knowing who Wei Zhao was sufficed. Such an unorthodox expert, so active in the Huaxia cultivation world—there was no need to ask to know he certainly had nothing to do with the Overseas Cultivators' Association!

He Dantou was not so brainless as to send a top expert to stir up trouble in the Huaxia cultivation world. If that ever came to light, would they not unite to boycott him? That would be walking willingly to his own death.

So the moment Fanny learned this, she went straight to the general manager and laid the situation out for him.

"What? Damn him—Wei Zhao again?" The general manager had found the name familiar before, and now at last he remembered just who Wei Zhao was. So the brat was one of Red Conch's enemies! "Wei Zhao, Yi Ling—playing such a trick. The brat's cunning! So he came to make trouble right at our Red Conch headquarters?"

"Very likely!" Fanny nodded and ventured her guess.

"It seems I misjudged He Dantou, then. This Wei Zhao was plainly coming for us. I suppose he still bore a grudge over last time, and when he came overseas and got hunted by He Dantou, he felt hard done by and decided to make trouble for me!" the general manager said after a moment's thought. (Next update later; for the update time, follow Yuren on WeChat at yuren22, or come back tomorrow morning.) RT