Chapter 71 — He Got the Better Deal Anyway
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After dinner, Wei Zhao cleared the table. In the past, those Lock&Lock containers had always been collected by Uncle Qing first thing the next morning, and at the hotel there were naturally people assigned to wash them. But ever since Wei Zhao arrived, he found the greasy leftovers unpleasant, so he took care of them himself.
"Arrowhead Bro, you're quite the domesticated man—whoever marries you down the road will be lucky indeed! I'm heading upstairs!" Shen Yushu gave Wei Zhao a word of encouragement and went up.
Marry me? Wei Zhao felt a chill of revulsion. His first thought was that this girl had a taste for feminist role-reversal. But he was used to Shen Yushu's quirky antics by now and said nothing.
After scrubbing the food containers and bagging them in a plastic bag, Wei Zhao turned off the dining room light and headed toward his room.
The second five-year deadline was nearly upon him, and it made Wei Zhao somewhat restless. Although cultivating the first layer of the Xuanyuan Dragon-Taming Art had greatly transformed his constitution, making the meridians in his body more solid than before and his reflexes and agility far keener than an ordinary person's—
—in the eyes of ordinary people, that made him an expert among experts. But it only made Wei Zhao more eager. If the first layer was already like this, then the second layer... the third layer—what kind of power would they hold?
And beyond the stone door of that cavern hall, apart from the remaining volumes of the Xuanyuan Dragon-Taming Art, would there be other things as well?
Wei Zhao touched the jade pendant at his chest. This single pendant alone had already brought him endless benefits. If there were other good things behind that stone door... just thinking about it set his blood racing.
Many times, in fact, this pendant alone had saved the lives of both himself and his comrades! Even now, Wei Zhao had yet to fully master and understand the pendant's functions.
Yet the pendant's power was wondrous—it almost seemed to understand his thoughts. Whenever someone within a certain range meant him harm, the pendant could transmit a signal to warn him in advance.
It was precisely because of the pendant's early warnings that Wei Zhao and his comrades had been able to turn danger into safety time and again amid the bullets and gunfire of the primeval forest! That was the pendant's advance-warning function.
Another function was this: if someone he had seen before—someone who had once wished him harm—was within a certain radius of him, then even if that person concealed their killing intent and released no malice toward Wei Zhao for the time being, Wei Zhao could still use the pendant's signal to gradually lock onto that person's presence. The closer he drew to that person, the stronger the signal the pendant transmitted!
Duels between experts often came down in the end to ambush and assassination—strike once, miss, and withdraw at once, never a prolonged entanglement. Those who had crossed blades with Wei Zhao once, even if they escaped under cover, would in the end be inexplicably found and finished off by him.
That was why his teammates called Wei Zhao "Eagle." The eagle—once it fixes its eyes on prey, few can escape.
Of course, the pendant had many more extended functions. It could warn of bad things, and it could warn of good things too, though the signals it emitted differed slightly. Wei Zhao did not know by what means the pendant affected him or how it made him receive its warnings. At least, no one around him had ever been affected in any way.
But as for the meanings of the signals he had puzzled out, so far there were only these three. In other situations, the pendant sometimes emitted other signals too—only Wei Zhao did not know what they meant or what conditions triggered the pendant's response.