Chapter 176 — Caught Just Like That
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"I'd advise you not to." Wei Zhao was not looking down on Qiu Lingshan; it was simply that taking on four or five robbers alone would be more than a little difficult for her. "They have guns."
"Fine, then I'll trust you this once!" Hearing Wei Zhao say so, Qiu Lingshan gave up the idea of going down herself. She might be locked in a contest of wills with Wei Zhao, but she was not about to let that contest extend to a matter of such consequence. What if the robbers really were down there?
"You should have trusted me in the first place. If you didn't trust me, why did you come looking for me at all?" Wei Zhao understood Qiu Lingshan's skepticism well enough. The first time he had miraculously found the enemy's lair, Yang Huaijun and the others had found it just as incredible.
"I'll contact the helicopter now and have them bring men over." Qiu Lingshan took out her phone and prepared to give the order. It was not that helicopters had never been used in the search before, but this was mountain forest, and a helicopter could not fly too low. They had only made a single circuit in the air, found nothing, and given up.
At the time, it truly had never occurred to anyone to fly a helicopter into the cliff valley for a look. Since Wei Zhao had put it forward with such certainty, Qiu Lingshan could only trust him, and treat it as trusting Captain Yang.
"Can I go now?" Seeing that Qiu Lingshan was about to contact the helicopter to catch the robbers, Wei Zhao reckoned he was of no further use here.
"No!" Qiu Lingshan refused flatly. "We'll talk after they're caught!"
"I still have to get back to class," Wei Zhao said.
"I'll drive you back!" Qiu Lingshan would not agree to anything else.
"All right." Wei Zhao sat down on the ground and looked up at Qiu Lingshan from below. "So magnificent, so spectacular!"
At first Qiu Lingshan was baffled by Wei Zhao's words, thinking he meant the peaks and scenery here. But she followed his gaze, and it ended up resting on her own body, and in an instant she understood what Wei Zhao was talking about!
Her face flushed red, and she itched to kick Wei Zhao right off the cliff! "Where are you looking?"
"A certain part of your body is too prominent. It's blocking my view of the blue sky," Wei Zhao said innocently...
"Look again and I'll gouge your eyes out and stomp on them like bubble wrap." Qiu Lingshan turned her body to one side, giving Wei Zhao no further chance to look.
"You're threatening and intimidating me. I'm going to call the police," Wei Zhao said, not taking it seriously in the least, still lying on the ground at his ease.
"I'm the police, you little—whatever you have to say, say it to me!" Qiu Lingshan glared at Wei Zhao.
"Then never mind," Wei Zhao said.
"..." Qiu Lingshan was so angry she could only glare in silence.
Before long, a helicopter came flying over, and Qiu Lingshan's phone rang as well. She answered, told the other party her position, and then had them search beneath the cliff.
Qiu Lingshan had not held out much hope to begin with, but very soon her people called back to report: the men had been caught, not a single one missing, apart from Baldy and Ma Laoliu, who had already died.
At that moment, Qiu Lingshan was truly at a loss for words. What was this supposed to mean? They had actually caught them?
Wei Zhao had not been bluffing, making up a location to fool her? Now it seemed that was definitely not the case... But how on earth had he found it and confirmed it?
She had been following right behind him the whole time, walking back and forth, and he had discovered it, while she had noticed nothing at all? Could someone please tell her what on earth was going on?