Chapter 230 — You Cheated
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With full force, a single punch could have blasted this early Yellow Rank Wei Zhao to death, but that was not what Black Panther wanted. According to Zhong Yongliang's instructions, Wei Zhao was to be badly wounded first, then dragged upstairs to watch Zou Ruoming and Tang Zhi and die in agony.
So, to avoid killing Wei Zhao outright, Black Panther used only mid Yellow Rank strength. Badly wounding Wei Zhao would be enough.
"Bang!" The two fists slammed together with a muffled thud.
"You... you're not early Yellow Rank..." Incredulity filled Black Panther's eyes. Before he could say another word, his whole body was sent flying backward, crashing heavily to the ground.
Wei Zhao did not wait for Black Panther to land. He flashed forward, planted a foot on Black Panther's chest, and a series of cracks rang out as ribs snapped...
Wei Zhao stomped down hard a few more times. Black Panther's eyes rolled back and he blacked out. Before losing consciousness, he groaned in agony, "You... you tricked me..."
Wei Zhao curled his lip. "My master always said a proper killer stops at nothing."
In Wei Zhao's eyes, there was no such thing as jianghu rules. So long as the goal was achieved, anything went. Talking about rules with a killer was pure nonsense. If Wei Zhao had revealed from the start that he was at the same late-stage Yellow Rank peak as Black Panther, Black Panther would certainly not have been so careless, nor would he have thrown his punch with only mid-stage Yellow Rank strength.
Though Wei Zhao was well versed in the arts of assassination and had the Xuanyuan Dragon-Taming Art to aid him, defeating Black Panther was not impossible, only a matter of time. But the key problem was that Wei Zhao did not have that much time!
Tang Zhi was right upstairs. How could Wei Zhao afford to be tangled up with Black Panther for long? So Wei Zhao simply played a trick, and to his surprise the idiot Black Panther actually fell for it. This intellect... honestly, it was almost enough to make Wei Zhao worry.
Such trickery was a little beneath contempt, but Wei Zhao had been raised from childhood under the influence of his master and Old Man Wei, two even more shameless specimens, and he had long since stopped caring about such things.
Wei Zhao glanced at Black Panther, then turned and walked toward Zhong Yongliang's Audi. If Zhong Yongliang and Zou Ruoming had not both known about this affair, Wei Zhao would not have minded sending Black Panther off on a little trip through time.
But since Zhong Yongliang and Zou Ruoming could not be dealt with just yet, Wei Zhao could not kill Black Panther either. Even so, Black Panther was already a cripple, and Wei Zhao would just count it as a favor to that little tigress Qiu Lingshan.
Wei Zhao opened the Audi door, hauled Zhong Yongliang over to the unfinished building, dumped him on the ground first, then gave a slight flicker of movement and leaped up to the second floor.
Like a Spider-Man, Wei Zhao hooked both hands into the gaps between the bricks on the outer wall of the unfinished building and searched room by room through the windows for any sign of Tang Zhi...
When Wei Zhao saw one empty room where Tang Zhi lay unharmed, his heart instantly eased. In truth, while he had been fighting Black Panther earlier, his ears had been fixed on the goings-on over here at the unfinished building. Hearing no unusual sounds, he knew Zou Ruoming had probably not made his move yet, which was why Wei Zhao had felt at ease to play around with Black Panther for a while.