Chapter 326 — Sorry
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While Wei Zhao was wandering back and forth through the repair shop, he was in fact also looking for one of the Water Blue Gang's bosses. Ordinary gang members likely would not know where Xie Jinbiao was being held.
After all, everyone had his own piece of business to mind, and snatching Xie Jinbiao to shake a little money out of Xie Guangbo was no great affair — the Water Blue Gang pulled stunts like that all the time. Their leader Hugh Landon himself might not even have known about it!
Hurrington cared only about the gang's final profits; how those profits were earned was left to the mid-level bosses beneath him. So if one wanted to learn where Xie Jinbiao was being held, grabbing some random passerby and asking was not going to work.
That was why Wei Zhao had held off, choosing his target instead. He wanted one clean strike, not a blind roundup of a crowd to be questioned one by one - that would only spook the snake in the grass.
But at last Wei Zhao came across the little boss who had been ordered to send his men to seize the captives, and Wei Zhao was delighted. The man he had been looking for had finally come to him.
"What... what are you doing?" The little boss was about to cry for help, but the instant he heard Wei Zhao's voice he did not dare make a sound. The blade at his throat was real and cold, and he could not be sure the thing behind him would not drive it straight through him with a single thrust.
"The people you seized - where are they being held?" Wei Zhao asked. "No nonsense. Answer, and fast. Lie to me, and don't blame me for what happens next."
"Wh... which one are you looking for? Let's talk this through. Just give me a name, and I'll call my men right now to let him go!" the little boss said cautiously.
"Hmph!" Wei Zhao gave a cold laugh, and the blade bit into the skin of the little boss's neck; a streak of blood welled up at once. "I already told you - no nonsense, answer fast. Are you deaf? Or do you want to die right now? I don't mind killing you and finding someone else to ask."
"No... no, I'll talk..." The little boss had meant to play a trick, to draw out the name of the man Wei Zhao was after and then have his men bring the fellow out as a hostage to force Wei Zhao into submission. But plainly Wei Zhao had no interest in even hearing it.
"Three counts. Three, two..." Wei Zhao pressed the blade harder.
"The basement of the building up ahead. Don't kill me, I've told you everything..." The little boss was terrified now. "It's the building right up ahead. Let me go..."
"One..." Wei Zhao said the final number. "Sorry. My hand slipped."
And so the little boss checked out.