Chapter 565 — None of Them Came to School
The Blossom Guardian · Page 2 of 2
"How strange — you've already broken through, and you're perfectly fine..." Mo Kongwu looked thoroughly perplexed, shaking his head. "My master said you were in danger. Master wouldn't lie to me, would he?"
"Old man, what are you talking about? Who is your master?" Wei Zhao asked.
"You're fine now. Goodbye." Mo Kongwu simply waved a hand, turned, and ran. In an instant he became a blur and vanished from Wei Zhao's sight.
Wei Zhao envied that kind of speed. He wanted to give chase but knew he could never catch up.
Although he was bewildered by Mo Kongwu's identity, Wei Zhao could do nothing about it. Still, at the very least, the old man seemed to bear no ill will toward him — he genuinely appeared to have come to help.
After all, only yesterday Wei Zhao had still been at the late Yellow Stage, and his breakthrough had taken mere hours overnight! Yet this "master" Mo Kongwu spoke of knew him so intimately. It made Wei Zhao wonder — just who in the world was this master?
But these questions would have to wait for answers, since Mo Kongwu had already disappeared. There was no point in dwelling on it, so Wei Zhao could only push these bizarre events to the back of his mind, get back in his car, and drive toward the school.
When the first period of the morning ended, Wei Zhao went to Class Nine, Senior Three to find Tang Zhi. To his surprise, she had not come to school today! He tried her phone again — still powered off.
He had meant to look for Liu Xinlan and ask her about it, but Liu Xinlan had not come to school either.
This time Wei Zhao was rather puzzled. Had the two of them arranged it beforehand? Why had neither of them shown up?
But no matter how it was, with neither of them to be found, Wei Zhao had no choice but to return to the classroom.
Kang Xiaofeng was eager to tell Wei Zhao about what had happened the day before, but Wei Zhao had gone out the moment class ended. Seeing Wei Zhao come back now, Kang Xiaofeng was just about to speak when the homeroom teacher, Mr. Liu, walked in and stepped up to the podium. "Quiet down, everyone. There's something important I need to tell you all."
The class fell silent at once. Even though it was break time, no one dared to ignore the homeroom teacher.
"I have some unfortunate news to share. Our classmate Zhong Yongliang was abducted outside the school yesterday morning by persons unknown. They removed one of his kidneys and then left him at the entrance of the First People's Hospital!" Mr. Liu had just received a call from Zhong Fabai, asking to excuse Zhong Yongliang from school.
"What—" The whole class erupted in an uproar! The news was far too shocking. Such a terrible thing had actually befallen Zhong Yongliang, and while his classmates pitied him, they were also secretly worrying whether the same fate might one day fall on them!
Though senior students in their third year of high school hardly paid attention to the news anymore, everyone had heard about the recent string of vicious cases in Songshan City in which vagrants and beggars had been seized and had their kidneys cut out. After all, word spread from person to person, and it spread in a most terrifying way!
Still, everyone had assumed that the gang was targeting vagrants and beggars, that they would not go after ordinary people. So although they found it horrifying, they had not connected it to themselves! And now, today, the dreadful news about Zhong Yongliang showed that the kidney-harvesting ring had begun to prey on ordinary people!