Chapter 778 — Senior Sister Sect Master Qiu Lingshan
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Rivals in the same trade are natural enemies, and a sect like the Flying Swallow Sect, which often preyed on its own kind and robbed other crooks, was thoroughly detested by the pickpocket gang. Of course, all they knew was that Yu Xiaoke belonged to the Flying Swallow Sect; they had no idea of its structure, nor where Yu Xiaoke lived or what her real identity was. Otherwise, Yu Xiaoke would not have been able to live peacefully at the orphanage either.
In Black Bird Bro's view, the Flying Swallow Sect surely had more than just Yu Xiaoke. She was merely one of its more conspicuous members. He had never seen this Wei Zhao before, but Black Bird Bro was confident that Wei Zhao had pulled his share of black-on-black jobs too, only more discreetly.
By now Black Bird Bro had pinned every one of the gang's failures on Wei Zhao! He was certain it was the Flying Swallow Sect's meddling that had caused it all, and so his hatred for the sect had reached a fever pitch.
Black Bird Bro dialed the big boss, Giant Deer Bro, once more. "Giant Deer Bro, the Flying Swallow Sect is calling in people too, getting ready for a showdown with us. Their Senior Sister Sect Master has already set out. What do we do?"
"What? The Flying Swallow Sect is calling in people too? Their sect master is coming?" Giant Deer Bro was taken aback, then overjoyed. "If they've got a death wish, then don't blame us. I was only going to send ten men, but this time I'll bring every last member of the pickpocket gang and crush them!"
"Good, good, Giant Deer Bro, I'll be waiting for you!" Hearing that Giant Deer Bro was turning out the whole gang, Black Bird Bro felt his confidence surge. His pickpocket gang had forty or fifty members. If they all came, how could the Flying Swallow Sect possibly survive?
How many people could the Flying Swallow Sect have? Ten or eight at the very most. Black Bird Bro simply didn't take them seriously at all. In his view, if the Flying Swallow Sect had the numbers, they wouldn't be scraping by so miserably in Songshan City, and Yu Xiaoke wouldn't be so lacking in confidence.
After hanging up, Black Bird Bro pointed at Wei Zhao. "Kid, so what if your sect master's coming? Our big boss Giant Deer Bro is bringing every last member of our pickpocket gang. Just you watch us crush you!"
"What? You're kidding? Your big boss is coming too?" Wei Zhao cried out in feigned alarm, while inwardly thinking, I was afraid you wouldn't come!
The whole performance Wei Zhao had put on was aimed at making Black Bird Bro summon every member of the pickpocket gang so that Qiu Lingshan could round them all up in one sweep! Otherwise, with Wei Zhao's skills, taking down Black Bird Bro would have been child's play — but once he was down, the rest of the pickpocket gang would be far harder to wipe out completely!
With Black Bird Bro captured, the pickpocket gang would surely be on their guard now. Rounding them all up in one sweep was, for all intents and purposes, impossible.
But Wei Zhao had cleverly exploited the feud between the Flying Swallow Sect and the pickpocket gang to draw every last member of the gang out. Black Bird Bro, one imagines, would never have guessed that the person Wei Zhao had phoned earlier was not the Flying Swallow Sect at all, but Qiu Lingshan, captain of the criminal police.
In fact, that thought had never even crossed Black Bird Bro's mind. He had already pegged Wei Zhao as one of Yu Xiaoke's lot, so how could he possibly have ties to the police? Utter fantasy, nothing more.
And Giant Deer Bro, as a rule, did not show his face in person, not with police raids to guard against. But the Songshan City pickpocket gang and the Flying Swallow Sect had a long-standing feud, and Giant Deer Bro had long since wanted to wipe out the Flying Swallow Sect's people.