Chapter 783 — What a Stroke of Bad Luck
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But each of them was too busy saving his own skin to spare a thought for whether Black Bird Bro had gone mad or not.
Every head was bowed; not one dared breathe too loudly, for fear that Qiu Lingshan's next target might be them.
Qiu Lingshan, however, clearly had no intention of bothering with them. She turned away to look for an ambulance. Liu Wangli had already called one for Giant Deer Bro earlier, and now there were two more people in need of one—Yu Xiaoke and Black Bird Bro.
Wei Zhao, naturally, could not have cared less whether Black Bird Bro lived or died. He walked over to Yu Xiaoke instead.
Crouching down, Wei Zhao reached out to examine her injuries—only for Yu Xiaoke to snap her eyes open and shoot him a meaningful look.
Wei Zhao was startled. "You weren't unconscious?"
"More or less... I can just barely hold on..." Yu Xiaoke forced a pitiful smile. "Thanks for avenging me..."
Wei Zhao must have already guessed what Wei Zhao had done to Black Bird Bro's body earlier; otherwise, even with a hundred times the courage, Black Bird Bro would never have dared to flirt with a policewoman at a moment like this! Did he think his life was too long?
"Ha, it was nothing." Wei Zhao did not know why, but a trace of pity rose in his heart for the pitiful Yu Xiaoke.
At heart, Wei Zhao was a rather cold man, maintaining a lofty indifference toward enemies and strangers alike. Only toward the friends around him would Wei Zhao treat them with sincerity. Yet toward Yu Xiaoke, someone he had met only twice, Wei Zhao felt deep sympathy for what she had been through!
Wei Zhao could be considered an orphan himself, and Yu Xiaoke was presumably the same; otherwise she would not have busied herself for the orphanage. The two of them, one could say, still shared some similarities.
"Qiu Lingshan is coming, I have to faint. Don't give me away!" Yu Xiaoke blinked, then suddenly tilted her head and "collapsed" to the ground once more.
Since Yu Xiaoke had said so, Wei Zhao could hardly go and revive her again. Just then, Qiu Lingshan was guiding the medical staff, who came running over this way carrying a stretcher. Wei Zhao rose and stepped aside.
Qiu Lingshan helped the medical staff lift Yu Xiaoke and Black Bird Bro onto stretchers and carried them toward the ambulance. Meanwhile, the members of the thief gang on this side had by now been caught, more or less all of them. Even those not yet captured did not dare to move rashly; with armed ** front and rear, there was no hope of escape even if they wanted to run, so they might as well wait here obediently for the police to deal with them.
"You ran off with them?" Seeing that Wei Zhao had followed along, Qiu Lingshan asked in a low voice.
Wei Zhao glanced at Qiu Lingshan and offered no explanation. Explaining these matters would be rather complicated; it would have to start with that beggar they had encountered earlier. Wei Zhao could not be bothered to go into detail with Qiu Lingshan.
Qiu Lingshan felt somewhat aggrieved, and then somewhat worried: was Wei Zhao blaming her for being a busybody? For asking too many questions?
That was true, after all. She was now the one asking favors of Wei Zhao; nearly every case she solved depended on Wei Zhao. And here she was, asking so many questions—what if Wei Zhao grew tired of her?