Chapter 1340 — Shifting the Hatred
The Blossom Guardian · Page 2 of 2
Hearing his son's words, Xiao Ji was instantly struck senseless — Er Goudan, that great hero, was tangled up in all this! No wonder the Pi family's experts were dead; coming up against such a great hero, how could they not die? Had he known this beforehand, why would he have set his sights on the Gu family at all? Was that not simply courting death?
"What? That formidable? No wonder the two Pi family experts were killed with a single punch!" Xiao Wangba said: "Dad, what do we do now?"
"What can we do? Wait for the Pi family's wrath to fall!" Xiao Ji wilted on the spot: "Why the hell didn't you scout things out properly before? Why didn't you tell me this great hero was in Wei Zhao's house too?"
"That... I don't know him either. How was I supposed to know he was that formidable..." Xiao Wangba said, aggrieved.
The Xiao family was thrown into utter chaos this time. Xiao Ji relayed Xiao Wangba's words to Xiao Ben, and now Xiao Ben was stunned as well! The Xiao family had stirred up enormous trouble this time! Not only had they offended that great hero, but there was no telling whether the Pi family would pin the blame on the Xiao family for it.
If the Pi family could send out even more formidable experts to take the lead, then the Xiao family still had hope. If not, then the Xiao family was well and truly finished.
"Big Brother, there's no concealing this even if we tried. Better that we call the Pi family ourselves and come clean," Xiao Ben mused for a moment, then said: "The only way to dodge this calamity is to lay every bit of the blame on those two Pi family experts!"
"Mmm... you're right. That way we say the Pi family experts were the ones who coveted the Gu family's assets, and that was why they moved to abduct someone — only to be beaten to death by the other side!" Xiao Ji nodded: "Dead men tell no tales anyway. Even if they have their suspicions, it will do them no good!"
"Yes. And more than that, we must play the victim, weeping that those two experts dragged our Xiao family down with them, and that to keep the Gu family from exacting revenge later, the Pi family will have to send even more formidable experts to hold the fort." Xiao Ben went on.
"Heh heh, we two brothers really are geniuses — we've dissolved a great crisis between one joke and the next!" Xiao Ji was thoroughly pleased. Just like that, both the hatred and the crisis had been shifted onto the Pi family, and the Xiao family had become the injured party instead.
"Ha ha, brothers of one heart can cut through metal!" Xiao Ben said smugly: "Brothers as harmonious as the two of us are a rare sight even among the great families!"
"Naturally. I, the head of this family, am also exceedingly magnanimous and democratic — I don't go in for dictatorship or arbitrary rule!" Xiao Ji nodded.
With the Xiao family stepping forward to cover up the deaths of the two Pi family experts, the affair passed quietly, without so much as a ripple. The bodies of the two Pi family experts were carried to the Xiao family villa and left there, awaiting the arrival of the Pi family to claim them and discuss what was to be done next.
Over the phone, the Pi family said little upon hearing the news, only that they would send people to talk it over in detail. Clearly, the Pi family had also grown wary of Er Goudan — a man who could kill a peak late-stage Profound Rank expert with a single punch.
Hidden family though the Pi family was, with experts gathered thick as clouds, what level must a man be at to kill a peak late-stage Profound Rank expert with one punch? He must surely stand above the Earth Rank as well — and Earth Rank experts were a breed found only in hidden families and a handful of sects...