Chapter 1457 — Setting Out
The Blossom Guardian · Page 2 of 2
"Not bad, not bad! At this rate the money really does come in fast — in such a short time I have already grabbed this much!" An Liwen said to Da Luazi with a laugh. "The branch master of the Fire Wolf Gang's northern division called me personally to offer his congratulations — he means to promote me to special consultant of the Fire Wolf Gang, with authority to command its members directly!"
"Congratulations, Young Master Wen! Congratulations!" Da Luazi said quickly. "But the police have widened their patrol range — if we want to keep working, there is no opening left to use. Besides, Zero One should be exposed before long. We were not overtly careless, but his identity will soon come under suspicion."
"No matter — we have already grabbed more than enough money to call it even. The whole point of Zero One is that the police discover him; if they never do, how are we going to frame Wei Zhao?" An Liwen waved his hand, entirely unperturbed. "Dr. Yin has any number of test subjects as strong as Zero One, and can build plenty more. Once Zero One is exposed, we simply send the next batch out to rob."
"But right now we have no chance to act!" Da Luazi asked. "If Zero One goes out to rob again, the police will certainly take him down. He is strong, I grant it, but he is only the equal of an outer-style expert of the Yellow Tier — and Qiu Lingshan of the police is a genuine expert!"
"That I know perfectly well. No robberies for the time being — let us suspend the plan." An Liwen said it airily enough. "The money I raked in over the past while is already more than enough. Even if I did nothing but play about for a year, no one in the Fire Wolf Gang would have a word to say against me."
"That is true enough!" Who else in the Fire Wolf Gang could match An Liwen's speed at pulling in money? Da Luazi had heard tell of some of An Liwen's exploits as well — kidney harvesting, underground boxing rings; every one of them a trade that devoured fortunes.
"For now, Zero One does no more robbing. Let him rest a while — then send him straight out onto the streets to rob passersby for me. Let us stir up some vicious public-security incidents!" An Liwen said. "Our chief aim from here on is to ruin Wei Zhao utterly, to make him a villain whose crimes fill a lifetime!"
"Yes, sir — for the time being we will rest and regroup first," Da Luazi said, nodding.
Wei Zhao had now been away for three days, and for most of them he had been on the highway, driving on toward the extreme and frozen north.
Because Wei Zhao was a cultivator he needed no rest; he could travel the roads twenty-four hours a day, pausing only now and then to check on Feng Xiaoxiao.
Fortunately, Feng Xiaoxiao's ice coffin had run perfectly the whole way, with nothing amiss about it. It seemed Feng Tianlong's technology was sound after all.
The further north he drove, the fewer people there were, and the highway gave way to a winding, tortuous goat track. Fortunately Wei Zhao's vehicle was an off-roader, which had no trouble with such roads.
Had Zhang Lifeng's medical notes not marked the coordinates with such certainty, Wei Zhao would have concluded he had taken a wrong turn.
Yet by the coordinates on the map, the position was correct. Ancient maps and modern ones might differ, and it was only natural that the roads ended and people grew scarce out here — it was simply that the weather was growing colder by the day.