Chapter 1934 — The Inquiry
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For someone like Baldy Wolf, Wei Zhao could not be bothered with interrogation. He simply produced several silver needles and casually inserted them into Baldy Wolf's head. Baldy Wolf woke, though his gaze had gone somewhat blank.
"I'm going to ask you a few questions. Answer them one by one, and conceal nothing," Wei Zhao said sternly.
"Yes..." Baldy Wolf seemed to have entered a hypnotic state, entirely stripped of independent will.
This technique had been passed down to Wei Zhao by his master. Though highly effective, it worked only on lesser men. After all, a cultivator's will is extraordinarily strong—even a Yellow Rank cultivator possesses formidable mental power, and with this method Wei Zhao could not hypnotize them at all.
But for small fry like this, who were nothing at all, the technique was the fastest and most effective. Its only drawback was a certain aftereffect: the subject would lose a stretch of memory, the length varying from person to person—a day at the least, four or five at most—so he would never recall having been hypnotized.
Wei Zhao intended to use the same method on the foreigner, the aim being to make them forget recent events so that he could quietly swallow that case of dollars without anyone the wiser. As for the two of them, Wei Zhao planned to hand them over to Chen Yuxuan, letting him join forces with Yang Huaijun and Qiu Lingshan to earn another merit. Capturing drug dealers and seizing this much narcotics was, after all, a major achievement.
Wei Zhao did not mind letting these two wretches realize their greatest value; killing them outright would have been a waste.
"What is your name, what do you do, and what organization do you belong to?" Wei Zhao asked.
"My name is Tu Lang. On the street they call me Baldy Wolf. I handle drug deals for Red Conch," Baldy Wolf said.
"Where is Red Conch's headquarters? How many people are there? Who is the boss, and what is your relationship with the Fire Wolf Gang?" Wei Zhao asked.
"Red Conch's headquarters is abroad. I don't know where. What's in the country is only a branch." Baldy Wolf said, "The Red Conch branch is in Qingrun City. The First Boss is dead, the Second Boss was captured, and for now the Third Boss is in charge. I don't know the Third Boss's name, because everyone just calls him the Third Boss. Red Conch and the Fire Wolf Gang are brother gangs; we help each other out. But the exact relationship, I don't know either."
Wei Zhao was somewhat surprised by Baldy Wolf's words. He had not expected Red Conch's headquarters to be abroad, nor that Baldy Wolf would not even know where. What was in the country was only a branch.
So by that account, the First Boss Feng Tianlong had killed was merely one person in charge of a Red Conch branch. Red Conch's foundations ran deep indeed!
"Does Red Conch have cultivators holding the fort? What rank is the highest-level cultivator?" Wei Zhao asked.
"The Third Boss is himself a cultivator, at the peak of the late Mystic Rank. Apart from him, there's only one skilled hand at the early Yellow Rank." Baldy Wolf said, "Red Conch's business is run in partnership with the Yu family. The skilled hands are all sent by the Yu family."