Chapter 2369 — Who Sent You?
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Poker Brother could only stammer, hemming and hawing, at a loss for how to explain.
"Where is Chen Xi?" Wei Zhao turned his gaze to the two men whose eyes had earlier betrayed a flash of delight. These two were almost certainly in league with the expert at the door, the one at the peak of the late Profound Rank. One of them was at the peak of the late Profound Rank, the other at the early Earth Rank—and the look on their faces when they saw him arrive was proof enough that they had been waiting for him all along.
"Chen Xi? She's already been lost to Mr. Pu Huotai, the Southeast Asian Gambling King." The Earth Rank expert smiled faintly and said to Wei Zhao, "There's nothing left for us here. We'll be going. Enjoy yourself, Mr. Pu!"
Wei Zhao now shifted his gaze to Pu Huotai and the unsmiling man in black behind him—and Pu Huotai gave him a jolt of alarm! The man was a cultivator, yet Wei Zhao could not see through his strength, could not tell what rank he was.
It was the first time Wei Zhao's golden finger had ever failed him like this. Even when he had faced the Heaven Rank experts of the Ice Palace, and the experts of the Tagan family, there had never been a slip. But this time, he had been thwarted by a Southeast Asian gambling king!
The man was indeed an internal cultivator, yet Wei Zhao could not gauge his rank. The man in black behind him, however, Wei Zhao could judge with perfect clarity: an internal cultivator at the peak of the late Earth Rank.
Wei Zhao frowned slightly and understood that the two men before him were formidable enemies—if it truly came to blows, it would be a nasty fight. And he could more or less conclude that Chen Xi had nothing much to do with these two at all; their involvement had been engineered entirely by Leader Zhu and his crew.
After a moment's consideration, Wei Zhao decided not to strike directly at Pu Huotai and his black-clad bodyguard, but to turn his spearhead on the two questionable men on this side.
"Who is your master? Who told you to bring Chen Xi here as a stake?" Wei Zhao asked evenly. "Tell me, or die."
"This..." The remarkably capable Earth Rank expert was named Zhao Guangshiliu. In his estimation, since Chen Xi was not in the room, Wei Zhao would surely search for her the moment he arrived—and Chen Xi now belonged to Pu Huotai, so any move Wei Zhao made would be against Pu Huotai. Never in his wildest dreams had he imagined that Wei Zhao would aim straight at him the instant he walked through the door!
Of course, had Wei Zhao not known that Old Zhu was up to something and simply taken them for enemies of Chen Xi's father, he might well have been too impatient to bother with them and let them go. After all, his main purpose in coming here was to find Chen Xi.
But Wei Zhao knew these men were connected to Leader Zhu, so naturally he would not let them off. As for Pu Huotai, he was the one Wei Zhao regarded as of little consequence.
"Chen Xi is in the inner room of the box—she belongs to Mr. Pu now, it has nothing to do with us. It was Chen Xi's father who staked her to us. Don't come looking for us..." Zhao Guangshiliu was growing afraid. He knew full well how Wei Zhao had crippled Old Bi with a single move, so he did not believe he could stand against Wei Zhao.
"That's right, nothing to do with us, we'll be going... If you want to find someone, go find Mr. Pu!" said Zhao Qisi, the other man, at the peak of the late Profound Rank.
"What is your connection to Leader Zhu?" Wei Zhao did not answer them, but asked directly.
"What Leader Zhu? We don't know any—" Zhao Guangshiliu broke off and made to turn and leave the box. He had no desire to tangle with Wei Zhao; the longer he stayed, the greater the danger.
Zhao Qisi was of the same mind. In a situation like this, it should be a contest between Wei Zhao and Pu Huotai, and their proper course was to get out fast.