Chapter 2508 — Yang Qiqi's Disappointment
The Blossom Guardian · Page 2 of 2
Once Wei Zhao had gone, the Heaven Rank vice president made some excuse and left the office as well. He needed to plan how he would waylay Wei Zhao at the foot of the mountain in a little while...
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After Wei Zhao rose from his seat, many others also made ready to leave. Yang Qiqi saw that Heaven Rank ** rise to depart, hesitated a moment, then hurried after him and called out, "Senior, please wait!"
"Oh? It's you!" The Heaven Rank ** turned his head and saw Yang Qiqi. He remembered her—the slip of a girl who the day before had wanted to trade blue crystal for the blood of an earth-attribute Heaven Rank spirit beast.
"Senior, my blue crystal... I don't have it on me at the moment, but rest assured, as soon as I get home I'll fetch it at once and trade with you. Please, please don't trade the earth-attribute Heaven Rank spirit beast's blood to anyone else—I beg you!" Yang Qiqi said earnestly to the Heaven Rank **.
Although the blue crystal had been taken by Wei Zhao, Yang Qiqi knew that an auction abroad would soon offer another blue crystal for sale. When the time came, she would do everything in her power to win one, and then bring it back to trade with the Heaven Rank **.
"Ha ha, little girl, I'm afraid not. That earth-attribute Heaven Rank spirit beast blood—I've already traded it away," the Heaven Rank ** said to Yang Qiqi. "So I can't trade with you anymore."
"What? What!" Yang Qiqi's face fell at once in dismay. "Already traded away? How could that be? How could it have come to this..."
"Just last night, someone came with the very thing I needed and traded for it. I couldn't refuse," the Heaven Rank ** said. "So, little girl, there's nothing I can do."
"What? What did he trade you?" Yang Qiqi asked quickly.
"Exactly what I needed—something from a water-attribute Heaven Rank spirit beast," the Heaven Rank ** said.
"Then... could you tell me who traded for that earth-attribute Heaven Rank spirit beast blood?" Yang Qiqi had no choice but to settle for second best and ask.
"That I can't do. It involves a person's privacy. Until that person agrees, I can't casually reveal his identity." The Heaven Rank ** shook his head, thinking to himself: who else but the man sitting right beside you, the one who fought You Pangao for the pure yellow jade?
But that he could not say. Though Wei Zhao and Yang Qiqi seemed to know each other and had sat together, the more he thought about it, the stranger it seemed. The two of them sitting side by side, and Wei Zhao never telling Yang Qiqi **—surely that meant he wished to keep it hidden? So the Heaven Rank ** would not play the villain and give such things away.
On the contrary, he was rather grateful to Wei Zhao, who had traded him the thing he needed and, in the contest over the pure yellow jade, had also got the better of You Pangao, giving him a breath of satisfaction. Since Wei Zhao had joined the bidding late, after the Heaven Rank ** had already given up, he bore Wei Zhao no ill will at all.
"I see..." Yang Qiqi knew she was asking too much.
"Well then, little girl, I must be going." The Heaven Rank ** turned and strode quickly out of the auction hall.