Chapter 2920 — A Disciple of the Dark Night Palace; And Liu Tianli Picked Up a Cigarette
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This time Secretary Zhang took a good long while. Investigating a company and investigating a pair of phone numbers were two entirely different matters, after all. But Secretary Zhang was a man of considerable resources; working through several chambers of commerce, he had finally traced President Lang's company by roundabout means. Yet once the company's records came to light, Secretary Zhang's brows knit tight.
Naturally, none of this was Secretary Zhang's to worry over. Once he had the materials in hand, he went straight to Liu Tianli's office. Seeing cigarette butts strewn all over the floor, he was slightly taken aback, but he still said respectfully, "President Liu, I have the materials. If you would be so good as to look them over."
"Set them down over there." Liu Tianli was blissfully puffing away, and at this moment regarded other matters as of little consequence; he felt no urge to look at the materials just yet.
"Very good..." Secretary Zhang did not dare say more. He set the materials down and turned to leave...
It was a long while before Liu Tianli roused himself from the drug's spell and remembered the materials. He hastily picked up what Secretary Zhang had delivered—but the moment he turned to the first page, he froze.
President Lang's company was registered in Bermuda, and no further relevant information could be found at all. All that could be turned up were promotional advertisements and encyclopedia entries about the company on search engines—and such things could never serve as evidence of anything. Anyone could edit them.
Liu Tianli tossed the materials aside and gave a bitter sigh. Of course. If the other party had decided to cheat him, they would hardly have left him anything to seize upon afterward, nor any genuine information for him to trace.
"Ai!" Liu Tianli bowed his head in helplessness, his hands clutching at his hair to no purpose. He did not know how to face it, and in his torment could only pick up another cigarette and smoke...
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Two disciples of the Dark Night Palace had picked two trial spirit herbs off the corpses, and at the award ceremony they had successfully exchanged them for a single future elixir of Qi Condensation Pills. How long the pills would take to finish refining, no one could say, but this was the only way for Wan'er, Palace Mistress of the Dark Night Palace, to break through to the heaven rank...
If Palace Mistress Wan'er still could not receive the inheritance at the heaven rank, then another inheritor would have to be sought elsewhere. The pressure on the Dark Night Palace was heavy indeed.
The two disciples' successful return earned them praise from the Grand Elder: "You two did well, to pass through the perilous trial of the Xuan Dan Sect so smoothly!"
"In serving the Grand Elder, we disciples give our all. However perilous, we shall see it through," the two Dark Night Palace disciples said fawningly.
"Mm... Still, it is a pity you brought back only two trial spirit herbs. Why did you not pick a few more?" the Grand Elder asked.
"We... we did have a great many trial spirit herbs at first, but who would have known that a wretch named Wei Zhao would interfere, and extort all our herbs from us..." The two Dark Night Palace disciples had borne a grudge against Wei Zhao ever since. Had it not been for Wei Zhao, they could have reaped a great many herbs following Zhang Naipao—far more than these two. Yet it never once occurred to them that they had been helping Zhang Naipao extort Wei Zhao's friends at the time.
The disciples of the Dark Night Palace were all like their Grand Elder—snobs to a man. A disciple takes after the example set for him, as they say. (To be continued.