Chapter 3271 — Xu Shilan's Discovery
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"Mm." Wei Zhao nodded and said, "Once you've made your call, get some rest too. I'll go make preparations—there's work to be done tomorrow."
"All right," Cheng Yiyi answered.
After Wei Zhao returned to his room, Cheng Yiyi dialed Feng Tianhu's number.
"Yiyi? Why didn't you answer my calls earlier?" Feng Tianhu asked.
"I was with Wei Zhao and the others. It wasn't convenient to pick up," Cheng Yiyi said, as though it were the most natural thing in the world. It was also the most effective excuse.
"Oh." Feng Tianhu showed not the slightest suspicion. "How are things going over there? Have you signed with that entertainment company yet?"
"No. Something major has happened here..." Cheng Yiyi lowered her voice.
"Oh? What major thing?" Feng Tianhu was slightly taken aback.
"It's like this..." And Cheng Yiyi told Feng Tianhu the whole story: how He Tianzu of the Overseas Cultivators' Association had come to harass Xu Shilan, how Wei Zhao had provoked He Tianzu, how a conflict had broken out on the road, and how Wei Zhao had fled in disarray.
Feng Tianhu was utterly shocked when he heard it! Yes, as he listened to Cheng Yiyi's account, it sounded a little like a tale from the Arabian Nights!
"Are you serious? Wei Zhao... no match for a single expert at the peak of the late Heaven Rank? How is that possible?" One could hardly blame Feng Tianhu for not believing it. After all, the rumors about Wei Zhao had been so fantastically exaggerated that the gap between before and after was beyond anything Feng Tianhu could imagine!
"It's true!" Cheng Yiyi said with certainty. "A matter this big—how could I lie to you?"
Feng Tianhu thought so too. On a matter like this, lying would have gained Cheng Yiyi nothing. Besides, whether the news was true or false, word would soon come down from the High Ancient circles, and then a single hearing would settle it!
So he raised no further doubts, but said, "Fine, I understand. Keep lying low at Wei Zhao's side. In the end, find a way to ask Wei Zhao why he couldn't even beat a single expert at the peak of the late Heaven Rank—and what the truth is behind those earlier rumors of him killing experts in an instant?"
"Understood. I'll do my best to draw Wei Zhao out," Cheng Yiyi said with a nod.
"Mm, I'll hang up first, then..." Feng Tianhu had not yet recovered from the shock. He needed to digest this news properly, and do a little investigating on the side! Though he did not believe Cheng Yiyi would deceive him—after all, she had no reason to.
Still, the matter was too grave for Feng Tianhu to simply take it on faith. He decided to wait and see. After all, so many Heaven Rank experts really had died! If Wei Zhao had not killed them, then who had?
Cheng Yiyi hung up and turned to leave the washroom—but the moment she turned, she saw Xu Shilan standing in the doorway, her face a mask of shock and fury! Cheng Yiyi's heart lurched. "Xiaohan, you... you're awake?"
"Yiyi, who were you just calling? You actually sold Wei Zhao out?!" Xu Shilan glared at Cheng Yiyi in fury. She had just groggily gotten up to use the toilet, and the moment she reached the washroom door, she heard Cheng Yiyi apparently talking to someone on the phone. At first Xu Shilan had paid it no mind and was about to walk in—but the instant she heard Wei Zhao's name, she froze in her tracks!
And what she heard next was even worse. Xu Shilan was appalled: Cheng Yiyi was actually tipping off the person on the other end of the line, leaking the ins and outs of Wei Zhao's situation!
Of course, Xu Shilan had the presence of mind not to stop Cheng Yiyi on the spot. She did not know who was on the other end of the line. If she intervened right then, would she not be beating the grass and startling the snake? Would the person on the line realize Cheng Yiyi had been exposed? Would they immediately move against Wei Zhao?
So Xu Shilan waited until Cheng Yiyi hung up before demanding furiously.