Chapter 3294 — Something's Not Right!
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But Wei Zhao could hardly explain such secrets to Yang Qiqi openly, so he had no choice but to let it drop and go on helping Yang Qiqi raise her strength to the peak of late Earth-rank... In truth, after He Dantou returned, he had not gone into seclusion at all—he had been gravely injured and was recuperating in a secret chamber! After all, when two consummate experts at the peak of late Heaven-rank fought each other, what good could possibly come of it?
Between the two of them, it was either one dies or the other lives—and at best, both would be badly wounded. As it stood now, this was the best possible outcome.
After returning, He Dantou lay on his sickbed, and the more he thought, the more something felt wrong. He was no fool. At the time, he could be excused for acting on impulse—impulse is the devil, after all—but on cool reflection afterward, there were far too many suspicious points in the whole affair!
He Dantou turned it over and over in his mind. He had certainly gone there carrying a suitcase of money; of that there was no doubt. Never mind that he had been holding the case the whole time—even if the case had been sitting right beside him, with his level of strength, it would have been absolutely impossible for anyone to take the money out of that case right under his nose.
And to suggest a switch had been made was even more impossible. After he got back, He Dantou had examined the suitcase carefully—it was unquestionably his own, and there was no possibility of a substitution. So how had the money vanished into thin air? It was enough to make a man think he had seen a ghost!
Besides, that place called the Pine Mountain Orphanage or whatever—He Dantou had never heard of it in his life. At the time, he had indeed assumed that Red Conch was trying to set up some dummy account to commit fraud. But on reflection, Red Conch was not insane—if they wanted to swindle money, whose money couldn't they swindle? Those big drug lords had money to burn. Why swindle the president of the Overseas Cultivators Association?
Any fool knew he was not someone to be trifled with, and to try to swindle him with such a stupid trick—just thinking about it made it seem unlikely! At least in He Dantou's view, that sum of money could have been swindled from anyone; there was no need to get it out of his hands.
And besides, this was not a one-off deal—there would surely be cooperation in the future. Red Conch had seen plenty of money. Was it really worth it?
While He Dantou came to realize something was wrong on his end, the general manager had actually come to the same realization on his. After all, he felt there was no need for He Dantou to stage such a performance—to come to a transaction carrying an empty case and then transfer the money to his own account. That would be making trouble for no reason at all.
Coming all the way to Red Conch headquarters to pull such a low-grade con—was that interesting? Did he think he could actually get the drugs? The result was that both sides lost, with neither gaining anything. So the general manager concluded that only a man with nothing better to do would come and do such a meaningless thing.
Once the general manager grew suspicious, he naturally summoned Fanny for questioning at the first opportunity. Though he absolutely trusted Fanny, it was still hard to guarantee she hadn't tampered with the computer.