Chapter 3418 — Return to Songshan City
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"General Manager, I'm not clear on it myself. By the time I got here, those people had already withdrawn. But word is that they came to extort money, and that Lou Qitian, the man in charge here, not only refused them but cursed them and threatened them, and even seized several of their people to serve as labor. Later, a great many more of these thugs and their accomplices came, and simply annihilated the base in one sweep..." Brother Dafeng explained.
"And the Poli clan? Isn't that their territory? Why didn't Lou Qitian call on the Poli clan to act?" the general manager asked, frowning.
"And whose fault is that but Lou Qitian's? At first he took them for easy prey—not only did he drive them off, he forcibly detained several of them as labor, and afterward thought nothing more of it. Then those people went back and brought reinforcements, and simply wiped out the base. Lou Qitian never even had the chance to make a phone call before he was dead! If not for a chief of the base named Meng Gaohai, who hurriedly called me at the contact number, we wouldn't even have known anything had gone wrong here!" Brother Dafeng explained, somewhat helplessly. "If I hadn't come so quickly, those biochemical humans would likely all be dead!"
"Damn that Lou Qitian!" The general manager was furious when he heard it. "He's grown so used to being arrogant that he's lost every shred of vigilance. A perfectly good base, wrecked like this—what are our losses now?"
"The losses are severe. All the poison-refining materials were destroyed, all the technicians are dead, and some of the biochemical humans died as well. Nothing else was lost, since there was no cash on hand here. But to get it running again—without a year or half a year of fresh planning, it simply can't be done," said Brother Dafeng.
"Very well. The affairs there are now entirely in your hands," the general manager said, somewhat resignedly. "Get it running again as quickly as you can. All the personnel are yours to manage and arrange!"
"Yes, General Manager!" Brother Dafeng said hastily—and with that, his power had taken yet another step in its expansion!
Wei Zhao brought the Pangolin back to the Poli clan's estate, but he felt no joy of victory just now, for the Pangolin's condition was far from encouraging; he could only rely on Zhang Lifeng—though there was still hope.
That very night, Wei Zhao took his leave of the Poli clan and returned with Yu Dake to Songshan City, where he found the Pangolin. Wei Zhao wanted to tell Ying Ziyu at the first opportunity—after all, this was, in a sense, an accounting rendered to her.
The car sped all the way, and at last, on the afternoon of the following day, they arrived at the gates of Songshan City No. 1 High School. Gazing at the familiar campus, Wei Zhao could not help but feel a stir of emotion.
He still remembered that day in early March of last year, when he had come here and first met the young lady and little Shu, and made an enemy of Zhong Yongliang! Who would have thought that the people of that time had all since departed, and that Zhong Yongliang too had found his own fortune, becoming a member of the Tomorrow Upon Tomorrow sect.
The young lady and little Shu had become Inheritors, soon to set out for Cloud Terrace Island on their journey of awakening.
Wei Zhao sent Ying Ziyu a text message, telling her he was waiting at the school gate and that she should come find him straight after class. (To be continued...)