Chapter 4369 — Then Go
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But Wei Zhao had no intention of doing so. What he wanted was to take over the Weihu branch guild smoothly. Killing Wei Zhaotong outright in front of everyone might feel satisfying, but it would make the aftermath very difficult.
Not only would it spread panic through the Weihu branch guild; it would also be hard to explain to the Hong Clan Merchant Guild headquarters. Wei Zhaotong was, after all, a steward with real authority in his region. Any punishment could only be left to the Hong Clan Merchant Guild itself. Wei Zhao might wear the halo of honorary vice-chairman, but he could not simply kill whomever he pleased—that would turn a good thing into a bad one.
Wei Zhaotong was a shrewd man, and he sensed Wei Zhao's misgivings in an instant. Realizing the other man did not dare strike him down just like that, the back he had bent in terror immediately straightened again.
"Well, well! You call yourselves disciples of the Morning Star Academy, yet you dare to throw in your lot with scoundrels and swindlers, to commit crimes and kill people here in our Hong Clan Merchant Guild! I'll report you to your academy's dean!" Wei Zhaotong stamped his feet and shouted.
He knew Ling Yi certainly could not be frightened off, but if he could scare Wang Xinyan and Huang Xiaotao into backing down, getting through today would become easy. After all, setting aside their strength, it was these two women's identities that he feared most.
Wei Zhaotong also took it for granted that the two women must be hot-blooded youngsters who, having listened to Wei Zhao's slander, had let their passions carry them into standing up for him. Just as students fear their teachers finding out when they do wrong, he thought, once the academy dean was invoked, the two women might not dare behave so recklessly.
To his surprise, the two women only giggled at his words. Wang Xinyan arched her delicate brows faintly and said with a slight smile, "Then go ahead."
"You—!" Wei Zhaotong was furious. Their unshakable composure made it plain they had him completely cornered. Truly, a tiger fallen to the flatlands is bullied by dogs—he, a branch steward of the Hong Clan Merchant Guild, was actually being manhandled by a few young upstarts!
"Us? Our affairs are no concern of yours, Steward Wei. You'd do better to worry about your own fate!" Wei Zhao sneered, then took a specially made black-gold chain from the shelf and, without another word, bound Wei Zhaotong up tight.
This was equipment used by the clan law-enforcement halls of the sea region to carry out family discipline. Bound with it, one's true qi circulation was severely impeded, and even a Nascent Soul-stage expert could not break free. He had obtained it at one of the earlier auctions; it was not worth much, but on an occasion like this, it came in perfectly handy.
Throughout the trussing, Wei Zhaotong was beside himself with rage, yet he never dared offer the slightest resistance, afraid that one careless move would land him in the same state as those two skilled retainers—smacked to death by these three lawless wretches.
As for the other shop assistants and serving boys present, they were by now utterly dumbstruck, every one of them trembling and at a loss for what to do.
In their hearts, they naturally trusted their immediate superior Wei Zhaotong more than an outsider like Wei Zhao. But the problem was that strength decided everything. Of the three Nascent Soul-stage experts present, two skilled retainers had already been blasted away, their fate unknown, and the remaining one, Wei Zhaotong, was now tied up. What could the rest of them possibly do?
Fight Wei Zhao and his companions to the death?
Never mind that they had the numbers—if it really came to blows, even if they all rushed in together, they would not be enough to fill the gaps between their teeth! (To be continued) R655