Chapter 4388 — The Secrets of the Hub
The Blossom Guardian · Page 2 of 3
"Uh... no, that's not it... This old—er, no, I saw that the Central Chamber of Commerce was making a great deal of money, so I figured I'd hijack one of their cargo ships and make a quick killing. Who'd have thought the ship would be crawling with experts—two Profound Ascension stage big shots came straight at me. They beat me half to death and tossed me in here..." Sun Hengbiao said with an awkward look.
The rest of the dungeon crowd was hearing this for the first time, and one after another their faces turned strange, their looks at the man much like those one might give an idiot. The Central Chamber of Commerce was a formidable force; any sane person would avoid it if he could. Yet this scarred face had actually dared to go knocking on its door to rob its cargo—he was lucky just to not be beaten to death!
Sun Hengbiao himself wore the expression of a man dogged by bad luck. In the Demon Cold Sea, mid-Nascent Soul strength was by no means weak, and with a gang of vicious, cutthroat pirates under him, wherever he went he left men trembling with fear, sweeping all before him.
Even when the ship he targeted had Nascent Soul experts of its own aboard, they would not want a fight to the death with him. After all, risking one's life against a ferocious pirate for a few spirit jades—by any reckoning, that was a losing bargain.
But who in the hell could have guessed that the Central Chamber of Commerce's ship would have a Profound Ascension stage big shot aboard? Since when had Profound Ascension stage big shots become so cheap? He, Sun Hengbiao, had actually gone and robbed a Profound Ascension stage big shot—if that wasn't being dogged by bad luck, what was?
The scene had been almost identical to the one just now: he had assumed the other party was a soft persimmon to be kneaded at will, and before he could even crow in triumph, one slap had left him half dead...
The crowd looked at Sun Hengbiao and struggled to hold back their snickers. This fellow was indeed a blind fool. He had already run into a Profound Ascension stage big shot before and learned nothing; now he had run into this vicious fiend—truly, his bad luck was deserved.
"How long have you been locked up in here?" Wei Zhao continued.
"That..." Sun Hengbiao frowned and thought for a moment before answering, point by point: "About ten months, I think. Among all these people, I've been here the longest..."
Hearing this, Wei Zhao looked at the others, and they all nodded—indeed, when they had been brought in, Sun Hengbiao had long been lording it over the place.
"So you were the first one dragged in here?" Wei Zhao asked.
"No, no, that's not it either. Plenty of people came in before me, but they were all taken out." Sun Hengbiao shook his head honestly. Pirate chiefs of his sort might be savage, but when they truly ran into a hard case like Wei Zhao, they were more obedient and submissive than anyone—because they believed in the law of the jianghu, that the strong are honored, more than anyone else.
"Taken out? What does that mean—were they released?" Wei Zhao could not help finding this strange. The Central Chamber of Commerce was so secretive that it had seized even a guest like himself who had done nothing wrong, without a word. It hardly seemed the sort to be so kind-hearted as to simply set these people free, unscathed.
Many others in the dungeon pricked up their ears at this as well. Sun Hengbiao had only ever bullied them and had never spoken of such matters. Even those who had been locked up for several months knew only fragments of the story; most of them, like Wei Zhao, were completely in the dark, lost in a fog.
Now that Sun Hengbiao had, for once, been forced to speak by this vicious fiend, and since the matter concerned each of their lives and fates, everyone naturally listened carefully.