Chapter 4431 — No Match at All
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Hai Wuliang gave a cold snort. "A man like that is bound to be the linchpin of the Qingtian Escort Agency. To move against him now—never mind whether we could even pull it off; even if we did, by then every last soul would be pointing the finger at us!"
"Sss!" Wang Baitiao sucked in a sharp breath as the kick landed on his wound, the pain making him gasp. Yet he was still unwilling to let it go. "But Boss Hai... we can't just let him off like that..."
"Let him off?" Hai Wuliang raised an eyebrow, his tone unfathomable. "Hmph. Be that as it may, this man truly cannot be underestimated. We must first investigate his background thoroughly. I am leaving that to you—and remember, not a third person is to know."
"Yes, your subordinate obeys!" Wang Baitiao was overjoyed and hurried to accept the order through his pain. Since Hai Wuliang was giving him a task, that meant his miserable little life was safe for the time being. He promptly scrambled out of the room.
"Ling Yi? Hmph. No matter what backwater you crawled out of, now that you are here with me—if you are a dragon, you coil; if you are a tiger, you lie down!" A flash of killing intent flickered across Hai Wuliang's face and vanished.
What Hai Wuliang did not know was that at the very moment he sent Wang Baitiao to investigate Ling Yi, in an inn not far from the Four Seas Escort Agency, several leading figures of the Dragon Boat Escort Agency were grinding their teeth over that same name.
"Ling Yi! It is that Ling Yi! The one who murdered my son! If I do not hack this man to pieces, may I never be called a man again!" In the room, a bearded man in a gray greatcoat spoke through clenched teeth. His aura was monstrous, his bearing awe-inspiring—none other than Cheng Haonan, master of the infamous Poison Eye Mercenary Corps of the Weihu Sea Region.
Two other men were in the room as well. The one on the left was born with a single thick unibrow and a pair of leopard eyes that radiated open ferocity. His looks were so savage that no one could forget them after a single glance—Long Kuiba, chief escort of the Dragon Boat Escort Agency.
The man seated to Cheng Haonan's right had a pair of sinister, mismatched triangular eyes and a face of the most bizarre greenish-yellow hue, chilling to behold—Wu Baoliang, the mysterious strategist of the Poison Eye Mercenary Corps, the foremost man beneath Cheng Haonan.
Ever since the Dragon Boat Escort Agency and the Poison Eye Mercenary Corps joined forces, the two forces had merged into one. They struck terror into all who heard their name and already showed every sign of becoming the strongest power in the Weihu Sea Region. Naturally, these three had come together to form a triumvirate ruling the fate of both forces.
For this session of the Southern Continent Escort Grand Gathering, the Dragon Boat Escort Agency had come with overwhelming momentum to supplant the Qingtian Escort Agency and claim a place among the five great escort agencies of the Southern Continent. That was the minimum goal the three had set beforehand.
Yet after a mere two rounds, that goal had already become a joke. Because of Wei Zhao's presence, the Qingtian Escort Agency sat atop the standings with three hundred points, leaving even the Four Seas Escort Agency far behind.
As for the Dragon Boat Escort Agency, though the elite troops and hardened fighters of the Poison Eye Mercenary Corps had indeed sent its strength soaring, earning a high score of ninety points in the first round and proving itself a rather impressive dark horse, in the second round it had, like the other twenty-nine escort agencies, scored not a single point.
In the space of a mere two rounds, the Qingtian Escort Agency had simply yanked them out to a vast gap of two hundred and ten points. With a disparity that absurd, to still dream of supplanting the Qingtian Escort Agency could only be called self-deception.