Chapter 4947 — To the Banquet
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Better to stay far away and watch the tigers fight from the mountaintop. After all, they could afford to offend neither Wei Zhao nor, still less, Chang Minghui. If they went leaping and scurrying about and drew the eye of either one, both of them would be in for bloody misfortune. If they kept their heads down, grabbed good seats, and watched the show, they might very well witness a scene to gladden the heart.
"You're wrong, Young Master Bao. If we do nothing at all, there's a good chance we won't see any show worth watching," Su Kesheng said with a shake of his head.
"How could that be? There's no way that Life-Debt Ghost would let the man named Lin off!" Bao Zuoliang leapt to his feet at once.
"True enough, he certainly won't let Wei Zhao off. But if he can't charge over at the first moment, Wei Zhao will very likely slip away and vanish," Su Kesheng said with a helpless smile.
Just as he had said before, the most rational choice at present was in fact to stop here. Otherwise, whatever move the two of them made, they would more or less be taking on risk. Then again, if they did nothing at all and hoped to watch the tigers fight from the sidelines as Bao Zuoliang imagined, that was probably unrealistic.
"Slip away and vanish?" Bao Zuoliang was momentarily stunned, then it dawned on him that from Wei Zhao's standpoint, the best choice right now really was to get out fast before Chang Minghui reacted. So long as he fled back to North Island, Chang Minghui would have no way to touch him at all—surely the man couldn't chase him all those tens of thousands of miles to North Island to kill him?
Never mind whether he would go; even if he did, it would be useless. North Island was no soft touch. With a top-tier figure like Shangguan Tianxia holding the fort, would he dare come knocking for trouble? He'd be asking for a beating, more like!
"Exactly. Wei Zhao is no fool. Since he dared strike at Zang Zili and Chang Laiting, he must have factored in Life-Debt Ghost's retaliation. So he has only two choices left: either find powerful outside help to shield him, or take the thirty-sixth stratagem and run!" Su Kesheng analyzed.
"Now that you mention it, running really is his only option left. Life-Debt Ghost is not someone to trifle with—if the man named Lin ran into him himself, it'd be death, plain and simple. And though Zhuang Yifan and the Three Giants of Morning Star could handle Life-Debt Ghost, how close are they really to the man named Lin? On the surface all is harmony, but the moment something this deadly comes up, every one of them will surely stand by with folded arms. So the man named Lin can only run!" Bao Zuoliang, prompted by this reminder, caught on at once.
"Precisely. I dare assert that if Life-Debt Ghost wants revenge on Wei Zhao, his only chance is here on Thunder Plain Island. Otherwise, once Wei Zhao is back at Morning Star Academy, even if the Three Giants won't fight Life-Debt Ghost to the death for his sake, they can still stall things a little and let him escape—and then he'll have slipped through the net," Su Kesheng said, his face full of deep calculation.
"But even so, that doesn't necessarily mean we need to rush off to Dingcheng Town to lodge a complaint. With something this big, Life-Debt Ghost will surely charge over at the first moment to demand an accounting. Surely he can't be patient even now, slowly going through official channels to negotiate?" Bao Zuoliang said dismissively.
"No—quite the opposite. We must go, and we must go at once!" Su Kesheng shook his head and said with certainty.
"Why?" Bao Zuoliang was taken aback.