Chapter 5142 — Preparing to Strike
The Blossom Guardian · Page 2 of 2
"More than that. After the two of them were crippled, word is they've been holed up in that little wooden hut in the woods and won't come out—they won't even see their own Snow Sword Sect people! And after all these days, the Taigu minor Jianghu has only sent a token letter, no pills, no reinforcements. Everyone says the Snow Sword Sect's higher-ups have already given up on the pair of them. Heh heh," Jing Taiyang continued.
"Surely not? If they're such formidable experts, how could they be abandoned so easily?" Brother Dafeng looked utterly baffled.
"Brother Dafeng, you don't understand. The people of the Taigu Alliance—to put it nicely, they're pragmatic; to put it bluntly, they're simply snobbish! Bing Wushuang and Xue Jianming may both be famed geniuses, and if they had merely been injured in the normal course of things, the Snow Sword Sect would have protected them no matter what—after all, properly trained, they'd be pillars of the sect. But now they're crippled, and what use is a cripple? It's entirely to be expected that the sect's higher-ups would abandon them—not strange in the least," Jing Taiyang rushed to explain.
To him, Brother Dafeng was a top boss, just like the mysterious man in black. If he wanted to climb higher, of course he had to curry favor and keep smiling.
"Quite so, quite so. What I feared most was that nothing at all would happen to them. As things stand now, we have just the opening to make something of this," Dr. Glasses said, suddenly smiling with keen interest.
"How do we make something of it?" Brother Dafeng asked.
"Win hearts and make them ours!" Dr. Glasses clapped his hands in excitement. Though he had brought Jing Taiyang and the others in this time ostensibly to deal with these Taigu Alliance experts, neither he nor Lan Xiaoru had ever intended to meet the Taigu Alliance in open confrontation—after all, such a course was not only meaningless but wholly without benefit.
What they truly intended was what they had always intended: to bide their time, recruit and control more Foundation Establishment experts. If a Taigu Alliance disciple were to be caught alone in this place, they would strike without hesitation—the more the better. But such opportunities were plainly rare, so they had no choice but to switch to a gentler, more covert approach—from forceful, direct control by drugs to secret recruitment and infiltration.
As the saying goes, a fly will not bite an egg that has no crack. Had nothing happened to these Taigu Alliance people, Dr. Glasses and his crew would have found no opening even after slipping in—because ordinary Taigu Alliance disciples would pay them no heed at all, and might even attack them outright. But now Bing Wushuang and Xue Jianming had delivered just the opportunity they needed!
"Er—how exactly do we recruit them? Are we supposed to just go up and approach them?" Brother Dafeng asked hurriedly.
"Well now..." Dr. Glasses thought for a moment, then turned to Jing Taiyang and the others. "You said just now that this Bing Wushuang and Xue Jianming have been hiding in that little wooden hut in the woods and won't come out to see anyone?"
"Yes. But since none of us are Snow Sword Sect disciples, we couldn't learn anything more specific," Jing Taiyang answered.
"If that hut is in a remote spot, Dafeng and I might well be able to make the trip. But without knowing the exact situation, it's hard to say—if there happen to be other Snow Sword Sect disciples moving about nearby and they run into us, that would be trouble." Dr. Glasses paused there, then looked around at the group. "Very well, to be safe, we'll have to pick one of you to go in our place. Which of you will do it?" (To be continued.)