Chapter 214 — Midnight Plotting: After Black Panther Entered the Lockup, Zhong Fabai Left Him Alone, Hiring a Lawyer and Then Ignoring Him Entirely
The Blossom Guardian · Page 1 of 2
By rights, with Zhong Fabai's network of connections in this city, he could easily have found a few men of influence to put in a word for him, and yet he had not! Qiu Lingshan therefore believed that Zhong Fabai feared implicating himself and his son, and had abandoned Black Panther.
What she could not know was that Zhong Fabai had already reached a private agreement with Black Panther in secret through his lawyer, so Black Panther would never take revenge on anyone of the Zhong family.
"Oh? Is that so?" Zhong Fabai said indifferently after hearing her out. "Captain Song, Black Panther and I are not very close. He was only the security captain I hired. Now that you have taken him in, I hired a lawyer for him purely out of humanitarian feeling. He has nothing to do with our company anymore..."
Qiu Lingshan was annoyed to hear Zhong Fabai's words. He had washed his own hands of the whole affair, but would Black Panther see it that way? Would he not come to take revenge on him?
"President Zhong, I must still warn you that Black Panther may well come seeking revenge on you," Qiu Lingshan said coolly, holding back her anger.
"Revenge? What would he want revenge on me for? I paid him his wages every month, and bonuses besides," Zhong Fabai said with a smile. "Captain Song, you are worrying too much, are you not? Still, thank you for the warning. I will be careful."
"You know perfectly well why without my having to spell it out," Qiu Lingshan said with a cold laugh. "You had best hire a bodyguard to stay close to your son twenty-four hours a day. If you need help from the police, contact me anytime!"
Much as Qiu Lingshan disliked Zhong Fabai, as a police officer she still had to remind him to look to his safety.
"Oh, I will. Rest assured," Zhong Fabai said. "If I have any news of Black Panther, I will get in touch with you at the first moment."
After hanging up Qiu Lingshan's call, Zhong Fabai's face turned dark and grave. "Yongliang, how did you know that Black Panther had escaped?"
The police had only just telephoned him, yet his son Zhong Yongliang already knew of Black Panther's escape. Then where had his son's channel of information come from...
"Dad, I have seen Brother Black Panther. He just came by!" Zhong Yongliang said.
"He came? What did he come for? Did he threaten you?" Zhong Fabai looked more frightening still. Before, he had only been fobbing Qiu Lingshan off and clearing himself of any connection, but he had still taken her words to heart... Black Panther really might take revenge on his son.
"Dad, rest assured. Brother Black Panther is not that kind of man!" Zhong Yongliang said. "He will not move against us. Every grievance has its source and every debt its debtor. The man he means to deal with is Wei Zhao, not me!"
"Oh? How do you know that? Did he tell you so himself?" Zhong Fabai asked, slightly taken aback. "Yongliang, tell me just what happened?"
"Dad, it went like this!" Zhong Yongliang explained. "Just now I was watching a movie in my room when suddenly a black shadow leaped up onto the windowsill and gave me a terrible fright..."
"Leaped onto the windowsill? Are you joking? Your room is on the second floor, nearly ten meters up..." Zhong Fabai stared, looking at his son in disbelief.
"Dad, I don't understand it either, but he said that in his early years he entered a sect, and that sect has an art for swiftly raising one's strength. At the price of five years of life, within a month it can raise his power to what he called the late Huang-stage peak..." Zhong Yongliang said.
"What? The late Huang-stage peak?" Zhong Yongliang had no idea what that level meant, but Zhong Fabai could not fail to know! Having drifted in the jianghu for so long, he understood only too well what such a thing signified!