Chapter 230 — You Cheated: This Time He Had No More Use for the Brat, So Wei Zhao Would Show No Mercy and Simply Knock Him Out
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If he went all out, one punch would be enough to blast Wei Zhao, an early Yellow Rank, to death—but that was not what Black Panther wanted. According to Zhong Yongliang's instructions, he was to first beat Wei Zhao half to death, then drag him upstairs to watch Zou Ruoming and Tang Yun, and let him die in agony.
So, to keep from killing Wei Zhao outright, Black Panther used only mid Yellow Rank strength. Badly wounding Wei Zhao would be enough.
"Bang!" The two fists slammed together with a dull thud.
"You... you're not early Yellow Rank..." Black Panther's eyes were full of disbelief. Before he could say anything more, his whole body was sent flying backward and crashed heavily to the ground.
Wei Zhao did not wait for Black Panther to land. He flashed to the man's side and planted a foot on his chest—crack, crack, the sound of ribs breaking...
Wei Zhao kicked him several more times. Black Panther's eyes rolled back and he passed out. Just before losing consciousness, he groaned in pain, "You... you cheated..."
Wei Zhao curled his lip. "My master said a qualified assassin stops at nothing."
In Wei Zhao's eyes there were no rules of the martial world at all; so long as he achieved his aim, that was enough. Talking about rules with an assassin was nonsense. If Wei Zhao had revealed from the start that he was at the peak of the late Yellow Rank, the same as Black Panther, then Black Panther would never have been so careless, nor would he have used only mid Yellow Rank power in his punch.
Though Wei Zhao was skilled in assassination and had the Xuanyuan Dragon-Taming Art to aid him, defeating Black Panther was not impossible—it was only a matter of time. But the crux of the problem was that Wei Zhao did not have that much time!
Tang Yun was up there in the building. How could Wei Zhao afford to tangle with Black Panther for long? So he had simply played a trick, and to his surprise this idiot Black Panther had actually fallen for it. That intellect... ah, even Wei Zhao felt a little worried for him.
Such trickery was a little beneath contempt, but Wei Zhao had been raised from childhood under the influence of his master and Old Man Wei, two even more shameless creatures, and he had long since stopped caring about such things.
Wei Zhao glanced at Black Panther, then turned and walked toward Zhong Yongliang's Audi. If not for the fact that both Zhong Yongliang and Zou Ruoming knew about this affair, Wei Zhao would not have minded sending Black Panther on a little trip through time.
But since Zhong Yongliang and Zou Ruoming could not be killed for the moment, Wei Zhao could not kill Black Panther either. Even so, Black Panther was now a cripple—he might as well let that little tigress Qiu Lingshan have him.
Wei Zhao opened the Audi's door, hauled Zhong Yongliang to the front of the unfinished building, dumped him on the ground, then with a slight movement of his body leaped up to the second floor.
Like Spider-Man, Wei Zhao hooked his hands into the gaps between the bricks on the outside of the unfinished building and searched window after window for Tang Yun's figure...
When Wei Zhao saw an empty room where Tang Yun lay unharmed, the weight on his heart lifted at once. In fact, while he had been fighting Black Panther earlier, his ears had been fixed on the sounds from the unfinished building the whole time, and hearing nothing unusual, he knew Zou Ruoming probably had not made his move yet—which was why Wei Zhao had felt at ease enough to play with Black Panther for a while.