Chapter 324 — The Cool Girl
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"Good, then thanks!" Wei Zhao took the cap and put it straight on his head. "If anyone gives me trouble, can I say I'm one of York's boys?"
"Of course that's fine!" Hearing Wei Zhao call him a boss, York grinned so wide his mouth would not close. "Say whatever you like! York has a bit of face to his name in this little blue town."
Wei Zhao nodded and counted out four hundred euros, which he handed to York. Wei Zhao had only a few thousand euros in his pocket altogether, so York was not overly covetous; once he had the money, he simply let Wei Zhao get in the car. The key was already in the ignition — in a repair shop, no one worried about thieves.
Wei Zhao drove straight out of the shop. With this cap, a great many things became much easier for him; that York actually thought he had gotten the better of the bargain.
He had not gone far from the repair shop when he spotted a beautiful girl standing by the roadside, flagging down cars. Seeing Wei Zhao's car approach, the girl waved to him.
Of course, Wei Zhao had no real interest in pretty women who hitched rides and struck up conversations. In the North District, the women who came on to him numbered eighty if not a hundred, and what they did for a living was anyone's guess...
But what drew Wei Zhao's attention to this girl was that she was an Oriental. In this foreign land, seeing an Oriental girl felt especially warm and familiar.
On her cool little face she wore a pair of sunglasses; her all-black, tight-fitting outfit made her quite conspicuous. Yet Wei Zhao had a feeling he had seen her before, though the sunglasses hid most of her face.
Had it not been for that familiarity, Wei Zhao would not have stopped merely because the girl had an Oriental face.
"Is something the matter?" Wei Zhao, in his blue baseball cap and oversized sunglasses, looked much the same as this cool chick, and no one could make out his real face from the outside either.
"Hey, handsome, could I catch a ride with you?" The cool chick squeezed a smile onto her cool face.
"A ride? I don't even know where I'm going, so how would I take you?" As he spoke, Wei Zhao studied the girl. She looked very familiar, giving him a sense of déjà vu, yet for the moment he could not place her.
Over the years Wei Zhao had met far, far too many people; occasionally finding someone familiar was perfectly normal.
"That's just as well. Since you don't know where you're going, take me to the Kenhe Hotel." Without further argument, the cool chick pulled open the passenger door and got in.
"Heh..." Wei Zhao laughed. "I don't know where the Kenhe Hotel is either."
"Huh?" The cool chick was briefly taken aback. "Aren't you with the Water Blue Gang? You don't know where the Kenhe Hotel is?"
"Just joined. Is that a problem?" Wei Zhao shrugged.
"Oh... nothing. Drive, I'll give you directions." The cool chick's voice sounded faintly disappointed, yet still ice-cold.
Wei Zhao started the car. It crept forward, while from the corner of his eye he studied the beautiful cool chick beside him. "A tourist from out of town?"
But no sooner had he asked than Wei Zhao felt it impossible. How could an out-of-town tourist be so bold as to stand on the street flagging down rides? And especially once she knew he was a member of the Water Blue Gang, she still dared to get in? Was she not afraid of dying?
At that thought, Wei Zhao grew a little curious about the cool chick's identity. Had he seen her before? If he could take off her sunglasses, perhaps he would remember.
"Independent travel." The cool chick's answer surprised Wei Zhao somewhat. Independent travel?
"Independent travel, and you still know about the Water Blue Gang?" Wei Zhao shot back. The cool chick was obviously lying.
"I'm interested, that's all. I admire the strong!" The cool chick tried hard to make her smile charming and alluring, but the smile forced onto her cool little face was close to a sneer.