Chapter 326 — Sorry About That
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As Wei Zhao wandered back and forth through the repair shop, he was in fact searching for a lieutenant of the Water Blue Gang. An ordinary gang member, he reckoned, was unlikely to know where Xie Jinbiao was being held.
After all, everyone had his own business to mind, and snatching Xie Jinbiao to shake a sum of money out of Xie Guangbo was no great affair. The Water Blue Gang pulled stunts like that all the time; even their leader, Hugh Landon, might not know of it.
Hugh Landon cared only about the gang's final profits. How those profits were won was the business of the mid-level lieutenants beneath him. So if he wanted to learn where Xie Jinbiao was held, he truly could not simply grab some man off the floor and ask.
And so Wei Zhao held back and chose his target. He meant to strike on the first blow, not to drag in a crowd of men and question them one by one — that would only alert the snake.
At last, though, Wei Zhao came across this little lieutenant who sent his men out to seize people — and Wei Zhao was pleased. The man he had been looking for had finally appeared.
"You... what do you want?" The lieutenant was about to shout for help, but at the sound of Wei Zhao's voice he no longer dared make a sound. The blade at his throat was real and cold, and he could not be sure the thing behind him would not drive it straight through him.
"The people you snatch — where do you keep them?" Wei Zhao asked. "No nonsense. Answer me now. Lie, and don't blame me for being unkind."
"You... who is it you want? Let's talk this over. Tell me the name, and I will call my men and have him released right now!" the lieutenant said cautiously.
"Hmph!" Wei Zhao laughed coldly, and the blade bit into the skin of the lieutenant's throat. Blood welled up at once. "I have already told you — no nonsense, answer me quickly. Are you deaf? Or do you want to die right now? I don't mind killing you and finding someone else to ask."
"No... no, I'll talk..." The lieutenant had meant to play a trick, to fish out the name of the man Wei Zhao was after and then have his men bring that man out as a hostage, to force Wei Zhao into submission. But plainly Wei Zhao had not the least interest even in talking.
"Three counts. Three, two..." Wei Zhao pressed the blade harder.
"In the basement of the building up ahead. Don't kill me — I've told you..." The lieutenant was frightened now. "It's in that building right in front of us. Let me go..."
"One..." Wei Zhao said the last number. "Sorry. I couldn't pull my hand back in time."
And so the little lieutenant kicked the bucket.
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