Chapter 80
Chapter 80
Huh? Go inside?
Brother Dao was stunned. The tea-brewing, mahjong-playing duo he’d arranged for Brother Zhao was completely unsuitable for Fourth Brother! He had to get someone to drag Yun Cuihua and Lu Erfang away, now!
But it was already too late.
Fourth Brother glanced at the rooms and seemed to identify the reception room at once. He strode straight toward the room where Yun Jianyue was waiting.
The moment the door opened, Fourth Brother stared at Yun Jianyue and Lu Changxue in their qipaos and swore, “What the fuck are those two little chicks wearing?”
Brother Dao hurriedly signaled the women with his eyes. “I’ll send them away right now!”
“Forget it. They can stay. I drank so much yesterday I’m sick of booze. Tea will do.” Fourth Brother swaggered over and dropped into a seat. “Make some tea.”
The man who had come with Fourth Brother found a seat close to him as well.
Lu Changxue glanced hesitantly at Yun Jianyue. Seeing that Yun Jianyue had already started brewing tea, she quickly followed suit.
Once the tea was ready, the two women swayed their hips as they carried it over, then stood beside them with lowered heads, just as their instructor had taught them.
Fourth Brother took a sip, then gagged in disgust. “Booze really is better. Come on, Little Dao, sit down. Fourth Brother came here today to ask you one thing. What the fuck were you thinking, chopping off Gao Weimin’s hand?”
What the fuck?! Gao Weimin had lost a hand? Lu Changxue’s eyes widened in shock. Thank goodness her head was lowered, or she would have given herself away for sure.
Brother Dao seethed inwardly. When he’d tricked Gao Weimin into coming here, he’d had no idea the man had such a powerful background. All he’d known was that Gao Weimin had some money. After swindling him out of every last cent, Brother Dao had planned to keep him here as forced labor and make him run scams.
But Gao Weimin knew how to fight. He’d tried to escape and injured several of Brother Dao’s men. In a fit of rage, Brother Dao had chopped off his hand.
He had been about to teach Gao Weimin another lesson when his superiors called and told him someone from higher up was coming to collect Gao Weimin.
Less than half an hour after the call ended, just as Doctor Jian managed to stop Gao Weimin’s bleeding, their people arrived.
When they saw that Brother Dao had cut off Gao Weimin’s hand, they warned him that if anything happened to Gao Weimin, his career was over.
After they took Gao Weimin away, there had been no word from above. It was only much later that Brother Dao heard they were sending someone to see him.
And then today, Fourth Brother had come in person.
There were four true leaders of the organization, and Fourth Brother was one of them.
“Fourth Brother, I didn’t know Gao Weimin had a special background at the time. He caused trouble, so I dealt with him the same way I always have.” Brother Dao decided to humble himself first and see what kind of attitude Fourth Brother took.
“So I’m supposed to praise you for a job well done?” Fourth Brother removed his sunglasses, revealing a pair of pure-white eyes, and fixed Brother Dao with a deathly stare.
Even though this wasn’t Brother Dao’s first time seeing Fourth Brother’s face like this, he still flinched.
With his sunglasses off, Fourth Brother looked around the room suspiciously and muttered, “Why is there yin energy in here?”
Lu Changxue: !!!
It was over! She was finished! This Fourth Brother was versed in Daoist arts. He could see yin energy!
Yun Jianyue’s back went rigid. She hadn’t expected this sudden complication either. If Fourth Brother made a move against Lu Changxue, then she wouldn’t hold back.
Following the source of the yin energy, Fourth Brother turned toward the meek-looking Lu Changxue and slowly reached out to her.
His hand drew closer and closer. The tension in the room thickened until it was almost solid. Gritting her teeth, Lu Changxue raised her hand and clasped his, then gave him a goofy smile.
“Hello, Fourth Brother. I’m Lu Erfang.”
Fourth Brother replied instinctively, “Hello. I’m Lin Sicheng.”
The moment the words left his mouth, Lin Sicheng realized he’d done something stupid and yanked his hand back. “Who said I was introducing myself? Your hand’s pretty warm, though.”
This Lu Erfang’s hand was fair, delicate, soft, and warm. She didn’t feel like someone possessed by a ghost.
Generally speaking, a possessed person’s body temperature would be lower than normal, and their muscles would also be stiffer.
Then where was the yin energy around this woman coming from?
Lu Changxue gave an awkward smile. “You held out your hand, so I thought…”
“When were you born?” Lin Sicheng interrupted.
Lu Changxue recited the date of birth Yun Jianyue had prepared for her. Lin Sicheng calculated on his fingers, then said, “I see. You have the fate of the living dead. No wonder you carry yin energy. If you died and someone refined you into a vengeful ghost, then nurtured you for a while, you might even become an A-Rank Vengeful Ghost.”
The A-Rank Vengeful Ghost Herself: Lu Changxue: “Gee, thanks?”
“Little Dao, where did you find this sweet little fool? Wait, no. What was I about to say?” Lin Sicheng thought for a long moment before finally remembering. “Oh, right. Little Dao, were you expecting me to praise you for a job well done?”
Yun Jianyue was now certain that there was something wrong with Lin Sicheng’s head.
She just couldn’t understand how someone this dim-witted had ended up in such an important position. Aside from knowing a bit about the occult, did Lin Sicheng have any other exceptional qualities?
Brother Dao dropped to his knees before Lin Sicheng with a thud. “Fourth Brother, I really didn’t do it on purpose. Beat me or punish me however you want. I’ll accept it.”
At that moment, the other man who had come with Brother Dao slowly spoke. “Then die.”
That was the first thing the man had said since he appeared, and it made Brother Dao’s entire body jolt.
Brother Dao looked at him. He was certain he’d never seen this man before. This man wasn’t one of the higher-ups!
“Huh? Gao Weimin, you want him dead? But killing him would make things rather troublesome here. I haven’t found anyone to take over Little Dao’s operations yet.” Lin Sicheng looked conflicted and tried to negotiate with Gao Weimin. “How about I cut off one of his hands as compensation first? As for his life, I’ll think of something and find someone to take over his operations as soon as possible. How does that sound?”
Brother Dao: …Great job pleading for me. Please don’t do it again.
No, wait! That wasn’t the point! The point was that this man wasn’t Gao Weimin! It wasn’t like he’d never seen what Gao Weimin looked like. Brother Dao had personally chopped off Gao Weimin’s hand!
Yun Jianyue was stunned as well. According to the intelligence she’d received, Gao Weimin looked nothing like this!
The man before them had to be at least six foot one, tall and handsome. Gao Weimin was only about five foot nine, slightly nearsighted, and usually wore glasses. His looks were perfectly ordinary too.
Gao Weimin sneered. “You said you’d grant my every wish. Now I ask you to kill one of your own, and suddenly you’re unwilling? Since you refuse, our partnership ends here.”
Lin Sicheng rubbed his aching head. “Come on, Brother Weimin, I never said I wouldn’t work with you anymore! Look at how sincere I’ve been. Your hand couldn’t be reattached, so I found you a whole new body, one that’s tall and handsome!
“You said you wanted to gamble, so I let you enter any casino you wanted. If you won, the money was yours. If you lost, I covered it! We genuinely want to work with you, but you can’t cut off our source of income. If Little Dao’s operations fall into chaos, we’ll lose a fortune every day.”
Yun Jianyue maintained her meek, deferential posture, but inwardly, her thoughts were in turmoil.
They had actually used the Body-Swapping Technique on a living person. That was an evil art! And Gao Weimin had agreed to it? Wasn’t Gao Weimin the descendant of a martyr?