Chapter 957 — Consider Yourself Lucky

"It's not too late to figure it out now," Wei Zhao said.

"But... you can help me repair my meridians?" The Medicine King looked at Wei Zhao, his face full of hope.

"Sure I can!" Wei Zhao nodded.

"Huh?" The Medicine King was stunned, and nearly burst into tears and dropped to his knees before Wei Zhao. Wei Zhao really could help him repair his meridians?

"That said, my fees are certainly a bit steeper than what a quack like you would charge," Wei Zhao said. "One billion per meridian. A martial artist has seven meridians and eight vessels, fifteen main channels in all, so just give me fifteen billion. I'll throw in the secondary vessels for free!"

The Medicine King rolled his eyes and nearly keeled over dead from rage. One billion per meridian? Why didn't he just go rob someone?

"Don't complain about the price! Do you have any idea how many rare treasures I'd have to burn through to repair a single meridian for you? I might even need my master to step in, and it costs money for my master to travel here, doesn't it?" Wei Zhao was starting to spout nonsense.

"..." The Medicine King said nothing, his face written all over with despair.

Wei Zhao shrugged and stopped paying the Medicine King any mind. Instead he turned to Zhao Qibing and said, "Zhao Qibing, seems you still haven't given up? The building's collapsed twice now, and you still don't get it? There are some people you can't provoke. Provoke them, and you're asking for trouble."

"I... Leader Wei Zhao, ha, I... I was incited by the Yu family and the Xiao family into making such a foolish move. Honestly, deep down, I'm scared to death of you!" The expression on Zhao Qibing's face became a spectacular sight. To save his skin, he could only keep enduring the humiliation! Zhao Qibing knew full well that Wei Zhao was capable of anything, so he immediately dumped all the blame on the Yu and Xiao families! He didn't believe Wei Zhao would dare do anything to the Yu and Xiao families!

After all, Wei Zhao might not know how formidable the hidden families were, but the mundane-world families he surely knew were not to be trifled with! Moreover, the Yu family had hidden-family backing behind them, and though the Xiao family had fallen on hard times, Zhao Qibing didn't believe Wei Zhao would really dare touch them!

After all, if Wei Zhao moved against the Xiao family, the other families would surely feel a sense of shared plight. Who knew, they might be next. They wouldn't just sit by and do nothing.

"Yu Bide is dead. Pi Bo is dead too," Wei Zhao said flatly.

"Gah?" Hearing Wei Zhao's words, Zhao Qibing nearly dropped right onto his backside! What the hell? Wei Zhao even dared kill people from the Yu family? In Zhao Qibing's view, no matter how arrogant Wei Zhao was, he'd at most go after the Xiao family and wouldn't dare touch the Yu family. Yet he never imagined Wei Zhao would dare kill Yu family members outright. Wasn't that just too ruthless?

This man completely refused to play by the rules, and he acted with utter recklessness. Wasn't he afraid of retaliation...? Right, this time he'd pretended his strength was gone, which lured in some retaliation, and what do you know, the retaliators got retaliated against...

"Your family hasn't lost anyone yet, so I came," Wei Zhao said, looking at Zhao Qibing with a half-smile.

"Uh, Leader Wei Zhao, there must be some misunderstanding between us..." Zhao Qibing was so frightened his legs barely worked, his whole body trembling, the smile on his face horribly strained. "Look, if I hadn't been incited, would I ever dare come after you? Please, whatever you do, don't act rashly..."

"Don't be scared just yet. Before I kill someone, I generally give them a choice." Wei Zhao waved a hand, cutting Zhao Qibing off. "I gave the Yu and Xiao families two conditions, but they didn't agree, so I had no choice..."

"I agree, I agree!" Zhao Qibing nodded again and again.

"Your conditions, I want double," Wei Zhao said flatly.

"My conditions..." Zhao Qibing's expression instantly changed, and he smiled bitterly. "I wanted the Gu Group's real estate company, but where would I get two real estate companies? If I had them, I wouldn't need to go asking others for theirs..."

"Then you can only die," Wei Zhao said. "Though you're different from the Yu and Xiao families. Your idea was to have the Medicine King poison us to death?"

"No, no, how would I dare poison you?" Zhao Qibing hastily denied.

"Wei Zhao, it was I who fabricated the order. Young Master Bing truly had no intention of poisoning you. I was afraid Gu Pengzhan wouldn't comply, so that's why I said it." Li Cihua gritted his teeth and stepped forward. He had decided to take the fall for Zhao Qibing! Zhao Qibing hadn't shown his face at the time, so if Li Cihua shouldered all the blame himself, perhaps he could divert Wei Zhao's fury onto himself.

"Oh, it was you? You're the one who said you'd poison Uncle Chu's whole family?" Wei Zhao glanced at Li Cihua and asked.

"That's right, it was me!" Li Cihua nodded.

"Oh, then I'll kill your whole family too. Of course, that includes Zhao Qibing," Wei Zhao said indifferently.

"Gah?" Li Cihua was taken aback. "But this has nothing to do with Young Master Bing..."

"Oh, when you wanted to kill Uncle Chu's whole family, you didn't stop to think whether it had anything to do with Yao Yao, so I won't stop to think whether it has anything to do with Zhao Qibing either," Wei Zhao said, looking at Li Cihua.

"..." Li Cihua was left somewhat speechless. Had he stepped forward to take the blame for nothing?

"Leader Wei Zhao, I may not have a real estate company, but can I pay off the debt with money instead?" Zhao Qibing, having heard that Wei Zhao had already finished off Yu Bide and Pi Bo, was scared out of his wits. He believed Wei Zhao absolutely would dare kill him!

"Oh, that works too." Wei Zhao smiled. "Fine, I'll cut you a deal. Two hundred million."

"Huh? Two hundred million..." Zhao Qibing's expression turned bitter again. "I only have one hundred fifty million..."

That one hundred fifty million had just been swindled out of Zhen Yingjun and An Jianwen. He'd only had it a few days, and now it was about to be gone...

"You're short fifty million, huh. That's fine too. Break your own leg, and I'll count that as the fifty million," Wei Zhao said.

"This..." Zhao Qibing hesitated. Though he felt his leg had only just healed and breaking it again would be agonizing, the thought that a broken leg could save him fifty million and keep him alive made it a pretty good deal! Besides, it just meant sitting in a wheelchair a while longer. No big deal! So he gritted his teeth and said, "Fine! Deal! Cihua, get an iron rod and break my leg for Leader Wei Zhao!"

"This... all right!" Li Cihua wanted to say something, but thinking of Wei Zhao's temperament, he shook his head and went out to find an iron rod.

Soon Li Cihua returned with the iron rod, but Wei Zhao waved a hand and said, "You do it yourself."

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