Chapter 141: Chapter 103: How Did You Find This Place?
Seeing the usually calm Liao Zhou with a rare look of anxiety all over his face, Liao Peng couldn’t help but speak.
"It’s only been a day, Brother. What’s there to be so anxious about?"
"It’s normal for the Ghost Suppression Bureau to take a few days to reply. We can use this time to clean up the internal affairs of the Evil Blood Sect."
"Brother, ever since you advanced to the Mythical Tier, many of Wu Kecun’s and Yang Rupei’s old subordinates have been thinking of siding with us."
"They..."
Liao Zhou was already anxious, and now he heard how short-sighted Liao Peng was being.
He still hadn’t understood why Liao Zhou wanted to lead the Evil Blood Sect in surrendering to Starlight City.
His mind was still focused on consolidating the Evil Blood Sect from within.
Liao Zhou couldn’t hold back and slammed his hand hard on the table.
"Xiaopeng, it’s not like you haven’t dealt with the Ghost Suppression Bureau before. Their Directors are all decisive and efficient."
"If they were willing to accept the Evil Blood Sect’s surrender, we should have heard from them immediately."
"If there’s still no word from the Ghost Suppression Bureau today, Xiaopeng, you and our third sister will leave Starlight City together."
"I had our sister start gathering the Evil Blood Sect’s resources early yesterday morning. With those resources, it will be enough for you and her to live without worry for the rest of your lives."
Liao Peng was stunned. He hadn’t realized the situation had become so critical.
Otherwise, Liao Zhou wouldn’t be telling him and Liao Min to take the consolidated resources and leave the Evil Blood Sect.
"Brother..."
Liao Peng was about to speak when his round, leopard-like eyes snapped toward the door. He shouted sharply.
"Who’s there?"
At this moment, Liao Zhou and Liao Peng were not in the Evil Blood Sect’s Earth Palace, but in a private residence the three siblings had built together.
Normally, not even their most trusted confidants would have the opportunity to come here.
As he let out that sharp cry, Liao Peng simultaneously activated his Soul Base.
A Bizarre, wreathed in a foul-smelling gray mist and possessing a pair of broad, bony wings, had already appeared in front of Liao Peng.
In response to Liao Peng’s sharp shout, three rhythmic knocks came from the door.
The door was then pushed open from the outside, and a familiar face that shouldn’t have been there appeared before Liao Zhou and Liao Peng.
"Sect Leader, Vice Sect Leader, there has been much turmoil in Starlight City lately. I’ve come to bring you some brocade robes."
"Put on these robes, and you won’t have to worry no matter how great the storms become."
Liao Peng’s eyes were locked firmly on the man before him. The aura of a Fantasy Tier Peak Deceit Beast erupted from the creature beside him.
"Tao Zhi, shouldn’t you be running your merchant guild right now?"
"How did you find this place?"
"Starlight City has been fucking scorching these last few days. What storm?"
"I..."
Before Liao Peng could finish, Liao Zhou interrupted him again.
"Tao Zhi, I remember you were Yang Rupei’s confidant. We’ve dealt with each other quite a bit in the past."
"Since you’re here to deliver me brocade robes, you know one shouldn’t get caught in the storm."
"So don’t forget, and don’t let yourself get drenched first."
The man at the door gave a subtle smile. He gently lifted a corner of the brocade robe in his arms, revealing an embroidered pattern studded with stars.
The moment they saw the embroidered pattern on the robe, not just Liao Zhou, but even Liao Peng, recognized it as the symbol of the Ghost Suppression Bureau.
"Tao Zhi, you..."
Before Liao Peng could finish, Tao Zhi rolled up the clothes in his arms and said calmly.
"In Starlight City, the storm never touches me."
"Take the clothes, Sect Leader Liao."
"You’re a smart man. You should understand why I’m the one delivering these robes, instead of you being summoned to pick them up."
With that, Tao Zhi offered the robes to Liao Zhou with both hands.
The moment he took the brocade robes from Tao Zhi, Liao Zhou noticed that Tao Zhi’s hand didn’t pull away from the fabric.
Instead, he grasped Liao Zhou’s hand and tapped rhythmically seven times in his palm.
This was a secret signal known only to the core members of the Evil Blood Sect.
The seven rhythmic taps meant ’Under surveillance, do not act rashly.’
Just now, Liao Zhou had interrupted Liao Peng twice in a row.
Now, Tao Zhi had cut him off as well. With his words repeatedly stuck in his throat, Liao Peng’s face darkened with frustration.
Liao Peng didn’t know that in that brief moment, Liao Zhou and Tao Zhi had already communicated in secret.
Liao Zhou tapped the center of Tao Zhi’s palm with his knuckles in return. A tingling, numbing pain spread from the palm.
Tao Zhi knew that Liao Zhou had understood his meaning.
He smiled at Liao Zhou, ignored Liao Peng standing off to the side, and calmly left the room, thoughtfully closing the door behind him.
Seeing the door close, Liao Peng suddenly burst out.
"Brother, Tao Zhi is actually from Star..."
Before Liao Peng could finish, Liao Zhou silenced him with a look.
Seeing Liao Zhou’s stern and sharp gaze, Liao Peng didn’t dare to stay frustrated and subconsciously shrank back.
Liao Zhou was extremely surprised to learn that Tao Zhi was one of Starlight City’s officials.
He had never imagined Starlight City had unknowingly planted such a spy in the Evil Blood Sect.
Tao Zhi had been in the Evil Blood Sect for almost as long as he had.
Liao Zhou remembered that in his fifth year with the Evil Blood Sect, Tao Zhi was already by Yang Rupei’s side.
Tao Zhi possessed exceptional business and management skills, making him the sect’s "moneybags," so to speak.
Liao Zhou had always held Tao Zhi in high regard.
However, what surprised Liao Zhou the most right now wasn’t that Tao Zhi was a spy planted by Starlight City in the Evil Blood Sect.
It was that he was being monitored!
That was why the Ghost Suppression Bureau had chosen this method to show they were willing to accept his surrender.
Willingly exposing a hidden agent like Tao Zhi could be considered a show of sincerity from Starlight City’s officials.
Liao Zhou thought for a moment. The only ones in Starlight City currently capable of monitoring him, without the city’s officials wanting to alert the enemy, were those two foreign Mythical Tier Bizarrres.
He solemnly caressed the brocade robe in his arms. This robe could indeed, as Tao Zhi had said, provide shelter from the storm.
’While I’m under surveillance, Starlight City’s officials definitely won’t join forces with me to move against those two foreign Mythical Tier Bizarrres.’
’It seems I have no chance of obtaining that Rule Deceit Embryo!’
An idea formed in Liao Zhou’s mind: to have Liao Min make contact with that Mythical Tier Bizarre again.
But he quickly dismissed the thought. First, the Mythical Tier Bizarre was the one who had initiated contact with Liao Min.
Liao Min had no way of contacting it.
Second, if he actively tried to contact this foreign Mythical Tier Bizarre and interfered with the plans of Starlight City’s officials...
...this "storm-sheltering" robe he had just received would likely be torn to shreds!
As a Bizarre with a certain status, Liao Zhou knew very well that many of Starlight City’s higher-ups were extremely averse to Bizarrres.
They even loathed them!
The fact that Starlight City’s officials were willing to accept the Evil Blood Sect’s surrender already represented a compromise from some of those anti-Bizarre higher-ups.
Now that he had made it to shore, Liao Zhou had no intention of wading back into the water, if only for his brother and sister’s sake.
Meanwhile, in an alley in Liu Nan Lane, several vendors started chatting as they closed their stalls.
"We haven’t seen the Li Family for five or six days. Their distant relatives haven’t opened the stall since yesterday."
"The Li Family’s fried rice cake stall has been here for over twenty years. As far as I can remember, this is the first time they’ve ever just stopped."
"Where’d the Li Family go? Even if they moved somewhere else, they should’ve sold the stall, not just abandoned it."
"If they were selling, I’d want to buy it. Their stall does way better business than mine!"
"Isn’t the Li’s little girl about the age for matchmaking? I heard someone set her up, but she ended up standing the guy up."
When Shi Mi contacted the Evil Blood Sect, the demand was for the sect to cause as much chaos as possible in the Lower City District to draw out Starlight City’s local powerhouses.
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