"Boss, this is bad, there are people outside Zijing City looking for you. Judging from the montum, they're not here for anything good. You'd better be careful."
Servants almost never dared co to Tang Rao's "back garden"; for the patrol squad to rush in like this, it definitely ant trouble.
"Looks like soone was already waiting here for news. Otherwise I just got back and soone imdiately cos knocking? That's a bit too coincidental, isn't it?"
Tang Rao took it in stride. After deliberately giving You Xiaoxiao a look, he followed the man below out to et the visitors.
Outside the Zijing City Gate, Tang Rao had been sure that whoever ca looking for him would be so family he'd offended. He hadn't expected it to be all commoners. The commoners had been wailing outside Zijing City Gate for a very long ti; kind as he was, he actually had the Kao Shan Sect people carry out a few buckets of water for them. Just going by their voices, he could tell they really needed to moisten their throats—otherwise, apart from their complaints, Tang Rao wouldn't even know what had happened over here.
"He's out, the Family Head of Kao Shan Sect is out!"
"Yeah, we've waited so long and finally soone with authority showed up. If you still didn't co out, we really would've had to rush in and demand justice!"
Demand justice?
Tang Rao was sure his Kao Shan Sect people would never take the initiative to go out and cause trouble, so this talk of "demanding justice" from the commoners left him a bit confused.
"Folks, wet your throats first, then slowly tell what exactly happened."
Tang Rao had never thought of himself as soone who "reasoned," but his "unreasonable" side was mainly reserved for those family heads. Facing commoners, Tang Rao felt it was better to be a bit reasonable.
The agitated hearts of the commoners slowly settled down. At least in Tang Rao's eyes, that was a good thing.
"Tang Family Master, you have to stand up for us and get us justice. Our shops, our family mbers were almost completely ruined by that man. He claid he was from the Kao Shan Sect, said you were his boss. We searched and searched and finally managed to find you. You can't say this person has nothing to do with you."
The fat woman was the first to plop down on the ground. She cried as she stared at Tang Rao, afraid he'd leave again and that after all their long waiting, they'd once more end up with no result.
Soone from Kao Shan Sect, his little brother? Stirring up trouble?
Destroying people's shops and their families?
Kao Shan Sect had just been reorganized, and Cha Xiangzi had put so much effort into it—now there was already trouble?
If it wasn't soone under Cha Xiangzi's discipline, fine. But if after the reorganization sothing like this still happened right under his nose, besides dealing with whoever caused it, Tang Rao would also have to go find trouble with Cha Xiangzi.
"Do you know who that person is, what he looks like? If he really is from my Kao Shan Sect, I absolutely won't tolerate it. If he's not, I, Tang Rao, am not about to take the bla for nothing. People of the Kao Shan Sect talk reason, but we're not as easy to bully as you seem to think either."
All Tang Rao had to do was stand there. Quite a few of the restless commoners, who had originally co ready to make trouble, felt the Wang Ba aura coming off him and didn't even dare say an extra word.
"He's definitely from Kao Shan Sect. Otherwise he wouldn't have said you were his boss."
The woman froze for a mont. After all, her family had suffered such a huge grievance; so what if Tang Rao looked scary? If they couldn't get justice, then for their family's losses and lives, who was going to compensate them?
"If I go out and commit cris, then claim you're my boss, does that an every bad thing I do becos your responsibility?"
His handso brow arched, and his piercing gaze landed on the fat woman. She instantly couldn't get a single word out.
What Tang Rao said didn't sound wrong at all; in fact, it was pretty reasonable.
"That's not the sa. You're just making an analogy—we weren't. Talking so much now is useless anyway. Once you see the man, you'll know whether we're telling the truth or not."
Words can lie; seeing is believing. No matter how many pretty argunts Tang Rao made right now, once he saw the man, it would be hard for him to deny anything.
That guy who claid to be one of Tang Rao's n wasn't that easy to run into either.
He carried a big saber. If he saw soone he didn't like, he'd give them a slash; if he saw a shop he didn't like, he'd rush in and rob it first, then set it on fire the mont he finished looting. What pissed people off the most was that this man wasn't even that strong in terms of pure power; the only thing truly impressive about him was his ability to run.
In less than the blink of an eye, by the ti you realized he'd just done sothing utterly heartless, the man had already vanished.
The victims jointly hired experts, willing to spend money to have this bastard who'd done every evil deed under the sun killed. They paid the money, the experts ca. They'd thought spending money would buy them peace of mind. Instead, not only did the man not die, his revenge escalated. The casualties doubled compared to before.
"Since you're saying he's from my Kao Shan Sect, either bring out so evidence or bring the man himself before , and I'll give you an answer on the spot."
This was the only solution Tang Rao could offer right now. But if they also wanted Tang Rao to personally go hunt the man down, that was absolutely impossible.
"Tang Family Master, to tell you the truth, it's not that we didn't spend money to hire people to capture that man. If we had the ability to find him ourselves, we wouldn't treat you as a life-saving straw and sit here waiting for you to co back and save our lives!"
Sighs rose from the crowd. This man had finally voiced what everyone was feeling.
"Yeah, that guy's escape speed is crazy fast. Oh right, I think I've got a recording of him killing soone in Illusion City. I just don't know if, from such a short clip, the Tang Family Master can recognize who he is."
The man had stayed silent earlier. When soone else took the lead, he was happy to just play background extra. His personality was to dislike having attention on him. He spoke up now only because everyone else was at a loss for words, and his family's shop had been burned down to nothing. If he didn't think of a way to salvage things, those burned goods would never, ever be compensated.
Tang Rao nodded and grunted an acknowledgnt. Very soon, the man used Illusion City to send the footage to Tang Rao. The recording was only a few seconds long. After watching it, Tang Rao already understood.
This ti, he really couldn't bla Cha Xiangzi or anyone in the Kao Shan Sect.
Who to bla then? Only himself, Tang Rao, for being soft-hearted. Back when he threw Yan Lin out, he'd left the man a life—just beat him stupid and made him unable to fend for himself. Who could've thought that this fool who'd lost the ability to take care of his own life would, overnight, as if granted so power boost, suddenly beco terrifyingly strong? Judging by his moves, ordinary people really weren't his match.
"I don't know if the Tang Family Master has managed to see who that person is?"
The man asked cautiously. That short recording was his, and in fact all of their, only hope.
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