"I'd like to see how you plan to catch ." Ding Fan said with disdain, then turned to leave.
Slap...
Wang Gang slapped the table and stood up. "Ding Fan, aren't you being too arrogant? Do you think you can do whatever you want with the staff team, working or not as you please?"
Ding Fan pulled out a military ID from his storage ring without hesitation and threw it in front of Wang Gang. He then turned to leave.
"Wait..."
Just as the confrontation was becoming intense, soone pushed open the door of the private room.
Ding Fan glanced at the person who entered. The man appeared to be in his fifties, with hair that was half black and half white and a face full of cunning.
"Mr. Ding, Deputy Team Leader Wang was too harsh just now. Please don't be angry with him..." The man ca in with a smile.
After hearing the man's words, Wang Gang wanted to say sothing but eventually swallowed his words.
"Who are you?" Ding Fan asked, looking at the visitor.
"I am the Deputy Mayor of Zhangzhou, Hao Wenyong... You are a significant figure, and how could Deputy Team Leader Wang command you? He simply wanted to ask for your help to eliminate a threat to Zhangzhou."
Help Zhangzhou eliminate a threat?
Ding Fan looked at Hao Wenyong.
"You must have heard about the poisoning incident in Zhangzhou... One person once used poison to kill over three hundred people in a village in the suburbs of Zhangzhou, sparing neither the old nor the young. It's a sorrowful history for us in Zhangzhou... The people have been waiting for many years to arrest this person..." Hao Wenyong spoke dramatically.
Ding Fan pondered for a mont.
A person who poisoned over three hundred people truly deserves to be caught and killed.
"Mr. Ding, this person has now co to Zhangzhou. We truly lack the capability to capture him. I have already discussed this matter with Elder Shen Wanqing. Please, for the sake of the people of Zhangzhou, help us eliminate this nace..." Hao Wenyong continued. "If you refuse, I will kneel in front of you and not get up."
As Hao Wenyong spoke, he indeed began to kneel.
Ding Fan used his True Qi to lift Hao Wenyong before he could kneel down completely.
"If it ans eliminating evil, I'll go there myself." Ding Fan said.
Although Ding Fan didn't like Wang Gang, the matter concerned the people of Zhangzhou. Although Ding Fan was not a saint who ddled in everything, he couldn't ignore a maniac who slaughtered innocents.
Hao Wenyong now seed very happy. "In that case, on behalf of the people of Zhangzhou, I thank you, Mr. Ding..."
Ding Fan nodded his head and said no more.
"Instructor Ding, I have already prepared a detailed action plan," Wang Gang spoke up at this mont. "This ti, Zhang Xu will accompany you to catch the criminal. I will give all the details to Zhang Xu later."
Ding Fan had not intended to conduct the mission with anyone else but considering he knew little about the criminal and taking Zhang Xu might make things easier. After completing the mission, he could send Zhang Xu back to report, and then he wouldn't need to deal with any more bureaucratic nuisances.
"Zhang Xu, let's go." Ding Fan turned around, called out to Zhang Xu, and then headed straight out.
Zhang Xu took a leather dossier from Wang Gang and followed him out.
"This Ding Fan really is ****** impressive..." Watching Ding Fan leave, Wang Gang, feeling displeased, picked up a wine glass in front of him and filled it with red wine.
"Deputy Team Leader Wang... You're just too impatient. There's a saying that sweet words can kill. The person you're asking Ding Fan to deal with is so powerful that when Team 3567 faced him before, they almost got wiped out. Sending Ding Fan with just one more person to capture such a dangerous person is akin to sentencing them to death... At this point, you should have just cajoled him. It's not illegal to kill with kindness..." Hao Wenyong laughed and said by his side.
Wang Gang's lips twitched slightly, holding his wine glass. "Little guy, competing against , I'll let you die a horrible death!"
What Wang Gang was most looking forward to now was the deaths of Ding Fan and Zhang Xu.
The fire in the building was initially caused by the escape of the Crimson Fla Spirit Beast, which had happened because Wang Gang wanted to steal its Demon Core.
After Ding Fan killed the Crimson Fla Spirit Beast, the collar around its neck disappeared clearly into Ding Fan's hands.
That was fatal evidence.
The Crimson Fla Spirit Beast was a wanted creature by the central authorities and had escaped on his watch. If it were discovered that he was involved with the collar, it would be a disaster for him.
Therefore, Wang Gang had to ensure the deaths of Ding Fan and Zhang Xu at all costs. At the ti of the Crimson Fla Spirit Beast's death, only these two were present at the scene. If both of them were dead, then it would be easy to manipulate the narrative.
Wang Gang could even fra the whole escape of the Crimson Fla Spirit Beast on Ding Fan and Zhang Xu...
After all, dead n tell no tales. This mission, in Wang Gang's view, was surely going to be fatal for Ding Fan and Zhang Xu...
Wang Gang turned to Xiao Liu. "Xiao Liu, have you completed the task I assigned you?"
Xiao Liu nodded. "Deputy Team Leader Wang, I have already alerted the Poison King, warning him that Team 3567 is coming to capture him..."
Wang Gang, satisfied, nodded. "The Poison King is now the Great Protector of the Myriad Demon Sect, the most powerful person under the sect leader... It's unclear who exactly is coming to Zhangzhou, but this makes it an ideal opportunity for to use him to kill another..."
Hao Wenyong on the side laughed. "Your strategy is brilliant, Deputy Team Leader Wang..."
Wang Gang laughed and drank a full glass of red wine...
"Deputy Team Leader Wang, I've been Deputy Mayor for five or six years now... My position..." Hao Wenyong stopped speaking, just looking at Wang Gang.
Wang Gang smiled. "Don't worry, there are many old subordinates of my father. Most things might be difficult, but promoting you to Mayor isn't a big deal."
Hao Wenyong, upon hearing this, imdiately had a smile full of his face. He busily picked up a bottle of red wine beside him to fill Wang Gang's glass. "From now on, I am your man, Deputy Team Leader Wang. Whatever you need, just say the word..."
At this mont, Wang Gang was in a great mood. "Well said, well said... Let's make a fortune together..."
...
After Ding Fan and Zhang Xu left the International Hotel, they found a cafe. The two had just obtained the information about that person and needed to roughly draft an action plan.
Ding Fan had always felt that today's events were too bizarre. Since leaving the private room, Ding Fan's Divine Sense hadn't left the room.
The words Wang Gang, Hao Wengang, and Xiao Liu thought they had hidden well were actually crystal clear to Ding Fan.
When Ding Fan heard the words "Poison King", he was taken aback.
The night before, Mingyue had explained that the Poison King was a master invited by Bian Zhimu from the Myriad Demon Sect. His purpose was to join Hua Zhimo and target Ding Fan together.
Ding Fan had not expected the man Wang Gang wanted him to deal with to turn out to be the Poison King.
What Ding Fan couldn't understand was why Wang Gang was so eager for him and Zhang Xu to die.
At the fire scene, Ding Fan had rescued Wang Gang and Xiao Liu. Even if Wang Gang did not thank him for saving their lives, he should definitely not be so eager for Ding Fan's life.
After pondering for a while, Ding Fan rembered a possible reason — the Crimson Fla Spirit Beast.
This beast was extrely dangerous; such a deadly Yuan Beast appearing in the bustling center of the city was impossible.
So why did it appear there?
Ding Fan asked Zhang Xu about it. Zhang Xu didn't know; he just knew that when he woke up, the Yuan Beast was already wreaking havoc.
Ding Fan then rembered the collar he found at the scene.
The collar was taken from the neck of the Crimson Fla Spirit Beast. Ding Fan vividly rembered that it had an Imprisonnt Array Formation...
Linking all these clues together, Ding Fan seed to understand sothing.
The collar on the Crimson Fla Spirit Beast's neck was definitely Wang Gang's attempt to control the beast. From this point of view, it seed that what Wang Gang wanted was the beast's Demon Core.
Since Ding Fan discovered the collar, and Zhang Xu was also at the scene, it seed that Wang Gang wanted to use the Poison King to eliminate both him and Zhang Xu.
Ding Fan pondered repeatedly and ca to a similar conclusion each ti. It seed that Wang Gang had made a clever calculation...
However, although Ding Fan knew that Wang Gang was setting him up to capture the Poison King as a ruse to kill soone with a borrowed knife, he chose not to back out.
Firstly, Ding Fan had looked over the information Zhang Xu provided.
It indeed contained details about the Poison King poisoning more than three hundred villagers in Zhangzhou thirty years ago, an incident that had alard the central authorities...
For that alone, Ding Fan would not let the Poison King go.
Another reason was that the Poison King had traveled a long distance on behalf of Bian Zhimu as reinforcents; his target was Ding Fan.
Even if Ding Fan did not go after him, the opponent would co looking for him.
Since a battle was inevitable sooner or later, it was better to fight earlier rather than later. This way, the initiative was in his own hands, and he didn't have to worry about others being implicated.
Ding Fan checked the information Wang Gang had given him, which stated that the Poison King was currently near the edge of the Haijiao Jungle.
That location was exactly where Ding Fan had slain Bian Zhimu and rescued i Li the night before.
Having determined the location, Ding Fan decided to set off. However, he did not plan to set off with Zhang Xu.
Zhang Xu's cultivation was too weak. In a duel between masters, details often dictated success or failure, so Ding Fan had no ti to look after him.
Ding Fan planned to reach the Haijiao Jungle area ahead of Zhang Xu. anwhile, Zhang Xu would find a car and follow him.
Zhang Xu initially disagreed, but he could not defy Ding Fan, and so it was decided.
For better coordination, Ding Fan carried a GPS satellite positioning system on him.
After gearing up, Ding Fan found a secluded spot and took to Sword Control. Zhang Xu, anwhile, got a car and followed Ding Fan.
The speed of Sword Control was fast, and it took Ding Fan just over ten minutes to reach the location indicated in the information as the hiding place of the Poison King.
Actually, that hiding spot was the villa that Ding Fan had already burned to ash yesterday. The Poison King's presence there ant he was probably planning to et up with Hua Zhimo and Bian Zhimu.
When Ding Fan arrived, he was sowhat worried that, with the villa having been destroyed, the Poison King might not show up there.
However, as Ding Fan arrived, he soon found the place was already bustling...
In front of the burned-down villa stood an elder with his hands behind his back. He was an extrely withered old man with white, brittle hair, as if it were weeds, and his eyes were lifeless, resembling those of a dead fish. At the mont, he was hunching over, standing in front of the ruins of the villa...
"Elder, we've been watching you for a long ti. Are you an Ancient Martial Arts master... "
"Elder, we want to challenge you..."
At that mont, two individuals were shouting provocatively at the old man...
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