Chapter 2584 — Let Me Be Blunt: It Was Not That Wei Zhao Did Not Trust Fatty Lai, but the Flaw After His Fighting Above His Level Was Simply Too Fatal—He Could Not Reveal It to Anyone Besides Wang Xinyan, or If the Enemy Learned of It, He Would Be Finished!

Fatty Lai might be his trusted confidant, but with a matter like this, the fewer people who knew, the better.

"Understood!" Fatty Lai answered without the slightest suspicion, and hurried out of the reception room.

Wei Zhao, meanwhile, sat cross-legged beside Wu Chengtian and began circulating the second level of the Xuanyuan Dragon-Taming Art to heal Wu Chengtian's injuries—except that he did not heal the man continuously. He would treat him for a while, then stop to recover some of his own physical strength and true qi, then resume healing.

Naturally, Wu Chengtian had no idea what Wei Zhao was up to. He simply assumed his injuries were so severe that Wei Zhao was treating him in stages.

The morning flew by. At noon, Wei Zhao and Wu Chengtian emerged from the reception room in high spirits; Wu Chengtian's injuries were fully healed, and Wei Zhao had returned to his former peak condition.

To see that Fatty Lai had actually carried a chair over and sat himself down at the door of the reception room, with Kang ** also arrived and the two of them looking as grave as a pair of door gods, Wei Zhao was instantly amused. "You two don't have to look so serious, do you?"

"Why not? You were healing Brother Wu Chengtian! If you'd slipped up even a little and failed to cure him, we'd have been the guilty ones!" Fatty Lai said.

"Boss, I've put you to trouble again, wasting your whole morning," Wu Chengtian said, a little embarrassed. He figured his injuries must truly have been severe this time; otherwise, given Wei Zhao's healing speed, there would have been no need for so long.

What he did not know was that Wei Zhao, besides healing him, had also been healing himself—the two of them taking turns. Of course it was slow.

"Chengtian, what are you saying? You were injured over my company's business—how is that trouble?" Wei Zhao glared at him. "But next time something like this happens, you should take a Minor Restoration Pill first to keep yourself alive. Do you have any idea how badly you were hurt? That Military Advisor Zhuge had no intention to kill—otherwise you'd have been dead on the spot!"

"Heh heh, I was going to take one, but then I saw you coming, boss, so I didn't—saved me a Minor Restoration Pill, didn't it!" Wu Chengtian chuckled.

"..." Wei Zhao was somewhat speechless. It wasn't as though a Minor Restoration Pill was anything rare! But then again, for the secular Wu family, a Minor Restoration Pill really was a precious thing—apart from the one Wei Zhao had casually given him, he had no other way to buy one.

"I'll refine a few more. Keep them on you—Fatty Lai, Kang **, you carry some too. If you're ever on the verge of death, a Minor Restoration Pill can keep you alive until I can get there in time," Wei Zhao said.

"Thank you, boss!" Wu Chengtian said gratefully.

Since Wei Zhao still had to go back for classes that afternoon, he did not linger. After saying his goodbyes to Fatty Lai, Kang **, and Wu Chengtian, he drove off to Donghai City Engineering University.

You Panhu had come to the school that day in high spirits, hoping to discuss the matter of exchanging for that data with Wei Zhao, only to discover upon arrival that Wei Zhao had again not shown up. This left You Panhu thoroughly dejected.

"Han Jingyi, do you know what Wei Zhao went off to do?" By noon Wei Zhao still had not come. Unable to wait any longer, You Panhu went to ask Han Jingyi about Wei Zhao's whereabouts.

"No idea." Han Jingyi closed the tablet in front of her, refusing to let You Panhu see what was on it.

You Panhu had actually meant to catch a surprise glimpse of what was on Han Jingyi's tablet, but since she would not let him look, he could not very well snatch it. To commit robbery in Boss Bai's class—he did not have the nerve. He reckoned he would finish the snatching and receive Boss Bai's expulsion notice right on his heels.

"Um... so, those terms we agreed on yesterday—how about it? Did you tell Wei Zhao? Does Wei Zhao agree?" You Panhu asked.

"I don't know. I haven't seen Brother Wei Zhao. When he comes, you can ask him yourself," Han Jingyi said.

"So that means Wei Zhao didn't go back last night?" You Panhu frowned, thinking, Wei Zhao couldn't have gone out of town, could he? What would he do then? He was anxious on his end!

"He came back, then left again this morning. I didn't have time to mention it," Han Jingyi said.

"Oh, that's a relief..." You Panhu breathed a sigh of relief and was about to go back and keep waiting when he looked up and saw Wei Zhao walking into the classroom. You Panhu was overjoyed, and an excited smile immediately spread across his face. "Classmate Wei Zhao, you're back!"

"Oh, why are you so excited to see me? It's not as if I owe you money," Wei Zhao said, perfectly aware of what You Panhu was after, though on the surface he remained utterly composed.

"Uh... well, the thing is, I want to trade for that data Boss Bai gave you. As for the terms and such, I already told Han Jingyi yesterday. Han Jingyi, why don't you run through it with Wei Zhao?" Fearing Wei Zhao might leave again on some errand, You Panhu skipped the beating around the bush and stated his intentions plainly and briefly.

"Oh? Jingjing's memory isn't so good—what if she says too much?" Han Jingyi raised her head innocently.

"...Then I'll say it myself." You Panhu was momentarily speechless—so everything he'd said yesterday was for nothing. "Wei Zhao, I've listed the terms. I can give you a tier-two medicinal cauldron, one set of casting materials for a tier-three medicinal cauldron, and five sets of refining materials for tier-three pills."

"Oh..." Wei Zhao responded blandly, neither agreeing nor disagreeing.

"Well, is it a deal or not, Wei Zhao? Say something, will you?" You Panhu could not tell what Wei Zhao meant by that.

"You're not showing any sincerity. Let's not talk about it—we'll talk again when you're sincere," Wei Zhao said.

"Come on, Wei Zhao, how am I not sincere? Aren't the things I named good treasures? And you call that insincere?" You Panhu said, somewhat displeased.

"Apart from the tier-two medicinal cauldron, which of them is actually usable? Casting materials for a tier-three medicinal cauldron? Do you take me for an artificer? As for the five sets of refining materials for tier-three pills, they're not much use to me for now either—I don't even have a medicinal cauldron, so what would I do with materials?" Wei Zhao countered.

"Uh... this..." You Panhu had not expected Wei Zhao to be no fool. The materials in his possession looked precious on the surface, but in practice were not worth much. "Then what do you want? Just say it straight!"

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