Chapter 444: Forcing Su Xia
Su Xia went out.
This is news that could be big or small.
It was so minor that the neighbors thought it was nothing, just a normal trip out to get medical treatment, and they did this often in the past.
However, the intelligence department of Coral City stopped for a moment. The department's director Wu Zhonggui immediately threw all the information files aside, picked up the news about Su Xia going out, and sat in front of the window to study it carefully with a serious face.
"Su Xia..."
Wu Zhonggui's face was solemn. He always felt that Su Xia was very evil.
Although Su Xia was nominally his subordinate, he was deeply favored by Yu Tuo, which made him, the minister, helpless.
"He is clearly just a traitor who sells out his master for fame and fortune. He just has a relatively outstanding talent for potions. What on earth did Lord Yu Tuo like about him? I also betrayed my own organization... Could it be that the person he betrayed was more valuable than me?"
Wu Zhonggui once thought that as long as Su Xia was still working in his department, she would not cause any trouble and would be dealt with by him sooner or later, but Su Xia always surprised him.
Now, even if Su Xia is absent from work every day, Wu Zhonggui can't do anything to him.
After all, even Boss Yutuo has no objection, so what can he do?
Even when he teamed up with the scheming guy Sijidao, they couldn't suppress Su Xia. Instead, Su Xia's reputation grew.
If this continues, will Yu Tuo directly kick him out of his current position and let Su Xia take it?
"It's not impossible!" Wu Zhonggui was a little annoyed.
What Wu Zhonggui didn't know was that the city lord Qi Lang was also worried about the same thing as him, fearing that Su Xia would be supported to the position of city lord.
However, Qi Lang had a good secretary named Chai An, who helped him analyze the situation and told him not to worry about it for the time being.
As for Wu Zhonggui, the only guy he can talk to is Sijidao.
"Wang Yongqiang, your enemy, Su Xia, is out today." Wu Zhonggui threw the information file in his hand to Sijidao.
"Su Xia is out?"
Sijidao picked up the document, rolled his eyes, looked at the information on it, and a smile immediately appeared on his face.
"It's good that he went out. I was afraid that he would be like an old turtle and hide in the pharmacy and not come out!" He sneered twice, looking confident, as if he had already found a way to deal with Su Xia.
"What? Do you have any new weird ideas?" Wu Zhonggui looked at him.
"Sir, do you know what I'm doing recently?" asked Sijidao.
"I know. Isn't it just taking your cheap teacher and taking him around to give speeches?" Wu Zhonggui said indifferently, "The old man is old, and it must be a pain for him to be tossed around by you. Do you want to use him to deal with Su Xia?"
"Your Excellency is wise!"
"What a clever ass!"
Wu Zhonggui snorted coldly and said to Sijidao, "What's the point of dragging that old man around to give speeches? It's nothing more than disgusting Su Xia! If you don't have any good ideas, don't think of any crooked ideas and just pretend to be nice to him!"
Speaking of which, Wu Zhonggui had no choice.
He also hated having an uncertain factor like Su Xia in the department, but Su Xia's background was Yu Tuo. Unless Yu Tuo treated Su Xia as a discarded pawn, they would not dare to take any big action against Su Xia in public.
Judging from the current situation, Su Xia is being made into a star figure in the Coral City's surrender camp. The entire city's media department is consciously building momentum for him. It is not yet time for him to be abandoned.
"Out of sight, out of mind!" Wu Zhonggui slapped the table. "Su Xia hasn't been to work for a few days anyway, so just pretend he doesn't exist!"
"Minister, are you willing to accept this?" Sijidao had a strange smile on his face.
"I said, if you don't have a better solution, don't use your evil ideas!" Wu Zhonggui said solemnly.
"Sir, I did not have the upper hand in the previous times, but this time is different," said Sijidao.
"Why is it different?"
"This time, we are in the right place!"
"Great justice?"
Hearing these two words, Wu Zhonggui was stunned for a moment, then laughed.
What kind of righteousness can there be for people like them who betray their friends and comrades in exchange for power and status?
"Sir, please don't laugh!" Sijidao said hurriedly.
"What's wrong?" Wu Zhonggui looked at him, waiting for his explanation.
"Then Su Xia is just like us now, relying on betraying those close to him in exchange for honor. Everyone knows this." Sijidao said, "As long as we make good use of this, we can defeat the forces surrounding him and make him a lone man."
"Oh? The power surrounding him?"
"Those undead people!"
Sijidao continued with a smile , "Lord Yutuo values the Undead Tribe very much. His intention was conveyed to City Lord Qilang, which is why our city has launched a project to support the Undead Tribe. Your Excellency knows this."
"Of course I do."
Wu Zhonggui looked at the Four Seasons Rice, waiting for what he would say next.
Sijidao smiled slightly and said, "Your Excellency, you also know that I now have another identity, which is the temporary director of the Coral City Undead Management Department.
“Lord Qilang has high hopes for me because of my identity. He hopes that I can unite all the undead members in Coral City and the surrounding wilderness to establish a controlled undead army.
"Originally, everything was going well until Su Xia and his group of friends showed up. You, sir, also know what happened during this period..."
Wu Zhonggui nodded slightly. Of course he knew these things.
At the beginning, when Zhao Si was still there, he was Zhao Si's subordinate and had heard about the Four Seasons Rice team and another team.
The two teams started fighting with just a few hundred people, and the number of people on both sides grew, slowly developing to several thousand people, and later to tens of thousands or even more than a hundred thousand people.
By now, they have become the two largest undead groups in the entire Coral City.
Moreover, it is not just Coral City, their alliances have expanded to dozens of other small cities in the southwest region.
It can be said that whichever of these two groups can defeat the other in the future will become the king of the southwest in a very short time.
"Su Xia is the core of their alliance. It can even be said that she is the bond that maintains the entire alliance and the most critical nail!" When he said this, Sijidao's voice became slightly cold.
Li Defu and his people have always wanted to get rid of Four Seasons Rice once and for all, and doesn't Four Seasons Rice think the same?
"What? You want to completely cut off the alliance's potion supply?"
Wu Zhonggui was so smart that he immediately understood what Four Seasons Rice meant.
But he reminded: "As long as Su Xia is still here, they have a chance to rise again."
"Your Excellency, you don't know that the reason why many undead chose Suxia's alliance in the past was because I had a bad reputation." Sijidao explained.
"You know you have a bad reputation!"
"But now Su Xia's reputation is not much better. He and I are on the same starting line !"
"You are wrong. He also has the identity of a 'master'." Wu Zhonggui said, "As long as he has this identity, he will always be better than you."
"No, no, sir, he is not worthy of the word 'Master' now!"
Sijidao casually grabbed a flyer from the storage space, and with a smile on his face, gently placed it in front of Wu Zhonggui.
Wu Zhonggui took a closer look and saw the words "Who is the real master?" written in a very conspicuous font on the front of the leaflet.
Obviously, Four Seasons Rice had been planned for a long time.
"Sir, do you think that a pharmacist who hides his head and tail all day long, is timid and afraid of things, shrinks in the shop and dares not go out to see people, is worthy of the word 'master'?" A smile appeared on Sijidao's lips.
"But he went out today," said Wu Zhonggui.
"I'm just waiting for him to go out!"
Sijidao said seriously, "If he doesn't go out, I won't be able to deliver this flyer to him!"
"oh?"
Wu Zhonggui frowned slightly, picked up the flyer, and carefully read the contents on the back.
"You want your master to challenge Su Xia and snatch the title of 'Master' from Su Xia?" Wu Zhonggui shook his head slightly, "No, your master is much older than Su Xia, so this kind of challenge is not legitimate."
"Sir, have you forgotten what I said?"
"What?"
"Great justice..."
Sijidao's eyes sparkled, and he lowered his voice and said, "Su Xia's title of 'Master' was originally stolen from his master. He was not worthy of the title to begin with, but the negative public opinion was temporarily suppressed. This is exactly what we can take advantage of!"
"Are you going to spread public opinion?" Wu Zhonggui's face turned serious.
"That's right, I will use my power to put pressure on him and force him to accept the challenge!"
Sijidao was confident and said: "As long as he accepts the challenge, he will definitely lose!"
"If he doesn't answer..."
"If he doesn't accept it in the end, then everyone will see his fear and cowardice!" Sijidao smiled sinisterly, "Sir, if you were Su Xia's ally, would you still choose to continue to cooperate with this kind of person?"
"There is another question, Lord Yutuo..."
"Sir, I don't think Lord Yuta would want a cowardly and incompetent pawn, right?"
Sijidao had calculated everything. He figured that even if Yutuo knew about this, there was a high possibility that he would turn a blind eye.
In the eyes of the Mechanical Clan, the fighting between these low-level chess pieces can be ignored as long as it is not too excessive.
"Wait a minute, everything you just said is based on the premise that 'Su Xia will definitely lose.'"
Wu Zhonggui suddenly thought of something, looked suspicious, and immediately said to Sijidao: "Are you sure your master is stronger than Su Xia?"
"Sure! Don't worry, sir!" Sijidao was very confident.
His master is the only fifth-level pharmacist in the entire Coral City. How can Su Xia compare to him?
Wu Zhonggui was still somewhat worried. He always felt that Su Xia was particularly evil. He couldn't describe this feeling specifically. It was as if - no matter how difficult the situation was, Su Xia could handle it!
This kind of person is simply the protagonist in a novel.
"It is said...the reason why he has not shown up recently is because he is writing textbooks." Wu Zhonggui was still a little hesitant.
"Sir, he is just bragging!" Sijidao said firmly, "Not to mention him, even my master can't write a textbook, this is simply impossible to say, the reason why he said that is either to increase his own fame or because he is afraid.
“He was afraid that those who had received favors from his father would deal with him, so he used this as an excuse to hide.
"My Lord, please trust me again!
"If I still can't succeed this time, I, Wang Yongqiang, will take his last name Su Xia from now on!"
Sijidao made a solemn promise, even swearing on his own surname, and asked Wu Zhonggui to support his action.
"Just once will do! Just give Su Xia one failure, and everything in the future will be different!"
"Okay..."
Wu Zhonggui thought about it carefully and felt that it was unlikely that there would be any accidents.
He might indeed be worrying too much.
The two reached an agreement on this, and the next thing became much simpler. They just had to let Sijidao follow the steps in his plan.
…
On the other side, the old street in the south of the city.
Su Xia didn't know what big thing was about to happen to him, his focus was still on the vague gazes behind him.
He sent out some nanorobots to act as eyes and let them explore behind them.
Soon, Su Xia saw four different figures in the crowd.
"Four strangers..."
There were few people in this neighborhood that Su Xia didn't know.
The four figures of different heights thought they blended in well with the surroundings, but they ignored Su Xia's familiarity with the area.
If I'm not mistaken, it should be the four of them.
The strength of these four people is quite good, otherwise Su Xia would not have felt that dangerous.
"If you really came here to repay your father, maybe we can become friends."
Su Xia welcomes such a powerful friend.
He did not alert the enemy and followed the planned route, walking through the old street and entering a small alley. After turning several turns, the number of people around him gradually decreased.
The four people also followed, seemingly wandering around aimlessly, but in fact they were following Su Xia closely.
"Good tracking skills. If it were someone else, they might not be able to find the four of them."
Su Xia nodded slightly and gave a higher score to these four people.
From this point alone, it can be seen that the four men are not the kind of reckless men who only have strength. They should have spent time honing their abilities in tracking, reconnaissance, assassination, etc.
"It depends on when they plan to take action."
Su Xia’s current location is not far from the Zero Point Tavern.
The old alleys seemed increasingly narrow, with fewer and fewer people around.
But the four people behind were still just following, showing no signs of taking action, as if they were still worried about something.
"Are you worried that there are mechanical warriors hiding nearby?"
Su Xia guessed what those people were worried about. After all, from the outside world's perspective, he had hardly gone out for more than half a month, and it was really unusual for him to suddenly go out today.
The four men were quite cautious, like experienced old hunters, and would not lose their patience just because of the tracking that lasted just over ten minutes.
Before long, the Coral City's Midnight Tavern was within sight.
Su Xia, carrying a small medicine box on his back, exuding faint spiritual energy fluctuations, looked calm as he stepped into the door of the Midnight Tavern.
“I’m back again.”
As the most wanted criminal in the entire tavern, he returned here with a new identity.
