Sure enough!
Things went pretty much as Annie had said. Zhang Chulan gradually recovered and came to his senses on his own, no longer looking as dazed and foolish as he had when Feng Baobao dragged him back while crying out.
As for what had happened to Zhang Chulan, even he couldn't explain it. And the few people who seemed to understand kept their thoughts to themselves. So although some were full of questions, the matter was quickly dropped.
After all, the new Interception Sect in Biyou Village had been destroyed, all the villagers had been persuaded to return to their registered homes, and the Twelve Upper Vessels were dead, surrendered, or under arrest. Even the village chief and sect leader, Ma Xianhong, had been captured and sent overnight to the headquarters in Beijing. At last, Zhang Chulan and the others had to face their final target.
That's right!
The target wasn't just anybody. It was the very person the headquarters had ordered them to capture, dead or alive, from the start: the Gu-Bound Saint Child, Chen Duo!
Thanks to a method that was practically cheating, Zhang Chulan had learned the real reason Chen Duo killed Liao Zhong, the head of the South China region. He also knew what Chen Duo wanted most. So before carrying out the plan to destroy Biyou Village and capture Ma Xianhong, he had Feng Baobao offer Chen Duo a choice: leave the village while the members of Nowhere gathered to attack it, then wait quietly somewhere in the barren hills outside.
Chen Duo had readily agreed!
Otherwise, their plan to attack Biyou Village and Ma Xianhong might not have gone so smoothly.
After all, Ma Xianhong's strength was plain for everyone to see. If the Gu-Bound Saint Child Chen Duo had been helping him,