Staring at Jiang Cheng's sinister smile, Manager Qian suddenly panicked. But the door was right behind him, and even if he could make it outside, he'd be caught by the Government troops. Then they'd all be finished.
He braced himself and met Jiang Cheng's gaze. "Good sir, I still have some loose silver in my bundle upstairs. You two... you two can take whatever you want."
Jiang Cheng shook his head, the corners of his mouth lifting as he looked at Manager Qian like a dead man. "We don't want your money."
Hearing that they didn't want money, Manager Qian's face immediately fell. He suddenly realized something: what had these Former Dynasty remnants come here for?
In Manager Qian's view, the most likely answer was that they wanted to kill him to silence him. After all, he'd seen their faces.
"Manager Qian, I think we should be straightforward. I'll need to borrow your head for a while. We're short on time, so bear with it. I'll be quick." Jiang Cheng made a show of reaching inside his robe, as if he had a knife hidden there.
Unexpectedly, Manager Qian broke down the next moment. He fell to his knees and frantically kowtowed to Jiang Cheng. "Good sirs, please spare me! I'm actually on your side, but a man can't live only for himself. I have a family to support. Good sirs... please show mercy!"
Seeing that he'd achieved his goal of intimidating the man, Jiang Cheng didn't want to make things difficult for the businessman any further. But he needed the information Manager Qian had. During their conversation, the man had let slip something Jiang Cheng was very interested in: something strange had happened near Spring God Lake. He'd also mentioned a term Jiang Cheng had never heard before—"great ebb."