Zhang Yuanqing took off the jacket with its burned sleeves and tossed it into the bicycle basket. Then he returned to the Public Security Bureau and had a clerical worker get him a new SIM card.
The SIM card associated with "Yuanshi Tianzun" could only be obtained through the organization's clerical staff.
Zhang Yuanqing's excuse was that he had accidentally dropped his phone into a sewer and couldn't be bothered to retrieve it, so he wanted a replacement card.
He had no intention of telling Guan Ya or Li Dongze about this. If everyone learned of the conflict, and the other party met with an accident right after they had fought, then according to standard investigative procedure, anyone who had recently clashed with them would be routinely investigated, regardless of how suspicious they were.
And those two knew that he possessed a rule-type item.
By the same logic, Zhang Yuanqing would not carry out his revenge immediately. He needed to wait.
After getting his new SIM card, he made another trip to a nearby phone store and bought a domestic phone priced at around three thousand yuan, then used his ID to replace the SIM card with another new one.
At an outdoor table at a café not far from the Public Security Bureau, Zhang Yuanqing sipped iced coffee as he considered how to take revenge on Xiahou Tianyuan.
Crossing the Xiahou Family had not been his intention, but he had no choice in the matter.
The Xiahou father and son had made their stance abundantly clear: cooperate obediently, and they could offer him benefits. Refuse, and they would simply take his phone.
After all, a nobody had no right to choose.
That was hardly surprising. Would a powerful family holding resources really swallow its anger and back down after