Pan Long made up his mind. His figure blurred, then vanished completely in the blink of an eye.
The Giant Whale Gang's branch was right next door. He slipped inside with great care and searched for the woman from Purple Cloud Palace.
A Giant Whale Gang disciple had carried her downstairs earlier, so she should have been brought here.
But after making a circuit of the branch, he found no sign of her.
People bustled through the branch. Unwilling to give up after one search, Pan Long looked through it again more carefully. Instead, he spotted Ren Fengtao discussing something with Yu Zecheng and several other gang members.
"Tomorrow, everyone needs to be twelve parts careful. Don't let your guard down for a moment!" Ren Fengtao said gravely. "Treasure stirs the heart, and that hoard may contain things even more precious than treasure. Someone is bound to throw caution to the wind and force their way in tomorrow. We don't necessarily have to stop everyone. If we can't, then we won't. Let them charge in."
"But headquarters wants us to keep outsiders out as best we can," Yu Zecheng said worriedly. "If we stop trying, how will we answer to them?"
"You have to be alive to answer to anyone. If you're dead, are you supposed to answer to Kṣitigarbha Bodhisattva?" Ren Fengtao chuckled without a care. "People have come from every direction this time. Even Purple Cloud Palace, all the way out in the Southern Sea, has sent an expert. How could the Giant Whale Gang hold them all back? Failing would be normal. Succeeding would be the surprise."
"But..."
"Old Yu, don't worry. Headquarters won't make trouble for us over this," Ren Fengtao said with a smile. "At most, they'll trim our reward a little. A reward only