"Don't you owe me an explanation?"
Hi Dog stepped forward, tore off a corner of Little Pig's clothes, and tossed it in front of Wang Shengnan.
"What? Just because us Lei Zis' lives are cheap, you think you can use us as bait?"
Bone ground out his cigarette butt and stared at Lingzi with a hostile expression.
Su Wanfang looked troubled.
Lingzi was one of theirs. If they didn't protect him, who would dare follow the Third Branch once word got out?
Chun Prefecture was famously protective of its own. If they protected Lingzi today,
Little White Tiger and Old Ninth would most likely come demanding an explanation in person next time.
This wouldn't end without bloodshed.
"Was this your doing?" Wang Shengnan stared grimly at Lingzi on the ground.
He was already deathly pale with fright.
He had never dreamed that Little Pig was from Chun Prefecture.
Had he known, he wouldn't have dared lay a finger on him, even with ten times the courage.
"I told you, if you work for the Third Branch, you have to conduct yourself honorably."
"Using methods like this on ordinary people-have you no shame?"
Crack, crack, crack.
Ice visibly formed across the ground.
Wang Shengnan was furious.
She was proud by nature and would not allow her subordinates to use methods she herself disdained.
She could tolerate killing ordinary people.
She could tolerate killing Little Pig, too.
What she could not tolerate was tarnishing the Third Branch's reputation in such a way.
"I... I couldn't watch Xiaomai get mixed up with a bunch of little hoodlums. She... she's been led astray by these people."
Lingzi lowered his head, clenching his fists.
"Lingzi..." Xiaomai looked disgusted. "I've told you so many times, we're just friends. Don't cross that line."
"Fine, I read too