Chapte 512
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Chapter 512: On the Road
At sunset, Wang Zhong, claiming stomachache from eating something bad, asked Liu Shu for a few days’ leave to see a doctor.
Liu Shu, who was waiting for this guy to expose himself, naturally had no reason to deny the request.
Upon receiving Liu Shu’s approval, Wang Zhong visibly relaxed.
Walking home, various thoughts raced through his mind.
“The differences in weapon numbers have been discovered. Even though they don’t suspect me yet, it’s only a matter of time before their investigation reaches me.”
At this thought, Wang Zhong’s heart suddenly fluttered with panic.
He couldn’t help but feel a pang of regret.
“Damn it! I knew I shouldn’t have agreed to this in the first place!”
But now, regret was useless.
Theft of military supplies meant only one path once discovered, and that is death!
With this in mind, Wang Zhong decisively began packing his bags at home.
He also had to take the stack of banknotes hidden under his bed.
This was, undoubtedly, the ill-gotten gains from his armament theft.
He couldn’t bear to stay in Mirror City for another moment.
While he wasn’t yet suspected, he had to quickly escape under the cover of night!
Changing into black clothes and slinging his bag over his shoulder, Wang Zhong stealthily left his home under the cloak of night.
And in the darkness, a figure silently followed.
Wang Zhong fled eastward for several days.
After spending money to change several carriages, he finally arrived at Iron Wall City.
He then quietly approached a door.
“Knock, knock, knock.”
A knocking sound echoed, and soon the tightly shut door opened a crack
A pair of eyes peered through the gap.
After seeing that the person standing outside was Wang Zhong, the man’s expression noticeably changed.
He then pulled Wang Zhong into the house.
“Damn it! What are you doing here?”
The man speaking inside the house didn’t seem very old, probably around 24 or 25.
However, compared to the ordinary-looking Wang Zhong, his appearance was even worse.
His already crooked features, coupled with a face pockmarked with acne scars, made his entire face look like the surface of the moon.
If anyone from Iron Wall City’s city guard unit were standing there now, they would immediately recognize him.
The man inside the room was Zhang Lin, a squad leader in the night watch unit.
Zhang Lin’s entire mood at Wang Zhong’s arrival was one of shock and fury, fearing their illicit dealings would be discovered.
Looking at the furious Zhang Lin, Wang Zhong instinctively recoiled.
Wang Zhong still harbored some fear towards Zhang Lin.
After all, compared to Zhang Lin, he was just a low-level employee in the Armament Department.
Zhang Lin, on the other hand, was a soldier, and a squad leader at that.
Seeing Wang Zhong’s timid demeanor, Zhang Lin’s heart suddenly sank, as if he realized something.
“Did something happen?”
When he spoke, Zhang Lin’s voice involuntarily dropped.
Wang Zhong, still timid, nodded in response.
Zhang Lin’s heart sank upon receiving the affirmative answer.
He quickly pressed on.
“Details? What exactly happened?!”
“The weapons… the differences in weapon numbers… it’s been discovered…”
Although he had been mentally prepared, Zhang Lin’s heart still twitched violently when he explicitly learned of the situation.
A pair of fierce eyes immediately fixed on Wang Zhong.
“How was it discovered? Did you make a mistake?!”
Startled by Zhang Lin’s gaze, Wang Zhong quickly shook his head frantically.
“No, no, not me! This was completely an accident!”
As he spoke, Wang Zhong quickly explained the entire sequence of events to Zhang Lin.
After listening, Zhang Lin’s face flickered between dark and light.
If it was truly as Wang Zhong described, then this matter could only be blamed on their bad luck!
With thoughts racing, Zhang Lin quickly said to Wang Zhong, who was standing nearby.
“You hide here with me for now, don’t run around. I’ll go call the others over, and we’ll discuss what to do next together.”
Wang Zhong naturally had no objections and quickly nodded.
After a serious set of instructions, Zhang Lin quickly left his room.
As soon as the door closed, a sinister look appeared on Zhang Lin’s face.
His unpleasant, triangular eyes coldly glanced at the door behind him, then he quickly departed.
When he returned, he was accompanied by five or six other people.
Wang Zhong, hiding in Zhang Lin’s room, watched the group enter.
He didn’t recognize everyone, but the two familiar faces among them eased his mind slightly.
After entering, Zhang Lin slowly walked towards the table behind Wang Zhong, then made a motion as if to pour water.
Wang Zhong paid no mind.
But unexpectedly, at that moment, Zhang Lin suddenly turned around, his face twisted in a ferocious sneer.
A hemp rope, hidden in his embrace, suddenly wrapped around Wang Zhong’s neck from behind!
The tightening force caused Wang Zhong to feel an intense sensation of suffocation.
He instinctively tried to cry for help.
But to his surprise, one of the people who had just been greeting him immediately shoved a pre-prepared piece of clothing into his mouth!
Another person nearby firmly restrained his flailing hands, rendering him essentially helpless.
His entire mouth was stuffed with cloth, his tongue pressed down and unable to move, preventing him from making any sound other than a few grunts!
Pairs of eyes watched him coldly.
His face, overly flushed with blood, was beginning to turn black and purple.
The increasingly strong sensation of suffocation caused his eyes to roll back.
This entire process was unexpectedly long and painful.
At this point, Wang Zhong’s mind had gone blank.
His physical strength was continuously draining away.
His consciousness gradually blurred, and even the world before his eyes turned dark.
He felt himself falling into a dark abyss, plummeting endlessly until he crashed into the deepest part of that darkness…
“He’s dead?”
One person in the room went to check his breath, then listened for a heartbeat, and finally nodded.
“He’s dead.”
Releasing his hands that had been tightly pulling the hemp rope, Zhang Lin coldly rubbed his somewhat sore hands.
“Put him in that sack. Tomorrow night is our guard shift, we’ll dispose of the body then.”
Hearing this, everyone in the room nodded.
One person, however, asked with some worry.
“Will this work? Will they trace it back to us?”
“What are you afraid of? I already asked beforehand, and Wang Zhong claimed leave. Mirror City hasn’t suspected him yet..Now that he’s dead and the trail is broken, with so many cities, large and small, in Myriad World Civilization, who would know that the weapons went missing in Iron Wall City?”
