Chapter 47: There’s a Ghost!
Elder Wu’s face was ashen. In the end, he let out a heavy sigh and said, “I don’t know where the other members of the gang have gone. As for Gongsun Hong, I have no idea where he is now. It was he who injured me and locked up many of our most loyal comrades in the hold of the ship.”
Head Constable Wang asked, “Why would he do that?”
Elder Wu replied bitterly, “It’s all because of that woman, the one Mr. Gongsun brought back a year ago. Ever since her arrival, the gang leader’s personality changed drastically. It was as if he became a completely different person.
“That hypocrite Luo Beixiao then rose to power and became the second-in-command, a deputy gang leader. In order to expand their strength, they recruited all sorts of murderers, robbers, and even thieves with filthy hands.
“As for us old comrades who had been loyal all along? They ignored us. Worse, they started persecuting us. Just last night, I tried to speak some sense into the gang leader, but he struck me down. And not only that, he also had the senior members of the gang imprisoned. As for anything else, I truly don’t know.”
Head Constable Wang ordered his men to temporarily detain the remaining Five Lakes gang disciples.
Suddenly, there was a flicker of movement outside the window.
“Who’s there!?”
“Stop right there!”
The officers outside, hands on their weapons, shouted in anger.
But a swift figure rushed in like the wind, bursting straight into the room. It was a pair of young man and woman. The man looked to be in his thirties, tall and long-legged, with a deerskin pouch hanging at his waist.