Chapter 2597 The Green Gang Divided into Three Factions

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America, San Francisco.

"So this is the legendary America?"

Strolling through this city, if you ignore all the white and black faces everywhere, Qin Fang would almost think he was still in Dragon Country… at least all those Chinese shop signs in his line of sight felt way too familiar.

"Young Master Qin, San Francisco counts as the biggest gathering place of people of Chinese descent in America… the Chinatown here is basically no different from back in Dragon Country."

Qin Fang had just arrived in America when Song Yi immediately came personally to receive him.

Don't look at how he's now one of the three Elders holding the most power in The Green Gang, with a pretty heavy say inside the gang; but in front of Qin Fang, he didn't dare act presumptuous in the slightest… even though the deadly poison in his body had already been purged.

"How are things over at The Green Gang?"

Qin Fang obviously wasn't here just to sightsee this time; he was quite concerned about the internal chaos in The Green Gang.

"Not great..."

Song Yi shook his head and said, "Right now the whole Green Gang is basically a pot of porridge, totally messed up. After the Gang Leader was killed, the power got completely split up, mainly into three chunks, each controlled by one of the three Elders… and that also represents three different factions."

"The three Elders..."

Qin Fang nodded and kept listening.

The current three Elders of The Green Gang are Song Yi, Peng Yue, and Deng Hu…

In that Underground Palace battle, The Green Gang's top combat strength was almost completely wiped out… the original Six Major Chinese Families are now thoroughly in decline; only Song Yi and the other two are barely holding on, while the other families have been suppressed so badly it's pathetic, some even almost got exterminated.

Peng Yue and Deng Hu are both late risers, and not that old either, just a bit over forty, about the same age as Song Yi and the others…

But before this, the two of them were totally unremarkable, whether in personal strength or family background. Yet when the Six Major Chinese Families nearly got wiped out, the two of them suddenly rose in a dominating fashion.

In terms of strength, both of them have already reached Great Grandmaster Level, and they also control quite a lot of forces under them. Song Yi and the other two gathered up the remnants of the three Families, then absorbed some forces from the other three, and only then could they barely contend with these two…

"Who's behind these two?"

If it were just internal strife, Qin Fang would at most give some verbal support; he wouldn't necessarily come in personally.

But since other external forces are mixed into this, and this whole internal chaos in The Green Gang is basically being steered by those outside forces, then Qin Fang can't just sit back and watch… most people at The Green Gang's main base may have American citizenship now, but they're still of Chinese descent, still children of the Dragon.

Seeing his own people being slaughtered like this, Qin Fang couldn't just feel nothing…

"Peng Yue used to be one of the Gang Leader's men. After the Gang Leader's sudden 'accident', he stepped out almost immediately to gather the Gang Leader's forces, and backing him is the American military… the Mafia also has a hand in this."

As one of the parties involved, Song Yi had clearly already investigated all this thoroughly, and now he was explaining it in detail.

Qin Fang had heard about The Green Gang's previous Gang Leader long ago.

Apparently, he wasn't satisfied with the Six Major Families controlling The Green Gang's power, so he planned to play a "drive the wolf to tackle the tiger" trick… sadly, the wolf wasn't driven off, but he himself got eaten by the Tiger first! If you say his sudden death had nothing to do with the powers behind him, Qin Fang absolutely wouldn't buy it.

Qin Fang even suspected that Peng Yue's rise might be related to the previous Gang Leader's sudden death… if some people don't listen, then naturally you replace them with someone obedient sitting in that position—at least that was Qin Fang's guess.

"This Deng Hu guy's background is really mysterious. He was unheard of before, but once the big chaos started, he immediately gathered a bunch of experts and quickly secured his footing… during that process, he almost wiped Peng Yue out!"

Compared with Peng Yue, Song Yi was clearly more wary of Deng Hu, and emphasized this person in particular.

"If the three of us brothers hadn't happened to come back just then, gathering up the remnants of the Six Major Families and stabilizing the internal situation in The Green Gang, that guy might have unified the entire gang already… I just feel Peng Yue isn't Deng Hu's match at all!"

"Deng Hu? Mysterious background..."

Qin Fang also frowned and muttered. He knew that what Song Yi said was itself a huge problem… The Green Gang might not be super strict when admitting regular disciples, but for someone trying to climb high, they would dig up all eighteen generations of his ancestors.

Yet someone like Deng Hu popped up, which in itself reeks of major fishiness.

"What force is behind him?"

Qin Fang fell silent for a moment, then asked.

"The Madman Tribe from South America..."

Song Yi answered immediately.

"Madman Tribe? That's impossible..."

Qin Fang's brows furrowed even tighter… this really shouldn't be happening.

The Madman Tribe is basically a bunch of barbarians, and on top of that they're an extremely racist and powerful force… They claim to be descendants of the Native Americans, Incans, and Mayans, with a long history and terrifying divine power!

In fact, these barbarians are indeed very strong; a lot of their individual combat power is above the Grandmaster Level…

Some talented experts have even reached the Great Grandmaster Level in strength…

As for experts at the Supreme Realm Level, they've got more than a handful of those too… This already makes them stronger than some of the bottom-ranked Sects among the Five Great Sects!

"I'd like to say it's impossible too…"

Song Yi also gave a wry smile and said, "But the truth is, when I fought Deng Hu, I saw at least more than ten experts from the Madman Tribe…"

The Madman Tribe is a bunch of egomaniacs, with a seriously nasty racial bias.

They'll work with white people, they'll work with black people, but they absolutely will not work with people of Chinese descent from the Yellow race… You could say that in the South America region, the ones who hate those of Chinese descent the most are precisely the people from the Madman Tribe.

"This is really freaky as hell…"

Such an extreme pack of racists, yet they just had to stick their noses into the internal chaos of the Chinese-descent gang they hate the most…

"Are they trying to fish for profit in troubled waters, or is there something else going on behind the scenes?"

Qin Fang couldn't help muttering this in his heart.

Even though he was the backing behind Song Yi, he still wasn't familiar with the internal situation right now; he was still standing outside the mountain, so how could he possibly know what was going on inside?

"If there's time, let me find a chance to meet these two…"

Without actually seeing these people, Qin Fang couldn't make any concrete plans, so he couldn't help asking.

"Young Master Qin, there's an internal Council of Elders meeting of The Green Gang tonight… Basically all the bigwigs with status in the gang will be there, and Deng Hu and Peng Yue will definitely attend too! This meeting is to elect the new Gang Leader…"

Song Yi's eyes lit up at once, and he quickly said.

"Tonight?"

Qin Fang frowned, seeming a bit hesitant. "Then let's do it tonight… but first, I need to make some arrangements!"

He had just arrived in America and hadn't even adjusted to the time difference yet, and he was already being dragged into this mess in such a hurry; that alone showed just how miserable Song Yi and the others' situation really was… As for the forces under their command, they could still manage the people from their own Three Families, but as for the other three families, that was another story.

No denying it, when Song Yi and the other two returned, using the overwhelming power of three Great Grandmaster Level Experts, they forcibly beat back Peng Yue and Deng Hu, who had intended to wipe them out… They literally dragged everyone back from the edge of death.

Logically speaking, these people should've been grateful to Song Yi and the others…

But it was the exact opposite; those Three Families had been up to one little trick after another lately, and there were even rumors floating around that the reason their Three Families' Great Grandmaster Level Experts all died was because of some devious scheme played by Song Yi and the others…

After taking power, naturally Song Yi and the other two gave extra care to their own Families, while they only gave the other three a bit of perfunctory coverage… For easier management, and to prevent the power from slipping away, Song Yi directly took back control over the Six Major Families.

The Three Families such as the Song Family were of course overjoyed, but the three Families such as the Chen Family didn't appreciate it at all, and even claimed Song Yi was just trying to grab power while the chaos lasted, intending to swallow up their Three Families as well…

With Peng Yue, Deng Hu, and the others eyeing them like tigers from outside, and the Three Families jumping up and down stirring trouble on the inside… if Song Yi and the others could still live comfortably, that would really be the weirdest thing in the world.

"Whatever preparations you need, just say the word…"

Seeing Qin Fang agree, Song Yi was naturally delighted and immediately asked with a beaming smile.

"It's actually very simple. Find me someone with a build similar to mine, someone trustworthy, and with decent strength… I've got a use for him!"

Qin Fang thought briefly, then immediately gave instructions.

"That's easy…"

Song Yi went silent for a moment, then said at once, "Our Song Family has a junior, just over twenty, with a build similar to yours… As for strength? He barely counts as having reached the Grandmaster Level, considered a genius disciple of our Song Family!"

Of course, that was just the Song Family putting gold on their own face.

This "just over twenty" might already be twenty-seven or twenty-eight, maybe even older.

His strength had only barely reached the Grandmaster Level, probably not much different from Song Qingshan and Ji Xiang… Compared to Monk Wukong, he was far behind. During that Barbaric Wilderness Mini Secret Realm trip, although Monk Wukong hadn't managed to grab a particularly good spot, his strength had still leaped from Master Level Peak at the initial stage straight into Master Level Late-Stage, and he wasn't far from the Master Level Peak anymore!

"Then we'll use him…"

But Qin Fang didn't care about any of that and immediately chose this young expert named Song Li… And Song Li's identity would be that of Song Yi's personal attendant and little lackey at tonight's The Green Gang assembly.

Qin Fang wanted him here, naturally intending to take his place…

First, Qin Fang didn't want to expose his own identity; second, this would let him swagger right into The Green Gang's conference room and see for himself the style of those two "traitors to the Dragon Country"…(To be continued. If you like this work, you're welcome to go to Qidian (qidian.com) to cast recommendation tickets and monthly tickets. Your support is my greatest motivation. Mobile users, please read at m.qidian.com.)