Chapter 2014: Yan Di

With just one sentence, Yaen Chi basically fried Dark Snake’s CPU.

He grew wary inside; a flicker of killing intent flashed in his lowered eyes, but when he looked up again, all emotion was gone.

“What do you mean, the one behind me?”

“Don’t beat around the bush with me. I got orders a long time ago—hands off your Killing Alliance. If the higher-ups are giving you special treatment, either your Killing Alliance has gotten powerful enough to be worth fearing, or you’ve pledged yourselves to someone—an outlaw outfit trying to wash clean. Am I wrong?”

Dark Snake’s mouth twitched. How the hell did he know all this!

“Doesn’t matter if you don’t answer. I’m curious as hell, so I dug into your Killing Alliance’s Five Great Elders. Other than that Little Princess I couldn’t trace, your leader Lang Hao deliberately handed over real info—but he’s hiding plenty, isn’t he? Your Killing Alliance has piled up way too much blood debt, made too many enemies. If you want to wash clean, you can’t just surrender directly, you need a middleman to carry that weight.”

Yaen Chi grunted; talking so much tugged at the wound on his back, a sharp flare of pain.

Dark Snake asked, “Want me to help you turn over?”

“No need.”

Yaen Chi rejected him outright; he wasn’t about to talk to the guy all curled up like a quail.

“There aren’t many people, domestic or foreign, who can vouch for your Killing Alliance. Counting on my fingers, there’s only one or two. The Western-South region—desert zone, including G City, plus that border town where the pretty boy used to stay, and that little country with half-baked laws, still basically a lawless land—all of it’s under that man’s jurisdiction.”

Dark Snake’s brows and eyes sharpened, his cold, stiff gaze locking straight onto Yaen Chi.

Yaen Chi wasn’t afraid in the slightest. Lying there annoyed, body uncomfortable, he clicked his tongue impatiently. “That guy’s status is high. What do you lot call him again?”

“Oh, the Uncrowned King.”

“Suppresses the Western-South Triangle District, commands absolute military force, holds leverage that keeps all factions in check, ruled the Western-South region for five years—”

“Yan Di?”

“From what I know, the pretty boy’s old man and the entire Lan Family Clan used to be small fry under Yan Di. Yan Di loosened his grip and gave them a lift. But that pack of ingrates started scheming, using core medical tech provided by Yan Di, then lured away several top pharmaceutical experts, dropped underground to research illegal drugs. After Yan Di started hunting them down, they quickly latched onto some foreign high-level officials—that’s the only reason they managed to slip away from Yan Di’s repeated pursuit. If I haven’t guessed wrong, Yan Di’s here. This time he’s come over to completely clean up the Lan Family. Am I right?”

Dark Snake clenched his teeth in secret, suddenly feeling a sour ache, cold air seeping out of him.

“You’re just gonna bare all the cards you’ve got like this, totally unrestrained, not afraid you won’t make it back alive, end up dying right here?”

“No.”

Yaen Chi lifted a brow and smiled. “Your master won’t kill me. On the contrary, he’ll personally see me safely sent back.”

Dark Snake let out a short, mocking laugh. “That confident?”

Yaen Chi: “I’ve roamed the jianghu for years. I’ve earned at least this much swagger.”

Dark Snake: ???

Who asked you that?

Who’s that swagger supposed to impress?

Do all young people now like to reply completely off-topic after reading the message?

Yaen Chi had a kind heart; he couldn’t bear to drag things out with a mere Warrior, so he very considerately added an explanation: “If he dares take on washing your Killing Alliance clean, then he and I are on the same side. Why would I be afraid of my own people? You build the bridge—I want a meeting with Yan Di.”

Dark Snake’s mouth twitched. So he didn’t want to see him at all? All that crap he’d been spouting while lying there was purely to mess with him?

“If you didn’t want to see me, why didn’t you just tell the doctor last night?”