Free Web NovelChapter 1136: Chapter 1106: The Returned Yi
"Oh, it’s them!" Dan Ning nodded cooperatively. "So you’re admitting that the person who killed one of them on the freighter was also you?"
The suggestive question was meant to force Xiao Lin to speak; Dan Ning’s calm demeanor seemed to harbor additional intent. Just as Yelü Shou looked at Xiao Lin and was about to speak, he was interrupted.
"That’s right!" Xiao Lin uttered two words from his tightly pursed lips. Temporarily abandoning his anger towards Yi, he placed one hand on the armrest, leaning his whole weight on his left hand, and slanted his gaze toward Dan Ning. "If I remember correctly, we had an agreement before, you can’t have forgotten, right?"
"I remember!" Dan Ning answered straightforwardly.
"What were your people looking for on the freighter? Or is there something untold between you and Shao Weihua?"
"Hehe!" Dan Ning chuckled lightly. "These six people are not mine, they belong to this gentleman here. Of course, they have an inseparable relationship with the Dan Clan, so one could also say they are mine. Secondly, what was Young Master Xiao doing on that ship?"
"The Eastern Three Provinces!" At this moment, Yi, who had been silent, spoke up. "I’ll answer all of Young Master Xiao’s questions, leave it to me if you trust me."
Dan Ning glanced at Yi, then stood up slowly, whether out of consideration or genuine trust, he departed without a word of complaint, leaving Xiao Lin’s sight, followed by the five people behind him. Instantly, the room was left with just the three of them.
This was when Xiao Lin truly tightened his entire back. He no longer needed to disguise his calmness, as genuine anger appeared on his face. Yelü Shou inadequately inserted himself between the two.
"Before you act, shouldn’t you listen to what I have to say first?" Yi stood up and walked to Yelü Shou’s side, gently pulling him to the side. Understanding his concerns, Yi was already prepared. "It’s fine!"
Yi walked in front of Xiao Lin and, without warning, knelt, sitting kneeling before him. "I think no matter how much I say, you won’t believe me; explaining..."
"Who are those five people exactly?"
"The Dan Clan in the northeast is a historically ancient ethnic group, with origins dating back centuries. The current Dan Clan is just a descendant lineage, and the five people you see are another lineage of the Dan Clan, different in system but of the same race as Dan Ning and Dan Qing. Thus, as you’ve seen, they aren’t in a subordinate relationship with Dan Ning."
Yi’s words confirmed Xiao Lin’s thoughts, he raised his head to look directly at Yi, his dark eyes filled with doubt and suspicion.
"I’ve always been very aware of what Lucifer and his group are doing, and in another city in Sicily, I found the Eastern Three Provinces. All this information came from Lucifer, including the last time I took people from the Eastern Three Provinces at the police station."
"So, it’s another arrangement by my old man!" Xiao Lin said self-mockingly. "What disappearance, missing, attacked, all to make you go unnoticed—I should have guessed it long ago."
Yi appeared as if hit over the head, wearing a dazed expression, quickly interfered by such emotions that couldn’t continue, his stark and distinctively black and white eyes stared angrily at Xiao Lin, filled with hostility. For once, they weren’t a relationship of hierarchy, nor master and servant, not even brothers who had been through a decade together.
From Xiao Lin, Yi fully felt the so-called hostility, not a real opposition, but a suspicion, sadness, and more anger all placed upon him, so he couldn’t explain, nor could he elucidate further.
A faint, hard-to-detect trace of sorrow flickered across Yi’s dry eyes as he pulled his lips into a smile. "I have always been someone who works for the old master, and amidst the current turmoil, I follow his wishes even more unhesitatingly to get things done. The Eastern Three Provinces are merely a branch within the Dan Clan, people existing to protect the Dan Clan, which makes them more prone to being targeted by Quan Xianglin. A significant reason the old master doesn’t move against Sicily is due to the transactions between the Eastern Three Provinces and the Italian Mafia here; he doesn’t wish to break the Mafia balance between Italy and America easily. Not all matters are resolved by force, surely the young master here is aware that many places or cities are driven by economic benefits brought by the profits of Mafia wealth. Therefore, the police here, without major incidents, wouldn’t bother the Mafia unnecessarily."
"Ha!" Xiao Lin scoffed coldly. "So, are you saying I made a mistake? Provoked the police here?"
This was irrational fussing, Yelü Shou silently added a note in his mind: Xiao Lin now was like a child who couldn’t differentiate right and wrong, only targeting Yi. Of course, he himself couldn’t understand Yi’s actions either. "Let’s end this for today, Lin is tired, and besides, he..."
"I don’t mean that!" Clearly, Yelü Shou’s intent to mediate was thwarted by these two similarly stubborn individuals. "The old master never expressed any dissatisfaction with your actions in Sicily; including the several chances you had to kill Level Seven, you spared them. However, this time, the enemy the old master faces is very powerful, with influence not much smaller than the Xiao Family, also, there’s a connection to the experiment from ten years ago."
"So ’Black Crow’ became Shao Weihua’s pawn, so they can kill innocents?"
"Only by this can the old master rightfully remove the Mafia from Sicily. If Nicholas were still in power, such reasoning would lose its significance."
"Is this nurturing a tiger to eventually eliminate it and hand it over entirely after it’s fattened?" Yi shook his head.
"I sent people to that ship to find that batch of arms, but we didn’t start the fire; the cargo was shipped out when the fire started. I just didn’t expect you to run into them; in fact, the chance of you encountering them was quite slim." Yi pondered for a moment before choosing an appropriate term to explain. "The six people are a group similar to ’Black Crow’ from the northeast, under the Dan Clan’s Assassin Group, which consists of twelve people in total. Another six are hidden around the Dan Clan Leader, whom you saved before, Dan Qing. The other six I brought out here after finding the Eastern Three Provinces, to assist him in ensuring the safety of ’Wagang Na.’"(To be continued. If you enjoy this work, feel free to visit Qidian (qidian.com) to cast recommendation votes and monthly votes; your support is my greatest motivation.)
