Chapter 59: The War in the New House (Part 2)

  Bai Xin's anger intensified, his voice somewhat shrill: "Jin Cang, we will catch you, and then I'll see what you can do?"

  I'm still smiling: "Our reinforcements will arrive soon, if you don't withdraw now, I'm afraid you'll be caught and thrown into prison."

  Bai Xin was taken aback for a moment, then suddenly burst out laughing and said loudly: "Jin Cang, you're really something! No wonder you were able to catch my son and daughter. I won't waste any more words with you now. Just tell me where Bai Feng is, and I'll leave you alone from now on. How about it?"

  I furrowed my brow: "What are you talking about? Didn't Bai Feng leave long ago? Why are you still asking me?"

  Bai Xin listened to my words and suddenly fell silent. After a while, she slowly raised her head and looked at me, saying: "Is what you said true?"

  I nodded slightly, no longer speaking, and instead turned my head to glance at Li Huanhuan not far away. Li Huanhuan was still monitoring the direction behind me, preventing anyone from the Wàn Lóng Huì from sneaking up on us. However, it seemed that the people from the Wàn Lóng Huì had not been able to climb over the wall and enter the courtyard, everything was still under our control.

  "But then, for Hui'er's sake, tell me where White Tiger is, okay?"

  I saw that she seemed worried, and I wanted to tell her seriously that I couldn't say, but when the words reached my lips, I changed my mind and calmly said to her: "It's not that I won't tell you, it's just that I really don't know where he is now."

  "Bai Xin gritted his teeth and said: 'The government has locked up my child and won't even let me know where he is now... Humph, I have no choice but to take special measures to force the government to give me an explanation...'"

  "I quickly said: 'Don't go further down the wrong path. Everyone has seen what Wàn Lóng Huì (Ten Dragons Association) has done over the years. It's absolutely not a just organization, and its actions are not for the good of the people. You've followed Wàn Lóng Huì for so many years, haven't you discovered its evil yet? Moreover, if you provoke the government, what will happen to your son and daughter, have you thought about it?"

  Bai Xin became somewhat agitated again, and said fiercely: "It's all their fault, otherwise I wouldn't have given up my comfortable life to become a small financial god in the Wanlong Association. Do you think being a 'financial god' is someone impressive? Let me tell you, no, it's not at all. The financial gods of the Wanlong Association are just people who provide money for the association, with no status to speak of."

  I saw that she was very excited, so I paused for a moment and waited until she calmed down a bit before saying: "In that case, you can completely leave the Wanlong Society now and be yourself again!"

  Bai Xin shook his head: "I provided too much money and help to the Wanlong Society in the past, and my crimes are too serious. The government will not forgive me. Besides, if the government had been fair to me, I wouldn't have joined the Wanlong Society. Now you want me to turn around and follow the government again? I...I just can't do it."

  I was curious and couldn't help but ask: "Then can you tell me how the government has wronged you?"

  Her eyes seemed to be spitting fire as she shouted, "They arrested my father and forced me, who was still in college, to marry a married man... namely Zhou Hui's father. I could have gone abroad for further study after graduation and started a stable life of my own, but because of this incident, I ended up like this. Can you say that I can forgive the government? I tell you, I will never be able to forgive the government."

  My heart skipped a beat as I hastily asked: "Then why was your father arrested?"

  "What's going on? They say my father betrayed state secrets! Ha... My father is just a small government employee, how could he possibly come into contact with state secrets? Not to mention betraying state secrets, these are all the crimes they've framed my father for..."

  I was skeptical and asked again: "If your father is just a government employee, how could he possibly have the money to send you abroad for further study?"

  Bai Xin sneered, "I had expected you to suspect this. It seems that you are just like most people, thinking that my father really betrayed national secrets. To tell you the truth, my father didn't have enough money to send me abroad for further studies; his monthly salary wasn't even enough to cover our family of three's living expenses. The cost of my studying abroad was all given by my mother; she is the boss of a company, and this amount of money isn't a big deal for her."

  I finally understood and nodded: "I understand. What happened to your father in the end? Was he sentenced?"

  Bai Xin's eyes turned red, and tears welled up in her eyes: "My father was... shot to death... Less than a year after my father died, my mother also passed away due to excessive grief, she was always melancholy and eventually fell ill... It was the government that destroyed my family, in order to survive, I had no choice but to marry Zhou Hui's father..."

  I sighed secretly and spoke cautiously: "Aunt, I didn't know you had such a bitter experience. I'm sorry for my offense earlier, please don't mind it. However, I am also one of the people harmed by the Wanlong Society. You captured me as a hostage and almost got killed in your base. Why haven't you let me go until now?"

  Bai Xin was taken aback, and then said: "Don't spout nonsense, we have accurate intelligence that you took away something very important to our Wàn Lóng Huì, which is why the leader of our organization ordered your pursuit and killing."

  I frowned and said, "I'm really being wronged. When did I ever take any of your important things? How can you casually frame me like this? And what exactly is this important thing you're talking about?"

  Bai Xin stared at me for a while, then said: "It seems that you are really being framed... I can tell, you're not lying! However, I believe you're also useless. Before the boss went to jail, he had already ordered us to find a secret file of our Wàn Lóng Huì from your body. Everyone in Wàn Lóng Huì has received the order and will not give up until they catch you and get the secret file."

  I think I'm more unjust than Dou E, and can't help but say loudly: "Then tell me, what kind of document is so important that it's made me unable to settle down anywhere, and has had you people chasing and killing me for several months now..."

  Bai Xin hesitated for a moment, then slowly said: "It's... a document about the Gene Warriors. The order I received stated that the document was hidden in a disk, and after our sea base was attacked by the government, it went missing. The boss suspects you took it because at the time, only you and Li Huanhuan escaped from the sea base..."

  I finally understood the reason why I was being hunted, and at the same time as feeling secretly bitter, I also felt extremely indignant: "What makes you say that only Huanhuan sister and I escaped? At that time, the situation was chaotic, maybe someone else took advantage of the chaos to take away the disk with confidential files and escape. Besides, wasn't there a government agent mixed among you at that time? Why didn't you suspect that they were the ones who took the disk?"

  Bai Xin was taken aback, and then nodded involuntarily: "You're right, we shouldn't have doubted a person's character... The government's spies who were sent over are the most likely to take away the disk!"

  I laughed: "Exactly! Besides, such a confidential document, the people who know it exists must be very few, why don't you consider first which ones know the file exists? Huanhuan sister and I are just insignificant people, how could we possibly know such confidential things?"

  Bai Xin nodded again, and said in a low voice: "If it wasn't you, then it's very likely to be..." She stopped suddenly, looked at me, and changed the subject, saying: "I will report what you said to my superiors, and for now, I will let you and Li Huanhuan off. But I still have to tell you that because you and Li Huanhuan leaked our list to the government, causing us huge losses, we won't just let you two off like this..."

  I let out a quiet breath and nodded, saying: "You can come find us for revenge if you want. You are our enemies, there's no such thing as peaceful coexistence. As long as you're not using something I stole from you as an excuse, that's fine."

  Bai Xin didn't say anything else and turned to leave. I don't know if she took the people from Wanlong Association away with her, so I was still being very careful watching the gate of the courtyard. Taking this opportunity, I also quickly called Li Huanhuan over to my side and quietly discussed with Li Huanhuan for a while, telling him everything I knew.

  Li Huanhuan's face turned very bad after hearing my words, as if she had thought of something terrible. I didn't pay much attention to it either, after all, facing several times more enemies than us, my face was also very bad.

  Although the white core left the yard, they didn't really leave here, and we couldn't be sure. So we were still tense and anxious, just hoping that the police or the 1008 team would arrive soon to help us drive away the Wanlonghui people.

  Time slipped away quietly, and in the blink of an eye, almost half an hour had passed. Li Huanhuan and I were still carefully monitoring our respective areas, but we hadn't seen Bai Xin and the others reappear; they seemed to have really left.

  The courtyard was left with only the corpse of the person I hit, and the bloodstains left by the few people shot by me and Li Huanhuan.

  When the White Core left, they didn't even take away their own people's corpses, which made me feel uncomfortable in my heart. After all, we were comrades-in-arms, and after death, no one even collected the bodies. From this, it can be seen that there are still many drawbacks to the Wanlong Association.

  Li Huanhuan watched the situation behind the small building while taking out her phone to call me: "Should we go down and take a look? Maybe nothing's going on."

  I thought about it and decided to wait until the police or 1008 team arrived before going down: "Let's wait a bit longer, the police will determine whether it is safe or not, we are not in a hurry to go down."

  Li Huanhuan didn't say anything else, but quietly moved closer to me and looked at me saying: "Did Baichen mention what that confidential file was about earlier?"

  I whispered: "She said it was about gene warriors, how, you know? Tell me, what are they?"

  Li Huanhuan fell silent for a moment, then said in a low voice: "I know some things. When I was with Lao Da and the others before, they mentioned it to me. The Gene Warriors are a secret plan of the Wan Long Society, which has received support from many foreign forces. As far as I know, several days before the sea base was attacked, the Wan Long Society had already developed gene medicine that can enhance human physique. This is not something fictional in movies, but really exists, and I have seen it with my own eyes. However, I also heard them say that during the experiment, some people's bodies had side effects."

  "What side effects?"

  Li Huan looked at me with a somewhat embarrassed expression: "It's just...my body has undergone some changes, and I've become...not quite human..."

  I was taken aback and looked at Li Huanhuan, saying: "What does it look like?"

  Li Huanhuan thought for a moment: "It's just like... it's just like a monster, the photos I saw had someone with all their hair falling out and then growing sharp quills all over their body, just like those on a porcupine. And another person, their arms shriveled up, in just a few short days, their arms were only as long as a 4 or 5 year old child's, completely losing the ability to live. These two people didn't last long and died, becoming failed products."

  I spat and felt sick: "Isn't that the same as suicide? The genetic medicine developed by Wanlong will also be useless, right?"

  Li Huanhuan shook his head, his expression somewhat heavy: "You're wrong. Among the people who accepted the experiment, there were two who didn't have any side effects at all, and their physical quality underwent a heaven-and-earth-reversing change. One person could lift 400-500 kilograms with one arm alone, and could easily snap steel bars as thick as fingers. The other person's running speed was almost on par with a speeding car. When they tested him, it proved that he could maintain a speed of 70 kilometers per hour for a short period of time. That's twice the speed of the world champion in the 100-meter dash, think about it, what kind of speed is that!"

  I opened my eyes wide and couldn't help but say, "That's simply a monster... where are those two people now? Will the Wanlong Society send them to kill us?"

  Li Huan smiled: "Don't worry, they are now the treasures of the Wanlong Society. They won't be allowed to do anything that involves killing people. If I'm guessing correctly, they must have been taken away by the Wanlong Society for experimentation. The Wanlong Society has always wanted to create an army composed of such people, so it's unlikely they would send them out on missions easily."

  I was shocked again: "An army like this? That... wouldn't that make them invincible under heaven?"

  Li Huanhuan shook his head: "It's not that we're invincible, you know. The technological prowess our country currently possesses can't be defeated by just a few people with special abilities. What I'm worried about is that these people will be used for assassinations, stealing intelligence and other such things. If that happens, our country will become even more unstable, and the ordinary people will suffer even more."

  I think so too, a country's power can't be defeated by just a few people. Even if these few people have special abilities, it's still impossible to achieve this.

  Li Huanhuan looked at me, seemingly having forgotten the fear that Bai Xin had brought to us earlier, and said very seriously: "Jin Cang, no matter what, you absolutely cannot try injecting the gene medicine. Will you promise me?"

  I nodded without thinking and said: "I promise you... tell me, will our country have such gene medicine too?"

  Li Huanhuan frowned and said, "How would I know? But if I had to guess, even if the country did have it, they wouldn't easily inject it into humans. The success rate is too low, it's a life-or-death situation, the country shouldn't do that."

  I also think so: "It's true that a country won't use human lives for experiments, they just do some experiments on mice or other animals."

  Just then, I heard the ear-piercing sound of police sirens. The police finally broke through the blockade and arrived here. I quickly got up to greet the police and let them in, and then went down from the rooftop with Li Huanhuan to assist the police in collecting information.

  The police officer in charge was a middle-aged man who first asked about our safety, and after learning that we were all unharmed, he had us go to the side to make a record.

  The Wanlonghui gangster I shot to death was also taken away by the police. They said they needed to check the situation around and inside the house, so they were busy in our house until more than 5 o'clock in the afternoon.

  During this time, I and Li Huanhuan were unable to leave and accompanied the police throughout, assisting them in searching for evidence. At the same time, as the host, we also provided convenience to the police.

  Because I have a gun license, so I took full responsibility for the shooting incident. Li Huanhuan was consistent with me and said that when she was attacked by the Wanlong Society, she was hiding on the rooftop.

  Sun Heng's phone call dispelled the last bit of doubt from the police, so after Sun Heng vouched for me, they became very polite and quickly left our house.

  Li Huanhuan saw the police leave, so she fetched water to start cleaning up the bloodstains in the yard. These bloodstains looked very eye-catching and frightening, so it's better to clean them up before Dongfang Yu returns.

  I helped Li Huanhuan busy for a while, and just cleaned up the bloodstains, I heard the sound of Dongfang Yu and Zhou Hui coming back together.

  Dongfang Yu and Zhou Hui saw us cleaning the yard, and Zhou Hui asked first: "What's going on? Why are you washing the floor?"

  I glanced at Li Huanhuan, and Li Huanhuan smiled and said: "Just now I accidentally knocked over a bottle of ketchup, it's all over the place, so I'll clean it up, in case you see it and feel sick."

  Zhou Hui looked at me with a puzzled expression but wisely chose not to ask further.

  Dongfang Yu said with a smile: "It's rare for my brother to do household chores, so why don't I ask him to help me sweep my room too?"

  I secretly groaned in dismay, but could only respond with: "No problem, I'll be cleaning my own room soon anyway, so you can just sweep it for me then."

  Zhou Hui also smiled: "It's a pity that my room is not here, otherwise, I won't have to clean it myself in the future..."

  "I hastily said: 'That's not going to work, one's own room should be cleaned by oneself... uh, I'll just help Yuer clean it once today and won't do it again in the future.'"

  Zhou Hui and Dongfang Yu laughed together, causing Li Huanhuan to also start laughing uncontrollably. I walked into the house with a bitter face, preparing to start doing hard labor...