354 Wang Congyang (1/2)
”You already knew about it, didn't you?” Xu Jinyuan said with mixed feelings. In deciding to tell Ren Xiaosu about this matter, he suffered from sleeplessness the entire night.
In fact, he was still worried that Ren Xiaosu would kill him on the spot when he found out the truth.
Although he had said to his brothers ”I believe that he won't,” he wasn't actually sure.
But he realized at this moment that Ren Xiaosu and Yang Xiaojin had already known about the secret he was hiding.
Yang Xiaojin stood next to Ren Xiaosu and looked at Xu Jinyuan while saying, ”You guys deliberately scratched away the logos on your motorcycles, didn't you? That wasn't exactly clever, was it?”
”But that's not enough to suggest anything,” said Xu Jinyuan, pursing his lips.
”Ever since y'all arrived, there haven't been any bandits coming here from the north.” Ren Xiaosu chuckled and said, ”Someone in the north must've already unified all the bandits at Mt. Daban, Mt. Tangwang, and Mt. Guan, right?”
Xu Jinyuan said stubbornly, ”Just because of that?”
Ren Xiaosu chuckled and said, ”We were bluffing.”
Xu Jinyuan was dumbfounded. They were bluffing?
”Actually, we've been watching you for some time.” Ren Xiaosu smiled and said, ”But it's only now that we've fully confirmed your identity.”
”Then how are you gonna punish me?” Xu Jinyuan said in a low voice.
The punishments dished out to bandit traitors had always been very cruel. They wouldn't show any mercy.
Xu Jinyuan knew that if it were any other bandit leader, this would probably mean the end for him. But deep down, he felt that Ren Xiaosu was different!
Ren Xiaosu suddenly put out a hand to him and said, ”Welcome to the team.”
Xu Jinyuan heaved a sigh of relief. The young man in front of him was indeed different from the other bandit leaders. He said briefly, ”We originally agreed to meet tonight to come up with an attack plan for tomorrow night. But one of the eleven guys I brought here ran away, so my previous gang will definitely know that I've leaked their plans.”
”So there's a possibility that they might attack in advance.” Ren Xiaosu said, ”How many bandits does the gang to the north have? How many of them will be joining the attack?”
”They originally had 1,200 people, but it should have increased recently.” Xu Jinyuan said, ”But not all of them will come here because they still have to fight with two other gangs in the north. If they all come here together, the other bandit gangs will definitely take advantage of the situation. According to the plan that we had, 600 bandits will be showing up here.”
In response, even Ren Xiaosu, who was already mentally prepared, gasped. The bandits in the valley had even fucking joined forces? How did they end up with so many people?!
Although not all of them would turn up for the attack, 600 bandits could still theoretically crush their refugee settlement.
Of course, that was only in theory.
Curious, Ren Xiaosu asked, ”Which organization is the leader of the northern bandits from?”
Xu Jinyuan was taken aback for a moment. ”I think he used to be from the Qing Consortium, but he has nothing to do with them now. Someone said that he escaped from Stronghold 113 and knows Xu Xianchu of Stronghold 178 as well. However, I've never seen him contact Xu Xianchu before, so maybe he only met him a couple times? Eh, don't you know Master Xu too? Maybe you know him as well?”
Ren Xiaosu was stunned. Their leader escaped from Stronghold 113 and even knew Xu Xianchu? Could this be someone he knew? ”What's his name?”
”Wang Congyang!”
”Damn…” Ren Xiaosu was surprised. He was not the only one who knew this man. Yang Xiaojin knew him as well.
Yang Xiaojin thought back and said, ”Was he that man who was supposed to go with us on the expedition to the Jing Mountains?”