230 Mastermind 2 in 1 (2/2)

At the time, Han Chu was in the living room, watching a movie, waiting for the result. Anthony poked his head out from his bedroom. He had probably seen Ye Shuang on the camera or heard her voice.

”Hi!” Ye Shuang waved her hand in greeting and used her other hand to drag her captive into the room. ”This is my catch today. It's not that suitable storing a male at my place, and I'm afraid he might run away. Mind watching over him for one night?”

Brother Cheng was one of the people that had been sent into the hospital by Ye Shuang earlier that afternoon. The bikers had been so quiet that night because they had lost too much during the day. When Ye Shuang arrived at the countryside, at least half of the bikers were at the hospital. Some of them were injured, and others were there to visit. The group filled up the room with their negative energy, but none of the other patients that shared the same room dared to say anything.

Therefore, when Ye Shuang arrived to drag them away, the other patients were so touched that they had tears in their eyes. The only thing they did not do was clap to welcome Ye Shuang.

Brother Cheng and his people almost peed from the shock. In terms of familiarity with Ye Shuang's power, no one was more familiar than these people. When they were attacked at the hospital, they should have considered themselves lucky because aid was just beside them. Furthermore, it was them who had started the whole thing. Therefore, Ye Shuang punished them with the idea that 'as long as they still had a breath in them, it would fine'. After seeing how Ye Shuang punched the steel door until a hole was left on it, Brother Cheng's people had almost surrendered on the spot.

However, that was not all. When their little friends brought the female terror back to the hospital at midnight, Brother Cheng realized with despair that there was no earthling who would be able to stop Ye Shuang. After they were dragged away, this group of people was already injured both physically and mentally, so they cooperated fully. The beds that they vacated were perfect for the other people in the same gang, including the leader.

Han Chu put down the remote and stood up. He walked over to study the obedient young man who had bandages all over his arms and legs. He could not help but sigh. ”He's responsible for the assault on Zhixing?”

”Tomorrow, Brother Yao will come to identify them all, so there is no way he's going to slip away.” Ye Shuang patted the young man next to her with a kind smile. Like an old friend, she made the introduction. ”Brother Han, look closer, don't you think he's familiar? He's one of the people that came to the hospital this afternoon.”

Brother Cheng forced a smile that was uglier than crying. He tried his best to hold on to his pride by not collapsing to the ground.

”He does look familiar.” Han Chu managed to find something familiar on that bruised face. Then, he turned to ask Ye Shuang with a nod, ”Was it them who dropped the bracelet?”

Anthony looked at the situation and bounced out of his room excitedly. He took a circle around Brother Cheng and then gave Ye Shuang a thumbs up. ”So cool!”

Ye Shuang dragged the man to the living room and dropped him on the sofa. She sat down and picked through Han Chu's snack bowl. She picked out several chocolates and chewed on them. ”It was Xu Jian's uncle who got the bracelet. The b*stard child is just a smokescreen. It was the uncle that was behind the whole thing. On one hand, he found the people to help him vent some anger, and on the other hand, he told the b*stard child that he would be able to find people to teach Brother Yao a lesson on his behalf. Then the fat lamb gave him the money, and this group of dumb bikers did the hard work. The good ol' uncle hid at the back and dropped the bracelet to muddy the waters.”

Han Chu saw 'Brother Cheng' sit down next to Ye Shuang. He cleared out a clean spot on the table and silently moved the snack bowl to the other side of the table. When Ye Shuang was trying to move Brother Cheng away to get it, a laptop dropped right in the middle of the table.

”Brother Han, as serious as you may look, it's not going to hide the fact that you're harboring the snacks,” Ye Shuang accused sincerely.

Han Chu opened the laptop slowly like he did not hear anything. He typed on the keyboard to pull up the document. ”I've already completed the profile on Xu Jian. His uncle, calculating from bottom up, should be a second layer management person, while Xu Jian can be considered the first layer administrative people. Xu He, forty-four, has a record of getting into fights and larceny. He disappeared for a period of time, and when he surfaced again, he was already a brand agent for an alcohol company. Then he registered for a few more companies, but honestly, they don't look like investments because Xu He was the CEO for most of these companies. However, they look even less like they were for business. A businessman would not spread his resources so thin like a pile of sand. It was more like he was cultivating a hide-out than a business.”

”So minding holes but not business?” Ye Shuang added in the tone of a joke. She turned to look at Brother Cheng and nodded satisfactorily to see Anthony very cleverly help the man put on a pair of headphones. Even at Han Chu's distance, he could hear the rock music drifting out from the headphone. It was guaranteed that the man was not going to overhear them.

”Indeed, they look like your typical fake company.” Han Chu nodded. ”But different from other shell companies, these companies have their own accounts and business. Even though the amount was not big, from the numbers and records, they look like they were operating normally. Then, starting from the first alcohol business, in these past eight years, the Xi Hwa Organization started to drag these companies into its fold. Xu He became the manager in San Lin City, and two years later, Xu Jian joined the Xi Hwa Organization. That was followed by what happened at the An family.”

”There is no direct competition between the Xi Hwa Organization and Brother Yao, right?” Ye Shuang scratched her chin to think. ”Then this is the worst scenario. Tony has already been targeted by these people.”

”I heard my name!” Anthony was interested. The large puppy drapped his upper body over Ye Shuang. ”What is happening? You guys didn't tell me anything.”

Thinking about the whole process and things that needed to be explained, Ye Shuang quickly played dead. Therefore, it was Han Chu who took out the responsibility to explain the situation. He slowly explained what had happened to Yao Zhixing that afternoon, the bracelet that he had found, and the analytical result that he made with Ye Shuang on the way home. After revealing everything without reservation, they took a whole thirty minutes to make Anthony completely understand what was happening.

”In other words… someone has already targeted me and used other people's problems to make a smokescreen to lure me into helping with this case and use this opportunity to chase me away?” Anthony blinked his blue eyes.

Ye Shuang was finally willing to move her eyes away from the tv screen. She nodded. ”That's right. It was to create an investigation that you have to get involved in somehow. The final purpose is probably to chase you out of the country. Tony, have you been using some surveillance or hacking method recently that have been found out? I feel like if they don't understand what you're doing, they would not have come up with a plan like this.”

”Hmm…” Anthony dragged out his voice with an innocent face. When he realized that neither of the people there was going to let him off the hook, he had to admit with a drawn face, ”I did do something bad.”

Ye Shuang revealed a face that said, I knew it.

Anthony continued, ”I've deleted all of their encrypted documents and then replaced them with something else.”

”…Go on.” Han Chu interrogated Anthony, not letting him go.

”Well, they're guys, right? What kind of things will they like?” Anthony tossed Han Chu a 'well you know' type of look, and his eyes were filled with the joy from a successful prank. ”I flooded their server with one terabyte of good films. Those are such valuable finds; they should be thanking me. I've checked, and at least six people have downloaded those videos from that computer.”

Han Chu held his forehead and raised his eyes as he hissed through gritted teeth. ”Tony, I know you like to play, but there is no reason for us to provoke the enemy to make things more difficult for us. You're basically reminding the opponent—'Hey, you've already been exposed. Come get me!' I thought only five years old kids will do something like this!”

Ye Shuang turned on the flashlight on her phone in place of a candle in solemn remembrance for the two. One was for Han Chu, who befriended a person like this, and the other was for Anthony, who was not going to survive this. He wished to let things blow over after angering Han Chu? In his dreams.

Anthony curled his head into Ye Shuang's embrace and pretended to cry with heartbreak. ”But I was so bored. These people think they're God, so I just wanted to take them down a peg.”

Ye Shuang put down her phone and moved the large dog away from her. She turned around to ask Han Chu, ”Now that we know who the culprit is, what do you plan to do?”

”Nothing.” Han Chu turned his head away from Anthony. ”We're already fighting the Xi Hwa Organization. Even without this incident, nothing would have changed. Knowing the truth means knowing who they're targeting, but that doesn't really change anything.”

Even though they knew Xu He was the real culprit, the man only said a few words and dropped a bracelet. Other than the biker gang that did the deed and the b*stard son that paid them off, Xu He could be said to be completely uninvolved. Yao Zhixing was unluckier, being used as a chess piece to create problems.

”We need to inform Brother Yao. At least he deserves to know the truth.” Ye Shuang sighed. ”But I still think we can bring this man…”

Her chin pointed at Brother Cheng and continued, ”Bring him to go meet that b*stard son. Since he is the one who started everything, we mustn't let Xu He get too free.”

”Go after the Xi Hwa Organization's reputation and name?” Han Chu thought about it. ”Yes, that's doable. Having more enemies against the Xi Hwa Organization is beneficial to us.”

…

Brother Cheng was bombarded by the rock music for an hour. When he was finally given his release, he was dropped inside the main bedroom's bathroom and locked up for a night. When they woke up the next morning, everyone looked refreshed except for Brother Cheng.

When he was shoved inside the car again, Brother Cheng kept yawning, and his whole body ached. He almost pleaded with Ye Shuang to just end him, but that was just a wish. More punishment awaited him. Ye Shuang dragged the man to Yao Zhixing.

After hearing everything that had happened, Yao Zhixing looked at Brother Cheng for half a minute with his plastered hand on his chest. He stared until the man was shivering, and then he snapped his finger. ”Someone, get in here.”

A bodyguard in black jumped out from the adjacent room.

Yao Zhixing nodded at Brother Cheng. ”Help me undress the man.”

Brother Cheng was gripped by fear.