Chapter 205 Assassination! (2/2)
”Sigh.”
Han Xiao shook his head. He had made contact with Alumera to know more about the original owner of his body, and he had already achieved that. Whether it was Alumera's attitude or their internal problems, none of that mattered to him because it had nothing to do with him, and his so-called hostility was just a form of showing his strong stand.
Alumera was already sucking it up and did not want to become his enemy, so Han Xiao would be stupid to kill their people in their headquarters. There was no benefit to creating another enemy for himself for no reason.
Once Alumera knows I'm 'Xiao Han', I wonder how they will react.
Han Xiao put the documents aside, lay on the bed, and closed his eyes. He planned to leave the next day.
…
At midnight in Darryl's mansion…
”It's all because of that asshole Xiao Jin that Alumera has been sucked into this. That asshole has been building on his power with no worries at all. He's obviously trying to seize power. However, the North Faction is my ally, and Se Qi's Red Island Faction has always been neutral. What does he have to be up against me?” Darryl clenched his teeth.
When Alumera was created, it had been peaceful internally, but when the size of the organization started to snowball, conflicts started to happen. As the master of the house, the Home Faction gained most benefits and were in the middle of the conflict. Although all the factions followed the orders on the surface, they all had the ambitions to take over and seize power.
Luckily, after all these long years of partnership, they were all connected to each other deeply, so none of them dared do anything too over the line. A murder was nearly impossible to happen. Even if there was one, it was planned in secret.
Xiao Jin posed the largest threat, and Darryl was the one who secretly planned the attack on Xiao Hai, which sadly failed. They had only managed to kill Han Xiao, who did not matter at all.
Who would have thought that after one year, the Han Xiao who nobody cared about would become a wanted person with an outrageous reward from the Germinal Organization and bring the family such a horrifying enemy?
Thinking back now, Darryl was filled with regret.
At this time, Darryl's son, Lagos, walked in and said, ”Father, Black Phantom has left Xiao Jin's mansion. The meeting lasted for one hour and thirty-seven minutes.”
”Xiao Jin is becoming more unbridled. Now he even dares meet Black Phantom privately without my consent.” Darryl was enraged.
”What do we do, just let Black Phantom leave?”
”Don't mess with him.”
”But he dared to be this arrogant in our territory.” Lagos was unconvinced.
”I said don't mess with him!” Darryl slammed the table in a rage and shouted, ”Get out!”
Lagos clenched his teeth and closed the door after he walked out. The moment he turned his head, his expression turned vicious.
…
As the sky started to brighten, loud noises woke Han Xiao up, who was in a light sleep.
He jumped out of the bed and looked outside through the window. Alumera members were yelling and rushing somewhere.
”What happened?” Han Xiao asked in confusion.
Footsteps closed in rapidly, and dozens of soldiers surrounded the room with guns.
”Black Phantom, don't move!” one of the captains shouted.
These soldiers' mission was to control him. They were all in a state of nervousness that could pull the trigger wrongly anytime. Han Xiao saw the people outside running in another direction.
Seems like something has happened, but it's not about me. Han Xiao squinted his eyes and watched things unfold.
Not long after, the captain seemed like he had received an order. He yelled, ”Come with us!”
Han Xiao wanted to know what had happened, too, so he followed the nervous soldiers. To his surprise, they went to Darryl's mansion.
It was already extremely crowded; the high-ranking officials from all the factions had come. They were looking furiously at Han Xiao, and the latter was rather confused.
Han Xiao only discovered what had happened after he walked into the mansion.
In the office, Darryl sat on the chair with his head facing up, a bloody blue hole on his left eye, penetrating through the back of his head. The blood on the wooden floor had already coagulated, and the metallic smell of blood filled the room. The dead body's hands hung from the shoulders, and the legs pushed against the table, holding him on his chair.
The leader of Alumera had been assassinated!
”Cause of death: gunshot. The bullet entered through the eye into the brain, penetrating and leaving through the back of his head. He would have died on the spot. From the size of the bullet hole, the killer used a high caliber handgun, and the leader did not show any sign of resistance. There are no clues at the scene that showed any signs of the killer ever being here.”
Han Xiao suddenly understood why the others were looking at him that way.
Darryl died in the night, and being the killer who came without invitation, he was the most suspicious. Also, the killer used a high caliber handgun, and the assassination-style was phantom-like.
There were too many coincidences.
He was being framed!
Han Xiao blinked. He took out a cigarette from the pocket, lighted it up, and inhaled deeply, blowing out a smoke ring in the face of the surrounding nervous soldiers.
”Now this is interesting.”