Translator: Exodus Tales Editor: Exodus Tales

Chapter 1641: Muddle Through

After finishing everything, Yang Ming retrieved the phone he had secretly placed on the boat when he sneaked on earlier. He pressed a button to stop the recording.

The camera was facing the man wearing glasses. Every word said by the man wearing glasses was fully recorded in the video. Yang Ming wanted to send it to Pu Daniu to give him an explanation.

Although Yang Ming didn’t have to explain anything to Pu Daniu, he liked Pu Daniu. He decided to let Pu Daniu owe him one.

Otherwise, when Pu Daniu realized that the man wearing glasses had vanished, he might think that Yang Ming was the one who killed him. When the time comes, he would trouble Uncle Sun San for no reason.

Although Yang Ming was not afraid of what Pu Daniu would do to him no Uncle Sun San, he wasn’t willing to take the blame, especially when it was such an evil person. Yang Ming drafted a message and sent the video to Pu Daniu’s mailbox. He believed that Pu Daniu would understand everything after watching the video.

After he finished everything, Yang Ming jumped into the water again. He swam quickly in the direction of Meitena Town’s dock. The small smuggling boat that was the mere size of a fisherman boat was left alone in the middle of the vast sea…

On Meitena Town’s dock, a white man in his forties was sitting inside his luxurious RV. Hee could see the scene on the dock through the Rv window. However, the man did not look at the dock, because it was already filled with his underlings which were disguised as sailors. If someone came ashore, he would not be able to escape these people’s sight.

This person was the deputy leader of the Blackhawk Gang, Vesdruff. He was also Nicholas Shevich’s uncle.

“Mr. Vesdruff, it’s already very late. You should rest first. It’ll be fine with just us watching,” An underling said respectfully to Vesdruff.

Vesdruff shook his hand, “This person is a little weird. Glasses has already given me the news beforehand that this person is not from the Song Jiang police force. But he doesn’t seem like an ordinary person judging from his means. If he’s not with the police force, then he should be from the underworld.”

” Oh? Mr. Vesdruff, is this guy really that powerful?” The underling asked carefully.

“Powerful? Hmph, he’s not just powerful. The whole Goldenhawk Gang was annihilated by him, and no core character made it out alive. Our business at Bianhai City was destroyed by him in just half a day. How powerful do you think this person is?” Vesdruff sneered, “I have an intuition that if this person isn’t with the police, then he is definitely associated with the underworld! Of course, the latter’s probability is higher. Otherwise, he wouldn’t be so cruel.”

“The Goldenhawk Gang was annihilated by that Li Muyi?” The underling was shocked. Although this incident had yet to widely spread across the Blackhawk Gang, the underlings working under the core directors had gotten wind of it. However, this was the first time that they heard Li Muyi was the one who perpetrated it.

“Who else would it be if it wasn’t him?” Vesdruff said, “However, I’m curious as to why he would want to involve himself in this matter. The one against us is the Song Jiang police. How is it related to this Li brat? If it weren’t because he leaked his intention of saving those two hostages to glasses, we wouldn’t know how we managed to offend such a person!”

“Mr. Vesdruff, could it be that the Song Jiang police is trying to cover up the truth? Since they can’t use their normal methods and identity to do anything, they decided to send this Li Muyi person out. After all, it’s not good for the police to do this kind of stuff,” The underlings started analyzing it.

“The things you said are quite possible.” Vesdruff said, “Every country has its own agents that carry out special missions. Their methods are also very gruesome and fierce. This is also one of the reasons why I prioritized him.”

” Oh? What do you mean?” The underling did not understand what Vesdruff was talking about.

“Don’t you know the other identity of my brother-in-law? He is the senator of Meitena Town and the honorary director of the police department. If this Li brat is really an agent from China, then we will be able to make some contributions if we catch him alive and let my brother-in-law hand him over to the intelligence department. It will significantly contribute to our future development,” Vesdruff said. “Brother-in-law’s political position is also very high. Naturally, our gang’s power in Meitena Town will become bigger.”

“So that is the case. Mr. Vesdruff, you are really thoughtful!” The underling nodded in admiration.

“Jivanov, buy a cup of coffee for me from the nearest convenience store. I’m already old. I can’t handle staying up so late at night,” Vesdruff sighed and said.

“Alright, Mr. Vesdruff. I’ll go now!” The underling was the Jivanov that Vesdruff had mentioned. He immediately responded and got out of the RV. He walked quickly toward the coffee shop on the dock.

Vesdruff closed his eyes and began to rest.

Yang Ming slowly floated to the sea’s surface. He slowly let out a breath. Then, he swam to the dock quickly without hiding himself.

The few sailors that were moving their products around exchanged an understanding glance when they saw this scene. After that, they continued doing their job without saying anything.

Very quickly, Yang Ming swam to the shore and quickly climbed up.

Whoosh, the sailors placed down the goods on their hands that they were supposed to move and quickly surrounded Yang Ming. Among them, a guy that seemed like a leader said coldly to Yang Ming, “Don’t move. Who are you, the one standing there? Raise your head!”

Yang Ming raised his head without hesitation. He looked at the leader and gave out a cold sneer.

” Ah? Jivanov?” The leader was momentarily shocked when he saw Yang Ming’s face clearly, “Mr. Jivanov, what are you doing here?”

Jivanov was Vesdruff’s confidant. How could anyone in the dock not know him? Because of this, their attitudes changed drastically despite being shocked that Jivanov was the one who came out of the water. They became very respectful and did not dare to cause any problems.

“Mr. Vesdruff …” Yang Ming bluntly let out a sentence with no clear meaning. It wasn’t that Yang Ming did not want to say it clearly, but he could only learn this level of Russian after half a day of learning.

This “Jivanov” was Yang Ming in disguise. After observing the shore for a long time, he found Vesdruff’s RV and saw Vesdruff talking to Jivanov. After that, he made his decision.

Although Yang Ming did not know the contents of their conversation, it was very apparent that Jivanov was Vesdruff’s confidant. Thus, Yang Ming decided to use his figure to go ashore. These underlings would definitely not question him too much. If they really started asking at that time, he could just say “Mr. Vesdruff” without explaining anything.

As expected, Yang Ming’s unclear explanation caused the few underlings to be shocked. After recovering from it, while they did not understand what he meant, they did not dare to ask any further. At this time, Yang Ming was already advancing rapidly toward Vesdruff’s luxurious RV.

The few underlings on the dock shook their heads bitterly. As for the leader sailor, he could only shrug helplessly. Although Jivanov was very obsequious toward Verdruff, he always strutted in borrowed plumes in front of these underlings. These people also knew that Vesdruff held Jivanov in high regard. How would they dare to offend him?

“Leader Lukely, what did Mr. Jivanov mean just now?” An underling carefully asked the leader sailor after the “Jivanov” who was Yang Ming in disguise had left.

“Who knows? But who dares to question it? You know how Jivanov’s temper is. He always throws his weight around just because he is the deputy leader’s confidant. Usually, he’s so arrogant that he won’t even care about us!” The leader who was called Lukely was filled with resentment when the name Jivanov was mentioned. However, he was helpless, “However, he must have helped Mr. Vesdruff to do something. It’s inappropriate for us to ask. We better try to avoid offending this kind of despicable person.”

“Yes!” Only someone with the position of a leader like Lukely would dare to criticize Jivanov. Although the other underlings also hated Jivanov a lot, they still had to respectfully call him “Mr. Jivanov”.

“Alright, continue your work. Let’s do what we’re supposed to do. As for other stuff, they don’t have any relation with us at all,” Leader Lukely told his underlings.

The underlings continued their pretense as sailors and started to become busy at the dock. They kept moving the same stuff over and over again. They were too tired of doing it to just keep up an act.

The target they wanted to find had just slipped past right in front of them, and they still had to continue their labor. Who knew how pissed off they would be if they found out?

Chapter 1642: Real Identity

Yang Ming’s face reverted to his “Li Muyi” appearance as he turned around and walked toward the RV. He had just come out of the water, so he was using a hat to cover his head. His head was also lowered. Therefore, no one noticed Yang Ming’s transformation.

When Yang Ming reached the front of the RV, he held his hand out and opened the car door.

“Jivanov, why are you back so soon?” When Vesdruff heard the car door being opened, he did not open his eyes, but plainly opened his mouth and responded.

Here, Vesdruff didn’t take any precautions at all. After all, the area near the dock was practically ruled over by the Blackhawk Gang. Those that could go near his RV were only his few confidants.

He felt that the one that came up into the RV should be Jivanov who went to buy him coffee earlier. Although Vesdruff felt that Jivanov’s speed was a little too quick, he didn’t give further thought about the manner.

“Mr. Vesdruff, right? Let’s get to know each other. My surname is Li,” said Yang Ming calmly to the Caucasian in front of him after quickly leaping up into the RV and closing the car door.

Yang Ming used Chinese to converse with him as he believed that Vesdruff could understand it. This was because the man wearing glasses was talking on the phone using Chinese previously. Since their core business was in China, they should be proficient in the Chinese language.

Because of this, Yang Ming didn’t even bother to use English, and just spoke Chinese directly.

Vesdruff was shocked when he heard the person in front of him speaking Chinese and introducing himself with the surname “Li”. He immediately opened his eyes and looked at Yang Ming in disbelief.

However, Vesdruff was still the deputy leader of a gang. Although he had a shocked expression for a second, he immediately recovered his calm and started to assess Yang Ming.

“Li Muyi? Is that you?” Vesdruff squinted his eyes and said peacefully. It was as if he was looking at an old friend. He had no hint of anxiety at all.

“Li Muyi? I guess so,” Yang Ming smiled smugly and answered without disapproval. “Mr. Vesdruff, isn’t it uncomfortable to pretend to be calm?”

“Pretend to be calm?” Vesdruff sneered coldly, ” Hmph, don’t think that you can do anything even though you sneaked into my RV. You think you can escape from here?”

“Escape? Why would I want to escape?” Yang Ming shrugged his shoulders, “I have no intention of escaping.”

“What do you mean?” Vesdruff finally showed a hesitant facial expression. He looked at Yang Ming with suspicion.

“I already know about your identity from that spy wearing glasses. You are the deputy leader of the Blackhawk Gang,” Yang Ming said slowly. “Very good. Waiting here on your own initiative saved me the trouble of looking for you.”

Yang Ming had altered his plans when he knew that the man wearing glasses had leaked the information of him to Vesdruff. Initially, Yang Ming wanted to sneak into Meitena Town to find out the location of Victor Rajiv, the leader of the Blackhawk gang. He wanted to capture him and use him as an exchange for Chen Mengyan and Chen Mengxi.

Initially, Yang Ming was still frustrated as he did not know where Victor Rajiv was. This time, Vesdruff had presented himself in front of him. Although he was just a deputy leader, he was still a very useful captive.

As this was the case, the man wearing glasses had done a good thing. The only problem was trying to avoid the Blackhawk Gang’s underlings. However, that problem would only challenge other people. It was no problem at all for Yang Ming.

Yang Ming had disguised himself as Vesdruff’s confidant, Jivanov, and managed to sneak through. He then managed to get into Vesdruff’s RV directly.

“You want to use me as a bargaining chip to exchange for those two people?” Vesdruff raised his brows and immediately guessed Yang Ming’s intentions.

“It seems like you are quite smart,” Yang Ming said plainly. “Of course, this is just one of the best strategies I have in mind. If you did not appear here, then I would come to search for you or Victor Rajiv by myself and use both of you as a hostage to exchange for those two people.”

“Best strategy? It seems like you still have some mediocre and worst possible strategies?” Verdruff asked.

” Hehe, you want to delay time to wait for Jivanov to return?” Yang Ming smiled and immediately revealed Vesdruff’s intention.

It was apparent that Vesdruff was not dumb. In front of Yang Ming, he did not simply do anything nor take any unwise actions. He was afraid that Yang Ming had something under his sleeves that would be triggered if he were to strike back.

So, Vesdruff thought of Jivanov. As long as Jivanov returns and finds Yang Ming in the RV, he would surely make some noise. Even if he was killed, it would still attract the attention of others.

This was what he had in mind. However, he never thought that Yang Ming would expose it so quickly.

“Hmph!” Vesdruff snorted coldly. Although he felt a little awkward because his plans were exposed by Yang Ming, he still looked unwavered. “If you think that I’m trying to delay time, then you can continue your next move. I’m thinking about how you’re going to take me away when encircled by such a crowd, or how you’re going to use me as a bargaining chip to exchange for the hostages.”

” Hehe, it doesn’t matter. Since you want to wait for Jivakov, then of course you can,” Yang Ming shrugged his shoulders and said indifferently. “Since you want to hear my mediocre and worst possible strategies, then let me tell you about them.”

“If you want to explain, then go ahead.” Seeing how calm Yang Ming was, Vesdruff started to lack confidence. Why is he like this? Is he really not afraid?

” Hehe, if I really could not find either you or Victor Rajiv, then I would directly locate where the two of them are locked up. This is the mediocre plan,” Yang Ming said.

“The place where they are locked up? How can it be so easy to locate?” Vesdruff sneered and said. “Then what’s the worst possible plan?”

“The worst possible plan is very simple. I’ll kill all members of the Blackhawk Gang I see. I’ll kill one whenever I see one. Unless you all stay in Meitena Town and never come out, I will kill whoever I see. I shall annihilate your gang member’s bases whenever I manage to find one, until you all start to give in. Of course, you can not give in as well. I don’t mind directly destroying the whole Blackhawk gang,” Yang Ming said lightly.

” Hmph! Such arrogant words!” Vesdruff’s face was filled with contempt and doubt after hearing Yang Ming’s words. “You’ll kill one when you see one? Who do you think you are? Do you think our Blackhawk Gang members are weaklings? And you still want to annihilate our base? Are you crazy?”

“Why not try and see whether I’m arrogant or not?” Yang Ming did not refute. He did not care about whether Vesdruff would believe him or not.

“Don’t think that you are invincible just because you destroyed those few trash from the Goldenhawk Gang.” Vesdruff’s words took a sharp turn, “If I guessed correctly, you must be an agent sent from there, right?”

“Agent?” This time, Yang Ming was dumbfounded. Suddenly, he showed a funny expression, “You thought that I’m an agent?”

“What’s wrong? You don’t want to admit it?” Vesdruff initially wanted to trick Yang Ming into revealing it. However, he became unsure when he saw Yang Ming’s innocent and shocked facial expression. He started to doubt his assumption.

“I’m sorry, but I’m not.” Yang Ming shook his head and said, “As for my identity, it’s actually no secret. To be honest with you, I’m an assassin.”

“Assassin? What? You are an assassin?”