The Hurricane Mercenary Group scattered after their boss lost his fighting hand and became a cripple, with only over a dozen loyal followers yet to leave.
Upon hearing from his men that Black Water was aggressively recruiting more members, and even some from Hurricane had joined them, Hurricane Boss was furious. Black Water was currently based at the Headquarters of God's Army in M Continent, enjoying great success and prestige.
Hurricane Group Boss' eyes turned bloodshot from anger and hatred. He let out a low roar from his throat.
"Boss, the doctor said you can't get agitated."
"Boss, there's still hope for your hand. I heard there's a Doctor Seely in Country M who can revive dead flesh and white bones with a surgeon's knife. I believe he can definitely cure your hand."
Upon hearing this, Hurricane Group Boss calmed down and stared at his men, breathing heavily as he asked, "You're telling the truth?"
"It's true." Several men strode into the hospital room.
"Who are you people?" Hurricane Boss and his men were immediately on guard.
Hurricane Group Boss looked at the leader of the group. He had the face of a Southeast Asian, small and thin in stature compared to the mercenaries in M Continent, and not very tall either.
What was most distinctive was the horrifying scar across his left eye that split his face in half. There were also large patches of new scars on his neck that looked burned or injured by explosions.
"What your man said is true. Doctor Seely can heal your hand, it's not difficult. What's difficult is finding him." After entering the room, Yi Saisi said to Hurricane Group Boss who was on the hospital bed.
"You can find him?" Hurricane Group Boss looked at the other party.
Yi Saisi: "Of course I can."
Hurricane Group Boss: "Who are you? What's your purpose?"
"I'm here to partner with you."
"Partner with me, a cripple with a severed hand nerve?"
Yi Saisi gestured at the people in the room with his cigarette-holding hand: "You still have over a dozen loyal followers, I need them."
"Why should I trust you?"
"You have no other choice. Doctor Seely is no ordinary doctor, he doesn't just see patients for money. I have some connection with him, only I can find him and get him to treat you."
Hurricane Group Boss' instinct told him this person could not be trusted.
He really could not be trusted. Yi Saisi had never met this seemingly legendary doctor, he didn't even know if the other party was male or female, let alone had any connection or ability to find and bring the doctor to see patients - that was just wishful thinking.
Of course he also didn't know that the famous Doctor Seely who was long dead and buried in the ocean was in fact the Bloodshadow who blew up his base and crippled Hurricane Group Boss into his current state - who was none other than Black Water Group Boss.
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Black Water members were busy all day. As the youngest in the team, Sack naturally skived off work whenever he could. Everyone indulged him too, helping Bai Xiao select some new members who looked decent before he slipped away to wander around the Headquarters of God's Army.
As he wandered around, he somehow ended up at the villa where Qiao Ying was staying. Although Sack had accepted this new boss, his loyalty to Nameless ran too deep for him to face Qiao Ying for the time being.
After much hesitation, Sack was about to leave.
At this time, Qin Yan came out from the villa.
Hearing Qin Yan say something came up at the mining site, bored Sack wanted to tag along.
Qin Yan also had selfish motives. As soon as they got in the car, he started asking Sack about Qiao Ying: "You and your boss got to know each other a long time ago?"
Sack: "We met at a hotel a few days before the Gladiator Competition."
"Then why did she choose you guys? It doesn't seem like you just met, judging by her affection for Black Water. Do you know her real identity?" Qin Yan was dying of curiosity as Qin Hanyue refused to investigate.
Qin Yan bombarded Sack with questions, but Sack wasn't stupid. He didn't tell Qin Yan that their previous boss Nameless knew Qiao Ying.
Instead, he asked back: "I wanted to ask you - what's the relationship between your boss and my boss?"
Qin Yan: "Just... ordinary friends."
"Ordinary friends? Then why doesn't our boss live with us, but lives with you guys instead when we have room? And during those days at the Gladiator Competition, wasn't your boss with my boss? They're both Chinese too. Would your boss give us land for free, let us live here, and help us build our base, if he didn't have feelings for my boss?"
Looking at Sack rattling on, Qin Yan had an existential crisis: "Are you really just acquaintances with your boss?"
Sack: "What's up?"
Qin Yan: "You're so similar, your boss does this too - confronting me fair and square and turning my words around on me, every time."
Sack scoffed.
Qin Yan: "I gotta say, your Chinese is pretty good."
Sack: "Of course, I learned it specially for my boss."
Qin Yan: "Ms. Qiao?"
Sack: "Nameless."
The two arrived at the mining site and took a look around, nothing major had happened after all.
On the drive back however, an accident occurred.
Qiao Ying was sitting on the windowsill of her room, looking at the scenery while sipping from a bottle of red wine, passing time.
Suddenly she saw a group of people walking hurriedly in the distance.
She took another sip from the wine bottle, then left it on the windowsill.
Stepping out of the room and heading downstairs, she had just exited the front door and bumped into several more people rushing about.
"What's going on?" Qiao Ying stopped someone and asked.
The person looked at Qiao Ying, hesitating whether to say.
Qiao Ying asked again, her tone carrying some authority.
This person naturally also knew about Qiao Ying fighting thirty-five people alone at the Gladiator Competition. He was a little intimidated by her, plus Qiao Ying had an extraordinary relationship with their boss.
So at Qiao Ying's questioning, he blurted out reflexively: "Something happened to Assistant Qin on the drive back from the mining site."
After saying that he hurriedly left.
By the time she reached the monitoring room, Qiao Ying had followed him in.
He didn't dare say anything, even less dare to chase her out, so he could only pretend not to see her.
Upon entering, Qiao Ying saw that the monitoring room filled with advanced high-tech equipment had over a dozen technical staff sitting in front of computers or control panels.
Casually glancing around, the screens were filled densely with data.
"What exactly happened to the person?" Qiao Ying went up to the man from earlier and asked again.
This man's position in God's Army should be second only to Qin Yan. He had some authority in this monitoring room.
"From what we can see so far, he seems to have been kidnapped by unknown people. We're currently locating Assistant Qin's position." After a pause, the man still replied: "We at God's Army have tracking devices implanted under everyone's skin."
Qiao Ying's first reaction was: Talk about going all out.
She then asked: "What's the situation now?"
"The other party is using a signal jammer, making location difficult. Our best computer technician here was originally Assistant Qin, but Assistant Qin is..."
Qin Yan? Qiao Ying recalled their exchange of moves that night. Could it be that hacker Q on the hackerboards, before Qin Hanyue, was Qin Yan?
Judging by his skills at the time, it should be hacker Q on the leaderboard.
Didn't see that coming!
But shouldn't the best technician be Qin Hanyue?
"Where's your boss?" Qiao Ying asked.
Wouldn't it take Qin Hanyue just minutes to handle this? Judging from everyone's heavy expressions.
"Our boss went to the neighboring continent."
Only then did Qiao Ying recall Qin Hanyue had gone out, he had told her himself just this morning.
She was upstairs at the time, while Qin Hanyue was downstairs. He had made a special trip upstairs to inform her before leaving.
Back then she had smiled and nodded along the entire time, while feeling bewildered inside.
Just then someone said: "Kidnapper's phone call."
The man swiftly operated for a bit, then connected the call.
The kidnapper's voice came through the computer speakers: "If you want this guy alive, send Qin Hanyue alone to Montana in S Continent to meet me tonight! I want to see him by tonight!"
The other party was very cautious, using a voice changer.
But even with the voice changer, Qiao Ying could make out a tinge of Southeast Asian accent from the person's terrible English.
It was Yi Saisi.
The other party hung up after speaking.
Fortunately the technical staff managed to trace the call back to the kidnapper's phone. Although the other party was also using a signal jammer, they could detect a faint signal.
After some work they managed to lock onto the location of the other party's phone.
"The other party's signal is moving rapidly, location locked in Kansas. They are likely headed to S Continent as expected, unable to confirm if Assistant Qin is in their vehicle."
"Let me try." Qiao Ying spoke up at this point.
Only now did everyone notice Qiao Ying's presence in the monitoring room.
They glanced quickly before continuing with their tasks, paying her no further attention. Clearly no one took Qiao Ying's words seriously.
The man in front of the control panel, who looked rather authoritative, immediately frowned deeply: "Who let her in? Don't they know this is a restricted area?"
Qiao Ying also slightly frowned, looking at the man with displeasure.
If it wasn't for Yi Saisi blowing up that village and implicating Qin Yan, Qin Hanyue wouldn't have left either. She wouldn't have bothered otherwise.
Bai Xiao and Bademan rushed over in a panic at this time, and when they saw Qiao Ying, they said: "Sack is in trouble."
