Chapter 37: Let Him Escape

The people of Qilin Hall were indeed losing their patience. However, to his surprise, the Qilin Chief had actually dispatched Fierce Tiger.

"This is Qilin Hall’s top assassin. Isn’t he afraid that Fierce Tiger will die by my hands?" Ye Xuan wondered. "Or is the Qilin Chief so overconfident that he thinks a mere assassin like Fierce Tiger is enough to get rid of me?"

"Send someone to keep an eye on him first and see what his next move is. Do you have any other leads?" Ye Xuan asked.

He didn’t plan on striking Fierce Tiger first. Group Four had its own rules. One of them strictly forbade harming their own brothers. Therefore, unless he could catch concrete evidence of Fierce Tiger making a move against them, Ye Xuan couldn’t do anything to him.

"The investigation you assigned us regarding the mole in the Yang family has yielded some results recently. The previous few incidents all seem to be connected to Yang Jie," Yu Ling reported from the side.

In reality, Yu Ling’s findings were virtually useless to him. Ye Xuan had known about Yang Jie’s traitorous nature since his very first day at the Yang family.

"I’ve known about this for a long time. Did you find anything else?"

As Ye Xuan spoke, his eyes remained fixed on Yu Ling. The intense gaze made the subordinate’s heart pound nervously. SWISH! Yu Ling immediately dropped to one knee.

"This subordinate is incompetent. That is all I have found for now."

While scrutinizing Yu Ling, Ye Xuan also observed the other three out of the corner of his eye. He had originally hoped to root out the mole by catching subtle shifts in their facial expressions and movements. Unfortunately, Yu Ling and the others performed far too flawlessly; Ye Xuan couldn’t spot a single flaw.

They were using the very skills he had taught them against him. Ye Xuan didn’t know whether to feel proud or sorrowful.

The others proceeded to report a few other matters to Ye Xuan. Soon, an hour had passed.

"Strange, why isn’t Yang Bingyu here yet?" Ye Xuan wondered, glancing at his watch with a slight frown.

The drive from Yunju Mountain Villa to here should take twenty minutes at most. Logically speaking, Yang Bingyu should have arrived a long time ago. Did something happen on the way?

With a trace of unease in his heart, Ye Xuan dialed Yang Bingyu’s number. It rang for a long time, but no one answered. A strong sense of foreboding rose within him. He immediately called White Snake, but again, there was no answer.

Unable to sit still any longer, Ye Xuan turned to Zhu Hui with a cold expression. "Track Yang Bingyu and White Snake’s locations immediately. I need to know where they are right now."

Seeing the change in Ye Xuan’s demeanor, Zhu Hui didn’t dare to delay. He opened his laptop and immediately began tracking their phones.

"Cyan Dragon Chief, neither of their phones can be located. Even the tracker implanted inside White Snake’s body has lost its signal."

Zhu Hui’s words thoroughly confirmed Ye Xuan’s worst fears. Something had happened to Yang Bingyu and White Snake!

"Find Fierce Tiger’s location for me! The faster, the better!"

The fact that Group Four members had trackers implanted in their bodies was a secret known only to internal personnel. Therefore, Ye Xuan was absolutely certain that this incident was connected to Fierce Tiger. He had initially planned to let Fierce Tiger off the hook for now, but he never expected the guy to actively seek out his own death.

"Found him!"

Zhu Hui quickly pinpointed Fierce Tiger’s coordinates. Ye Xuan ordered Zhu Hui and the others to conduct a full-scale search for any trace of Yang Bingyu and White Snake while he drove out to find Fierce Tiger himself.

At that moment, Fierce Tiger was partying it up in a bar. Suddenly sensing a burst of killing intent from behind, he agilely leaned forward, tossed his wine glass aside, and spun around to clash with his attacker.

"Cyan Dragon Chief, launching a sneak attack from behind isn’t very nice, is it?" Fierce Tiger asked fearlessly, flashing a bloodthirsty smile at Ye Xuan.

"Hand them over!" Ye Xuan squeezed the words through gritted teeth, his eyes locked dead on Fierce Tiger.

He had thought that leaving White Snake alone to protect Yang Bingyu would be enough, yet disaster had still struck. In all of Jianghai City, there were very few people who could defeat White Snake in a fight. Fierce Tiger was one of them.

"Them? Who are you talking about? I don’t understand what you mean, Cyan Dragon Chief," Fierce Tiger said, still smiling as he dodged another one of Ye Xuan’s heavy punches.

Enraged by that fake and mocking smile, Ye Xuan didn’t waste any more breath. His strikes grew increasingly rapid and ruthless. Fierce Tiger, who had been smiling just moments before, gradually lost his smirk as his eyes turned serious.

In less than a moment, the two had already exchanged nearly a hundred blows.

The longer they fought, the more alarmed Fierce Tiger became. He hadn’t expected that after five years, Ye Xuan’s strength would have increased rather than diminished. This was certainly not good news for them.

"Holy shit, are they filming an action movie or something? Who the hell are these two? They actually dare to fight on Boss Wang’s turf."

"You still have the mood to watch the show? Let’s get out of here!"

"Exactly. It’s a clash of titans, why are you joining the commotion? Hurry up and leave."

Had this been anywhere else, such a fierce brawl would have undoubtedly drawn a massive crowd of onlookers. However, this was Wang Jinbiao’s territory. The original patrons of the bar couldn’t flee fast enough; none of them had the stomach to stick around and watch Ye Xuan’s fight.

The bustling bar was quickly emptied, leaving only Ye Xuan and Fierce Tiger. As time ticked on, Fierce Tiger gradually began to lose ground.

"Fuck! My bar! Damn it, do you two have a death wish? How dare you cause trouble on my turf! Get them! Catch those two little bastards!"

By the time Wang Jinbiao arrived, not a single piece of furniture in the bar remained intact. The floor was covered in shattered debris. His heart bled at the sight, and he roared at the group of bodyguards behind him.

Soon, with a loud RUMBLE, forty to fifty men flooded into the bar, shouting as they charged toward Ye Xuan and Fierce Tiger.

The bar instantly devolved into total chaos, which gave Fierce Tiger the perfect opportunity to escape. By the time Ye Xuan finished dealing with Wang Jinbiao’s dozens of bodyguards, Fierce Tiger had vanished without a trace.

"Wang Jinbiao! You’re courting death!"

Furious, Ye Xuan lifted his leg and kicked Wang Jinbiao squarely in the stomach. This good-for-nothing bungler! If his men hadn’t barged in and interfered, he would have captured Fierce Tiger by now!

"Spare my life, sir! I know I was wrong, please let me go!"

After taking the kick, Wang Jinbiao didn’t dare to utter a single word of complaint. He could only kneel on the ground and beg Ye Xuan for mercy. What a joke! This man had just single-handedly taken down his forty or fifty bodyguards. If he didn’t beg for his life, was he supposed to just wait for death?

"I don’t have time to deal with you today, but you just wait!"

With Yang Bingyu and White Snake’s whereabouts still unknown, Ye Xuan truly had no patience to waste on such a nobody. After dropping the threat, he hurried away.

Soon, the Yang family also learned of the incident. Elder Yang mobilized all his personnel to conduct a grid search across Jianghai City, but unfortunately, it yielded no results.

Zhu Hui pulled up the surveillance footage from the perimeter of Yunju Mountain Villa. The video showed that Yang Bingyu had driven out five minutes after calling Ye Xuan. However, all the camera footage outside the villa’s surveillance range had been completely destroyed, leaving not a single clue behind.