Ace of the Dragon Division - Chapter 387
Chapter 387: Senior Brother, Long Time No See
After Ye Rong hung up, he gestured to Xu Cheng. “Hurry up and pour another cup.”
After Xu Cheng poured another cup, Ye Rong drank it all and appeared to be enjoying it very much.
“Another one.”
Xu Cheng directly put away the drink and stood up to leave.
Ye Rong became anxious. “Where are you going? Didn’t I solve the issue for you already?’
“The issue is solved, but I have to go and see my wife now. If I continue staying here and listening to you boast, my ears will probably bleed,” Xu Cheng smiled and shamelessly said.
Ye Rong snorted, “So many people have asked to interview me and hear me narrate the war back then, and you little brat don’t want to hear it and think I’m bragging? Let me tell you, after I die, if you take my story to a publisher, you will immediately make a fortune. You can see your wife every day, hurry and come back and drink with me. I have all the good drinks and dishes, and good stories too, and you don’t appreciate it? If it was anyone else, they would’ve run over and taken a seat right away.”
Xu Cheng kept on walking towards the gate; Ye Rong’s good drinks, good dishes, and good stories were indeed not attractive at all for him.
Ye Xiu stopped Xu Cheng. “You can use my car, here’s the key.”
He tossed it over, and Xu Cheng caught the key of his Land Rover and left.
“That brat!” Ye Rong mumbled. “No wonder even facing a monstrous existence like the Ryong Family, he could kill whoever he wants.”
“Grandpa, who killed the Ryong Family?” On the side, Ye Xiu wasn’t sure if he heard right.
“Nothing.” The old man gestured. “Pour me another cup.”
Ye Xiu poured another cup for his grandpa, and he was also very curious about his grandpa’s attitude towards Xu Cheng. “Grandpa, even if it was people of the main branch of the Ye Family, you didn’t give him this good of an attitude. I can see, you treat Big Brother Cheng differently.”
The old man took a sip of the drink and nodded. “Indeed, I won’t even give the patriarch of the main branch family good face, but this brat is different. For people of his generation, you kids in Yanjing really can’t match up to him at all. This brat will achieve a very high level of success in the future, you won’t be getting the short end of the stick if you just run behind his azz and follow him around.”
Ye Xiu was shocked, the grandpa that had always been prideful and had high hopes for him, who was the only child over three generations, wanted him to follow Xu Cheng around? This was the first time he heard his grandpa say something like that.
When Xu Cheng got into the car and was about to go and find Lin Chuxue, Bei Shan’s call reached his phone.
His first words were said anxiously, “Something happened!”
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– Suburb of Yanjing –
– On the way to the Major Psychiatric Hospital of Yanjing –
While Xu Cheng was making his way over there, Bei Shan and the medical staff were already waiting by the road not far away from the base. The roads behind them were all blocked off by the police since at the scene, a researcher of the Dragon Division was killed right by the road!
When Xu Cheng arrived, Bei Shan went up to him and said, “He’s here.”
Xu Cheng narrowed his eyes. He crossed the barrier tape with Bei Shan and went over to the victim, lifting the cover on his body.
On the side, a medical staff member said on the side, “His five organs were attacked at almost the same time, and he was killed instantly.”
Bei Shan: “Only masters can kill with one strike like this.”
Xu Cheng: “How are you sure it’s him?”
Bei Shan pulled down the victim’s shirt and revealed a Joker’s symbol on the chest of the victim. Xu Cheng said to Bei Shan: “Have you sealed this news yet? This is an internal crisis of the Dragon Division, it’s best if the news isn’t spread.”
Bei Shan: “All done. At most, the police will know it’s a murder case, but they don’t know the nature of this case.”
Xu Cheng got into the car and lit a cigarette, and Bei Shan sat on the passenger seat. Xu Cheng suddenly asked, “He probably noticed that the mental institute is a front for the Dragon Division’s base, right?’
Bei Shan: “Probably. But I don’t get it, why doesn’t he just make his way in?”
“He’s testing the waters.” Xu Cheng flicked the ash off the cigarette butt and said, “It’s evident that he’s quite afraid of the old man. Before making sure that the old man is really dead, this Little Joker wouldn’t rush into the base camp. Looks like what the old man was able to accomplish in this lifetime is even daunting to Little Joker. It’s like the saying, even though the tree is dead, the shadow remains!”
Bei Shan hesitated for a moment. He looked over at Xu Cheng and said, “What do we do now?”
Xu Cheng bitterly laughed. “How should I know? I don’t know how strong the old man is at his prime, but if it’s like you said, that the Little Joker has reached the old man’s level at his prime, then I’m not confident that I can beat him.”
Even on the verge of death by natural causes, Zhang Chenfeng was able to take down the two old men of the Li and Murong Family with him. It could only be imagined how strong he was at his prime. At least right now, if Xu Cheng were to face both the leaders of the Li and Murong Family at once, he wasn’t 100% confident that he could win. So, Xu Cheng really didn’t have the confidence.
After Xu Cheng and Bei Shan returned to the Dragon Division’s base, they noticed that the 30 or so remaining Dragon Blades all came back, and the substitute team members also all got into formation, waiting to see who would be enlisted into the actual ranks of the Dragon Blades.
The atmosphere of the entire underground base was very tense, no one knew when that traitor would come back, or whether he would assassinate them one by one. So, Xu Cheng called everyone back to the base and no one was allowed to leave for the next few days.
If they could survive this big battle, Xu Cheng felt like the Dragon Division could be revealed on the world stage. After all, there was no reason to hide anymore if the Little Joker already found their base and revealed them to the M Nation’s 5th Division.
But luckily, the member list of the Dragon Division had always been kept a secret, or Little Joker wouldn’t be this cautious and only probed rather than directly making an entrance.
Many of the substitute team members were enlisted into the 54 Dragon Blades. Xu Cheng was still worried as he smoked at the back mountain area of the campus, and behind him, Luo Yi and Li Wei came over. They looked especially excited with the certificate they got around their necks. To them, this was probably the happiest moment of their lives.
Luo Yi looked at the scenery and said, “Although the enlistment seems to be temporary for now, I’m still really happy that I can really fight for the country and the Dragon Division this time.”
Li Wei coughed and he showed off the 4 of Clover card around his neck. He put his arm around Xu Cheng’s neck, laughed, and said, “Big Brother Cheng, back in the barracks, you are the senior brother, but here at the Dragon Division, you might have to call me Senior Brother now, hahaha!”
Xu Cheng didn’t know whether he should laugh or cry. “Do you guys know what kind of enemies we are going to be up against this time?”
Luo Yi said nonchalantly, “I’ve always been curious as to the kind of opponents the Dragon Division faces, but I’m not scared, it’s not like we hadn’t executed tough missions in the past before.”
Li Wei: “Yeah. We finally entered the 54-card ranking, no matter who comes this time, I’m going to show him the power of the Dragon Division!”
Seeing how confident those two were, Xu Cheng bitterly smiled. He didn’t want to hurt their confidence, maybe the new members would only grow after they’ve been through some things. Maybe then, they would realize how brutal this kind of war between nations actually was.
– At the Martyrs Graves –
An elder in his 80s wearing a Tang suit stood in front of Zhang Chenfeng’s tombstone. Looking at the words engraved on the tombstone and the black-and-white photo, the elder revealed a smile.
“Senior Brother, long time no see!”
