In the magnificent hall, well-dressed people were laughing and talking happily. People of all skin colors and nationalities gathered here. The only thing they had in common was that their identities were all very prominent and noble.
There were nobles awarded by the Queen of England, billionaires on the Forbes list, entertainment and sports stars who appeared on magazine covers every week, and top figures in various industries. They were holding a grand party to celebrate the 18th birthday of Sir James' only daughter.
Eighteen years old is the age when girls from the upper class enter the social world. For girls from wealthy families, this is one of the most important days in their lives. Now, Sir James' only daughter, eighteen-year-old Lina, was wearing a white floor-length dress, which made her look very noble. Zheng Yubai stood in the corner and looked at her, feeling a little ashamed. He knew what was going to happen today, which was a little too cruel for a little girl who had just come of age.
But seeing the rich and powerful around him living a life of luxury, Zheng Yubai felt relieved again. He kept telling himself that everything he did was just. Although he knew that this statement did not stand up to scrutiny, he had no choice but to do this in order to avoid the suffering of others.
James is one of the thirteen elders of the Presbyterian Church. He dotes on his daughter when he is old. As colleagues, the other twelve elders will naturally come to support him. All the guests present are from the Yandao Hall. At this critical moment, they must stay close to the big tree to enjoy the shade.
James was seen chatting and laughing with the guests with a smile on his face, while the other twelve elders were sitting in various corners, enjoying the flattery and adulation from the people around them.
Xu Heixing and James were chatting happily, when James frowned and said, "Lawrence must have something urgent to do and needs to return to Africa immediately. He didn't even come to my daughter's birthday party. Humph, it seems that he has become too independent."
Xu Heixing was well prepared for Lawrence's matter. He laughed and said, "Elder James, how dare Lawrence miss your daughter's banquet? However, there have been unusual movements in the Skull and Bones Society recently, so we have to be on guard. Although he didn't come, he asked me to bring his gift." As he spoke, Xu Heixing winked at Dominic beside him.
Dominic understood and stepped forward, taking out an envelope from his arms. The annoyed expression on James' face immediately disappeared, and he took the envelope with a smile and said, "Haha, I said Lawrence is not an ignorant child. Organization matters are more important, and I won't blame him."
Seeing James' greedy face, Xu Heixing smiled on the surface, but he was disgusted in his heart. Since cooperating with Zheng Yubai, he felt more and more that the elders were just sitting there doing nothing and were not suitable to continue leading Yandao Hall. He himself was the real hero and should be a heroic leader above all others.
While chatting with James, Xu Heixing secretly sent a signal to Zheng Yubai in the distance.
Zheng Yubai had been paying attention to Xu Heixing's movements in the corner. When he saw the signal he sent, he put the wine in his hand aside and walked towards the bathroom.
The party was held at James' private villa. To enter the villa, you need to go through three security checks, and there are at least 500 bodyguards outside the villa. Not only does it have the most advanced security system in the world, but it can also be said that it is protected by a group of the most professional bodyguards, so there is no need to worry about safety.
There is no ironclad fortress in the world. Every fortress has loopholes. Sometimes even a tiny ant hole can collapse a huge dam. For example, in this impregnable hall that seems to have no blind spots for defense, no one would notice an old waiter.
The old waiter is named Williams, and he is already fifty years old. He started serving James twenty years ago. Many years have passed, and he is now gray-haired, but he is still just a low-level waiter handing out towels to customers in the bathroom. Many people who worked as waiters at the same age as him either flattered him or were smart enough to do other things by relying on James. But Williams, an honest man with a dull tongue, can only stay in the bathroom with a smile day after day and year after year.
No one wants to serve others forever, and Williams is not willing to do so either. Although he is an honest man, he also has normal human desires. Especially after serving the luxurious James for so many years and seeing so many scenes of extravagance, his heart is even more unbalanced. However, no matter what he thinks in his heart, no one will care, because in the eyes of James and those noble figures, a humble person like him is as if he does not exist.
Many people forget one thing: a horseshoe can destroy a country, and a small person can sometimes decide a big cause. Sun Tzu's Art of War says: Wherever the army wants to attack, the city wants to break, and the person wants to kill, you must first know the names of the guards, the left and right, the usher, the gatekeepers, and the servants. In this way, not only can you know yourself and the enemy, and win every battle, but it is also easy to find loopholes and break through in one fell swoop.
When Williams received a check in his small house that he had bought with a loan for more than 20 years, and saw the number on it that was enough for him to spend freely for the rest of his life, he was immediately tempted. He knew that he might be killed by a fierce revenger, and he might not live to enjoy the money, but his huge greed and dissatisfaction with James made him unable to refuse. Money is only one aspect, what he wants to do more is to tell those high and mighty people: small people can decide big things.
When Zheng Yubai walked into the restroom, there were two men in suits washing their hands. Williams stood behind them, with towels stacked on a tray in his hand, ready to serve them to dry their hands at any time. No one paid attention to this old waiter, so naturally it was difficult to notice that his face had a completely different expression from the numbness of the past.
The two men dried their hands and left. Zheng Yubai urinated slowly and then turned to wash his hands. When he went to get a towel, he saw that no one was in the bathroom. Zheng Yubai pretended to be casual and said, "The bathroom smells good. It's the jasmine fragrance that Asians like very much."
A glimmer of excitement flashed in Williams' eyes, and he replied neither humbly nor arrogantly: "I'm sorry, sir, this is the scent of roses." As he spoke, the little finger of his right hand slightly bent and pointed to the innermost room of the bathroom.
Zheng Yubai smiled and said, "That was my mistake." He nodded at him, walked straight into the last room, closed the door, and reached out to open the water tank above the toilet.
In the water tank, there was a paper bag that Williams had brought in, which was wrapped in oilcloth to isolate the water. When the paper bag was taken out and opened, there was a small pistol, a sharp dagger, a piano wire, and two miniature communicators.
Zheng Yubai hid all these things on his body, then tore the paper bag into pieces and flushed it into the sewer. When he came out again, he immediately met Williams' cunning gaze.
Passing Williams, Zheng Yubai said, "Good luck."
"I wish you good luck too." Williams looked at Zheng Yubai's departing back, and an inexplicable excitement rose in his heart. He couldn't wait to hear the terrified shouts of the guests.
Zheng Yubai returned to the hall and found Dominic in a corner where no one was paying attention.
Zheng Yubai has always admired Dominic, Xu Heixing's right-hand man. This person is much more ruthless than him, and is a person who can help Xu Heixing achieve great things. As for himself, he can only do things like today. In this world, some people are born to do great things under the spotlight, while some people like to manipulate everything behind the scenes. Whether in front of or behind the scenes, they are all indispensable parts of a good show.
Seeing Zheng Yubai coming over, Dominic smiled and stretched out his hand, as if he had seen an old friend he hadn't seen for a long time. The moment the two shook hands, a miniature communicator was stuffed into Dominic's hand.
Dominic stuffed the communicator into his chest pocket and whispered, "Elder Yan, the last room on the west side of the third floor."
Zheng Yubai understood and chatted with Dominic for a while. Seeing that no one was paying attention to them, he quietly slipped away.
All the guests basically gathered in the lobby on the first floor. One needed a special identity to go up to the second floor. As for the third floor with tighter security, it was completely guarded by bodyguards and no one could go up there.
But Zheng Yubai didn't need the stairs. He came to the corner of the hall and according to the sketch Williams had handed over before, he soon came to a dead end.
"Sure enough, someone is guarding it." Zheng Yubai was still far away when he saw a man in a black suit and black sunglasses guarding it. The security in the villa was really flawless. Even such a deserted place was guarded by someone.
Zheng Yubai ruffled his hair slightly, lowered his head, and walked towards the bodyguard with staggering steps.
The bodyguard was guarding a corner where he couldn't even see anyone, and from time to time he could hear the sound of people drinking and chatting in the hall. Just when he was bored to death, he heard heavy footsteps coming, and when he turned around, he saw a drunk man.
"These high-society young men..." The bodyguard looked down on them in his heart, but still went over to them politely, saying, "Sir, there is no passage here..."
The rest of the sentence was stuck in his throat. Zheng Yubai raised his shoulder seemingly carelessly and bumped into the bodyguard's chest. The bodyguard was also a martial arts expert, but when he was hit by Zheng Yubai, his breath was choked, his body suddenly softened, and he passed out.
Zheng Yubai held the bodyguard and leaned him against the corner. He pressed the back of his neck again, making him unconscious for at least two or three hours. After dealing with the bodyguard, Zheng Yubai quickly stripped off his clothes and put them on himself. The bodyguard was also very tall, and the clothes were very suitable for Zheng Yubai. After changing clothes, Zheng Yubai opened a door on the side. Inside was a small compartment for storing cleaning tools. Zheng Yubai stuffed the bodyguard in without leaving any trace.
After finishing all this, Zheng Yubai looked up at the second-floor stairs which were about three meters high. A smile appeared on his face and he climbed up lightly.
Landing gently on the second floor, Zheng Yubai immediately saw a figure at the end of his sight. It was the bodyguard responsible for patrolling the second floor. Fortunately, Zheng Yubai did not make any sound, otherwise it would have aroused vigilance.
After waiting for a while and seeing nothing unusual, Zheng Yubai went to the stairs leading to the third floor. The security system in the villa was very strict, but Zheng Yubai was not afraid of being exposed, because Yu Luo should be in Jinghai at this moment using her superb hacking skills to hack into the security system here.
In the security monitoring room, the screen was as usual, without any abnormality. Yu Luo hijacked thousands of computers on the Internet as an invading army, and used the IP address provided by Xu Heixing to easily crack the firewall of the security system and replace all the screens inside. Although there were five bodyguards on duty in the monitoring room, they did not notice the changes at all.
It was precisely because of his belief in Yu Luo's ability that Zheng Yubai walked out of the corner with confidence. Unlike the noisy lobby on the first floor, it was quiet here, with only the occasional sound of the bodyguards' footsteps patrolling.
The doors on the second floor were all tightly shut, and the bodyguards were also afraid of the secrets of some big shots, so they didn't dare to walk around and could only patrol in a few fixed places. This situation gave Zheng Yubai a lot of freedom. He quickly avoided two patrol points and came to the end of a corridor on the second floor. There was a storage room at the end, and Zheng Yubai broke the door lock and went in.
According to Williams, the roof of this storage room can be opened and leads directly to the third floor. Zheng Yubai pushed open the roof of the storage room as he was told, and indeed saw a hole. He climbed up and came to a low room on the third floor. It was full of miscellaneous items. It was the cleaning room on the third floor, and usually only the servants of the family would use it.
It was precisely because the big shots didn't know there was such a place in their house that the bodyguards only checked it roughly and didn't pay much attention to it. It was precisely because of their negligence that Zheng Yubai was able to successfully sneak into the third floor.
Once on the third floor, everything was much easier. Because the bodyguards were only allowed to set up defenses at the staircase leading to the third floor from the second floor, only important people could go up to the third floor, and no one else was allowed to approach. This was like opening a convenient door for Zheng Yubai. He could walk around the corridor in a swaggering manner after coming out of the cleaning room. Of course, he had to be careful not to make any footsteps. The bodyguards downstairs were all experts, and it would be troublesome if they heard any unusual movements.
According to the information provided by Dominic, Zheng Yubai smoothly arrived at the end of the west side of the third floor. There was a thick mahogany door here, and Elder Yan should be behind the door.
Zheng Yubai took out a piano wire and a pair of gloves from his pocket, put on the gloves, and gently turned the door handle, opening the door silently.
Behind the wooden door was a huge suite's living room, which was empty. However, Zheng Yubai could clearly see a few women's clothes and a pair of high heels scattered on the carpet. A woman's exaggerated moans could be heard from the inner room of the suite.
“Elder Yan is so old, yet he is still so vigorous…” Zheng Yubai shook his head with a wry smile and tiptoed to the door of the inner room.
Through the half-open door, one could clearly see two naked bodies entangled on the large bed in the inner room.
Zheng Yubai felt a little embarrassed. He hesitated for a moment, and finally did not push the door open, but waited patiently.
Zheng Yubai didn't have to wait too long. The woman called out a few more times, and then with Elder Yan's donkey-like roar, the two of them stopped moving.
"Elder, are you comfortable?" The woman got off Elder Yan's body obediently and stuck to Elder Yan's side like a kitten.
"Very good, very good." Elder Yan answered vaguely, probably because he was too happy.
"My thing..." the woman said with a flattering look on her face. Zheng Yubai looked through the crack in the door and was surprised to see that the woman's face was very familiar. She had appeared in many TV series and movies. She was said to be a new generation of jade girl star.
Thinking of the possible behind-the-scenes deal between them and the woman's debauchery, Zheng Yubai sneered. But thinking about Chen Guchuan at the beginning, Zheng Yubai felt relieved. It was originally a dirty place, so could they still be asked to stay clean even if they were in the mud
"No problem. I'll take care of this matter. You will be the heroine of this play." Elder Yan said.
The woman was overjoyed, and after some sweet talk with the man, she went to take a shower.
Hearing the sound of water splashing in the bathroom, Zheng Yubai knew the time had come. Elder Yan was dozing on the bed with his eyes slightly closed. The intense exercise just now consumed a lot of his physical strength. For an old man like him, he urgently needed to rest.
Perhaps because he was too tired, Zheng Yubai opened the door and approached the big bed, but Elder Yan did not react at all. Zheng Yubai came to Elder Yan and he felt that the light was a little wrong, but as soon as he opened his eyes, a pillow was pressed on his head.
"Ugh!" Elder Yan made a terrified sound, but unfortunately the pillow was pressed against his head, so all his screams were suppressed. Zheng Yubai held the pillow tightly with one hand, and grabbed his kicking legs with the other hand. Elder Yan was old, so how could he compete with Zheng Yubai's strength? He was unable to break free, and he was silent after a while.
Seeing that Elder Yan had stopped moving, Zheng Yubai moved the pillow away. Elder Yan's eyes were wide open, filled with despair and fear, and his face was ashen, a sign of suffocation.
Zheng Yubai had no mercy at all. He threw the quilt on the bed over Elder Yan to cover him, then went to the bathroom, opened the door and walked in.
The bathroom was filled with steam. Perhaps someone had come in when a woman's voice rang out, "Elder, do you want to take a bath together? Do you want to take a pill so we can do it in the water?"
Before she finished speaking, the woman realized something was wrong. Before she could scream, Zheng Yubai's fist had already swung over. The horizontal fist rubbed against the woman's head and knocked her unconscious. Zheng Yubai only used 10% of his strength. The woman would probably be unconscious for several hours before waking up. It was enough time for Zheng Yubai to do other things.
After doing all this, Zheng Yubai sighed. The day before, he and Killer 26 A and E had specially consulted on some killing techniques. Now that all the thirteen elders of the Council of Elders were in this villa, there was no better opportunity than this to catch them all in one fell swoop. He wanted to use all these techniques and use killing to open the prelude to peace.
After pressing the communicator and contacting Dominic, Zheng Yubai whispered, "First goal, accomplished."
"The second study on the east side of the third floor, Thiago and Mpensa." Dominic's instructions were concise and to the point.
Zheng Yubai returned to the corridor, which was still empty. He walked slowly across the corridor to the door of the second study on the east side. Just as he was about to go in, he felt a very familiar breath.
"It seems like there is an old friend?" Zheng Yubai thought for a moment, but did not rush in. He put his ear to the door, trying to mobilize his body's potential, hoping to hear something.
The wooden door of the study was also made of exquisite and expensive mahogany, and it had good sound insulation. Although Zheng Yubai had much sharper hearing than ordinary people, he couldn't hear a single sound. But his intuition told him that there were definitely more than two people in the room, and the third person was definitely someone he was familiar with.
"Who could it be?" Zheng Yubai had an ominous premonition. He was hesitating when he heard very light footsteps coming from the stairs. Zheng Yubai was startled and immediately hid behind a huge decorative vase. He used the bone shrinking technique to shrink his body and used the vase to block himself.
A waitress was holding a tray with a bottle of wine and some snacks on it. She walked up to the third floor and came to the door of the study. She knocked gently and said, "Sir, the wine is here."
The door opened, and a figure appeared at the door, whispering, "Come in."
Zheng Yubai's heart trembled when he heard this voice. He could hardly forget this voice. On that day, the two of them had a battle that tested their wisdom and judgment. This man's ambition was rare for Zheng Yubai, but unfortunately, his desperate counterattack did not succeed, and years of hard work were ruined.
This person was none other than the long-missing leader of Yipintang, Li Zongwei, also known as Taoist Wuchen. How could he appear here
Zheng Yubai was full of doubts, but he saw the waitress and Li Zongwei both walked into the room, leaving a gap in the door. He gritted his teeth and decided to do it. He flashed to the door and turned his head to see the waitress and Li Zongwei walking into a compartment.
This was a godsend opportunity, Zheng Yubai immediately slipped into the room and hid under a table. After a while, the waitress left and the door closed again. Li Zongwei's feet could be seen from under the table. After he walked into the compartment, he heard the sound of wine being opened from inside.
Zheng Yubai quietly crawled out from under the table and came to the door of the compartment. He could vaguely hear the voices of Thiago and Mpenza from inside. They were celebrating something enthusiastically.
Listening carefully, Zheng Yubai couldn't help but frown.
"Master Wuchen, you can rest assured. I will investigate Xu Heixing's affairs. I also think he has ulterior motives. If it is confirmed, I will convene a meeting of elders and severely punish him." The speaker was Tiago. Xu Heixing had just given him a generous gift a few days ago, but he turned around and discussed with Li Zongwei how to deal with Xu Heixing. He is really a treacherous villain who eats people without spitting out bones.
"Xu Heixing must be dealt with, and his subordinate Zheng Yubai must also be killed." Li Zongwei said fiercely.
Zheng Yubai smiled bitterly in his heart, thinking: "You will have a chance soon. One of you and me will die today." (To be continued)