Chapter 758: Luring the snake out of the hole
– Xu Cheng’s Villa in Shangcheng –
Xu Cheng was smoking a cigarette with his hands resting on the patio fence.
Bei Shan came over and glanced at the villa next door as he teased him, “This is the first time your plan didn’t work out. Didn’t think that your wife would stay with her love rivals and not come back to live here, eh?”
“Staying there is better for her, at least her girlfriends can take care of her,” Xu Cheng said as he realized something and turned his head to look at Bei Shan, “What do you mean by love rivals?”
Bei Shan said, “Do you think the Dragon Division sits around and does nothing? Can’t you see that those two ladies are interested in you? Especially Shen Yao, I can guarantee that she absolutely likes you; what does that make her if not a love rival? Your wife is really generous; I don’t believe that she can’t see that Shen Yao is interested in you, and she even sent her to see the fake you.”
Xu Cheng said, “And that’s why you’re single, because you really don’t have a high EQ. My wife knows this, so it’s only appropriate to ask her for help. Because she feels that way, she will take the request as her own mission, and instead of going abroad to see me on my wife’s behalf, she was there to see me herself.”
Bei Shan felt hurt as it was the first time someone directly told him that he had a low EQ.
Xu Cheng frowned. “Don’t you guys know too much?”
Bei Shan laughed bitterly, knowing that he was referring to them keeping an eye on Lin Chuxue and the people around her.
“How could we not? It was because of our inattention in the first place that your wife got injured and you almost killed me even if you were violating the rules. If we don’t be smarter about it, who knows what you’re going to do next time? Don’t blame us, we were forced. Now everyone knows that you are willing to do anything for your wife, so as long as we take care of her safety, you can do everything without fear.”
Xu Cheng was speechless.
Bei Shan took out a cigarette from his case and lit it, before asking, “How are you going to deal with this Hiroshi Shitsuno case?”
“I’ll play with it.” Xu Cheng said, “I’ll play a game with them myself. You don’t need to interfere in this matter. Since the large consortiums in the dark have been playing dirty, then I’ll also play dirty with them. You guys intervening will only complicate things and bring it to a national level, then there would be all sorts of diplomacy involved and we still won’t get to the back-end players. So I’ll deal with them personally. The first time I set foot in that country, I destroyed a consortium. This time, whichever level of power I find, I’ll destroy it!”
Bei Shan coughed. “Will this incident be too big?”
“You think I’ll be interested if it wasn’t this big?” Xu Cheng sneered. “You just need to be responsible for protecting my wife. This time, I will take revenge from the entire Capital Society, and there’s no need for the Dragon Division to get involved.”
Bei Shan: “What if you fail?”
Xu Cheng: “My disciple will tell my wife that I am dead, so that she will never have to worry about anything again. If the Dragon Division thinks they owe me something, then I just hope you can protect my wife’s safety and not let her get hurt ever again. Of course, if I’m not dead, then I’ll protect her myself.”
Bei Shan: “You still haven’t told me, how exactly do you plan to play this game?”
Xu Cheng: “Isn’t it simple? One word: kill!”
Bei Shan’s eyelids twitched. “That’s not a good idea, right?”
Xu Cheng: “Foreign invaders come into our country and get away with so much. Even if you catch them, you still have to return them to their country. By then, what trouble could they get into? The key behind this Capital Society is not the state, but the individuals. So then we’ll deal with it personally instead of putting them through the legal process. If they play dirty, then we will play dirty as well and see who’s better at it!”
Bei Shan: “Your hostility is getting heavier.”
Xu Cheng froze for a moment, then sighed. “I’m just like this. If others respect me, then I will be kind. To those who care for me, I’ll be even better to them. But if anyone harms me or my friends, then even returning with ten or hundred fold of harm wouldn’t be enough to alleviate my pain.”
Bei Shan understood where he was coming from. Xu Cheng had lost his father and then his mother, so he cherished those people around him who cared for him, and if anyone could be forgiven by saying the word “sorry,” then he would be an idiot!
“By the way, let Liu Xianming go.”
Bei Shan was speechless. “He’s been convicted, how could we release him?”
Xu Cheng: “Can you find out where Hiroshi Shitsuno is at right now?”
Bei Shan: “He’s very good at hiding and very witty. We couldn’t find his hiding place and he also didn’t leave the country yet.”
“That’s right, release Liu Xianming and the first person who will want to see him will be Hiroshi Shitsuno. Luring the snake out of the hole.” Xu Cheng glared at Bei Shan. “How did you become the Ace of Diamonds?”
Bei Shan was speechless. “I’m not as calculative as you are. We are only trained to gather intelligence and conduct assassination work, we don’t play with people’s minds.”
Xu Cheng ignored him and turned around as he went inside the house.
Meanwhile, what Hiroshi Shitsuno didn’t know was that it wasn’t because they didn’t find out his background and secret plans, but it was because Xu Cheng didn’t plan to deal with him through a legal process.
He would not have expected that the Grim Reaper had its scythe on his neck for a long time, only waiting for Xu Cheng to announce his death sentence.
However, it would not be Xu Cheng’s style if he let Hiroshi Shitsuno go this easily. He was going to make it a slow and painful death for Hiroshi Shitsuno. Now he was standing in the dark while Hiroshi Shitsuno was in the light, and he could follow the clues and climb his way up just like when he extinguished the Shanling family.
Sometimes, to plant fear in others’ minds, it’s more effective to create a fear of the unknown than to directly put a knife on their necks. They wouldn’t know what threats they are facing, nor when their deaths will come; just like when he assassinated the five men from noble families who insulted him when he was a kid.
Hiroshi Shitsuno leaned over the pool in his villa with his cell phone in his hand, and as soon as he confirmed the mission, the assassins would head into the prison to take out Liu Xianming.
But he was not stupid, and he was calculative at heart. If Liu Xianming didn’t say anything and this was really a police test, then killing Liu Xianming at this time would be falling into their trap.
Liu Xianming’s lawyer called just when he was about to confirm the mission.
“Mr. Hiroshi Shitsuno, Liu Xianming has been released. After we negotiated with the police, they released Liu Xianming under our pressure.”
Hiroshi Shitsuno was relieved.
“Bring him to me.”
Liu Xianming sat in the car, his body shaking a little. In fact, he refused to be released at first.
He knew that he had already confessed everything, and he would only be killed if he was released. At the very least, he could stay alive in the prison. However, the police department wasn’t going to detain him any longer.
He wanted to run away, but his legal team directly sent him to Hiroshi Shitsuno.
What Liu Xianming didn’t know was that he would become Xu Cheng’s bait to find out Hiroshi Shitsuno’s hiding place.