Chapter 107 A Night of Boiling at Sea (Part 2)

Li Zhonghan's cold gaze fell upon Arnoun.

Arnoun immediately understood. He walked up to Xin Que and grabbed her wrist. "Where is that video?"

"If you keep hiding now, and wait for Victoria's people to break in, the church, which has been cooperating with Victoria for so many years, may be fine, but you, the traitor who betrayed Victoria... will surely die!"

Xin Que stared blankly at Arnoun.

Li Zhonghan said in a deep voice, "Miss Xin, we are now considering your safety."

“That video can keep Victoria’s people occupied. As long as we can delay until the cruise ship docks and comes to our territory, you will be completely safe.”

Xin Que's expression shifted for a few moments, but in the end, she still didn't have the confidence to speak, "The USB drive containing that video is hidden in my suite."

"Don't try to use me as a shield! Nobody knows where that USB drive is hidden except me!"

Li Zhonghan and Arnoun exchanged a glance. "Take her out, try to keep Victoria's people calm, and then go to the guest room building."

Arnoun gave Xin Que a push.

The woman staggered a step, and seeing that Arnoun had already cocked his gun, she dared not speak out in anger and could only timidly walk forward.

Li Zhonghan led his men up and saw that Jin Doucai and his men had completely blocked their hall. He narrowed his eyes, then gave a formulaic smile, "Mr. Jin, what brings you here so late at night?"

Jin Doucai smiled as well, "I just came to see how Chairman Li's sacrificial ceremony went, whether it was successful?"

"If there's anything you need from me, please don't hesitate to ask."

Li Zhonghan calmly declined, saying, "We can handle our church's affairs ourselves; there's no need to trouble Boss Jin."

Jin Doucai's expression suddenly turned cold. "Solve it yourself? Solve what? Kidnap our arena's new employee as a sacrifice?!"

Li Zhonghan and Arnoun were both taken aback.

Arnoun suddenly looked at Xin Que, who was hiding beside him, and the latter hurriedly shook her head, "I only brought clean people!"

Xin Que quickly explained, "Your priests have already investigated the backgrounds of those sacrifices, how could they possibly be from the arena?"

She lowered her voice again, "Besides, if they were from the arena, how could they only discover it now? They're probably just..."

To fabricate a crime.

Arnoun looked at the aggressive Kim Doo-jae, and the suspicion in his eyes lessened a little.

Just as Li Zhonghan was about to speak, Jin Doucai's men took a step closer.

Jin Doucai said with a sinister look, "President Li, whether or not the offerings include any of our arena members, why don't I go down underground and check for myself and find out?"

Li Zhonghan assessed the disparity in strength between them and the enemy, and considering that they were still on the high seas, he finally smiled and said, "If Boss Jin wants to see, I'll take you down. We've been brothers for so many years, and we'll continue to rely on Boss Jin for our future business... Why make things so ugly?"

Jin Doucai seemed to have thought of his financial dealings with Li Zhonghan, and his expression softened a little. "I'm sorry, Chairman Li. I was just worried about the employees, so I acted impulsively for a moment. Please forgive me."

Li Zhonghan gestured for the followers and mercenaries to clear the path leading underground, saying, "Understood."

As the group descended into the underground, Arnoun received a look from Li Zhonghan, quickly covered Xin Que's mouth, and quietly slipped away down a side path.

"We have to get that video before Jin Doucai makes a move," Arnon dragged Xin Que roughly out of the building. "To the guest room building!"

The video Xin Que mentioned, in which Victoria killed Han Wei and framed the Eternal Life Society, is currently the only leverage that can restrain Jin Doucai's actions.

The journey was smooth and unobstructed.

Arnoen was thankful that everyone in Victoria had been called away by Jin Doucai to deal with the Eternal Life Society, otherwise they would definitely have been...

"Bang."

Ji Mingchuan put away his gun.

Xin Que flexed his wrist, expressionless, stepped over Arnoun, who was clutching his abdomen and convulsing on the ground, took the gun from his weak hand, and fired another shot at his forehead.

"Your aim isn't good enough. You either need to practice more or finish him off." Xin Que removed the magazine and casually tossed the empty gun onto the man who had just been shot in the head.

Ji Mingchuan "..."

"What's the next step?" Ji Mingchuan asked.

"Judging by the time, Li Zhonghan should have discovered the surprise I prepared for him by now, right?" Xin Que strode towards the Eternal Life Church's chapel. "I'm going to inform the Eternal Life Church."

"How could this grand finale be complete without the Cult of Eternal Life?"

...

Jin Doucai's men inspected the sacrificial offerings that had fallen into the pool of blood within the formation one by one.

The dark-patterned silk cloth binding and wrapping the offerings was roughly torn apart.

“This isn’t it,” Jin Doucai said slowly, shaking his head after examining the faces of the corpses. “This isn’t it either…”

Until the very last body.

Li Zhonghan breathed a sigh of relief when he saw that Jin Doucai did not distort the facts and claim that the corpses were from the gladiatorial arena.

There is still room for negotiation.

"Boss Jin, this corpse is..." The thug examining the body widened his eyes and shouted exaggeratedly, "How could it be the Holy Son of the Eternal Life Cult?!"

Li Zhonghan was taken aback.

He looked incredulously at the last corpse the finger was pointing at.

The one at the front of the formation... was the one he had personally sacrificed.

Han Wei's eyes were wide open in death, and the bloody hole in his neck, pierced by a dagger, was a horrifying sight.

"Mr. Han!!!" Jin Doucai rushed forward, carefully confirming that the corpse was indeed the face he had planned. He immediately turned around and glared angrily at Li Zhonghan, "You are all insane! How dare you take Han's only son..."

“No, something’s not right,” Li Zhonghan thought, his mind buzzing. He limped over and tried to look at the silk that wrapped the corpse.

The small embroidered characters bearing Han Wei's name, "huayi luo," were gleamingly embroidered on the silk cloth that wrapped around him.

It was like a huge mockery.

"When..." Li Zhonghan felt they had been completely outmaneuvered. "When exactly... was Han Wei switched in?!"

The pastor was also shocked. "Impossible... We've checked so many times. This spot originally belonged to an orphan named Luo Huayi!!!"

In a flash, he thought of Xin Que, who had helped him transport the sacrificial offerings from the warehouse.

And there was her large suitcase, which she never let go of.

“President,” he shouted, “it’s that guy named…”

Jin Doucai's henchman reacted quickly and shot the old priest in the head.

“Chairman Li,” Jin Doucai said with a forced smile, “you’re trying to kill me by attacking the Holy Son of the Eternal Life Cult on my turf.”

The mercenaries and followers around Li Zhonghan immediately surrounded him and protected him.

"I, Jin, do not want to die, nor do I want to be involved in your feud with the Eternal Life Cult..."

“So,” Jin Doucai waved his hand, “Chairman Li, you should go and explain to Elder Han yourself.”

...

Under the protection of his followers and mercenaries, Li Zhonghan escaped to the outside of the building along a small path.

"Boss Jin!" Li Zhonghan knew that the other party had more people and the advantage of space, but he still refused to give up on persuading Jin Doucai. "What Yongsheng taught you, I can also give you!"

"We've been working together for so many years, what can't we sit down and discuss properly?"

"There's only physical evidence, no witnesses. Besides, everyone here is your man, Boss Jin. How Han Wei died isn't something you can decide with a single word."

Jin Doucai sneered, "Witnesses?"

"Xin Que is the witness!"

Li Zhonghan was taken aback.

Xin Que's voice came from the square's loudspeaker, quite abruptly: "That's right, the one who traded the followers of the Eternal Life Cult to Li Zhonghan as sacrifices was Jin Doucai."

"It was Jin Doucai who kidnapped your Holy Son from the bar to be sacrificed to Li Zhonghan!"

After hearing the broadcast content, Jin Doucai's smile slowly disappeared.

Countless mercenaries and desperate believers poured out of the church, charging straight at the two opposing forces with a desperate resolve and pistols loaded with magazines, amidst the angry roars of Assistant Han Wei.

Li Zhonghan was the first to react and immediately ordered his men to target Jin Doucai, shouting, "Seize Jin Doucai first and take control of the cruise ship!!!"

He then looked at Han Wei's assistant, "Let's put aside past grievances for now, and..."

The assistant shot and killed the thug next to Kim Doo-jae, his expression ruthless. "Victoria is our common enemy."