Night falls, but this street in the imperial capital is not peaceful at night. The road is busy with cars and neon lights are flashing on the roadside shops.
Jiang Luoning, dressed as the goddess of Luoshen, wore a black mask and walked into a bar with Ah Xing in disguise. The air was filled with the mixture of cigarettes, alcohol and strong smell of hormones, and the atmosphere on the dance floor was extremely noisy.
Ah Xing protected Jiang Luoning, and the two of them walked through the crowd and came to the bar. Ah Xing took out a card that he had received from the Mantis Organization before. When the waiter saw it, he immediately took him to the private room on the second floor.
Two bodyguards in black suits were standing at the door of box 666. When they saw the person coming, they immediately raised their hands to stop him. The waiter turned around and bowed to Axing Jiang Luoning, indicating that they had brought him there, and left in a hurry. She had been working there for a long time and knew very well what she should and should not see. Anyone who could go to the private room upstairs was either rich or powerful. In any case, they were people she could not afford to offend.
Ah Xing glared at the bodyguard without saying a word. They all knew the bodyguard's gesture of raising his hand to stop him was a sign of a body search before he could be released. Seeing the man's refusal to cooperate, the bodyguard was undecided. Just as he was about to turn around and ask the owner's opinion, the door to the private room was pulled open from the inside. The bodyguard quickly lowered his hand, turned sideways, bowed to the man inside, and respectfully called out, "Master Tang!"
The man known as Tang Zhu was the current leader of the Mantis. To facilitate a partnership with Dark Night, he personally traveled to the capital to meet with the two. He was in his 40s, with a ferocious look, worthy of being the leader of a killer organization. However, he was likely limited to being a killer. With his intelligence, doing anything else would inevitably lead to him being utterly defeated.
The man opened the door and ignored the bodyguard. He looked at Ah Xing and Jiang Luoning at the door and asked hesitantly, "Luo Shen? Yun Xing?"
Jiang Luoning, still wearing his mask, looked at the man and nodded slightly in acknowledgment. Ah Xing also said "hmm" nonchalantly. The alienation and indifference between the two made the man inside the door feel a little embarrassed. He immediately kicked the bodyguard beside him and scolded him, "You have no sense. Do you think you can stop the people from the Dark Night?"
The bodyguard in black lowered his head even deeper, as if admitting his mistake.
"Are you not going in yet?" Jiang Luoning had no intention of continuing to be polite with this hypocritical man, and asked bluntly.
Upon hearing this, the man immediately stepped back a few steps, making way for the door and welcoming the two into the house. "Come in, I'm sorry, Luo Shen, I'm being inconsiderate!"
After sitting down, Jiang Luoning got straight to the point. He looked at the man on the sofa opposite him with a sharp gaze and asked, "Why do you want to destroy Black Mountain?"
The man didn't suspect anything when the woman asked, thinking she just wanted to understand the grudge between them. He patiently explained, "Originally, there was nothing between us, but who knew that Montenegro would actually send people to attack my base in Country A! That base contained two-thirds of my organization's weapons and equipment, and the Montenegrin people blew it up without a word! How could I possibly swallow this humiliation!"
Seeing the man grow increasingly angry as he spoke, as if he would tear the man apart alive if Heishan appeared before him right now, Jiang Luoning suppressed the urge to laugh and asked tentatively, "You are so cruel, did you Mantises dig up his ancestral graves or steal his wife or daughter?"
Facing Jiang Luoning's powerful questioning, Tang Zhu was afraid that the girl would misunderstand and affect their cooperation, so he quickly explained: "How is that possible! I have never had any grudges with Heishan! We are all on the same path, and it is inevitable that we will meet again in the future. Although I, Mantis, am not an upright person, I never provoke others without reason!"
"Who do you think would believe this coming from the mouth of a killer organization's boss?" Ah Xing retorted upon hearing this. In fact, they didn't care about the man's explanation. All they wanted to do was to test the man's defenses step by step and get more useful clues.
The man didn't notice anything wrong with the back-and-forth between the two. Instead, he became more relaxed and chatted with them as if they were chatting about daily life. "Yes! Although I am from a killer organization, we only do things for money. These are just grudges between other people. What does it have to do with me?"
"Hehe, but you'd better think about it! The Black Mountain Organization is not so easy to take down. But I am curious, with so many underground organizations, why did you choose to cooperate with me, An Ye?" Seeing that the man was gradually relaxing, Jiang Luoning gradually returned to the topic.
"This... Luo Shen! I'm not going to beat around the bush. First of all, there's no need to explain An Ye's status in the underground organization! And you also have medicine and hypnosis that I don't involve. An old friend once mentioned that almost no one can match you in this aspect. Moreover, you have just moved to China, and I have the same plan. So as long as we cooperate in the imperial capital, and even in China, no organization can shake us." Seeing that the conversation was back on track, Mantis adjusted his attitude and wanted to do his best to promote cooperation with An Ye.
As soon as the man finished speaking, Jiang Luoning and the others grasped the key point in his words. They stared at each other for a second, and Jiang Luoning immediately spoke, "Oh? Old friend? I didn't expect that Anye is so famous now. Then, may I ask, Lord Tang, who is this old friend? Has he ever dealt with Anye?"
The attitude behind the words seemed to be just a question out of curiosity and there was nothing wrong with it.
"Haha, come to think of it, he was once from the imperial capital, but his family immigrated abroad decades ago."
Hearing this, Ah Xing and Jiang Luoning had already guessed the identity of this old friend, but they were still unsure about his relationship with Mantis. They could only ask further questions and test the waters: "Oh? Is he also a veteran of the Mantis organization?"
"That's not the case, but he is good at using Gu, so we can have some cooperation! Let's not talk about him anymore, Luo Shen, what do you think of my proposal?" The man brought the topic back to the cooperation again, not knowing how many secrets he had just revealed.
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