Because Ye Qingliu, who was lying on the hospital bed, slowly opened his eyes.
Those gray-blue eyes no longer had the slightest hint of weakness or haziness. Although his face was still as pale as paper, and his body was still wrapped in bandages, the moment those eyes opened, the light in the entire ward seemed to dim.
Deep, cold, and sharp like a peerless sword unsheathed! With an absolute clarity that sees through all fog and controls the overall situation.
How could he look like a seriously wounded and dying person? He looked like a dormant beast, its eyes open for hunting!
Hua Jinyue was shocked by this look and was speechless for a moment.
Ye Qingliu's gaze calmly swept over Awei and fell on Hua Jinyue's shocked face.
His voice was extremely hoarse and weak, yet it carried a strange, convincing penetrating power. Every word struck Hua Jinyue's heart clearly:
"Jinyue...don't be impatient."
He tilted his head slightly and looked at Awei: "Is the chain of evidence... complete?"
Ah Wei nodded vigorously, his eyes filled with suppressed excitement and awe. "Yes! Nightclub! All electronic evidence, recordings, technical analysis reports, and preliminary statements from some external witnesses have been completed!"
"It's enough to point to Second Master and Chao Zhenshan as the masterminds of the bombing! However... the core executor, 'Panshi', is dead, and some of the direct evidence has been destroyed. To convict Chao Zhenshan, that old fox, we need even more solid evidence and... key supporting evidence from President Chao."
Ye Qingliu nodded very slightly, as if everything was under control.
Deep in his gray-blue eyes, there flashed a hint of cold sarcasm and a hint of understanding that he had gotten what he wanted.
Hua Jinyue was completely stunned.
She looked at her brother's eyes that were frighteningly clear, listened to his conversation with Awei, and an unbelievable thought exploded in her mind like thunder!
"Brother...you...you knew it a long time ago?" Hua Jinyue's voice was trembling and full of disbelief.
"You knew that Second Uncle was colluding with Chao Zhenshan? You knew...that the cruise ship would explode?!"
The thought was so terrifying that she could hardly breathe!
Ye Qingliu turned his gaze to his sister. His eyes were complicated, with a hint of imperceptible fatigue, but more of it was cold and resolute.
He did not answer directly, but stated a shocking fact very slowly and with great difficulty in his hoarse and weak voice:
"Second Uncle...has wanted me dead...for more than a day or two."
"It's no secret that Chao Zhenshan... views Chao Youye as a threat... and Mu Xinrong as a thorn in his side."
"They... need a... perfect 'accident'..."
"An 'accident' that can solve all 'troubles' at once... without causing any trouble..."
"The high seas...a feast...is the best stage..."
He gasped for breath, and every breath caused severe pain in the wounds on his chest and abdomen, but he didn't frown and continued:
"I... gave them... this 'stage'..."
"It also gave them... the illusion that they were in control..."
Hua Jinyue took a deep breath and felt cold all over.
She understood! She understood everything! Her brother had deliberately attended the cruise banquet! He had long been aware of the conspiracy between his second uncle and Chao Zhenshan!
Not only did he not dodge, but he used himself as bait and stepped into this killing situation! Just to force Ye Linyuan to show up!
To get irrefutable proof of their collusion! To... take advantage of their strategy and kill them in one fell swoop!
“Brother——!!!” Hua Jinyue cried out in grief and anger. The huge fear and heartache almost made her collapse.
"Are you crazy?! It was an explosion! It was on the high seas! You will die! You almost died!" She felt heartbroken when she thought of her brother covered in blood and dying when he was rescued.
Ye Qingliu looked at his sister's tears as she collapsed. A very subtle fluctuation flashed across the depths of his gray-blue eyes, but was quickly covered by a deeper coldness.
He twitched the corner of his mouth slightly, an almost cruel self-deprecating arc:
"Dead?... Cough cough..." He suppressed his cough twice, and a trace of blood foam overflowed from his lips. Sun Guixiang was so scared that she quickly wiped it with a towel.
He slowed down, his voice lower, but with a determination to risk his life:
"How can you make a venomous snake reveal its weakest point... without putting yourself... to death?"
"If I'm not injured... badly enough... how can I make everyone believe... that I'm truly... defenseless?"
"How can I let Second Uncle...get carried away...impatiently...use his final...killing move?"
He looked at Awei: "Have you recruited those three 'doctors and nurses'?"
A fierce glint flashed in A Wei's eyes. "Admit it! Even the toughest bones can't stand it! It was the Second Master who ordered this! He used funds from his secret overseas account!"
"The order was given via a one-time encrypted satellite phone! It was less than an hour after the news of your awakening was announced! He couldn't wait!"
"Very good." Ye Qingliu uttered the two words very lightly, with a cold light flashing in his eyes.
He looked at Hua Jinyue, who was in tears, again, and his voice was soothing, but still as cold as iron:
"Jinyue...don't cry. Now...is not the time to cry."
"The Viper... has been completely... exposed."
"It's time to...close the net."
He raised the hand that was not connected to the IV with difficulty and motioned Awei to come closer.
Awei immediately leaned over to listen.
Ye Qingliu gave the order in an extremely weak voice:
"First... all evidence... backed up... encrypted... at the highest level..."
"Second... contact... our deepest 'nail' within the Chao family... activate... deliver the truth about 'Panshi's' death... and the surveillance footage of Chao Zhenshan clearing the air-raid shelter... somehow... to Ling Yue..."
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