Chapter 98 Doctrine
When Cheng Zheng arrived at the bar, he happened to run into Luo Huayi and Han Wei getting up and walking out.
When Luo Huayi's assistant came to see him, Han Wei smiled and said goodbye to Luo Huayi, "Mr. Luo, our church will be preaching in the chapel tomorrow. If you are interested, you can come and take a look."
Just as Luo Huayi was about to refuse, she heard Han Wei instruct his secretary, "Investigate that lady named Xin Que and see if she would do us the honor of visiting the church."
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"Mr. Luo," Cheng Zheng said in a low voice when they were alone, "Miss Xin is alright, do you want to go see her?"
Luo Huayi walked into the still nearly empty guest room corridor. "Go."
Ji Mingchuan had fallen into a deep sleep in the second bedroom of the suite when he was suddenly awakened by a knock on the door.
Luo Hua saw Xin Que open the door and was about to ask her what she had experienced after boarding the cruise ship when he saw the door to the secondary bedroom not far from her open quietly. Then, the murderous man from the arena stood behind Xin Que and looked at him.
White Dragon.
Luo Huayi “…”
I feel like I'm being treated as a threat by the White Dragon.
Cheng Zheng once again entered the suite where Xin Que was temporarily staying and sat down with practiced ease.
Luo Huayi looked at the suite, whose layout was almost identical to their room, and then at Xin Que sitting on the sofa opposite him. "Shall we exchange information?"
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"Is Han Wei the only son of the leader of the Eternal Life Sect?" Xin Que heard a completely different statement from Luo Huayi compared to Jin Dong's.
Before entering the arena, Chairman Jin told her that the Han family was just an ordinary and insignificant small conglomerate in their country, and that eliminating Han Wei seemed to be a simple task that could be accomplished easily in Chairman Jin's words.
“That Chairman Jin… Jin Doucai lied to you.” Luo Huayi frowned deeply. “In the country where the Han family is located, the Eternal Life Cult is one of the largest cults. It has been embroiled in scandals involving human sacrifices but has never received any substantial punishment. And the Han family, relying on the Eternal Life Cult to amass wealth and their network of connections, has long since become one of the top conglomerates in their country…”
"Asking you to get rid of Han Wei is less like sending you to your death."
“I observed this when we were in the arena. Han Wei had no fewer than dozens of bodyguards, both overt and covert, not to mention the mercenaries he brought with him.”
Xin Que wrote down all the information she had obtained, trying to find out the truth about how the arena had used her.
"Why would Han Wei approach you?" Xin Que asked. "According to you, your two companies shouldn't have any overlapping businesses, right?"
Luo Huayi was also completely baffled. "I don't know. His friendly behavior was completely inexplicable and without any reason... I talked to him from the arena to the bar, but I couldn't get any information out of him."
"This person... just seems easygoing, but he's incredibly cunning."
There was another knock at the door.
The group exchanged glances, and finally, Xin Que gestured for Ji Mingchuan to go and open the door.
The seats where Luo Huayi and Cheng Zheng were sitting were completely hidden by the entrance hall, so there was no need to worry about their whereabouts being revealed.
Ji Mingchuan closed the door and turned back, handing the invitation to Xin Que. "It was sent by Han Wei's men."
“They’re having a sermon in the chapel tomorrow morning,” Ji Mingchuan relayed the secretary’s words, “and they’re inviting you to come.”
He said... he would do everything he could to ensure your safety.
Luo Hua thought of Han Wei's invitation, "He also invited me, but I didn't give him a clear answer... Should we go?"
Xin Que looked at the solemn and dignified gold-embossed patterns on the invitation and said in a deep voice, "Of course I have to go. After all, my mission now is to get close to Han Wei... and find an opportunity to get rid of him."
"Should we remain strangers?" Luo Huayi asked.
"Yes, one should always leave oneself a way out." Xin Que always felt that there was some secret hidden in the entanglement of the three forces: the arena, Han Wei of the Eternal Life Cult, and the Eternal Life Society of Exorcising Calamity.
However, they currently have too little information.
After Luo Huayi and Cheng Zheng left, Xin Que listed all the information they currently had on the whiteboard.
"The Eternal Life Society originated from the Eternal Life Cult, but now it is on the opposite side of the Eternal Life Cult."
"The cruise ship is on the surface friendly with the Eternal Life Society, but now it wants to use me and this church to target Han Wei, the only son of the Eternal Life Society leader."
What would the gladiatorial arena and the Victoria Corporation behind it gain by eliminating Han Wei?
Merchants don't get up early for nothing; the reason they go to such lengths is simply because the Eternal Life Cult itself offers such tempting profits.
Ji Mingchuan stared at the information Xin Que had listed on the whiteboard and suddenly spoke up, “Regarding the Eternal Life Cult… before the Chang family’s Xuanhe Hall was disbanded, I was by the head of the family’s side and had dealings with people from the Eternal Life Cult.”
Xin Que looked at Ji Mingchuan, signaling him to continue.
Ji Mingchuan carefully recalled the past events, "At that time, it was shortly after the scandal of the Eternal Life Cult's human sacrifice, which Luo Huayi mentioned, was exposed."
"The mysterious death case at the construction site of the Han family's Liteng Group?" Xin Que found a news article online and asked Ji Mingchuan.
Ji Mingchuan nodded. "Actually, the speculations circulating online are pretty much correct. The fact that those dozen or so workers were all hanged was because the cult leader, Han Chengyuan, wanted to use their influence to benefit the Liteng Group."
"These words were spoken by Han Chengyuan himself when he met with the head of the Chang family."
The workers' families have been appealing and seeking media exposure, running around trying to get justice for their deceased loved ones.
However, Han Sung-won, the group leader and church president who was deeply embroiled in public opinion controversy, leisurely took a private plane to another country to meet with gangsters.
Ji Mingchuan recalled the scene at the time, "Han Chengyuan escaped after getting wind of the situation. According to him, the case would not have any impact on him at all. He had already discussed with his superiors and arranged for the second-in-command to go in and take over for a while. Once the public opinion calmed down, the Eternal Life Sect would remain as prosperous as ever."
"I remember that second-in-command's name was... Li Zhonghan. He only served two years in prison before being released, but he died in a car accident not long after."
"Was I used as a scapegoat, or did I fake my death?" Xin Que subconsciously thought of these two possibilities.
Ji Mingchuan shook his head. "I don't know about that, but the Exorcism and Immortality Society will start to emerge in the small southern country... around the time of Li Zhonghan's death."
"So at the time, there was a lot of speculation in the industry that Li Zhonghan had a car accident on the surface, but in reality he had taken a lot of core members and fled abroad to start his own business, establishing the Eternal Life Society."
"Although the two churches have many things in common in their doctrines, such as believing that human life is a medium for communicating with God... their practices are very different. For example, the methods of the Exorcism and Eternal Life Church to amass wealth and expand are not limited to proselytizing, but also include black market activities such as arms trafficking, organ trafficking, and human trafficking."
"Therefore, many people speculate that the Exorcism and Eternal Life Society's violent expansion is an attempt to squeeze out the Eternal Life Cult."
"But these are all just speculations, there is no evidence."
“Therefore, the relationship between the Eternal Life Cult and the Eternal Life Society, besides the doctrinal conflict mentioned by Luo Huayi, also involves a layer of suspicious hatred,” Xin Que added.
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