Chapter 222: Undying, Unrelenting

"I don't know."

Pan Liang said bitterly, "I'm not lying to you; I truly don't know who he is. He only sent me a text message, and the number was encrypted. He can contact me, but I can't contact him."

"Is that so? Where's your phone?"

"It's right there in the right pocket of my pants."

"Be honest."

After Jiang Cheng warned him, he reached into his pants pocket, fumbled around, and found a phone.

After obtaining the password, he unlocked the phone.

He tapped the text message.

Sure enough, the latest message was from when he left the Kuangfeng Martial Arts School gate; its content also described his attire.

"So that guy was nearby at the time, watching me walk out."

Jiang Cheng squinted his eyes.

A chill rose up his back.

"Yeah, I think the same, but his identity is highly secret; only the people above me know."

Jiang Cheng looked at him, but swallowed the words that were about to leave his mouth.

After all, the people above that guy aren't stupid; they wouldn't reveal something so important.

"Brother, I've said everything I needed to. If you want to kill me, just give me a quick death; just don't torture me."

Pan Liang pleaded, "If you agree, I can give you another clue."

"What clue?"

"Anyone on our Blood Hand Society's list, unless the employer cancels the contract, the assassination won't stop, even if you're a member of the Dawn Society."

"So, we just need to find the employer behind it?"

"You could say that, but the Blood Hand Society would never betray its employer; otherwise, how could we take orders in the future?"

Pan Liang stared at Jiang Cheng, looking as if he saw through everything.

In fact, he wasn't.

He knew he couldn't survive, which is why he cooperated like this.

Yet deep down he strongly hoped to see Jiang Cheng killed by the assassins the Blood Hand Society would send later.

He just couldn't voice such words; otherwise he'd be asking for trouble.

"Is that so? It might not be that hard."

Jiang Cheng said, and a series of shots struck the opponent's body, one of them hitting the heart directly.

Pan Liang's eyes quickly lost their spark as he fell to the ground.

Jiang Cheng's expression remained solemn.

Killing a Level Three assassin changes nothing.

He alone certainly couldn't stand up to an assassin organization.

Especially when the Society also has its own eyes inside.

Eliminating this one will just bring another, then another, until he himself is killed.

As for the employer behind it, it's most likely the Gym Master of Kuangfeng Martial Arts School; otherwise, why would a killer show up the next day? If his current strength were enough, he could rush over, beat the opponent up, and force them to cancel the assassination contract. The problem is his strength isn't sufficient now, and going would risk a slow death.

So he can only report the situation to the Society and have them warn the other side.

After all, the trouble he got into stems from a mission assigned by the Society; Bing Li and his group can't just stand by.

As for the person on the ground, he definitely can't be left alive.

Keeping him would mean taking him back for interrogation, which would surely expose his own strength.

The next moment, he pulled out his phone and dialed Bing Li.

"Cang Hai? Calling me this late—what's up? Don't tell me you've broken through again."

Bing Li laughed, his voice sounding quite friendly.

"Brother Bing Li, I'm being chased by people from the Blood Hand Society." "What? Blood Hand Society?"

Hearing that, Bing Li's smile froze on his face.

"Cang Hai, what's really going on?"

Jiang Cheng recounted the whole incident, including the ensuing gunfight, and concluded, "Brother Bing Li, I think the employer behind this is most likely the Gym Master of Kuangfeng Martial Arts School, and that assassin, before dying, even admitted that within our Dawn Society there are their planted spies."

"Very possible."

Bing Li's expression also grew serious.

In fact, among the three major organizations in Outer City District, each has its own planted agents; that's no secret.

Doing so both gathers intel on the other side—members, strength distribution, mission trends—and also allows us to strike at promising individuals to prevent them from growing.

The Blood Hand Society has done this, and the Dawn Society does the same.

Therefore, whichever group it is, they must rack their brains to root out the spies.

Just half a year ago, he eliminated an exposed Blood Hand Society spy, and he didn't expect that so soon another person was planted.

"Do you know who that spy is?"

"That assassin doesn't know either, but his phone has a text from them showing my outfit, so that person was also watching me walk out. Following that direction might yield something."

"Hmm, you make sense. By the way, is that assassin still alive?"

"He's already dead; I still want to extract more clues from him."

Jiang Cheng's tone was a bit helpless.

"What a pity."

Bing Li sighed, but even if the other side were still alive, he didn't have much hope.

According to Jiang Cheng, the opponent is only a Second-level Force Warrior and a Level Three Force Warrior; at that tier, they couldn't get hold of much.

"Alright, where are you? I'll send people over right away, bring the corpse back for inspection, maybe we can get something out of it."

Jiang Cheng immediately gave the address.

After hanging up, his gaze fell on the fist glove on the corpse's hand.

His intuition told him this was definitely something good.

Most likely, it's the alloy weapon Ye Ying mentioned.

If he waited for Bing Li and the others to arrive, the item might be taken away or left behind; so he decided to hide it first.

Later, whether he uses it himself or sells it on the Black Market, both are fine.

He concealed the fist glove on his body; a few minutes later, several people rushed over, led by Bing Li.

"No injuries, right?"

Bing Li asked.

"It's fine."

Jiang Cheng smiled.

He handed over the corpse's phone.

Bing Li looked at the messages on the phone and nodded.

"Alright, I understand. I'll search thoroughly to uncover this detail."

Murderous intent flashed in his eyes.

The longer the opponent remains hidden, the greater the loss to the Dawn Society.

And perhaps someday the opponent will turn their scheme against him.

"By the way, Brother Bing Li, I think the one who gave this mission to the Bloodhand Society is the Gym Master of Kuangfeng Martial Arts School. I wonder if we can warn him inside the hall to have him cancel the pursuit against me; after all, I'm only a Second-level Force Warrior—I can dodge the first, but not the fifteenth," Jiang Cheng said with a wry smile.

Moreover, since there are still the opponent's eyes inside the hall now, he no longer plans to go to headquarters in the coming time.

After all, this time the opponent sent only a Level 3 Original Force Warrior; next time it could be Level Four, Level Five, or Level Six.

(End of chapter)