Chapter 3229 — The Ancient Black Horse Society
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"This is he. You must be Feng Tianhu of the ancient Feng family?" Brother Dian was the third-ranking elder of the Black Horse Society and the one in charge of external liaison. Every time he exchanged contact details with someone, he saved theirs carefully, so the moment Feng Tianhu's call came through, Brother Dian knew who he was.
"Yes, yes, it's me—Brother Dian still remembers me!" Feng Tianhu was surprised and delighted. He naturally knew nothing of Brother Dian's habits and assumed he must be quite a somebody: "Brother Dian, this time I have a matter on which I'd like the Black Horse Society's help!"
"You know the terms, I take it? Besides the fee, whether the job succeeds or fails, you must agree to one condition of ours!" Brother Dian said. "Of course, we'll assess the manpower we send and the fee according to the difficulty of the task you describe. We don't want the job to fail either—failure hurts our reputation too!"
"Good that you understand." Brother Dian went on: "Go on, then. What is it?"
"Help me kill some people—three in all," Feng Tianhu said.
"Who?" Brother Dian showed not the least surprise; after all, murder and robbery were his trade.
"One is the old director of the Songshan Orphanage. The other two are my second brother, Feng Tianqi, and my nephew, Feng Shihua," Feng Tianhu said.
"The old director of the orphanage? We don't move against ordinary people. The other two are fine!" Brother Dian said at once. "Striking at ordinary people brings too much trouble. It's not that we shrink from it, but Songshan City is a trouble-prone place, and it's very close to Donghai City. You should know about Wei Zhao—that's a man we don't want to provoke!"
The Black Horse Society had sharp ears as well. Donghai City and Songshan City were both Wei Zhao's home turf; to go running over there and strike at an ordinary man would be asking for trouble. So they did their best to stay out of such affairs.
"That old director of the orphanage is my second brother Feng Tianqi's lover, and a top-tier expert at the peak of the late Earth rank—not an ordinary person!" Feng Tianhu said. "That's exactly what I want to warn you about: avoid any clash with Wei Zhao if you can. After you kill the old director, hide yourselves and wait for my second brother and nephew to come deal with the aftermath—then strike at them! I'll be frank with you: if you insist on crossing Wei Zhao, don't blame it on me!"
"This job of yours carries too much risk!" Brother Dian did not know that the old director was Xu Shilan's mother, nor had he connected Xu Shilan with the old director. But Donghai City and Songshan City alone were enough to make him unwilling to take the job.
"This is a chain of tasks. If the old director doesn't die, Feng Tianqi and Feng Shihua will never leave our ancient Feng family, and you'll never be able to kill them!" Feng Tianhu said. "And once they're dead, I will be the heir to the headship of the ancient Feng family. Wouldn't a promise from me then carry far more weight? The promise of the head of an ancient family and the promise of an ordinary member are naturally not the same thing—nor can they accomplish the same things."
"There's sense in what you say." Brother Dian hesitated a moment, then nodded...