30: Chapter 29: Guess What 30: Chapter 29: Guess What Ah Ming sat down again, picked up the teacup in front of him, and slowly sipped his tea.
The anxious expression on his face gradually faded away, and he beca much more composed.
Then, he said to Danny, “I’m leaving.”
Danny smiled and replied, “Be careful.”
Ah Ming looked at Yang Yi with a aningful gaze for a mont, then stood up and left the private room.
Once Ah Ming had left, Yang Yi eagerly said to Danny, “Mr.
Danny, can you help us sort this out?”
Danny filled Yang Yi’s teacup with tea, then smiled and said, “Not necessarily, this ti the situation is a bit complicated.
Three different powers all want to kill you two, and I can’t guarantee your safety, but I’ll do my best.
At least with , you don’t have to worry about losing your life.”
With Danny’s promise, Yang Yi felt much more at ease.
He thanked Danny and drained the tea in front of him with one gulp.
As soon as the tea entered his stomach, a rumbling noise started coming from it.
“Hungry?”
“No, ah, yes, I’m hungry.”
Yang Yi was very hungry indeed.
He hadn’t had a bite to eat since lunch and up until now.
Now that his extre tension had finally relaxed a bit, his stomach began to protest.
“The ginger scallion lobster noodles in our restaurant are quite good, you should try them, just wait a mont,” Danny suggested.
Danny left the private room, and Yang Yi took a deep breath.
Even now, he still couldn’t completely shake off the tension of being hunted down, although this Danny seed very capable and confident in dealing with the problems Yang Yi faced.
It wasn’t long before Danny returned.
Danny’s face was always smiling, but his smile was genuine, not a professional one, and it gave people confidence.
“The noodles will be here soon.
Eat, and then get a good night’s sleep.
Wait for tomorrow to see how things develop,” Danny advised.
Yang Yi was a bit surprised and blurted out, “Sleep?
I’m not tired, I shouldn’t be sleeping in this situation, should I?”
Danny laughed and said, “You can’t do anything else, so you might as well sleep and rejuvenate your spirits.
Here with , you don’t have to worry about safety issues.”
Yang Yi nodded dumbly, then he rembered sothing and said urgently, “Mr.
Danny…”
Danny raised his hand, laughing, “Don’t call Mr.
Danny, Danny is fine, or you can call Captain, the guys all like to call that.”
Yang Yi said urgently, “Captain, all of my companions are dead, and their bodies are still at ho.
I’d like to ask for your advice on whether I can take care of their affairs.
I can’t just leave them like that.”
Danny beca serious and said in a deep voice, “You’re still thinking about dealing with their bodies?
Forget that idea.
Once people are dead, they leave nothing behind.
The police will handle it.
All you need to do is stay here quietly and wait for news.
Trust , as soon as you step out of this restaurant’s door, soone will kill you imdiately!”
While they were talking, the waiter brought over a bowl of noodles and a stack of side dishes.
Danny gestured towards Yang Yi and said with a smile, “Please, help yourself, don’t be shy.”
Yang Yi really was starving, so he wolfed down a bowl of lobster noodles, then wiped his mouth and said with lingering satisfaction, “Really good, the taste is amazing!”
After wiping his mouth and setting the noodle bowl aside, Yang Yi said solemnly, “Captain, I want to know if the people chasing us could bring danger to you?
If they find out about this place, it will be very dangerous.”
Danny smiled and replied, “Don’t worry, this is my territory.
No one, no one dares to ss with Dark Night Knight’s ground.”
Yang Yi was stunned, “Dark Night Knight?”
Danny smiled and said, “You were very young when your father died, so you might not have heard this na.”
Yang Yi scratched his head and murmured, “Oh, I just thought the na sounded quite imposing…”
Danny laughed bitterly and quickly replied, “Who hasn’t been young before?
We all thought the na was quite good back in the day, now, cough cough, it still has an imposing feel to it, haha.”
Yang Yi chuckled along for a few monts, then he cautiously asked, “Captain, are you spies?”
Danny glanced at Yang Yi, then shook his head and said, “No.”
Yang Yi was sowhat disappointed and embarrassed.
He felt that his question had been too probing and sensitive, one that he shouldn’t have asked at all.
To his surprise, Danny spoke calmly, “We’re not spies.
The job of a spy isn’t sothing we can do.
What are we, then?
Killers, rcenaries, bodyguards—basically, we specialize in the rough stuff.
As long as there’s money involved, we’ll do any kind of job.”
Yang Yi was taken aback and said, “Killers?”
Danny laughed and said, “Not full-ti killers, but we don’t mind taking on so of the killer’s jobs now and then.
Also, this restaurant is Dark Night Knight territory.
Nobody dares to ss around here.
I allowed you in, which ans I’m protecting you.
Rest assured, at least in London, nobody dares to ignore my presence and take you out.”
Yang Yi sincerely said, “Thank you for telling all this.”
Danny smiled and said, “No problem.
It’s not a big secret.
London’s underworld knows this is a public fact.
Otherwise, why do you think they don’t dare to co in?
They know they can enter, but if they cause trouble, they’ll face full retaliation from Dark Night Knight.”
Yang Yi nodded, and Danny continued with a smile, “Your father was in the intelligence business.
When I first arrived in London, I had a tough ti surviving.
It’s never easy for Chinese people to make it on their own overseas, let alone in the underworld.
Back then, I offended soone I shouldn’t have, and I nearly got wiped out.
Four of the Dark Night eighteen knights died.
It was your father who helped .
Then he introduced to a lot of good business, and always charged a reasonable fee.
Although I did so jobs for him occasionally, he always paid , and the price was always fair.”
After saying this, Danny spoke very seriously, “So, I am willing to repay a favor to your father.
He died early, so I would rather repay that favor to his son.
Why is Ah Ming willing to help you?
Because without your father, he would have been dead!”
Yang Yi said softly, “Regardless, I still want to thank you for being willing to help .”
Danny shook his head, his voice grave, “I told you all this to make you understand one thing: I can help you unconditionally and at any cost, but as for the woman you brought here, that’s where it ends.
We will perform surgery on her to save her life, but by tomorrow morning, she must leave.”
Yang Yi was startled and asked, “Why?”
Danny said gravely, “Because you’re Yang Sheng’s son, she isn’t.
And frankly, the trouble you’ve gotten into this ti is too big.
We might not be able to handle it.
We can barely manage to keep you safe.
Protecting both of you is not impossible, but I’m not willing to pay too high a price for a stranger with no connection to us.”
Yang Yi was shocked, but he couldn’t say anything to Danny, nor could he bear any resentnt towards him.
One keeps a favor but harbors enmity over a displeasure.
Danny could help him unconditionally, or not at all.
Yang Yi couldn’t resent Danny for not helping him just because he was capable.
After all, Danny didn’t owe him anything—if anything, the debt was to his father.
Moreover, Danny was willing to help out of gratitude to Yang Yi’s father, but he was not willing to extend that to a stranger, so Yang Yi couldn’t criticize him for that.
But could Yang Yi just abandon Kate?
Clearly, he could not.
“I can’t just leave her…”
Finally, Yang Yi said this with a sense of helplessness.
Danny said sternly, “I’ve got a bunch of brothers.
Not all of them owe your father favors, and I’m not going to drag them all into my personal debts.
I’m sorry, but I can’t help you unconditionally.
My principle is this: you, I’ll keep you safe and sound; everyone else, they have nothing to do with .”
Yang Yi said softly, “Isn’t there any other solution?”
Danny exhaled and said, “We have so reputation in the underworld, but we’re not omnipotent.
You need to realize that you’ve provoked the Masser Group and the Cicero Family wants to silence you.
It’s still unknown which assassin organization wants to take you out for the bounty.
With so many people wanting you dead…”
Shaking his head, Danny continued in a low voice, “We still don’t know how these three parties will react, but I think the situation won’t be good.
My plan is to return the stolen evidence to the Masser Group.
In the best-case scenario, the Masser Group might let you off on account of my face, and then the assassin organization would back off.
As for the Cicero Family, if handled properly, maybe they will pretend nothing ever happened.
But that’s the best outco, and I feel it’s unlikely to happen.”
Yang Yi imdiately said anxiously, “I am willing to return the evidence, and I am willing to make it look like there was a mole among us, and not that we were betrayed by the Cicero Family.
As long as this whole affair can be dropped, anything’s fine.”
Danny sighed with resignation and said, “A wise choice.
If things can indeed end as you say, I might incidentally save your friend.
However, it’s a pity that I feel this matter cannot end simply.
It’s still too early to speak of this, let’s wait for news and see how the three parties react.”
Yang Yi frowned and said, “Why?
The whole issue started because of intelligence.
Isn’t it enough if the Masser Group accomplishes its goal?”
Danny gave a bitter smile and said, “You killed two people?”
“Yes…”
Danny took a breath and said, “Killers usually don’t take revenge for such matters.
But I’m worried about the Masser family.
Let put it this way, when the Masser family sought assassins, they requested to kill everyone in the singer group, promising a paynt of ten million US dollars upon completion.
Usually, in London, a job this big needs at least ten million US dollars to start.
Now here’s the problem: you and Kate are still alive.
Guess what, how do you think the Masser Group is going to react?”
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