In the dark sewers, Yuan He stood there, staring in the direction where Chu Ge's figure disappeared, his expression difficult to describe.
He had been standing like this for a while, with Chu Ge's words still echoing in his ears, even the sound of Chu Ge's departing footsteps was still so clear.
"In ten days, I will await you on an unnad island in the open sea under the na 'Overlord'."
"This news will spread within twenty-four hours, and who knows how many people will co to the island to take my head in ten days. Haha, just thinking about it is a little exciting."
"To be honest, I don't dislike you at all. I hope by that ti you won't appear in front of again. Last ti I didn't manage to kill you; this ti, I don't want to kill you, but next ti... who knows if you'll have the sa luck."
"Why such a look? As the first witness to many things and the first person to hear the coordinates of that island from my mouth, I think you should feel quite honored, haha..."
Four hours later, in South Korea, Busan, in a top-tier conference room on the top floor of an eighty-eight-story building.
All the top leaders of the Seven Evil Stars gathered, the atmosphere indescribably tense, except for the leader who subconsciously tapped his fingers on the conference table, there wasn't a single sound.
On both sides of the conference table, many had sweat on their foreheads, slightly lowering their heads, looking at their entwined hands, the air seed to have weight, making each of their breaths difficult.
Everyone was contemplating the sa question: should they release this news brought by Yuan He.
The Seven Evil Stars was indeed quite famous locally, but if placed on a global scale, it wouldn't matter much. If this news was false, then... it wouldn't just be an international joke for the Seven Evil Stars.
The sudden ring of a telephone broke the silence, Li Hutai at the head seat glanced at the number, his pupils contracted sharply, he picked up the phone, and a dozen seconds later, he hung up with a complex expression.
It seed that they didn't need to worry about the authenticity of this issue anymore, because the caller carried absolute weight, and the ssage he brought completely matched Yuan He's words.
Next, they needed to consider whether they should send people to stand on that stage and dance with many bigwigs.
In Japan, Tokyo, inside a seemingly inconspicuous dojo, a middle-aged man with a cultured appearance took off his glasses, picked up an ancient katana from the sword rack, slowly unsheathing it, and gently wiped the blade with a white handkerchief.
In the United Kingdom, inside a cold, eerie castle, an old man with white hair turned off a video call, gently twirling the wine glass in his hand counterclockwise, then drank the blood-red wine in the glass in one go.
In Thailand, in an ancient temple, a young monk bowed thrice to a Buddha statue, then took a deep breath, removed his robe, revealing countless ferocious scars over his body.
...
Five days after Chu Chengrui's death and the underground research facility was destroyed.
Beneath the ebb and flow of the waves, one person stepped on a small plank and was carried ashore with the tide.
The current Chu Ge looked like a wild man, wearing nothing but underwear, with his originally standard Asian skin tone turned darker.
After jumping off a stowaway ship that he had sneaked onto, two days had passed, with sea winds blowing and sun exposure, it's no wonder he got darker.
Luckily, he had picked up a small wooden plank asuring one ter by half a ter on the sea surface, likely a piece of a fishing boat wreck, while he could have reached here without it, having such a plank certainly saved him a lot of trouble.
Setting foot on solid ground again, Chu Ge moved his body a bit and looked around.
Hmm, this island hadn't changed much since a few years ago. From the sky, it resembled a scorpion, and he was now at the location of the scorpion's tail. The whole island covered less than ten square kiloters, with wildflowers, wild grass, and a small mountain not too steep, adorned with a forest not particularly dense but certainly not sparse.
If one had to ntion any changes, it would be that when Chu Ge visited last ti, there wasn't a small yacht anchored by the shore.
In this desolate place, crawling with venomous insects and snakes, it's clearly not suitable for leisure or wandering, but rather suitable for things that can't be done in public.
Chu Ge ca with this purpose, and the people on the yacht evidently had the sa purpose, as the island was in international waters, and the yacht didn't fly any national flag, aning they wanted to resolve so disputes in their own way.
Staring at the yacht docked ashore, Chu Ge slightly curled his lips. So people really can't hold their bait, clearly agreeing ten days later, yet they arrived before half the ti had passed.
This shows how eager the yacht owners are to take his head.
But so what?
Not to ntion how hard it is to take Chu Ge's head, even if he stood before those early arrivers, offering his head, they wouldn't dare to pluck a strand of his hair.
The only thing they could do now was to familiarize themselves with the terrain of this small island ahead of ti.
Because apart from Chu Ge and those who wanted his head, there would be a neutral force arriving here to witness and arbitrate this life-and-death battle.
If he turned into a corpse before this representative of the force arrived, it would be a bother only unwarranted for any person or force present early on this island.
It was also the reason why Chu Ge publicly revealed his identity as 'Overlord', declaring war on any individual or force eager to see him dead.
When this deadly battle ends under the witness of that super bigwig, all grievances between him and those forces or individuals would be written off. If he survives then, unless those forces or individuals behave irrationally, no one would dare to trouble him or his family and friends.
If anyone dared to do so, then that person, along with the force behind him, would be defying the super bigwig's authority, and the consequence would likely be disappearing from this world forever, as if they had never existed.
This was the true purpose of Chu Ge's declaration of war this ti; seemingly full of bravado, even madness, it was actually a desperate, last-resort strategy.
Since returning to Lidu, Chu Ge had always hoped he could live a peaceful and simple life, but after doing so things that had to be done, he gradually accepted a fact: the life he wanted seed to be slowly drifting away from him.
For instance, he rely taught a lesson to soone challenging Li Nan's Taekwondo Karate dojo and ended up entangled with the Seven Evil Stars; who could have anticipated that?
Or, he only suspected Chu Chengrui, but then got sucked into a crazy sche known as the 'Biological Revolution'; again, who could have foreseen that?
In terms of managing his life, Chu Ge once thought he could master a balance, but it was increasingly beyond him, as if an invisible hand continually destroyed this balance he tried carefully to maintain, first tearing a gash, then turning it into a big hole.
When Chu Chengrui's underground research facility was destroyed, Chu Ge had no doubt that this balance had completely collapsed, and he was now exposed under many people's watchful eyes.
This ant that not just him but any family or friends around him would be shrouded in danger.
Since he couldn't continue to hide, Chu Ge decided to stand up openly, allowing all enemies to focus their attention on him, then let that super bigwig serve as the witness and arbitrator of this mortal battle, further guaranteeing the safety of his family and friends.
And this super bigwig soon to be the witness and arbitrator of the death match was the Tongsheng Association.
'Tongsheng Association' was a brotherhood organization with religious undertones, also the largest secret society globally, advocating love, charity, virtues, and pursuing humanity's survival aning. Its origins are mysterious, with no definite explanation; the most plausible theory is it originated in the 'Year of Light' around 4000 BC.
In history's long river, many famous figures and politicians were mbers of the Tongsheng Association, such as Voltaire, Montesquieu, Goethe, Haydn, Beethoven, Mozart, Frederick the Great, Washington, Franklin, Mark Twain, Conan Doyle...
The influence of Tongsheng Association on the world is still enormous today; its power is so imnse that no one can clearly articulate its extent.
As for why Tongsheng Association would help Chu Ge, it was because Zhan Ge, the president of the Hua War Association, whom Chu Ge had once protected, was also a high-ranking mber of Tongsheng Association.
Zhan Ge once promised Chu Ge that if one day Chu Ge encountered any unsolvable problems, he could ask for his help. Though many issues can't be solved by him or Hua War Association, only a few can't be solved by Tongsheng Association.
So this ti, Chu Ge employed this grand favor.
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