I pushed the door open on tiptoe and looked around, surprised that there were no guards standing around.
Strange, were the people of Blackwater so confident that they weren’t afraid I would run out?
But not only were the people of the Blackwater Cottage gone, even Han Kun was also gone. I listened carefully with my ears open, but there was no sound at all in the courtyard of the Cottage Master, as if no one was there.
I thought the people must be surrounded outside, but who knew that when I ran outside to take a look, there was no one outside either.
That’s a hell of a thing, where were the people?
I dared not be careless and carefully slipped around the fortress against the wall, not encountering a single person. Unlike last night when the fortress was heavily guarded, today in broad daylight there was not a single person in the fortress.
Damn it, where was everyone?
Something was wrong!
I took a leap of faith and dared to go into the house of a man who was empty.
Something wasn’t right! I ran around and looked everywhere, but apart from a few dogs barking at me, I didn’t meet anyone.
The cottage was empty!
All the valuable things in everyone’s house had been packed away, and there were car ruts at the entrance to the cottage where the cars had left.
This place is accessible by buggy if you have to drive, even though there are no roads.
Standing at the edge of the cliff, I willingly saw Han Kun’s wildly running figure. He must have noticed that the fortress was empty and chased after him.
I was covered in cold sweat, and all at once I figured out the cause and effect.
From the beginning, they didn’t want to sign any equity transfer letter, they used this trick just to get Huang Mao to stabilize us.
The people in the fortress knew very well that the two of us would try to escape by any means possible. With all the people in the fortress evacuated there would be no one to watch us, and we would soon find a way to escape.
That’s why they had fooled Huang Mao to stabilise us, who was an outcast from the very beginning.
They didn’t trust Huang Mao, so they started by having him come to us to sign the equity agreement. Huang Mao said that he would let us go if we signed it, but in fact it was not Huang Mao who lied to us, but Blackwater Village who lied to Huang Mao.
They couldn’t imagine that Huang Mao was a fool and honestly just came in and signed it for us.
What’s more, Han Kun had long seen through the group’s retreat, so he found a way to entrap Huang Mao, and his claim that his signature would only be useful should be a lie to Huang Mao, because Han Kun didn’t have any equity in his hands at all.
The only one who really fell for it was Huang Mao.
I must find Han Kun and the Blackwater Cottage people!
It’s not that simple, they think they can play with other people’s lives and then not be responsible? No way, I must find them and make them pay!
The Blackwater Cottage has withdrawn without a single person left, nothing of value is left and I don’t know where they are actually planning to go.
But Han Kun must know!
I followed in Han Kun’s footsteps, although Han Kun was half an hour ahead of me, but that half an hour meant nothing to me.
To a real special forces soldier, I could have found him even if I had let him go three hours ahead.
I hadn’t slept for two nights, my eyelids were so heavy they were fighting, and my legs no longer felt like my own, but like two numb crutches, moving tirelessly.
We used to go on long raids when we were snow leopards, and this level was really nothing. Once we were in the primeval forest, Han Kun would be even slower and I would soon be able to catch up with him.
As I expected, it wasn’t long before Han Kun turned into the primeval forest.
He was chasing after the Blackwater Walled City, which is also known to the police, and these people would not dare to arrogantly take the official national highway, so drilling the primitive forest was the inevitable choice.
Once we entered the primeval forest, the distance between me and Han Kun narrowed considerably, and at the smallest distance between us, I could almost touch the back of Han Kun’s head.
Han Kun was more than tired, but what surprised me was that he was so good at it that I reckoned he was only slightly worse than me.
How many secrets did Han Kun have and what was the need to hide the fact that he knew kung fu from others?
After chasing him for more than three hours, we arrived at a hollow where Blackwater stopped.
I could not see the shadow of Blackwater County, but I could faintly hear the sound of a large group of them talking.
Probably the people in the fort thought it was safe here and that Han Kun and I couldn’t catch up for a while, so they were all in a relaxed frame of mind, some cooking and fetching water, and some at the sensible camp, intending to pitch their tents for the night.
I went around to Han Kun’s left and hid directly to the east of the Blackwater stronghold, so that no one noticed that Han Kun and I had been ambushed.
The big, red-faced man, as Yellow Hair called him, was at that moment tying up a row of men with black-zippered sacks one by one and making them sit crouched on the ground.
I swept a glance at the blindfolded men, who, judging by their size, were both old and young.
All these people were scared, but none of them cried out in panic, including the children.
Big Pillar’s face was all happy as he smiled and said to the old man beside him, “The direct descendants of the Yin family are all here, bring them back to Brother Jiang, and our whole fortress will be free from worries about food and clothing in the future.”
The old man was pleasantly surprised: “Is it really such a good thing?”
“That’s a good thing, uncle, you don’t know how valuable the descendants of the Yin family are in the jianghu. There are plenty of people in the seven great clans who want them. You don’t know about the other clans, you always know about the Ji family.”
“Is it the Ji of the Ji family village where we used to live?”
“Yes, it’s the same Ji. This Ji family, ah, used to be the number one prestigious family in the jianghu. Later on, he was jealous of the Yin family’s money and adopted the youngest son of the Yin family at that time. I heard that after the Yin family was wiped out, the family in charge gave all their family fortune to this youngest son, and the Ji family wanted to swallow people’s family fortune, so they adopted this youngest son. Then guess what, several other families unified and beat the Ji family to the point of near extinction!”
“Really?”
“He’s an old man in the jianghu world, he studied with the Ji family when he was young, he knows all these things!”
I wasn’t surprised to hear Jiang Ming’s name, I would have been more surprised if Jiang Ming hadn’t done this.
But I was even more surprised that those people were descendants of the Yin family, I thought they were descendants of the Ji family.
Then Han Kun said that these people were his family, could it be that Han Kun was a member of the Yin family?
Before Qiu Daqiang died, he said that Han Kun had changed his surname, which was correct.
Also, if he was really a Yin family member, he lived in my mother’s house for a while, so it would make sense that he was a childhood friend.
Han Kun is a Yin family member?
The way he was so determined and cold when he killed someone made sense.
So, all these years, Han Kun had built a villa in the mountains not for himself, but to hide Yin’s family.
The Yin family was now weak and had left behind a large fortune, which would indeed make people in the jianghu eyes red, so instead of showing their faces, they should find a mountain to hide in.
But there is one thing that doesn’t make sense. Back then, Chen Yu Zhou, a side branch of the Yin family, was able to get the support of the Yin family’s original family, and I was almost killed by the Yin family.
Why do these few remaining seedlings of the Yin family still need Han Kun’s protection, while their own people are nowhere to be found?
I was feeling strange when Han Kun had already stepped into the sight of Blackwater Cottage.
When everyone saw Han Kun, they were startled, especially Big Pillar, who stammered in fear: “How did you follow me here?”
