Inhumane

It was clear that La Hiena made alliances with other mafia lords, which irritated and brought pride to the Qings. Irritated because now they made more enemies. It brought pride to them that La Hiena had to get others involved just because they took out the Chengshi drug market.

As much as the Qings did not want anybody dipping toes in their affairs, it was clear that they needed friends now more than ever. If they wanted to make sure that what happened to Qing Lok would not be repeated, they had to know which ones were on their side.

Qing Chen had been locked in a spare room on the first floor, dialing up numbers all day, racking his brain with all the languages he had learned, and by the time that he was done, it was already sundown. He was curing a migraine, but he felt accomplished with the successful phone calls.