The Top Ten Families in the Capital

Everyone was more or less stimulated to see Xing Feng promoting so fast yesterday. And since most of them were at the peak of Golden Pill Stage and about to either get to the Soul Stage or turn to phase 7 at any time, they discussed and all agreed to stay inside the space for promoting. As for Yun Cheng, he was still drowsy. Leng Yehan fed him some chicken soup and then stayed by the bed to accompany him.

After breakfast, only Yun Che, Xing Feng, Tan Weiye, Mo Wenyang, Ye Xingchen, Jiang Shang, Luo Haitao, Ji Wenxi, and Gu Mingxuan went out from the space to face what they had done to the capital yesterday. Gu Mingxuan was busy contacting others right after he got out of the space. Luo Haitao and Ji Wenxi said goodbye to them and then went back to the Thunderbolt Squad immediately. After learning so much, they seemed to have made up their mind to lead the Thunderbolt Squad to join the Peak, and they couldn't wait to make it happen.

9:00 am, the headquarter of the Military Commission of Section A.

All the powerful ones of the big families in the capital had all presented in the huge conference room. Besides them, there were the new president, Wang Qiang; and the representative of Coast Base, Tan Jianting. A total of 12 armies were stationed in the Capital Base, 3 in each section. Except for the Xing family had two armies, the rest owned one for each. There were 11 big families before, and now only ten left.

In addition to the Xing family, the Mo family, the Ye family, the Shu family, and the Xiao family, there were also the Yan family, the Kong family, the Xue family, the Pang family, and the Tang family. They might seem to mind their businesses on the surface, but they had connections secretly. For example, the Xing family and the Mo family supported each other all the time; although the oldest son in the Xing family and the oldest daughter in the Mo family had divorced, the two families still shared a friendly relationship. The connections among those families were too complicated to understand.

Except for Yun Che and his team, others had all arrived. The older ones remained calm, either closing their eyes to rest or mocking each other; some of the younger ones, however, were pissed to some extent because they believed Yun Che and Xing Feng didn't take them seriously, while the rest younger ones didn't seem annoyed. After all, it was not 9:00 yet.

The moment the clock showed 9:00, the door of the conference room was opened from the outside. The seven of them went in and attracted most of their gazes. Tan Weiye and Mo Wenyang were at the front, looking steadily forward and sitting next to their grandpas respectively; Xing Feng and Yun Che followed them and sat between Senior Mo and Senior Xing; and Gu Mingxuan sat behind them.

"Grandpa Ye, Grandpa Shu."

Ye Xingchen led Jiang Shang to Senior Ye and Senior Shu as he greeted the two, but Jiang Shang didn't like them for using Ye Xingchen and didn't even make a sound.

"Come sit here."

Senior Ye nodded and beckoned Ye Xingchen to sit beside him, and Senior Shu meant the same. But Ye Xingchen shook his head and refused, "I'd better not. We belong to the Peak, so we should join our capital."

After speaking, he held Jiang Shang's hand and walked toward Yun Che, regardless of how the old ones reacted. They then sat next to Gu Mingxuan naturally and didn't care how others might judge them. Most might believe that Ye Xingchen was not dignified to do so since he was the young master of the Ye family, but Ye Xingchen didn't believe the same. He had never taken that identity seriously and didn't mind that the two families were always using him. After all, he could use them as well. All these relationships with them were nothing but tools for mutual benefits, and nothing else really mattered.

"Ahem, ahem. Today, we are holding the meeting mainly because we'd like to know why Master Xing and Capital Yun led your team to forcibly enter Section A and erase both the Lin family and the Liu family. Master Xing, Capital Yun, we are expecting your explanation."

Realizing that things were going wrong, Wang Qiang cleared his throat, trying to draw the attention of others. He then peeked at Yun Che and Xing Feng. Although they worked together, it still had to be a secret on the surface.

"Why the explanation? Who would go crazy and kill so many people if there was nothing bad happened to them? Don't you guys know what kind of a man Liu Xizhao was?"

Before Yun Che and Xing Feng gave any answer, Tan Weiye refuted impatiently. He was so bold and protected them in public.

"Despite Liu Xizhao's character, it's still ruthless to kill all his family members. The peace of the base requires us all to maintain. If anyone could play the game like you guys did, killing people whenever there were private conflicts, the capital would be in a mess!"

A man in his forties wide opened his eyes and refuted. From his name board, they could see he was Pang Guoli. Obviously, he was from the Pang family.

After he said that, the conference room went into silence. Nobody talked and seemed to expect to sound them out. Yun Che winked at Tan Weiye and then stared at Pang Guoli with a smile, "Indeed, General Pang, it would be too much to make such a big mess if it was just about private issues. But I may have a hypothetical question for General Pang, and I wonder if you could give me an answer."

As soon as Yun Che said that, Xing Feng and other team members laughed because they knew he was up to no good. Those who didn't know him well, however, found it weird that he admitted his fault so frankly. They could tell that he had some tricks to play. After all, nobody was a fool. Besides, if Yun Che was really here to apologize, they would be disappointed.

"Go ahead."

Pang Guoli beckoned him to continue the question. He might act normally, but he had never thought of Yun Che as one of his kind.

"I heard that your daughter had married, right, General Pang? Then, what if I say someone in the Peak had a crush on your son-in-law and hadn't stopped assassinating your daughter and grandson because of that? Also, in case your family might take revenge, Peak set you up by all means constantly and tried to get your son killed as well. If this happened to you, what would you do?"

Yun Che put away his smiling face. He didn't mean to set anyone up and wasn't in the mood, either. On the contrary, he simply got their attention and put them in his shoes. But Pang Guoli's face turned dark because of that, glaring at Yun Che for a long time. However, even if he didn't answer, everyone knew what it would be. Anyone as powerful as they were would never stay cool but try their best to revenge. The peace of the base? Well, compared to their dignity, the base was nothing!

"So, Capital Yun, you mean Liu Xizhao had done that to your family?"

The Pang family was kind of in a dilemma at this moment. Senior Pang had to break the ice to save the situation. The short conversation was good enough for him to know that he couldn't afford to offend Yun Che.

"Indeed. Actually, I brought a document here and I'd like to share it with you."

Yun Che didn't deny but followed the topic and said so. Gu Mingxuan took out the documents and distributed them to all the families. They each got a piece of paper, the copy version of the Command Letter Liu Xizhao had sent to Wan Guoqiang to be exact. Although it was indirect evidence, it was good enough for those sophisticated ones to learn the truth.

Noticing that they all had read the file, Yun Che sighed and acted as if he was aggrieved, "Lucky for us, Secretary Wan felt sorry for my family and didn't follow the order. But someone else did, i.e., Lin Hongzhi, the one who had worked in the Southwest Base before. Thanks to him, my brother Yun Cheng almost died because of the energy guns we had made. Well, I have to admit that I'm worried if we should release our research results to the public in the future. Say, if my brother had been killed by the energy guns, how would I have responded?"

Why the hell was he playing pitiful?

That was the complaint everyone had in mind. If he was as easy to be bullied as he claimed, why did he make a mess on the wedding day and even erase two families at a time? If he was aggrieved, nobody in this world was lucky.

Everyone present had a lot to refute him. But given their experiences, none of them showed their emotions clearly. One thing, however, bothered them a bit was what Yun Che had just said in the end. And they all frowned at that. At present, the Southwest Base had the most advanced technologies around the country. But if they refused to keep that a secret, the big families would suffer great losses.

"Then why did you choose yesterday to do it?"

One of the Kong family asked. Yun Che shifted his gaze toward the one and said, "It's not we, but they who chose the day. I assume all of you had learned what had happened to my family yesterday. They almost killed all my family. But I guess there is one thing you don't know yet. They didn't simply kill their way to my villa but also kidnapped my pet and nephew. So, tell me, what would you do if that happened to you? Can you endure this?"

Oh, come on, did he have to include the big families every time?

The rest was speechless. Obviously, Yun Che had offered them a chance to be the judge. Well, as one of those big families who believed they were much better than the ordinary ones, did they have to hesitate to make the decision? Holy crap! If anyone dared to mess with them, erasing the whole family would even be merciful.

One thing that had never occurred to them was that none of them had ever thought about why it was reasonable for them to revenge, but not for Yun Che. So, in the end, they didn't believe that Yun Che was as equal as them. And to put it meanly, they had always looked down upon his family background.

"But those you chased after were either the Liu family or the Lin family."

They had chased after Gao Wei from the East Gate yesterday, where the Pang family, the Yan family, and the Xue family had guarded. Surely they had learned about this.

"Well, that's true. But that's because we had found out that Lin Hongzhi only did that to my family under the instruction of Gao Wei, the young base commander of the Northeast Base. He was also the one who kidnapped my pet and my nephew."

Yun Che didn't deny but admitted immediately.

"Capital Yun, are you saying that Gao Wei had assassinated you guys as well? Also, if Gao Wei was behind all this, isn't it too much that you killed all of the Liu family?"

Pang Guoli spoke again after a long time of silence, acting as he had finally caught Yun Che red-handed. And he asked that in contempt. Obviously, he was pissed at how Yun Che had taken his family as an example.

"Is it? General Pang, I thought you have a better answer. So, do you want me to try to assassinate your daughter, grandson, or your son?"

"Don't you dare!"

Pang Guoli banged on the desk all of a sudden, glaring at Yun Che as if he was about to eat him alive. During the last decades he had lived, nobody had ever threatened him as Yun Che did, especially he was only in his twenties. And that made Pang Guoli furious.

"General Pang, that's some tough talk, isn't it?"

Xing Feng had kept quiet since he got here, but now he took the initiative and spoke before Yun Che did. His sharp gaze fixed on Pang Guoli, "One thing you need to know, General Pang, is that there is nothing I'm afraid of doing. Are you sure you wanna try?"

"You!"

Pang Guoli lost his words. He could scold back at anyone except Xing Feng. For the record, Xing Feng hadn't hesitated to kill the family of his sister-in-law before, not to mention them who were not even related to him. It was true that Pang Guoli was pissed off, but that didn't mean that he would like to see his children suffer because of him. He wasn't too stupid to realize the consequences.