Chapter 30

Mikael lay in his bed as he edited a set of messages on the System Phone, containing the information about the members of the Blood Wolf Mercenary Gang.

Even though he did not consider himself a good person, the deviousness of Bai Yuan and Aaron made him uncomfortable.

Eventually, he edited out a few names and sent the rest to all the Media and Government Channels.

Once done, he entered a number and sent a message to it.

"Hello, Rose."

Within seconds, he received a reply.

"Hello, Karma. I have been searching for you."

"Karma?" He was confused.

"8 represents Karma. Your number 88888888, which is eight 8s should mean Karma, right?"

He chuckled at what she was saying.

"Well, I just pressed the key, and it happened to be 8. Was too lazy to type other digits, so, I kept 88888888 as my number. What you are saying sounds fun though."

Sure enough, no reply came for several seconds.

"Trying to find me?" He guessed what this brilliant hacker was doing right now.

Rose was only 16 years old, but she was already the backbone of the Blood Wolf Mercenary Gang.

"Yes," She honestly replied.

"Well, keep trying. When you get tired, send me a message. I will tell you a story which you will appreciate a lot." He sent her a smile emoji and then put his phone aside.

A few seconds after it remained out of his hand, it automatically entered the System Inventory.

However, right before it disappeared, he saw a notification.

Taking it out again, he smiled at Rose's message.

"Alright. You are good. So, what story do you wish to tell me?"

"It's a tragic story. You promise you won't cry?"

"Tell me."

"Well, it's a story about a white-collar worker, his wife, and their young daughter. Everything was going well in their life until one evening when the man got off work, he drove out of the city to go to his Mother-in-Law's house, where his wife and daughter had stayed over the weekend.

On his way, he passed through a forest and came across the scene of an accident. A car crashed against the trunk of a tree.

Being a good man, he immediately stopped and rushed over to check on the driver and the passengers, but there was no one inside the vehicle.

He looked around worriedly, searched for any signs of the people in the car, and eventually found a bloody handprint on a tree.

His instincts told him that the injured person had gone into the forest, and after quickly making a call to the Rescue, he went into the woods to search for the person who might need his help.

Since there were wild animals in the forest, he refrained from making loud calls and just tried to find the traces of blood.

Eventually, he came across a scene, where a young man, standing next to an old man, both wearing dark clothes, was looking at a man who was begging for mercy, drenched in blood and kowtowing to them.

Being wise, he started recording what was happening on his phone.

He was horrified when he watched the young man, who was barely 18, smash his fist into the head of the person who was begging for mercy, and he watched the head explode like a watermelon.

Terrified, he stumbled back, landing his foot on a twig, and as it cracked, the two Killers discovered his presence.

He was a smart man, and knowing that he was going to die, he quickly used his brains and hid the phone on which he was recording everything.

Taking a gamble, he tried to make a run for it, but it was too late.

The Killers were unusually fast, almost as if they were Superhumans.

Knowing that they could not leave behind any witnesses, the old man asked his Disciple to kill this man as well, which the latter did without any hesitation.

He twisted his neck so hard that his head almost turned 180 degrees to the back.

They checked his pockets and found his wallet, and after remembering his name and address, they got rid of the two bodies by burning them.

When the Rescue finally reached the scene, they only found the ashes of the victims and some remains.

No IDs, nothing. The car that crashed against the tree could not even be traced, but the one that was parked on the side of the road was traced.

The mother and daughter, who were eagerly waiting for their husband and father, intending to give him a birthday surprise, waited all night, growing very restless

In the morning, after the mother was exhausted and panicking, they heard a doorbell, and she fainted the moment she saw that it was the Police Officers.

The man was presumed dead, and his little family was devastated. All their happiness, dreams, and hopes shattered. It was as if the sky had fallen on them.

Within a year, the Grandma and mother both passed away and the innocent little girl, who was barely 7 years old, became an orphan with no relatives.

The Old Man and his Disciple thought that killing the witness was the end of the matter, but then one day, months after the incident, the former received a call from an acquaintance.

Someone had found the cell phone the second victim had hidden in the woods, and they found the video on it as well.

The acquaintance tried to blackmail the old man, who pretended to relent, and then with the help of his Disciple, found an opportunity and killed the man and everyone who knew about the video's existence.

Unbeknownst to them, the enemies were not dumb, and one of them had saved that video on cloud storage on the Dark Web, which could not be traced until you knew exactly what you were looking for.

The Old Man did not want to take risks, and he went after the family of the victim. A woman who had both lost her husband and mother, and a daughter, who was hollow inside.

He sneakily killed the woman in her sleep, but when he wanted to do the same to the girl, he discovered that she possessed a Special Physique for Cultivation, and he concocted a plan.

The child was sent to an orphanage, where she spent two years, and then one day, the old man came there and adopted her as his daughter.

He had several such orphans in his home, and he trained them to become powerful people, brainwashing them with the ideals of loyalty, justice, and a better world.

The girl grew up under his eyes and amazed him with her intelligence. Eventually, she was incorporated into a secret cell, which was led by Aaron Stone and had John Harper, Lin Hao, Eva, Roger Ghost, Tiger, Patrick, Dave, Gemma, Happy, and Hound as its members.

On the very day she joined the cell, they left Dragonia, and later became known as the Blood Wolf Mercenary Gang."

After he finished telling her the story, he patiently waited for her reply.

And the reply did come after a few minutes.

"Do you have any proof?"

"Oh, I have already forwarded the proof of all the crimes your Gang and Mentor committed over the years to the Media and the Authorities. Just wait for the news. As for what you are asking, yes, I have proof of that as well."

He sent her the video which her father had recorded before his death.

"You can verify it. Mad Cloud, Jingle Bells, Blood Street, Tooth Fairy's Paradise, 19875 Bye Bai." He sent her the address of the file on the Dark Web.

He waited for a while and finally saw the message he was waiting for.

"Thank you."

"You're welcome. There's something you should know."

"Yes?"

"I have named Lin Hao, Eva, Roger Ghost, Tiger, Patrick, and Dave to the authorities, but I did not name you, Gemma, Happy, and Hound. Those two boys are just kids, and Gemma is just like you. The others are fiercely loyal to either Aaron or the Old Man. It was Patrick who gathered the intel on the Sterling Family, and he and Lin Hao always knew that Aaron killed John. Break contact with them and take Gemma, Happy, and Hound with you. Run away to live a life in hiding. Or you can accept the offer I have for you."

He sent her the message and then forwarded her the files that contained all of Gemma, Happy, and Hound's information and how they had been manipulated.

"What's your offer?"

"Come and work for me. Submit yourself to me."

"What's in it for us?"

"You won't have to stay hiding for the rest of your lives."

"You can protect us from the others?"

"Yes." He confidently said.

Rose stayed silent after his words and then typed a message.

"I accept, but I can not promise what Gemma will choose. Happy and Hound idolise Aaron a lot, so, I am not sure if they will feel different even after learning the truth."

"That's fine. If no one else agrees, you alone can return to Dragonia and come to Slyvor City. I will book a suite for you, which will stay open indefinitely, but you will have to check in within the next two weeks. Just give the name 88 Rosabelle, at the reception."

"Okay."

"Oh, and Rose..."

"Yes?"

"I will kill you if you ever betray me. So, do not come here if you are not willing to wholeheartedly submit yourself to me. Just live your life out there."

He ended the chat and put the phone away, not waiting for her reply.

Just when he was about to get up from bed to have a shower, Klara came rushing into the room.

"Mikael, come!" She grabbed his hand and dragged him downstairs to the lounge where everyone was listening to the news on the television.

It was the news about the members of the Blood Wolf Mercenary Gang, their Mentor, Elder Bai Yuan, and accounts of all the missions that they had completed so far.

List of all the innocent people whom they had killed, and the list of people who were their targets. Their organisation's goals and ongoing plans.

There was too much detail that it made people dizzy and feel chills run up their spines.

How could someone find so many things about a person?

Subconsciously, people and the Authorities, including the Media, became nervous about this mysterious 88888888.

Suddenly, another headline rang.

"We have just heard from the mysterious 88888888, and they wish to be called Karma. How fitting. Karma has indeed come for these terrorists..." The anchor person went on to spout nonsense, and Mikael cursed Rose in his heart as he knew it was her doing.

His left brow kept twitching as the people in the room started calling him Karma as well.

As they chatted, they grew more and more solemn.

Everyone was just in disbelief that Old Albonn had allowed such a dangerous man into their home.

And the esteemed General Bai, whom the Old Albonn owed his life, turned out to be the head of a Terrorist Organisation! And his ambition was to change the world order!

"This is too much. I need some sleep." Mikael sighed and walked out of the lounge.

No one found it strange that he said it.

They all felt the same way about this whole situation.

Grisha had even forgotten the count of how many times she thanked God for saving her child from Aaron's hands.