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Chapter 432 - 385 Strategizing Behind the Scenes, Countermeasures

Chapter 432: Chapter 385 Strategizing Behind the Scenes, Countermeasures

When the clock pointed to eleven o’clock at night, Huaxia Standard Time in the Southeast Asia Special Zone, Ye Wenhao and his son Ye Fan downed a whole case of Moutai liquor.

Although neither of them used their power to expel the alcohol from their bodies, their physical functions far surpassed those of ordinary people, making alcohol’s effects on them negligible, as if they were drinking cold water.

"Buzz~"

Shortly afterwards, as the father and son were about to clean up the dinner table together, the sound of a vibrating cellphone came from the living room.

"Dad, you answer the call, I’ll clean up," Ye Fan said with a smile upon hearing the noise.

Ye Wenhao threw the wine bottle back into the box, nodded, and walked toward the living room.

"Hello, Director Yan."

Soon, Ye Wenhao reached the coffee table in the living room, picked up the phone, and directly answered the call from Yan Lei, greeting him first.

"Special Chief, the intelligence your people requested has been gathered; how would you like to receive it?" Yan Lei inquired.

"Director Yan, your people really work efficiently," Ye Wenhao replied with a compliment, and after a moment’s thought, he said, "I’ll give you an email address, send it to me via email."

"Alright."

Yan Lei agreed succinctly, hesitated for a moment, and asked, "Special Chief, were you planning on talking to the heads of those underground forces yourself, to deter them from causing further chaos?"

"I was planning on doing so, but later I felt the feasibility wasn’t high," Ye Wenhao responded.

"Oh?"

Yan Lei was slightly taken aback, then suddenly realized that Ye Wenhao’s tone was no longer heavy, but rather carried a hint of joy, and he asked with perplexity, "What’s your plan then?"

"I haven’t decided yet, but I’ve always believed that evil can never overcome good, and there will always be a way when we get to the mountain," Ye Wenhao replied solemnly, his words brimming with confidence.

Noticing the confidence in Ye Wenhao’s tone, Yan Lei felt even more puzzled, but he could tell that Ye Wenhao didn’t want to divulge more, so he didn’t continue to pry and ended the call with some pleasantries.

"This is really strange; with the situation so urgent, Ye Wenhao has become confident; could he really have some ingenious plan up his sleeve?"

After ending the call, Yan Lei received Ye Wenhao’s text message and looked at the email address, silently questioning himself.

There was no answer.

Despite racking his brains, Yan Lei couldn’t come up with an explanation and still believed it was a deadlock.

Helpless, he stopped thinking about it and sent the detailed data on the major underground forces of the Southeast Asia Special Zone and information on their leaders to Ye Wenhao via email.

Meanwhile, Ye Wenhao received the email and immediately downloaded it to his desktop.

"Ding——"

With a crisp sound, a notification from Thunder signified the download completion, and the universe’s most advanced laptop chirped softly.

At the same time, Ye Fan threw out the trash outside the villa and turned back to the living room.

"Xiao Fan, this file contains detailed information about the major underground forces in the Southeast Asia Special Zone, including their territories, illicit businesses, and specifics about the leaders," Ye Wenhao said, pointing to the encrypted file he had downloaded, "This file has been specially processed by the Yanhuang Organization. It can only be viewed, and as soon as it’s closed, it will self-destruct, including the laptop’s own system."

"I understand," Xiao Fan nodded; he had once trained with the Yanhuang Organization’s Qin Hai and knew this was one of the organization’s security measures.

"You take a look first," Ye Wenhao stood up to give up his seat and added, "The situation may be chaotic at the moment, but I can hold the fort, so there’s no need to rush."

Ye Fan just smiled and didn’t say anything, but instead, took the laptop and power cord upstairs to the study.

Seeing this, Ye Wenhao didn’t follow but quietly went out to the villa’s courtyard to cultivate.

Although he had been unable to break through the Gang Qi Realm because he had practiced the magical martial art ’Burning Nine Heavens’ against Ling Yun’s advice, he never neglected his training.

It was the best way for him to remember Ling Yun.

Shortly after Ye Wenhao went out to the yard, Ye Fan pushed open the door and entered the study.

The study wasn’t large, covering about sixty square meters, with two rows of bookshelves flanking the desk and a 70-inch thin-screen display hanging on the wall opposite, which could be directly connected to the laptop.

At a glance, Ye Fan could tell that the desk and shelves were not made of high-quality wood but were the kind common on the market.

Witnessing this and remembering how Ye Wenhao always ordered food with ’sufficient’ as the standard, it was clear to him that his father did not indulge in luxury like typical officials, but was very thrifty.

After quickly surveying the study, Ye Fan turned his attention away and went to the desk with the laptop in his arms. He plugged in the power, opened the file with the activated security program, and started reading carefully.

With his current level of martial arts and magic cultivation reaching the Innate Great Success Realm and his consciousness as strong as an ordinary Peak stage of Innate Mage’s, his brain development was incomparable to the average person.

He appeared to be speed-reading the document, but he was practically memorizing everything he saw, the information deeply imprinting in his mind.

After examining more than two hundred pages of documentation in less than two hours, Ye Fan gained a detailed and accurate understanding of the distribution of underground forces in the Southeast Asia Special Zone.

According to the document, with Nanqinghong withdrawing, the underground forces in the Southeast Asia Special Zone were clearly divided, and could basically be categorized into two main types.

One major type includes external forces composed of the Dark Council, Giant Axe Organization, and the Yakuza.

These three forces are all notorious in the underworld, ranking second, third, and fourth among underworld syndicates, respectively.

The Dark Council is the largest underground force in the European Union, and its overall strength is second only to the Qinghong Organization. To be precise, it is on par with the Qinghong Organization, but its leader’s personal combat power is weaker than that of Chen Daozang, the ruler of the Qinghong Organization.

The Giant Axe Organization is the largest underground force in the Russian Alliance. Its strength is considerably weaker than both the Qinghong Organization and the Dark Council, especially in the number of high-level martial artists. However, it possesses the very famous ’Gunman Group’ in the underworld, which perfectly combines firepower with martial arts.

Yakuza.

This was once the largest underground force in Japan, ranked just below the well-known Mafia on the global syndicate ranking list.

Latter, with the rise of the Qinghong Organization overpowering the Mafia, the Yakuza took over as the world’s largest syndicate.

But the good times didn’t last long. After the Qinghong Organization, under Chen Daozang, established its foothold in North America, it immediately began purging Yakuza members from the North American underworld, resulting in heavy losses for the Yakuza, forcing them to withdraw from North America, and greatly diminishing their strength.

Subsequently, with the outbreak of the destroy virus, humanity faced the greatest calamity in history. Japan, with its small land area and high population density, suffered the heaviest losses, with death tolls reaching a terrifying figure.

The Yakuza were not spared—the organization lost three-quarters of its members!

This directly led to a significant decline in the Yakuza’s strength, but since other syndicates were also affected by the disaster to varying degrees, and the Yakuza still had many ninjas with notable combat power, it remains the fourth on the syndicate rankings in the now thriving Martial Arts World.

Even with Japan now being a state within the American Alliance, the Qinghong Organization has not ventured into Japan because of the presence of the Yakuza.

This also reflects the side of the Yakuza’s strength, as the proverb goes, "a lean camel is bigger than a horse."

Going through the information, Ye Fan found that in the Southeast Asia Special Zone, the Yakuza, Dark Council, and Giant Axe Organization were under close supervision by the Yanhuang Organization because they are foreign forces, with not many members, but all of them elites.

The other type of force is the local underground forces led by the Tiger Gang.

Tiger Gang.

This is a long-standing syndicate, existing since the 19th century and, during the national era, became the largest local underground force in Thailand, primarily leveraging Thailand’s strategic location to engage in smuggling.

Ten years ago, as the Qinghong Organization aggressively entered Southeast Asia, the Tiger Gang became the first target of the Yanhuang Organization’s crackdown. The Tiger Gang’s boss at the time put in a tremendous amount of effort, utilizing both legitimate forces and spending a fortune to hire powerful mercenaries and assassins, yet still could not withstand the Qinghong Organization’s strong offensive, ultimately losing the throne as Thailand’s lead underground force.

Of course, out of concern that the Tiger Gang would fight to the bitter end, after the Qinghong Organization took root in Thailand, they did not completely eradicate the Tiger Gang or seize their smuggling business, but instead expanded from Thailand to the rest of Southeast Asia, eventually becoming the leader of the underground forces in Southeast Asia.

In such a context, the influence of other local syndicates like Vietnam’s Daquan Gang and Indonesia’s Water Connection Gang were also significantly compromised, with nearly all of the top fighters in the Southeast Asian local syndicates perishing.

This directly resulted in the local underground forces of Southeast Asia, led by the Tiger Gang, having a large number of members but mostly low-level personnel. Their number of elites is much smaller than the three major foreign forces, not to mention the disparity in the number of top fighters.

Out of necessity, these syndicates could only spend a fortune to hire powerful mercenaries and assassins to safeguard them.

The Tiger Gang being the most notable among them!

According to the information, the current boss of the Tiger Gang, Taihu, has two top fighters by his side, a Level 7 wizard and a Level 7 warrior.

Apart from Huaxia and Japan under the American Alliance, which uphold martial arts, martial artists in other alliances are known as warriors. Levels one to four correspond to Early Postnatal, Postnatal Great Success, Peak-stage Postnatal, and Postnatal Perfection, while levels five to eight correspond to the Innate Realm, and level nine is known as War God, corresponding to the Gang Qi Realm of Huaxia martial artists.

Similarly, in other alliances, wizards correspond to magicians in Huaxia, with the same levels of classification, followed by the Dharma Form.

This means that Taihu has hired the equivalent of a Peak stage of Innate martial artist and a Peak stage of Innate magician for his personal security.

This can certainly be described as a bold move!

Especially a Level 7 wizard, equivalent to a Peak stage of Innate magician, is extremely rare!

...

After thoroughly understanding the distribution of Southeast Asia’s underworld forces, Ye Fan connected his notebook to a thin screen display, then used the notebook to draw a map of the Southeast Asia Special Zone, marking the distribution of the various underground forces on the map.

Having done all this, Ye Fan stood up, walked to the display, and gazed at the distribution map of the underworld forces he had drawn himself. He pondered the information about the various forces from the data, rapidly turning over thoughts in his brain, mulling over counter strategies.

After an indeterminable amount of time, Ye Fan’s tightly furrowed brow slowly relaxed, and his eyes shone brightly as he returned to his desk. His hands became blurs, keystrokes flying across the keyboard as he documented the counter strategies he had devised.

"Bang bang—"

As the distant sky began to show the white of the fish belly, a knock on the study door sounded, and Ye Wenhao, without waiting for Ye Fan to speak, pushed the door and entered.

"Xiao Fan, as I said before, there’s no need to rush this matter. Take some rest, let’s go have breakfast together," Ye Wenhao said, seeing that Ye Fan was sitting in front of the desk, feeling a complex mix of emotions, touched and guilt-ridden.

"Dad, I’ve roughly worked out the counter strategies. They just need some fine-tuning in the details," Ye Fan said with a smile as he stretched, "Do you want to take a look first?"

"Oh?"

Hearing Ye Fan’s words, Ye Wenhao’s pupils widened, and driven by curiosity, he quickly walked to the computer.

Ye Fan smiled and stood, giving his seat to Ye Wenhao.

Ye Wenhao sat down and scrolled the document to the first page, beginning to read intently.

As he read, Ye Wenhao’s eyes gradually brightened...

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