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Chapter 572 - 34 The Leader’s Name

Chapter 572: Chapter 34 The Leader’s Name

"I..."

"Lud Ashin, you can find his name online. If there isn’t any news about him turning into a skeleton or going missing by tomorrow, I will start the massacre."

"Isn’t it an unwritten rule not to touch foreigners? After all, Wumianhui doesn’t want foreign countries to notice the black skeleton phenomenon in Heisong Town."

"That’s none of my business. If a local from Dilevito dies, how am I to know if someone else also cursed him? This internet celebrity had no grudges with me and didn’t need to die, but since you’re forcing my hand, I can only make him die."

Kill him, and then everything will be fine for you, for me, for everyone?

What a joke!

The other party can’t be sure if she has accomplices, so they can’t be at ease. Come tomorrow, they will force her to curse another person to death, or else the massacre will begin.

And making her curse an innocent person to death is also a test of her bottom line. If she shows no bottom line, he will pay close attention to those on the list who have gone missing or turned into skeletons.

On the contrary, being without a bottom line would put him in an invincible position!

Hai Yunlan couldn’t possibly allow so many people to die because of her!

"I won’t kill an innocent person."

"Then are you willing to let so many innocents die for you?" Dan Xia was clearly waiting for her to say this, "If that’s the case, I’m out of options. It’s indeed troublesome to be held accountable by the leader, but I have no choice."

"Stop pretending. You’re scared too. Let me tell you, we are an organization, with some members even overseas, secretly communicating with each other. There will always be people you can’t kill, and when the time comes, we will start the curse, and we will all die together!"

She remembered her favorite science fiction novel from her college days, "The Three-Body Problem"... In the novel, there is a Dark Forest Theory, where if a civilization’s cosmic coordinates are broadcasted to a higher civilization, it would face annihilation!

Right now Hai Yunlan was like Luo Ji in the book, and Dan Xia was like the Trisolarans.

Though insects can’t beat humans, humans have never truly defeated insects!

Both parties are now in the "Era of Deterrence"!

Why could Luo Ji deter the Trisolarans when Cheng Xin couldn’t? Because Luo Ji made the Trisolarans believe he had the determination to go down together, believing he dared to broadcast the coordinates of Earth and the Trisolarans!

Hai Yunlan had to make Dan Xia believe that she dared to perish together with him, in a do-or-die battle!

"If you dare start the slaughter, unless you can ensure to kill every single member of our organization cleanly, the death of any person on the list will result in a black omen appearing on you! If I were afraid of death, why would I do something so dangerous?"

She had to make the other side firmly believe she wasn’t afraid to die!

She had to make the other side firmly believe she dared to fight to the bitter end!

That way, the people on the list would be safe!

"You really have a sharp tongue, but I don’t buy that you’re not afraid to die!"

"Just try me. Guess if I’m on the list or not? Even if I am, do you think I wouldn’t curse you during the time a black omen appears on me until I die? Do you think my companions wouldn’t curse you? Nuclear weapons only have deterrent power while they’re on their launch platforms, once they’re fired, they’re worthless as deterrents. More importantly, do you guess if there are any of our people among your subordinates? Can you curse them all to death as well?"

Now both parties were holding each other’s death grip.

The crucial point lay in the fact that there were several hours between the appearance of the black omen and being cursed to death, turning into a black skeleton!

And now, Dan Xia couldn’t be sure he could drag Hai Yunlan down to hell with him!

"But it’s impossible for me to reveal the list to you. Each of our top leaders has a different list, and if it were leaked, it would be immediately noticeable who the traitor is. If the leader’s identity is leaked, as soon as the black omen appears on him, arrangements will be made to curse all the top leaders who know his identity."

It was just as Hai Yunlan had surmised.

Wumianhui relied on this to ensure absolute control of the upper hierarchy over the lower ranks. Ordinary members could not know the identities of other members or leaders within the organization. Leaders had a partial list of the members below them, and only a few trusted confidants knew the leader’s identity, who were also known by the leader and therefore restrained.

It is precisely because of this that the Wumianhui could gallop across Heisong Town, and even dominate Black Reef Island for half a century. Even the police and district councillors dared not touch them.

"It’s simple. Once we know the identity of the leader, we would carry out a decapitation assassination, rather than using a curse to kill."

"It’s useless. As long as he dies without abdicating and passing on the leadership to his successor, whether he dies a natural death or not, all the leaders aware of his identity must die. This is a rule set by the leader long ago. The leader knows the full list of Wumianhui members, and he has a set of codes that only he is aware of. Therefore, he never meets with anyone in the organization, and he communicates online using these codes. Only a very few leaders who directly contribute to the financial income of the society know his identity."

"So..."

"I can’t give you any information you need. I don’t even know the identities of the other high-ranking leaders, and investigating the identities of other leaders is a death sentence. If discovered, the judgment team under the direct command of the leader will enforce family law. This judgment team’s identities are also top secret, and it is said that they are all devoted die-hards; they do not know the identity of the leader but only communicate with him through secret telegrams. As long as the leader sends them a password and the target for the curse, they will carry out the assassination. Hmph, ironically, when this judgment team was first established fifty years ago, all they killed were criminals who had committed heinous offenses."

"A judgment team of die-hard loyalists under the direct command of the leader?"

Hai Yunlan indeed remembered the older generation saying that when the Wumianhui was first established, it had actually set up an order, and they did curse real "criminals". They not only reduced robbers, rapists, and murderers to black skeletons, but also investigated villains who wantonly killed the innocent using the power of spirits from behind the scenes. At that time, they did indeed reduce the crime rate, especially the phenomenon of killing the innocent using such powers. But as time went on, the Wumianhui evolved into what it is today.

"By the way, if the leader is arrested, dies, or discovers his identity has been leaked, no matter what the reason, the dead will not only be us but also the district councillors, all the senior officials of the police, prosecutors, and judiciary on the island. Therefore, as long as the leader gives an order, the district councillors will also be at his disposal. Otherwise, why do you think all the judicial institutions on the island dare not touch the leader? If they dare to investigate, can they uncover the leader’s identity?"

Hai Yunlan realized that what the other party said was the truth.

Throughout such a long time, was she the only one who loathed the Wumianhui to the bone? But the Wumianhui has continued to exist until now, continuously expanding.

"Don’t even think about kidnapping the leader. The leader contacts the judgment team through regular secret telegrams every week. If the leader loses his freedom and cannot send the secret telegram, the judgment team will immediately carry out the killing plan, assassinating those who know his identity and a large group of bureaucrats, as well as the relatives of the aforementioned people. If you still insist on pressuring me, then just kill me. At least if I die at your hands, my son will be safe. My son isn’t on my household registration, he has been secretly arranged to live abroad, and only the leader knows my son’s identity. You can’t kill my son, but if I betray the leader, my son will definitely die."

"So I can only kill you?"

What good is killing a high-ranking leader of the Wumianhui?

It would only relieve anger and would not damage the Wumianhui’s foundation.

At the very least, killing the leader would enable one to wipe out the high-ranking members of the Wumianhui and a bunch of corrupt officials in one fell swoop!

"Have you ever thought of giving me a fake identity or a fake list?"

"You would certainly find a way to verify it. When you decide I’m lying, you will probably kill me in anger."

That probably wasn’t the real reason. Hai Yunlan thought to herself that the other person had realized one thing: only by never providing the list, would he remain valuable. Otherwise, they could break their promise and kill him at any time.

Then he quickly added, "I can give you a large sum of money. Killing me wouldn’t do you any good, would it? Name a figure, give a method for paying the ransom. I will definitely..."

"How about this."

Hai Yunlan had thought of a method.

"Rongyue Lake on the back mountain of Heisong Town is a fishing hotspot, and tomorrow is Saturday, which will be the busiest day for fishermen. At four o’clock in the afternoon, which is also the time my spirit will inquire tomorrow, write the leader’s name on a piece of paper and put it into the mouth of a fish, then place it in a lead bucket, and leave."

"This still requires me to..."

"You must come alone. After putting the fish in the bucket, leave immediately. Once I get the leader’s name, you will be safe from that moment on. If I don’t get the leader’s name, or you leave me a blank piece of paper, or you write a fake name, tomorrow will be your death anniversary. You know we will find a way to verify the name."

Then she hung up the phone.

The other person’s and his son’s lives were under the leader’s control; he dared not give the leader’s name directly to her. But with this method, he had a great chance to capture her... In that case, he might actually write down the leader’s name for her!

And since he was worried about having undercover agents among his own, he likely dared not send his men to set up an advance ambush, especially since there wasn’t enough time for such preparation. This gave her a possible opportunity.

As long as she could get the leader’s name and send it to her secretly registered email, Qiao Qiao would see it!

As long as the leader’s identity could be revealed!

The Wumianhui could be thoroughly eradicated!

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