Chapter 705: I have a clear conscience about this country! (Part One)
Xu Cheng drove to the border checkpoint, where there was one of the biggest breakfast restaurants.
He entered the restaurant and saw a white bearded old man of Asian descent sitting in the corner drinking coffee. Xu Cheng had never seen Little Joker before, but there was only one person who was seventy or eighty years old and Asian. So, he sat down at the table behind the old man, the two almost sitting back to back to each other.
After finishing a piece of bread, Xu Cheng said as he chewed, “I find it hard to believe that you allowed yourself to age these years, how many years has it been since you left the Dragon Division?”
Little Joker also lowered his head and ate the roast meat as he said, as if to himself, “Fifteen years and two hundred thirty-one days.”
Xu Cheng said sarcastically, “You remember it quite clearly, huh?”
Little Joker: “Of course, being away from home, you’ll never know how much an undercover agent has to endure every day.”
Xu Cheng: “That’s why I said, why persist? Maybe someone simply cannot survive this way, so I suspect that you’ve already changed inside.”
Little Joker sneered. “Your misunderstanding about me comes from the entanglement between your master and I, so I can understand. I swear to G.o.d that I may not be a good person, but I have a clear conscience for my country and for the Dragon Division.”
Xu Cheng: “If you have anything else to say, say it quickly. My woman is still in their hands.”
“You know clearly that they are after you, and your woman will only become a burden to you. I don’t want you to go,” Little Joker said.
“That’s bullsh*t.” Xu Cheng snorted. “I know that sooner or later my woman will become a burden to me, so I tried my best not to expose her or our relationship. But for a woman who was willing to wander the world with you, all she wanted was as a name. I knew she was kidnapped because of me, that’s why I have to save her even more.”
Little Joker: “You can’t save her, you’re no match for those people.”
Xu Cheng: “You’ve fought with me before, haven’t you paid the price for your underestimation?”
Little Joker laughed. “Did you really think I’ve underestimated you? You think I wouldn’t know where the Dragon Division basecamp is? Why didn’t I just go in that night, instead ordering the 7 demons to do it? Why did I only fight you? If I were to kill you, would I tell you so much about the mysteries of the Shadow Fist?”
Xu Cheng was surprised. “What do you mean?”
“Senior Brother called me before he was about to die and told me to come, instruct you, and test your strength, so that you would be able to convince the fellow Dragon Division members to be a team. Secondly, I could relax and continue to investigate the case here. In fact, I have always been worried about our country, and I’m full of guilt for your master. However, from the standpoint of the country, it was what I had to do. He was indulged in the warmth created by that woman and ignored the slowly arising Four Clans. I couldn’t take it anymore and tried to talk with him several times, but it didn’t work. So I had no choice but to do what I had to do, except that I didn’t actually hara.s.s that woman, I just let it happen at a specific time when 师兄 could see us. He started to give her the cold shoulder after that, but I didn’t think she would commit suicide. I guess in the end it was fine because then 师兄 could focus only on the Dragon Division, and I could use this opportunity to leave the country and enter the M Nation. If I did not have the absolute power to prove myself capable of teaching the M Nation special forces, I wouldn’t have entered the fifth division and investigated deeper all the way to the higher executives.”
Chapter 705: I have a clear conscience about this country! (Part Two)
Having said that, Little Joker felt that he had gone too far and then continued again, “You are in the same state as your master right now, you are the future of the Dragon Division, so I won’t let you risk your life for a woman, even if this woman will die.”
Xu Cheng said coldly, “You want to make the same mistake again? You have no idea how lonely Master was when he died. He kept telling me a lot of things, as if he never had a chance to talk about them.”
Little Joker smiled bitterly. “Well, at least he had his disciples around him. What about me? Every time I looked in the direction of my country from the coastline, I couldn’t make a phone call because I was under surveillance for almost 16 years, and you said that a normal person couldn’t have survived that. I am a normal person as well!”
Xu Cheng: “A poor man must have something to hate.”
“I know.” Little Joker smiled bitterly. “I don’t ask anyone to understand me, a lone hero is always lonely.”
Xu Cheng: “But I don’t want to be a lone hero. Ever since I was expelled from the military, I felt that it was time to repay what I owe to my woman. All these years she followed me in fear, and I just want to give her more security, so maybe it was best to leave the Dragon Division without being targeted.”
“Who said you were expelled.” Little Joker said, “Did a court ever rule that you were expelled from your Dragon King position?”
Xu Cheng was slightly startled.
Little Joker: “You have only been stripped of your military unit and special forces position, but the Dragon Division has told you from the beginning that they don’t belong to any department, so even if you are dismissed from all positions, it doesn’t include the position of Dragon King.”
Xu Cheng stopped chewing, and his eyes were dumbfounded for a moment; then he continued to chew his bread and said with a bit of anger, “Even if I am still the Dragon King, it is the same as it was in the beginning. I’m still going to save her.”
Little Joker: “Don’t you want to know what I’ve been investigating undercover for the last 16 years? Maybe the people who kidnapped your woman have something to do with it. I can’t say I know them well, but I have some information about them in my hands, and that’s why I’m stopping you from going there. I will not agree to you going even if your woman dies, because in my eyes, you’re the only one who can dismantle that organization! However, if you go now, you will die without any remains to be buried.”
Xu Cheng nibbled on the bread and his eyes were somewhat red as he said, “I have disappointed two women in this life, one is my wife, the other is my mother, and the latter has already died because of me. My biggest regret in this life is that I could not take good care of her. So for the remaining one, I will be unconditionally good to her for the rest of my life.”
Little Joker: “I have an intelligence report in my hand, and I need someone to take it back to Huaxia. No member of the Dragon Division can take it back, because if they were exposed, they will be a.s.sa.s.sinated halfway, and only you have that ability to take it back alive. Ever since the last time I took the Demons to Huaxia and got three of them killed, my actions have been too obvious, and I feel like I’m being watched.”
Xu Cheng: “I don’t have time, sorry.”
Having said that, Xu Cheng wiped his mouth and prepared to get up and leave.
However, Little Joker said, “Don’t you want to know why the Westerners know internal martial arts? You said you will face the Capital Society sooner or later and this information I have is about them. Perhaps this information will help you understand this organization better.”
Xu Cheng stood up hesitantly and slowly sat back down.