Killed the Wrong Person??

Lin Fan hurriedly answered.

"Hello, Brother Sikong, is that you?"

"It's me." Shen Wuxiao also put on a tense act. "Do you have a TV over there? Hurry and turn on Zhonghai News!"

Lin Fan's heart skipped a beat. If the other party was telling him to watch the news, that meant he had seen the report as well.

Could it be that I really killed the wrong person?

"I'm watching it. Why does the report say the dead man was some Young Master of the Sea Brake Group?"

Shen Wuxiao hurriedly said, "I don't know about this either, Brother Lin Fan. Do you have time? How about we meet and talk?"

Shen Wuxiao offered his suggestion!

Lin Fan thought it over and still felt that meeting in person was more appropriate!

"Alright, I'll head over to your place now!"

Lin Fan immediately got up, hung up the phone, and left the room.

Damn it, after putting in so much effort and even taking a bullet, he had better not have killed the wrong person.

He, Lin Fan, had never stained his hands with the blood of innocents.

Regardless of what sort of person that so-called young master of the Sea Brake Group was, he had neither grievance nor grudge against Lin Fan.

If he had killed the wrong person, then this was going to be troublesome.

But when he recalled that Young Master from last night, shouting about killing and fighting, he probably was not a good thing either. If Lin Fan had truly killed the wrong person, it could still count as ridding the people of a scourge.

After leaving the hotel, Lin Fan hailed a taxi and made his way, familiar with the route, to Shen Wuxiao's Bay Villa.

The moment he arrived, he could see Shen Wuxiao waiting by the entrance from afar.

The two did not exchange greetings. They immediately entered the villa.

Shen Wuxiao still had that same deadpan look, sticking his head out to check for any tails, acting like a secret agent.

Once inside the villa and over by the sofa, Shen Wuxiao began acting again.

"Brother Lin Fan, you really killed the Young Master of the Sea Brake Society yesterday!"

"Sea Brake Society? Wasn't it the Sea Brake Group?"

Shen Wuxiao sighed. "Sea Brake Group is merely their name for the outside world. Those who walk the black road naturally need a clean identity. Sea Brake Society is their true form."

"Sea Brake Society is one of Zhonghai's three great underground forces. It is incomparably massive. In Zhonghai, the underground world is divided into three realms, and Sea Brake Society is one of them!"

Lin Fan shook his head. "I didn't know. I investigated based on the information you gave me and really found Villa Number Nineteen."

"When I broke in, they were prepared. While I was escaping, that person was cursing from upstairs and calling himself a young master. I immediately assumed he was Shen Wuxiao."

"I really killed him!"

Shen Wuxiao secretly laughed in his heart. Even the Border Wolf King had a time when he mistook fish for dragons.

Still, it was understandable. Lin Fan had been led straight into the pit by him.

Having only just arrived, he had no foundation and was blind as a bat. He had not even had time to cultivate people specifically for gathering intelligence.

Already desperate to avenge his younger brother, he had heard Shen Wuxiao's false information and then filled in the gaps himself. Naturally, he had believed it.

"It's over. This is over, Brother Lin Fan. You were far too impulsive!"

"I only said I had seen Shen Wuxiao over there. I never confirmed that he lived there. How could you be so impulsive?"

"Yesterday, I thought you had merely broken in, been discovered, and then run away. I never imagined that you had killed someone."

"This matter is partly my fault as well. If I hadn't watched the news, I would have thought Shen Wuxiao lived there too!"

Shen Wuxiao held his head, looking utterly helpless.

Lin Fan froze. Thinking about it carefully, that really was the case.

Brother Sikong had indeed never explicitly said that Shen Wuxiao lived there. He had only said that he saw someone with an imposing presence leave the villa, then asked a friend about it.

His friend knew what Shen Wuxiao looked like, which was why he told him that the person who came out was Shen Wuxiao.

That was all.

He had never clearly stated that Shen Wuxiao resided there. What if Shen Wuxiao had gone to see that Young Master of the Sea Brake Society?

For people in their circle, meeting to discuss matters or negotiate cooperation was perfectly normal.

"The person is already dead. It's too late now!" Lin Fan looked at Shen Wuxiao. "Brother Sikong, what kind of person was that Young Master of the Sea Brake Group?"

"Was he also the sort who acted arrogantly and tyrannically, oppressed the good and weak, and had many lives on his hands?"

The moment Shen Wuxiao heard this, he understood.

Lin Fan knew he had killed the wrong person and was searching for a reason to set his heart at ease.

If Shen Wuxiao said the man was guilty of every evil, Lin Fan would feel justified. After all, in Lin Fan's eyes, that would be ridding the people of a scourge.

The Protagonist, after all. It was understandable. They were all high-minded and would not stain their hands with the blood of innocents!

But Shen Wuxiao refused to give him what he wanted.

"That Young Master of the Sea Brake Group was not that sort of person. He often did charity, built quite a few orphanages, and donated money to many mountainous regions."

"His personality was somewhat overbearing, but he had never bullied ordinary people."

"People at their level actually care about their status. They disdain doing things that lower their standing. Bullying common folk is the kind of thing street thugs do!"

Shen Wuxiao was not exactly making things up. That Young Master of the Sea Brake Group truly had not bullied ordinary people.

He was, after all, the general manager of the Sea Brake Group. At most, his methods in business were a little dirty, but ordinary people truly had no qualifications to come into contact with such methods.

If someone could do business on a level that competed with the Sea Brake Group, then they were no ordinary citizen. They would have some backing behind them.

As for the donations, they were entirely for boosting stock prices and crafting an image.

Nothing more than a merchant's most basic tactic.

After hearing Shen Wuxiao out, Lin Fan's heart, which had been hanging in the air, finally died!

He had truly killed an innocent person.

His hands had been stained with the blood of an innocent.

Shen Wuxiao continued, "Brother Lin Fan, now isn't the time to talk about this. The Young Master of the Sea Brake Society is dead, so Sea Brake Society will definitely retaliate in full force."

"The situation in Zhonghai is about to change. When you went there yesterday, did you cover your face? They didn't see you, right?"

Lin Fan was somewhat speechless. Cover his face for what?

He acted openly and honorably. Revenge was revenge. Why pretend to be some mysterious ghost?

"I didn't cover my face!"

"Ah?" Shen Wuxiao feigned surprise. "Then when you broke in, they probably didn't see your face before you ran out, right?"

Lin Fan smiled bitterly again. "At least dozens of people saw what I looked like!"

"Then you're finished!" Shen Wuxiao said as he ran into a room.

Before long, he came back holding two thick stacks of cash.

The instant he came out, he stuffed them into Lin Fan's hands. "Brother Lin Fan, you can't stay here any longer. Go hide first!"

"This money is for emergencies. If you run out, contact me, and I'll have someone deliver more!"

Seeing this, Lin Fan was deeply moved.

This Brother Sikong was a true friend.

Knowing Lin Fan had caused a massive disaster, he did not rush to distance himself. Instead, he was even helping Lin Fan escape.

But who was Lin Fan? How could he possibly do something like fleeing?

Besides, he had not yet killed the real Shen Wuxiao. He absolutely would not leave Zhonghai.

"Brother Sikong, Lin is not someone who fears trouble. There is no need for this!" Lin Fan declared, each word striking the ground like iron.

"Brother Lin Fan, listen to me first!" Shen Wuxiao earnestly tried to persuade him. "I know you have your own pride, but everything depends on the circumstances. You killed the wrong person. No matter how you put it, you are in the wrong."

"If you truly refuse to leave, then you should at least lie low for a while."

"I have an old residential complex in the old city district under my name. It has already been included in a demolition project, so no one pays much attention to it."

"The residents who should have moved out have moved out. The ones left are a rather mixed lot. Go find a room there and stay for a while. I'll come see you from time to time!"

Even if he was making Lin Fan hide, how could the environment possibly be good?

That old residential complex was much like a pigpen fortress, a motley mix of fish and dragons. It suffered power and water outages every other day, not to mention how filthy, messy, and rundown it was.

Lin Fan might be able to adapt, but he certainly would not live comfortably there!

Lin Fan had to hide for a while.

Damn it, if Lin Fan did not hide, he would hold things up.

He had received news from the border that Jiang Huaiyue had returned.

Her return meant that she knew Lin Fan had left, so there was a high chance she would come straight here to find him.

If Lin Fan did not hide, how was he supposed to sleep with the woman Lin Fan liked!

By the time Lin Fan returned, Jiang Huaiyue would probably be nearly pregnant!