Seeming to guess what Lin Sheng was thinking, Andy smiled as he leafed through the secret tome, then spoke with another smile.
"Thanks for your help this time, Brother Lin. Otherwise, I might not have been able to stop that old fellow's true spirit from escaping. It's hardly something to be proud of, really. Before I took over the merchant group's affairs, I concealed my identity and spent some time infiltrating Mercury's Gaze. I reaped plenty of benefits from them. Now that I've officially become the merchant group's future successor, I naturally can't keep that stain on my record. I had to clean it up."
He raised his eyes to Lin Sheng, his tone frank.
"It wouldn't do to use the merchant group's people for something like this. That could leave traces for my opponents to seize on. After thinking it over, you were the best choice, Brother Lin. You're strong enough, you have no ties to Mercury's Gaze, and you know how to keep your mouth shut. I owe you a favor for today."
Seeing Andy lay everything out so frankly, Lin Sheng gave him a rather surprised look.
At that moment, the man before him seemed to have become someone entirely different from the shrewd young master of a merchant group. Perhaps this was Andy's true self.
"That Flesh Mutation Beast will do as payment," Lin Sheng said quietly.
"But those people from Mercury's Gaze were no weaklings. Mercury's Gaze certainly won't sit back and do nothing. I'm afraid this won't end so easily."
"Don't worry, Brother Lin. I'll handle what comes next." Unconcerned, Andy smiled and shook his head. "This is Sun Radiance City, after all. However wild Mercury's Gaze might be, they wouldn't dare wage a major battle here. Unless a Wasteland Martial Being intervenes, what