The Vast Sea Allows Fish to Leap (Part 2)

How could he buy clothes without money? He couldn't exactly charge into the mall shirtless. Troubled, Li Yang looked around, his eyes suddenly lighting up as he stared upwards.

The alley was flanked by residential buildings. Since they were residential, there were bound to be plenty of clothes hanging on balconies. Li Yang was currently gazing at the clothes above him.

"Heh heh, this is the one!" Li Yang grinned, looking at the clothes on the second-floor balcony above him. A stream of pure Innate True Qi shot out from his hand, easily pulling down a shirt and a pair of pants. Using Innate True Qi for something as trivial as getting clothes felt like overkill.

Li Yang glanced at his military trousers. They were the most comfortable when he was training intensely in the training room, but wearing them on the street would be a bit out of place. Li Yang immediately changed into the borrowed clothes.

"My taste is pretty good, they fit perfectly!" Li Yang smiled slightly and then calmly walked outside.

"Hey, buddy, you haven't paid this month's protection fee!" a burly man with bare arms, looking fierce, shouted from the entrance of a small restaurant.

A stout man in his forties, with a slight belly, walked out of the restaurant. Upon seeing the burly man, he immediately bellowed, "Ah, isn't this Brother Yang? Come, come, come, tell me what you want to eat. The protection fee isn't urgent. After you finish eating, Brother Yang will take care of it, guaranteeing Brother Yang a comfortable time."

Hearing this, Brother Yang's face broke into a smile. Led by the stout owner, he walked into the restaurant.

"Hey, Brother Yang, wait a moment!"

Suddenly, a familiar voice called out. Hearing how familiar the address was, Brother Yang immediately turned to see who it was, wondering if it was a brother he had made sometime before.

"Who are you?" Brother Yang looked at the man in front of him with some confusion. He met many brothers every day, and many times he couldn't recall them immediately. But looking closely at the person before him, he seemed to have seen him before, yet he couldn't recall who it was.

The person in front of him was Li Yang. Li Yang smiled familiarly and patted Brother Yang's shoulder, saying, "We drank together before, don't you remember?"

People like Brother Yang drank almost every day, and the brothers he made were naturally through drinking. Li Yang's words only made Brother Yang more confused...

"Don't you remember? Sigh, and here I thought I remembered you, Brother Yang. You don't even remember me!" Li Yang looked into Brother Yang's eyes, appearing very disappointed, at least from the perspective of the stout owner.

However, in Brother Yang's eyes, Li Yang's gaze felt like a bottomless pit, and waves of dizziness washed over his mind.

Li Yang looked into the eyes of the burly man before him and smiled slightly. With his now more powerful mind, Li Yang found it even easier to use hypnosis.

"Brother Yang, could I borrow your phone for a moment!" Li Yang's smile seemed very friendly. The hypnotized Brother Yang dazedly took out his phone and handed it to Li Yang.

Li Yang immediately dialed his younger brother Li Shuo's number: "Hey, Ah Shuo! It's me! I'm over here, hurry up and send someone!" The phone's satellite positioning system would easily let Li Shuo know Li Yang's current location.

"Hey, Brother Yang, why don't you go in and eat first? I'm waiting for someone!" Li Yang returned the phone to Brother Yang, who had just recovered from the hypnotic state. However, Brother Yang was still groggy, and Li Yang's hypnosis still had an effect on him. He followed Li Yang's words and entered the restaurant.

Li Yang walked to the alley entrance, waiting for Li Shuo's arrival. He could only rely on his brother now.

Five minutes, just five minutes later!

A black car stopped in front of Li Yang, and a familiar figure immediately rushed out.

"Brother!"

Li Shuo was overjoyed. For a whole year, he had been searching for information about Li Yang through various means. Later, through people in the military, he received news that Li Yang had been secretly tried and sentenced to death.

This news had driven Li Shuo to the brink of madness. From childhood, he and Li Yang had relied on each other. Although they had a mother, she was a workaholic, burying herself in her work every day, with little interaction with her children. The two brothers lived in this environment for sixteen years, and their brotherly bond was very deep. They were both patriotic and wanted to contribute to the country. However, Li Shuo entered the underworld, while Li Yang joined the army.

"Ah Shuo!" Li Yang suddenly embraced his brother.

Suddenly, Li Shuo's expression shifted. He glanced around before saying to Li Yang, "Brother, let's talk about it when we get back." He then pulled Li Yang into the car and drove away...

Around 8 PM.

At the Life Research Institute's Base No. 2.

"Li Yang, this is your dinner for tonight... Li Yang, Li Yang!" a researcher in white stared with wide eyes at the empty training room.

"What! Li Yang is gone?" Old Man Bai Yang roared at the researcher in front of him.

Even though Bai Yang was nearly a hundred years old, his glare and roar were incredibly intimidating.

"Yes, we've searched everywhere. We've searched the entire second floor of the base and can't find him. Should we search the first and third floors completely as well?" The researcher also appeared very anxious. All the researchers involved in the Gene Potion project knew how important Li Yang was. He was the first expert who had reached over ten thousand crystals that they had created.

"Idiot, this base is completely secured by iris recognition for entry and exit. How could Li Yang possibly enter the first or third floors!" Bai Yang reprimanded loudly.

The researcher immediately fell silent, intimidated.

"But if he couldn't leave the second floor, how can we not find him on the second floor?" the researcher said after a long pause, mustering his courage.

Bai Yang was stunned. That's right, if he couldn't leave the second floor, how could he not be found on the second floor? Bai Yang immediately commanded, "Search the first and third floors of the base immediately. Order all researchers to search. Search carefully, and you must find him!"

Watching the trembling researcher leave, Bai Yang became even more agitated. Suddenly, Old Man Bai Yang smacked his forehead, "Ah, I'm so flustered, why don't we just use Spiritual Sense to search!" Of course, the result of Old Man Bai's Spiritual Sense search was obvious.

However, from that day on, all the researchers at Life Research Institute's Base No. 2 were perpetually puzzled, puzzled until their deaths, about how Li Yang had actually left the base.

"Brother, this is from Meng Tian. He said you sacrificed yourself for the country, so he handed over all your assets to me." Li Shuo handed a gold card to Li Yang.

Li Yang took it and then smiled, "Ah Shuo, have you prepared the plane ticket and ID card for New York?"

New York, the center of the world economy, was also the headquarters of the underground boxing scene and the most concentrated place for international underground forces. The starting point of Li Yang's revenge plan was precisely New York.

Hearing this, Li Shuo immediately took out a plane ticket and a new ID card from his pocket, preparing to hand them to Li Yang. Just as Li Yang was about to take them, Li Shuo pulled them back and advised again, "Brother, are you really going to New York? Give up. How can you possibly take down the Shenglin Group by yourself? Why don't you join my Hong Bang? If we brothers join forces, with the Hong Bang, one of the world's top five gangs, we'd have a good chance of destroying the Shenglin Group. It's so difficult for you to do it alone!"

Li Yang smiled faintly, "Ah Shuo, it's more interesting with a challenge. Besides, destroying the Shenglin Group all at once would be too easy for Lin Tianyu. I want to torment him slowly, make him walk towards his demise step by step, make him despair, make him wish he were dead. Only then can my hatred be appeased." Li Yang's eyes flashed with a chilling light that made people tremble.

"I'll be flying out tomorrow morning. For now, let's brothers have a good drink and enjoy ourselves. Oh, don't make that face. Alright, alright, I promise you. If I fail, Ah Shuo, you can then use your Hong Bang's power to help me. Is that acceptable?" Li Yang said with a smile.

Hearing this, Li Shuo was finally satisfied.

"Come on, drink up!" Li Yang and Li Shuo, the two brothers, happily drank, completely forgetting that they would be parting ways tomorrow.

The sea is wide for fish to leap, the sky is high for birds to fly. What kind of storm would Li Yang, free from all constraints, stir up in New York, the hub of the international underground forces?

The first episode officially concludes!