It was not only his father and brothers who had suffered misfortune—even he himself had suffered misfortune, hadn't he?
"One of my arms was ruined, and my bloodline was sucked dry by a great demon. I have now completely become a cripple. Father was ambushed while escorting goods, and most of the escort masters in the agency have already been bought off by the Gong Family. My younger brother has also been thoroughly bewitched by the Gong Family. Now the entire Dragon Tiger Escort Agency is about to change hands. They are after that escorted item. What exactly is that item, to have drawn the hands of so many experts?" Chen Ping's voice was full of sorrow.
"Once the Gong Family supports my younger brother in ascending to the legitimate succession, he will use the righteous cause of the escort agency to demand that I hand over that item. The Gong Family will certainly get their hands on it. And once the escorted item is lost, everyone in my Dragon Tiger Escort Agency will surely die without a whole corpse." Chen Ping's voice was full of confusion. "The reason the Gong Family has spared your life is likely that, after everything succeeds, they intend to wake you up and leave us to carry the blame."
Chen Ping was no fool. With his intelligence, he only needed to think it over a little to analyze everything.
That was the Gong Family—a force that had been passed down for who knew how many tens of thousands of years. Why would they place a mere Dragon Tiger Escort Agency in their eyes?
"What should I do? With the Gong Family's recruitment, all the elders in the agency have defected. What can I do alone?" Chen Ping stroked his empty sleeve, despair showing in