Ronan glanced at Xie Junping, who looked like he wanted to speak but held back, and smiled. "You can also tell Yao Feng that, in this matter, I'm preserving the Yao Family's dignity. Not because of his grandfather's attitude, but because of the goodwill he showed me earlier in Sea Sky Cloud Capital, and afterward when he sold me the Flying Devil Fish.
"So I chose to start with Ma Laotaitai's network of connections. At present, most of the people in it are rather unsavory characters, quite different from their family's usual social circle. Even if we wipe them all out and spread some bad publicity, it probably won't do any real damage."
Xie Junping's expression eased slightly. "That makes sense."
Zhang Yingying snorted. "Just don't send them the wrong signal. If they think they can narrowly escape disaster by relying on this, then they're really asking to die."
Xie Junping gave a vague grunt, but before he could speak, Ronan added, "Yingying Jie is right. This matter has only just begun. It'll expand very soon—it needs to expand. As for when it will be wrapped up, I don't even know yet. They'd better not come crashing into me again at the worst possible time. When that happens, no amount of goodwill will save them... You can pass that along word for word."
Ignoring Xie Junping's grimacing, Ronan skipped straight past the subject. "There are two places in this file that need to be handled separately."
As he spoke, Ronan showed them the locations he had marked earlier.
Zhang Yingying stared at the name inside one red circle, momentarily stunned. "Barty? Which Barty?"
"The one from Di City. You introduced him to me, remember? How exactly did you read these materials?"
"I thought it was someone with the same name..."