Mo Qiong had Luo Yan recall his squad members and enter the isolated island to prevent them from being monitored.
He had not expected everyone in the squad to be an old acquaintance.
Hua Yin, You Xin, and Chris, the former captain of the Darwin Team during Mo Qiong's internship.
"Mo Qiong! I never expected the support sent by headquarters to be you," Chris exclaimed first.
"Why are all of you together?" Mo Qiong asked with a smile.
Chris said, "I don't have a partner, so I've always been assigned to various temporary squads."
Mo Qiong looked at Hua Yin and You Xin again, noticing that both of them seemed dispirited, with suppressed anger in their eyes.
Hua Yin lowered her head. "Uncle brought me here..."
Seeing her like this, You Xin said, "Uncle was her partner. He died from dehydration... Another person who died was my partner."
Hua Yin raised her head. "Uncle died right in front of me. I watched him turn into a dried corpse, but I couldn't do anything."
"He was the strongest assassin in the Little Brotherhood. You don't need to blame yourselves," Mo Qiong consoled them.
Hua Yin's eyes suddenly sharpened. "No, I don't blame myself. If I can't kill him with my own hands next time, then I should blame myself."
"I've been thinking about his weakness these past few days. Mo Qiong, let's review what happened when he drained the water and killed people. If we draw the death range as a circle, my partner was inside it, while I happened to be outside."
Mo Qiong said, "If you had gone just a little farther in, you would have died too."
"Not necessarily," Hua Yin said. "The passerby that Aether was impersonating was also inside the circle, but only his feet were