Nightmare Assault
Chapter 1271

The Promise

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After hearing Li Bai's somewhat strange account, Yao Shunyu and the Fatty fell silent. Yao Shunyu stared at Jiang Cheng's face, as if trying to see through his disguise and get to the truth.

"So... you left the phone case in the box as the Mirror of the Underworld's relic?"

After a long struggle with himself, Yao Shunyu decided he still needed to confirm it.

Jiang Cheng nodded, looking a little pained. "That's right."

The Fatty knew that phone case. The Doctor had bought it online not long ago. There was a green dinosaur on the back that could be folded out to serve as a stand, and the Doctor loved it.

Thanks to his vivid imagination, the Fatty could even picture the Third Young Master opening the box, lifting the red cloth, and seeing the dinosaur phone case for the first time. He must have been stunned.

"It looks like the Third Young Master was behind all this. Mr. Wu, the First Young Master, and the Second Young Master were all played by him."

Thinking back on the Third Young Master's actions, Li Bai still felt a lingering chill. Considering his age, the man's cunning and methods were truly terrifying.

After piecing together the whole story, the Fatty thought he'd found a flaw. "Wait, look. Our mission is to make sure the Wu Family has a surviving bloodline. Put simply, as long as one of the three Wu brothers—the First Young Master, the Second Young Master, or the Third Young Master—survives, we complete the mission. So even if we do nothing to stop the Third Young Master, once his plan succeeds and he inherits the Wu Family's fortune, he obviously won't die. Wouldn't that mean we'd complete the mission anyway?"

Given the mission's usual habit of refusing to let

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