The Dragon Fights in the Wild

Meanwhile, just as Sa Jie went into hiding, the other core members of the Southeast Asian Sorcerers Association lacked his sharp instincts, and Sa Jie had not warned them either.

The reason was simple: what if the danger came from those very people?!

A man like him trusted no one but himself. Everyone else was utterly untrustworthy—even "good friends" of many years.

At a heavily guarded villa, a contingent of armed, rigorously trained troops stood watch around the clock in three rotating shifts.

In truth, however, they were not guarding against formidable foes so much as preventing petty thieves from breaking in.

In a sense, it was like using anti-aircraft guns to swat mosquitoes.

But the villa's owner did not care. He did not lack protection; to him, such a display was part of his prestige. It could be useless, but it could not be absent.

In Yanhuang, the Sword Dao Bureau was publicly known as the largest armed force. But in Southeast Asia, the largest organization of violence was the Southeast Asian Sorcerers Association. Many countries in the region had to watch the Association's face.

The reason was that some of those nations' upper echelons were themselves members of the Southeast Asian Sorcerers Association.

At the same time, wealthy tycoons throughout Southeast Asia, as well as companies doing business there, had to pay protection money to the Sorcerers Association if they wanted to survive. The various governments did not interfere, because they received a share of the money as well.

Anyone who dared to defy the rules would see their family ruined and their lives destroyed within minutes.

Even tycoons were treated this way; the plight of ordinary people was naturally easy to imagine.

For instance, when cases were solved here, scapegoats were simply arrested outright. Murder was no