Yue Xiaofei's smile froze on his face.
"After he passed the test with the blueprints, [Skull and Bones] finally considered him 'one of their own.'"
"They gave your father his first real assignment."
Han Xiao leaned closer and spoke slowly, his voice as quiet as a devil's whisper, audible only to the two of them:
"They ordered Yue Changlong to personally deal with a captured agent from the Dragon Kingdom's Bureau 7 who had infiltrated Eagle Country!"
"To torture every last piece of intelligence out of the agent."
"And if the agent would rather die than submit..."
At that moment, Han Xiao's voice turned chilling and sinister.
"Then your father would have to kill the agent with his own hands!!!"
Those words horrified everyone present.
Torture his own countryman!
Kill his own comrade!
This was no longer a test. They were forcing a hero to sever his own beliefs and trample his own soul!
How vicious [Skull and Bones] was!
They did not want Yue Changlong's loyalty. They wanted to destroy him completely!
To turn him from an unwavering guardian into a demon just like them, his hands stained with the blood of his own people!
"No! My father... he wouldn't..."
Yue Xiaofei's lips trembled. He shook his head desperately, trying to deny the possibility.
"Heh."
A look of almost cruel pity appeared on Han Xiao's refined face.
"From the day he accepted [Operation Underworld], your father was prepared to stain his hands with blood."
"He said that when you walked through darkness, the shadows were bound to stain your clothes. But he never imagined that day would come so soon, so... unexpectedly."
"He met the captured agent in a dark, damp underground interrogation room that reeked of rust and blood."
Han Xiao paused, as though recalling the scene.
"When