Mi Xiaolin was indeed getting desperate.
While they had been embroiled in their endless internal struggles for power and profit, how could they have imagined that Zhong Yi had been watching them coldly all along?
Zhong Yi was not alone. He still had old friends within the group.
Someone who had lived for who knew how long, enjoyed making friends, valued loyalty, and had a thriving social life was definitely trouble. Even Chu Ge's mother, Wu Xiuyun, was cautious around Zhong Yi, because he might have close ties to certain senior leaders. If he refused to be brought into the fold, all you could do was keep him at arm's length, or at most, give him "special attention."
If even Chu Ge's mother had to do that, what chance did Mi Xiaolin and her makeshift crew have?
You had no way of knowing who had once received his help or kindness. Your own grandfather might even have been a buddy of his. Not everyone in the group was willing to serve as an accomplice, either. Plenty of people disapproved of them, and Du Qi in particular had some die-hard friends just waiting to stir things up.
As a result, just as Mi Xiaolin's side prepared to kill the two men in vegetative states, Zhong Yi snatched them out of their jaws. They did not even know who had leaked the news.
Having the men rescued was not the real problem. These two had once been core figures in the group and knew far too much about their dirty dealings. If they woke up and turned against them, the blow would be devastating.
Modern medicine could not wake the two men from their vegetative states, so there should still have been time to work things out. But the couple who had