"Yes, I should have dealt with it long ago."
The man in gray fell silent for a moment, then tapped the tabletop with a finger. "Answer me. Have you dealt with Cheng Yunqi and his son?"
Lin Genggao's face turned deathly white in an instant. "Not... not yet."
Smack!
The man in gray waved his hand, delivering a slap through the air. Without a sound, Lin Genggao was knocked thirty feet away, struck the wall, and bounced back. His cheek had already swollen enormously.
"Tell me, what are you waiting for? For Cheng Fangzhi to give up his father? Then for his father to give you up? And then for you to give everyone else up? So everyone can go down together?!"
"I'll deal with it immediately!"
"If that trail hasn't been severed before dawn tomorrow, you die. This is your last chance."
"Yes."
"Once this matter is dealt with, we'll address your problem. Do you accept that wholeheartedly?"
"I do."
"Sit down!"
Everyone fell as silent as cicadas in the cold.
"Broken Army!"
Lin Genggao stood again. "Here."
"Tell me exactly how you were exposed. Where, precisely, did you give yourselves away? Don't leave out even the faintest thread of a clue. We have plenty of time today."
"It began when..." Lin Genggao articulated the entire sequence of events clearly, continuing through Ge Yuanhang's admission of fault and apology, Qin Fangyang noticing something amiss, and Li Changjiang going to Class One to transfer students.
"You mean Qin Fangyang, Class Nine's homeroom teacher, orchestrated this?"
"Yes. That is what I believe."
The man in gray chuckled. "And that Zuo Xiaoduo... did you never consider his role?"
Lin Genggao said, "I believe that, aside from strength far beyond his peers, this Zuo Xiaoduo is hot-tempered and impulsive, unfit for any great