In Hill City, Marcus tracked Andy’s phone location to determine where he went and then got someone to bring up the surveillance footage, eventually tracing Andy to a company under the South Regent. About ten minutes later, Andy left and went to a hotel. The surveillance footage, however, did not show Andy leaving. Marcus and his men went to the hotel to look for Andy, but Dylan was nowhere to be found. He requested the hotel’s security footage, only to discover that several cameras had malfunctioned.Alerted to the situation, the hotel manager called technicians over to fix them and was told that the security cameras had only recently gone down. Marcus had a bad feeling about it. When the cameras were fixed and the security footage was restored, it only showed Andy entering a room, but there was no record of what happened after that. Andy’s phone was also in the room. Marcus had someone hack into the phone, but after a thorough search, he did not find anything useful. “Wher
Stone Village plunged into chaos after Nico’s death, and there were few villagers left in the village. “No. Why are you asking?” Stephen asked. “Andy is missing.” “What? How?” Stephen was shocked. “I don’t know. We’re still investigating it. I suspect some organization or faction has taken him. That’s why I am calling you,” Marcus explained. Stephen frowned. Two days ago, Andy had come to him, asking if he knew anyone related to the South Regent, and at his wedding, the South Regent had presented him with a bullet, the bullet that shot his man to death. Now, Andy was missing, and Stephen started to feel nervous. Could the South Regent be targeting the people around him? If the bullet he received was the one that was used to shoot the South Regent’s man to death, would the South Regent use it to take out his friends? He could not wait any longer. He had to get to Hill City. When Stephen arrived, he rendezvoused with Marcus and headed to the company owned by the South
Marcus’ breathing grew heavy. At that same moment, Stephen also pieced it together that the homeless man was Andy. On the third day of Andy’s disappearance, Stephen and Marcus finally found a lead, but Andy had become homeless!The two of their minds buzzed with disbelief. To think the son of the Whites had been reduced to a beggar!Stephen looked at the owner angrily, grabbed him by the collar, and growled, “Where is he? What did you do to him?”The owner shook Stephen’s hand off and said, “This video was taken by someone beyond the borders. We’re not sure where he is. If you’re accusing us of doing something to him, that’s unfair. We don’t have a clue how he ended up there.”Stephen and Marcus felt a little dumbfounded. Andy was beyond the border, and it was not the South Regent who took him?“Send him back immediately!” Stephen ordered the owner. However, the owner said, “Only if you pay up, and it’ll take time. After all, finding someone beyond the border is no small tas
A man stepped out and immediately saw Andy slumped against the corner. Startled, Andy quickly said in an incoherent foreign language, “Sorry. I’ll leave now.”He did not actually speak the language, but after being beaten up so much, he had picked up a few common apologetic phrases. Andy pushed his hand against the ground, trying to push himself up. However, he was too exhausted. He attempted twice and still could not make it to his feet. The man turned and went back inside. Andy panicked even more. He was afraid the man would come out with a gun or a stick the next second. He had encountered such situations a few times, and every time, he had run for his life, scrambling away in fright. He wanted to flee now, but his body had no strength left. A moment later, the man walked out. However, instead of holding a gun or a stick, he was holding a bowl of hot soup, which he offered to Andy. Andy’s eyes widened. He looked up at the man in disbelief. Instead of chasing him away, t
Although he had fulfilled his wish of challenging the South Regent, he was crushed in a one-sided battle and defeated in a single move. Although he was released afterward, many people treated him like a stray dog, beating and looking down on him along his journey. Seeing that Andy did not reply, the man smiled. “It’s okay if you don’t want to talk about it. Are you returning to Riveria now?”Andy nodded. “It’s still far from Riveria, around 143 miles.”The distance made Andy feel a wave of despair. Was it still so far away?“You seem afraid.” The man was surprised. “Yeah,” Andy said honestly. “I feel like I won’t make it back.”“How could that be?” The man chuckled. “Aren’t you from Riveria? All it would take is a single call, and someone would come and get you, right? Riveria has Ethan. Here, anyone would show nothing but respect when they hear Ethan’s name.”Andy was stunned. Was Ethan really that powerful? Did his name hold influence even beyond the borders?“Do all of y
“I…” Andy mumbled softly, “I’ll try my best.”Now, he was not sure how to face Ethan anymore. He had treated a real hero, a savior awaited by countless people, as a country bumpkin and cursed at him disrespectfully.Andy realized one thing. All this time, he had looked down on Ethan and tried every way to prove that he had surpassed Ethan. However, look at him now—captured in a foreign land, beaten, and ridiculed. He looked no better than a homeless man and was not sure if he could make it through the day, but a family extended a helping hand to him at this moment. The family wished for Ethan to save everyone outside of the borders. They admired Ethan and mistook Andy for someone from Riveria, which was why they helped him. He was saved not because he was a son of the Whites or because of his remarkable combat skills from years of training. No, he was saved simply because he was from Riveria, the province Ethan managed. It was Ethan who saved him!Andy lowered his head shamefull
“I’ll go with you!” Andy shouted, not daring to make any more requests.Someone then took out a rope to tie Andy’s hands behind his back and then used it to haul him up. Andy felt the rope digging painfully into his wrists, but he did not dare to make a sound. “Take him out.”Andy was forcefully dragged out. When he was almost out of the door, he saw the leader aiming his gun at the girl. They wanted to silence the witnesses to prevent anyone who arrived later from knowing about Andy’s whereabouts. Seeing that, Andy quickly yelled in a panic, “Don’t shoot!”Using every bit of strength he had left, he tried to break free and stop Scarface but was quickly kicked to the ground by one of the others.“Don’t kill them!” Andy yelled, not caring about the pain. “I’m the son of the Whites. If you hurt them, I won’t let you get away with it!”“Even if you’re the head of the Whites, it’s useless here.” Scarface said, “Beat him up, but don’t kill him. We’ll carry him later so he doesn’t m
“I’m worried about that man. He saved me, but you guys hurt him.”The glasses guy sighed. “Fate is unpredictable. Worrying won’t change anything. Besides, the money our boss gave them is enough for the mother and daughter to live on for years. People die every day here. It’s a normal occurrence. Even if they hadn’t run into us today, they’d run into someone else. We desperately wish for Ethan’s arrival because it’s too chaotic here.”Andy found it harder to sleep. He never knew it was so dangerous here. It seemed like nobody here knew whether they would live to see tomorrow or fall victim to the next random attack. However, he still could not shake off the uneasiness. He felt like the glasses guy was just trying to justify their actions by saying the family would bump into someone else if not them. Just as Andy opened his mouth, about to argue, there was a loud bang. The car jolted violently as if it had been hit!Scarface shouted, “We’re under attack!”Andy had no idea what wa