"What? Dong Yunjiang got the key to the box?"


    In a quiet courtyard in the Vermilion Bird Domain camp, a man in a refined robe squinted his eyes as he stared at the secretary at the doorway, "And this key was dropped by Li Mo at the scene?"


    "Yes! The bodyguard sent by Dong Yunjiang to monitor heard the conversation between Ye Fan and Li Mo, saying their key dropped at the ruins of Zhongmin Bank... then Dong Yunjiang sent people overnight to search, and now the scene is covered with firepower, without a single survivor besides Dong Yunjiang! According to estimates, they must have secured the key..."


    Bang!


    Listening to the secretary''s analysis, the man in the robe furiously smashed his brush down on the table, berating angrily, "Idiot! An utter fool, is he a pig?"


    This man was none other than Wei Hang, the "Big Fish" arranged by Prince Jin in the Vermilion Bird Domain!


    Wei Hang was a veteran who had fought alongside Tian Ji in the Southern Domain, and was also one of the founders of the entire Vermilion Bird Domain! Due to his outstanding strategies, he later rarely showed himself in public, instead often serving as a military advisor in the Vermilion Bird Domain... His influence was obviously above the Four Great War Kings led by Wu Shihao, and could even be considered on par with Tian Ji.


    Because they had fought side by side for many years, Tian Ji believed Wei Hang was an absolutely trustworthy partner. When leaving the Vermilion Bird Domain, he handed over full command of the domain to Wei Hang.


    Wei Hang was deeply concealed, with no one in the entire Vermilion Bird Domain suspecting him! Even because Wei Hang was a decade younger than Tian Ji, many within the Vermilion Bird Domain were promoting Wei Hang as the next potential leader.


    Wei Hang was angry only for a moment before he calmed down and straightened the papers on the table!


    This Dong Yunjiang, his head is full of mush?


    In the world, how could things be so coincidental?


    Just as his side had just obtained the Ye Family''s box, then Li Mo dropped the key at the ruins? And was Ye Fan with him?


    One could figure out with their toes that there was something off about this!


    "Mr. Wei, what should we do now?" the secretary asked, looking somewhat nervous at Wei Hang.


    Wei Hang had defected to Prince Jin, and now that the forces arranged by Prince Jin in Guangcheng had all fallen, Wei Hang was Prince Jin''s last hope.


    As long as something unexpected happened to Tian Ji, then Wei Hang would be the only possible candidate for leader of the Vermilion Bird Domain. With just a bit of a push from Prince Jin, Wei Hang''s assumption of power would be a sure thing.


    "If someone around Dong Yunjiang were to betray him, willingly revealing some information, then it would be easy! It''s like looking at flowers in the fog, fishing for the moon in water—true and false, false and true... Even if Ye Fan is extraordinarily gifted and a genius, with all the evidence laid before him, he would have no choice but to believe!"


    Wei Hang snorted coldly, "Once this military exercise is over, the new generation in the Vermilion Bird Domain will be mostly cleansed or replaced! If anything unexpected happens to Tian Ji, I''ll just naturally take over the entire Vermilion Bird Domain... By then, it won''t be up to Ye Fan to decide!"


    The secretary nodded, "I understand! I''ll make the arrangements right now..."


    "Additionally, hasn''t Dong Yunjiang secretly moved some troops under Wei Zhuang? Find a way to inform Wei Zhuang. He will definitely confront Dong Yunjiang about it!"


    That way, with both Dong Yunjiang and Wei Zhuang present, along with the betrayer''s evidence, Wei Zhuang, even if he had eight mouths, couldn''t explain himself clearly!


    Ye Fan set up a scheme to flush out the snake!


    Meanwhile, Wei Hang set up a scheme within a scheme, and then another within that... He even arranged for precautionary measures like the Thought Imprint!


    Getting a betrayer to appear among Dong Yunjiang''s men, discreetly exposing some details between Dong Yunjiang and "Mr. Wei," and pushing the evidence onto Wei Zhuang would naturally sort things out.


    However, what neither Wei Hang nor his secretary had anticipated was that this betrayer wouldn''t even need their intervention to arrange.


    Due to Dong Yunjiang''s brutality, one of his adjutants and assistants, just before dying, had already sent an email to the public mailbox of the Ye Corporation.


    Previously, because Ye Fan was in a "foolish" state, after the deaths of the father and son, Xu Jian and Xu Dong, the Ye Corporation was entrusted to Xia Hao, Guo Li, and Wang Fugui for joint management.


    Now Guo Li and Wang Fugui were constantly by Ye Fan''s side dealing with other matters. The actual management of the Ye Corporation was left to Xia Hao alone...


    Xia Hao was about to finish up for the day and habitually opened the Ye Corporation''s mailbox, then saw a strange email containing a mess of photos and some text—meeting locations, contacts... Xia Hao glanced over it and couldn''t make sense of it at all!


    Xia Hao thought it was spam and was about to delete it!


    But as his hand slipped to the end, he suddenly saw the name of a key figure, a plan to assassinate Ye Fan?


    Shit!


    Was this an alert email?


    Without hesitation, Xia Hao immediately dialed Ye Fan''s phone...