Despair welled up within him, a desire to weep without tears, a maelstrom of anger, sorrow, despair, and fear.
All these emotions crazily assaulted Yang Yi, rendering him momentarily dazed.
Cutting off someone's financial road is like killing their parents, and this was a deal worth billions, a massive business we're talking about. To have it all endangered by someone like Daniel—seemingly harmless, yet so foolish—it posed a threat of destruction. Put yourself in that situation, would you not kill?
All of a sudden, Yang Yi felt John Jones and his team got what they deserved. How could they not when they had a teammate like Daniel, a liability to the end?
Stealing corporate secrets is one thing, simply a lost acquisition. But unveiling someone's silent backer is like uprooting their foundation. Destroy their foundation and they'd annihilate your entire family. What's wrong with that?
Yang Yi reached out and grabbed Daniel's collar, then said with a lost soul, "You put the intelligence on the dark web for sale, even pinpointing the Egertoni Company's silent backer as Masser Group? You sold it as just evidence?"
Desperately, Daniel said, "No! It's not! My listing was for the sale of information on Egertoni Company's silent backer, with solid evidence. That's all."
Yang Yi took a breath, then continued in a trembling voice, "Didn't you think for a second, when you're dealing with someone doing business in the billions of US Dollars, that selling such critical information could get you killed?"
"I thought they couldn't find us… I'm sorry, I didn't foresee the consequences being this grave."
Daniel looked terrified, Kate remained silent, but Kadipur moaned in pain and then said in utter despair, "We're done for, we're all done for. We're surely going to die; this time it's for real…"
In a low voice, Kate said, "So if the mole isn't one of us, who is it?"
Yang Yi suddenly roared angrily, "Do I even need to ask? The Cicero Family! It's the Cicero Family!"
Yang Yi was on the verge of an emotional breakdown, unable to contain his feelings any longer.
Releasing Daniel's collar, Yang Yi waved his hands and said, "Daniel posted information about the Masser family, and then, the Cicero Family noticed and swiftly took down the information. People from the Masser Group quickly sent assassins to tie up loose ends. Isn't that obvious?"
Kate murmured, "But the Cicero Family has always had a good reputation…"
Yang Yi snapped, "Where do you get this confidence from? Where does your confidence come from? What is Masser Group? The biggest arms smuggling syndicate. And you? Just a few people, a dog's fart of commercial spies! You're satisfied with a couple of million British Pounds a year, while they deal in billions! How can you even compare? Between the biggest arms syndicate and you, who to choose? How would you choose? Moreover, do you really think that the world's largest arms smuggling syndicate would have no dealings with the Cicero Family?"
Yang Yi spoke with an acrid tone, feeling as if his dreams were on the brink of being extinguished before they could even truly begin.
In short, they were doomed.
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Yang Yi slumped in despair on the car seat, and then he said in a soulless voice, "It's clear now, we were betrayed by the contact of the Cicero Family, all because Daniel harmed the core interests of the Masser Group. Now, the Masser Group wants to kill us, and the Cicero Family needs to do the same. Even if just to uphold the Cicero Family's reputation, they would certainly have to kill us."
Daniel wept, "How could this happen, I'm sorry, I didn't realize the consequences would be so severe."
Yang Yi sighed, "Mr. Jones seemed so wise, how could he make such a mistake as to place a selfish and foolish person like you on his team, and to trust you so much?"
Daniel covered his face and began to cry even louder.
Kadipur said with a trembling voice, "We contact the Cicero Family's people and tell them we're willing to hand everything over, as if this never happened. Daniel didn't get to betray any information, so maybe they will spare us..."
Yang Yi sighed, "Even if they believe what you say, believe that we won't betray the Masser Group's information in the future, alright, let's say that's the case. What about the Cicero Family? The singer is a partner of the Cicero Family. In the face of larger interests, the Cicero Family didn't hesitate to abandon us. Then, what would other spies think of the Cicero Family? In other words, would the Cicero Family allow such a situation to happen? Stop hoping for the best; even if the Masser Family were willing to let us go, the Cicero Family would still have to kill us."
Kate was very sad, but at this moment, she said defiantly, "Then what do we do? Just wait to die?"
Yang Yi laconically said, "I think it's wiser to find a comfortable way to die that spares oneself from the agony of a painful death. Do you have a better suggestion?"
Kate said solemnly, "The Cicero Family, the Masser Group, no matter who it is, if they want to kill me, they will pay a price!"
Yang Yi covered his face, closed his eyes, took a deep breath, and said shakily, "Our enemies are behemoths, and there are two of them. If you're happy with that, choose whatever you like."
Kadipur said in utmost despair, "Let's run, leave London, leave the United Kingdom, hide somewhere no one can find us..."
Yang Yi said softly, "You go back to India, find a small village to live in, and perhaps they really won't find you. That is if you can even leave London. Good luck, buddy."
Kate angrily said, "So we just do nothing and wait to die?"
Yang Yi gave a bitter smile and said softly, "My suggestion is to find a more comfortable way to die; as I've said."
Kate said loudly, "Ross! You're the smartest among us. You have to pull yourself together and think of a way!"
Yang Yi said in utter despair, "A way? I'm thinking, but I can't come up with anything. The assassins found Jenny, and Jenny spilled everything about us. And then there's Ryan, Wells, Mr. Jones—didn't you see what kind of torture they went through? Except for Mr. Jones, they were all tortured to death, and they told everything. The ones who want to kill us are the Masser Group's assassins, lots of assassins. Sorry, I should add those from the Cicero Family too. I'm not God, I can't do it! I can't do it!"
Kate was equally despondent, but she still said stubbornly, "We have to do something! Do something! We can't just sit here and wait to be killed, we have to do something! Ross, if you give up now, then everything is definitely over, at least do something!"
Yang Yi once again covered his face and hung his head.
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Yang Yi remembered his mother, his father, and the purpose that made him give up everything to come to the United Kingdom.
Still in despair, Yang Yi felt that perhaps it was indeed time to do something.
It wasn't that Kate's words had moved him, but that Yang Yi truly didn't want to die. He was young, he had come with full ambition, and he didn't want to die so young.
He gave out a sigh and said in a low voice, "Let me think, let me think..."
After a long while, Yang Yi raised his head, exhaled, and said softly, "I haven't thought of any good way out, but first things first, we need to find a place to hide, to be out of sight. Next, we need to figure out how to leave London, leave the UK, but first, how should we deal with him?"
Yang Yi looked over at Daniel, the culprit responsible for the deaths of many.
Daniel's IQ was definitely not low; otherwise, he wouldn't be a proficient hacker. But Daniel's mind might have been too focused on how to hack into other people's systems, otherwise, he wouldn't have caused such serious consequences and killed so many people.
A high IQ, low EQ hacker, no matter what his initial intentions were, there was no doubt that Daniel was the main culprit. So, before deciding what to do, they had to think of how to handle Daniel first.
Looking at Daniel, Yang Yi said softly, "What should we do with him? Kill him?"
Daniel shrank back in fear and said, "Please don't kill me, I beg you, don't kill me..."
Yang Yi was holding a pistol, and the muzzle was already aimed at Daniel.
Kate and Kadipur both remained silent. Yang Yi suddenly burst out in anger and yelled, "Say something! What should we do! I joined just a few days ago, I haven't even formally joined; am I really the one to make this decision?"
Kate opened her mouth, but she couldn't speak. Her expression quickly turned to shock, then she yelled, "Watch out!"
Before Kate's words fell, Yang Yi was thrown out forcefully, crashing into Daniel.
The car was hit, slammed on its left rear side by another vehicle that had rushed up from the rear.
Kadipur slammed on the steering wheel; the taxi, with its high center of gravity, miraculously didn't roll over.
"They're here!"
Kadipur exclaimed.
The car stopped in the middle of the road, and three vehicles formed a '品' shape, targeting the front of Yang Yi's car.
Immediately afterward, four people got out of the car and rushed towards them swiftly.
Yang Yi, who had been thrown against Daniel, didn't suffer a severe collision. Instinctively, he aimed to shoot at the four approaching men, but when he raised his hand, he found the gun was being held by someone else.
Daniel was gripping the pistol in Yang Yi's hand with both hands.
"Let go!"
Yang Yi bellowed, but Daniel had already snatched the pistol from his grip, then raised the gun with both hands in a rapid motion.
Someone shattered the car window with a strike and reached in to grab Yang Yi, while the other hand tried to open the door from the inside.
Daniel roared angrily and then pulled the trigger.
"Don't kill me!"
The gunshot rang out right next to Yang Yi's ear. The person who had reached for him fell atop the car and quickly slid off.
Yang Yi's ears suddenly couldn't hear anything, while Daniel quickly turned around and fired two shots at the person who had grabbed his arm.
Kadipur restarted the car and swiftly reversed, trying to escape. Meanwhile, the ones trying to capture them alive finally pulled out their pistols and continuously fired at the taxi.
Kadipur was a skilled driver; the taxi frantically fled, quickly leaving a few vehicles behind.
Daniel, holding the pistol, waved it around as he yelled, "Don't kill me, don't kill me! Don't kill me!"
Yang Yi yelled, "Put down the gun!"
Daniel suddenly stopped waving the pistol and said in a devastated tone, "Don't kill me, please don't kill me, I'm sorry, I owe you an apology, I'll do it myself..."
Daniel murmured a few words to himself, then suddenly flipped the pistol, shoved the barrel into his own mouth, and pulled the trigger.