But there was no time to think about all this. Adam Harper walked up to the nearly petrified George Mason, grabbed him by the neck, and said in a calm voice, “Now, can you talk?”

George Mason was truly scared out of his wits.

He had thought that with Brother William there, Adam Harper would be taken care of in no time.

Who could have expected that after just a few moves, Brother William would be beaten to death right in front of him!

The moment Brother William died, it was already too late for George Mason to run.

One of his legs had been broken by Adam Harper’s kick—where could he possibly escape to?

“Don’t kill me! I’ll talk! I’ll tell you everything!”

George Mason was about to say something, then, with a tearful face, said, “I want to talk, but I really don’t know anything!”

“You don’t know anything? Are you playing games with me?”

Adam Harper’s expression instantly darkened.

Having just killed someone, he was exuding a murderous aura, and his grip tightened around George Mason’s neck, causing George Mason’s face to flush red in an instant.

George Mason hurriedly said, “I’m really not messing with you! I’m not even an official member of the Sanhe Gang, how could I know that much?

The person you killed was the Sanhe Gang’s boss, William Clark. I’ve done a few things for him and wanted to join the gang.

But William Clark said I wasn’t qualified yet, that I had to get one more thing done.

He wanted me to find a young, strong man for him—by tricking or coaxing, whatever means necessary.

That day, I happened to run into you. You’d been training at the martial arts school for so long, you were definitely qualified.

I took out ten taels of silver and tricked you, saying I needed help moving some contraband for a merchant caravan at night, and that we’d have to leave the city after dark.

When night came, I handed you over to William Clark, and you all left the city together. As for what happened after that, I really don’t know anything.”

After finishing, George Mason glanced cautiously at Adam Harper.

Thinking to himself, after you left the city, I didn’t follow—you should know what happened, so why are you asking me?

“You don’t know? Then why were you so shocked to see me alive?”

“Because that’s what William Clark himself said.

It wasn’t just you that William Clark took out of the city, but also another young man and two girls who weren’t even twenty.

I asked William Clark what he was doing taking you all out of the city so late at night, and he slapped me, telling me not to ask questions I shouldn’t.

After that, William Clark told me to keep my mouth shut, that you all definitely wouldn’t be coming back—that’s as good as saying you’d be dead.”

Adam Harper frowned slightly.

So there really was something off about ending up outside the city.

Who knows what William Clark was planning, taking him and the others out of the city—was it just to kill him?

Probably not, since he’d told George Mason to find people at random.

He’d just been unlucky to run into George Mason, and happened to need money, so he’d been tricked.

Unfortunately, the one who knew everything, William Clark, had already been killed by his own hand.

“Does the Sanhe Gang know I’m still alive?”

The only thing Adam Harper was unsure of now was whether what William Clark had done was connected to the Sanhe Gang, and if they found out he was still alive, would they come after him too.

George Mason shook his head. “I don’t know either.

After I ran into you yesterday, I agonized over it all day, and only told William Clark this morning.

William Clark’s face changed immediately and told me not to talk about it.

He said if anyone else, especially the second boss, heard about it, we’d all be finished.

He said he’d come find me tonight to discuss what to do.”

Hearing this, Adam Harper let out a slight sigh of relief.

From what William Clark said, it seemed that his survival meant William Clark had messed up, and the higher-ups in the Sanhe Gang hadn’t been alerted yet.

“You really don’t know anything else?”

“That’s really all! I’m just an errand boy, I didn’t know who I was dealing with—please, spare me!”

George Mason begged for mercy, his face full of tears.

But he felt the hand gripping his neck getting tighter and tighter. He wanted to beg and scream, but no sound would come out.

Watching as George Mason finally stopped breathing, Adam Harper tossed his corpse to the ground like a dead dog.

“If you really don’t know anything, then you have no value left alive.”

When Adam Harper killed the first person, he didn’t feel much.

Now, killing the second, he was even calmer.

Glancing at the two corpses on the ground, Adam Harper was just considering how to deal with them.

Suddenly, footsteps sounded from outside the alley.

The fight with William Clark had been loud enough to wake some of the nearby residents.

But in these troubled times, people preferred to mind their own business, so the common folk definitely wouldn’t dare come check.

Now, hearing the noise die down, they finally came out to see what had happened.

With no time to deal with the bodies, Adam Harper slipped straight to the back courtyard.

Making sure the alley behind was empty, he climbed over the wall and escaped.

Back home, the first thing Adam Harper did was take a shower, washing off the blood on his body while thinking over everything that had happened.

The Sanhe Gang was powerful in Heishi County, and deaths in gang conflicts were common—killing was nothing unusual.

With their influence, even if they killed people openly in the street, the county authorities wouldn’t interfere.

Yet as the boss, William Clark had secretly taken two men and two women out of the city, convinced they’d die and never return. There had to be something much more serious going on—it definitely wasn’t as simple as just killing a few people.

And the fact that William Clark was so afraid of the second boss, Kevin Grant, finding out that he was still alive proved that this matter was definitely connected to the higher-ups in the Sanhe Gang.