Kenny rested his body at the back of the seat and took a piece of paper from his trouser pocket, and handed it to Zeres. Zeres was confused, not understanding what Kenny was trying to do.
"What is this?" Zeres asked without taking the paper from Kenny's hand.
Kenny smiled," Just take a look at it."
Zeres took the piece of paper and looked at it. "It's blank, there is nothing on it," Zeres spoke, still very confused.
"What do you mean?" Kenny said as he stood up to go next to Zeres. He looked at the paper but he couldn't see anything.
He was astonished too," It had a word of a certain location written on it,' Kenny said.
"Are you sure? Where did you get the paper?" Zeres was curious.
"I picked it up at Sticker's mansion," Kenny replied.
"When was that, and did you go there?" Zeres asked.
"Today, I just went to have a glance at her; she left."
"I know she left, but I didn't think you would go there. What if they are keeping tabs on you?" Zeres asked.
"I acted like a low-key buddy, and I also had my reasons for doing that. I wanted to draw the big fish near," Kenny said.
"Okay, let's talk about the paper now. Did you read what was written on it?"
A curve was formed on Kenny's lips," Summer Palace," he said.
Kenny was an intelligent man with a very good memory. He just read the words written on the paper and memorized them. He paused, then continued," Wait, I am thinking of something."
"What is it?" Zeres said, with his eyes still fixed on the piece of paper as if he was trying his luck to see if he could read something which was not there.
"Stop looking at the paper, buddy, the words you are searching for aren't there.'
Zeres smiled," Wait, do you mean they used evaporating ink?" he asked.
Kenny nodded his head in response.
The two had been in the underworld for many years, and they knew most of the methods used there. The evaporating ink pens were used to sign fake bank cheques, and the ink would disappear after a certain time, leaving the cheque blank, hence invalid.
"Summer Palace...Summer Palace..." Zeres repeated the words several times as he tapped his fingers on the table. It was as if he were trying to recall something.
"Kenny, I think I know that place," Zees suddenly spoke.
Kenny looked at him," Sure, where is it?"
"Kenny, could this be a trap?"
"Not sure, it might be a trap, and it could be the location of the antidote," Kenny said.
"How did you know that place?" I have never heard of it," Kenny said.
....
Years back, before Kenny and Zeres knew each other, Zeres was working for an underworld organization by the name Black Squad.
Zeres was the most powerful man in the underworld organization and the most trusted one in the Black squad.
The Black Squad had been fighting against Kenny's organization, led by the Tiger.
For very many years, the two organizations had always been enemies, attacking each other from time to time.
The black squad was involved in the smuggling of drugs and the selling of illegal weapons. It also associated itself with the kidnapping of women and small girls and selling them to old rich men to satisfy their sexual needs.
Tiger had been fighting against what the Black squad was doing for the longest time, and that's the main reason why they became enemies.
Zeres worked for the Black squad organization for many years, and he always completed all the missions he was assigned without failure.
The boss of the organization gave him all the difficult assignments that even he himself could not accomplish.
At a certain time, Zeres was sent on a very risky mission, and he was assassinated.
Those assassins tortured him, and he was almost killed.
He luckily escaped from the place where he was locked and went back to the Black squad base.
He was taken to a special hospital to be treated.
Later that day, he got out of bed to go to the washroom when he accidentally overheard the boss of the organization talking to the doctor and other members of the Black squad.
The doctor had said to them that Zere's body was greatly destroyed and he could no longer work for the organization.
He listened to their conversation, and he heard his boss saying that if he were in that state, then he was no longer important to the organization.
The boss ordered the doctor to inject him with a poison so that he could be dealt with.
He carefully went back to the ward, promising himself that he wouldn't allow the doctor to inject him with any medicine.
He planned to escape that night, not knowing that they had changed their plans, and they decided to add the poison to his food.
He was served that night by one of his closest friends, and he decided to eat so that he could get some energy to escape that night.
Thirty minutes after he was done eating, he felt some stomach discomfort, and he could not even talk since his whole body had become numb.
A group carried him in the car trunk and threw him in a forest nearby.
At the same time, Kenny had gone to the forest to get some medicinal plants he was doing his research on.
He saw a car parked aside and four men carrying another man, and threw his body into the forest.
When the car left, he quickly walked into the forest and found out that Zeres was still breathing.
He took him to his house, which was nearby, and called his doctor, who attended to him.
It was found that he was fed with some kind of poison which could kill him in a few hours.
The doctor developed an antidote for him, and after taking care of his wounds for almost two months, he healed completely. That's how Zeres and Kenny knew each other. Zeres had been of full support to Kenny whenever he needed him.