Chapter 108: Broken Organs
Wesley: "..."
Life is already so difficult, why expose some truths?
"Don't!!!" Wesley pleaded, looking at Cross, "Don't kill her!"
Cross tightened his grip on his gun, then looked at Wesley's pitiful expression, and finally sighed. He still softened, lowering his gun.
Fire Fox ultimately lost in her one-on-one duel with Mindy and was captured.
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Back home, Wesley and Fire Fox were tied tightly to chairs.
When Mo Fei and Mindy took off their masks, Wesley looked at Mo Fei in astonishment: "It's you?"
"It's me. Surprised?" Mo Fei said with a smile, "Actually, don't just see me as a Doctor on the surface; secretly, I'm also an assassin."
"What exactly do you want to do?" Wesley asked angrily.
"What do you think we want to do?" Mo Fei sighed and said, "Think about it, if we really had ill intentions towards you, would you still be alive? You're not some great beauty, and even if we were gay, we wouldn't choose someone as short, poor, and ugly as you! The truth is, you really are his only son."
Mo Fei pointed at Cross.
"Impossible!" Wesley flatly denied, "Do you take me for a fool? He's the killer of my father!"
"Nothing is absolute. Don't rush to conclusions until the very last moment!" Mo Fei smiled and said, "Why couldn't Cross be your father? Just because of what those people from the Assassin Alliance said? They said Mr. X was your father, and you believed he was your father? I can tell you now that I'm actually your father, would you believe it?"
Wesley: "..."
Cross, who was standing by and watching, twitched an eyebrow. This kid was taking advantage of his son!
"See, you don't believe it, right? It's all just empty words, so why do you believe them and not me? They said Mr. X was your father. Did they provide a paternity test?"
At this, Wesley instantly wavered, because he carefully recalled Sloan's explanation to him, and indeed, it was not enough to prove that the so-called Mr. X was his father.
"Wesley, don't fall for it," Fire Fox said coldly. "The only reason they're not killing you now is they want to use you to turn against the Assassin Alliance."
Between 36C and Mo Fei, Wesley, of course, chose to believe 36C.
His wavering heart immediately firmed up again, and he looked at Mo Fei with righteous indignation: "Don't waste your effort, I won't fall for your trick. Just kill us directly. I will never betray the Assassin Alliance!"
"Tsk tsk, you're an interesting woman," Mo Fei looked at Fire Fox, shaking his head and smiling, "This idiot actually likes you, and I suppose you know that, right? You must have been a core participant in the plan to use Wesley to kill his father. If I'm not mistaken, Sloan must have given you an order—if Wesley really manages to kill Cross, then you are to turn around and kill Wesley, to cut the grass and eradicate the roots, preventing Wesley from seeking revenge if he ever finds out the truth."
"And because you believe in the Loom of Fate, and you believe Wesley's name is on the list Sloan gave you, you're going to kill such a foolish boy who is madly in love with you? Can you really bring yourself to do it? An ordinary person who was originally living his own humble but stable life, just because of your Assassin Alliance's and Cross's personal grudges, was forcibly dragged into a precarious life as an assassin, tricked by you all into killing his own father, and then at the very moment he kills his father, you tell him he killed his own father, and finally you kill him... I wonder if you will feel guilty in the middle of the night... Are all you assassins so Leng Xue?"
Fire Fox closed her eyes, pretending not to hear anything, as if disdaining to listen to Mo Fei's nonsense, but if one listened closely, they would notice her fists were clenched, her knuckles white. It seemed she wasn't as calm and rational as she appeared.
"Wesley, I really am your biological father, they are all lying to you!" Cross cried out, grabbing Wesley in distress.
"It's useless, he's completely fallen for 36C; he won't believe you." Mo Fei shook his head. "Even if you show him a paternity test now, he'll just say you forged it. What can you do with him? Unless you can find a woman who appeals to him more than Fire Fox."
"Alright, we've been busy for most of the day, it's time for lunch." Mo Fei rubbed his stomach and said, "Mindy, what are we having for lunch?"
"Brother, what do you want to eat?" Mindy blinked and asked.
"Hmm... let's have hotpot!" Mo Fei thought for a moment and said.
"Brother, it's a bit hot, hotpot?"
"The hotter it is, the more you should eat hotpot!" Mo Fei said as a matter of course, "Eating hotpot shirtless outdoors on a hot day, with a few cases of ice-cold beer, that's life!"
"Alright..." Mindy said helplessly, "I'll go buy the ingredients later, Brother, what do you want to eat?"
Mo Fei pondered: "Broken organs, congealed blood, tangled tentacles, soulless eyeballs, twisted plants, shriveled limbs, incomplete brains, scarlet fruits. Rolling in the opposition of Red and White, sinking in the fusion of Yellow and Brown..."
Wesley listened, terrified. Is this really what you want to eat?
Emmmmm... You're not a legendary cannibal, are you?
So scary!
Cross was also a bit scared, he coughed and tentatively asked, "Mindy, do they even sell these things anywhere?"
"Teacher, you misunderstood." Mindy rolled her eyes at Mo Fei. "Actually, it's just tripe, blood curd, squid tentacles, lamb eyeballs, kelp knots, cured pork, blanched brain, and tomatoes. Spicy and clear broth yin-yang hotpot, with plum juice and lemon slices..."