735: Chapter 724: The Secret Stash, the Wife Will Find Out 735: Chapter 724: The Secret Stash, the Wife Will Find Out Standing in the cell, Huayang watched Ning Fan, who was intimidating him, not daring to breathe a bit, his forehead breaking out in a cold sweat.
Eyeing Ning Fan’s expression, Huayang was puzzled about what Ning Fan really meant.
He kept his head low, not daring to meet Ning Fan’s eyes, his gaze evasive, deliberately avoiding Ning Fan’s line of sight.
Taken aback by the sudden challenge, Huayang could only choose to remain silent.
“Speak up!” Ning Fan’s eyes widened, his voice harsh and menacing, like a headsman.
Thump, thump, thump—
Again, three knocks rapped on the cell door, not as if hitting the door itself, but as if striking right at Huayang’s heart.
Fear of Ning Fan once again surged inside him.
Huayang couldn’t help but shake, his eyes drumming with worry, as if they were soaked with sweat at any moment.
“What, what do you want?”
Huayang raised his head with a grim expression, a flicker of struggle in his gaze; he utterly failed to comprehend Ning Fan’s intentions.
Had he come here just to tell him that the Yunteng family had sent people to rescue him, was he truly only interested in his reaction?
Or was there another purpose?
Huayang cautiously speculated in his mind, careful not to let his true thoughts show on his face.
“What I want is my business, and I’m the one who should be asking the questions.
You answer me first.”
Ning Fan sneered, his eyes warning Huayang to promptly answer the previous question.
Huayang instinctively swallowed, and after a bit of thought, he asked, “Are you going to let me go?”
After uttering those words, Huayang instantly regretted it because the question was foolish; no matter how he thought about it, Ning Fan would never let him go.
The question was pointless, and it hadn’t answered Ning Fan’s earlier inquiry about what would come next.
As expected, Ning Fan’s face brimmed with mockery, his gaze laden with scorn.
“I gave you a chance, and you didn’t treasure it.
Well then, you may as well stay here indefinitely.
When the Yunteng family arrives, I’ll just tell them you died here.”
Having said that, Ning Fan turned to leave.
Seeing him about to walk away, Huayang hastily called out, “Wait!”
“Do you have any last words to pass on?”
Ning Fan stopped, looking at Huayang with interest.
Huayang’s expression froze, unable to speak the words that reached his lips.
Was he really going to let Ning Fan unilaterally declare his death?
“What is it,” holding me up and then falling silent, “what do you really want?”
Ning Fan taunted Huayang, his eyes twinkling with mockery.
The young master of the Yunteng family could only widen his eyes in unwilling anger, gritting his teeth.
Even knowing that Ning Fan had prepared traps ahead, he had no choice but to step into them.
“You are the butcher, and I am the meat; unleash whatever schemes and tricks you have!”
Despite the gravity in his outburst, he was met with Ning Fan’s gaze, as if he were looking at a fool.
Thus, the seemingly desperate Huayang managed to keep Ning Fan’s interest.
Knowing that the other party surely wanted to use him against the Yunteng family, Huayang, still clinging to a sliver of hope, chose to give it a try.
Noticing a subtle change in Huayang’s eyes, something hidden deep within, Ning Fan laughed, a laugh chilling to the bone, utterly devoid of emotion.
“Well, stay here for now, and when the time comes, I’ll let you go out and breathe some fresh air.”
After leaving those words behind, Ning Fan turned and left, walking without pause toward the outer area of the jail.
Outside, Ouyang Feifei had been waiting already.
The Lonely Soul that was supposed to stay outside had also left for another place due to Ouyang Feifei’s arrival.
“So you were here after all, I thought you’d gone out.”
Ning Fan gave a slight smile.
He had originally thought that Ouyang Feifei wasn’t at the base and had gone out for other reasons.
Ouyang Feifei gave him a glare and replied irritably, “Where else could I possibly go?”
Ouyang Feifei, constantly busy with the construction of the Shadow Team, was very busy and hardly had time to rest.
Besides cultivation and dealing with Shadow Team affairs, there was little time for relaxation.
However, ever since she formally joined the ranks of martial artists not too long ago, this kind of fatigue was hardly an issue for her.
“Zang City’s Yunteng Family, it hasn’t been that long, and you’ve made another enemy,” Ouyang Feifei said with some worry.
As if the Umbrella matter wasn’t troublesome enough, now there was the Yunteng Family to deal with.
She still admired Ning Fan’s ability to attract enemies.
Ning Fan touched his nose and chuckled awkwardly, “You don’t need to worry about the Yunteng Family.
I’ll handle them.
Just focus on keeping an eye on Umbrella.”
Confronting the Yunteng Family, Ning Fan still had confidence.
After all, they were an open adversary, unlike Umbrella, about whom they knew almost nothing.
“Actually, I came here for money.”
Ouyang Feifei stated her real purpose for coming.
The development of the base couldn’t escape one thing: money.
The rapid development of the Shadow Team seemed a good thing, yet what was unseen was the large amounts of money flowing in like water.
To ensure better development in the future, money and talent were what they needed the most.
To date, the amount of money invested in the Shadow Team was astounding, but it was still far from enough.
To maintain the operation of this base and the entire Shadow Team, they needed a huge reserve.
So, Ouyang Feifei could only hold out her hands and ask Ning Fan for money.
“I’ve got a little over twenty bucks on me, do you want it?”
“Should I start a strike then?”
Ouyang Feifei rolled her eyes; there was still time for jokes at a time like this…
“You think I’m joking?
But I really don’t have any money on me!
Hahahaha!”
Ning Fan wasn’t the type to carry money around, and now that Ouyang Feifei was suddenly asking him for it, he was stumped.
But Ouyang Feifei didn’t say anything else and just handed the financial report to Ning Fan.
“All in all, in such a short time, twenty million US dollars just vanished…”
Ning Fan looked at the account statement provided by Ouyang Feifei with some surprise; the sum had disappeared faster than when he’d established the Phantom Guild.
But then he thought about it, at that time, the newly established Phantom Guild did not develop nearly as fast as the Shadow Team is now.
Yet while the development was rapid, it resulted in the entire Shadow Team being a bottomless pit, desperately needing money to fill it up.
It was a machine that devoured money, with no end in sight.
“That was the private stash I’d saved up from before!”
“A smart man always has more than one private fund!”