Two weeks later, a plane crossed the Sino-Russian border and landed within Russian territory.
Yang Huaijin and Feng Zhi walked side by side out of the airport, both dressed casually, resembling ordinary tourists on vacation. However, as soon as they reached the entrance, they saw a group of well-trained security personnel and over a dozen cars waiting outside. R had significant influence in Russia, and these people had received early notice to wait for Feng Zhi here.
The head of R’s operations in Russia was a tall young man who respectfully greeted Feng Zhi with a group of people. While Feng Zhi exchanged pleasantries with them, Yang Huaijin’s phone rang from his pocket. Taking out his phone and glancing at the caller ID, he didn’t answer but looked around while holding his phone.
Not far away, a man emerged from a dusty gray Hummer, slammed the door shut with a bang, and walked towards them. He raised his hand holding a phone, waving vigorously, and shouted loudly, “A-jin!”
Yang Huaijin saw the newcomer and smiled, “San-ge.” He patted the arm that was holding him back and simply pulled the person away.
“San-ge, Fang Rui,” Yang Huaijin introduced.
Fang Rui had a rough personality, with a casual jacket hanging on his arm, a dark T-shirt wrapping around sturdy muscles, camouflage pants, and a pair of Martin boots. He was handsome, with some resemblance to Yang Huaijin in his facial features, but their temperaments were completely different—Fang Rui was an Alpha.
Feng Zhi didn’t expect to meet the ‘family’ right after getting off the plane. He shook hands with Fang Rui in a friendly manner, but hesitated for a moment when introducing himself. If it were someone else in front of him, his self-introduction would definitely be ‘Yang Huaijin’s friend,’ but this person was Yang Huaijin’s family…
Yang Huaijin, hearing his hesitation, casually uttered three words to help him out.
“Good friend.”
The use of this ‘good’ was quite clever, neither unfamiliar nor avoiding their relationship.
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Feng Zhi indulgently chuckled, “A-jin says what he means.”
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After embracing him, Fang Rui immediately put on a pitiful look, “Xiao Jin! You don’t even miss your brother!”
“…”
Yang Huaijin sighed inwardly: What had to come has finally come…
“Ge… calm down…”
“What should I calm down about! I’m all alone over here—”
Yang Huaijin interrupted him, “My third sister-in-law will scold you!”
Fang Rui immediately changed his tone, “I’m left here all pitifully, with my family in this desolate place… Xiao Jin, you don’t even call me, the whole family is like a bunch of cold-blooded creatures, I only hoped you’d take care of your brother. And when you finally call, it’s just to talk to your sister-in-law, am I not important…”
“Your dad really needs you, if you stop the research, you can come home and inherit the family fortune…”
“You idiot, Xiao Jin! How could you say such things? Life shouldn’t only revolve around inheriting the family fortune, but also include love and distant horizons! Besides, I have a wife, and he really needs me to take care of him…”
Who’s taking care of whom exactly… Yang Huaijin thought of his third brother’s partner and silently scoffed.
Yang Huaijin’s third brother, Fang Rui, was an Alpha without much ambition, who would return home to inherit the family fortune if he didn’t focus on geological research. Many years ago, during an expedition to the Sino-Russian border, he somehow lucked out and found a beautiful and strong-willed Omega to be his partner, settling down early in life. Over the years, he had been abroad accompanying his wife, oh, no, conducting geological research abroad.
Fang Rui’s partner, Ilya, was precisely the person Yang Huaijin and Feng Zhi were looking for on this trip—a senior officer in the Russian military.
Half a month ago, Yang Huaijin learned from Feng Zhi that Xing Tian had set his sights on the Anelli family over a decade ago, which led to the infiltration of ‘A-jiu’ under Chen Qi’s command. They became acquainted through this. However, the Anelli family’s influence was too extensive, and Xing Tian needed not only to take over all of R’s forces but also to carefully plan in secret for many years to make a decisive blow. Initially, it was because Xing Tian acted prematurely, when his wings were not yet fully grown, that led to the Anelli family’s later actions in China becoming more covert. Now, twelve years later, Xing Tian was fully confident, but the final stage of closing the net was complicated due to recent changes in the upper echelons of the Russian military in the past few months, introducing some instability
The political environment in Russia is complex. Yang Huaijin’s ‘third sister-in-law’ isn’t just a senior officer in the military; their faction also has ties to the local underworld. Ilya isn’t an easy person to negotiate with, but the exchange benefits provided by Feng Zhi are enticing enough. By stirring the pot, they can eliminate foreign influences and gain support from another faction, making this mutually beneficial deal worthwhile.
“Feng Zhi!” Yang Huaijin completely gave up on communicating with his third brother and shouted loudly, “Get him out of here!”
Feng Zhi, standing nearby, was almost stunned. He had long wanted to remove this noisy octopus from Yang Huaijin’s side, but hesitated because he was Yang Huaijin’s brother. Upon hearing Yang Huaijin’s command, he didn’t hesitate at all and went up to tear Fang Rui away from Yang Huaijin.
Fang Rui grumbled, “Xiao Jin, you’ve truly broken your brother’s heart.”
“My third brother… well, occasionally, it’s normal,” Yang Huaijin explained somewhat awkwardly. He had always intentionally avoided involving Feng Zhi when contacting Fang Rui before, after all, his third brother’s style… was really unpredictable.
Fang Rui gave up harassing Yang Huaijin and turned his attention to Feng Zhi instead. Glancing at the group of people not far away, he smiled provocatively and said, “A-jin’s… good friend. Tsk tsk, with this setup, you won’t be able to enter the military zone!”
“San-ge, we’re here to discuss serious matters. It’s unreasonable for you to send R’s operative alone into someone else’s territory,” Yang Huaijin said.
Fang Rui shrugged, “In Ilya’s territory, only Ilya’s rules apply.”
After listening for a while, Feng Zhi understood the situation. He calmly took out a pack of cigarettes, took one for himself, and handed another to Fang Rui, lighting his own cigarette and taking a drag.
“Just call me Feng Zhi, San-ge,” Feng Zhi said. “My people may have caused a bit of a stir. I’m just here to ‘visit’ with A-jin this time. Since San-ge has personally come to pick us up, we naturally don’t need anyone else.”
Feng Zhi waved to the others, signaling them to leave quickly, then turned to Fang Rui, saying, “Thanks, San-ge.”
Fang Rui was satisfied with Feng Zhi’s attitude. Yang Huaijin faintly felt something was off, but he was soon entangled by his octopus of a third brother again, interrupting his thoughts.
The three of them packed their luggage, got into Fang Rui’s car, and the dusty Hummer drove out, traversing through the traffic, city streets, and onto the smooth highway.
Before long, vehicles began to merge in front and behind the Hummer—one, two, three… seven… gradually forming a sizable convoy escorting the Hummer. These vehicles varied in appearance, seemingly unrelated, but careful observation revealed their unusual speed and responsiveness.
The vehicles at the tail of the convoy weaved in and out, changing lanes, sometimes speeding up, sometimes slowing down, gradually dispersing the cars following them, completely shaking off the few cars from R that had been following Feng Zhi’s group.
Translator’s Note:
San-ge (三哥) literally just means third brother. It feels awkward to translate it as ‘Third brother’ all the time, soooo I will leave it as San-ge ㋡. Also I don’t really like translating 哥 as ‘bro’ or ‘brother’ so you’ll see me just putting ‘Ge’ or ‘Gege’ instead.
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Same here MiniPickleTL!
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Thank you for keeping “ge” and not translating it to “bro”! So appreciated while reading QuQ
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Thanks translator san. Good decision to keep Gege. We all love to hear ‘Ge’, it sounds intimate 😹
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