"I don't understand why you went to all this trouble to have Nine-Dragon step forward and make us fight? Is it because you're nostalgic for the days when you and Nine-Dragon fought side by side in the martial world, dominating the battlefield?" the prince asked Ma Jiaohong with a hint of doubt.
Everything he had told Jiuwenlong before was actually taught by Ma Jiaohong.
It was Ma Jiaohong who told him to say that.
But he didn't understand why Ma Jiaohong would go to such lengths to get Jiuwenlong to step forward and make the two of them fight.
To this!
"Part of it is!"
After taking a sip of her wine, Ma Jiaohong said this, and then added, "I'm definitely nostalgic for the days when I was a legend in the martial arts world with Nine-Dragon. That was my unforgettable youth!"
"So, I'll let the two of you fight in the way I remember from my unforgettable youth, as a way for me to put an end to my youth."
"Furthermore, when I, Ma Jiaohong, choose men, I want the strongest and most charming ones in the martial arts world. Only a fight between you can prove who is the strongest and most charming man in the martial arts world!"
After listening to her words, the prince remained silent for a moment, then picked up his wine cup and drank it all in one gulp. He then looked intently at Ma Jiaohong and said, "I will definitely prove that I am the strongest and most charming man in the martial arts world!"
Ma Jiaohong listened, smiling but saying nothing.
Then!
After sitting for a while, she used the excuse of needing to use the restroom to leave her seat and head to the restroom.
After looking around to make sure no one was in the restroom, she took out her phone, which was switched off, turned it on, and made a call.
"Inspector Lin, things are progressing exactly as we planned!" Ma Jiaohong said.
“Very well, then Nine-Dragon will have no choice but to make a comeback.”
Hearing this, Ma Jiaohong remained silent for a moment before hesitatingly saying, "However, Lin sir, you said you would guarantee Nine-Dragon's safety."
"Don't worry about that. I will keep my promise. Besides, Nine-Dragon is the target that best serves my interests right now, so I'm not going against my word. I will ensure his safety. I will send people to keep an eye on him nearby. If anything unexpected happens, my people will take action immediately to protect Nine-Dragon's life!"
Hear this!
Ma Jiaohong secretly breathed a sigh of relief.
After that, she hung up the phone.
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at the same time!
Not far from Kowloon Cafe, Lin Zhengyi sat in his car, enjoying the air conditioning, gazing towards the interior of Kowloon Cafe, before hanging up the phone call with his injured friend.
Immediately, a smile appeared on his lips. The phone call from Ma Jiaohong had just informed him that Nine-Dragon had decided to step forward and rally support.
He wasn't surprised by this.
Because the whole thing was designed by him and Ma Jiaohong.
The goal is to bring Nine-Dragon back into the world.
The idea of having the prince kidnapped seems similar to the original storyline, where the prince was instigated by Volcano, a member of the gang that Nine-Dragon originally belonged to, who kidnapped Ma Jiaohong and Zhang Zhaolong, ultimately forcing Nine-Dragon to come out and fight the prince one-on-one.
But in reality, they are completely different.
In the original storyline, Nine-Dragon was very keen on retiring from public life.
Even though Ma Jiaohong and her son were kidnapped, he refused to seek out his former brothers to stand up and fight against them. He only wanted to fight the prince one-on-one and agreed that the loser would leave Hong Kong.
This time, he's willing to step forward, rally his brothers.
But the main reason is not because the prince's condition this time was that he should stand up and lead his former brothers to fight him.
While this is partly the reason, the more important reason is that the sunk costs that Nine-Dragon has incurred on Ma Jiaohong and Zhang Zhaolong have increased.
His time together during this period of time rekindled his feelings for Ma Jiaohong, leading him to invest even more emotion in her, and he also invested a great deal of emotion in Zhang Zhaolong.
As they invested more emotion and incurred higher sunk costs, their status in each other's hearts surpassed that of Nine-Dragon's deceased father.
Under these circumstances, Jiuwenlong and Cai chose to step forward again and raise their flag, preparing to call upon the people and the princes to fight.
Otherwise, if, as in the original story, Ma Jiaohong had used methods to force Jiuwenlong to return to the mountain from the beginning, causing their relationship to deteriorate, then Jiuwenlong would never have thought of returning to the mountain, raising his banner, gathering manpower, and fighting against the prince.
At most, it will be the same as the original storyline: challenging the prince to a one-on-one duel.
It can be said that the key to this plan was having Ma Jiaohong use a conciliatory approach to get along with her and gradually develop more feelings for her.
of course!
The story doesn't end here.
Next, Lin Zhengyi has two things to do.
One thing: ensure that Nine-Dragon defeats the prince.
The second thing is to ensure that when the Nine-Dragon's original gang wants to deal with Nine-Dragon later, Nine-Dragon will win.
Well, now that Lin Zhengyi has returned to the Nine-Dragon gang, his former organization will definitely not let him off the hook.
The reason why Nine-Dragon was imprisoned back then was because the matter had become too big. In order to give an explanation, they provided information about Nine-Dragon to the Thai police.
It's as if they betrayed Nine-Dragon.
In this situation, if Nine-Dragon didn't come out of the mountains, that would be fine; there wasn't much they could do.
After all, they were the ones who betrayed each other back then.
If they do anything more, they'll lose all face in the underworld.
But if Nine-Dragon were to emerge from the mountains, they would have no choice but to deal with him.
You know, they were the ones who tricked the other side back then. Who knows if the other side will come back to haunt them after they return to power?
This is the kind of idea they would come up with.
They absolutely dared not gamble on whether Nine-Dragon would eventually abandon his old hatred and stop targeting them.
Therefore, if Nine-Dragon comes out of the mountains, they will definitely take action.
They dared not gamble that Nine-Dragon would abandon his old grudge. Under these circumstances, the best way for them to ensure their safety was to strike first and eliminate Nine-Dragon.
Only by dealing with Nine-Dragon can we resolve the hatred that led to his imprisonment back then!
Thinking about it!
Lin Zhengyi had already had his own ideas in mind.
"I want you to be the boss, so you have to be!" Lin Zhengyi murmured, gazing in the direction of Kowloon Ice Room.
Chapter 721 Waving the Flag
Although the Nine-Dragon has been around for many years.
But its name has been passed down through generations in the martial arts world.
After he stepped forward to wave his flag, in just one day, in addition to his loyal underlings who had some strength and influence, such as Three Eagles and Long Hair, who immediately led two or three hundred men to join his cause, there were also some underlings who had admired him and followed him before, all flocking to him.
Within a single day!
Nine-Dragon's men have exceeded five hundred.
This number left all the powerful figures and bigwigs in the martial arts world speechless with astonishment.
More than 500 people!
This number is roughly the same as the total number of members in some small gangs, and even top-tier gangs like Tung Hing and Hung Hing have a similar number for just one of their branches.
Well, don't be fooled by those big organizations, each claiming to have tens of thousands of members.
In reality, most of them are just figureheads; the actual number of people truly affiliated with the organization is at most a few thousand.
All things considered, a typical branch of the organization only has a few hundred people.
Nine-Dragon has already built up a force equivalent to a branch of a top-tier gang.
How could this not shock people in the martial arts world?
but!
Nine-Dragon didn't know any of these things, but even if he did, he probably wouldn't care.
Because at this moment, he had only one goal: to rescue Ma Jiaohong and his son.
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the other side!
Shenghe Headquarters
"Nine-Dragon has come out to wave the flag!"
A middle-aged man in a suit, smoking a cigar and with a gloomy face, took a deep drag and said in a cold voice,
He is none other than the current head of Shenghe.
As he spoke, the elders of Shenghe sitting on either side of him, as well as Shenghe's current top general, Volcano, also spoke up.
"I heard that the reason he stood up to wave the flag is because of Ma Jiaohong. Ma Jiaohong was kidnapped by the prince, and the prince forced him to come out to wave the flag and then wanted to fight him," Volcano said.
"Why did the prince do this? It wouldn't do him any good, would it?" an elder asked.
"The prince has always been in love with that woman, Ma Jiaohong!" Volcano said calmly after taking a drag of his cigarette.
"For a woman? I really don't know whether to call this prince infatuated or foolish!" another elder said.
Listening to his subordinates' discussion, the leader of Shenghe spoke calmly, "Alright, I called you here not to discuss why Nine-Dragon came out to wave his flag, but to ask you what to do now!"
As soon as these words came out!
The elders present looked at each other in bewilderment.
finally!
One of the elders frowned and said, "This is not a good matter. We betrayed him back then. If he hadn't stood up for us, it would have been fine. But now he's standing up for us, saying he's going to deal with the prince. But what will happen after that? Who knows what he's really thinking?"
"What if he wants to deal with the prince and then turn on us for revenge? He has every perfectly reasonable excuse to do so!"
The words fell!
"Yes! We wronged him back then, so it's only natural for him to seek revenge!"
"I don't think Ah Long would do that. Although we were in the wrong back then, Ah Long is known in the underworld for his loyalty and righteousness. Otherwise, he wouldn't have come out to support Ma Jiaohong again. We can send someone to mediate and give him some compensation. I think this matter can be resolved!"
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