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The deceased was a female opera singer who had been enjoying great popularity on Broadway recently.

The inscription on the painting reads: When the most beautiful dancer on Broadway dies, Liberty City should have a heavy snowfall.

It did indeed snow that day! And this was in early October!

Many experts in the newspapers said it was an abnormal climate.

……

October 10th is the Double Ninth Festival, and Zhao Hao has been waiting for it for a long time.

Sure enough, there was a holiday sign-in day!

"Sign in on the Double Ninth Festival to receive the card: Song of the Ninth Day of the Ninth Month".

The Song of September 9th

Black Iron 4-Star BGM Card

Use: Consumes psionic energy to loop this song, making those who hear it feel lonely, miss their family and friends, feel depressed, and lose their will to fight.

Note: When my background music starts playing, you'll all start to miss home!

This... BGM card? That's a new trick!

Zhao Hao decided to give it a try, so he went out onto the street and began to use cards by consuming spiritual energy.

Just a few seconds after he put it down, a man walking in front of him, who was on his way to work, suddenly stopped.

"What's that sound?" He thought he heard a strange melody playing in his head, but he looked around and couldn't find any sound.

Am I hallucinating?

After about ten seconds, his expression turned dejected, his eyes reddened, and he began to sob: "Waaah~ I'm not going, I miss home! I want to go home!" He then ran home while wailing.

Zhao Hao gave it a try, and the card's effect was quite powerful; it would take effect in at least thirty seconds for an average person. The effective range was within a fifty-meter radius.

However, it does consume a lot of psionic energy!

"Strange cards!"

He had assumed this day would be just like any other, with classes, exercise, and nothing else to do. After all, even the people of the Song Dynasty didn't really value this festival anymore.

As a result, right after class, someone came to tell Zhao Hao that someone was looking for him.

He went over to take a look and found that it was actually the fat man!

"What's wrong, Fatty?" Zhao Hao asked curiously.

The fat man whispered, "Let's find a place to talk."

Zhao Hao took the fat guy back to the dormitory, and the two started chatting.

The fat man's expression turned slightly serious as he said, "I'll take this as my word. Whether you want to get involved or not is up to you..."

Only after the fat man spoke did Zhao Hao realize that the old leader of the Red Gate had disappeared last night!

Moreover, it wasn't a natural death; the people of the Red Gate discovered that Old Dragon Head had been murdered!

The old leader was already old and suddenly fell seriously ill. In addition, the person who attacked him was one of his close disciples, so he died instantly.

The sudden tragic death of the leader of the Red Gate, a supernatural force that has existed for hundreds of years, is no small matter.

Furthermore, it was discovered that a branch of the Hongmen had colluded with the Italian Mafia to kill the old leader!

The gang that carried out the attack claimed it was to avenge their father, saying that when they first came to Ame (America), their father and the gang leader were sworn brothers. Later, several of those brothers either died or were crippled…

The stories are too numerous to explain, but they can be summed up as love, hate, and grudges!

The members of the Red Gate are now indignant, and there are all sorts of opinions. Some want to fight the Italian Mafia to the death, some want to kill the traitors and avenge themselves, some say they should retreat and elect a leader first, and some say they must be strong externally and not show any weakness...

We've managed to come up with a plan, mainly to do two things at the same time.

The first priority is to eliminate internal traitors; such rebellion cannot be tolerated within the Red Gate.

Secondly, we should attack the Mafia and teach them a lesson. This would also send a strong message to the outside world, preventing us from being easily overthrown when we're down.

The Red Gate has a history spanning hundreds of years, and its internal forces are extremely complex; otherwise, such a situation wouldn't have arisen. However, the hidden power within it is also immense.

The traitors within the Hongmen have their own hidden forces to deal with them, but this would leave them with a shortage of manpower to launch a strong attack on the Mafia.

Fortunately, most of the extraordinary Song people outside had some connection with the Red Gate, so it wasn't a problem to bring in some helpers.

You get favors from the Red Gate, and the pay is definitely not bad.

The fat man wanted to ask Zhao Hao if he should get involved and use this as a way to contact the Red Gate.

Zhao Hao pondered for a long time, and in his own opinion, he wanted to get involved in causing trouble. Where would he get fate points if he didn't cause trouble?

But how strong is the Mafia's reputation? How thorny are the Hongmen's affairs? They don't even know themselves.

In the end, I think I should listen to Uncle Tie's opinion.

When I called Uncle Tie, he wasn't surprised by the death of the old leader of the Red Gate.

Actually, he found out last night, he was among the first wave of people in Liberty City to know, much earlier than Fatty.

When asked whether Zhao Hao should participate in the fight against the Mafia, Uncle Tie didn't mince words, stating bluntly: "He should participate! We're all Song people abroad. If the Red Gate suffers a major loss this time, life won't be easy for Song people in Free City, or even the entire East Coast. Those Italians are nothing special; they're no match for the Red Gate..."

Since Uncle Tie had said he would participate, Zhao Hao naturally agreed.

He followed the fat man out of the school and soon arrived at a secret branch of the Red Gate.

Besides them, there were more than a dozen extraordinary individuals from the Song Dynasty here. Among them were members of the Hongmen and relatives of the Hongmen who had come to help.

Zhao Hao took a sip of tea and overheard someone whispering, "I heard that the night before last, there was something strange going on at the coffin shop run by the Red Gate. The empty coffins creaked and groaned all night long. The next day, Old Dragon Head passed away. It's an omen!"

On this day, Zhao Hao really broadened his horizons.

Aside from the market in the Otherworld, Zhao Hao had never seen so many extraordinary individuals before. Moreover, they were all Song Dynasty extraordinary individuals!

I even ran into Skinny Monkey, whom I had met once before at the market!

He was indeed connected to the Red Gate, and the connection was even closer than that of the fat man. He was a member of the Red Gate with a formal family name.

Zhao Hao learned his name—Sun Shouhou! He really was a skinny monkey, no doubt about it!

In addition, there are the two brothers from the Qi family: Qi Delong and Qi Dongqiang.

The three brothers of the Tie family: Tie Qiudao, Tie Wendao, and Tie Zhidao.

Tie Zhidao, the third son of the Tie family, was two years younger than Zhao Hao. At only seventeen, he was already a superhuman.

He'd exclaim "Ah, I know!" the moment he heard something, acting all excited. Every time this happened, his two older brothers would punch him, yelling, "You know nothing!"

There was another man with a scar on his head named Lai Mancang, and a seventeen or eighteen-year-old errand boy named Wang Genji.

Finally, a person who appeared to be of high status was carried in through the red gate.

Zhao Hao saw that everyone else had stood up, and the person who came was barefoot and sitting on a palanquin being carried over by four people, so he could tell that he was a person of status.

The man who claimed to be the resident of Hongshuntang of the Red Gate first thanked everyone for their help, then said that the journey was quite risky and that they should be careful. He added that no matter what the outcome, they would be friends of the Red Gate from now on.

After they were carried away, Zhao Hao asked the fat man curiously, "Brother Fatty, what's up with this guy? What a grand entrance!"

The fat man whispered, "Don't talk nonsense. That patron of Hongshun Hall is one of the top ten figures in the Red Gate! There's a reason he's being carried around..."

It is said that this person's path to extraordinaryness is extraordinary, as it is a divine path that he was born with, and his feet cannot touch the ground.

The fat man also told Zhao Hao a little story, saying that the legendary peaches of immortality, once eaten, would make one as light as a swallow and grant them eternal life, but from then on, they could never touch the ground. Once their feet touched the earth, they would disappear.

This elder brother of Hong Shuntang was carried around since birth and never touched the ground!

After the Song Dynasty superhumans present got to know each other, they were assigned tasks.

After all, they're here to help the Red Gate, so we can't let them take the lead in the attack; otherwise, what about the Red Gate's reputation?

However, since the Mafia dared to provoke the Red Gate, they were prepared. They had transferred a considerable number of superhumans to Liberty City, and many important strongholds were guarded by superhumans.

Zhao Hao and his team's mission was to dismantle these key strongholds, eliminate the Mafia's superhumans, and cripple their enemy. At the same time, they wanted to send a warning to other factions: don't underestimate the Red Gate!

That night, bloodshed and violence will erupt in many places!

The battles of extraordinary individuals are not limited to the surface world; they can even extend into the inner world!

Moreover, established forces like the Red Gate and the Mafia, which have existed for hundreds of years, might even interfere with the operation of the psychic sea.

As dusk fell, Zhao Hao, Fatty, and Wang Genji were taken to the destination in a car...

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Chapter 106 Earth Immortals and Gladiators

The car was driving very fast, but smoothly.

The driver had some kind of totem tattoo on his arm; he was a member of some kind of gang.

The three people sitting in the car were Zhao Hao, Fatty, and Wang Genji.

Wang Genji is seventeen years old this year, not yet an adult, and has a rather youthful face. He has a buzz cut and looks like a naive middle school student.

However, the Red Gate had its reasons for sending this kid to assist Zhao Hao and Fatty.

Zhao Hao considered asking to find out some information, but what should he call him?

She's seventeen, which is two years younger than me!

Should I call him Xiao Wang? Isn't that an insult?

Calling him Xiao Ji? Isn't that still an insult?

How about calling it "Foundation"? Who the hell came up with that name? Isn't that just making things difficult for people?

Before Zhao Hao could figure out how to address the kid, Wang Genji couldn't hold back any longer.

It's clear he's an impulsive and eager young man; this is probably his first mission, so he's quite excited.

He kept fidgeting in his seat, as if he had a nail stuck to his butt.

"Um... Fatty? Brother Zhao?"

"Huh?" The fat man snapped out of his reverie; he had been lost in thought.

Zhao Hao looked at Wang Genji and thought it was great that he didn't have to greet him first!

"Do you think those Italians are tough?"