In a building controlled by Black Phoenix, a peerless beauty was working in her office.
She had long black hair and soft blue eyes.
Her skin was snow white and her face looked like it was carved by the gods.
KNOCK KNOCK
“Come in”
A boy who just turned 18 stepped in to the office and greeted the woman.
“Hello Madam, Sheng Xiang reporting in”
The woman smiled and motioned for him to take a seat in front of her desk.
The boy was her son, and she was Sheng Fei’s wife.
Madam Sheng and her children were playing a big part in Black Phoenix after Sheng Fei’s death.
“My son, I believe it is time for you to have a little more responsibility around here. As of today, I give you the rank of
commander in Black Phoenix”
Sheng Xiang was astonished, he didn’t believe that his mother had called him for this.
“But why? Mother this may be a rash thing to do, to make me one of the four”
“Why not? Your younger sister already became one nearly a year ago. You’re lucky that you don’t have to kill your
predecessor”
“So, it’s true then? Peng left Black Phoenix?”
A frown appeared on Madam Sheng’s face and she rose from her seat.
“Yes, he decided to join Red Lotus”
Black Phoenix was a company specializing in military might and their power rivaled small nations.
But they were still a small organization no matter how much military forces they had.
Red Lotus on the other hand was a mega corporation that rose up in the last hundred years.
While Black Phoenix rivaled them in terms of physical power, Red Lotus dwarfed them in everything else.
Even then, somehow Sheng Fei managed to gain their attention years ago.
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Before he passed he was working on improving relations between the clans.
He even managed to make a good impression on the Red Empress herself.
Unfortunately, with Sheng Fei’s death, relations with Red Lotus turned back in rivalry and it was turning even worse.
“My son, Black Phoenix was started by your father. Now he’s gone, I want us to keep the company in the family. Please,
the others respected your father because he was strong. They respect your sister since she is strong too. I want you to
have a bigger say as well. I’m not a warrior like your father so they won’t listen to me very well. And your elder sister
decided to leave us, so it’s up to us three now to keep Black Phoenix together. Do you understand this?”
Sheng Jing reluctantly nodded and decided to accept what his mother said.
“Good, now go the acolytes are waiting for you”
Sheng Jing said goodbye to his mother and went to meet his new lieutenants.
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(Alright, we’re going to only get one use of this card before Black Phoenix notices that it’s been activated)
Sheng Fei explained to Li Xiu as he played with the small black card in their hands.
(Is this another one of your backup plans?)
Li Xiu asked as they got this card out of a vault in NYC.
(Of course, the acolytes were high ranking agents in Black Phoenix. They were the direct subordinates of my
generals/commanders. I divided it three acolytes to each of the four generals. But the 13th acolyte was special, they were
under me. I had a special card made to open any Black Phoenix doors for them)
(But it was made years ago, how do you know it still works?)
(Honestly, I don’t, that’s why we’re now going to meet with the Sandman)
(The what!?)
(He’s an information broker, we still need a distraction to get in to the storage base. I’m planning to sell him some
information on the base. It will inevitably make the base be attacked by rival clans)
(You’re sure that will happen?)
(Well it’s information on a very powerful artifact that mysteriously disappeared years ago. Some madman was using it and I
managed to sneak it away without the world knowing. It’s stored under the label of a failed sword prototype. It’s one of the
most mysterious things I have encountered in my life. This weapon can make anyone extremely powerful including us. I
never used it myself since the clans would’ve had me killed)
(Won’t they come after us then!?)
(Not if they don’t know who we are, don’t worry there are many toys there to help us hide)
Sheng Fei carefully laid out plans in order to increase the success rate of the raid.
But not even he could predict how things would go.
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Several days later, they were outside the base that was under the control of the Rat.
This acolyte was not known to Sheng Fei during his time as Black Phoenix head.
But to him this meant that it was easier fight him should the need arise.
(Are you sure about this? Your men will be harmed!)
(Someone would have found it eventually, this way that person won’t also be in charge of Black Phoenix)
(If it’s that powerful, are we really the best people to use it?)
(We’ll get rid of it when my revenge is done. Now we just wait until the base is attacked)
Sheng Fei had them hide in the tree line far away from the base but had a motorcycle ready to rush in.
It took a little longer than he anticipated but the effect was much larger than he expected.
After about half a day passed, the sound of alarms could be heard in the night.
WWWWOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO
They looked up and saw three helicopters land.
The doors opened and soldiers started to pour out.
There were about 18 men in total and they started to cut in the base’s fence.
But they weren’t the reason the alarms were going off.
A convoy of trucks had breached the main gate to the base and the MGs on them were firing at the guard towers.
(Well looks like that’s our cue)
While the base was fighting off attackers on two fronts, Sheng Fei and Li Xiu entered in the other direction.