Secret agreement? What secret agreement did Yan Mo and the Hai clan of Yingzhou have?
Upon hearing this term, Solon instinctively felt alarmed.
From the very beginning, he had instinctively not intended to come find Yan Mo, even though he was his own half-brother by the same father.
But his appearance in Tianshui City and the plundering was too coincidental, and his encounter with Suo Ningbing was also too coincidental.
Firstly, the Yan pirates did not plunder the territorial waters of the Furious Wave Kingdom too frequently, because the Furious Wave Kingdom was located in the south, newly established, and many regions had only been subjugated for a hundred years, not having developed for long.
And the coastal cities to the north were much more prosperous, with maritime trade much more flourishing, so the Yan pirates preferred to go plunder in the northern waters.
Moreover, the timing of Yan Mo’s appearance almost coincided with the secret meeting of several forces seeking to destroy the Suo clan.
If too many coincidences appeared at once, then they were not coincidences.
And Solon was such a suspicious person, so he instinctively harboured deep suspicion towards Yan Mo. Therefore, he took a circuitous route, using another identity to enter Yan Island.
The new king Yan Mo looked at Solon’s face after the disguise was washed away. It was so similar to his own. Indeed, they were half-brothers by the same father.
He ignored Tu Lingduo’s words, his gaze still fixed dead upon Solon, then asked word by word, “Did the mother queen know your true identity?”
Solon said, “She knew.”
“Knowing you were Solon, knowing you were half-siblings by the same father, she still let little Xue’er marry you?” Yan Mo continued to ask, “Then does little Xue’er know your identity?”
Solon shook his head, “She does not know.”
Yan Mo said, “You already knew of my existence from Suo Ningbing?”
Solon nodded, “Yes.”
Yan Mo said, “But you did not come directly to Yan Island to find me. Instead, you used little Xue’er? Even knowing she was your elder sister, you still married her, all to obtain the Queen Island fleet.”
Solon fell into silence, not explaining that this was Queen Yan’s command.
Yan Mo said, “You do not trust me, do you? My younger brother, my half-brother by the same father.”
Solon neither admitted nor denied.
Yan Mo said, “It is true, my plundering at the rocky island was purposeful, because I heard there was an astronomical amount of salt and an astronomical amount of gold coins there. But my encounter with Suo Ningbing there was completely outside my expectations. Now it seems, someone deliberately guided me there.”
Ashiluo said, “Apologies, Lord Yan Mo, I was truly in a dilemma at the time, not knowing whether to make a move against my own elder sister. So I urged you to try. If you accidentally ended up sleeping with Suo Ningbing, then learned she was your younger sister, and what your feelings would be, I was truly looking forward to it.”
Yan Mo said, “If I am not mistaken, my younger sister Suo Ningbing is your wife, Lord Ashiluo.”
Ashiluo spread his hands, “Now my wife is Haina’er. She has chosen to divorce me. Moreover, in this regard I am quite generous.”
The muscles on Yan Mo’s face twitched violently, but he said nothing more.
“Solon, my younger brother, I do indeed have a verbal secret agreement with the Hai clan of Yingzhou,” Yan Mo suddenly said. “Of course, or rather, you are merely part of the secret agreement. The content of this secret agreement is that if you appear on Yan Island, then I shall personally kill you.”
“In exchange for what?” Solon asked, “Killing me, in exchange for what?”
Yan Mo said, “In exchange for the survival of all Yan people, in exchange for a place in the Thunder Islands. Of course, killing you is only part of the conditions.”
Solon did not respond.
Yan Mo said, “Solon, though you are my half-brother by the same father, in my heart there are only two family members, one is the mother queen, one is my younger sister. As for you, you merely happened to become my younger brother. I have no feelings whatsoever.”
Solon nodded.
Yan Mo said, “On the contrary, Shen Lang, because love extends to the beloved’s associates, I had almost just treated him as family. Though he took the entire Queen Island fleet with just his great bird, I accepted it, I was willing, because he was my younger sister’s beloved. I had not expected that you deceived me!”
Speaking of Solon’s deception, Yan Mo did not show much anger.
Solon too had not replied throughout.
Yan Mo said, “When parting with Suo Ningbing, I once said, only a younger brother comes to see his elder brother, not an elder brother who comes to see his younger brother. If you had directly come to Yan Island to see me and request my help, what do you guess I would have done?”
Solon shook his head, “I do not know.”
“I do not know either,” Yan Mo said. “The left side of my brain tells me, I am a hero, I must protect my younger brother and younger sister. The right side of my brain tells me, I must be responsible for the entire Yan people, and for this I must stop at nothing. If you had directly come to see me and seek my help as a younger brother, I truly would have struggled, not knowing how to decide, whether to kill you to fulfil the secret agreement, or to help you.”
“But now it is different, is it not,” Solon said. “Now I have deceived you, giving you sufficient reason and anger.”
Yan Mo sighed, “Truly such a clever person, too clever, knowing that I have spoken so much precisely to find a reason to kill you, to add weight to the scales between killing and not killing.”
Solon spread his hands.
Yan Mo said, “Just now, under the mother queen’s protection, you could clearly have left with the Queen Island fleet. Why did you return?”
Solon said, “When leaving, I suddenly understood that the mother queen was going to commit suicide as a living sacrifice. So my head grew hot, and I returned to stop her, to save her.”
Yan Mo said, “Though you knew that returning likely meant death, and to a large extent you could not stop the mother queen either.”
“Yes,” Solon said.
“But, you still returned,” Yan Mo asked.
“Yes,” Solon nodded, “She treated me so well. I could not betray her love for me, so my head grew hot and I did a foolish thing.”
The muscles on Yan Mo’s face twitched violently, his gaze falling into painful struggle.
What to do? What to do?
He began to pace around the edge of the great hall, began to curse furiously, began to draw his sword and hack wildly to vent his anger, yet still did not know what decision to make.
He had no middle path to walk. Either he executed the secret agreement with the Hai clan of Yingzhou and killed Solon.
Or he gave one command, killing Ashiluo, Tu Lingduo, Hai Wuyan, and Haina’er all at once, then joining hands with his younger brother Solon to deal with the terrifying counterattack and retaliation that several forces would launch next.
“Solon, I fuck your mother, why did you have to sleep with my mother for no reason, making me have an extra half-brother by the same father?”
“Solon, you fool, why must you stubbornly stand on the side of the losers?”
At this time, the left side of his brain seemed to control emotion, the right side of his brain controlled reason.
According to his emotion, he should stand with his younger brother, kill the four bastards in the great hall, then lead the Yan pirates directly to attack Yingzhou Island.
But according to reason, he should kill his younger brother Solon, in exchange for the Thunder Islands to settle the Yan people, then develop and grow, gradually swallow Yingzhou Island, and finally counterattack the land, continuously expanding and conquering, establishing a Yan clan kingdom, a true kingdom.
He truly could not decide at all.
He did not know whether to follow his emotion or follow his reason.
Ashiluo watched everything with indifference. In his view, everything was as amusing and laughable as a play. He was completely uninterested in Ashiluo’s choice.
And Tu Lingduo was incomparably nervous. If Yan Mo chose emotion, chose to protect his younger brother Solon, then without doubt he would directly turn hostile and kill them all.
Ashiluo’s martial arts were too high, he could still escape. But she, Tu Lingduo, would certainly die.
Only by killing Solon could she turn her fortunes around and return to the family’s power layer.
She was destined to rise by stepping on Solon’s corpse.
At the foot of the Hundred Thousand Great Mountains, she had missed once. Now she could not miss a second time.
Thus, she said coldly, “King Yan Mo, you are now struggling desperately, choosing between emotion and reason, are you not?”
“Shut your slut mouth,” Yan Mo cursed furiously.
Tu Lingduo said, “I will only say one sentence. The reason Solon has fallen into his present desperate situation is because he chose emotion, not reason. Otherwise, he would already have left with the Queen Island fleet and escaped far away.”
These words spoken, Yan Mo trembled violently.
He almost had the feeling of a single sentence waking a dreamer.
The best example was right before his eyes. Solon chose emotion, so he was about to die.
Though this kind of choice of his was truly shocking, almost instantly making him acknowledge this younger brother.
But his fate was a warning to himself, an example!
He could not repeat the same mistake.
Then, Yan Mo quieted down, walked before Solon, and looked at his face.
“Younger brother, you and I truly look very much alike, only you are prettier than me,” Yan Mo said. “And far, far more outstanding than I imagined, yet not lacking in emotion, able to let your family members trust you. You are completely the best younger brother. I truly regret why I did not meet you sooner, otherwise there would not have been today’s outcome.”
Solon shrugged his shoulders.
“I… am a sinner!” Yan Mo kept muttering to himself, “I am a sinner, I am a sinner!”
He cupped Solon’s face in his hands and kissed his forehead.
“Solon, my younger brother, from now on, I have decided to love you.”
Yan Mo looked into Solon’s eyes, word by word.
Then, he gave a fierce push.
He pushed Solon off the ten thousand zhang abyss below the great hall.
His body, like a kite with a broken string, continuously fell, fell.
“Roar…” That super colossal beast below the abyss, the incarnation of the Sea God, once again let out a heaven-shaking roar.
The entire palace trembled, roared.
Then, it once again opened its bloody maw, waiting for the new offering.
“Solon, my younger brother, go down and properly accompany our mother queen. Do not let her be lonely!”
…
After pushing his own younger brother Solon into the abyss, King Yan Mo did not utter a sound, directly sitting on the throne and pressing the mechanism button.
“Creak…”
The opening of the abyss gradually closed, restoring the floor of the great palace hall.
And all the island lords, their faces colourless, could not make any sound.
Today they had received an unprecedented shock. Her Majesty the Queen, for the sake of the Yan people, used her own body as a living sacrifice, publicly leaping into the abyss to kill herself.
Immediately after, King Yan Mo, for the benefit of all Yan people, pushed his own younger brother into the abyss.
They were sorrowful, angry, yet could not find a target for their anger.
“I am a sinner, I am a sinner…” Yan Mo said again and again in his heart.
Seeing Solon pushed into the abyss, buried in the colossal beast’s belly, Tu Lingduo first felt a surge of sourness and pain.
Then, came an enormous wild joy, and utter sinfulness.
She… had finally succeeded!
She had finally defeated Solon, and successfully killed him.
Now, she could return to the centre of the family’s power.
Solon was perhaps the only man she had ever been moved by. Rising by stepping on the corpse of the man who moved her was perhaps immense pain, but also immense satisfaction.
Taking a deep breath, Tu Lingduo said, “King Yan Mo, now that Solon is dead, the cooperation between us can become even closer. You look so similar to Solon. Using Lord Ashiluo’s disguise technique, you can completely be transformed into Solon’s appearance. Of course, you are much taller than him, so you would need to use the painful bone-shrinking technique. Though it can only be maintained for a short time, it is enough for our plan.”
Yan Mo did not speak, only quietly looking at Tu Lingduo.
Tu Lingduo continued, “Solon is the only person Princess Zhi Yan trusts, but she does not actually have a very deep understanding of Solon. You can come to her side as Solon, and either ambush her or poison her, etc. Princess Zhi Yan’s martial arts are too strong. Though this still cannot kill her, it can bring her fatal injury.”
These words spoken, Hai Wuyan and Ashiluo both could not help but turn their heads.
Once a woman becomes vicious, there truly is no lower limit.
Yan Mo abruptly stood up, came before Tu Lingduo, grabbed her by the throat, and said coldly, “Someone, hold her down for me. I am going to rape her. Not only me, but all island lords present must take their turn, gang-raping this woman!”
These words spoken, Tu Lingduo was completely horrified beyond belief.
Being gang-raped by a hundred pirate chiefs, that was completely a hundred times more terrifying than death.
Immediately, four pirates stepped forward, holding down her four limbs.
Yan Mo stepped forward, grabbed her clothing, and was about to tear it fiercely, to vent his anger and hatred upon her body.
Tu Lingduo struggled desperately, yet could not move in the slightest. Watching herself about to be raped by this terrifying giant, she was instantly frightened out of her wits.
“I am your younger brother Solon’s woman. I once had intimate relations with him…” Tu Lingduo suddenly screamed.
Indeed, hearing these words, Yan Mo stopped all movement, looking at Tu Lingduo for quite a while.
“I am your younger brother Solon’s woman. He once had me. He is my only man,” Tu Lingduo said.
“Hahahaha…” Yan Mo laughed loudly, “You viciously forced me to kill my own younger brother, and now you want to use him to protect yourself. Is there anything more absurd in this world?”
Tu Lingduo did not speak. She herself also felt it was very absurd.
“You are Solon’s woman, so why did you kill him?” Yan Mo said.
Tu Lingduo said coldly, “For the sake of my family, just as you, for the entire Yan clan, must kill him.”
“Hahaha…” Yan Mo said coldly, “You are only doing it for yourself!”
Then, he grabbed Tu Lingduo’s throat fiercely, lifting her body and walking out.
Tu Lingduo’s martial arts were high, a high-level warrior, but she had not the slightest power to resist under Yan Mo’s hands.
Yan Mo carried her out of the palace, out of the courtyard, out of the high walls, arriving at the edge of the palace island.
Below, was the sea surface several hundred zhang high.
“You are my younger brother’s woman. I cannot rape you, but…” Yan Mo gave a fierce fling, directly throwing Tu Lingduo off the several hundred zhang high cliff.
“Ahh…” Tu Lingduo let out a sharp, piercing scream!