Chapter 1261: Chapter 1261

It’s worth mentioning that during this period, one person was very active: Hao Jian, the current leader of the Martial Arts Inspection Team of the Dark Group.

Previously, the Long Family agreed to push Hao Jian to the position of leader of the Martial Arts Inspection Team in the Dark Group and had been planning this matter.

The Long Family had already prepared everything, only needing to confront Tang Ming and remove him from his position to let Hao Jian take over.

But before the Long Family could confront Tang Ming, he disappeared.

This saved the Long Family a lot of trouble, and they appointed Hao Jian to head the Martial Arts Inspection Team immediately.

On the second day after Tang Ming’s disappearance, Hao Jian, accompanied by a group of trusted subordinates, arrived in Songlan City to officially take over all matters of the Dark Group’s Martial Arts Inspection Team.

Seeing Hao Jian become the leader of the Dark Group’s Martial Arts Inspection Team, Chu Batian and Xin Badao left immediately.

Worried about Tang Ming’s safety, Chu Batian and Xin Badao couldn’t be bothered to argue with Hao Jian and didn’t care about the so-called position within the Martial Arts Inspection Team.

As Xin Badao and Chu Batian exited the Martial Arts Inspection Team, they withdrew all members of the Poison Sect and focused entirely on investigating Tang Ming’s whereabouts, severing ties with the Martial Arts Inspection Team.

Chen Cang also ordered the members of the Flowing Cloud Sect to completely withdraw from the Martial Arts Inspection Team and investigate Tang Ming’s whereabouts at all costs.

The people of the two major sects moved their investigations from the open to the covert, wanting to avoid unnecessary trouble and keep a low profile until Tang Ming was found.

After arriving in Songlan City, Hao Jian was delighted to see all of Tang Xin’s die-hard supporters leave automatically.

He initially worried about how to drive away Tang Ming’s subordinates, but now that they’ve left on their own, it saved him a lot of effort.

Then Hao Jian spent two days taking over all the assets and bases under the Martial Arts Inspection Team, and rapidly placed people from the Long Family and Hao Family in important positions within the Inspection Team.

In a short time, the Martial Arts Inspection Team, which Tang Ming painstakingly built, became Hao Jian’s, with all its vast assets falling into the hands of Hao Jian and the Long Family.

Seeing Hao Jian handle matters of the Martial Arts Inspection Team so easily after taking office, Long Aiyu was overjoyed.

The Dark Group’s Martial Arts Inspection Team was now a big, juicy piece of meat!

The office in Songhai City, experimental and secret manor bases in Songlan City, and the biochemical and grand tournament bases in the Imperial City, coupled with that private jet, total assets nearly a billion yuan.

Such a huge fortune fell into Hao Jian’s control, and it wouldn’t take long for him to transfer these assets to the Hao Family and the Long Family through operations, surely making a fortune.

Thinking of this, Long Aiyu was filled with pride about the decision to support Hao Jian.

No matter which family took over the position of the Martial Arts Inspection Team, it could bring huge benefits to their family.

And now, with Hao Jian being one of the Long Family, the Long Family, having taken this step ahead of other families, would definitely reap the most benefits in the future.

It’s a pity, though, that the Long Family overlooked an important issue: Hao Jian is not Tang Xin.

Three days later, the spirit of the Wu Family dwindled. With no results from their investigation, the Wu Family could only acknowledge their bad luck. Compared to Tang Xin’s disappearance, it was already quite fortunate that Wu Xiaoyu survived.

Just as the Wu Family held back its actions and the Dark Group continued its investigation in secret, the Ming Group began to move.

First, the branch of the Dark Group’s Martial Arts Inspection Team in Songhai City was attacked by a large force from the Ming Group, defeating Hao Jian’s subordinates who were responsible for guarding the branch, and watched helplessly as the office was seized by the Ming Group.

Lying in the courtyard of the Dark Group’s manor base in Songlan City, Hao Jian enjoyed the service of two fair-skinned, beautiful, and tall women.

He had been living leisurely these two days, with all the resources of the Martial Arts Inspection Team in his hands, and since there were no important tasks for the team, he was now only responsible for his enjoyment daily.

Just as Hao Jian was being fed grapes by a beauty, his phone suddenly rang.

Hao Jian languidly waved to another lady, who immediately brought the phone connector to his ear.

"Hello, this is Hao Jian, the leader of the Martial Arts Inspection Team. Who’s calling?"

Hao Jian asked lazily.

"Leader Hao, I’m Tie Nan, the director of the Songhai City office. The office has been attacked by experts from the Ming Group and has now fallen."

Tie Nan’s anxious voice sounded.

Upon hearing this, Hao Jian sat up abruptly: "What have you been doing? Why can’t you even hold a single office?"

"Leader Hao, I was only sent from above to help manage the office, not from a combat unit."

Tie Jun cried out miserably: "The experts from the Hao Family that you sent can’t fend off the attackers from the Ming Group. They’re being beaten to a pulp and have since disappeared. What do you expect me to do?"

"You... I’ll call to find out the situation immediately."

Hao Jian, with an ugly expression, yelled and quickly hung up the phone. The Songhai City Martial Arts Inspection Team office, worth over a billion yuan, was lost just like that?

Before Hao Jian could dial out, the phone rang again, this time from the person in charge of the Martial Arts Inspection Team’s biochemical laboratory in the Imperial City.

"I am Hao Jian, the leader of the Martial Arts Inspection Team. Speak quickly, I have urgent matters to attend to."

Hao Jian shouted impatiently.

"Leader, the biochemical laboratory was attacked by the Ming Group and has now been lost. We have heavy casualties and are requesting support."

The person in charge shouted with a face full of panic.

"Your side was attacked too?"

Hao Jian’s face changed drastically, a bad premonition forming in his heart.

Hao Jian then received a series of distress calls from various sides: the grand tournament base in the Imperial City was attacked, the Songlan City Martial Arts Inspection Team branch also faced attacks from the Ming Group.

After hanging up the phone, Hao Jian’s face changed dramatically.

The order in which the Ming Group launched these attacks was exactly the order in which Tang Xin initially took over these assets from the Ming Group!

First, the Songhai City Ming Group branch, then the Imperial City Ming Group biochemical laboratory, followed by the grand tournament base, and then the Songlan City branch, finally...

"Not good, let’s go."

Thinking of this, Hao Jian abruptly stood up, shouted, and ran outside the manor.

When Hao Jian and the Hao Family members reached the manor’s entrance, they encountered Lengzhan and Yang Bupo leading the Ming Group’s people.

"Leader Hao, where are you off to in such a hurry?"

Lengzhan, the leader of the Ming Group Martial Arts Inspection Team, asked with a cold smile, looking at Hao Jian.

"You, what do you intend to do?"

Hao Jian asked with an ugly expression, looking at the aggressive Ming Group members in front of him, "I’m the leader of the Dark Group’s Martial Arts Inspection Team. Do you dare cause trouble here? Are you tired of living?"

"Oh my, you think you’re Tang Xin? How arrogant."

Yang Bupo sneered coldly, looking at Hao Jian with contempt: "Someone like you, a playboy, is not worthy of taking over the Dark Group’s Martial Arts Inspection Team."