The revenge mission started.
The first group sent out reached their destination. It was the hospital where Fan Luo was being held. The police security was tight.
But who were the Shadow Winds?
They were people carefully chosen and recruited by Lu Zihao. He only accepted the very best. They may not be at the level of the Vetrovs, but their skills were already top-notch within the country. They just didn't know how to utilize their talents and skills before. It wasn't until Lu Zihao gathered them together and provided them with direction that they learned how to use their full potentials and even go beyond their limits.
With Iris and her hacker team directing them through their earpieces, the group managed to slip past the police security. Iris hacked into the CCTV, flawlessly changing the real time footages with fake ones. She also raised several false alarms in the hospital's system to keep the doctors, nurses and other medical staff busy and away from Fan Luo's room.
The group sent to infiltrate had no choice but to immobilize the police officers standing guard outside Fan Luo's room. True to their namesake, they moved quietly like the shadows and swiftly like the wind. The police officers didn't even know what hit them before they fell unconscious.
Iris also hacked into the police communications system, making sure that the unconscious officers' devices continued to transmit regular updates, so that their superiors wouldn't grow suspicious.
Afterwards, the group pumped knock-out gas through the slit below the door into the room to make sure that everyone inside wouldn't wake up. Then the group kidnapped Fan Luo.
Iris ordered them to take Fan Luo only. As for her mother, Fan Yuming, Iris had a present waiting for her in the morning.
The original Iris didn't care about Fan Yuming, but she did. She watched the surveillance footage of her dissing Jin Liwei, Huang Yuyan and Jin Chonglin. How dare she use her man's family and then insult them like that? She wouldn't let her off so easily.
Now that Fan Luo was successfully kidnapped, she handed that part of the mission to the other hackers. She then focused on the second part of the mission.
The second group also already arrived at their assigned location. They were on standby, just waiting for her instructions.
It was the house where the Alarm Girls were staying. The lawyer paid by Fan Luo, when he was still representing them, was able to negotiate with the judge to let the girls out of jail and place them in house arrest instead. Of course, Fan Luo was the one paying for all their expenses.
Like what happened in the hospital, the Shadow Winds immobilized the police officers guarding the house. Then they also kidnapped the Alarm Girls just like Fan Luo.
The two groups, carrying their kidnapped targets, made their way back to the Shadow Winds compound.
Iris made sure to completely erase their tracks. With her superior level of skills, the authorities had no chance of finding out who took Fan Luo and the Alarm Girls right under the noses of the police guarding them.
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7 AM.
Information was deliberately leaked by the police to the media that Fan Luo would be arrested that morning. As a result, a large number of reporters and cameramen stationed themselves outside the hospital, ready to document and broadcast the moment Fan Luo was arrested.
At first, people assumed that Fan Luo must have escaped. However, this was later debunked by the authorities because scandalous information about her mother, Fan Yuming, was spread online.
Fan Yuming had many affairs with several business leaders to obtain advantageous deals for the Fan family. She also pimped her nieces, nephews, even her own children including Fan Luo. She encouraged them to seduce wealthy and powerful people, not only in business but also in politics and other industries such as showbiz.
They were able to climb more quickly in their chosen careers this way and also provided great opportunities for the entire Fan family. Some of them even married their targets, and then later, Fan Yuming persuaded them to get divorce after giving birth to their children. The substantial alimony and child support already set them for life.
There was no need for them to work anymore. They could just enjoy the rest of their lives spending the money they received from their exes. Of course, Fan Yuming also received a share. After all, they wouldn't be able to achieve such wealth without her devious maneuverings.
It was also revealed that Fan Yuming was the one who urged Fan Luo to saddle Jin Chonglin with the responsibility of being a father when her daughter found out that she was pregnant. It was also Fan Yuming who arranged for the doctor to write off Fan Luo's abortion as miscarriage when Jin Chonglin insisted for a DNA test. It turned out that the doctor was one of Fan Yuming's lovers.
There were many other shocking revelations about Fan Yuming. When the people read about them, they were disgusted by her.
"Fan Yuming ran the Fan family like a brothel. She pimped out not only herself but also her own children, nieces and nephews! I've never been so disgusted by a person!"
"Every single member of the Fan family are crooks!"
Of course, the list of powerful people the Fans' slept with was also revealed to the public. It caused a domino effect of scandals to rock the entire nation. Many of these people were leaders in their fields. Many of them were fired or were forced to resign. Their spouses also filed for divorce.
Hawk-eyed hackers recognized the destructive style as Drakon's work, even though the new hacker superstar didn't claim credit this time. Who else could cause so much chaos in a country in just a day?
Because of this scandal involving Fan Yuming and the younger generation of the Fan family, the authorities dismissed the possibility that Fan Luo escaped. If the Fans were really the ones who arranged Fan Luo's escape, why damage their reputation in the process? It was obvious that someone was trying to destroy the Fans to the point of no return.
The police began to treat this as kidnapping. Their conjecture was further strengthened when they discovered that the Alarm Girls also went missing. Similar to Fan Luo's case, the police officers guarding the girls were also knocked out.
The headlines went nuts with wild speculations.
"Fan Luo and Alarm Girls Kidnapped! Will They Still Be Found?"
"Who Kidnapped Fan Luo and the Alarm Girls? The Jins, the Longs, or the Many Newly-Turned Enemies of the Fans?"
"Expect to Find Four Dead Female Bodies Somewhere Soon."
The authorities tried everything to find the women, sending their best detectives and hackers to track them, but it was as if they disappeared into thin air.
As a result, they decided to redirect their focus on Fan Yuming and the rest of the Fans instead, arresting them on prostitution grounds and other charges.
While the rest of the nation was in uproar, Iris was with Lu Zihao inside a room he aptly called the "dungeon".
It was originally a cellar as evidenced by the empty wine racks. Now, however, the room was equipped with various torture tools. In short, the cellar was converted into a torture chamber.
The unconscious Fan Luo, Wanwan, Feifei and Mimi were gagged and chained up. The Shadow Winds didn't hurt any of them. They were waiting for Iris' instruction.
Iris looked at them and then at the torture tools.
"I don't think I can do this," she said, shivering.
At that moment, an already familiar flare up of bloodthirst overwhelmed her. She didn't resist and even willingly allowed the remnant to take over this time.
"You can't, but I can."
Her expression turned vicious. There was cruel excitement in her eyes at what she was about to do to the four b*tches in front of her.