After five bigwigs in Beijing's elite circle fell into their trap, I fled.

Chapter 227 Ning Yunzhan's Own Sons
There is a strange basement in the hotel.

The lights were dim, and the first thing that caught the eyes of Li Yubai and Rong Jingchen was a thick iron chain.

Looking along the iron chain, one could see a thin, haggard person, as frail as a candle flickering in the wind.

The chains were tied to his feet, limiting his movement to a radius of only a few meters. The man was emaciated, with sunken eyes, and his whole body was numb and pale. At this moment, he was carefully nourishing a blood-red array plate with a drop of blood.

The array plate is carved with nine snakes, their heads facing upwards, like stars surrounding the moon, holding up a bright pearl.

Above the pearl, wisps of red mist swirled. When that person dripped a drop of blood onto it, the mist suddenly churned violently.

As soon as Rong Jingchen and his group appeared in the secret chamber, the man trembled, then knelt down with a thud, his voice hoarse and broken:
"Do not kill me."

Looking at his thin, bony face, Li Yubai felt a vague sense of familiarity.

"Who are you? What are you doing here?"

The unfamiliar voice made the man tremble.

He suddenly raised his head, a glimmer of light appearing in his cloudy eyes: "You are not that demon's people?"

Li Yubai didn't answer, but asked again, "Who are you?"

"Who am I..." The man was bewildered for a while before slowly answering, "I am... Ning Yunzhan..."

An eerie silence suddenly fell over the room!
Li Yubai and Rong Jingchen looked at the disfigured face at the same time and finally understood where that inexplicable sense of familiarity came from!

The person before them bore a striking resemblance to Ning Yunzhan, at least three-tenths. If they hadn't changed so drastically, the resemblance could even reach six or seven tenths!
A sense of absurdity welled up in Rong Jingchen's heart as he met Li Yubai's gaze.

"Hurry up with the interrogation," Li Yubai said softly. "Ning Yunzhan's plane will arrive in half an hour."

Rong Jingchen made a gesture, and immediately several subordinates took out a bunch of interrogation tools and lined them up neatly.

"I'll only give you ten minutes." Rong Jingchen's entire demeanor suddenly turned cold and sinister, his icy eyes fixed on the man who called himself Ning Yunzhan. "Who exactly are you?"

"Ning Yunzhan, I really am Ning Yunzhan." The man kowtowed desperately. "The only son of the Ning family in the capital. My father is Ning Tianyun, the owner of Tianyun Building Materials. My mother is Li Yingying. My maternal grandfather is the factory manager of Taigong Fishing Tackle. You can check all of these!"

Behind Li Yubai, Assistant Shen checked on a tablet and nodded slightly to Li Yubai: "Before the emergence of Yunduan Group, Ning Yunzhan's father was indeed just a building materials merchant. Everything else is basically consistent with what this person said."

Li Yubai's gaze deepened as he looked at the man: "How did you end up here?"

The man suddenly began to tremble, as if he had remembered something extremely terrifying!

"Waaaaah, I met a devil!" The man seemed lost in a terrible memory, speaking incoherently, "When I was nine years old, I made plans to fight with a group of people, but I met a masked man in an alley. He then dragged me to a secret room and made me raise snakes for him for many years... He tied me to iron chains, and those pythons, which were thicker than my waist, slept with me every day, sometimes even biting me... It was so scary, so incredibly scary!"

"So, you've been locked up all these years and haven't been home?"

“I want to go home too, I miss home so much, I miss my mom.” The man suddenly broke down in tears. “I don’t know how many years I’ve been locked up, and then that devil moved me to this basement to keep me locked up. All these years have passed, my parents must be going crazy with worry, they might even think I’m dead, how heartbroken and desperate they must be…”

Rong Jingchen and Li Yubai both thought of the Ning family, who had risen to become a powerful family in the capital because of the Yunduan Group, and remained silent.

"You'll rescue me, right?" Hope ignited in the man's eyes.

"Have you ever seen what that devil you're talking about looks like?" Rong Jingchen asked.

"No, I've never seen him. He only comes to the basement once a month, brings me food, and leaves. He wears a mask, but his face looks very delicate." "What...what were you doing with blood just now?"

“That’s his blood. Every month when he brought me food, he would give me a bottle of blood, telling me to drip a drop every day onto that bead.” The man flinched. “He said if I missed a drop, he’d feed me to the snakes…”

"Blood-nourishing array." Li Yubai paused for a moment. "Do you know the function of this array?"

"I don't know, I don't know anything else!" The man kowtowed again. "Please rescue me. If you let me see my parents, they will give you a generous reward. My mother loves me the most."

Rong Jingchen asked a few more questions, and finally spoke to Li Yubai: "It seems he doesn't know much. I'm just wondering, if the real Ning Yunzhan has disappeared, how did our family member surnamed Ning manage to impersonate him for so many years without being discovered?"

"What if he is the new master of Misty Continent?" Li Yubai asked softly.

Rong Jingchen: "...Are you kidding me?"

"When have you ever seen me joke?" Li Yubai asked again.

Rong Jingchen's expression darkened.

He had fought against the elders of Misty Continent and knew the strength of that race well. He couldn't even deal with those elders, let alone the so-called new master.

"Why is the new master involved with us?" Rong Jingchen asked, his voice heavy. "What is he after?"

“It’s all for our patron.” Li Yubai sighed softly, a complex feeling of relief washing over him. “And Floating Cloud Island is a prison specifically prepared for Xiao Shu…”

Rong Jingchen laughed angrily: "So, the person in our family who is most indifferent to worldly affairs is actually the biggest enemy."

Li Yubai had already stood up: "Let's go, the plane should be arriving soon, let's go meet him."

Ning Yunzhan's plane arrived at Fuyun Island in the afternoon.

Just as the plane appeared high above Floating Cloud Island, Jiang Shu suddenly sensed something and abruptly stood up!

Ning Yunzhan looked at her and said, "Sit tight, the plane is about to land."

Jiang Shu closed her eyes slightly, quietly sensing something. After a while, she suddenly looked at Ning Yunzhan:

"Do you remember when I examined your bones, I told you that you had nine sons?"

Ning Yunzhan: "...My patron, stop fooling around."

"I'm not kidding, I'm serious!" Jiang Shu was clearly a little excited and incredulous. "You would never guess, but just now, I clearly sensed the presence of your nine sons!"

Feng Li raised an eyebrow curiously: "Baby, are you serious?"

"Really." Jiang Shu closed her eyes again to sense it, and said with absolute certainty, "I have a feeling I'll see them soon!"

Ning Yunzhan: "..."

Ten minutes later, the plane landed.

Jiang Shu was the first to rush out, her voice brimming with excitement:

“Ning Yunzhan, I can sense it. Your nine biological children are on this island!”