A miraculous doctor descended from the heavens.

Seeing the immense terror and deathly blank look on Long Tai's face, Gu Feng smiled.

Just like a cat always plays around with a mouse before eating it.

Long Tai is an absolutely wicked and evil person.

It was the wish of Gu Feng, Ding Hanhan, Ding Lisheng, and the advisor to resolve the matter so decisively, and it was also a blessing for the entire Yihe organization.

It's past midnight; if Long Tai doesn't die now, when will he?

Gu Feng had teased him enough. He raised the stone again and said, word by word, "Lord Dragon, reincarnate as a pig in your next life, then you won't have such great ambitions."

A great fear welled up in Long Tai's eyes, and the hand that was covering his severed arm loosened, as if he wanted to wave to Gu Feng and beg him to stop.

Just then, a burst of gunfire suddenly rang out in the distance.

Gu Feng subconsciously turned around to look, and the instant he turned his head, Long Tai's body suddenly jerked, and with the last bit of strength in his body, he jumped into the sea two steps away.

Gu Feng heard the commotion behind him and came to his senses when Long Tai was already suspended in mid-air.

He immediately used the stone in his hand as a hidden weapon and threw it at Long Tai with all his might.

With a muffled "thud," the stone fell faster than Long Tai's body, hitting him squarely but only striking his right leg.

Immediately afterwards, Long Tai, along with the stone, disappeared into the turbulent sea.

The gunshots were from Aunt Bai, who had rushed over after finding nothing at the advisor's residence, and opened fire hastily before even assessing the situation.

However, her pitiful firepower was easily subdued by the main force, leaving her no room to struggle.

Upon seeing Long Tai fall into the sea, Ding Hanhan immediately grabbed a gun from one of her men and rushed forward, firing wildly at the dark sea. The others quickly followed suit, spraying bullets into the sea below the ferry crossing.

After wasting about several baskets of bullets, the group finally stopped firing.

"All leaders and members of the Yihe Gang, listen to my command!" Ding Hanhan shouted coldly. His voice wasn't loud, but it was exceptionally clear in the cold night wind.

"Yes!" The hall masters straightened up and answered in unison.

"Search thoroughly at sea and on the shore. No matter the cost, we must find Long Tai." Ding Hanhan paused, then added the old adage, "Live or dead."

The heads of the first class all looked bitter upon hearing this.

On such a cold, windy night, trying to fish someone out of the vast ocean is practically asking for their lives.

But at this point, who would dare to disobey her? So they quickly assigned people to search for Long Tai's whereabouts.

After giving the order, Ding Hanhan took Gu Feng's hand and slowly walked out of the crowd.

That cold and beautiful face held a hint of arrogance.

Gu Feng looked guilty, his head bowed and eyes lowered like a submissive wife.

Only then did he realize that Long Tai's jump into the sea was premeditated.

From the very beginning, when he specifically challenged him to a duel, this guy had already planned his escape route by jumping into the sea.

Unfortunately, he was young and impetuous and couldn't resist being provoked. He insisted on being strong and standing out, otherwise Long Tai wouldn't have been able to escape.

However, although Long Tai escaped, Gu Feng felt that his chances of surviving were extremely slim.

With one hand severed at the wrist, and a solid rock hitting his leg, and then jumping from such a height—even if he survived, he would only be crippled.

However, even if Long Tai was on his last breath, it would still be enough to worry Gu Feng.

This time, the fact that they were able to wipe out Long Tai and his gang was due to a combination of skill and luck, or even sheer good fortune.

If Qi Bingqing hadn't surrendered first, which led to the presence of Baldy as an inside agent, it would have been impossible to win so easily.

But if we release the tiger back into the mountains today, and Long Tai really manages to survive by chance, and makes a comeback in the future, will we still have such luck when we fight him again?

"What are you thinking about?" Ding Hanhan asked when she saw that Gu Feng was silent.

"Leave me alone, let me reflect on my actions," Gu Feng said stubbornly, somewhat annoyed with himself.

"Heh, what's there to reflect on? Longtai's power is gone. Even if they manage to survive, they won't be able to cause any trouble."

Under the joint tutelage of the advisor and Gu Feng, Ding Hanhan's insight became increasingly sharp, and she could see through his thoughts at a glance.

Although she had the same worries, she didn't create trouble for herself like Gu Feng.

After offering a word of comfort, she slowly continued, "To be honest, eliminating Long Tai, this major traitor, has been another great service to Yihe. Without Long Tai as an obstacle, Yihe's corporatization and conglomerate development will proceed much more smoothly."

"But you changed so many hall masters as soon as you took office, which made people uneasy and the morale of the army unstable," Gu Feng added.

"There's no need to worry about that. Since we're going to take the right path of corporatization, we can't keep resorting to violence like before. The structure of Yihe is destined to be streamlined. It's better to have one less of these old-fashioned, stubborn people who rely on their seniority and are inflexible." Ding Hanhan didn't seem to care.

Gu Feng remained silent.

A new emperor brings a new court; Ding Lisheng's old set of江湖 (jianghu, the martial arts world) rules are no longer suitable for the current society.

With increasingly stringent legal systems today, loopholes are becoming fewer and fewer, and the loopholes to exploit are becoming narrower and narrower.

If Yihe does not transform, innovate, or think about how to keep up with the times, it will be eliminated sooner or later.

"Survival of the fittest, the strong preying on the weak"—this was originally just a principle taught in biology class, but it has unknowingly become a reality.

As the saying goes, "the new waves of the Yangtze River push the old waves forward," and those who cannot keep up with the times will only be submerged.

Ding Hanhan's rise to power and her vigorous promotion of reforms are not a disaster for Yihe; on the contrary, she is leading Yihe towards a new landscape, which is a blessing for everyone.

The two held hands and slowly walked out.

The muffled thuds of beatings echoed from the crowd, mixed with curses and screams.

Gu Feng and Ding Hanhan looked up at the same time and saw that the people being punched and kicked by the crowd were none other than Zhang Santao, Wang Han, and Qiu Qianli.