"You again? Why are you still around?” Mike Jones' eyes nearly popped out when he saw Ye Fan. He was going out of his mind.
This young man had been the reason for his tragic defeat after he had come across the last spirit energy fruit tree.
A grandmaster in his team had been killed then and the spirit energy fruits that he had his eyes on had fallen into Ye Fan's hands.
Mike Jones had been furious. But Ye Fan's prowess meant that he could only swallow his anger and move on.
This had been such a rare second chance for him, yet here was Ye Fan once more getting in his way. He couldn't believe it.
"Are you displeased that I'm still around?"
Ye Fan stood before the cave and stared at Mike Jones with a frosty smile.
Mike Jones' lips twitched as he swallowed the harsh words that he had ready at the tip of his tongue.
The air of brazen authority around him faded considerably.
He had seen what Ye Fan was capable of. The young man wasn't to be trifled with.
Mike Jones had no doubt that Ye Fan would kill him if he provoked the latter too much and pushed him too far.
"Of course not. You're my sister's friend and that makes you my friend. I can't be happier to see you again."
Mike Jones wasn't a fool. Having realized the stakes at hand, he attempted to ingratiate himself with Ye Fan.
Even if he couldn't make a friend of Ye Fan, he could not make an enemy of Ye Fan now.
While Mike Jones was speaking, Angie had raced towards Ye Fan. How she wished she could throw herself into Ye Fan's arms.
"Fan, I knew you would be here. I can't believe it. We've just separated and here we are, seeing each other again!"
They had parted only a few days ago but to Angie, it had felt like years.
She ran circles around Ye Fan in joy, skipping around like a child out at the playground.
She couldn't stop grinning at Ye Fan.
"That's right, we meet again," said Ye Fan with an indulgent smile as he patted Angie's head.
The sight of that intimate gesture darkened someone's mood.
"Can you do nothing right? There are so many of you! How did you manage to let her get loose?” Mike Jones whispered furiously at his men.
Ye Fan had killed an elder from Chu Sect and had inevitably made himself an enemy of Chu Sect.
His friendliness towards Ye Fan was only a false pretense he had put up due to circumstance.
In all honesty, he did not wish his sister to get too friendly with Ye Fan.
He didn't want her to get too involved with the man and get implicated in any way in the future.
The expression on Lv Hua and the others did not look any better.
"Damn it! What bad luck! I can't believe we bumped into this scoundrel again! Isn't he satisfied with the many spirit energy fruits that he got? Why did he turn up here?" snarled Lv Hua as he tightened his fists. His eyes were filled with venomous resentment.
Of them all, he was probably the one who hated Ye Fan the most.
Next to him, Lu Yan-Xi seemed to be experiencing a different set of emotions.
A tinge of loss and disappointment colored the jealousy that had swelled inside her when she had seen how friendly Ye Fan had been to Angie.
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