A year ago, the leader of "Yun" dispatched over a hundred people to expand their influence in the capital. The leader of this group was "Yuan", known in the underworld as "Master Yuan".
The middle-aged man in the gambling den's upstairs room was "Yuan", directly commanding ten subordinates numbered "One" to "Ten".
Each of these ten had ten direct subordinates, creating a well-structured organization of over ten thousand members.
Tao Pengnan was a direct subordinate of "Nine".
The three merchants were underlings of one of "Nine's" subordinates.
All were true members of the "Yun" faction, identifiable by the grain tattoo on their bodies.
The deaths of the three merchants were the work of a traitor within the "Yun" faction, though the merchants mistakenly believed they were killed by their own.
This was evident from the dying words of a merchant in the brothel: "You will pay for this".
However, who the traitor was remained unknown.
