"What?" Wei Changqing was even more stunned.

"You can go home and get it; it should be with your uncle."

Wei Changqing clenched his fist.

"You should thank your uncle; if he hadn’t pretended to know nothing, you would have been killed after being kidnapped back then," Xiao Yebai said, his expression quite complex. "As for the key in my family, my mother was well-prepared and hid it very well. Because of this, when my dad wanted to save me, he couldn’t find the key anywhere."

"What about Third Brother’s family?" Zang Xiaolian asked.

"In the Zhang family, back then, Zhang Yingxi didn’t get that key. Here, we must thank the old man of the Zhong family. When the elders of the Zhang family passed away, the old man of the Zhong family temporarily kept their key. It wasn’t until Zhang Sanfeng returned that the old man deemed it the right time to return the key to the Zhang family. Because the old man of the Zhong family had once kept the key for the Zhang family, when Zhang Yingxi offered to help him keep the key, he entrusted it to Zhang Yingxi without realizing that Zhang Yingxi had long since turned traitor," Xiao Yebai explained one by one. "As for Fourth Brother’s situation, the key in his family was lost during a voyage by an ancestor and later ended up with Duke Philips. This means that the key in Zhuang Haoran’s possession is actually from your family."

"But why would Duke Philips—" Zhan Dapeng still had a head full of questions.

"The initial deduction is, during that maritime incident, people from Duke Philips’ castle were with your ancestors."

"Second Brother, are you saying that the Zhuang grandpa who married Duke Philips was from our family?"

"It’s very likely. To find out the specifics, we’d have to trace back to those deceased ancestors."

Then whose hands did the Zhong family’s key come from?

Regarding this question, Xiao Yebai’s expression grew more complex.

The other brothers, upon seeing his expression, suddenly felt a chill in their hearts: Could it be, that the eldest brother—

"I don’t know what he was thinking," Xiao Yebai nodded. "Later, I personally asked the old man of the Zhong family. Based on his memory, he drew the key for me to see what it looked like. He also mentioned one thing."

"What was it?"

"It’s common knowledge that the Zhang and Zhong families are old allies, but scarcely anyone knows that the Zhong family originally had the last name Chen."

Everyone was shocked once again.

"The last name Chen?"

"The Zhong family may be a branch split from the Chen family. Since they changed their surname to Zhong, it naturally wasn’t the main branch. However, an heir recognized by the family agent cannot have the last name Zhong, but must be a Chen."

The expressions on the brothers’ faces at this moment could only be described with one word: unbelievable!

"He wasn’t one of their people from the beginning, just a traitor—" Wei Changqing murmured, not knowing whether to feel relieved or more pained.

With things reaching this point, the threads seemed to unravel completely.

Zhan Dapeng slammed his fist on the table: "There’s no other path to take; we must go back to that place and settle all the grievances."

Facing his fervor, even Xiaojiu became extremely calm. Zang Xiaolian furrowed his brows and said, "After all these years, we’ve been looking for that place, but haven’t found it, have we?"

The place they couldn’t find was called Dark Island, said to be a mysterious reef that even the American military’s global radar couldn’t detect.

"Right now, we hold what they want—" Wei Changqing counted, including his own family’s, "three keys. If they also have three keys, then—"