[ Why not now? It's a question Hei is asking himself. Leverage can turn against you. Ultimatums are useless unless you hold all the aces. To play the situation as it is, is an umbilic torus. Round and round with no end in sight. He suspects, secretly (so secret he won't admit it, even to himself), that this owes largely to those faultlines that begin and end with Pai. ]
[ He puts that aside. ]
Just one. [ A tidbit. ] To avoid curses, the best option is to disappear Underground. [ Hei's set up two safe-houses there. The location of one, he'll share with Mao. The second, he'll keep to himself, as he always does. His primary lookout is his own well-being. ]
action!
[ He puts that aside. ]
Just one. [ A tidbit. ] To avoid curses, the best option is to disappear Underground. [ Hei's set up two safe-houses there. The location of one, he'll share with Mao. The second, he'll keep to himself, as he always does. His primary lookout is his own well-being. ]