Facing the furious Li Chonglou.
For a moment, the huge contrast made it difficult for her to adapt.
However, she didn't dare to push any further. After all, if he were to bite his tongue and commit suicide, the matter would spread, and the person involved would inevitably be implicated.
The woman's expression flickered, and after a moment of consideration, she slowly slid off Li Chonglou's legs.
But it was clear she wouldn't let Li Chonglou off so easily.
Her fingernail tip gently grazed Li Chonglou's face, and she giggled, "Threatening to die, is that all the ability you have?"
"I really don't understand how those people before were taken down by you."
"With no strength to even hold a chicken, encountering me is truly pitiful."
"Take out the item. I'll leave you a complete corpse, and that can be considered a gesture of goodwill."
As she spoke, her fingernail tip had moved to Li Chonglou's neck. With a slight effort, it would sever his artery and trachea.
Li Chonglou's skin crawled from the scraping.
He trembled involuntarily.
Not out of fear, but because the woman's movements were like foreplay.
Even with the strongest will, the body had reflex actions. It was like tickling the sole of one's foot; how many could endure it?
However, the woman mistook this for Li Chonglou being so scared he had wet himself.
A hint of smugness rose in her charming eyes.
It would have been better if she had come from the start, why bother with those useless assassins before?
A waste of time and energy.
"Here, here, here. It's on my phone's cloud drive. Delete it yourself." Li Chonglou pretended to be very cooperative.
He had already copied this to Fan Lei long ago. Why couldn't these people understand?
They always thought that as long as they got it from him, it would be okay.
Dream on.
The woman heard this, didn't move at all, and a hint of coldness flashed in her eyes: "Are you playing me?"
"As far as I know, besides you, another woman holds this information. Furthermore, you previously said you had already leaked the information, and it would spread across the entire network the moment something happened to you."
"What's the point of me deleting a cloud drive?"
Heh...
Finally, a smart one arrived.
Li Chonglou was not alarmed but delighted.
There was nothing to talk about with those idiots; their communication channels were not aligned.
This woman, however, could actually engage in a conversation.
He shrugged his shoulders and said, "Then I can't help it. You also know that this isn't the only copy. Let me tell you the truth: every member of the Falcon Brigade has a copy."
"How powerful is the 'big shot' you mentioned? Can they kill the entire Falcon Brigade?"
"Killing me won't work, and letting me go, I dare not."
"How do you plan to deal with me?"
Instantly turning the tables, Li Chonglou was brimming with confidence.
The 'big shot' didn't want to make a big fuss, otherwise, they would have already mobilized official forces.
They wouldn't have to resort to sending individual assassins to deal with him.
In fact, these assassinations were not aimed at killing but at silencing and testing.
Otherwise, he wouldn't still be alive.
Testing which people and which forces had received the information.
Testing whether he intended to go all out.
The thinking of the person above was by no means simply killing him to solve everything. That would be the act of a fool.
"Do you know a story circulating online?" the woman said, her expression gradually turning cold as she saw Li Chonglou was not intimidated: "How can you kill someone who is immortal?"
"Some people have offered a solution: seal him with concrete, then bind him with iron chains and throw him into the deep sea."
"Of course, he still wouldn't die, but in the endless confinement, loneliness and darkness would destroy everything within his heart."
"Turning him into a living dead."
"You are just an ordinary person. Do you want to taste such a feeling?"
Naked threats.
The game of chess between the two was constantly unfolding.
Just imagining the scene described by the woman would send a chill down anyone's spine.
But Li Chonglou's expression remained unchanged. Instead, he chuckled, "Confine me? You can try."
He had endured a lifetime of loneliness; reincarnated, was he afraid of such a trick?
While the netizen's answer was indeed terrifying, its starting point was based on ordinary people.
Ordinary people's desires often outweighed their reason, and desires tend to inflate.
Such as the desire for food, lust, material possessions, and the spiritual desire for others' approval.
These are all desires, omnipresent. Without overcoming them, one cannot face loneliness.
But for Li Chonglou, he had already faced it long ago.
What people truly cannot face is not loneliness and darkness, but their own hearts, especially after turning thirty, when they deeply understand this.
You can do evil deeds, but you cannot do what you believe is wrong.
Otherwise, you will suffer a lifetime or even end your own life.
Therefore, he remained unmoved by the woman's threats.
"You're ruthless. Don't force me to lay hands on your family and friends." The woman was completely exasperated by Li Chonglou.
She had undertaken countless missions, but only Li Chonglou made her feel a profound sense of powerlessness.
If it weren't for the explicit instructions from above that she could only coerce, not kill, she would have sent Li Chonglou to the afterlife with a flick of her fingernail.
And she wouldn't be gnashing her teeth in hatred.
"You try it!" Li Chonglou's eyes suddenly turned cold.
He could overcome any desire, but there was one unshakeable obsession that he could not erase.
That was protecting his family.
Anyone who dared to touch this bottom line would die.
"You won't shed tears until you see the coffin. I'll start with one of your friends right now." Saying this, she picked up Li Chonglou's phone, found Jiang Yuxin's contact, and was about to dial.
Li Chonglou's eyes widened in fury. He knew the woman was bluffing, but he couldn't help but feel a pang in his heart.
He even didn't want Jiang Yuxin to know that he was in danger.
Ordinary people's psychological resilience was limited. If she knew the truth, he didn't know what foolish thing she might do.
Bang!
Just then, the door of the soundproof room suddenly exploded, sending wood chips flying and dust billowing.
The woman's expression jolted, and she quickly turned her head.
At the same time, a deep, magnetic voice rang out: "Since you want to lay hands on his family and friends, then come for me."
"I am his master. A day as a teacher, a lifetime as a father!"
The next second, Lin Zhendong, with his hands behind his back, stepped into the room.
"Master, you've arrived just in time." Li Chonglou's pupils dilated rapidly, a wry smile on his face.
At the same time, he let out a long sigh in his heart.
So, his master knew the moment he was captured, but didn't act immediately to apprehend this woman, wanting to see what her intentions were.
He had followed all along.
It made sense. With his master's current cultivation, the chirping of insects and the buzzing of flies couldn't escape his senses, let alone such a commotion.
"If I don't come soon, my yet-to-be-met disciple's wife will curse me to death." Lin Zhendong chuckled and strode towards them.
Compared to his relief, the woman was utterly shocked.
Flipping her wrist, a black blade appeared at her fingertips, her eyes shooting out chilling killing intent.
When Lin Zhendong was still a meter away, she suddenly struck, her entire body shooting towards him like an arrow released from a bowstring.
The blade at her fingertips silently slashed towards his neck.
The woman's speed was quite fast. Although not comparable to Xu Lie, it was far beyond that of an ordinary person or even a regular assassin.
But this speed, in Lin Zhendong's eyes, was akin to a snail's crawl.
He casually extended one hand, pinched the blade, and then gently guided it.
The woman, immediately driven by her own momentum, fell to the ground with a cry.
Supporting herself, she looked at Lin Zhendong with disbelief and exclaimed, "How did you find me?"
"Can you not find a mouse stealing rice right under your nose?" Lin Zhendong replied faintly.
Simultaneously, he formed a sword with his fingers and slashed at Li Chonglou.
Ssss!
The ropes, like silk, emitted a crisp tearing sound and broke directly.
This scene made the woman's face turn ashen, and she stood there dumbfounded.
The middle-aged man before her was too formidable. Why had his name never appeared in her intelligence reports, as if he had suddenly materialized?
He had followed her all the way here, and she hadn't noticed at all.
Now she had lost, completely lost.
Her heart sank into despair, and her eyes dimmed as she said, "My skills are inferior. Kill me."
"How to deal with you is up to Chonglou. I won't interfere." Lin Zhendong looked at Li Chonglou, signaling him to decide for himself.
"Killing you is useless. People like you, the other party can probably find as many as they want." Li Chonglou rubbed his wrist, which had red marks from being bound, and said, "I'll let you go back."
"Take a message for me: as long as we don't bother each other, his items will not be leaked. Otherwise, the entire city will know."
"If you send more people or target my family and friends again, don't blame me for a fight to the death."
"Stop glaring. Go, or I might change my mind."
The woman, who had been glaring fiercely at Li Chonglou, immediately averted her gaze upon hearing this, got up, and rushed out.
After leaving the room, she tossed back a sentence: "I'll settle this score with you later."
"Master, you should have caught her. She still dares to threaten me." Li Chonglou deliberately shouted.
The next second, the woman ran faster than a rabbit.
"Chonglou, the people you've offended are not of minor status," Lin Zhendong said slowly when only the master and disciple remained.
"Indeed, they are not insignificant, but the greater they are, the more they are traitors. I have something to attend to now, so my words just now were merely a temporary measure." Li Chonglou nodded and replied, "After my father's and your matters are resolved, I will have a good fight with him."
Letting the woman deliver a message was just a delaying tactic.
He knew very well that the 'big shot' would not truly let him off. The more arrogant a person is, the less they can tolerate their secrets being in the hands of others.
That feeling of being out of control would drive them mad.
And Li Chonglou had no intention of letting him off either. Because of that traitor, how many cultural relics and how much wealth had been lost overseas due to him?
Although he didn't have much sense of justice, he had no tolerance for such national criminals.
There would be a battle in the future.
It was just not the time yet.
"Let's go back to the hotel." Lin Zhendong nodded and asked no further questions.
As the master and disciple walked out of the room, they discovered that outside was a Catholic church.
The room where he had been kidnapped was the prayer room.
Ignoring the curious stares of the churchgoers, the master and disciple left as if nothing had happened.
Back at the hotel, not long after, Lin Ying and Xu Lie returned from playing in Datang Everbright City, laden with shopping bags.
Xu Lie was almost buried beneath them.
Li Chonglou couldn't help but sigh, realizing that as long as someone was a woman, they had a commonality.
That was shopping. They wouldn't stop until they couldn't carry anything more.
His senior sister, such an intellectual woman, couldn't escape this "true fragrance" law.
Master and disciple tacitly avoided mentioning the kidnapping incident, not wanting to spoil Lin Ying's good mood.
"Little junior brother, this is for you."
Lin Ying picked up a gift box and tossed it at Li Chonglou's head.
Li Chonglou accepted it with a confused look, thinking that his senior sister had actually brought him a gift. What could it be?
After tearing it open with quick movements, seeing what was inside, a warm current surged straight into his heart.