After a round of apologies, Su Mei Chao found he could no longer stay. He glared fiercely at Li Se, wanting to unleash some harsh words, but swallowed them back as they reached his lips. With a final cold snort, he left the hotel.
"Thank you!" Su Mei suddenly said.
"What are you thanking me for?" Li Se asked, surprised. He was momentarily stunned, as Su Mei's eyes were red. It was the first time he had seen Su Mei cry.
Without waiting for Su Mei's reply, she kissed Li Se on the cheek with lightning speed. "A reward from big sister!"
As Su Mei Chao left the hotel, he kicked the Rolls-Royce's hood heavily, only to yelp in pain, clearly having hurt himself.
"Patriarch, should we send someone to deal with this Li Se?" the butler could no longer tolerate it.
"Don't rush!" Su Mei Chao said with a dark expression. "Find an opportunity to capture Su Mei. As for this kid, we'll deal with him after the pharmaceutical factory resumes normal production!"
Getting into the car, Su Mei Chao looked at the Shengshi Hotel. "Li Se, I will make you pay a terrible price!"
As midnight approached, Li Se, Xu Qiang, and the others arrived at the outskirts in a Porsche.
"Boss, it's inside." Lightning pointed at a dilapidated house in the suburbs. "These people are hiding very deeply. It took me almost a full day to track them down."
"Amazing!" Li Se gave him a thumbs-up. Lightning's capabilities were truly remarkable. Even the Enforcement Department found it difficult to locate Dark Night's hideout, yet Lightning found it in less than a day.
"The other party has guns, and we don't. We need to be careful," Xu Qiang said.
"It would be great if we had guns," Lightning sighed.
Li Se said with some helplessness, "I don't have this kind of thing, nor can I get it for you."
"Just saying," Lightning chuckled.
Meanwhile, inside the dilapidated house.
"Has Number Three, who was lurking near Qingshui Bay, not reported back yet?" The leader was a blond foreigner. A sniper rifle lay before him. He was the commander of this Dark Night operation, codenamed Eagle. His main mission was not only to assassinate Li Se but also to eliminate any captured comrades to prevent them from being interrogated.
Every Dark Night operation had such a commander responsible for cleaning up the mess.
Therefore, within the Dark Night mercenary group, failure was equivalent to death!
"Something must have happened," a thin man beside him said.
"Damn it, why is this Li Se so hard to kill? We've already lost three people!" Eagle said irritably.
"Eagle, should we withdraw first?" the thin man asked worriedly.
Eagle shook his head. "Although Li Se is skilled, we'll be more cautious in our next operation. We'll only use snipers and avoid close-quarters combat. Damn it, we almost succeeded yesterday!"
"You might not get that chance!"
Suddenly, a voice rang out.
"Who?!" Eagle's expression changed as he quickly grabbed the sniper rifle on the table.
The other men also reacted swiftly, picking up their weapons and firing at the source of the sound without hesitation.
However, the shot missed. At the same time, figures attacked from all directions.
"Damn it!" Eagle's face changed. As a sniper, he wasn't without close-combat abilities, but at such close range, he had no advantage.
Bang bang bang…
Several more shots were fired.
But the attackers were all masters. While dodging, they swiftly eliminated the men holding the guns.
Eagle tried to escape, but Li Se had already blocked his path. His fingers moved like the wind as he pointed forward.
With just a light flick of his finger, Eagle felt a bone in his chest crack. He grunted, swung the sniper rifle towards the opponent's head.
Bang!
But the next moment, he was sent flying backward, crashing into the wall of the dilapidated house before falling to the ground. His body's resilience was strong. Even under such a heavy blow, he managed to roll up and dash towards the doorway.
However, before he could step out, a silver needle pierced his thigh. With a thud, he fell heavily to the ground.
Soon, Xu Qiang and the others captured all of them.
"How did you find this place?" Eagle asked in despair. He had hidden so well, how could he be found?
"I found you," Lightning said triumphantly.
"Who are you?" Eagle asked.
"Demon Hunter Team, Lightning!" Lightning grinned.
Eagle's pupils contracted, then he resigned himself. "So it's the Demon Hunter Team. That explains it. It's not unfair to fall into your hands. Do as you wish, kill or torture."
"Tell us, who hired you?" Li Se asked.
"Heh, do you think we would betray our employer?" Eagle sneered.
"Boss, leave it to me!" Qilin revealed a cruel smile. "I'm most skilled at torture."
Li Se nodded. For the next few minutes, only Eagle's screams could be heard. Even a tough man like him couldn't endure it in the end.
"It's a major family from the capital, the topmost tier. The other party only sent an envoy, so I don't know which specific top-tier family it is," Eagle said weakly.
A top-tier family from the capital!
Li Se's expression changed slightly. Up until now, his enemies had all been second-rate families, and he had clashed with them several times. He hadn't expected the ones trying to kill him this time to be top-tier families. The top-tier families he knew of were the Lin family and the Xiao family.
He didn't know the Lin family's strength, but the Xiao family alone was terrifying. They truly controlled military power!
With his current strength, there was still a gap in resisting the top-tier families of the capital.
Upon hearing Eagle's words, Xu Qiang and the others also changed their expressions. As members of the Demon Hunter Team, they were well aware of the formidable power of these top-tier families in the capital.
"This is really a big problem now," Lightning said, shrinking his neck.
"Lightning, do you have any way to find out?" Li Se looked at him.
Lightning gave a wry smile and shook his head. "There's no way. The first-rate families in the capital control political power. Take the Enforcement Department, for example. The highest position, the Director, is held by the Tang family. And the Xiao family, that old man is a great general. None of those families are easy to deal with. I don't have the capability to investigate them. Even if I could, I wouldn't dare. If I did, the other party would definitely notice…"
Li Se took a deep breath. "It seems like the plan to go to the capital needs to be moved up."