Chapter 932: Chapter 932: Everything Is on the Chessboard
"County Magistrate Lin, do you think saying these things now really has any use?"
Playing with the dagger in his hand, Che Laojiu squinted and smiled at Lin Fan.
"Good words can hardly persuade a doomed ghost. Whether it has any use, you should judge for yourself. You should think, if it wasn’t certain that you would be sacrificed, why doesn’t Huo Ben show up here and sends you instead?"
Lin Fan smiled calmly at Che Laojiu and said, "According to his character, watching me die with his own eyes is the most gratifying revenge plan. But at such a critical moment, he doesn’t show up and lets you take the lead. The only explanation is that he doesn’t really have confidence in killing me, so he won’t risk it himself because he knows this very well might be a trap I set for him."
"Hahaha, County Magistrate Lin, I really admire you now, coming up with so many excuses even at death’s door. But now, even if you explain until the sky is broken, it’s useless. Today, this is your burial ground. If you have anything to say, say it quickly; otherwise, soon there will be no chance!"
With a slight sinister smile on his lips, Che Laojiu weighed the knife in his hand. Lin Fan was surrounded from front and back, having no chance to escape.
"Do you know why I have Wu Houbiao waiting here for me? Think again, did he betray me, or was this all part of my plan?"
Lin Fan took a drag of his cigarette, tossed the butt on the ground, and sneered, "Huo Ben is no fool. Since he knows I have Wu Houbiao as a trump card, how could he not clean him up? You see, cards shown on the table lose their effectiveness, so it’s better to go with the flow and have him do something useful, like drawing you out."
"So, County Magistrate Lin is saying that everything was set in motion according to your plan, and my standing here is all part of it?"
Che Laojiu furrowed his brow, looking at the calm Lin Fan, who then exhaled his last puff of smoke and said, "That’s right, everything was specially prepared for you. After all, the things you’re involved with don’t have concrete evidence. Just taking you down may leave some dissatisfied, so I had to lure the snake out of its hole, coax you here. Do you know the biggest advantage of me coming to Red Flag County?"
"What is it?"
Che Laojiu asked instinctively.
"Of course, it’s that there’s no need for so-called evidence to charge you with offenses. This is called being preventative. So now I’m giving you a way out: surrender immediately, and I can consider giving you a chance to reform before you commit any real crimes; otherwise, with new and old offenses taken together, even ten lives won’t be enough to compensate!"
Lin Fan stared into Che Laojiu’s eyes, but the mad laughter on his face showed he didn’t believe any of it, "Alright, hold off with your nonsense. The more you talk, the more embarrassed I am over your shamelessness!"
"Okay, seems like negotiations are over. The show can begin!"
Lin Fan laughed and patted the car’s hood. Tang Xiaoshuang, sitting in the driver’s seat, immediately pressed the horn. The three long, one short honks were so piercing in the dark night that before Che Laojiu could ridicule, the darkness nearby suddenly lit up, followed by a bulldozer roaring from below the road base, crashing straight into the off-road vehicles blocking the road.
"Boom, boom, boom..."
The powerful bulldozer blade directly flipped several tons of vehicles into the ditch. Meanwhile, Lin Fan took advantage of Che Laojiu’s distraction, rushed to the car, opened the passenger door, and the car charged forward. By the time Che Laojiu came to his senses, several incendiary bottles had already been thrown from the bulldozer, smashed onto the road, and in an instant, flames soared to the sky.
"Woo..."
Tang Xiaoshuang, driving the off-road vehicle, blasted through the flames, while Tang Dashuang, who drove the bulldozer, also immediately jumped out and after entering a cornfield taller than a person, started a hidden motorcycle and fled in the opposite direction.
This sudden attack completely disrupted the entire rhythm of both sides. Only then did Che Laojiu realize Lin Fan’s words were true, this was all a trap of his setting, and he had fallen right into it.
"Everyone get up quickly, chase him, don’t let him escape. He must be finished tonight!"
An enraged Che Laojiu furiously signaled to the vehicle convoy behind, and as they followed, his men immediately jumped onto the rear cars and continued pursuing.
"Hey... we ran into a little hitch, this guy actually played me!"
Sitting in the passenger seat, Che Laojiu shouted into the phone to Huo Ben.
"He must be taken down tonight; otherwise, none of us will survive. This guy is just too cunning and must be eliminated!"
But to his surprise, at this moment, Huo Ben was busy with a woman’s body, smirking as he hung up the phone, then bit into the bound woman’s chest, his expression growing more hideous as blood flowed down.
"County Magistrate Lin, you didn’t disappoint me. Now look at the final kill I prepared for you. This time, you’re dead for sure!"