dognovel Chapter 36 The act is over, the hunt begins!
Chapter 36 The act is over, the hunt begins!
As soon as he finished speaking, two thugs behind him stepped forward with sinister smiles.
Lin Chen's performance continued, but he seemed to be terrified, retreating repeatedly and nearly falling over.
"Hey, brothers, please don't! I'm begging you!"
"No, please don't come any closer. As for the money, I'll give you all of it."
His trembling hand pointed to the Pioneer not far away.
"Please look carefully, this is 100,000 yuan in cash, it's all on the boat. Please spare my family, I'll go get it right away."
"OK??"
One hundred thousand yuan?
A greedy glint instantly flashed in the eyes of the thugs.
Scarface was also stunned for a moment, then spat out a disdainful spit.
"You think you can buy your whole family's lives for 100,000 yuan? Hey kid, our Boss Zhang offered 50,000 yuan just to light your sky lantern."
Lin Chen seized the opportunity, his voice trembling with tears.
"Zhang... Zhang what the hell Tie Jun? Did he send you? How much did he pay you? I'll pay double. No, triple. Just stop now."
Scarface laughed wildly, as if he had heard the funniest joke in the world, and the scar on his face contorted in pain.
"Haha, kid, you're really adorably naive. We're in it for the money, but we value our integrity above all else."
"Boss Zhang said, we want the money. We also want the lives of your whole family."
All of these words were clearly recorded by the miniature recorder on Lin Chen's collar.
enough.
Just as Scarface pressed closer, reveling in the thrill of his prey's final struggle, Lin Chen's ears twitched slightly.
The sound of tires rubbing against the dirt road came from the direction of the village entrance.
In the system's view, the green dots representing police cars have silently blocked all the exits of the net-drying area.
Scarface had clearly lost all patience.
He kicked the gasoline drum next to him hard.
Splash!
The red plastic bucket tumbled over, spilling a pungent liquid that quickly spread across the concrete floor, flowing towards Lin Chen's feet.
The entire net-drying area was instantly enveloped in a strong smell of gasoline.
Scarface pulled a windproof lighter from his pocket, grinned, and pressed the switch.
Click.
"Kid, open your eyes wider next time you're reincarnated."
He flicked his wrist, preparing to throw the flame to the ground.
Just as the lighter slipped from his hand...
The fear and pleading in Lin Chen's eyes vanished instantly.
He made his move.
Without warning, his body was instantly ejected.
It moved so fast that the thugs present only saw a blur.
A burning lighter is falling from mid-air.
Lin Chen's figure had already arrived ahead of the others, delivering a precise whip kick to the lighter.
boom.
The flames went out instantly.
Using the momentum of his spin, Lin Chen raised his other leg and delivered a side kick that landed squarely on the side of Scarface's knee.
Click.
A sound of bone cracking rang out.
"ah!!"
Scarface let out a miserable howl and collapsed to the ground, rolling around while clutching his deformed knees.
Lin Chen landed silently and snatched the cleaver from Lin Chen's hand.
With a flick of his wrist, the back of the knife traced an arc and slammed heavily into the neck of another thug who had just reacted and raised a baseball bat.
The thug didn't even utter a sound; his eyes rolled back, and he collapsed limply to the ground.
The leader was seriously injured, and one person fainted.
The remaining dozen or so thugs were completely dumbfounded.
What the hell is going on?
Wasn't this guy just scared to death? How come he suddenly became so good at fighting?
"Damn it, let's all go at him and kill him!"
After a brief moment of shock came a fit of rage and fury. More than a dozen machetes and baseball bats came hurtling at Lin Chen from all directions.
Lin Chen advanced instead of retreating.
Using the fishing nets and wooden frames piled up on the drying ground, he weaved through the crowd at high speed, and no one could touch him.
He specializes in targeting vital points on the human body, using elbow strikes, eye gouging, and groin kicks to incapacitate a thug.
Screams echoed throughout the room.
Just as one of the thugs raised his machete above his head, Lin Chen chopped his wrist with a chop, and in the intense pain, the machete flew out of his hand.
Another thug attacked from the side, but before the baseball bat could fall, Lin Chen kicked him in the shinbone, causing him to kneel down clutching his leg and writhing on the ground in pain.
In just ten seconds.
Five or six thugs were already lying on the ground, groaning and rolling around.
The remaining few were completely terrified.
They watched the figure weaving through the crowd, their hands gripping their weapons trembling.
This wasn't a fight; it was a one-sided massacre.
"Run, run fast!"
Someone shouted, and the remaining thugs turned and ran back to the intersection they had come from.
However, their escape route was blocked in the next second.
squeak!
A screeching sound of brakes rang out.
Several powerful searchlights lit up from the outside, illuminating the entire net-drying area.
"Police, don't move! Put down your weapons, put your hands on your heads, and squat down."
Officer Wang, pistol in hand, led more than ten heavily armed police officers out of the darkness, their dark gun barrels pointed at each of the people standing there.
The sudden turn of events left all the thugs frozen in place.
Under the bright light, the ground was littered with machetes, baseball bats, overturned gasoline cans, and his accomplices lying on the ground groaning.
Officer Wang broke out in a cold sweat when he saw this.
"Cuff them all, don't let a single one escape."
A young policeman looked at Lin Chen, who was unharmed, and then at the thugs lying on the ground.
The scene looks like... Lin Chen single-handedly took them all down?
With a clang, Lin Chen dropped the machete in his hand, swayed, gasped for breath, clutched his chest, and leaned back in the wooden chair, his face deathly pale.
With trembling hands, he removed the miniature recorder from inside his collar and handed it to Officer Wang, who was walking briskly towards him.
"Officer Wang... I... I risked my life in self-defense to protect my entire village..."
Officer Wang took the recorder and connected it to the law enforcement terminal.
When he saw the scene on the screen, where the scarred man arrogantly said, "Boss Zhang spent 50,000 to buy the lives of your whole family," and then poured gasoline and lit a lighter, his face instantly turned ashen.
"Well done, Zhang Tiejun."
"This is not a simple case of provoking trouble; it is an organized and premeditated attempted murder by hiring someone to commit murder, as well as an attempted arson, which is of a heinous nature."
He made a decisive decision, reporting to the county bureau via walkie-talkie and issuing a direct order.
"Xiao Li, take a group of men and head to the town's seafood market immediately to conduct a surprise arrest of the suspect, Zhang Tiejun. Remember, you must catch him."
"Yes."
Police cars roared in and took away the group of thugs who were crying and begging for mercy.
Just then, my phone vibrated in my pocket.
It's a message.
Clicking on it reveals only one short line of text:
He'd heard rumors and was fleeing through the night with a black leather suitcase. The direction... seemed to be towards that cold chain company in the city.