Chapter 127

Then you should die with her. [Excellent]

More than an hour ago.

Cheng Sangluo ran after the car for a while, but she couldn't catch up with the speeding Bentley and finally had to stop.

She rested her hands on her knees, panting heavily as the biting mountain wind blew, but before she could catch her breath, she hurriedly pulled out her phone to seek Gu Shinian's help.

On the winding, seemingly endless mountain road, her figure appeared long and slender under the dim streetlights, her constant back-and-forth pacing casting increasingly anxious and uneasy shadows.

Watching your loved one being kidnapped by thugs is incredibly disheartening; nothing is more agonizing and remorseful. The intense fear reaches its peak, and you even have the urge to slap yourself to death.

Fortunately, Gu Shinian was very efficient. Not long after, the staff from the health and wellness center brought a car.

Cheng Sangluo sat in the driver's seat, staring blankly at the mountain road outside the windshield. The dark expanse resembled a gaping abyss at midnight, constantly swallowing her reason and releasing an unknown sense of panic.

"Where could we go...where could we go..." she murmured to herself, her mind blank, racking her brains but unable to figure out where the kidnappers could have taken Lin Jin.

Just when I was at my wit's end, my phone suddenly rang with a familiar alarm.

"Alarm! Alarm! The monitored object has moved out of safe distance!"

"Alarm! Alarm! The monitored object has moved out of safe distance!"

"Alarm! Alarm! The monitored object has moved out of safe distance!"

The repeated alarm sounds, accompanied by the buzzing of her phone, instantly pulled Cheng Sangluo out of her helpless situation.

She hadn't expected Lin Jin to have installed hidden tracking software on his new phone, but now that software was proving crucial.

She slammed on the gas pedal, the roar echoing through the mountains with an unstoppable fury, determined to rescue her lover who had been taken away.

......

A black sedan sped along the dark mountain road, the evening breeze rustling through the dense woods.

Unlike the health and wellness center and Lin Jin's private villa in the mountainous area, the Lin family's ancestral home, nestled against the mountain, has few streetlights, making it so eerie that it's hard to tell whether the end of the road leads to the human world or hell.

Cheng Sangluo listened intently to the navigation prompts, her dim eyes fixed on the mountain road ahead, her heart filled with a silent prayer for them to arrive sooner, even faster.

As she sped along, all she could think about was how to rescue Lin Jin, which caused her chaotic emotions to return to a state of absolute calm.

As the luxurious entrance to the Lin family mansion came into view at the end of the road, the navigation prompts continued unabated.

Cheng Sangluo wondered why they hadn't reached their destination yet. To avoid being noticed, she turned off the headlights, parked the car on the side of the road, and quickly surveyed her surroundings.

She first looked at the lavish door decorations of the Lin residence, then studied the navigation for a while. Seeing that Lin Jin was still nearly a kilometer away from her, she turned her gaze to the depths of the mountain road.

Without further ado, there must be some hidden secret in these deep mountains, so I started the car and drove straight ahead.

When the navigation showed that they were less than 200 meters from Lin Jin, Cheng Sangluo decided to walk to the destination to avoid alerting Lin Jin.

Before setting off, she searched for handy tools in the trunk, only to find that a fire extinguisher was useful. However, for someone with extensive fighting experience, even bare hands are enough to withstand the attack, and the fire extinguisher is just icing on the cake, providing cover in critical moments.

Cheng Sangluo sped along the woods beside the driveway, like a black panther swift as the wind in the dark, until she saw a villa surrounded by high walls in the distance, at which point she slowed down.

She was both amused and exasperated, thinking that she had spent half her life either saving people or on her way to save people.

He participated in countless rescue missions in the army; after retiring, he ended up in prison for trying to save people; after being released, he kept repeating the same mistakes, not only saving Cheng Xing, but also saving Lin Jin time and time again, from the Seventeen Port to the parking garage and then to Lin's container terminal, accumulating a lot of experience.

"Pah." Cheng Sangluo spat at her feet. She'd been to many meetings alone, so she wasn't afraid to do it again.

This time, she didn't sneak in as she always did. Although she couldn't estimate how many thugs were in the villa, she just wanted to have a fair and square fight.

"Make this quick." Cheng Sangluo said in a low voice. Before making a move, she sent Ji Nanxing her location, then held her breath and quickly climbed over the villa's wall.

She hid behind a tree, peeking out half her face to look around. To her surprise, the garden was completely empty; there wasn't even a patrolling guard in sight.

She took out her phone to check the navigation arrow and found that Lin Jin was in the villa. She couldn't help but let out a deep breath, but after hearing a few urgent barks, she immediately tensed up again.

"Dog..." Cheng Sangluo's lips trembled slightly as she muttered, suddenly recalling the scene of searching for Sheng He at the foot of the nearby cliff that day.

Lin Jin, leading a group of bodyguards, was searching the woods when she suddenly grabbed her, looking bewildered, and said, "I think I know where Xu Songheng is hiding."

Cheng Sangluo was focused on finding the person, so she didn't delve too deeply into the topic, simply asking, "Where is Xu Songheng?"

Lin Jin's gaze held a hidden meaning, and her reply was equally strange: "In the dog's belly."

Cheng Sangluo dared not hesitate any longer. She picked up the fire extinguisher at her feet and ran straight towards the villa gate.

As she ran closer, she found the door ajar, and she could hear several men talking inside.

Subordinate A: "The boss's methods are really perverted. Lin Jin is so skinny, a pack of dogs wouldn't be able to bite him twice before he's dead. If this continues, it will cause big trouble sooner or later."

Subordinate B: "Exciting! If you mix cow's blood with honey and smear it on someone, they'd be eaten alive by dogs. I'd love to go down and see the spectacle. In the end, it's still our boss who's really up to the task!"

Subordinate C: "Keep your voice down, you can't say these things outside! If the boss hears this, you two will be the ones getting bitten by dogs."

Subordinate D: "What are you guys doing, cricketing? You dare to slack off? Get out there and keep watch."

The person who suddenly appeared must have been the leader of the team. After giving a reprimand, his subordinates scattered like birds and beasts.

After hearing the conversation, Cheng Sangluo felt a chill run down her spine and finally understood what Lin Jin meant by "in the dog's belly".

She clenched her teeth, her anger boiling over, tearing away all reason, leaving only one thought—she was willing to disregard the consequences for Lin Jin.

Cheng Sangluo didn't give the people inside a chance to react. She kicked the door open and sprayed the fire extinguisher indiscriminately.

In an instant, the already dark living room of the villa was plunged into a white haze. The four henchmen became like headless flies, frantically waving away the white powder that obstructed their vision, while urgently calling for other guards to come and help.

Cheng Sangluo didn't run around. Instead, she picked up a decorative vase from the side and deliberately smashed it, making a noise that caused everyone to instinctively look for the source of the sound.

She picked up the sharp shards and quickly slipped into the panicked group. Her crouching posture not only allowed her to hide well but also gave her the opportunity to stab the disorganized henchmen.

Cheng Sangluo's intrusion plan went smoothly. After stabbing one person, she took advantage of the chaos to steal the dagger that the other person had tucked into their waistband.

With a handy weapon, they moved more swiftly.

In the blink of an eye, the few people who were just gossiping collapsed to the ground one after another, accompanied by groans of pain.

They clutched their calves, which had been ripped open, and rolled around on the ground several times before collided with each other because they couldn't see anything.

Cheng Sangluo's hands were covered in blood, and feeling that this was not enough to solve the problem of movement, he simply made a few more cuts on the Achilles tendons of each person.

Within minutes, the people inside the villa heard the commotion and rushed over.

Some clever people, however, know to turn on the living room lights.

In an instant, the huge villa was brightly lit.

At this moment, Cheng Sangluo was hiding behind a Roman column, looking at the dark mass of bodyguards. She roughly estimated their numbers, and compared to the fight in Seventeen Port, these people were no match for her.

She rolled up her shirt sleeves and stopped hiding. While everyone was still confused, she took off and rushed into the crowd.

She stabbed one of them in the arm, then grabbed his tie and pulled him towards her. She kicked him a short distance away, causing him to lose his balance and knock several people behind him to the ground. They struggled for a long time but couldn't get up.

None of these seemingly well-trained bodyguards could withstand her agile and ever-changing fighting skills.

Driven by a bloodlust, Cheng Sangluo gave the bodyguards no chance to catch their breath, and soon a large number of them lay dead on the ground.

She had noted down important information from the conversation she had overheard, and figured that Lin Jin must have been locked up somewhere downstairs by Lin Sheng, perhaps in the basement.

Thinking of this, she crouched down and grabbed one of the bodyguards by the hair, demanding, "Where is he?"

Her face was stained with blood, and her icy eyes held a chilling murderous intent, making the other party dare not utter a single lie. "Downstairs..."

Cheng Sangluo didn't want to waste too much time, so she held the dagger to the other person's neck and made a shallow cut, continuing to intimidate, "Where are you downstairs? Explain yourself!"

"There's a gym downstairs, and a small room at the very back where the person lives..."

Cheng Sangluo looked in the direction the other person pointed downstairs and asked, "How many people are downstairs?"

"A dozen or twenty, that should be about it, but I'm not sure of the exact number..."

As soon as the bodyguard finished speaking, rustling footsteps came from the stairwell leading downstairs.

A short while later, another group of bodyguards in suits blocked the way downstairs.

Cheng Sangluo stood up, cracked her knuckles, and sneered, "Looks like you've got quite a few dogs."

The bodyguards who rushed over from downstairs looked taller and stronger; they were probably the most capable group Lin Sheng had ever trained.

Unlike the previous lackeys, these people knew that fighting required strategy, so they used some brains to deal with Cheng Sangluo.

They split into groups of three, surrounding Cheng Sangluo in the center. Each group would fight her to no avail, then switch to another group, trying different methods to wear down Cheng Sangluo's stamina.

Fortunately, Cheng Sangluo had learned his lesson from the battle at Seventeen Ports, so whenever he had the chance, he would grab someone and fight at a distance. Luckily, he had a dagger in his hand, and he would take down one person at a time with each swift and decisive blow.

As the fight dragged on, she gasped for breath, her body increasingly stained with blood, and one thought kept popping into her mind: if someone had to die tonight, she hoped it would be herself.

......

The path leading to the dark room downstairs was so short, yet so far.

Cheng Sangluo wasn't completely unharmed. In the chaos, she was struck hard on the back of the neck with a club. Her head was buzzing and she was also experiencing a vague ringing in her ears. Her hair was soaked with sweat, and her wet shirt clung to her back, revealing the shape of her protruding spine.

Her consciousness was fading, and she could no longer remember how she had taken down everyone. The path she walked was filled with fallen bodyguards, almost like a mountain of people.

The chaotic battle had exhausted Cheng Sangluo's strength, causing her to lose her footing as she ran, but her desire to take Lin Jin away was still burning in her throat.

She ran frantically through the entire floor of the gym, and when she reached the dark room with its door tightly closed, she didn't even bother to listen for any sounds inside. She kicked the thick steel door, leaving a dent.

With a thud as the door slammed against the wall, Cheng Sangluo's eyes were filled with the figure hanging in the air.

A faint glimmer of light appeared in her dim eyes, but it was quickly replaced by an uncontrollable tremor as she listened to her lover's tragic fate.

Lin Jin's eyes were tightly closed and she had lost consciousness. Her hands were tied with ropes and she was suspended in mid-air. Her clothes were slashed to pieces by a knife, and her delicate, fair skin was covered with a sticky and disgusting liquid.

Fortunately, she was not bitten by those vicious dogs, but it is unknown what happened during that time that caused her to fall into a coma.

Cheng Sangluo found it hard to accept this scene and, trying her best to hold back her tears, jumped onto the table.

"Lin Jin, wake up... wake up... don't scare me..." She repeatedly cut the hemp rope with the dagger, her low voice filled with suppressed sobs: "It's my fault... I shouldn't have left you there... I'll take you home... we'll go home right away..."

After finally cutting the rope, Lin Jin, who showed no reaction whatsoever, became as limp as a puddle of water and nearly fell to the ground from the height. Fortunately, Cheng Sangluo caught her in his arms in time.

After a quick check of the injuries, she took off her own shirt and put it on Lin Jin. But before she could pick him up and leave, a rope was suddenly pulled open by someone, and a mixture of cow's blood and honey poured out.

At that moment, she was only wearing a sports vest, and the sticky liquid had soaked her from head to toe.

She instinctively turned to look at the doorway, and a dark figure flashed away, leaving behind the heavy steel door that closed and locked shut.

Cheng Sangluo then realized that something was amiss in the dark room. It had been eerily quiet since she entered, and it seemed that she had fallen into a trap set by Lin Sheng.

She felt a sense of foreboding, and when she came to her senses, she discovered a hidden door on the other side of the room that was not easily noticed.

Just as she was about to jump off the table to check, the hidden door was suddenly pushed open. It was a path to death, and blocking the door was not a person, but a pack of vicious dogs about to escape.

The pack of glossy pit bulls, their muzzles fitted with bite guards, seemed drawn by the sticky, bloody scent, continuously emitting vicious growls, their mouths glistening with hungry saliva.

Their claws scratched at the floor with a soft, sharp sound as they darted forward, their muscular bodies taut as if their leashes might snap at any moment.

Enemies meeting are bound to be furious, and Cheng Sangluo bared his teeth and growled, "Lin Sheng!"

Lin Sheng stood behind several bodyguards, the cigar in his mouth swirling with smoke, adding a touch of evil to his sinister face.

"Cheng Sangluo, this seems to be our first meeting, right? Of course, this is also the last." He exhaled a cloud of smoke, his eyes gleaming with the satisfaction of his plan, and chuckled, "If you want to blame someone, blame Lin Jin for being too clever. If she hadn't spilled everything to me tonight, I wouldn't have thought of taking your life. Since you have evidence of my crimes, then you should die with her. Isn't dying together with the one you love a perfect ending? You should be thanking me. How about it? Not bad, right?"

As he spoke, he patted his subordinate on the shoulder, signaling him to remove the dog's muzzle.

In an instant, the barking of dogs echoed in the dark room.

Cheng Sangluo watched as a pack of vicious dogs rushed toward her, while the door slowly closed.

She stared intently into Lin Sheng's eyes through the crack in the door, gripping the dagger beside her, bracing herself for a fierce battle, screaming hoarsely, "Lin Sheng! I won't let you go! I won't let you go!!!"

[Author's Note]

1. My pre-order novel, "The Sinful Lover," is available for collection.