Huo Beian looked at the masked man in front of him and chuckled.
"Zhu Yichen, things have come to this point, stop playing tricks on me. If you're so capable, take off your mask."
Upon hearing this, the man chuckled in an electronic voice, "Heh heh, Lian Sicheng. Looks like you're quite clever. Well then, I'll get straight to the point."
He took off his mask, and sure enough, underneath it was a handsome face—it was Zhu Yichen.
"Zhu Yichen, it really is you."
Huo Beian narrowed his eyes. "If I'm not mistaken, the rumored leader of the Dark Night in Zhongjing City is you, isn't he? This is your secret base, isn't it?"
Upon hearing this, Zhu Yichen chuckled, a sinister glint in his eyes. "Lian Sicheng, you are indeed clever. But unfortunately, you know too much. Today is your death day."
After saying that, he waved his hand and shouted, "Go! Beat them to death!"
"yes."
So his men brandished their long clubs and attacked Huo Beian menacingly.
Huo Beian stood tall and straight, picked up the steel pipe, rolled up his sleeve with one hand, and faced the swarming crowd without fear. He carried the steel pipe on his back and ran towards them, starting a fight.
He was agile; with a single swing of his steel pipe, he took down several bodyguards. The bodyguards then ganged up on him, but he sent them flying.
Zhu Yichen, who was standing to the side, frowned. Wasn't Lian Sicheng a weak scholar? When did he become so skilled?
It's like he's become a completely different person?
Seeing that the bodyguards seemed to be at a disadvantage, Zhu Yichen took the opportunity to slip away.
After a fierce fight, Huo Beian was unharmed. He fought against ten men single-handedly and utterly defeated the dozen or so bodyguards.
He looked up and realized that Zhu Yichen had disappeared.
"Oops."
He hurried to find Zhu Yichen.
At that moment, Zhu Yichen arrived at Song Ning's bedroom and turned on the camera.
Huo Beian was walking in a corridor when he heard the sound of a camera above the corridor.
"Lian Sicheng, if you want Song Ning to live, stop right now."
Huo Beian stopped abruptly and looked up at the ceiling. On the white wall above, a projection showed Song Ning being tied up in bed.
"daughter in law!"
He was taken aback when he saw Song Ning.
Where did this guy take his wife?
"Zhu Yichen, if you dare to lay a hand on my wife, I'll take you down with me even if it means my death."
Zhu Yichen over there smiled, a wicked smile.
"Then I'd like to see how you'll be used as a scapegoat."
While watching Huo Beian on the monitor in the control room, Zhu Yichen began to press the switch for the hidden weapon.
A hypnotic needle flew out.
Huo Beian keenly sensed this and immediately dodged away.
"They actually resorted to underhanded tactics."
Huo Beian then picked up a steel pipe and threw it directly at the surveillance camera, smashing it to pieces.
Now, Zhu Yichen couldn't see the surveillance footage anymore. He was so angry he gritted his teeth.
"This Lian Sicheng, you want to die, don't you? Then I'll let you die knowing why."
Huo Beian searched along the corridor, but ended up in a basement where he heard a girl screaming.
Thinking it was his wife, he quickly went forward and used his body to push the door open.
The scene before him almost made him vomit.
Inside a small basement, five or six women were locked up. Their hair was disheveled, and they were barely clothed. They were all chained to the wall.
The basement smelled awful.
They even saw the door open and people come in, and some women actually said with a smile, "Come on in."
Then, surprisingly, she opened her legs wide.
Huo Beian quickly turned his head away.
These women look like Zhu Yichen's ex-girlfriends who disappeared.
The police couldn't find him anywhere; it turned out he had imprisoned him here.
What a beast!
Huo Beian stepped forward and tried to open the chains, but he couldn't; a special key was needed.
Huo Beian had no choice but to settle accounts with Zhu Yichen first, and then rescue these women.
He walked down the corridor, searching for where Zhu Yichen might be.
At this moment, Zhu Yichen had already arrived at Song Ning's room, looking very displeased.
Seeing this, Song Ning tentatively asked, "Is Lian Sicheng here?"
Zhu Yichen tilted his head and looked at Song Ning, then stepped forward menacingly, grabbed her by the neck, and his face darkened. "Yes, it was your Lian Sicheng who destroyed my surveillance. You notified him, didn't you?"
Seeing his exasperated state, Song Ning wasn't angry. Instead, she advised, "Zhu Yichen, stop. Don't make another mistake."
"Stop? Heh, things have come to this point, I have no way out." He released his grip.
Song Ning took a breath and said haltingly, "Actually, when I tested you this time, I so desperately wanted you to be a good person. During my darkest time, you were there to help me relax and play golf. In my heart, you've always been my good older brother. But why did you become like this?"
Song Ning really didn't understand.
"Heh, you just don't understand me. Do you think I wanted to become like this? Do you know what I've been through?"
Zhu Yichen narrowed his dark eyes, his whole demeanor turning sinister.
Song Ning then realized that Zhu Yichen was a man with a story, and perhaps she could use this as a starting point to see if she could influence him.
Her tone softened considerably. "Brother, can you tell me what you've been through? I'm willing to listen to you."
That one word, "brother," immediately moved Zhu Yichen.
Actually, he hadn't planned to touch Song Ning; she was the only girl he had ever been attracted to. But why did she have to get married? Why didn't she belong to him...?
This caused his already distorted mentality to become even more twisted.
"What? This..." Song Ning never expected that Zhu Yichen had actually gone through something like this...
He was just a child back then... not even old enough to experience the stirrings of puberty...
“Brother, I sympathize with how you feel… Anyone would find this hard to accept… It would break anyone…” Song Ning also felt sorry for him.
"What's the use of sympathy? Why should I live my whole life in despair and shadow, while those women who ruined my life go unpunished? Everyone just laughs at me. When I was most desperate and helpless, who cared about me? From then on, I knew that I could only help myself by taking revenge myself. I can't count on anyone else. If fate is unfair, I will turn the tide!"
At this point, Zhu Yichen released his hands from his head and said through gritted teeth.
“Brother, you’re right. I sympathize with you too. If there’s no way forward, we should forge one, but the problem is that the way must be the right one! We can’t hurt innocent people!” Song Ning tried to persuade him.
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