The stench of blood instantly pierced through the false siren sound.
The chaos at the scene reached its peak.
The two surviving criminals were completely bewildered by this sudden betrayal.
They instinctively turned their guns from Qin Xiao's direction towards the woman who had just killed their boss.
"You're fucking insane!" one of them roared.
"Chance!"
Qin Xiao's voice was like a quenched steel needle, piercing Shen Xingling's earlobe.
He suddenly exerted force with his palm and pushed against Shen Xingling's lower back.
A tremendous force propelled her toward another, thicker, load-bearing column.
"Legs! Leave them alive!"
The instructions were clear, cold, and devoid of any emotion.
This time, Shen Xingling's body gave her no room to think.
It seemed to have long been familiar with the rhythm of this man's commands.
Side roll.
Raise your gun.
aim.
shooting.
The movements were fluid and seamless.
"Bang! Bang!"
Two gunshots ripped through the air.
The bullet pierced precisely into a criminal's calf.
The man let out a shrill scream as the gun slipped from his hand and rolled away across the concrete.
The instant Shen Xingling pulled the trigger, Qin Xiao burst out from behind cover like a black panther hunting its prey!
His target was the last criminal who was still able to stand and was aiming his gun at the female assassin.
Don't go!
Shen Xingling's heart stopped beating suddenly.
By rushing out empty-handed like that, he's practically walking into a trap!
However, what happened next was beyond her comprehension.
As Qin Xiao charged forward, he made a sweeping motion with his right hand towards the ground in front of the criminal.
He had already made up his mind: "Now!"
Just as the criminal was about to turn his gun on Qin Xiao, the concrete ground beneath his feet suddenly became even more slippery than ice coated with oil!
"What the hell?!"
An irresistible force surged from the soles of his feet.
He instantly lost his balance and fell backward in an extremely contorted position.
"Bang!"
His out-of-control gun spewed fire, bullets whistling as they hurtled towards the cracked ceiling.
Qin Xiao's figure flashed by like an elusive afterimage.
A precise chop to the back of the criminal's neck.
The criminal collapsed without even uttering a groan, completely losing consciousness.
The whole process happened in the blink of an eye, less than three seconds.
Before Shen Xingling could even feel a hint of worry, the battle had already come to an abrupt end.
She stared blankly at the man standing in the center of the room, calmly patting the dust off his hands.
That skill... that judgment... that almost supernatural method...
A concerned citizen?
She wouldn't believe a single punctuation mark of this nonsense anymore!
At this moment, inside the huge unfinished building, only Qin Xiao, Shen Xingling, and the woman holding a bloodstained dagger and exuding a murderous aura remained.
The sirens outside the window had completely disappeared at some point, and deathly silence once again enveloped the ruins.
The woman's gaze darted back and forth between Qin Xiao and Shen Xingling, her eyes filled with undisguised vigilance and murderous intent.
The large travel bag, filled with stolen goods, lay quietly on the ground between her and Qin Xiao.
"Drop your weapons! You are surrounded."
Shen Xingling raised her gun, trying to stabilize the precarious situation.
The woman let out a soft chuckle, her voice hoarse yet strangely alluring.
"Surround them? Just the two of you?"
"No." Qin Xiao suddenly intervened, his gaze not falling on the woman, but on the travel bag at her feet. "Just me alone."
"Your target this time is neither cash nor drugs."
"It's a chip, right? The core chip of the latest generation of lithography machines. One of them is worth nine figures on the black market."
The woman's pupils contracted almost imperceptibly in the dim light.
Qin Xiao seemed oblivious and continued in an almost casual tone: "Your two accomplices, one was responsible for negotiating the deal, and the other was responsible for double-crossing them after the deal was completed."
"And you are responsible for 'cleaning up' them all after they've finished fighting amongst themselves."
"What a brilliant series of schemes."
"Unfortunately, your master seems to have forgotten to tell you something."
"Your boss, whom you just killed with your own hands, also had more than one trick up his sleeve."
"What do you mean?" The woman's voice trembled slightly for the first time.
“What I mean is,” Qin Xiao’s gaze suddenly sharpened, locking onto the corpse on the ground like a hawk, “that he also prepared a ‘surprise’ for you.”
He pointed to the still-warm body at the waist: "Besides the firearms of both parties in your transaction, and the firearms you used to create the illusion of infighting, there is a fourth type of weapon at the scene."
"Your leader has a pocket pistol hidden in a concealed spot on his waist."
"I'm preparing to send you on your way after everything has settled down."
Qin Xiao's expression was so resolute that it left no room for doubt, as if he had witnessed the betrayal that had never happened.
The color drained from the woman's face as quickly as the tide receded.
She couldn't help but glance at the corpse of the leader she had killed with a single blow.
The dam of trust can collapse in the blink of an eye.
Even if what Qin Xiao said was just baseless intimidation.
However, once the seed of doubt is planted, it will immediately grow and spread wildly in the heart.
It was that momentary lapse in concentration!
"Bang!"
Shen Xingling's gun roared once more.
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