After Chuanliu finished stating his conditions, he quietly stood aside, giving Wang Qiao ample time to think.
Wang Qiao pondered for a long time, then nodded hesitantly, "...Okay, I can agree to that."
She quickly added, "But...it can't be now, it would be too conspicuous to take action now."
Chuanliu pressed on, asking, "How long do I have to wait?"
Wang Qiao made her decision and said, "I will send people to do it immediately after the corpses are completely eliminated."
The girl nodded, as if agreeing to her conditions, and withdrew to the doorway without further objection.
"hiss--"
Suddenly, a faint sound came from the quiet meeting room.
Wang Qiao looked at Li Quanyou questioningly, silently asking what the sound was, only to see that Li Quanyou was also looking at her with the same questioning look.
They turned their gaze to Liu Xingxing, but there seemed to be nothing unusual about her.
"If there's nothing else, go back and rest. Quan You, have someone keep an eye on him."
Wang Qiao rubbed her temples, no longer dwelling on the strange sound, and got up to leave.
Three days later, she would have to come up with a reason to order the city to shut off all the lights at night so that she could quietly send the man onto WD's drone on the rooftop. She didn't have time to stand there staring at these people.
Just as Li Quan was about to nod, Liu Xingxing, who was still tied up, suddenly spoke up: "Wait!"
Wang Qiao turned her gaze back to him, "Is there anything else you want to say?"
Liu Xingxing gestured with her chin to her pants pocket and said, "My 'Joker' card is in my pocket, aren't you going to get it?"
Wang Qiao then gestured for Li Quan to get it, but Liu Xingxing stopped her verbally: "I don't want that stinky man touching me."
The woman had no choice but to walk towards him herself. Li Quan was worried, so he carefully followed behind her, keeping a close eye on the man's movements on the stool.
However, as the two of them got closer to the man, the strange sound seemed to become clearer.
A familiar yet unfamiliar scent faintly appeared in the air.
Wang Qiao stopped and took a careful sniff. The familiar feeling flashed through her mind and quickly disappeared.
Just as Wang Qiao's fingers were about to touch Liu Xingxing, the latter suddenly moved.
He stomped his foot hard on the ground, the chair scraping against the floor with a screeching sound as it slid backward until it was right next to the window at the far end of the conference room.
As the chair came to a stop, Liu Xingxing straightened up, her body, which had been bound, was instantly freed from the ropes.
The hemp ropes were scattered all over the ground. His eyes, freed from their restraints, became sharp and determined, locking onto Wang Qiao.
At that moment, Wang Qiao realized that the familiar smell and the strange sound were coming from the man!
Li Quan stepped in front of the woman, shielding Wang Qiao completely with his body.
In the blink of an eye, before the two could react, Liu Xingxing made a surprising move.
He abruptly ripped off the large black coat that had been used to conceal his body, revealing a row of meticulously arranged handmade explosives. They were tightly attached to the man's body, rising and falling with his heavy breathing.
Judging from the size of the explosives, destroying this conference room would be effortless!
Because the clothing was too loose and Liu Xingxing hid it very well, the explosives went unnoticed by anyone until now.
In Liu Xingxing's hand, she was tightly gripping the nearly exhausted fuse.
The fuse was greedily devouring the air, emitting sparks like stars, accompanied by a pungent burning smell and a hissing sound that sent chills down one's spine.
The fuse emitted a spark, a faint smell of burning, and a long hissing sound.
"You... how could you have explosives!" Li Quanyou tried to take a step back, but his legs suddenly went weak and he fell to the ground.
Liu Xingxing kindly answered them, "Don't you remember? You were all there at the time..."
Wuwang District, Auction House, 1kg of explosives!
He's wearing a real one!
Wang Qiao and Li Quan's faces turned deathly pale instantly, and fear surged into their hearts like a tidal wave.
They tried to move their feet and escape the cage that was about to turn to ashes, but Liu Xingxing had already put them in a desperate situation. The very end of the conference room had become the gates of hell from which they could not easily escape.
They were bound by deep-seated fear and despair, watching helplessly as death drew ever closer.
Wang Qiao kept backing away, the shock in her heart still lingering. She managed to squeeze out a single, trembling word: "Why..."
"Don't waste your energy."
Liu Xingxing did not answer Wang Qiao; his words were like cold blades, piercing through the air.
As the fuse pierced his body, a radiant, almost manic smile suddenly bloomed on Liu Xingxing's handsome face.
"You'll never get what belongs to 'The Joker'!"
As Liu Xingxing finished speaking, the fuse was lit, and the fatal line was drawn.
Instantly, sparks flew everywhere, like an angry fire dragon awakening in the darkness, and a deafening roar resounded through the sky.
"Boom——"
The direction of the conference room on the 14th floor seemed to be torn apart by an invisible force. A dazzling light illuminated the entire night sky, only to be engulfed by raging flames. The flames danced wildly, licking every inch of space, turning walls, tables, and chairs to ashes. Sparks flew everywhere, streaking across the night sky like a meteor shower before quickly disappearing into the thick smoke.
The fire spread rapidly, and in no time, almost the entire floor was engulfed in flames. The aftershocks of the explosion continued, and the "Golden Diamond" emitted intermittent groans.
The residents of Plum Blossom City were awakened by the sudden loud noise.
Immediately afterwards, shouts of "Fire! Help!" rang out.
People carried buckets of water up the 14th floor until the fire was completely extinguished, by which time it was already dawn.
In the conference room that had been blown apart, thick black smoke billowed and rose continuously, obscuring the sky and turning the city sky a deep, inky black.
The black smoke, mixed with the smell of burning and acrid dust, was suffocating. Like the breath of a demon, it lingered above the city, unwilling to dissipate, constantly reminding everyone of what had happened on the 14th floor of the main city the previous night.
No one knows exactly what happened, but they found four bodies in the conference room that was most severely burned.
One body was confirmed to belong to "Club A" Wang Qiao, whose features were the most obvious, and her identity was quickly confirmed.
One of them was "Plum Blossom J" Li Quanyou. Before he died, Li Quanyou held Wang Qiao tightly, which resulted in him suffering extremely severe burns.
There are two more bodies. One is almost unrecognizable as human, and the other can only be identified as a woman. Their identities have not yet been determined.
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