Chapter 56: Ruthless

BOOM!

Lin Jian forcibly smashed the iron door flying from the inside, completely deforming the entire metal panel. After all, Lin Jian’s current Power was comparable to a mighty Duke bull. And when this Duke bull struck in anger, a mere metal door couldn’t withstand it. Thus, the door was sent flying!

While everyone was still in shock and disbelief, a figure suddenly rolled out of the room! The moment the figure raised his hand, several lightbulbs inside the auto repair shop exploded simultaneously! He had grabbed four or five nuts from the ground. Under the control of his Thought, he accurately shattered the five light sources!

In an instant, the workshop plunged into darkness!

Su Zhiwei didn’t see clearly who the person rolling out was, but when darkness fell, he felt someone approaching him. Immediately after, the very tool he used for "playing poker" suddenly transmitted a suffocating pain! It was a literal pain in the balls, so agonizing that every meridian in his body spasmed. Then, amid this pain and his own wretched screams, he convulsed and passed out. He had fainted from the agony.

At the same time, Master Si, who had been sitting on the sofa, stood up, his heart equally filled with terror. He wondered in horror, "What kind of person can blast an iron door open? Is he a freaking elephant?"

However, before he could react further, a hand suddenly reached out from the darkness, viciously grabbed his ear, and twisted hard!

"AHHH!"

Master Si’s heart-wrenching scream rang out! His ear had actually been torn clean off! But as he screamed, a fist smashed into his nose. Amid the sound of cracking bone, Master Si fell backward, losing consciousness!

And then...

One after another, the underlings fell miserably in the darkness!

Lin Jian showed no mercy. Su Zhiwei’s balls were crushed, Master Si’s ear was ripped off, and the other underlings suffered broken arms, snapped legs, fractured ribs, or snapped fingers!

A minute later, Lin Jian walked out of the workshop carrying Ye Ziqiu in his arms. He hopped into the van and sped away.

After the vehicle had been driving for three or four minutes, Ye Ziqiu suddenly woke up. The moment she regained consciousness, she immediately shrank back. But when she realized she was in a car, with no one beside her and only...

"Lin Jian!"

When she saw clearly that the driver was Lin Jian, she was so thrilled she could have jumped for joy! She wondered, "With Lin Jian driving me, does this mean I’m safe?"

"Old Ye, you’re awake? Does it hurt a lot?" Lin Jian was smoking a Chunghwa cigarette. Since there had actually been half a carton of them in the passenger-side glove compartment, he had unceremoniously confiscated the lot and lit one up.

Ye Ziqiu rubbed the back of her aching neck and asked, "How did we get out? How did you get out? Right, where’s Su Zhiwei? He..."

Lin Jian rolled his eyes at her in the rearview mirror and replied, "I think you’re just incredibly naive. If someone sold you out, you’d probably happily help them count the cash, wouldn’t you?"

"What do you mean?" Ye Ziqiu frowned. "Do you have some sort of misunderstanding about Su Zhiwei? He got beaten up today, and it was brutal!"

"Yeah, his collar was covered in tomato juice. I saw it," Lin Jian sneered. "He set up a trap tonight. He found that guy called Master Si and had you, me, and himself kidnapped and brought here.

"Of course, the beating he took was voluntary. It happened right outside the auto repair shop; he explicitly asked those people to hit him.

"And then... well, basically, he had malicious intentions toward you tonight."

"No way, that’s impossible."

Ye Ziqiu still didn’t believe it. "Is Su Zhiwei really that evil?" she wondered. What she had seen with her own eyes earlier was real. Su Zhiwei had genuinely been injured, genuinely bled, and genuinely taken a beating! "How could Su Zhiwei suddenly be the villain in Lin Jian’s version of events?" she thought.

Thus, she looked at Lin Jian with a furrowed brow. She believed Lin Jian was doing this on purpose because he and Su Zhiwei had bad blood. Therefore, in her eyes, Lin Jian was the one being petty.

SCREECH!

Seeing Ye Ziqiu’s frowning, dissatisfied expression, Lin Jian abruptly pulled the car over to the side of the road. He then gathered the several packs of cigarettes and the wooden box from the passenger seat into his arms! At the same time, he yanked the car keys out of the ignition and chucked them straight into the distant bushes!

"What are you doing!"

Ye Ziqiu was now completely baffled. "What is Lin Jian trying to do?" she wondered.

RATTLE!

Lin Jian slid the back door of the van open. "Get out!"

"What on earth are you doing? Lin Jian, we need to go to the police right now."

"Yes, yes, exactly. I need to call the cops." As she spoke, the gorgeous woman hurriedly pulled out her phone to dial the police.

Lin Jian snatched the phone right out of her hand, then wrapped his arm around her waist and carried her straight out of the van!

"What are you doing?"

Being held by Lin Jian like this instantly made Ye Ziqiu feel embarrassed. As a grown young woman, she was quite sensitive to such things.

Lin Jian ignored her. Instead, he yanked a cloth seat cover off the car seat, wrapped the box in it, and strapped it onto Ye Ziqiu’s back! Ye Ziqiu was left utterly dumbfounded by his series of actions; she truly had no idea what Lin Jian was up to!

After tying the box onto her back, Lin Jian bent over and said, "Get on, I’ll carry you!"

"What are you doing? Why carry me when we have a car?"

"Don’t you think Su Zhiwei is some grand savior of humanity, a saint of ten lifetimes? I’m taking you back to see his true colors, so I don’t end up being the good guy for nothing."

"Then... then why not drive? Besides, we’ve already come so far. By the time you carry me all the way back, they’ll be long gone, won’t they?"

"They won’t. Just get on. I’m taking a shortcut. Hurry up, stop dawdling!"

"I..." Ye Ziqiu opened her mouth, then slowly and gently leaned against Lin Jian’s back!

"Wrap your arms around my neck and hold on tight!" Lin Jian said in exasperation. "If you don’t hold on tight, you’ll fall off in a second. Hurry up, lady, what’s there to be shy about? That night when Su Zhida drugged you, what didn’t I... ahem, I didn’t see anything!"

"Ahhhh! Lin Jian, you brought it up again! You brought it up!" Ye Ziqiu reached out and pinched his waist, squeezing hard.

It was far too humiliating. She just knew that Lin Jian must have seen her naked body back then. It was even highly likely that he was the one who undressed her. It was just that Lin Jian refused to admit it, and she pretended not to know. They couldn’t lay their cards on the table about this matter; if they did, they couldn’t be friends anymore, and things would just be awkward. Now that Lin Jian had explicitly brought it up, she was practically dying of embarrassment!

"Here we go!" Lin Jian wrapped his hands around her thighs, and with a forceful push from his legs, his entire body shot forward!

WHOOSH!

"AHHH!"

Ye Ziqiu suddenly realized that she seemed to be flying! Lin Jian was running—carrying a living, breathing adult on his back—yet he was running so fast it felt like flight! Lin Jian was simply too fast in this moment. She could even hear the wind whistling past her ears. The buildings lining the streets and the trees on both sides passed by in a near blur!

To her shock, Ye Ziqiu noticed that, just like Taishan from the cartoons, every single step and Jumping motion Lin Jian made seemed to cover a distance of six or seven meters!

It was terrifying. "Is Lin Jian a Superman?" she wondered.