Chapter 425 - 280: Lin Xin Is Here
Lin Qi firmly stopped Liu Xuan, walking right up to her and pulling her away from the safe zone’s control terminal.
"But..." Liu Xuan didn’t want to just sit by helplessly. She tried to say something more.
Lin Qi interrupted her again. "Calm down and let’s see what happens. It’ll be fine."
Seeing the look on his face, Liu Xuan finally fell silent.
She recalled a scene she had witnessed before, and her emotions began to stabilize. The flickering blue light in her left eye dimmed slightly.
...
As the seconds ticked by, the vibrations inside the safe zone grew stronger.
Through his Spiritual Vision, Lin Qi could clearly see the large demolition platform operating steadily.
The alloy wall that had blocked the riot squad was now less than five centimeters thick. A tunnel was about to be cut through.
Liu Weiyi received another call. The voice on the other end was insistent.
"You haven’t caught them yet? We can’t keep the lid on Safe House Number One for much longer. You have to grab them and get out of Red Fruit City now."
Liu Weiyi replied with a hint of frustration, "This is an A-S Class safe house. It’s not that easy to breach. But we’re almost through. The tunnel will be open in five minutes, tops."
The voice on the other end urged, "Hurry up! I just found a conditional command Liu Xinglu planted on the company servers. He and Liu Xingyuan were planning to start a violent internal purge tomorrow—aimed at the old man!"
"It’s not just us who are breaking the rules. Liu Xingyuan and Liu Xinglu are no saints, either!"
"The old man wants us to finish this operation fast, then pull back to Greenfield City and lay low. We’ll make our next move after the new Successor Bill is passed."
Liu Weiyi froze. A moment later, a cold dread washed over him.
Damn it!
’A violent internal purge?’
’And it was supposed to start tomorrow?’
Thank god something unexpected happened today, forcing the Liu Clan’s core members into the safe house. That’s what gave them this chance to act.
And it was all thanks to the old man’s foresight. He’d prepared a backdoor when he planned the hardware layout for the Red Fruit City cyber network.
Otherwise, facing a ruthless purge from the Liu Clan’s leader, they wouldn’t even have had the chance to report him to the Big Business Alliance!
"That old bastard is ruthless! In that case, don’t blame me for what comes next!"
Liu Weiyi viciously spat out a mouthful of saliva that tasted of inhibitors, then commanded, "Final few centimeters! Activate overclock mode! Punch through that tunnel now!"
The speed increased once more!
Inside the safe zone, they could now hear the sounds from outside.
It wasn’t just sound. As the alloy wall crumbled, a network signal finally appeared inside the safe zone.
Red Fruit City’s internal detection grid began to cover the safe zone, and Lin Qi’s Intelligent Brain detected the cyber network signal as well.
The moment the signal appeared, Lin Qi accessed his personal email.
It was empty!
’Lin Xin didn’t send me a message?’
"The network signal is back," Liu Xuan said. "The walls of the safe zone can hold for two more minutes, tops."
"I’m trying to contact my fourth uncle through my personal email."
"It failed to send. It’s not just the villa’s network hardware that’s been hijacked; the hardware in the entire Fortress Road area might have been tampered with."
Liu Xuan had also realized this. Her own attempts to use the network had failed, leading her to the same conclusion: the hardware had been compromised.
’So that’s why I didn’t get an email from Lin Xin.’
’The network signal was a fake.’
’The Liu Clan is certainly well-practiced in these kinds of tactics!’
Opening his inbox, Lin Qi hesitated.
’I have two choices now. One, ask Guang Ling to pass on a message for me. Two, fight my way out after they breach the wall.’
’The first option seems less risky, but I’ve used that trick before. If I have "foresight" every single time, it’s bound to arouse suspicion.’
’If I expose Guang Ling, I feel like I’ll be in even bigger trouble than I am now.’
’As for the second option, the risk is relatively manageable.’
Beside Lin Qi, the light in Liu Xuan’s left prosthetic eye flared again. She turned to him and said, "Lin Qi, Liu Siqi’s goal is the company’s equity. You don’t need to take this risk."
’It sounded like there was a hidden meaning in her words.’
’Take a risk?’
’What does she mean, "take a risk"?’
’Getting captured alongside her?’
’Or the risk of exposing myself by fighting back?’
Lin Qi didn’t have time to ponder it, because in that instant, a figure appeared in his Spiritual Vision, and all his stress vanished.
A seemingly ordinary aircraft appeared a thousand meters from the villa.
And inside that aircraft was none other than Lin Xin!
It wasn’t just Lin Xin. A woman who looked to be in her thirties sat beside her, and Lin Qi found that his Spiritual Vision was completely unable to penetrate her Spiritual Power defenses.
Her Extraordinary Level was higher than his, but based on the feedback from his Spiritual Vision, Lin Qi was certain she was still within the Tier Three category.
She might be at Tier Three Fourth Stage, but she wasn’t Tier Four yet. Nor did she seem to be an Extraordinary who focused on Spiritual Power.
The identity of someone appearing alongside Lin Xin was obvious with just a moment’s thought.
Someone from the Assassin Alliance!
Lin Qi tilted his head, glanced at Liu Xuan’s glowing blue eye, and said, "There’s no need for me to take any risks. If my timing is right, our reinforcements should be here any second."
In the brief moment Lin Qi spoke with Liu Xuan, cracks appeared on the safe zone’s alloy wall. The tunnel was about to be breached.
The cracks formed a circular pattern, drilled by a device resembling a tunnel boring machine. The passage was about a meter in diameter.
In just a few more seconds, the tunnel would be all the way through the wall.
"Just open the main Door. The tunnel they’re cutting is a little narrow. My case won’t fit through."