Black Eats Black

A second later, the door opened, and Wang Nian's obese figure appeared outside.

In a flash, the video feed jerked. Before Lin Yu could even make out what had happened, Wang Nian was already dragged into the room, pinned to the floor, and his mouth was clamped shut.

The camera angle shifted, focusing on Wang Nian and the middle-aged man who had subdued him.

What happened next left even Lin Yu utterly astonished.

Without a single word, the middle-aged man pinning Wang Nian down pulled out a knife and mercilessly stabbed him in the side of his abdomen several times.

Lin Yu was completely dumbfounded.

Hold on a second, bro.

I asked you to pry some information out of him, not slaughter him!

On the screen, Wang Nian was obviously even more shocked and terrified than Lin Yu. Like a pig about to be slaughtered for the New Year, he struggled desperately to fight back. However, all he could do was writhe on the floor, smearing blood all over the ground.

After a few stabs, the middle-aged man released his grip on Wang Nian's mouth, and the fat man immediately started screaming.

However, before he could squeeze even half a syllable out of his throat, his mouth was clamped shut by the middle-aged man again, and the blood-stained knife plunged into his abdomen a few more times.

Seeing this scene, Lin Yu felt his scalp go numb.

Good lord.

I'll never joke about being part of the underworld again!

The middle-aged man didn't say a single word, forcefully making Wang Nian understand exactly how he should behave through his actions alone.

When the middle-aged man removed his hand from Wang Nian's mouth once again, the latter had already learned how to control the volume of his voice.

"Don't kill me!"

Wang Nian covered his bleeding side with his hand, his body trembling uncontrollably. Even the voice squeezing out of his throat was shivering. Without anyone needing to prompt him, he began throwing out bargaining chips to buy his own life.

"Boss."

"I have money. I have money."

"There is six hundred thousand in the safe in my bedroom, and I have a bank card on me with over three hundred thousand more."

"Spare me."

"I beg you."

"As long as you don't kill me, all this money is yours. I promise I won't call the police afterwards."

"I beg you..."

"Don't kill me. I'm willing to do anything..."

In the face of the tempting bargaining chips Wang Nian threw out, no one responded.

Only the person behind the camera let out a chuckle and lazily drawled,

"Wang Nian, let me introduce you to someone."

"The guy stabbing you right now is a fugitive Class-A wanted criminal."

"Do you know what it means to have a Class-A red warrant on your head?"

After posing the question, he didn't even give Wang Nian time to answer before answering his own question,

"It means if he's caught, there's no need for a trial—he can be executed by firing squad on the spot."

"The number of lives he has taken is so high that there's no point in counting anymore. Killing one more won't make a difference to him."

"Gangzi, say hello to him."

The middle-aged man squatting in front of Wang Nian reached out a hand. He grinned, revealing a mouthful of gapped yellow teeth, and smiled as he said,

"Hello."

Wang Nian's face, already somewhat pale from blood loss, turned a few shades whiter. How could he possibly dare to shake hands with this god of death? He hurriedly pleaded for mercy from the man holding the phone, who seemed to be the boss of the group,

"Boss, I beg you. You can have whatever you want, just please let me go. I'm begging you."

The man behind the phone didn't speak. Gangzi, annoyed at being ignored, raised his hand and stabbed Wang Nian's large belly two more times.

As the knife plunged into his flesh, Wang Nian let out a subconscious scream of agony. Once he realized what he had done, he quickly clamped his hands over his mouth to muffle the sound, terrified that offending these ruthless killers again would cost him his life.

He was in immense pain and sheer terror. His facial features were twisted together in extreme fear, and tears streamed down his face.

"Shake his hand."

The voice came from behind the phone, but this time, the lazy drawl was gone.

Gangzi reached out his hand again, holding it in front of Wang Nian.

The fat on Wang Nian's face bunched together, and every crease in his skin was filled with agony.

Fighting through the physical pain, he pressed one elbow against the floor to prop up his heavy body. With a trembling hand, he reached out and grasped Gangzi's blood-soaked hand.

On the screen, the two hands clasped together and shook.

At this moment, Lin Yu, watching from the other side of the screen, finally caught onto the trick.

They were indeed professional.

Whenever the man named Gangzi stabbed with the knife, he would press his thumb against the back of the blade. Each time, only about two fingers' width of the blade's tip actually pierced Wang Nian's flesh.

It looked as though he was going in for the kill with extremely ruthless strikes, but in reality, it wouldn't cause any irreversible or fatal injuries. It just looked terrifying.

Just as Lin Yu figured this out, a text message popped up at the top of the screen.

Z: Master Yu, you can ask your questions now.

Knowing that the man was wearing an earpiece, Lin Yu spoke directly,

"Ask him what his relationship is with that scammer who ran off."

The man holding the phone understood implicitly and asked,

"Tell me, what's your relationship with him?"

The question was deliberately vague, but Wang Nian, whose wits were already scared half to death, didn't dare play dumb in the slightest. In a weak, anxious voice, he replied,

"W-we were in it together."

"But he took those guys and ran off with all the money."

"Not only the money we scammed, but he also swindled over a million from me."

Without needing Lin Yu's prompt, the man holding the phone immediately pressed further,

"Where are they now?"

"I don't know. They sh-should have already gone abroad."

Wang Nian answered weakly.

The man holding the phone for the video feed pondered for a moment before making a demand,

"Tell me exactly what happened."

After saying that, he didn't forget to instruct Gangzi,

"Stop his bleeding. Don't let this fat pig die."

...

...

Through Wang Nian's account, Lin Yu learned the entire sequence of events.

Simply put, a major accident had occurred in N City not long ago, prompting the government to launch a massive sweep. The hidden dangers Wang Nian had left behind by cutting corners on construction were about to blow up in his face, and he could no longer survive in the country.

He was planning to flee abroad to escape prison. Before leaving, having dabbled slightly in the criminal underworld, he teamed up with a group of scammers. They plotted to set a trap using his already hollowed-out domestic asset projects as bait, hoping to score one last massive payout before leaving the country for good.

Things went very smoothly, and they managed to scam a significant amount of investment. However, just as Wang Nian was getting ready to cash out and flee, the group of scammers beat him to the punch and absconded with all the money.

After that, the entire scheme blew up. Before Wang Nian even had the chance to liquidate his assets and run, he was caught by Senior Sister Li and her group.

And that was how things had escalated to the current situation.

Upon learning the full picture, Lin Yu felt that the situation was incredibly thorny.

According to Wang Nian, the scammers who had double-crossed him had likely already fled abroad. Where on earth were they supposed to go to catch them?