When Lin Yu arrived at Yongsheng Road with Pockface, Wang Shuo and his men had just arrived as well.
Under the moonlight, a large, dense crowd of people followed closely behind him.
In the silent night, the chaotic and hurried footsteps of the crowd seemed to step directly on one's heart, giving off an overwhelming sense of pressure.
But for Lin Yu, this sense of pressure transformed into a sense of security.
An absolute, one hundred percent sense of security!
"Master Yu."
Wang Shuo walked up to Lin Yu, stopped in his tracks, and bowed his head respectfully as he greeted him.
Behind Wang Shuo, a group of roughly twenty or thirty men dressed in black also stopped and shouted in unison.
"Master Yu!"
"Shh, shh!"
Lin Yu hurriedly raised a finger to his lips, making a shushing gesture.
Good grief, why don't you yell a bit louder and wake up the sun while you're at it?
Once the crowd quieted down, Lin Yu waved Wang Shuo over.
Wang Shuo took two steps forward to Lin Yu's side. Lin Yu raised an arm to put it around his shoulder and lowered his voice, saying:
"I've got all the specific details figured out."
"Here's the situation: Tao Yaoyao is currently in that abandoned factory across the bridge. Aside from Tao Yaoyao and Hu Hao, there are four other guys guarding the place."
"In a bit, we'll..."
"..."
???
Three question marks popped up over Lin Yu's head.
Wang Shuo, what is wrong with you?
I'm trying to lay out our battle plan here!
Can you focus a little and stop looking around?
And why do you keep staring at this damn Pockface?
Is there a flower on his face or something?
Just as Lin Yu was about to tell Wang Shuo to pay attention, Wang Shuo suddenly raised his hand and delivered a fierce slap to the back of Pockface's head.
"Smack!"
With a dull thud, Pockface clutched his head and repeatedly begged for mercy:
"Brother Shuo, I didn't know..."
"Fuck you!"
Wang Shuo cursed furiously, stepped forward, and kicked Pockface to the ground, following up with a flurry of vicious kicks.
Watching this scene unfold, Lin Yu was a bit stunned, but not completely clueless. Based on Pockface's unfinished sentence, Lin Yu could vaguely deduce a few things.
Could it be that the people that idiot Hu Hao hired are from the Black Blood Gang?
Watching Wang Shuo violently kick Pockface, Lin Yu's expression became complicated.
This...
This...
Is really leaving me speechless.
Wang Shuo was clearly infuriated by this idiot Pockface, beating him for quite a while without showing any signs of stopping.
Seeing that Pockface was beaten so badly he could barely lift his arms, Lin Yu hurriedly stepped forward and pulled Wang Shuo back.
"Alright, alright."
"Don't beat him to death."
"What exactly is going on?"
Restrained by Lin Yu, Wang Shuo finally stopped beating Pockface and turned to Lin Yu with an apologetic look.
"Master Yu, I am truly sorry."
"This guy used to be my subordinate. Later, because he had sticky fingers, I kicked him out."
"I never expected him to cause you such huge trouble..."
Lin Yu waved his hand, too lazy to listen to their gang's internal affairs, and turned to ask about the truly important matter.
"You said he was your subordinate. Then who are the guys inside guarding Tao Yaoyao?"
"Are they your subordinates too?"
Naturally, Wang Shuo didn't know who was inside, but his mind worked fast. He stepped forward, kicked Pockface again, and cursed angrily:
"You animal!"
"Didn't you hear Master Yu's question?"
"Who's inside?!"
Pockface lay on the ground and said weakly, his breath as thin as a thread:
"It's Dahei and his guys..."
Hearing this, Wang Shuo's face darkened even more. His black eyes glared fixedly at Pockface on the ground, looking as if he wanted to eat him alive.
"You know this Dahei too?"
Seeing Wang Shuo's murderous expression, Lin Yu already had a rough answer in his heart.
It seemed to take Wang Shuo a great deal of effort to tear his murderous gaze away from Pockface.
When he turned to face Lin Yu, his face was once again filled with guilt as he whispered:
"I know him."
"Dahei and he were both my subordinates before. They, along with a few others, were in charge of an arcade."
"Later, when checking the accounts, we found that the numbers for their arcade didn't add up. After an investigation, we discovered they were stealing casino chips and tampering with the machines to siphon off money with outsiders."
"Afterward, I had my men beat them up, recovered the money, and told them to get lost."
"I never thought they would end up causing such huge trouble for you, Master Yu..."
"Alright, alright."
Lin Yu waved his hand, not wanting to hear any more.
"If that's the case, will the people inside listen to you?"
Wang Shuo nodded and said with certainty:
"Yes."
"Good."
"Then let's hurry up and go save her."
Lin Yu waved his hand with a look of disdain, eager to get this whole mess sorted out quickly.
Wang Shuo still wanted to drag up the bloodied Pockface to lead the way.
Lin Yu quickly told him to forget it, stating that he knew the way.
Leading the massive crowd of men, Lin Yu walked toward the abandoned factory at the bridgehead.
Just as they were about to reach the factory entrance, Lin Yu raised a hand, signaling them to hold back for a moment.
Lin Yu was afraid that in the event Tao Yaoyao had already been...
At the very least, he didn't want so many people to see it.
Lin Yu walked into the abandoned factory alone.
This abandoned factory was very large but extremely empty. Aside from a thin layer of dust on the floor, there was almost nothing inside.
Lin Yu spotted Hu Hao and the others at a glance. Tao Yaoyao was tied to a dilapidated wooden chair, with ropes wrapped around her body loop after loop.
Fortunately, the ropes were tied over her clothes. From a rough glance, her clothes were perfectly intact.
Tao Yaoyao's expression was relatively calm, though she looked a bit exhausted. She should be fine.
close your eyes and open them again, only to find yourself transmigrated into the role of a villainous male supporting character. Readers familiar with urban wish-fulfillment novels know that it is only through the relentless antics of the villainous male supporting character that the plot between the male and female leads can progress. As the villainous male supporting character, Long Aotian not only has to bully the female lead, harass the second female lead, and flirt with the third female lead, but he also has to go all out to antagonize the male lead. In the end, when his body is discovered, he is still clutching half a moldy fried dough stick in his hand. Fully aware of the plot, Long Aotian is determined to change his fate, starting with the female lead! In the beginning, the female lead lacks confidence: "Big brother, I hope I didn't scare you?" In the middle, the female lead treads carefully: "Brother Long, please don't hit me, okay?" Later on, the female lead becomes coquettishly clingy: "Aotian, it's time to pay the 'public grain' tonight." Long Aotian's legs go weak, and he feels like crying: "I taught you to be thick-skinned, not shameless!"
ive and Ruthless] Before his transmigration, Ye Xuan was playing a game called "Severing Emotions to Attain the Dao." The game's core wasn't about leveling up by fighting monsters, but about conquering various "bad women" with wicked personalities and cold, fickle natures. There was only one method to conquer them: stay unwaveringly by their side, then die at a critical moment, driving them to madness after losing the protagonist. The higher their level of regret, the higher the player's score. To dominate the server, Ye Xuan conquered all the bad women. In the early stages, he showered them with boundless tenderness, only to choose to sacrifice himself for them later, making them weep bitterly and drown in regret. Among them were: Xia Lengyue, the unfaithful immortal wife who chased after powerful men and discarded her husband like trash. Ye Qingcheng, the Demonic Venerable of the Joyous Union Sect, who appeared pure and innocent but was, in reality, promiscuous. Wu Lingxiao, the Empress of the Great Xia Dynasty, who lusted after men and loved maintaining a harem. Bai Qiangu of the Endless Demonic Sect: a bloodthirsty mass murderer. However, when the protagonist transmigrated into the game world, he made a horrifying discovery. Eight hundred years had already passed. The bad women he had conquered had now each become deities and revered ancestors. Faced with the endless stream of toxic women coming for him, Ye Xuan could only rely on his god-tier acting skills to carve a path of survival through this world of treacherous women.
transmigrates into the world as the sect master of the Heavenly Yan Sect, which is on the verge of being wiped out. He binds a system that grants him cultivation power based on the number of disciples he has: for each disciple, he automatically gains a year's worth of cultivation every single day! Take one disciple: every day he gains 1 year of cultivation power. While others struggle through a year of bitter training, he gets the same just by sleeping through a single night. Take ten disciples: every day he gains 10 years of cultivation power. Foundation Establishment, Core Formation, Nascent Soul—he breezes through all bottlenecks without lifting a finger. Take one hundred disciples: every day he gains 100 years of cultivation power. Even a Soul Transformation Venerable before him can’t survive a single blow. Take ten thousand disciples: every day he gains 10,000 years of cultivation power! With a wave of his hand, he topples empires. With a single step, he crushes the sacred grounds of the universe. ... While others fight tooth and nail for secret techniques, Lin Yan casually hands out Nascent Soul-level cultivation manuals as beginner textbooks. While others strain to find talented recruits, Lin Yan opens his doors to anyone—so long as they’re human. In just three short years, the Heavenly Yan Sect went from a backwater sect made up of three crumbling huts to a sacred land that every cultivator under heaven would kill to enter. ... One day, otherworldly demon gods invade, with a million demon soldiers pressing down upon the realm. Lin Yan, yawning, rises from his lounge chair and glances at the system panel: [Current Disciples: 1.28 million] [Daily Cultivation Increase: 1.28 million years] He waves his hand casually, and the countless demon soldiers are reduced to ashes in an instant. “So noisy… interrupting my fishing.”
rowess are unmatched, commanding a million-strong army! Yet, the Emperor wants to depose him for the sake of a false prince? Hold on, are you throwing me into some female-oriented romance plot? How can I tolerate this? With a grand wave of his hand—the Nine Clan Extraction Technique! Slander the Emperor? Very well, all of you shall die! ... The False Prince: "Although I am not the biological son, Father and Mother love me more. The throne should be mine!" The Female Lead: "Qin Xiao, you are the Emperor, and I am a commoner. If you wish to marry me, you must abdicate. Otherwise, you will never have me!" The Empress: "After we divorce, you must give me half the empire!" The Transmigrator Consort: "You worthless Emperor, why should I kneel to you? All men are equal—I advise you to be kind!" The Great General: "The enemy general is my childhood sweetheart. For her sake, I willingly abandon the frontier defenses!" The Retired Emperor: "Although Yu'er was adopted, I prefer him. Qin Xiao, you should abdicate and let him become Emperor!" ... Very well! So this is how you want to play? Facing this twisted world of female-oriented tropes, Qin Xiao grins and raises his hand to unleash—the Nine Clan Extraction Technique! I am the Emperor. Why would I bother reasoning with you? Seal the gates! Leave none alive!
