You went on a blind date and presented an A-level wanted criminal as a meeting gift?

Dead silence.

The roar of the fall and the tearing sound of friction faded away, leaving only the deep silence at the bottom of the elevator shaft.

Lin Chen collapsed, utterly exhausted, onto the cold ceiling of the elevator car. His chest heaved violently, like a fish thrown ashore, greedily inhaling the murky air.

A wave of excruciating pain surged from his hands, violently assaulting his central nervous system.

He glanced down at it.

Those hands could no longer be called hands.

His body was a bloody mess; the skin on his palm was turned inside out, revealing the white finger bones and broken fascia underneath. Fresh blood gushed out, staining the ceiling of the sedan chair beneath him red.

This is the price of defying the laws of physics.

Just then.

"Thump! Thump thump!"

Inside the sedan chair, there came the sound of frantic banging.

"Lin Chen! Lin Chen, what's wrong?!"

Ye Qingcheng's voice came from below, choked with sobs, filled with unprecedented panic and fear, completely devoid of her usual icy queen demeanor.

"Say something! Don't die!!"

Her voice was like a shot of adrenaline, injecting into Lin Chen's almost dissipating consciousness.

Lin Chen took a deep breath, which strained all the muscles in his body, causing him to grimace in pain.

He mustered all his strength and roared something down below.

"He won't die."

"Stay put, the danger isn't over yet."

His voice was hoarse, yet it carried a reassuring calmness.

Upon hearing his voice, Ye Qingcheng inside the sedan chair seemed to have all her strength drained away instantly, collapsing to the ground, tears mixed with dust, smearing her face.

He is still alive.

This thought made her feel even happier than signing a multi-billion dollar contract.

Lin Chen struggled to prop himself up with his elbows and found the emergency exit at the top of the car.

He slammed his shoulder into the rusty cover, smashing it open with a metallic clang, and scrambled out through the maintenance passageway of the elevator shaft.

Almost at the same time he came out, alarms blared throughout the entire hospital!

The piercing buzzing of emergency broadcasts, the screams of the crowd, the sound of running footsteps, and the shouts of SWAT officers mingled together, plunging the entire building into utter chaos.

Lin Chen leaned against the cold wall and pressed the earpiece.

"Su Qingge".

On the other end of the headset came Su Qingge's trembling voice, filled with heavy breathing and sobs.

"Lin Chen?! How are you?!"

"He won't die."

Lin Chen's voice was as cold as ice, and a monstrous killing intent ignited in his deep eyes.

"Seal off all exits, don't let a single fly out."

He paused, and a sinister smile curled at the corners of his mouth, which were pale from the pain.

"Now……"

"It's time to hunt."

Before he finished speaking, his other, still relatively intact hand had already pulled out the old phone with the broken screen that Ye Qingcheng had replaced.

The screen lit up, and slender fingers left afterimages on it.

[God-level hacking skills], activated!

An invisible torrent of data once again forcefully surged into the building's central control system!

This time, it's not a joke.

It's a trial!

next moment.

"Clatter—"

It was as if someone had flipped the world's master switch.

The lights on every floor of St. Mary's Hospital went out in an instant!

The corridors, wards, operating rooms... everything was plunged into absolute darkness where you couldn't see your hand in front of your face!

The chaotic screams reached their peak in the darkness!

Only the emergency indicator lights in the corners and on the ceiling emitted a ghostly green light, adding an eerie and sinister touch to the darkness.

……

The monitoring room is located on the second basement level.

A figure in a doctor's white coat was preparing to slip away silently through the back door.

He is the "Joker".

He orchestrated everything, detonated the cables, and created chaos.

He should have been like a perfect magician, gracefully taking his final bow amidst the gasps of the audience.

However, the smile on his face froze the moment darkness fell.

The dozen or so surveillance screens in front of me all turned black.

All his eyes went blind at that moment!

The stage he meticulously arranged was forcibly usurped in a more brutal and absolute manner.

A premonition of being offended, anger, and unease crept into his heart for the first time.

The hunter became a blind man lost in the forest.

The clown instinctively gripped the silenced Glock pistol at his waist, carefully pushed open the door, and disappeared into the darkness of the corridor.

However, he didn't know.

For another person, this darkness that robbed everyone of light was his true domain.

Lin Chen stood in the corridor on the second basement level and slowly closed his eyes.

[God-level Hearing Ability], now activated!

The whole world, in his perception, had changed.

The noisy voices were filtered out.

Screams and cries were censored.

His brain, like the world's most sophisticated sonar system, began to capture and analyze the most subtle sounds.

One hundred meters away, the rapid heartbeat of a nurse could be heard, a sound born of fear.

Fifty meters away, a special police officer could be heard nervously swallowing.

Thirty meters away, there was the soft, rustling sound of a cockroach crawling through a ventilation duct.

Countless audio information converged and intertwined in his mind, ultimately constructing an incredibly clear and accurate real-time 3D map!

The entire building held no secrets in his ears!

He found it.

The corridor on the second basement level, near the exhaust fan room.

A man whose heart rate was abnormal and whose breathing was as long and deep as that of a hibernating venomous snake.

Lin Chen opened his eyes.

Those eyes held no trace of human emotion, only the coldness of a predator locking onto its prey.

He moved.

No sound was made.

He landed lightly on the ground, blending perfectly into the surrounding chaos.

He moved at high speed through the darkness, rushing forward like a silent ghost.

……

In the corridor on the second basement level, the clown leaned against the wall, holding a gun, and moved forward step by step.

The eerie green light of the emergency lamp cast his shadow on the wall, making it appear to grow longer and shorter, like a menacing demon.

Every nerve in his body was stretched to the limit.

Not right.

It's too quiet.

The surrounding chaos seemed to be isolated by some invisible force.

Here, only his own heartbeat and breathing could be heard.

Sudden.

Right behind him, less than half a meter away.

A soft, amused laugh rang out.

"I've found you."