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

The icy seawater, ankle-deep, flowed slowly through the chaotic core control room.

The burnt-out server was still emitting blue smoke and a hissing wail.

The broken cable protruded from the water, occasionally bursting into a cluster of dazzling electric sparks, illuminating the entire space with flickering light.

Lin Chen was soaked to the bone, water droplets dripping from his dark hair.

He walked step by step through the shards of glass and fragments of alloy scattered on the ground into the ruins he had created with his own hands.

His footsteps were light, yet they struck the hearts of those in the control room like a heavy hammer.

In front of the console.

A man in a black tuxedo had his back to him.

Even in dire straits, the other person maintained a morbid, deliberate elegance.

In the corner of the room, there was a fat man curled up in a ball.

He covered his head with his hands, his body trembling as if electrified, and suppressed sobs came from his throat; he was clearly a hostage who was terrified.

Noticing that Lin Chen's footsteps had stopped, the man in the tuxedo slowly turned around.

That pale face bore Jack's likeness.

But at this moment, his signature smile was distorted, and his eyes revealed undisguised horror.

He looked at Lin Chen as if he were looking at a monster that had crawled out of the depths of hell.

After a moment of deathly silence, Jack forced out a smile that looked worse than crying, and even raised his hand to mechanically clap twice.

"Lin Chen".

"You're not human."

His voice was dry, with a slight tremor and crack.

"You're a complete madman."

Before he could finish speaking, Jack suddenly raised his right hand.

He was holding a scarlet remote-controlled detonator in his palm.

My thumb hovered over the huge button in the very center.

His eyes instantly turned crazed and ferocious, like a trapped beast struggling.

"I admit defeat."

"But that doesn't mean you've won!"

"With just a gentle press, the spare bombs buried throughout Miracle Island will detonate instantly!"

"The 30,000 people in the square, and all those police officers, will be buried with this grand magic show!"

He stared intently at Lin Chen and roared, enunciating each word clearly.

"You dare move again?"

The temperature in the air seemed to drop to freezing point at that moment.

The power to destroy everything seemed to be in the hands of this madman's every whim.

however.

Faced with this insane threat of mutual destruction, Lin Chen's face remained completely calm.

He didn't even bother to look at Jack and the detonator in his hand.

"puff."

A very soft sneer escaped from Lin Chen's lips.

That laughter was filled with extreme mockery and disdain.

It's as if you're watching an ant struggling to lift a single grain of rice, clamoring to smash the entire sky.

In Jack's utterly astonished gaze.

Lin Chen suddenly turned around.

He didn't even bother to glance at the scapegoat holding the remote control again.

The next moment, Lin Chen moved.

The puddles beneath their feet burst open instantly, creating a violent spray of water.

His figure left a blurry afterimage in the air as he lunged straight at the trembling fat hostage in the corner!

The fat man seemed stunned by the sudden turn of events; he had just raised his head, his face still wet with tears of terror.

A large, iron-like hand had already gripped his thick neck with lightning speed.

Lin Chen's right arm muscles bulged instantly.

One-arm power!

"Well!"

The fat man, weighing over 200 pounds, was lifted off the ground by him as if he were a chick.

His legs kicked haphazardly in mid-air, creating a series of splashing sounds.

This earth-shattering scene left "Jack," who was holding the detonator, completely petrified.

The crazed expression on his face froze instantly, leaving only a blank look on his face.

Lin Chen ignored the stand-in.

He lifted the struggling fat man with one hand and brought him up in front of him.

Those deep eyes were locked onto the other person's pupils.

[Master-level micro-expression analysis], fully powered on.

Lin Chen looked at the fat face that had turned a liverish color due to lack of oxygen, and spoke in a chilling tone.

"Jack".

"Your disguise skills have indeed reached their pinnacle."

"It can not only change one's appearance, but also disguise one's body shape and bone structure. It's amazing."

The fat man, who was being held in his hand, had his pupils contract violently, and his struggling movements suddenly stopped.

Lin Chen slowly applied force with his fingertips, and his knuckles made a slight cracking sound.

"pity."

"When you see me through the surveillance camera in the corner, I smash that 10-centimeter-thick special tempered glass with my bare hands."

"Your pupils contracted instinctively for 0.1 seconds due to extreme fear."

A cold smile curled at the corners of Lin Chen's mouth.

"How could an ordinary, terrified hostage understand the value of that piece of glass?"

"How could he possibly have a more intense fear reaction to a broken piece of glass than to witnessing a murder?"

"That fear was not the fear of death."

"It's the fear of a collapsing faith that arises when one's most prized possessions, one's strongest defenses, are violently crushed!"

boom!

These words struck the fat man like a thunderbolt.

The pretense in his eyes completely vanished, replaced by an abyss called "despair".

It turns out that the person holding the remote control was just a masked assassin, deeply hypnotized and ready to die at any moment.

The person in front of you, disguised as an obese hostage, is actually the real international thief, "The Magician" Jack!

His supposedly foolproof escape plan proved as fragile as a thin sheet of paper in the face of Lin Chen's all-seeing gaze.

He never intended to perish together with the 100,000 people on the island.

His so-called art and performances are merely attempts to satisfy his morbid desire for control.

Deep down, he was more afraid of death than anyone else!