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

Lin Chen stood steadily on the 30th floor and patted the dust off his hands.

He looked up, his gaze seemingly piercing through the thick floorboards, directly targeting the surveillance camera on the top floor.

The rumbling sound from the bottom of the elevator shaft still echoed throughout the unfinished building, but Lin Chen felt no ripples in his heart.

The ten hostages have been rescued. Next, it's time to meet that arrogant freak.

He didn't choose to continue down the stairs because he knew that there were definitely countless disgusting little traps set up between the 30th and 40th floors.

Lin Chen was too lazy to play house with this kind of sewer rat.

He walked to the edge of the building and glanced at the night outside.

The wind was strong, making his clothes flutter loudly.

Lin Chen took a deep breath, and [God-level Parkour] and [God-level Rock Climbing] were running at full power again.

He leaped out of the window and gripped the exposed concrete cracks in the exterior wall with both hands.

Like a nimble gecko, or a black lightning bolt, Lin Chen quickly climbed up the exterior wall of the unfinished building.

With each exertion, his muscles unleashed terrifying power, pushing his body upwards.

Without any safety ropes, the slightest mistake could result in certain death, but Lin Chen's eyes were filled with only excitement.

Thirty-one floors, thirty-two floors... thirty-nine floors!

When they reached the thirty-ninth floor, Lin Chen stopped.

He flipped over and jumped into the building, then took the silver-white explosion-proof canister from behind him.

The ten liters of special compound acid solution that Jiang Tingxue prepared overnight is stored in this jar.

Lin Chen activated [God-level Architecture Mastery] and scanned the ceiling of the thirty-ninth floor.

Countless blue lines and pressure points intertwined on his retina, and soon he locked onto a region in the very center.

The load-bearing structure there has been clearly modified, and above it is the forty-story building, where the engineers are located.

Lin Chen sneered, opened the nozzle of the explosion-proof canister, and aimed the high-pressure spray gun at the area on the ceiling.

"Hiss hiss hiss..."

With a slight corrosive sound, the special acid was evenly sprayed onto the ceiling, quickly penetrating the cracks in the concrete and reaching the bottom of the steel plate above.

After doing all this, Lin Chen casually tossed the empty can aside, dusted off his clothes, and then turned to walk towards the stairs leading to the fortieth floor.

When Lin Chen stepped onto the fortieth floor, which was the top floor, the sight before him made him raise an eyebrow.

The entire fortieth floor was completely empty, without even a single extra wall.

But right in the center of the floor stood a massive steel fortress!

This is a safe house made entirely of special homogeneous steel plates, with no gaps on any side, except for a piece of incredibly thick bulletproof glass embedded in the front.

Around the steel fortress, four thick main load-bearing columns were densely covered with C4 high explosives. Red indicator lights flashed wildly in the dim light, like the eyes of a demon, sending chills down one's spine.

"Clap clap clap..."

Inside the steel fortress, crisp applause rang out.

Through the bulletproof glass, Lin Chen finally saw the true face of this "engineer".

He was a thin, middle-aged man wearing gold-rimmed glasses.

He sat in a comfortable boss's chair, with a bunch of complicated monitoring equipment and control panels in front of him.

He was gripping a red detonator tightly in his hand.

"Amazing, absolutely amazing!"

The engineer's voice came through the loudspeaker, carrying a morbid fervor and smugness.

"Lin Chen, I have to admit, you really are a genius."

"Your skills and reactions far exceeded my expectations."

"That anti-gravity parkour was simply a miracle of human mechanics!"

Lin Chen stopped, about ten meters away from the steel fortress.

He looked calmly at the engineer inside, a mocking smile playing on his lips.

"What? Not hiding behind the screen like a coward anymore?"

Lin Chen spoke calmly, his voice echoing in the empty building.

"Heh, your reverse psychology won't work on me."

The engineer pushed up his glasses, his expression becoming increasingly ferocious.

"But do you think you've won? You think you're a hero just because you saved those ten pieces of trash?"

He suddenly stood up, walked to the bulletproof glass, and looked down at Lin Chen.

"Look around you! These four load-bearing pillars are strapped with a full two hundred kilograms of C4! If I press this button, the entire building will be reduced to rubble in three seconds! You, me, and those policemen downstairs will all die!"

The engineer burst into wild laughter.

"My safe house is welded shut with special homogeneous steel plates 20 centimeters thick! Even an anti-tank missile couldn't blow it up, let alone you!"

"Lin Chen, are you feeling desperate right now? All your inhuman actions are utterly insignificant in the face of absolute violence!"

Listening to the engineer's hysterical barking, Lin Chen stood quietly in place, his face showing no panic whatsoever, but rather a look of disdain for an idiot.

He slowly reached into his pocket, pulled out a crumpled pack of cigarettes, took one out, and put it in his mouth.

Then he pulled out a lighter and lit it with a "click".

Taking a deep breath, Lin Chen exhaled a perfect smoke ring, the bluish-gray smoke spreading between the two of them.

"Are you finished speaking?"

Lin Chen flicked off the cigarette ash, his tone languid.

"Hurry up and press the button after you're done talking, I'm in a hurry to get back for lunch."

The engineer was stunned.

He stared intently at Lin Chen's face, trying to find a trace of feigned fear.

But there was nothing, absolutely nothing!

Lin Chen's eyes were as calm as a stagnant pool, even carrying a hint of undisguised mockery.

"You think I wouldn't dare press it?!"

The engineer roared in exasperation, his thumb pressed hard on the edge of the red button on the detonator.

"At worst, we'll both die! If I can drag you, this detective, down with me, my art will be completely perfect!"

"Art? You call this art?"

Lin Chen chuckled, as if he had heard the biggest joke in the world.

"You do have some knowledge of architecture; these pulley systems and pseudo-load-bearing walls you've come up with are quite interesting."

"but……"

Lin Chen paused, his eyes suddenly becoming sharp as knives.

"You know absolutely nothing about chemistry."

Upon hearing this, the engineer's heart skipped a beat.

A strange sense of crisis instantly enveloped his entire body.

"What do you mean?"

The engineer asked through gritted teeth.

Lin Chen, with a cigarette between his fingers, pointed to the floorboards beneath his feet.

"Didn't you ever wonder why, if I could solve the puzzles so quickly, it took me a full ten minutes to go from the thirtieth floor to the fortieth floor? Why do you think I was moving so slowly the whole way?"

The engineer's pupils suddenly contracted, and he abruptly looked down at the steel base beneath his feet.

An ominous premonition, like a venomous snake, tightly coiled around his neck.