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

Late at night, at the Xiao family manor in the capital.

In the luxurious living room, an antique vase worth millions was smashed on the floor, its fragments scattered everywhere, just like Xiao Zhen's shattered mood at this moment.

He glared angrily at Xiao Kuang, who had lost an arm and was pale-faced, his eyes filled with disappointment and rage.

"Useless! Idiot!"

Xiao Zhen kicked over the tea table in front of him, and the fine purple clay teapot rolled to the ground and shattered into pieces.

"A special forces soldier, completely outmaneuvered by a local cop! He even cut off his own arm, claiming it was an accident?! Do you think I'm an idiot?!"

Xiao Kuang lay on the ground, his body trembling with pain and fear. He wanted to explain, but after opening his mouth for a long time, he couldn't utter a single word.

Lin Chen's gaze and that devilish smile haunted him like a nightmare, making him afraid to tell the truth.

Seeing Xiao Kuang's pathetic state, Xiao Zhen's anger intensified.

He had assumed that Lin Chen would hand over the communicator in the monitoring room and then directly apply for an arrest warrant to launch a swift and decisive attack on the Xiao family.

He had even prepared for public relations and disassociation, ready to put forward several scapegoats to take the blame.

However, Lin Chen "accidentally" broke the communicator in front of everyone, and made Xiao Kuang "claim" that his arm was accidentally blown off.

This strange behavior made Xiao Zhen feel an unprecedented unease.

Lin Chen's silence was more terrifying than any threat.

He was like a venomous snake lurking in the shadows, ready to leap out at any moment and in any way, to bite the Xiao family's Achilles' heel.

"Master, what exactly is Lin Chen trying to do?"

One of his trusted confidants asked tentatively, his voice trembling slightly, clearly also frightened by Lin Chen's actions.

"Is he afraid of the Xiao family, and that's why he doesn't dare to hand over the evidence?"

"Afraid?!"

Xiao Zhen suddenly turned around, his eyes flashing with a fierce light.

"He dared to wipe out the Chu family and raid a branch of the Sky Dome Group. Do you think he'd be afraid of us? He's hanging a knife over our heads, making us sleepless and anxious!"

Xiao Zhen gritted his teeth. He knew that Lin Chen wasn't afraid, but had a deeper scheme.

His decision not to pursue legal action means he intends to resolve the issue privately.

Private methods are often more ruthless and thorough than the law.

"Immediately notify Chu Tianxiong of the Sky Dome Group!"

Xiao Zhen slammed his hand on the table and gave the order, his voice filled with a resolute determination.

"Launder all the money in our joint account at UBS! Leave not a single penny behind! Leave no evidence whatsoever!"

That money was the black money that the Xiao family and the Sky Dome Group used to hire assassins on the dark web and to conduct various illegal transactions.

The amount involved is enormous, and if Lin Chen catches him, it will be a fatal blow to the Xiao family and the Sky Dome Group.

Xiao Zhen would rather lose some of the money than compromise its safety.

"Yes, Master!"

The trusted confidant immediately accepted the order and turned to carry it out.

Meanwhile, in the Su family compound, Lin Chen, who was holding Su Qingge as she slept, suddenly heard an alarm in his mind.

[Ding! Detection indicates the Xiao family has initiated a fund transfer; the host has successfully triggered the second phase of the mission.]

Lin Chen suddenly opened his eyes. He could feel Su Qingge's warm breath beside him and her arms tightly wrapped around him.

He gently withdrew his arm, trying not to wake her, then quietly got out of bed and walked to the desk.

He opened his laptop, and the "God-Level Network Tracking Technique" was instantly activated.

On the screen, the Xiao family's enormous sum of illicit money was surging out of the joint account at UBS like a tidal wave, beginning to be rapidly transferred between phantom accounts and offshore companies around the world.

The Xiao family's hacking team used military-grade multi-step encryption technology to try to distribute funds into tens of thousands of ghost accounts around the world, making them untraceable by anyone.

Their operations are extremely professional; every stepping stone and every encryption is designed to completely erase the source and destination of the funds.

However, a cold smile curled at the corner of Lin Chen's mouth.

He had already implanted a tiny Trojan program into the assassin's communicator.

This program is not just a listener, but also an advanced "data bootstrap".

While the Xiao family hacker team was encrypting and setting up jump servers, it was also silently collecting the routing information and encryption algorithms of these jump servers.

Lin Chen's hands moved across the keyboard like afterimages. He didn't need to crack the Xiao family's encryption or track down those fake stepping stones.

He simply deduced the final path of the Xiao family's fund transfer based on the data returned by the Trojan program.

He was like an experienced old fisherman who knew in advance where the fish would gather and then cast an invisible net there.

"Trying to run away?"

Lin Chen sneered, his eyes flashing with a cold light.

He not only perfectly monitored the flow of the Xiao family's funds, but also insidiously set up a "data interception gate" at an offshore node through which the funds would inevitably pass.

This interceptor gate acts like an invisible valve. It doesn't stop the transfer of funds, but it copies all the data the moment the funds flow through and briefly "locks" them at that point.

Just like water flowing through a narrow bottleneck, although it eventually flows through, it will create a temporary congestion at the bottleneck.

This congestion was enough for Lin Chen to complete his plan.

Lin Chen looked at the screen. The huge sum of money was stuck at an offshore node in the Cayman Islands, like a group of fish trapped in a bottle. Although they were still struggling, they could not escape his control.

He shut down the computer, quietly returned to bed, and embraced Su Qingge, who was fast asleep beside him.

"Xiao Zhen, do you think you're safe just because you've transferred the money?"

Lin Chen sneered inwardly.

"You think you can escape my pursuit by cutting off your tail?"

You're wrong.

"You've simply walked right into my trap."