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

The auction ended abruptly in an extremely humiliating manner. Xiao Zhen practically fled the main table and hid in the second-floor lounge.

The atmosphere in the banquet hall became subtle and awkward, and many guests began to find excuses to leave early, fearing that staying any longer would bring bad luck from the Xiao family.

The banquet entered its final toasting session, but clearly no one was in the mood for clinking glasses anymore.

Lin Chen and Ye Qingcheng remained seated in the corner, as if the uproar that had just stirred up the entire upper class of Beijing had nothing to do with them.

"Feeling better now?"

Lin Chen swirled the champagne in his glass, watching the bubbles rise slowly, and asked Ye Qingcheng beside him with a smile.

"good."

Ye Qingcheng picked up her wine glass and gently clinked it against his, a sly glint in her phoenix eyes.

"It's mainly because my husband gives me good guidance; he spends money more skillfully than others."

"That's right."

Lin Chen accepted the praise without any modesty, but in his heart he wondered if the system would give him some reward for spending 50 billion? Like... another courtyard house?

Just as he was lost in thought, the radars of the [God-level Danger Perception] and the [Sin Buster System] sounded sharp alarms in his mind almost simultaneously!

It wasn't that persistent, dull sense of unease.

It is not a warning, but an extremely sharp, needle-like, and deadly one!

Lin Chen's pupils contracted instantly, his smile remained unchanged, but his eyes turned icy cold.

He subtly pulled Ye Qingcheng behind him, his gaze sweeping across the room like a radar.

A young man in a waiter's uniform was carrying a silver tray and walking toward them with a smile.

Two glasses of freshly poured champagne sat on the tray, the golden liquid reflecting a mesmerizing luster under the light.

The waiter walked with a steady gait and his smile was impeccable, making him look no different from the other hundreds of waiters in the banquet hall.

But under Lin Chen's [god-level insight], every detail of this waiter was magnified infinitely.

His nails were trimmed too neatly, and there was a thin callus on the base of his thumb that only comes from years of holding a knife or gun.

When he walks, he always keeps his center of gravity in his lower body, with his toes slightly turned inward, which is a typical fighting stance.

Most importantly, there were those blood-red numbers above his head.

[Sin Value: 380]

This is a professional assassin!

Lin Chen shifted his gaze from the assassin's face to the two glasses of champagne on his tray.

The derivative ability of [God-level Hearing], [God-level Smell], is instantly activated.

The various perfume scents, food aromas, and the smell of evaporating alcohol in the air... all the other smells were instantly filtered out.

A faint, almost imperceptible, bitter almond-like aroma wafted from the two glasses of champagne.

Cyanide!

Moreover, it's high-purity cyanide, enough to kill a person in seconds!

What a brilliant poisoning scheme!

Xiao Zhen has now revealed his true intentions.

Having lost face at the auction and suffered financial losses in the stock market, they're now going all out, even resorting to poisoning.

Several thoughts flashed through Lin Chen's mind in an instant.

Did someone spill a wine glass?

No, that would only alert them; they definitely have other plans.

Subdued the killer on the spot?

No, that won't work either. This is the Xiao family's home turf, and there are countless people lying in ambush around. If we make a move, we might be falsely accused and framed.

We must turn the tables on them and outmaneuver them!

"Sir, Madam, please have a fresh champagne."

The assassin had already walked up to them, a professional smile on his face, and naturally handed them the tray.

Just as he bent down, Lin Chen's gaze passed over him and fell on another table not far away, where a middle-aged man was having a loud conversation with someone.

Lin Chen recognized the man; he had seen him in the information Su Jianguo had given him. He was the core financial director of the Xiao family and a key figure planted by Tianqiong Group within the Xiao family to launder money.

A brilliant plan instantly took shape in Lin Chen's mind.

"Thanks."

Lin Chen smiled and stood up, reaching out to take the two glasses of wine.

The instant he took the wine glass, he unleashed his [god-level magic speed]!

His movements were so fast that they were impossible to catch with the naked eye, and he didn't even make a sound.

To outsiders, it was just a simple gesture of accepting the cup.

But in reality, within a fraction of a second, he had already replaced the two glasses of poisoned wine with two other clean glasses of champagne on the tray.

Then, he slightly turned his body to block everyone's view, and with incredible speed, he secretly switched one of the glasses of poisoned wine with the glass in front of the financial director on the next table!

The entire process was smooth and lightning fast; even the highest resolution slow-motion footage couldn't find a single flaw.

"Lin Chen, let me toast you!"

An untimely voice rang out. Su Ming, the collateral descendant of the Su family who had provoked Lin Chen at the door earlier, walked over with a wine glass in hand, a gloating smile on his face.

He clearly had no idea what had happened at the auction, and only assumed that Lin Chen had gotten in because of a woman, so he wanted to come over and kick him while he was down.

"I hope you live a long life in the capital."

He said it with a double meaning.

Lin Chen looked at this idiot and a cold smile appeared on his lips.

He raised the clean glass of champagne he had just taken from the assassin's tray and said with a half-smile.

"Alright, let's drink together."

"Cheers!"

Su Ming clinked glasses with Lin Chen triumphantly, then drank it all in one gulp.

Lin Chen also took a symbolic sip.

Almost at the same time, on the other side of the banquet hall, the Xiao family's financial director, who was talking loudly, also picked up the glass of poisoned wine in front of him, clinked glasses with his friends, and then took a big gulp.

Time seemed to stand still at that moment.

one second.

two seconds.

Five seconds.

……

"Well……"

A muffled groan of pain suddenly shattered the tranquility of the banquet hall.

It wasn't Lin Chen, nor that idiot from the Su family.

It's the financial director of the Xiao family!

He suddenly clutched his throat, his face contorted instantly, his eyes bulged, and his complexion visibly changed from rosy to bluish-purple.

"ah--"

He let out a scream that was not human, fell backward, his body convulsed violently on the ground, and a large amount of white foam gushed from his mouth.

This turn of events happened so fast that everyone was stunned.

In just a few seconds, the finance director, who had been chatting and laughing just a second ago, suddenly stiffened, his pupils dilated, and he completely lost his vital signs.

"Ah!!! Someone's dead!"

A scream pierced the sky, and the entire banquet hall instantly erupted in chaos.

The guests scattered in panic, overturning tables and chairs, shattering cups and plates, creating a chaotic scene.

Just then, the door on the second floor was suddenly pushed open, and Xiao Zhen rushed down with a large group of security guards.

He ignored the dead CFO, pointed at Lin Chen in the crowd who looked "astonished," and roared fiercely:

"Lin Chen! How dare you commit murder in public at my Xiao family's banquet, poisoning one of my people!"

"Security! Arrest him! Dead or alive!"