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

The moment Lin Chen turned around, his entire aura changed completely.

If before, when he was traversing the underground pipe network, he was merely a ghost wandering in the darkness, then now, he is a ferocious beast that has completely locked onto its prey and is ready to bare its fangs.

Without the slightest hesitation, Lin Chen exerted force with his feet, pushing the [God-level Parkour] to its limit.

"Bang!"

The concrete floor he had just stood on had been worn down by his footsteps, leaving a spiderweb-like crack.

Using this terrifying reaction force, Lin Chen's body transformed into a black lightning bolt, hurtling off in a direction completely opposite to the third explosion point.

The sound of the wind in my ears had turned into a sharp whistling.

Deep within the underground pipe network, the terrain is infuriatingly complex.

The intricate network of rusty pipes, the bottomless underground sewage rivers, and the fault-lined inspection wells that could crush someone to pieces at any moment, all appeared to Lin Chen as straight highways.

He didn't need to slow down at all; his [God-level Architectural Mastery] was building a three-dimensional terrain map of the area ahead in his mind in real time.

There's no road ahead?

He leaped into the air, tapping his toes three times on the thick water pipe to the side, defying the laws of physics as he drew an arc in mid-air before landing steadily on the suspended platform on the other side.

five minutes.

In just five minutes, Lin Chen traversed the underground maze that would take an average person half an hour to complete.

Just then, a deafening rumble pierced through the thick walls and reached his ears.

That was the roar of the giant water pump unit running at full power!

Lin Chen stopped abruptly, his gaze fixed on a massive steel floodgate that was ten meters high and two meters thick.

The door is covered with the marks of time and rust, and next to it hangs a warning sign whose writing is so corroded that it is no longer legible.

This is the true heart of Beijing's underground pipe network—the giant emergency water storage hub!

Lin Chen took a deep breath and didn't touch the electronic lock that had long since rusted.

He took a half step back, his right leg muscles tensed instantly, and he concentrated the power of the [Grandmaster-level Fighting Technique] into his heel, kicking hard at the heavy steel floodgate!

"Clang—Boom!"

With a loud crash, the floodgate, weighing several tons, was kicked so hard by Lin Chen that the hinges broke, and the entire door collapsed inward, smashing to the ground and kicking up clouds of dust.

As the dust settled, a breathtakingly grand scene unfolded before Lin Chen.

This is an underground space so vast that it defies description.

The dome is over twenty meters high and is surrounded by smooth, hard concrete walls.

In the very center of the space is a giant artificial lake, the size of several football fields!

At this moment, the water in the lake is churning violently, and high-powered water pumps are frantically pumping water into it, causing the water level to rise visibly.

In the very center of the reservoir stands a solitary control console, connected to the edge by a narrow steel suspension bridge.

On the control panel stood a middle-aged man wearing a gray suit and gold-rimmed glasses.

It was none other than Chen Yuan, the psychology guru who had the entire Beijing police force completely bewildered!

At this moment, Chen Yuan was facing away from the entrance, arms outstretched, like a symphony conductor directing a vast army, immersed in the deafening roar of the water.

At his feet, around the control panel, were densely packed, yellowish-brown blocks.

That's C4 plastic explosive!

At a glance, it weighs at least a ton!

If so many high explosives were detonated in this relatively enclosed underground space, they would not only completely blast through this giant reservoir, but the terrifying shockwave from the explosion, mixed with millions of tons of floodwater, would instantly breach the above-ground strata, turning the entire East Third Ring Road into a vast expanse of water!

"Professor Chen, the acoustics here are really good; it would be a perfect place for your grave."

Lin Chen stepped through the dust and slowly entered the huge space. His voice was not loud, but due to the special acoustic environment, it clearly reached Chen Yuan's ears.

Chen Yuan's absorbed movements suddenly froze.

He turned around abruptly, as if he had seen a ghost.

When he saw Lin Chen standing at the entrance, not a single hair out of place, his face, which was originally filled with arrogance and fanaticism, instantly twisted.

"Lin Chen?!"

Chen Yuan's voice changed, his eyes widened, and his face was full of disbelief.

"What are you doing here?! You should be wandering around the abandoned flood discharge channel in Zone D like a headless fly! How could you possibly have found this place?!"

This was his most meticulously planned and perfect scam!

For this scheme, he even went so far as to abandon his underground base, which he had painstakingly built up over many years, sacrifice all his assassins, set up that sophisticated decoy bomb, and even specially recorded a provocative audio message that was so convincing it was indistinguishable from the real thing!

In his script, Lin Chen should now be desperately searching for the non-existent bomb at the third detonation point, listening to the deafening explosion around him, and watching helplessly as the city is destroyed in regret and powerlessness.

But now, this man was standing right in front of him, alive and well!

"Is it hard to understand?"

Lin Chen didn't rush over. He even leisurely took out a piece of chewing gum from his pocket, put it in his mouth, and slowly walked along the steel suspension bridge toward the control panel while chewing.

"Chen Yuan, do you really think that just because you've read a few psychology books and conducted a few bizarre psychological experiments, you can act like a god who can manipulate people's minds?"

With each step Lin Chen took, the "thump-thump" sound of his leather shoes on the steel bridge surface was like a hammer striking Chen Yuan's taut nerves.

"Your recording was indeed very well disguised, but you're too narcissistic."

Lin Chen stopped five meters away from the control panel, looking at Chen Yuan's slightly twitching face through the mountains of C4 explosives, a mocking smile curling at the corner of his mouth.

"Your micro-expressions, your voice, even the frequency of your breathing, have completely exposed your pathetic vanity."

"You desperately want to see my despair in defeat; you want to prove your superior intelligence by destroying this city."

"So you would never hide in a narrow, dark sewer to press a switch."

"You will definitely choose a place with a wide view, capable of triggering the biggest chain of disasters, and giving you the illusion of a 'God's-eye view'."

Lin Chen blew out a bubble, which popped with a "pop".

"And in the entire underground of the capital, the only stage that can satisfy your perverted desire for control is here."

"You think you understand psychology? You think you can treat everyone like puppets?"

Lin Chen's gaze suddenly turned sharp as a knife, piercing straight into the depths of Chen Yuan's soul.

"In my eyes, you're nothing but a pathetic wretch who's lost in his own fantasies and can't even recognize what kind of trash you are."

These words did not contain a single dirty word.

But like poisoned scalpels, they precisely and cruelly stripped away Chen Yuan's glamorous facade as a "psychology guru," revealing his ugly, wounded, insecure, and arrogant soul.

Chen Yuan's breathing became rapid, and his chest heaved violently.

He stared intently at Lin Chen, his facial muscles twitching wildly with extreme anger.

His pride in his intelligence and his supposedly flawless plan turned into a joke that could be easily exposed in front of this man!

"What do you know! What do you know, you brute who only knows how to use violence!"

Chen Yuan completely broke down, and he suddenly raised his right hand.

He was gripping a black wireless detonator tightly in his hand, his thumb hovering over the bright red button!

"Lin Chen! Since you insist on coming here to die, then I'll grant your wish! This city, and you, will both perish today for my art!"