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

The main control room is located on the fifth basement level.

A deathly silence.

Zhao Tiansheng, a man who wields immense influence in Beijing's elite circles and is known as "The Earl" in the dark web, is currently slumped in his leather boss's chair, a symbol of power and status, his entire body trembling violently as if being shaken.

His face, which always wore a gentle and refined smile, was now completely drained of color, leaving only a deathly ashen face.

Cold sweat poured out of his forehead, temples, and back, soaking his well-tailored, expensive suit.

Before his eyes, on the dozen or so huge high-definition monitoring screens, was a scene of hell that he would never forget.

In the laboratory, he had spent countless funds and effort to obtain his last trump card from the Dark Moon organization headquarters—eight genetically modified assassins who were invulnerable to blades and bullets and possessed immense strength. They lay scattered in pools of blood, their deaths gruesome.

Right in the center of those eight corpses, the man, the man named Lin Chen, stood there unharmed.

He even calmly dusted off his hands.

Then, he raised his head.

Through the cold camera lens, Zhao Tiansheng felt as if those cold, indifferent eyes, filled with endless killing intent, had pierced through the barrier of space and locked onto him!

monster!

devil!

Zhao Tiansheng's mind went blank. All his pride, confidence, and composure were shattered by those eyes at that moment!

He finally understood what kind of being he had provoked!

"Bang!"

The main control room door, made of special alloy and half a meter thick, was kicked open from the outside with extreme brutality!

No, that wasn't kicking it open.

The entire door, along with its frame, was torn out of the wall by an unimaginable, terrifying force!

With a loud "boom," the heavy alloy door, weighing several tons, slammed heavily onto the floor of the control room like a discarded piece of scrap metal.

Lin Chen's figure, bathed in the pale light of the corridor, slowly walked in step by step.

"Zhao... Zhao Tiansheng..."

Lin Chen had a playful, cat-and-mouse smile on his face.

"No, perhaps I should address you as 'Count'?"

That address of "Earl" completely shattered Zhao Tiansheng's already broken nerves!

"ah--"

He let out a scream that sounded inhuman, sprang up from his chair, and scrambled to the other end of the control room, where there was a final destruction device protected by a red glass dome!

"Lin Chen! Don't come any closer! Don't come any closer!"

Zhao Tiansheng, acting like a madman, ripped open the glass cover and pressed his palm onto a huge red button.

With his other hand, he gripped a remote control tightly and roared at Lin Chen.

"You think you've won?! You're so naive!"

"I've buried a full ten tons of C4 high explosives beneath this bunker! I've initiated the final self-destruct sequence, see? Three minutes left!"

He pointed to the huge electronic screen on the wall, where a bright red countdown, like a death knell, was rapidly ticking.

【02: 59】

【02: 58】

"Hahaha! At worst, we'll die together! To be able to take a monster like you down with me, Zhao Tiansheng, would make my life worthwhile!"

A look of madness and resentment, as if Zhao Tiansheng had reached the end of his rope, appeared on his face.

This is his last trump card, and also his greatest reliance.

He refused to believe that this monster could remain as calm and collected as before, even when faced with the prospect of mutual destruction from ten tons of high explosives!

However, he was disappointed.

Lin Chen's face showed not a trace of fear; on the contrary, his mockery and disdain became even stronger.

"perish together?"

Lin Chen chuckled, shook his head, and looked at him with an expression as if he were an idiot.

"You? You think you're worthy?"

He didn't even look at the remote control, nor did he pay attention to the rapidly ticking countdown.

He only activated [God-level Hearing] and [God-level Mechanical Mastery].

Throughout the journey, he acted decisively and ruthlessly, but his mind never stopped working.

The entire underground fortress's structure, the routing of ventilation ducts, the distribution of cable lines... everything had already been meticulously mapped into an incredibly detailed three-dimensional image in his mind.

Naturally, this also includes the detonation circuit of this self-destruct device.

Under Zhao Tiansheng's gaze, which was filled with surprise and incomprehension, Lin Chen casually walked to a seemingly ordinary alloy wall on the left side of the main control room.

He slowly raised his right fist.

"Do you think that all I did was kill people as I fought my way here?"

The cold voice, like the pronouncement of death, rang in Zhao Tiansheng's ears.

"I just casually helped you take apart this turtle shell that you're so proud of."

As soon as he finished speaking, Lin Chen's fist slammed out!

"boom!"

A loud bang!

He smashed a huge hole in the wall, which was made of special steel plates, with extreme force!

Behind the wall, a dense network of colorful and extremely complex cables was revealed!

And this is precisely the detonation center of the entire self-destruct device!

"No...impossible! How did you know...?"

Zhao Tiansheng's pupils suddenly shrank to the size of pinpoints, his face filled with disbelief and terror.

Lin Chen didn't answer his stupid question at all.

His right hand transformed into a phantom that was difficult to detect with the naked eye!

[Magic Hand Speed]! Activate!

His fingers darted through the thousands of intricate wires with lightning speed, without the slightest hesitation, and with extreme precision, he pinched one of them, a very hidden blue wire, only as thick as a hair, hidden deep within.

Then, give it a gentle tug.

"Clatter".

A very faint, almost inaudible sound.

On the wall, on the huge electronic screen, the bright red countdown that was still jumping rapidly suddenly stopped!

Then, the entire screen flickered twice and went completely black.

The entire control room fell into a deathly silence.

"No...no..."

Zhao Tiansheng looked at the remote control in his hand, which had become useless, and then at the wall that had been smashed open. The madness and resentment on his face receded like the tide, replaced by endless, bone-deep despair!

His last resort, his trump card for mutual destruction, was just... easily destroyed by the other party in a way he couldn't understand at all.

All his schemes and backup plans were like children playing house in front of this man, utterly ridiculous!

"Thump."

Zhao Tiansheng's legs went weak, and he could no longer support his body. The remote control in his hand slipped to the ground, and he collapsed to the ground, closing his eyes in despair.

He knew the game was over.