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

The northern suburbs of Beijing.

The night was deep, and even the moonlight was completely obscured by thick clouds.

A black bulletproof Maybach silently pulled up in front of a huge abandoned building.

This is the Red Star Opera House.

More than a decade ago, this place was the most prosperous art center in Beijing. Later, it was completely abandoned due to a fire, and the surrounding area was overgrown with weeds that were half a person tall.

Lin Chen pushed open the car door, his leather shoes making a slight scraping sound as they stepped on the gravel-strewn ground.

He looked up at the dilapidated building in front of him.

The theater's exterior walls were blackened by the fire, and even the main entrance had vanished, leaving it like a gaping maw of an abyss.

[Ding! Intermediate Body Protection Vest (Passive) activated!]

[Ding! God-level Danger Sense activated!]

In Lin Chen's mind, the danger perception radar did not issue a fatal alarm, but it continuously transmitted an extremely oppressive low-frequency vibration.

This indicates that there are no weapons of mass destruction inside, but it is riddled with soft-kill traps targeting the nervous system.

Lin Chen did not bring Su Qingge's special police team with him.

Dealing with a top-tier master of psychological control like Chu Yunzhou, no matter how many ordinary police officers come, they'll just be easy prey.

Once Chu Yunzhou uses the environment to conduct group hypnosis, those police officers with guns will instead become tools for killing each other.

Going to the meeting alone is the safest solution.

Lin Chen, with his hands in his pockets, strode into the dark doors of the theater.

After passing through the dusty and cobweb-covered foyer, Lin Chen arrived at the heart of the theater—the main performance hall.

Pushing open the rickety double door of the private room, the scene before him instantly turned Lin Chen's eyes cold.

Outside, it was a pitch-black, desolate wilderness, but inside this abandoned main hall, the lights were on!

Dozens of high-intensity spotlights shone down from all angles on the second floor, illuminating the center of the stage as if it were daytime.

On the stage, a dozen or so extremely bizarre sculptures were arranged in a staggered manner.

These sculptures are all plaster statues made to life-size, but each statue is in a distorted and extremely inhuman pose.

Some were clutching their necks tightly with both hands, while others had their eyes bulging and were bending backward. Without exception, all of them wore that chilling "clown smile."

And right in the center of these eerie sculptures.

Chu Yunzhou was dressed in a perfectly tailored black tuxedo, his hair neatly combed.

He held a white baton in his hand, his back to Lin Chen, facing the empty audience, making extremely focused symphony conducting gestures.

Upon hearing Lin Chen's footsteps, Chu Yunzhou abruptly stopped holding his baton.

He slowly turned around, a morbid, fanatical smile on his face.

"Mr. Lin, you arrived faster than I expected."

Chu Yunzhou spread his arms wide, making an exaggerated welcoming gesture. "Welcome to my art palace. I heard you cracked my music box? What a great audience member."

Lin Chen walked down the steps from the audience seats, his leather shoes making a "tap, tap" sound on the wooden floor.

His gaze swept around.

With his [God-level Architectural Mastery] and [God-level Insight], Lin Chen saw through the trickery of this hall at a glance.

The old, worn-out speakers around the walls have all been replaced with high-powered, specialized infrasound generators.

The spotlights overhead all had their lampshades modified with high-frequency flashing modules inside.

This is a perfectly closed-loop death force field.

"Treating murder as art, your taste is truly appalling." Lin Chen stopped ten meters away from the stage, his voice flat and devoid of any inflection.

The smile on Chu Yunzhou's face vanished instantly, replaced by a furious outburst.

"What do you know!"

Chu Yunzhou suddenly pointed his baton at Lin Chen, his features contorted with excitement, "You mere mortals have no idea what true transcendence is!"

He pointed to the eerie sculptures around him, his voice shrill: "In the midst of a mundane life, a person will only slowly rot! Only in that moment of extreme fear and extreme pleasure can the soul break free from the shackles of the body and achieve eternal perfection!"

"Look at them! They experienced unparalleled joy before they died, joy that most people can never experience in their entire lives. They are my most perfect creations!"

Chu Yunzhou's eyes were filled with a morbid narcissism and madness.

Lin Chen watched his performance with a cold eye, as if he were watching a clown jumping around.

"Finished talking?" Lin Chen cracked his neck, making a crisp popping sound. "If you're done talking, get ready to hit the road. My wife is waiting for me at home for a midnight snack."

Chu Yunzhou was thoroughly enraged by Lin Chen's completely disregarding attitude.

"Since you've come to me of your own accord, then become the final piece of my magnificent puzzle!"

Chu Yunzhou suddenly raised his hands and snapped his fingers loudly.

"The killing trap has begun!"

"Buzz—!"

As soon as Chu Yunzhou gave the order, dozens of special speakers hidden around the theater instantly unleashed terrifying power.

A high-frequency sound wave, inaudible to the average person but capable of causing intense resonance in the body's internal organs and brain nerves, swept through the entire hall like a tsunami!

The few remaining glass windows at the edge of the hall shattered into countless fragments instantly under the impact of this invisible sound wave!

At the same time, dozens of high-intensity spotlights overhead began flashing wildly at a frequency of hundreds of times per second!

Blinding white light and extreme darkness alternate wildly on the retina, enough to cause any normal person to completely lose their sense of direction within three seconds, falling into extreme dizziness and madness.

Chu Yunzhou stood in the absolutely safe zone of the stage, staring intently in Lin Chen's direction.

He looked forward to seeing Lin Chen kneeling on the ground, clutching his head and screaming in agony, blood flowing from his seven orifices, and his mind completely collapsing.