Chapter 1031: Chapter 36: You Are Now My Hostage
But who could the other party be, and where is Su Zi now? Lin Feng’s face was somewhat grim.
Ning Aoxue saw Lin Feng’s expression and felt even more downcast, nearly unable to hold back her tears.
At this moment, Xue Qingyi, escorting Wang Jiasheng, also took the elevator to the fifth floor and walked over to Lin Feng’s side.
"Lin Feng, you actually left Su Zi and a helpless woman on the fifth floor, are you out of your mind!" Wang Jiasheng sternly accused Lin Feng, "How could you do this! Don’t you know how dangerous Su Zi’s situation is, how many people want to use her as leverage to threaten the Su Family for personal gain? You were so careless! You truly aren’t worthy to protect Su Zi!"
"You say many people want to use Su Zi as leverage against the Su Family?" Lin Feng looked at Wang Jiasheng and asked in a deep voice, "Who would want to do such a thing, and who would dare?!"
"You want to know?" Wang Jiasheng sneered at Lin Feng, then shook his head boastfully, "This is a secret only the top families in China are privy to, why should I tell you?! Besides, what good would it do for you to know? Are you capable of taking on the people audacious enough to kidnap the eldest Miss of the Su Family? Even a hundred of you would only be sent to their deaths!"
"I’ll give you ten seconds to get your thoughts together... if you can’t clarify the current situation within a minute, I’ll pierce your Qi Sea with a needle, turning you into an ordinary person!" Lin Feng took out a thick Silver Needle and displayed it in front of Wang Jiasheng, speaking in a heavy voice. He wasn’t trying to be forceful, but with Su Zi’s kidnapping at stake, he couldn’t afford to overthink it.
"You... bastard!" Wang Jiasheng looked at Lin Feng with a hint of fear, unwilling to gamble his life with Lin Feng. Puncturing the Qi Sea would render all his Inner Strength useless. If he lost his Inner Strength, Wang Jiasheng wasn’t sure he’d have the courage to keep on living. After his mouth twitched a couple of times, he ultimately chose to yield.
"I’m only telling you this to save Su Zi!" Wang Jiasheng said to Lin Feng in a deep voice, "In the entire Imperial City, there aren’t many who dare to touch the eldest Miss of the Su Family, mainly the Lu, Long, Zheng, and my Wang family! But these families are renowned and prestigious. They wouldn’t personally handle such a disreputable act, so they’d usually assign their subordinates and notify external groups... and these so-called outsiders, they’re basically a few major guilds in the Imperial City..."
Lin Feng calmly regarded Wang Jiasheng, knowing that the families Wang Jiasheng was talking about were the ones behind the figures controlling the lifeblood of China. Lin Feng had no desire to get involved in their overt and covert power struggles, and he couldn’t delve too deeply either, or he might get caught up himself. His primary goal was to rescue Su Zi, and the sooner, the better!
"Which major guilds? Name them..." Lin Feng glanced at his phone and said to Wang Jiasheng in a deep voice, "You have ten seconds left..."
Damn... Wang Jiasheng was taken aback, silently cursing, before finally speaking in a deep voice, "Taichi Sect, Xuanyuan Pavilion, Tiandao Gang, only people from these three guilds would dare take on such high-profile jobs!"
"Taichi Sect, Xuanyuan Pavilion, Tiandao Gang..." Lin Feng muttered, repeating Wang Jiasheng’s words with a somewhat gloomy expression. He remembered that not long ago, Xu Yishan had briefed him on these three guilds, which indeed were the orderers of the Imperial City’s underground world. When the Longfeng Martial Hall opened, based on Xu Yishan’s advice, Lin Feng had courteously sent invitations to these guilds, inviting them to send representatives to the ceremony. Naturally, they ignored it completely, and Lin Feng assumed that after that event, he wouldn’t cross paths with these three guilds again. Unexpectedly, they had now become entangled with Su Zi’s affair!
"As a local of the Imperial City, you know the way, don’t you?" Lin Feng glanced at Wang Jiasheng and asked casually.
"Know what way?" Wang Jiasheng asked Lin Feng subconsciously.
"The way to these three guilds’ headquarters..." Lin Feng let out a cold laugh, speaking in a flat tone.
"Going to the headquarters of the three guilds?" Wang Jiasheng was stunned for a moment, then sternly questioned, "What good does that do, do you think you’re Superman? Able to rescue Su Zi from thousands of experts?"
"Then what do you suggest?" Lin Feng glanced at Wang Jiasheng.
"Of course, wait for the kidnappers to make their demands! No matter who they are, if they’ve opted to take a hostage, they must want something. Once they name their price, then we can talk..." Wang Jiasheng spoke confidently, as if his reasoning was flawless.
But Lin Feng interrupted him mid-sentence.
"Shut up!" Lin Feng squinted his eyes and stared at Wang Jiasheng, speaking in a deep voice, "I want them to pay the price tonight!"
Stop bragging, if you were really capable, Su Zi wouldn’t have been taken... Wang Jiasheng looked at Lin Feng, unyielding, thinking to himself. Yet, although he was unconvinced, he knew Lin Feng had much more courage and determination than he did!
Lin Feng walked to the window, glanced at the dozens of SWAT officers below, contemplated for a moment, then said gravely to Wang Jiasheng, "Can you get your men to leave a few submachine guns and magazines behind?"
Hearing Lin Feng’s words, Wang Jiasheng first paused in surprise, then widened his eyes and stared at Lin Feng, "Are you crazy, asking me to do such a thing? This is illegal, I’ll end up in a military court at any moment..."
"How would you be breaking the law..." Lin Feng sneered at Wang Jiasheng, took the handgun from Xue Qingyi’s hand, pointed it at his head, and said calmly, "You’re my hostage now, being forced to do something is quite normal, isn’t it?"
Wang Jiasheng glimpsed at the gun pressed against his forehead and immediately fell silent...
Soon, Director An downstairs received notification from Wang Jiasheng that all the criminals upstairs were subdued and security could be lifted. However, for confidentiality’s sake, they were asking for an armored police car with bulletproof glass, plus escort by three SWAT officers with submachine guns...
Director An didn’t think much of it, since this was a secret mission directed by Wang Jiasheng after all, so he followed Wang Jiasheng’s instructions and arranged for the police car with three SWAT officers and a driver for Wang Jiasheng.
Soon, Director An saw Wang Jiasheng getting in the car with a young man handcuffed to him, along with two young, beautiful women also boarding the car!
It seems the hostages were truly rescued by Colonel Wang! Director An finally breathed a sigh of relief, reassured enough to lead the team to disband.
However, what Director An didn’t expect was that shortly after Wang Jiasheng and his companions boarded the police car, one of the seemingly harmless young women merely raised her hand slightly, flicked a finger, and instantly subdued all four SWAT officers on board, disarming them in the process...
"Wang Jiasheng, you drive, head to Xuanyuan Pavilion first!" Lin Feng said to Wang Jiasheng with a stern face, growing increasingly heavy-hearted.
