Chapter 6

Lu Xin clenched his fists, ready to rush in and beat up the two guys immediately. However, when he saw Liu Xinmeng, Li Li's wife, walking gracefully towards him, he instantly calmed down.

Rushing in to beat them up now, without considering that one person might not be able to handle two, and even if he could, beating them up and claiming they tried to harm him, would not be believed given his current status. He might even be fired from the company, wasting Jiang Xueqing's efforts!

Impulsiveness is the devil. Now that he has the superpower to control metal, he should use it wisely to foil their plots and find the right opportunity to take revenge, rather than acting on a momentary impulse.

There are many ways to take revenge. For example, seducing Li Li's charming new wife and making him wear a green hat would be better than starting a fight without a sure win.

In this moment, Lu Xin thought it through. Taking advantage of Liu Xinmeng's lowered head as she walked, he turned and quickly walked away.

He had not taken a few steps when he heard the door behind him creak open, and Li Qiming came out.

Lu Xin had not yet figured out how to take revenge on Li Qiming without making it obvious, so he pulled his safety helmet down to cover his eyes.

Li Qiming had obtained a master's degree from a wild university in the UK and returned to China, boasting of being a returnee. After becoming the factory manager of the special alloy materials plant, he became even more arrogant and condescending. He walked past Lu Xin with his nose in the air, completely ignoring him.

Lu Xin originally wanted to find a mature opportunity to take revenge on Li Qiming, but when he lowered his head, he saw a long, thin needle on the ground, which must have been dropped by a nurse when she was disposing of it.

Seeing the thin needle, Lu Xin sneered inwardly. "Li Qiming, I didn't want to make you suffer today, but this needle is too perfect. I have to give it a chance."

Lu Xin focused on the thin needle on the ground, using his mental power to control it. He initially wanted to make the needle stand up and place it under Li Qiming's foot, but Li Qiming was wearing iron-soled leather boots. If he used the needle like a nail, it would break when Li Qiming stepped on it, doing no harm.

So, he decided to mimic a nurse's injection and stab Li Qiming's ankle, piercing it deeply to make him a cripple.

Lu Xin knew he could use his mental power to move the needle to Li Qiming's ankle, but whether it could pierce through was uncertain. He could only try his best.

Lu Xin concentrated all his mental power, staring at the thin needle and silently urging it to "pierce through with all your might." The needle, gleaming coldly, appeared on Li Qiming's ankle and stabbed in forcefully, as if held by a strong male nurse.

The needle entered from the back of the ankle and came out from the front, creating a small hole that gushed blood.

Li Qiming screamed in pain, "It hurts so much!" He fell to the ground, clutching his ankle and howling.

Li Qiming was a well-known rich kid in the Sanjiang Group, and everyone knew he was the son of the executive vice president, Li Zhonggang. Seeing him injured, several doctors and nurses hurried over to help him up.

Li Qiming did not realize that someone was behind his injury. He thought the hospital's needle placement was faulty and had stabbed his ankle, so he kept cursing the hospital's poor management and calling the staff useless.

The doctors and nurses who were helping him were so angry that they wanted to throw him on the ground, but because his father was the executive vice president of the group, they had to smile and apologize, promising compensation.

Li Qiming only stopped cursing when he heard about the compensation.

After successfully achieving his goal, Lu Xin felt a bit dizzy and mentally drained. He realized that controlling metal to attack was much more energy-consuming than simply moving it.

Previously, when he moved the nail to Li Li's foot and then to his buttocks, it was effortless and did not cause any dizziness. Now, controlling a much lighter needle, he felt a significant mental drain.

Lu Xin estimated that controlling metal to attack required at least ten times more mental energy than simply moving it, though this was just a guess that needed further testing.

Taking advantage of Li Qiming's commotion, Lu Xin lowered his head and quickly left the hospital.

Outside the hospital gate, he suddenly realized the flaw in his actions. If Li Qiming were smart enough to check the hospital's surveillance, he could see that Lu Xin was behind him and deduce his role in the injuries. Fortunately, Li Qiming was not that smart and blamed the hospital, so Lu Xin was not exposed.

Thinking about this, Lu Xin broke out in a cold sweat. As a commoner, he did not want to rely on Jiang Xueqing or have any other support. To deal with Li Qiming and Li Li and establish himself in the Sanjiang Group, he had to be cautious. If he were caught, he would be in deep trouble.

However, caution aside, he still needed to take revenge and deal with those who deserved it, just with more careful methods.

Lu Xin knew he needed to verify the strength of his metal-controlling superpower. He was eager and ran back to the company dormitory.

The Sanjiang Group had built a large single apartment building to improve the living conditions of outstanding talents, with over a thousand rooms for unmarried university graduates, one room per person. Although Lu Xin was assigned to the maintenance class, he was still an unmarried university graduate and was given a room according to company regulations.

He first made a bowl of instant noodles to fill his stomach, then took off his dirty work clothes and put them in a basin. The apartment provided a bed, a desk, and a water heater but no washing machine, so Lu Xin had to wash them by hand.

When he first graduated, he could not find a job. Thanks to his crush of four years, Jiang Xueqing, who introduced him to the Sanjiang Group, he worked as a design engineer in the alloy materials division, with a comfortable and well-paid job, starting at 4,000 yuan. However, after Li Qiming's sabotage, he was demoted to the maintenance class, earning only 2,000 yuan, which, after deductions, left him with about 1,500 yuan. He sent 1,000 yuan to his family and kept 500 yuan for himself, so he could not afford a washing machine and had to kneel and scrub.

Now that Lu Xin had found the culprit behind his demotion, he cursed Li Qiming while scrubbing his dirty work clothes: "Bastard, you've made me suffer so much. I'll use a nail to pierce your ass and make you a eunuch!"

Lu Xin had never found the right opportunity or the means to take revenge on Li Qiming. Now, with his metal-controlling power, it was easy to do so in a high-rise building. Stabbing Li Qiming's ankle with a needle at the hospital was just a prelude. More exciting revenge methods would be used on Li Qiming in the future.