Chapter 10

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Lin Bai's heart skipped a beat: "Ah... this..."

Damn, it's all because I was stunned by the goddess's passionate video and didn't even notice the surroundings. It's not his fault; no one could remain calm after seeing their idol in such a situation. Jealousy, envy, and hatred can cloud one's senses, turning even the smartest into a fool, let alone Lin Bai, who wasn't particularly smart to begin with.

The man in the floral shirt glanced at the adjacent monitor: "You little brat, you fixed the hard drive and then peeked at the contents, didn't you?"

Lin Bai's first thought was to deny it, but the monitor still showed a man and a woman in the throes of passion, with moans occasionally coming from the speakers. How could he deny it? He took a half-step back, thinking of running, but then realized: "You can run away from the monk, but not from the temple. This is my home." He extended his hand backward, feeling around on the table behind him, and quietly picked up a hammer... Are the mafia so great? I'll still knock you down with one blow in my own home.

However, before he could swing the hammer, a gun was already pressed against Lin Bai's forehead.

"Damn, you have a gun?" Lin Bai's whole body trembled, and the hammer fell to the ground.

The man in the floral shirt pointed the gun at the computer screen: "Turn that off and hand over the hard drive."

Lin Bai forced a bitter smile. With a gun to his head, what could he do? He wasn't Neo from The Matrix and had no confidence in dodging bullets. He could only obediently close the video window, then remove the external hard drive and place it in the man's hand.

The man in the floral shirt put the hard drive in his pocket and sneered: "This is your own doing, don't blame me. If you had just fixed the hard drive, taken the money, and left, there would have been no problem. But you had to peek at the contents, and now you're dead."

Lin Bai was drenched in sweat. This time, he was really dead. In such situations, people usually get killed to keep them from talking.

Oh, right! Don't be afraid! A sudden idea flashed through his mind. This morning, he had used the "watch" to check the man in the floral shirt, who only had 50 points of evil power. This meant he wasn't a ruthless killer; at least, he hadn't done anything majorly bad. Lin Bai had set a fire in the hotel and easily increased his evil power to 214, showing that 50 points of evil power were nothing. The man in the floral shirt was definitely a new recruit to the mafia, who hadn't done much bad. The organization had given him a gun for the task of extorting Zhang Zhizhi, but he probably hadn't used it yet. Damn, he wasn't even as evil as Lin Bai.

Lin Bai's fear vanished, and he used his Diao Si talent for persistence, saying: "Brother, killing is a serious crime, you'll have to pay with your life. Why not let me go and I promise I won't say a word."

The man in the floral shirt hesitated. If he shot Lin Bai now, he would be dead, but he had never killed anyone before. The organization had given him a gun, but he only had the courage to use it to scare people, not to shoot.

They were at an impasse.

At this moment, the door of the "Jiajia Beauty and Hair Salon" opened, and Brother Hong walked out, adjusting his belt. His expression clearly showed he was still a bit unsatisfied. Lin Bai, with a gun to his head, still checked the time. Brother Hong had stayed for thirteen minutes, which was quite a long time. Jiajia must have kept him longer to help Lin Bai.

Brother Hong walked into the store and was immediately stunned: "Why did you pull out a gun?"

The man in the floral shirt quickly said: "Brother Hong, this kid fixed the hard drive and then peeked at the contents. What should we do?"

Brother Hong was furious: "This kid peeked? Damn, he's asking for it." He also pulled out a gun from his pocket and pointed it at Lin Bai's head.

Lin Bai now felt like a hero in a Hollywood blockbuster, with a gun to his forehead and another to his temple. He was completely limp.

The man in the floral shirt said: "Brother Hong, just shoot him!"

Brother Hong hesitated. To be honest, he didn't have the courage to shoot someone. He was just a low-level leader in the organization, capable of fighting and using a machete, but not of killing. He wiped his sweat and said: "You do it!"

The man in the floral shirt sweated: "Brother Hong, I don't have the courage to shoot."

Brother Hong cursed: "Waste of space, you can't even shoot someone. How do you survive in the mafia?"

The man in the floral shirt cursed in his heart: "You don't have the courage either, so how did you become a leader?" But he didn't dare say it aloud and instead said: "Why don't we take him back and let the boss deal with him?"

Brother Hong was delighted: "Good idea, taking him alive will be a bigger achievement than shooting him."

The man in the floral shirt thought: "What achievement? He's just a witness, not the target. What's the point of taking him alive? Oh well, let the higher-ups deal with him."

They both lowered their voices and threatened Lin Bai: "Come with us."

With two guns pointed at him, could he refuse? Lin Bai forced a bitter smile: "Alright, I'll go with you."

The guns were moved from his head to his back, and Lin Bai thought it was not a good sign. If they took him away, it would be very dangerous. What should he do? If he shouted for help, the female demon might come down to help, but these two might get scared and shoot him. The female demon wouldn't have time to save him. He decided to follow them and look for an opportunity to escape. He took two steps and suddenly noticed a black magic book on the floor, the Devil's Codex he had thrown aside earlier.

"Right! I have the Devil's Codex and the Superman Underwear. If I use these two items well, I might have a chance to escape." Lin Bai pretended to tie his shoelaces, bent down, and put the Devil's Codex in his pocket.

His pocket already contained the Superman Underwear, and now the Devil's Codex made it even more crowded. Since the birth of Superman and the Devil, these two iconic items had never been so close together, intertwined, with the underwear wrapping the codex and the codex wearing the underwear, justice and evil inseparable... Lin Bai had unintentionally set a record, though he didn't know it.

Brother Hong kicked him: "What are you doing? Hurry up!"

Lin Bai said: "My shoelaces are loose, I can't walk." He pretended to tie his shoelaces, then raised his hands and obediently walked out of the store. On the street, Brother Hong and the young man put their guns back in their pockets, pointing them at Lin Bai to keep him from moving. They walked to a corner where an old van was parked.

Brother Hong sat in the driver's seat, and the man in the floral shirt escorted Lin Bai to the back seat.

Lin Bai was desperately thinking of a way to escape. The Superman Underwear would grant him superpowers as soon as he put it on, but he had no justice power, only 40 evil power. Oh, no, he had used the Dark Regeneration spell to fix the hard drive, so it wasn't 40 anymore. He glanced at his watch, which showed 30 evil power and -30 justice power.

Without justice power, the Superman Underwear was just a regular pair of underwear and couldn't save him.

As for the Devil's Codex, he couldn't read it and only knew one spell, Dark Regeneration, which was used to repair items and provided no combat ability. It couldn't save him either.

Lin Bai was as anxious as an ant on a hot pan, his mind in turmoil. No matter how hard he thought, he couldn't come up with a way to escape.

The old van drove out of the main part of Shuangqing City and into the suburbs, then straight into an abandoned factory, which seemed to be an old porcelain factory. The ground was littered with broken porcelain and earthen jars, and occasionally there were large vases, though they were also broken. The kilns still showed signs of past fires.

As the van entered, a man came out to meet them. He clearly wasn't a good person, dressed sloppily with a disheveled hairstyle and a fierce look, obviously a bad guy. He waved to stop the van and shouted: "Little Hong, did you bring the goods? The boss is getting impatient."

"Brother Hong" had become "Little Hong," indicating that this man was of higher rank. Little Hong got out of the van and smiled: "Brother Tie, I brought the goods, it's on the external hard drive." The man was called Brother Tie.

Brother Tie sneered: "The video was taken last night, it should have been delivered this morning. It's already afternoon, what happened?"

Little Hong smiled apologetically: "Sorry... there was a small issue."

"Waste of space!" Brother Tie cursed and said: "Where's the hard drive? Get it out now."

The man in the floral shirt escorted Lin Bai out of the van, and Brother Tie glanced at Lin Bai, curious: "Who's this kid? Why did you bring him?"

Little Hong quickly smiled: "This... ahem... this is a witness. He saw what was on our hard drive and might leak information to the police, so... we brought him."

"Witness? Why not just shoot him?" Brother Tie pulled out a gun from his waist. His actions, expression, and the lack of hesitation in his eyes, the killing intent... Lin Bai thought: "This Brother Tie is a ruthless killer with several lives on his hands, not on Little Hong's level. No wonder Little Hong is now 'Little Hong' in front of him. If he says he'll shoot me, he really will. I'm dead this time."

In a panic, Lin Bai shouted: "Wait, don't kill me! I'm still useful."

Brother Tie sneered: "What use could you have?"

Lin Bai shouted: "I... I'm a computer expert... I can do anything related to computers. You want to use the video to threaten Chen Xi and Zhang Zhizhi, right? You need to send them a clip to threaten them... I can help you edit the video. Also, you need to make threatening calls, and I can use voice-changing software to alter your voice, avoiding police recording and tracking... Don't kill me."

This shout made Brother Tie lower his gun: "Oh, a tech-savvy witness? Editing videos and making voice-changing calls, sounds impressive. You might be useful. Don't kill him for now, let's go see the boss."

Tech-savvy my ass, these are basic computer skills. Lin Bai cursed the mafia's lack of education in his heart but didn't dare say it aloud. He obediently followed the bad guys, thinking of ways to escape as he entered a factory building.