"Mr. Fang, won't you see me at this final moment?" Lin Xiao Tian said mockingly.
Fang Wen Hua, on the other end of the line, chuckled.
He knew Lin Xiao Tian was taunting him, but he didn't care.
He was too cautious.
He wouldn't show himself easily until Lin Xiao Tian was dead.
"Xiao Tian, if there's a chance, I'll come and see your corpse myself."
Lin Xiao Tian smiled.
After a moment of laughter, he stopped.
"I truly regret ever believing you."
"Xiao Tian, I didn't want this either. If you weren't of the Lin family bloodline, I would have let you go."
"Is that so? If I weren't a Lin, you would have spared me? What about Li De Ping then?" Lin Xiao Tian retorted.
Fang Wen Hua was silent for a while on the other end of the line. After a moment, he sighed.
"You're about to die, so I won't lie to you. The truth is, I never intended for you to live from the very beginning."
"Why?" Lin Xiao Tian demanded.
"Why?" Fang Wen Hua chuckled sinisterly on the other end, "Why do you think Cao Yun Tian sent people to your home to demand debt back then?"
Lin Xiao Tian froze.
From Cao Yun Tian's time?
Cao Yun Tian's target was Qin Yu Xiang, could it be...
"Heh heh, I'll tell you the truth. I was the one who wanted to get Qin Yu Xiang. The moment Li Da Zhu brought him over to borrow money, I took a liking to her. Truly exquisite, that figure... tsk tsk..."
Even over the phone, Lin Xiao Tian could sense the lewd expression on Fang Wen Hua's face.
Lin Xiao Tian gritted his teeth.
He really hadn't expected this.
"Don't worry, once I control the Lin family, I'll take good care of Qin Yu Xiang for you."
"Based on what?"
Lin Xiao Tian forced himself to calm down, pondering Fang Wen Hua's words. Why was Fang Wen Hua so confident?
Qin Yu Xiang was from the Qin family. No matter how you looked at it, she wasn't someone Fang Wen Hua could easily touch.
Fang Wen Hua's laughter grew more radiant on the other end.
"You think I can't touch Qin Yu Xiang because she's from the Qin family?"
"You have a way to deal with the Qin family?"
"No, no, no... There's no need to take such a risk. But don't forget, within the Qin family, there are people who don't want Qin Yu Xiang to live a peaceful life."
"Qin Yuan!" Lin Xiao Tian said, enunciating each word.
"Hah, you're not entirely stupid after all."
Lin Xiao Tian narrowed his eyes.
If it weren't for the trap he had set today, he would never have figured these things out.
"I have one last question," Lin Xiao Tian continued.
"What question?" Fang Wen Hua was calm, "Remember to be brief, I don't have much time left for you."
"How did you know I was here?"
Lin Xiao Tian asked this question deliberately, aiming to make Fang Wen Hua relax his guard.
Indeed, upon hearing Lin Xiao Tian's question, Fang Wen Hua on the other end of the line became extremely smug.
"Lin Xiao Tian, you've underestimated human nature too much."
"Brother Er Guai?"
"Heh heh, you're still quite sharp!"
"How did you bribe him?"
Lin Xiao Tian was puzzled.
He had known Li Er Guai for a long time, and he had treated Li Er Guai well. Why was Fang Wen Hua able to sway Li Er Guai?
"Xiao Tian, you still underestimate human nature too much," Fang Wen Hua said earnestly.
"However, this Li Er Guai was indeed loyal to you. If it wasn't for his wife, he wouldn't have agreed to us?"
"You kidnapped his wife, Zhang Xue Fen?"
"No, no, no... We didn't need to do that. She's a very opportunistic woman. As long as the conditions offered were good enough, instigating Li Er Guai to betray you would be effortless for her."
Lin Xiao Tian sighed.
Now everything made sense.
Li Er Guai wouldn't betray him without reason.
But Zhang Xue Fen was different.
Zhang Xue Fen was inherently a gold-digging and calculating woman, and her nature hadn't changed at all after marriage.
Li Er Guai had always believed he'd be single his whole life, then suddenly gained a wife and later children. Naturally, he gradually fell under Zhang Xue Fen's control. It was likely that Zhang Xue Fen had made considerable efforts to get Li Er Guai to betray him.
Zhang Xue Fen harbored no affection for Lin Xiao Tian.
Furthermore, when Lin Xiao Tian had caught her with Li De Ping before, there was already animosity between them.
"Alright, now that you know everything, you can die in peace. Don't worry, I'll have someone collect your body."
"That's very kind of you!"
Lin Xiao Tian said, and hung up the phone directly.
He looked at the three people in front of him, "Do you want money? Name your price, and I promise to give you at least double what he would."
The three of them chuckled.
The tall man in the lead raised his gun at Lin Xiao Tian, looking at him with cold eyes. "We were raised by Mr. Fang. Do you think money can solve everything?"
In a way, these people were Fang Wen Hua's trained death warriors.
They had been adopted by Fang Wen Hua since childhood and trained into various talents according to his needs. Fang Wen Hua was their benefactor, and they were absolutely loyal to him. If they were ordinary assassins, they might have been bought over by Lin Xiao Tian.
Bang!
Without hesitation, the tall man fired a shot at Lin Xiao Tian.
As expected, Lin Xiao Tian fell to the ground.
The tall man fired a few more shots, then went to check Lin Xiao Tian's condition.
"Hello, boss, target confirmed deceased," the tall man said, calling Fang Wen Hua.
"Good! Clean up the scene. The rest will be handled by Li Er Guai."
"Yes!"
The tall man hung up the phone and left.
Then, the group pushed Lin Xiao Tian towards the edge of the pool, with half his body remaining on the shore. The water in the pool flowed slowly, so Lin Xiao Tian wouldn't immediately sink to the bottom. This way, when Li Er Guai arrived the next day, he would conveniently discover the body, and everything would seem plausible. m..oΓg
After a perfunctory cleanup of the scene, the group departed.
The area by the pool became quiet. A few birds, attracted by the smell of blood, landed on Lin Xiao Tian. But just as one was about to peck, a powerful oppressive aura suddenly swept through.
The birds were startled by the pressure and flapped their wings to escape.
At this moment, Lin Xiao Tian, who had appeared to be dead, opened his eyes.
The bullets had left gruesome wounds on his body, and blood was still seeping out, but Lin Xiao Tian was not flustered at all.
A cultivator at the Foundation Establishment stage could not be killed by ordinary means. When the bullets entered his body, Lin Xiao Tian had deliberately made them avoid vital organs.
These methods, let alone the people who had just been there, even a professional medical team wouldn't be able to detect anything, unless they performed an autopsy.
Lin Xiao Tian had successfully faked his death and was now ready to proceed with his next plan.
Meanwhile, at the Lin family's manor.
It was late at night, and the Lin family matriarch had not yet slept. She was waiting for a phone call.
Ring ring!
A moment later, the telephone rang.