Li Qianfan was certain that the woman ahead was the mastermind behind the assassination attempt on Su Nanyin.
She was likely the fifth president of the Dark Web.
Furthermore, her martial arts skills seemed to be even higher than Jiao Yin's!
Li Qianfan could tell her skills surpassed Jiao Yin’s because the woman’s movements during her attack and escape were much faster than Jiao Yin’s.
Jiao Yin was a very ordinary frog.
But this woman was a dart frog, with even faster leaping speed.
Dart frogs were much more formidable and dangerous than ordinary frogs.
"How can the fifth president of the Dark Web be more powerful than Jiao Yin, the third president?"
"I recall Jiao Yin saying that the Dark Web's six presidents were ranked by their martial arts prowess."
"If this dart frog woman isn't the fifth president, then who is she?"
"Could she be Luo Huayin from the War Demon Hall?"
"Unlikely. After all, the War Demon Hall doesn't have many strongholds in the East Continent."
"It has to be the Dark Web!"
"But besides the fifth president, no one else from the Dark Web would risk coming to the East Continent to assassinate Guanyin."
"Also, her driving skills don't seem to be very good."
"Right now, she's just driving fast to escape."
"If she encounters a section of road with poor conditions, she'll definitely slow down."
"Guanyin too. Why didn't she buy a car with a larger engine displacement when she bought it?"
Li Qianfan grumbled, once again complaining about Su Nanyin's little blue car.
If it were a car with a bigger engine, Li Qianfan would have already caught up to the dart frog woman and flipped her car.
But this delicate-looking blue car with only a 1.5-liter engine, even with Li Qianfan flooring the accelerator, could only emit a helpless whine, stubbornly "unhurriedly" chasing the car ahead.
Li Qianfan hadn't considered calling Du Junlin to mobilize more people or set up roadblocks to intercept the dart frog woman.
Firstly.
Sijiú's transportation network is convenient with many roads; a large number of people would be needed to have any hope of stopping her.
Secondly.
The dart frog woman is very dangerous. Ordinary people who try to stop her will undoubtedly be met with ruthless slaughter.
Thirdly.
Although Li Qianfan's "Guanyin chariot" is too delicate, the dart frog woman's driving skills are rather poor. The distance between them remains constant, and once the road conditions worsen, Li Qianfan will be able to catch up.
For the first time.
Li Qianfan hoped for difficult road conditions.
Roar—
Humph—
When Li Qianfan stepped on the accelerator again, the blue car trembled and let out a few "croaks," as if crying out, "Brother, I'm already at the bottom of the accelerator, I can't take it anymore."
Vaguely, the image of a certain empress floated before his eyes.
"Damn it."
As Li Qianfan cursed, he saw a car in his peripheral vision, following at a leisurely pace in the rearview mirror.
He immediately thought of when he and Gao Lingwang were about to enter the alley, his intuition suddenly told him that he was being watched.
Currently.
The car slowly following behind was most likely the owner of those eyes.
"Who could that person be?"
Li Qianfan glanced back but had no intention of stopping.
Chasing the dart frog woman was Li Qianfan's priority!
Wheels rolling.
Heading north—
Time, like the shifting stars, passed by second by second.
Two in the morning.
The dart frog woman's car suddenly decelerated and quickly pulled to the side.
In the moonlight, Li Qianfan could faintly see the outline of the Great Wall ahead.
"Is the dart frog woman going to fight me to the death?"
Li Qianfan gently tapped the brakes, slowing his speed, and pulled his car to the roadside.
As he opened the door to get out, he looked back.
The car that had been following him from a distance had its headlights off.
Perhaps it had lost him, or perhaps it had turned off its lights and hidden in the shadows by the roadside.
Regardless, Li Qianfan didn't care.
After jumping out of the car, he rolled up his shirt sleeves and slowly walked towards the car dozens of meters away.
His nerves were taut, prepared for the dart frog woman to shoot him.
At the same time.
Li Qianfan’s peripheral vision scanned the surrounding environment.
Near the Great Wall, it was a desolate area.
During the day, besides tourists climbing the wall, few people came here, let alone at two in the morning.
The road had also narrowed from eight lanes in both directions to four lanes.
On both sides were vast fields of wheat, which, under the moonlight, looked like an endless carpet.
The air was incredibly fresh.
From the distant woods, the eerie laughter of night birds could be heard.
Li Qianfan suddenly stopped.
He suddenly realized that the dart frog woman had deliberately led him to such a remote place.
"Are there a large number of enemies hiding in the woods over there, or lying in wait in the wheat fields?"
Li Qianfan became alert and quickly looked into the wheat fields on either side.
In the moonlit wheat fields, there was only a thin layer of frost, shimmering faintly under the moonlight.
Li Qianfan didn't detect anything amiss.
But even if a large number of masters were lying in ambush, so what!?
Li Qianfan's courage surged, and he strode towards the car that was silently parked on the roadside like a beast.
To prevent the dart frog woman from hiding in the car and ambushing him with a handgun, Li Qianfan tensed his already taut nerves even further.
He reached within three meters of the car—
Croak!
Upon hearing this croak from the car, Li Qianfan quickly jumped aside.
It was his reflex.
Because Li Qianfan's instinct knew that when the dart frog woman, hidden in the car, made a frog-like sound, it was a precursor to her pouncing attack.
Indeed—
Just as Li Qianfan jumped aside, a dark figure lunged towards him from the car's lowered window!
The speed—
It was definitely a dart frog hunting!
But Li Qianfan's dodging speed was faster than the dart frog woman's pounce.
As the dart frog woman's attack grazed his left shoulder and plunged forward fiercely, Li Qianfan roared and punched her neck with his left fist: "Hai!"
Li Qianfan's roar echoed for hundreds of meters in the empty wilderness.
It even reached Jiao Yin's ears.
Yes.
It was Jiao Yin.
The eyes that Li Qianfan had directly told him about in the Sixth Ring Road alley belonged to Jiao Yin.
Li Qianfan and his companions wanted to catch the assassin who attempted to kill Su Nanyin, and Jiao Yin also wanted to do the same.
The East Continent was the territory of the third president, Jiao San (within the Dark Web alone)!
Yet, now, someone from the Dark Web, without Jiao Yin's consent, had launched a fatal assassination attempt targeting Su Nanyin.
In a way, this was an infringement upon Jiao Yin's interests.
Like Li Qianfan and the others, she also analyzed that the person who planned this assassination was the fifth president of the Dark Web.
Therefore.
When Jiao Yin "received the imperial decree" and rushed to Sijiú, she wanted to assist Li Qianfan in finding traces of the fifth president.
She went out looking in the evening.
As she searched, she found herself unconsciously near the Su family's residence.
Something about the Su family attracted Jiao San.
When she sensed something was amiss, she happened to see Li Qianfan driving past.
The car was fast, but Jiao San's eyesight was also good, and she recognized it as Su Nanyin's beloved car at a glance.
After all, it was in this car that Li Qianfan went to Liushui Pavilion on the second day of the Lunar New Year and made ill-gotten gains.
Jiao Yin immediately drove after him.
From the speed of the car alone, Jiao Yin could tell that the driver was Li Qianfan.
It turned out to be him.
Using the cover of other cars on the road, when Jiao Yin followed Li Qianfan to the vicinity of the Sixth Ring Road and saw him and Gao Lingwang get out of the car, she realized he might have found some clue.
Jiao Yin's guess was correct.
But she didn't get out of the car in a hurry.
She patiently waited—
She then saw the dart frog woman, with leaping movements that even made Jiao Yin feel deeply wary, leap out of the alley and onto the car.
"That person is definitely not the fifth president!"
Jiao Yin immediately judged from the dart frog woman's pouncing speed that she was not the fifth president.
She was now shocked, angry, and a little scared.
She suspected that the dart frog woman might be the second president among the Dark Web's six presidents, whose skills were second only to the grand president.
The second president venturing into her territory and assassinating an important figure like Su Nanyin without her consent would make anyone angry, let alone Jiao Yin.
Jiao Yin was scared because she knew very well that she was no match for the second president.
If their confrontation escalated, she would be in danger.
Therefore, Jiao Yin made up her mind to track her secretly from the shadows.
If an opportunity arose for her to kill the dart frog woman in one blow, Jiao Yin would not hesitate!
One could say that internal strife was everywhere.
"I hope the little thing can take care of her."
Upon faintly hearing Li Qianfan's fierce roar, Jiao Yin nimbly flipped from the car window onto the roof of the car parked in the shadows.
Her vigilant eyes scanned the surroundings, searching for any lurking dangerous individuals (specifically, the dart frog woman's subordinates).
If there were any—
Jiao Yin would not hesitate to pounce and eliminate them!
Li Qianfan had no idea that President Jiao San was silently guarding him from hundreds of meters away in the shadows.
He merely roared repeatedly, fully utilizing his increasingly proficient speed and strength, attacking the dart frog woman with all his might.
The dart frog woman, wearing a large mask and remaining silent except for occasional croaks, did not back down.
She fully utilized her agile footwork, vicious attacks, and expertise in close-quarters combat, fighting Li Qianfan with her life.
The two of them fought from the road into the wheat fields.
Although the dart frog woman's speed and viciousness were outstanding, Li Qianfan could still detect that the proficiency of her movements had not reached the "silky smooth" level; she lacked practical combat experience.
After a full five minutes—
Seizing the fleeting opportunity when the dart frog woman stepped on unstable ground (stepping on a field mouse hole) and staggered, Li Qianfan raised his foot and stomped heavily on her abdomen.
Ah!
Despite her quick reflexes, the dart frog woman, unable to dodge the heavy blow, let out a scream as she was sent flying backward.
Bang.
The dart frog woman fell heavily into the wheat field, landing on her back.
Li Qianfan pursued like a shadow, lunging forward with all his might.
He landed heavily on her.
As the dart frog woman, who was about to roll over and evade, grunted again, Li Qianfan's left hand, like a venomous snake, locked onto her neck!
"Let me see who you are."
As Li Qianfan's five fingers tightened around the dart frog woman's neck, he grinned slightly and pulled off the large mask from her face with his right hand.