Su Nan Guan Yin.
The moment Jiao Yin uttered these four words, the long ash of the cigarette dangling from Li Qian Fan's lips trembled and fell.
*Whoosh.*
Jiao Yin puffed out her cheeks, blowing away the ash that had landed on the collar of Li Qian Fan's shirt.
"Am I right, Li Qian Fan?" she asked.
Li Qian Fan, looking perfectly composed, nodded.
Since she had figured it out, was there any need for him to deny it?
Besides, his and Su Nan Guan Yin's reputations were already notorious for miles around, so he didn't care if Jiao Yin blabbed this secret to the world.
Jiao Yin smiled.
A triumphant smile!
She was proud that she could deduce all this from the subtle changes in Li Qian Fan's expression.
She couldn't help but sway her alluring body.
"Damn it, remember we're enemies! It's already too much that you, a toad from the dark web, are standing on my toes. And now you're flirting, you have no awareness," Li Qian Fan cursed inwardly.
As he spoke, his left hand moved without his conscious control.
*Slap!*
"Ah—!"
Caught completely off guard, Jiao Yin cried out in surprise as her posterior was struck. Instinctively, she lunged into his arms.
Damn left hand.
It only gets interested in pretty women!
Li Qian Fan flicked his left hand, pushing Jiao Yin away. "Madam, please be serious. Don't forget we are enemies, and this kind of intimacy is not allowed."
The moment Li Qian Fan pushed her away,
Jiao Yin jumped back onto his toes and asked, "Li Qian Fan, didn't you ever wonder why Su Nan Guan Yin isn't old?"
Li Qian Fan casually replied, "Why?"
"Perhaps—"
Jiao Yin said earnestly, "Su Nan Yin isn't old just for you. Or rather, just for the 209 you carry. Even more so, she might be the savior sent into this world by the mysterious 209 long before you were born! She will only save you, the activated 209."
Heh.
Li Qian Fan gave a dismissive laugh.
Jiao Yin exclaimed, "Don't disbelieve me! My mind has never been so clear. I even have a strong premonition! Perhaps I, too, was sent to this world by the mysterious 209. My mission is to remind you not to care about worldly etiquette! Your survival is the most important thing! In return, you must give me a child."
Li Qian Fan—
"I'm not the God of Deliverance!"
Utterly speechless, Li Qian Fan raised his hand and pushed Jiao Yin away, his tone serious. "Madam, the most important thing we need to do now is to figure out how to deal with your exposed fox tail. You could be struck by justice at any moment, and everything you've painstakingly built in the Eastern Lands for years could vanish into thin air."
Jiao Yin—
After a moment's thought, she realized he was right.
She quickly adjusted her attitude and sneered, "Fine. I'll take you to see the real Jiao Mei Bi first."
She reached out and turned the doorknob.
This door was specially designed.
Those locked inside could not open it.
Anyone outside, just by grasping the doorknob and turning it a few times, could open the door.
The door opened—
Even though Li Qian Fan had seen this underground cavern through the surveillance video,
Standing there, he couldn't help but be amazed by the wonders of creation.
Especially when he saw the rectangular hot spring pool, it stirred a strange itch throughout his body.
He felt an urge to cry out, "Beautiful one, I'm here!" and leap into the water for at least half an hour.
Someone was swimming.
It was a woman with long, flowing black hair, twisting her voluptuous waist like a white fish, splashing water with her feet as she swam back and forth in the more than ten-meter-long pool, lost in her own world.
Sometimes freestyle, sometimes backstroke.
Her swimming style was exquisite—
Unfortunately, the woman was blind!
Otherwise, Li Qian Fan would have been sitting on a lounge chair by the pool, with his legs crossed, watching for a long time, and she would still have remained completely unaware.
However.
Li Qian Fan could fully understand Jiao Mei Bi's absorption.
The primary reason was her extreme loneliness living here alone for such a long time.
Perhaps only by immersing herself wholeheartedly in swimming could she forget the sadness of being imprisoned for so many years?
Swimming—
It was one of the three aerobic exercises (the other two being interactive cycling and interactive jogging between men and women).
It was also an excellent exercise for women to maintain their perfect figures, even more effective than practicing aerobics.
No wonder Jiao Mei Bi's figure was so good.
Li Qian Fan rested his chin in his left hand, watching the "big white fish" in the pool with great interest.
But Jiao Yin, who stood beside him with her arms crossed, could tell from his unfocused gaze that his mind had wandered elsewhere.
The voluptuous Jiao Mei Bi, like a big white fish, was not qualified to spark even a cent's worth of interest in the host of the original 209!
"She's influenced by my analysis and is thinking about Su Nan Guan Yin!"
Jiao Yin, keenly sensing Li Qian Fan's inner thoughts, had a sudden idea. "Isn't this the perfect opportunity for me to try and capture him alive?"
Before the thought had even fully formed—
Jiao Yin, who had been as still as a statue, suddenly moved like a startled rabbit!
Carrying a seductive fragrance, she flickered like a black shadow and pounced at Li Qian Fan from three meters away.
As for Li Qian Fan.
His vacant eyes, fixed on Jiao Mei Bi, had fed him misinformation: "This woman swimming with her eyes closed is Su Nan Guan Yin."
Even more fatal.
Every time the woman raised her hand (to splash water), Li Qian Fan interpreted it as: "She's beckoning me to join her in the water."
Heh.
How could that be!
I am a gentleman—
Li Qian Fan sneered inwardly as a gust of fragrance hit him.
An enemy is approaching!!
Li Qian Fan finally snapped back to reality, but it was too late.
He was sent crashing to the ground, chair and all, by Jiao Yin's "hungry tiger pounce."
Just as his elbow hit the ground, a cold glint flashed before his eyes.
As Jiao Yin pounced, she had also snatched a fruit knife from the fruit bowl on the small round table.
Even though the fruit knife was not sharp—
It could still easily pierce a heart or slash the side of a major artery in the neck!
The carotid artery!!
Yes.
Jiao Yin's eyes blazed with cold killing intent as she pointed the knife like lightning towards the major artery on the left side of Li Qian Fan's neck.
Giving it her all!
The speed at which Jiao Yin drew her knife was indescribable.
But Li Qian Fan's evasive maneuver was even faster!
*Scrape.*
The sound of the knife tip scraping fiercely against the floor was exceptionally grating.
It made one's teeth ache.
Even.
Jiao Mei Bi, who was swimming with her eyes closed, heard the sound.
She instinctively stopped swimming, wiped her face, and opened her eyes to look towards the shore.
Then she froze.
Because she saw—
That at some point, two more people had appeared in the underground cavern.
A woman with flowing long hair, dressed in black, but barefoot.
A man wearing a dark blue shirt with his sleeves rolled up.
These two individuals were engaged in a fierce battle on the shore, their movements too fast for Jiao Mei Bi's eyes to follow.
Because their fighting was so rapid, Jiao Mei Bi could not see their faces clearly.
But instinct told her: "The woman in black can only be Jiao Yin!"
Then who was the man?
No matter who this man was—
Anyone who could fight Jiao Yin would earn immense favor from Jiao Mei Bi.
"Kill that bitch!"
"If you kill her, I'll do anything for you!"
"Kill her—"
Jiao Mei Bi roared inwardly, her feet treading water, her eyes wide, staring intently at the two streaks of afterimages.
After an unknown period of time—
The two rapidly shifting afterimages suddenly stopped.
Then Jiao Mei Bi saw that the woman in black was indeed Jiao Yin!
Facing the pool, Jiao Yin was being held tightly by the legs by the man who had his back to the pool, and he slammed her violently against a natural load-bearing pillar in the center of the cavern.
*Bang!*
The entire cavern seemed to vibrate with the impact.
"Ah—"
Jiao Yin cried out in pain as her back was slammed hard against the pillar.
*Bang!!*
Li Qian Fan "embraced" Jiao Yin again and slammed her violently against the pillar for the second time.
"Ah—"
Jiao Yin, who had been struggling, could only let out another scream.
This scene was all too familiar to Jiao Yin!
Back in the Suicide Forest last year, she had been held by Li Qian Fan like this and slammed against a tree.
He had slammed her until she coughed up blood before he finally let her go.
"Today, will I be slammed until I cough up blood again?"
Feeling her spine about to break, Jiao Yin thought this as her vision darkened, and she suddenly felt herself flying.
As she was airborne, she instinctively flailed her hands.
She grasped nothing.
But she heard a loud *bang* and Jiao Yin was quickly enveloped by the hot spring water, which was about 39 degrees Celsius.
As she sank to the bottom with her arms flailing, she pushed off with her feet and shot up from the water.
*Splash—*
The moment Jiao Yin's head broke the surface, she felt something called a "buttocks" slam her back into the water.