Chapter 1: This is what life is all about

  Qin Yan didn't wait for the other party to reach the top of the mountain, after entrusting a few words to Lin Ling, he grabbed her hand and went towards the group of people climbing up the stairs.

  People's heads were crowded together, and the murderous aura was overwhelming.

  Almost a hundred people rushed up the stone steps, with an imposing and frightening momentum. Each person was holding a weapon, including cold weapons such as knives, guns, swords, and clubs, as well as several imitation handguns.

  Due to the narrow stone steps, both sides are overgrown with dense shrubs, and it was nighttime with poor lighting, so people could only walk along the stone steps, forming a long dragon queue of nearly a hundred people.

  The first was a man in his thirties, with a face that resembled Ge Cheng by sixty to seventy percent. However, there was a huge difference in their physique: Ge Ying had a slender and tall build, while this person had an average build, but with a very solid body frame. Through the thin clothes he wore in summer, one could clearly see his bulging muscles.

  This man is none other than Ge Cheng, the notorious gang leader who has made a name for himself throughout Qingyang County and left the municipal authorities at their wit's end.

  Ah!

  Just as they were less than a hundred steps away from the top of the mountain, two figures suddenly appeared at the end of the stone steps. The nearly hundred people led by Ge Cheng stopped in their tracks.

  They did not expect each other to be so bold and daring, actually daring to face a hundred people with just the two of them. However, at this moment, Qin Yan was also full of surprise and doubt.

  That night, on the rooftop of the hospital with Song Yu Yan, I sensed that there was a master monitoring us. With just a slight inference, he was about 80% certain that it was related to Ge Cheng. If it was from the organization where Jin Gang is located, the other party should have appeared and told me the result of the handling above. If it came from the organization 'Tian Ming' I used to be in, wouldn't they have already made a big move that night? How could they leave quietly without making a sound?

  However, when these nearly hundred people fell into his eyes, he did not feel the aura that a master should have, in other words, the person hiding in the dark that night had not appeared.

  So... who was the mastermind behind that night?

  "Ge Cheng! What are you doing bringing so many people here in the middle of the night, and carrying controlled weapons?!" Lin Ling shouted loudly.

  "Commander Lin, don't you know what I want to do?" Ge Cheng sneered.

  "Haha... little girl, what did you say we should do? Do you!"

  "Who would have thought that the famous Iron Blood Police Flower would be so heart-achingly beautiful?"

  "We're all rascals, if we can pin the head of the municipal police department's criminal police team under our bed, heh heh... even if we die immediately afterwards, it'll be worth it."

  As soon as Ge Cheng opened his mouth, several core members following him revealed lewd gazes, scanning Lin Lingquan's body up and down.

  Hearing the slanderous words, Lin Ling was furious. The slide of his 92-style pistol was pulled back, and the black muzzle pointed at the opponent.

  "Captain Lin, I advise you not to waste any more time, how many bullets are left in your magazine?"

  Kazuki waved the fake 64 pistol in his hand, sneered and said: "Besides, we have guns too. Don't worry, my brothers won't have a chance to sleep with you because you must die. If you don't die, this case can't be closed. Everyone is a smart person, why waste time?"

  Qin Yan, who had been silent all along, deliberately raised his voice a few pitches and said to Lin Ling: "Possessing controlled weapons and intending to murder police officers, these crimes are enough to send them to their deaths, aren't they?"

  "First retreat to the top of the mountain, their firearms are all imitations, with limited performance. We'll use the terrain to our advantage and dodge them!" Lin Ling urged in a low voice.

  "I've told you before, these small fries are not worth mentioning."

  "Huh?"

  "See that big rock over there?"

  Qin Yan pointed to the large stone on the right side of the stone steps, about half a person's height, and said in a low voice: "Jump behind the stone together, leave the rest to me."

  He?

  Indeed, Lin Ling had long known that Qin Yan's strength was extraordinary. The two of them carried enough bullets and used the terrain on the mountain as cover to deal with these people, which wasn't a problem at all. After all, the other side's hot weapons were limited in number, and they were just a group of local snakes, whose martial arts skills and marksmanship were far from comparable to theirs.

  But that's on the premise of having a gun. Before that, Qin Yan didn't take the handgun she handed over to him. Did he want to fight against these hundreds of people with bare hands?

  Unlike the last time at the Municipal People's Hospital, where the enemy was in the light and he was in the dark, from start to finish using assassination. Now it is a face-to-face battle with drums facing each other.

  One person against hundreds, and it's bare-handed against fully armed, what's the difference between this and looking for death?

  "Jump!"

  Lin Ling didn't even have time to stop his wild imagination, as Qin Yan let out a low, explosive shout. The two of them stomped the ground with force and shot off to the right like arrows leaving a bowstring.

  Bang! Bang! Bang!

  The two men's movements were too sudden, and it wasn't until they darted behind the large rock that the other reacted, the next moment a piercing gunshot split the peaceful night sky.

  Led by Ge Cheng, several core members each held a gun and fired in unison, causing rocks to fly everywhere and large boulders to crash down towards them with sparks flying.

  "Captain Lin, do you think you can escape like this?"

  Ge Cheng gave a signal to his subordinates, indicating that they should surround and kill them. More than ten people with guns aimed at the big rock, ready to fire at any time: "You can hide for a while, but you can't hide forever. Come out obediently, I have hundreds of brothers here, what's the use of your one gun?"

  These words are not only to put pressure on Lin Ling, forcing her to compromise, but also to tell his subordinates: the other side has guns, don't be afraid, we have more people, how many can she kill?

  I knew it!

  Just a moment ago, some timid subordinates suddenly gained confidence and courage, each holding a machete, carefully climbing the stairs to prepare for a siege.

  Qin Yan and Lin Ling were previously in a position at the top of the stone steps of Xiao Yun Mountain, about 70 to 80 steps away from Ge Cheng and others.

  "Hit him?"

  With his right hand gripping the pistol, Lin Ling leaned against a large rock behind him and said to Qin Yan: "Given our distance, plus their fear of me firing a shot, it will take at least two minutes for them to get here. We have the high ground and every advantage, do we still need to hide here waiting for them to come up?"

  She was about to take advantage of the terrain to counterattack, but was pulled back by Qin Yan: "It's not worth wasting bullets on these small fries."

  "But..."

  "I've said it, leave the rest to me."

  Qin Yan picked up a small stone from the ground, weighed it in his hand, and suddenly shifted his gaze to a nearby emerald bamboo as thick as a thumb.

  Whoosh!

  Suddenly, he snapped his fingers and a stone flew out, hitting that bamboo exactly.

  Pulling one hair and moving the whole body, like the legendary domino effect, a shocking scene appeared, which scared Lin Ling to death!

  Whoosh!

  Whoosh!

  Whoosh!

  At the moment when the stone hit the bamboo, the bamboo sprang up at a strange angle, and sharp whistling sounds came from both sides of the stone steps. The green bamboo, thorns, and trees all turned into deadly weapons.

  That bamboo stick was the master switch for the entire mechanism. Qin Yan activated the master switch with a stone, and the murder trap also fully started at the same time.

  A bamboo arrow carved from a bamboo node shoots out into the air...

  A massive horizontal beam swept towards the stone steps with great force...

  Fist-sized rocks shot through the air...

  This is the prelude to death, this is the war song of slaughter, this is a land stained red with blood, and it has long been transformed and disguised.

  Even Lin Ling, who was in the trap, didn't notice anything unusual.

  She finally understood the reason why Qin Yan left halfway and returned with a big sweat, he actually used less than an hour to set up a deadly trap that could overturn hundreds of people without any tools, relying on the surrounding natural environment!

  A killer darts through the crowd, mournful cries surging in the night sky.

  Hmph!

  The tip of the bamboo arrow was sharpened into a sharp slanting surface, easily piercing through the chest cavity of a Ma Zi, who let out a terrified scream and fell to the ground, but all this did not end here.

  The original bamboo joints were modified and deliberately pierced through the chest cavity, with fresh blood spraying out of the bamboo tube like it was free.

  Imagine that's equivalent to inserting a hollow drainage tube into the body, with that speed of blood loss, it can be fatal in an extremely short period of time.

  Pomelo!

  A two-meter-long wooden plank with a diameter of about 20-30 cm was cut and shot towards the stone steps under the agency's push, hitting two horses in the chest.

  The two of them flew backwards like a kite with a broken string, spitting out fresh blood in mid-air, and fell to the ground, where they immediately fainted, their lives hanging in the balance.

  Lin Ling covered her small mouth in shock, staring blankly at the scene before her, which was clearly a one-sided massacre, with blood flowing like hell.

  At this moment, she completely believed that if Qin Yan were placed in the Ten Thousand Great Mountains, he alone could resist an entire small-scale army!

  His strongest ability is not healing or regular combat, but utilizing everything around him to design mechanisms and traps, conducting crazy stealth assassinations on his enemies.

  Relax!

  It's really easy!

  It's not necessary to confront the enemy head-on, just trigger the mechanism and lives will be harvested in batches, at this moment human life is as worthless as grass!

  At the moment when Lin Ling was both shocked and excited, Qin Yan's gaze became increasingly solemn, staring unblinkingly at Ge Cheng tens of meters away.

  All kinds of deadly weapons flew through the air, continuously reaping lives.

  How about him?

  Bamboo arrow flying in, one palm pat flying!

  A plank flies over, and with one slap, it flies away!

  Rocks fly over, one palm slaps them flying!

  Admittedly, he alone could not rescue so many subordinates, nor could he intercept all the deadly weapons released by the organ, but everything flying towards him was ineffective.

  Let the winds blow and the rains pound, I will stand firm and unshakeable.

  It's him!

  A few days ago, the master hiding in the shadows on the hospital rooftop was him!

  He has been disguising his own strength all along and hasn't used it yet, even in the operation against Lin Ling, he only used ordinary human means.

  Why?

  It's not surprising, actually. Upon careful consideration, it becomes clear that he probably also knows that this world is not as simple as imagined. Just the Huaxia region alone has a large number of warriors, including powerful organizations affiliated with nations, and many more family and factional forces.

  He wasn't arrogant enough to think he could single-handedly take on the nation, so in order not to attract attention from those organizations, he had always been hiding his warrior identity.

  Of course, during this period, he may also use his martial arts skills to achieve some personal goals, but if it's not absolutely necessary, he won't reveal his identity.

  Hiding one's true strength can not only avoid being targeted by powerful organizations, but also serve as a lifesaver when necessary, until the moment it can no longer be concealed.

  A sudden and violent attack, lasting about twenty seconds, left nearly a hundred gang members lying on the ground, with only Ge Cheng standing.