Chu Group.

The employees had already left work, making the Chu Group relatively quiet at this time.

Chu Mengyao kept the heads of various departments behind for a meeting. Just after the meeting ended, as they stepped out of the conference room, four figures approached, their intense murderous intent directly focused on Chu Mengyao and the others.

Originally, the joyful smiles on the faces of the supervisors like Zhang Jing and Zhou Wen instantly froze, as if smelling a lethal danger. Suddenly, they felt frightened, their expressions turned pale as they looked at the four figures, as if they were being stared down by a tiger, their bodies instinctively showing signs of fear.

Du Xueqi and the other four women sensed the danger and immediately gathered around Chu Mengyao.

These four individuals were the powerhouses from the Ma Family, Zheng Family, Huang Family, and Chen Family, each of them a presence on the global ranking. This lineup was the strongest force the five great families could muster apart from Li Erye. Originally, each family among the five had a rank on the global scale. After Uncle Wu shamefully committed suicide, only these four remained—each family had one ranked powerhouse. This was the greatest reliance of the five families in navigating the business world and discreetly dealing with threats.

Unable to contact the Ma Family's powerhouse, Ma Qianqiu executed the assassination plot, after which these strong figures gathered and moved into action, without any thought of retreat. For the five great families, once an assassination plot is set, it cannot be revoked. Hence, they didn't think about contacting the four individuals, considering their special status, they wouldn't maintain contact with the outside world during the action anyway.

Another crucial reason was that the four were acting in concert with Japan's Matsui Kemono, thereby disconnecting from the outside world to avoid leaving too many traces. Unless the mission was completed, they wouldn't proactively contact the five families.

Precisely because of this reason, Ma Qianqiu couldn't contact his family's powerhouse. Otherwise, he would have reached out long ago to have his family's powerhouse withdrawn. This flood, Ma Qianqiu had no qualification to participate in anymore; having become a vassal of the Chu Group, he lost everything but still saved his life and the Ma Family barely manages to survive.

Ye Fan and Qiu Wen, having heard the five families' murderous intent from Ma Qianqiu's mouth, prompted Qiu Wen to angrily scold Ma Qianqiu out of concern for Chu Mengyao's safety.

Ye Fan was worried too, which shows the gravity of this crisis.

Because the four rank powerhouses, Du Xueqi's team of five cannot match. Had he been by Mengyao's side, it would be fine, but now his worry was profound.

Moreover, coupled with Matsui Kemono who's always scheming and seeking an opportunity for revenge, the crisis intensified by threefold.

Ye Fan and Qiu Wen rushed back urgently.

On the Chu Group's side, the tensions were already sky-high.

The four rank powerhouses and Matsui Kemono slipped into the Chu Group while ruthlessly killing several obstructing security guards and probed the company's situation. Yet, they didn't find any trace of Ye Fan, which puzzled them slightly. Their primary goal coming here was to kill Ye Fan, whether for revenge for Uncle Wu or Matsui Yuki.

As for eliminating Chu Mengyao and the Chu Group executives, it was merely a secondary task.

After scouting the situation, Matsui Kemono lay in ambush, waiting for Ye Fan to appear before executing a surprise attack to kill him.

The four rank powerhouses had their murderous intent locked onto Chu Mengyao and the others.

"Who are you? What's your purpose? Trespassing the Chu Group headquarters, you're quite bold!" Chu Mengyao shouted.

She knew the visitors came with ill intentions, assuming they were people from the five great families, and as for their purpose, the emitting murderous intent could be felt vividly. Her question aimed to delay time as much as possible.

"Offending the five great families, the Chu Group must have a death wish, wanting not to live," sneered the Zheng Family powerhouse, mockingly saying, "Tonight, we'll wipe out all the ants of the Chu Group. By tomorrow morning, the Chu Group will surely disintegrate and collapse."

"They're just ordinary people, what abilities do they have? Come at me directly, targeting ordinary people is this what the five great families are known for?" Chu Mengyao said calmly, "So despicable, doesn't it make people laugh in scorn?"

"President Chu says so, then we have to kill everyone, to prevent anyone from talking nonsense and leaking our identities. But speaking of which, President Chu really is merciful, mercy doesn't manage soldiers, don't you understand this principle? In the grand Chu Group, having such a benevolent president, I don't know if it's a misfortune or sadness." Ma Family powerhouse coldly mocked.

"As a member of the five families, being so vicious isn't great, don't trouble them, targeting ordinary employees demeans your status, doesn't it?" Chu Mengyao, still pleading, said, "Let them leave, I'll let you do whatever you want with me, is that possible?"

"President Chu, you don't have the leverage for negotiation; you've already become our captive turtle, life and death are mere matters of our whim here. How can you have the chance to speak? As assassins of the five families, we specialize in dealing with the dark problems, killing you all, who would know?" Huang Family powerhouse said, expression dark, sneering, "Tomorrow morning, there would just be some extra corpses lying around, the world merely losing a few people, who would care? Apart from being casual talking points, perhaps not many genuinely care."

"There are only four of you, the five people beside me pose quite a threat. You let them go, and I won't resist, allowing you to handle me." Chu Mengyao had made the greatest concession.

She could tell from the expressions of Du Xueqi's group of five that they were hardly a match.

Whether to buy time or to preserve others' lives, she knew this wouldn't be very effective but still wanted to try.

Du Xueqi and her group of five had somber expressions, already contemplating escape routes. Since they couldn't match, they could only find every way possible to protect Chu Mengyao's safety, which was their purpose.

"President Chu, stop wasting saliva, you already know, nothing you say can change the facts, you want to delay time, but we don't care, we've already laid in ambush, just waiting for Ye Fan to appear, then we'll make our move to kill. So, don't hold onto those unrealistic fantasies." Chen Family powerhouse said coldly.

"I'll give you a choice, do you choose to jump to your death, or would you want us to personally end your lives?" Zheng Family powerhouse asked.

They walk in darkness, specially eliminating risks for the five families that can't be exposed. So, their mindset is almost twisted and morbid.

Forcing others to jump to their deaths amidst desperation, this was far more gratifying than killing directly.

They've killed so many people, become numb to it, and the psychological perverse satisfaction has already ingrained into their bones.

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