"You alright?" Lin Hai revealed a gentle smile.

The girl nodded and felt a wave of nervous excitement under Lin Hai's gaze.

If you look closely, you will find that Lin Hai's seemingly ordinary face, with its distinct lines, carried an indescribable beauty of strength.

"It should be safe now, go downstairs from the outside, don't panic, and then take a taxi home as soon as possible." Lin Hai finished, ready to turn around and leave.

"Wait a moment." The girl suddenly called out.

Lin Hai stopped in his tracks, looking at the girl with a puzzled expression: "You don't have money for the taxi, do you? I do."

He said, taking out a crumpled twenty-dollar bill from his pocket, and before the girl could react, the money was already placed in her hand.

"Hmm, it feels good, skin's really smooth," Lin Hai reflexively thought.

The girl stared at the twenty-dollar bill in her hand, stunned.

"I really misjudged him."

"He had no desire for beauty at all, he just wanted to help me, and I mistook him for a lecher at first." The girl's cheeks flushed red with shame, too embarrassed to look at Lin Hai.

After some thought, the girl looked up, wanting to tell Lin Hai her name, only to find that the man who had stirred ripples in her heart had already left without her knowing.

"My name is Lin Mengru, big brother," the girl whispered to herself.

Holding the crumpled twenty-dollar bill, the girl's thoughts drifted.

"It seems I really was wrong about him, he's a good person, like my father."

When the girl thought of her father, a glimmer of hope and concern flashed through her eyes.

"Dad, you are a towering hero in Mom's stories, but where are you? I really long for our family to be reunited."

She clutched the crumpled twenty dollars tightly, carefully storing it as if it were a precious belonging, priceless.

The girl looked around to make sure it was safe, and then quietly left.

Leaning against the wall in a corner, Lin Hai was smoking a cigarette, his mouth curving into a slight smile, murmuring to himself: "Lin Mengru, that's a nice name."

Touching his nose, Lin Hai shook his head, muttering to himself with curiosity: "Why do I feel a sense of kinship when I meet her gaze, as if facing a relative?"

Shaking his head, Lin Hai dismissed the strange thought, laughing derisively at himself: "Heh, I'm an orphan who doesn't even know what my parents look like, how could I possibly have relatives?"

Yet, Lin Hai found it hard to shake off the image of the girl named Lin Mengru from his mind, strangely feeling as if they were connected by blood.

"I wonder when Judge will be able to find out who my parents really are, sigh."

Lin Hai murmured to himself, his eyes filled with an almost imperceptible longing.

After returning to the private room, Xiao Jiba asked with concern, "Brother Lin, you've been gone for a while and there seemed to be some disturbance outside, everything alright?"

Lin Hai looked at Xiao Jiba, smiled casually, and said indifferently, "What could possibly happen to me?"

"That's true, with Brother Lin's strength, nothing could happen for sure." Xiao Jiba had witnessed Lin Hai's strength firsthand, which could twist steel reinforcement bars as thick as a wrist into pretzels.

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On the other side, at dusk, 300 meters away from Ouyang Xiaoya's villa, amidst the bushes, an agile figure silently descended from midair without making a sound, not even the leaves around stirred.

Lin Hai and Battle Lord could do this too, clearly indicating that this mysterious person possessed terrifying strength.

The mysterious figure landed behind the bushes and merged with the darkness of the night, with half-closed eyes pitch-black.

Occasionally, a sliver of moonlight sprinkled onto the bushes, and if a master of the same level were present, they might catch a glimpse of a blood-red parasol with a strange design and eerie pattern tied behind this enigmatic person, twin golden scimitars with fang-like sheaths at their waist, their entire body wrapped in a thick dark red garb, with only a pair of hands full of swirling energy channels and those emotionless eyes exposed.

Inside the villa, the Female Battle Lord who had been quietly browsing through Lin Hai's computer files in search of a new world, bit into a peeled apple and rapidly clicked the mouse, flipping through the folders.

Suddenly, her eyes lit up as if she had discovered a new continent, frantically opening a folder named "Love for the Motherland, Building a Harmonious Society, On the Education of Advancing Nature."

Upon opening the folder, hundreds of audio-video files with Japanese names and .WMA extensions appeared.

The variety of blockbuster movies made the Female Battle Lord's heart bloom with joy.

"Sure enough, my husband is a professional. I must study hard to keep up with the pace. Learning these Hollywood movies will come in handy for disguising myself in Europe's underworld."

The Female Battle Lord devoured the apple and started preparing to strive for greater strength!

Not far outside, the mysterious figure remained motionless, blending into the darkness as though he wasn't even breathing, and only the occasional insect that flew past would suddenly veer away, hardly noticeable to the human eye.

"I sense the presence of Gang Qi. The opponent's strength is not bad, but they should be no match for me," the mysterious figure muttered as if talking to himself, his voice eerily bizarre.

Inside the villa, the Female Battle Lord, who had just clicked open a video file with her mouse, suddenly felt a chill crawl up her scalp, and her eyes turned cold in an instant. She left her original position and a red shawl flew out from her sleeve, which, when spinning down in a beautiful arc mid-air, wrapped around the Battle Lord.

The soft weapons at her waist unsheathed with a clang, and the Battle Lord, donning a black and white silver mask, drifted out of the window like a thin layer of red gauze, with incredible speed.

"Have you discovered me? It took quite some time, it seems my sensory perception has weakened a bit, but being able to detect me in the night this fast is still commendable," the eerie voice murmured with a sneer and self-confidence.

Almost in an instant, the Female Battle Lord arrived within thirty meters of the bushes, gazing vigilantly at the position of the mysterious figure in the dark, and called out coldly, "Who's there skulking about? Come out now!"

"Little girl, such a big tone," the darkness seemingly faded away with this voice, and an odd man wrapped in a bulky dark red cloth emerged.

"Who are you!" The Battle Lord's eyes narrowed, feeling a deep threat from the person before her.

Almost instantly, both parties perceived a vast gap between their strengths.

"Black and white silver mask, veiled in red, eyes like cold stars, wielding the Heartless Sword, are you the one known as the Battle Lord?" The mysterious figure's voice seemed to come from all directions, his lips unmoving.

"Ventriloquism?" The Battle Lord watched the unwelcome guest warily, not daring to be careless.

"Who exactly are you?" Since the other party discerned her identity, the Female Battle Lord knew that if his intentions were sinister, a fierce battle was inevitable.

"Hehe, killing the Battle Lord would surely shock the world outside. I wonder, would that man who claims to be King Yan grieve to death!"

Amidst the chilling laughter, the mysterious figure's crimson cloak fluttered as two curved knives at his waist reached the Battle Lord's neck without a sound, a bewildering feat.

The Battle Lord swung her sword, swiftly retreating to dodge this fatal attack.

Recoiling, her eyes shook sharply as she caught sight of the blood-red eerie paper parasol on the mysterious figure's back and exclaimed in surprise, "You're the Umbrella Emperor!"

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