At once, everyone was thunderstruck by the reputation of King Yan, with expressions of shock and reverence upon mentioning his name.

Many people were speculating about the relationship between the King of Mercenaries, L, and the King of Assassins, King Yan.

The RX organization also began to refocus their attention on King Yan.

On the numerous assassin rankings, the Head Reward for King Yan kept rising, but not a single person dared to take the contract.

After all, King Yan was capable of killing even a Supreme Expert, who would dare to take the job? It's like an old man picking his own poison in the dead of night and heading to the latrine—it's practically courting death.

However, some skeptics voiced their doubts, drawing upon extensive knowledge on various underground world forums: Why is King Yan so formidable? He's only been in the game for seven years? To reach such an astonishing level in such a short time simply means that King Yan must have had an amazing master!

The King of Soldiers, L, among the mercenaries, also debuted seven years ago, his tenure indistinguishable from that of King Yan. He's just as mysterious and terrifyingly powerful, growing from a smalltime mercenary to reach the status of the King of Soldiers, and he has never been killed. No major power has questioned his background—what does this mean?

The conclusion that emerged from these analyses is: King Yan and the King of Soldiers, L, might be disciples from the same sect, and their master, very likely, is a veteran Supreme Strong. Hence, Shiva's death has a reasonable explanation.

Many people privately agreed with this hypothesis, believing Shiva might have been killed by King Yan's master, as the disciple's temperament is often similar to their teacher's. Given how protective and dominating King Yan is, his master must surely be an equally protective and dominating, formidable and mysterious figure.

Suddenly, King Yan's master became the focus of everyone's speculations.

And this conclusion made the furious senior officials of the RX organization quickly calm down, even deciding to hold off on pursuing King Yan for the time being. After their analysis, they concluded that behind King Yan, there was also a very terrifying master.

Why would King Yan dare to challenge the RX organization? It's very likely because of the support from this mysterious master.

Since the master is a Supreme Strong, then a deeper analysis suggests that there might be an even larger and more mysterious force behind King Yan and his master, far surpassing the RX organization.

This realization made the high ranks of RX feel as if there was an invisible blade hanging over their heads, leaving everyone on edge.

On the other side, some top-class beauties around the world became restless, showing great concern and feeling extremely jealous. They all made consoling calls to a certain scumbag in Huadu City, who President Ouyang referred to as "Beast Lin", only to find they didn't even know his current number. Irritated, they planned to settle the score with him later.

Queen Qi, in a flurry, drove her little Panda car all over Huadu City, almost causing a huge uproar and failing to find Lin Hai, though she did incidentally catch a few small fries distributing drugs in nightclubs and massage parlors.

In her rage, Queen Qi called Lin Hai all day long, with the only response being: "Hello, the number you have dialed is not in the service area, sorry for whatever."

"That damn Beast Lin, just wait until I get through to you, I'll make you pay for this!" Queen Qi, formidable and fierce, stood in the middle of the main road.

Beep Beep Beep—

An impatient Land Rover was honking behind her.

"What are you honking at? Looking for death?" Queen Qi glared at the Land Rover driver.

"My boss is a developer!" the driver retorted, sticking his head out defensively.

"Get out, park the car for inspection. I suspect you're smuggling drugs!" Queen Qi pulled out her police badge and drew her gun.

The Land Rover driver immediately lost his nerve.

"Sister, let's talk it out, my bad," the driver said submissively.

Yet this tone, for some reason, reminded Queen Qi of Lin Hai's act of feigning obedience, which only made her even angrier.

"Get out of the car! If you dare resist law enforcement, I, the Queen, will shoot immediately!"

The driver was so scared that he wet himself and obediently got out of the car for the check, almost having his underwear turned inside out by Queen Qi.

......…

Elsewhere, Lin Hai turned his phone on.

So many missed calls from Queen Qi that they made Lin Hai's scalp tingle. Just the thought of Queen Qi's furious expression made Lin Hai know that he was in for trouble when he returned to Huadu.

Then, a flood of text messages nearly crashed his poor knockoff phone.

Most of the messages were from Queen Qi, full of various threats and warnings, like "How dare you ignore my calls and disappear, don't let me find you, I'll burst your balls," and other menacing words.

Lin Hai chose to ignore it all. After all, when you're covered with lice, you don't fear the bite, and this wasn't his first time suffering.

"Shura, just hang in there a little longer, it'll be alright." Lin Hai was transferring his Gang Qi to Shura while scrolling through the texts.

"Big bro, don't waste it, I won't die. As long as our brothers' vendetta isn't avenged, as long as I can breathe, I won't die. It's no big deal if my body gets more damaged, stop wasting your Gang Qi," Shura said hoarsely, causing Lin Hai's eyes to redden, and he fell silent.

Lin Hai was frantically draining his own Gang Qi to infuse it into Shura's body, repairing his internal damage.

Sweat dripped from Lin Hai's forehead, his teeth clenched; before him was his brother, his companion in life and death for seven years. He'd rather be ruined than let him die!

Just then, the phone suddenly rang.

Lin Hai pressed to answer and put it on speakerphone, continuing to feed Gang Qi to Shura.

An enraged voice came through immediately: "Wang Balin, where the heck are you? It's been hell looking for you!" It was Queen Qi's voice.

"Big bro, you don't have to do this, really, don't. It's going to be too much for you," Shura said with hoarse concern.

"Lin Hai, who are you talking to?" Queen Qi noticed Lin Hai hadn't paid any attention to her and also heard a weak male voice, becoming utterly confused.

"Big bro, please stop, it's going to be too much for you," Shura cried out again.

"What stop? What's too much? Lin Hai, what on earth are you doing?" Queen Qi grew even more puzzled.

"Big bro, don't, I'm begging you, no more, move your hand away!" Shura felt that Lin Hai was recklessly depleting his physical strength and Gang Qi, and spoke urgently.

Queen Qi on the other end of the phone frowned, her suspicion confirmed.

"Lin Hai, you, you, you're actually gay!" Queen Qi yelled in disbelief, eyes bulging, phone in hand.

Hearing Queen Qi's words from the speakerphone, Lin Hai almost choked on his breath causing his Gang Qi to rebel.

"I'm TM not gay!" Lin Hai was filled with indignation.

"I think your denial sounds pretty weak. Tsk tsk, I never realized, does it feel good, huh?" came Queen Qi's teasing and rather lewd laugh from the phone.

Exhausted of Gang Qi, Lin Hai's vision went dark. Whether from physical depletion or Queen Qi's infuriating words, he fainted.

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