Chapter 16: You joked with me first
With Li Tianran's command, the hunting dog-level guard opened its steel jaws and leaped out of the wall. In a matter of seconds, the attacking thugs were engulfed in flames.
Screams resounded as five fire figures appeared instantaneously!
The high-temperature flames capable of melting steel incinerated everything to ashes.
In less than thirty seconds, the traces of those thugs were completely erased from this world.
As the farm's gate was pushed open, Li Tianran walked out with a cold smile, approaching the surviving Zhong Ling and Sun Dayou in the distance.
At this moment, both of them were almost scared silly, trembling all over. The way they looked at Li Tianran was as if they were facing the most terrifying demon king approaching them!
This attack plan was proposed by Zhong Ling and orchestrated by Sun Dayou.
However, they never expected that Li Tianran's farm had such terrifying defensive forces, completely beyond their understanding!
Watching those thugs being annihilated without a trace left, Zhong Ling and Sun Dayou were completely panicked.
Their teeth involuntarily collided, making a "da da da" sound.
"Ah!" Finally, unable to bear the fear, Zhong Ling let out a scream, turned around, and hastily got into the car. She tightly locked the door and trembled in the gap between the seats.
Sun Dayou, sensing the danger, was about to rush towards another vehicle, relying on his fat legs. As long as he boarded the driver's seat and started the vehicle, he didn't believe that Li Tianran, with his two legs, could catch up to him with four wheels!
Indeed, Li Tianran couldn't catch up to the car. Even though his physical abilities surpassed that of an ordinary person, he still couldn't compare to the power of a formidable machine. However, Sun Dayou forgot one thing: Li Tianran might not catch up to the car, but it didn't mean he couldn't catch up to him.
Sun Dayou was panting heavily as he desperately ran. Suddenly, he felt an unmatched force crashing into his body!
It was Li Tianran catching up, kicking him with one foot!
Thud!
Sun Dayou's body, weighing nearly 180 pounds, was kicked forward three to four meters by Li Tianran's foot, crashing directly into the truck's door, causing a huge dent!
Ignoring the intense pain coursing through his body, Sun Dayou's nose and mouth started bleeding. He curled up there like a dead dog, holding his head, and howling, "Don't kill me! I'll give you money, I'll give you all my money!"
The images of those thugs dying had left a deep psychological trauma on Sun Dayou. At this moment, he was completely terrified.
Li Tianran felt no mercy in his heart.
People like Sun Dayou had long since become as twisted as maggots!
If it weren't for the presence of the elite guards on the farm today, they would have likely breached the wall and started their rampage in the building!
And once the perpetrators began their acts of violence, their moral boundaries would completely collapse. They might even kill the two siblings after robbing the grain!
The thought of that terrifying scene filled Li Tianran's heart with intense anger.
"Crack!"
Li Tianran stomped on Sun Dayou's left arm, and the sound of bones cracking followed.
"Ah!" Sun Dayou was in excruciating pain, struggling desperately.
"Mr. Li, spare me! It was a moment of foolishness that led me to do such a thing! As long as you spare my life, I'll compensate you with however much money you want!" Sun Dayou pleaded incessantly.
Before the Era of Destruction, he was the deputy general manager of a company, a person with status and identity. When has he ever been treated like this?
But Li Tianran didn't care about your fucking past as a big shot!
Now is the chaotic Era of Destruction, where the former order and civilization will gradually collapse. Only strength is eternal. Whoever dares to harm me, I'll kill them!
"If it was you who breached the farm today and my sister and I were kneeling on the ground, would you spare me?" Li Tianran's mouth curled up slightly as he softly asked.
No, he wouldn't!
Of course not!
"I..." Sun Dayou's brows twitched uncontrollably. Suddenly, his face turned fierce, and his right hand reached into his pocket, pulling out a dagger and stabbing it towards Li Tianran's neck as he screamed, "Die!"
Li Tianran acted swiftly, grabbing Sun Dayou's wrist with his big hand and then exerting force. Sun Dayou felt a sharp pain, and the dagger slipped from his hand. Li Tianran caught the dagger and, without expression, stabbed it backhandedly!
Splat!
Sun Dayou's body trembled, then collapsed softly.
.....
Zhong Ling trembled inside the car, not knowing how to start the vehicle. She could only curl up like a quail, trying to add a sense of security to herself through this ridiculous method.
After a moment, she heard the screams from outside disappear.
She cautiously straightened her body, mustered up her courage, and looked out of the car window.
At that moment, Li Tianran's face suddenly appeared outside the window, a trace of blood staining his forehead. He pressed his face against the window, expressionless, as he looked at her.
Two pairs of eyes instantly met!
"Ah!" Zhong Ling felt her mind go blank.
Overwhelming fear surged up, and her scream pierced through the eardrums, echoing in the sky!
Thud!
Thud!
Thud!
This eye contact didn't last too long because Li Tianran began elbowing the window!
The strength of the window glass of an ordinary truck wasn't high. After three elbow strikes from Li Tianran, countless spiderweb-like cracks had appeared in the center of the glass.
"Bang!"
With a muffled sound, the window glass finally couldn't bear the weight and shattered.
Li Tianran's face remained indifferent. He reached his big hand into the car, firmly grabbing Zhong Ling's hair, and forcefully dragged her out of the car through the broken window.
The fragmented glass scratched Zhong Ling's skin, but at that moment, her fear far outweighed the physical pain.
"Tianran! Tianran! Listen to me, I was forced... It was Sun Dayou who forced me. I'm also a victim, I was wrong! Spare me, please!" Zhong Ling pleaded in tears, trying to salvage the situation with past memories. "Don't you remember, we used to love each other so much! You said you would unconditionally accept me and protect me..."
"That's right! I can return to your side now, can't we start over? Tianran, I still love you!"
Trembling, Zhong Ling begged.
Li Tianran suddenly laughed and nodded. "Not only will I spare your life, but I will also marry you and share everything I have with you."
Zhong Ling was stunned, overwhelmed with great surprise that clouded her mind. She stammered, "T-Tian... Tianran, are you joking with me?"
"You were the one who started joking with me first." Li Tianran shrugged and raised the corners of his mouth slightly. He looked at the woman he had once wanted to marry, a hint of ruthlessness appearing in his eyes.
He didn't expect this woman's heart to be so malicious.
She disguised it too well, and Li Tianran hadn't seen through her at all in the past!
"Zhong Ling, I don't owe you anything. On the contrary, you owe me..." Li Tianran stared at Zhong Ling expressionlessly and coldly asked, "Are you ready to face your punishment?"
Zhong Ling's pupils rapidly contracted, and her eyes were filled with despair.
...
One day later.
"Boss, this is the newly reported list of missing persons..."
In the South City Police Station, a young officer handed over the information to the police chief.
"Sun Dayou, Zhong Ling, Li De..." The police chief read through the names on the list while slurping instant noodles, then irritably pushed the list aside. "More than 500 people go missing or die in South City every day. I haven't had a good night's sleep for days... Just file it for now, we'll deal with it when we have time!"
The young officer nodded, then glanced at the police chief's meal and complained, "More instant noodles again?"
"It's good enough to have something to eat." The police chief sighed, looked at the gloomy sky outside the window, and said, "This damn world, who knows if we'll even have instant noodles to eat in a month? Then we'll just have to wait for death..."