Jiang Ruoxue's words had left both Old Lu and Zhang Chenze somewhat dumbfounded. But the situation was urgent, leaving no time for excessive thought. Zhang Chenze took three deep breaths, gripped the glass shard, and rushed out.
Qi Xia had already taken off his outer coat and wrapped it around his arm, trying to hold his own against the two men.
"Qi Xia! I'm here to help!"
Zhang Chenze raised the broken glass and stood beside Qi Xia.
"Help me?! Are you crazy?"
Qi Xia said through gritted teeth.
"Get out of here!"
"It's fine..."
Zhang Chenze seemed to be comforting herself.
"We'll be fine..."
Seeing Qi Xia distracted, the blonde man immediately ran forward. He just needed to plunge the knife into his opponent's chest in this critical moment, and it would all be over.
"Qi Xia, look out!"
Zhang Chenze took a step forward, squeezed her eyes shut, and thrust the glass shard forward haphazardly. The blonde man couldn't help but find this amusing. Did she really think she could kill someone with that piece of glass?
He sidestepped, intending to dodge the woman in front of him, but unexpectedly stepped on a metal box on the floor.
"Huh?!"
His body tilted, and he instantly lost his balance. He lunged forward, and his own throat slammed into the glass shard.
"Cough... cough..."
The blonde man immediately spat out a large amount of fresh blood from his mouth.
"You..."
Qi Xia was stunned for a moment, then quickly shoved the blonde man away. Freed from the glass shard, his throat was like an open faucet, gushing blood.
"A'li!!" the bald man roared, rushing forward to support his companion.
The bald man desperately tried to cover the wound on the blonde man's throat with his hand, looking extremely panicked. Qi Xia watched the scene before him, still shaken. That metal box was the one he had dropped when he attacked the green-haired man earlier.
He never thought it would be such a huge help at a time like this... What a fortunate coincidence. Only then did Zhang Chenze finally open her eyes, suddenly realizing her hands were covered in blood.
"Ah!!"
She was so frightened she quickly dropped the glass shard from her hand. She had repeatedly said she needed to kill, but now that she had actually killed someone, Zhang Chenze, who was a lawyer, turned pale with fright. Qi Xia didn't hesitate.
The moment Zhang Chenze dropped the glass shard, he immediately picked up the dagger the blonde man had just dropped on the floor. The battle wasn't over. They absolutely could not let their guard down.
"You motherfuckers are looking for death!!" the bald man roared like a madman, then raised his dagger and came slashing at them.
Qi Xia immediately pushed Zhang Chenze into the room and then took several large steps back. This kind of chaotic attack was the hardest to dodge because you never knew where the opponent would strike. Qi Xia could only try his best to create distance from the bald man.
But Qi Xia was at the end of the hallway, and after three or five steps, he was already forced into a dead end. Although both of them held daggers, Qi Xia's only thought was to survive, while his opponent was like a rabid dog that had lost its mind.
"I'll fight you to the death!!"
The bald man raised his dagger and swung it down viciously. Qi Xia quickly sidestepped to dodge. Taking advantage of the opponent's missed swing, Qi Xia made a split-second decision and slashed the man's arm.
Qi Xia knew he had cut very deep, as if he had hit bone.
"If you want to die, then come on!"
Qi Xia threatened. The bald man completely ignored the pain of his wound, raised his knife, turned, and stabbed toward Qi Xia's heart. Knowing he couldn't dodge in time, Qi Xia quickly lowered his stance.
The knife that should have pierced his heart instead plunged into his shoulder. He let out a pained grunt and immediately stabbed his own dagger toward his opponent's abdomen. But in the next second, the bald man stretched out his left hand and firmly blocked Qi Xia's blade.
The dagger mercilessly pierced through his palm.
"You think you can kill me...?" the bald man said viciously, his eyes wide.
"Have you ever killed anyone?!"
Before Qi Xia could answer, the bald man violently twisted the dagger in Qi Xia's shoulder, gouging out a large chunk of flesh.
"Ugh!!!"
Qi Xia let out a painful scream, the agony almost making him pass out. Just then, a stout figure suddenly rushed over and wrapped his arms around the bald man from behind in a death grip. The bald man was stunned, and the dagger in his right hand fell.
"Damn it..."
The bald man realized the person holding him was the "Spy," Old Lu, and became even more furious.
"You're the one who destroyed our key, aren't you?"
Although Old Lu was terrified, he held on tightly. He knew that if he let go, Qi Xia would surely die. The bald man turned his left hand over, pulled the dagger out from the flesh of his palm, and with a reverse grip, plunged it into Old Lu's ribs.
"Huh?"
Old Lu froze. He only felt something cold enter his flesh, a sensation he had never experienced before. The bald man gritted his teeth, pulled the dagger out, and stabbed several more times.
This time, Old Lu finally felt a bone-deep pain. Old Lu was trembling all over, but he still didn't let go. He opened his mouth and bit down on the bald man's shoulder, and with a vicious twist of his head, he actually tore off a large piece of skin and flesh.
The bald man let out a howl of pain. Just as he raised the dagger to finish Old Lu, Lin Qin appeared from nowhere and stabbed his arm with a glass shard.
"Qi Xia!! If you don't move now, Old Lu is going to die!!" she shouted, her face panicked.
Her shout snapped Qi Xia out of his near-faint. Although his entire left side had gone numb, this was absolutely not the time to collapse. When he saw the situation clearly, his expression turned grim.
Without hesitation, he pulled the dagger from his own shoulder and, with a roar, plunged it into the bald man's neck. The bald man instantly lost all his strength, and all of them collapsed to the floor from exhaustion.
"Old Lu..."
Qi Xia shoved the bald man aside and quickly checked on Old Lu's condition. But after just one glance, Qi Xia's voice began to tremble.
"Old Lu... how are you?"
Old Lu lay on the floor, convulsing. The flesh around his left ribs was a bloody mess.
"Kid Qi... you're not too bright at critical moments..."
Old Lu gave a bitter smile, his face deathly pale.
"Yeah... I'm not as smart as you..."
Qi Xia reached out with trembling hands and pressed down hard on Old Lu's wound, but blood still seeped through his fingers.
"Old Lu, don't die... I haven't paid you back for the ticket this time..."
"How the hell could I die..."
Old Lu sighed and said, "Kid Qi, if you knew my real name, you definitely wouldn't be worried about me..."
"What is it...?"
"Don't laugh when I tell you..."
Old Lu gave another bitter smile.
"Before, whenever I told people my real name, they would all laugh..."
"I won't laugh... I promise I won't." Qi Xia was still trying to find a way to stop the bleeding, but the bald man's attack had been too vicious.
The blood just wouldn't stop.
"My name is Lu Fengxian..."
Old Lu chuckled dryly.
"The name my parents gave me... doesn't it sound like someone who can't die?"
"You're motherfucking Lu Bu reincarnated, of course you won't die..."
Qi Xia knelt on the floor, trembling uncontrollably. Until his head felt like it was splitting open, until Old Lu stopped moving. ... Qi Xia pulled Old Lu in front of him and said in a low voice, "There are a few things I need to tell you."
"Tell me?"
Old Lu was a bit confused.
"Kid Qi, do you have some kind of plan? The game is about to start, hurry up and tell me."
After hearing this, Qi Xia thought for a moment, then spoke.
"It's not really a 'plan'. Old Lu, if the other side invites you to join them, you can agree."
"What?"
Old Lu was stunned for a second, then he understood.
"A plot within a plot, right? I agree first, and then I'll... them from the inside..."
"No." Qi Xia shook his head.
"Old Lu, let's part ways here."
"Huh?"
"I've thought it over carefully. We've only known each other for a short time. If we have to risk our lives for you, the entire team will be uneasy," Qi Xia explained seriously.
"So the best way is for you to leave the team ahead of time. That way, if it comes to a confrontation, none of us will feel any pressure."
"You..."
Old Lu looked a bit dejected. Even though he was a middle-aged, stout uncle, he looked as hurt as a child.
"I'm sorry, Old Lu. I'm just making the most correct choice."
"Kid Qi," Old Lu suddenly interrupted.
"You said you guys can't risk your lives for me, but I can."
"What?"
"Whatever your plan is, don't act on it yet. I will show my 'sincerity' at the first opportunity. It won't be too late for you to decide after you see it," Old Lu said.
"But if we don't accept you at the last moment, you'll die," Qi Xia said.
"You're not that kind of person," Old Lu said with a simple smile.
"I, Old Lu, may have sold socks my whole life, but I'm a good judge of character at critical moments. Just you wait!"
"Sigh..."
Qi Xia shook his head helplessly.
"Even if you say that, I still won't fully trust you. I can only wait and see how you perform."
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