"Kid, such big talk, all together? Do you think you can be our match? Hand the person over, and we'll spare your life!"

The young man stared at Lin Fan, speaking coldly.

The three members of the Tang Sect and the masked woman stood in a line facing Lin Fan, four against one, and Lin Fan could never be a match for them.

Lin Fan, however, remained calm and said, "He's right here. If you have the ability, come and take him. But I must remind you, he's been shot and can't take much more. Even if you get him, you won't be able to take him out of the forest alive."

The four people opposite all had changed expressions and turned to look at Ye Tianyu.

Sure enough, Ye Tianyu lay on the ground, barely breathing, his abdomen crudely bandaged, but blood still seeped through.

Lin Fan wasn't lying to them. At this moment, any slight disturbance could well be the end for Ye Tianyu.

A dead Ye Tianyu was of no value to them.

"Senior Brother, what do we do?" The slightly older young lady asked the young man next to her in a low voice.

The young man also couldn't make up his mind immediately. Actually, saving Ye Tianyu wasn't their main goal; their main goal was to get that 1 billion.

Only Ye Tianyu knew where the 1 billion was!

So Ye Tianyu must stay alive, or everything would be meaningless!

Lin Fan smiled and said, "The police will have reinforcements on the way, and you can still make it if you leave now. If you fight me, you may not be able to kill me, and someone might end up in my hands."

"You sure talk big. You think the four of us can't kill you?" The younger girl said, a bit defiant.

Lin Fan smiled and said, "You can try."

At that moment, there was movement in the distance!

Lin Fan was not wrong. There were indeed police reinforcements!

The masked woman gave Lin Fan a long, deep look, snorted coldly, then suddenly turned and flew off.

It seemed she had already made a decision and acted decisively.

She could go and deal with the reinforcement police, but doing so would be pointless now. As Lin Fan said, she wouldn't be able to take Ye Tianyu alive with several sides competing.

In the blink of an eye, the masked woman was gone, her figure swallowed by the dark forest, vanishing from sight.

With the masked woman's withdrawal, the situation changed, and the young man was no longer confident he could defeat Lin Fan swiftly.

Looking at Ye Tianyu on the ground, then at Lin Fan, the young man gritted his teeth and said, "You punk, if it weren't for you, tonight wouldn't have turned out this way. You've gotten yourself into trouble with us; your future problems just got a lot bigger!"

Lin Fan wasn't afraid in the least and said, "Oh, you can come find me any time if you want trouble. But I'm sure you'll regret it."

The young man sneered, "You punk, you have no idea what you've gotten yourself into!"

Lin Fan said, "I do. Ye Tianyu already told me. You guys belong to the Tang Sect of the Hidden Sect, and he bragged about how formidable your Tang Sect is."

The young man was startled. Lin Fan knew, but wait, if this kid knew about the Tang Sect, why wasn't he afraid?

"Kid, you're too arrogant. Don't think you can really contend with our Tang Sect?" the young man sneered. 𝒻𝘳ℯℯ𝑤ℯ𝒷𝘯ℴ𝓋ℯ𝘭.𝑐ℴ𝑚

Lin Fan said, "I still say the same thing; you're welcome to try."

The young man was infuriated, but at the moment, he really didn't want to get entangled with Lin Fan.

Feeling somewhat reluctant, he cast a glance at Ye Tianyu, then gritted his teeth and told the two girls, "Let's go!"

After saying this, he turned and left, and the two girls hurriedly followed.

Before the police reinforcement arrived, they fled the scene, weaving through the dark forest.

"Senior Brother, are we just going to let it be?" The slightly older young lady asked.

The younger girl said, "I think we should have teamed up just now to kill that man!"

The young man said, "If we had teamed up with that woman, we might have been able to take him down. The problem is, if we did take him down, then what? Firstly, we can't guarantee we'll be able to take Ye Tianyu away alive, and secondly, we can't guarantee the woman won't turn on us as she's not exactly a friend of ours."

The slightly older girl said, "So that woman thought the same, which is why she left so decisively?"

The young man said, "Yes, at the moment, the safest thing is to leave Ye Tianyu to the police. As long as Ye Tianyu is alive, we still have a chance!"

The younger girl said happily, "Senior Brother, you mean we'll stay in Yun City a while longer?"

The young man said, "Exactly. As long as there's still a chance, we'll find a way to get Ye Tianyu out. We can't return empty-handed; that'd be embarrassing."

The younger girl said, "Alright, I haven't had enough fun anyway. There are still delicious foods I want to try."

The older girl gave a small sigh, "All you think about is food. Senior Brother, now I'm worried whether Ye Tianyu will tell the police about the money? After all, that person already knows we're with the Tang Sect."

The young man chuckled, "Do you think Ye Tianyu is foolish? The money is his bargaining chip; he wouldn't possibly tell the police!"

The young man was indeed wrong.

He wouldn't have imagined in his wildest dreams that Ye Tianyu, thinking he was going to die, had already told Lin Fan the secret account and password…

The older girl said, "Senior Brother, what kind of person do you think that man is?"

Speaking of Lin Fan, the younger girl also became interested, "Yes, how could this man face us four Hidden Sect disciples and still be so calm!? He didn't seem to fear our Tang Sect at all… And, he looks good…"

She almost blurted out how handsome Lin Fan was, which would certainly irritate the Senior Brother, but she stopped herself just in time.

The young man's expression indeed turned cold, "We could have taken Ye Tianyu tonight if it wasn't for him. He's definitely skilled; I'm not his match."

The older girl said, "Could it be that he's also from the Hidden Sect? I wonder which sect he might be from?"

The young man said, "Hmm, this guy working with the police clearly knows them. It shouldn't be hard for us to find out who he is; we'll also start looking into his background!"

On the other side.

Seeing the four people from the Hidden Sect leaving, Lin Fan breathed a sigh of relief.

He wasn't afraid to fight them, but if he could avoid it, why bother.

To be honest, he didn't want to provoke two Hidden Sects at once, so he gave them a chance to leave. If there was a better solution, Lin Fan wasn't eager to make more enemies.

At first, he only stepped in because Luo Li sought his help to assist the police in capturing fugitives.

Of course, even if he had indeed provoked these two Hidden Sects, Lin Fan wouldn't be afraid. He preferred avoiding trouble when possible, but he wasn't scared of it either.

In fact, Lin Fan hadn't been intimidated at all this whole night, whether by the young man or Ye Tianyu. Lin Fan had never once been afraid, and it was his strong stance that left his opponents feeling uneasy.

They thought he must be skilled, so much so that they wondered if he could be one of the Hidden Sect members himself.

After the Hidden Sect retreated, scattered police in the forest began moving toward Lin Fan's location.

Loli also was helped over by colleagues.

In the end, they did a headcount; no police officer died, but everyone who had faced the Hidden Sect suffered some extent of injury.

It seemed these four from the Hidden Sect didn't want things to escalate too much, so they held back a bit against the police.

Loli saw Lin Fan safe and sound, and sighed in relief, then glanced at Ye Tianyu on the ground and asked, "Is he going to die?"