Chapter 319 Can You Still Stay Calm?

"I killed your son, that’s too much, huh? Why don’t you think about the fact that your son tried to kill me first?" Li Yan kicked him to the floor, stepped on his chest, and snarled, "It just happened to be me! If it were someone else, your son would’ve already hired people to kill him! Other people’s sons aren’t human? You slaughter them right in front of their parents?"

Li Yan’s words were just his anger lashing out, but obviously, they weren’t going to make Liu Chen reflect on anything.

Most people in this world are always strict with others and lenient with themselves, and on top of that they’re good at finding excuses for themselves. The same thing, if someone else does it, they get righteously furious; if they’re the one doing it, they feel they were forced, that they had no choice.

Liu Chen thought his revenge, his counterattack, was because Li Yan killed his son, his only son! As for what his son had done, he didn’t care; that was a separate matter.

In a sense, Li Yan was just an ordinary person too, with the same kind of mentality. His grudge with the Liu family also had cause and effect on both sides. Because Liu Yuyang wanted to kill him, he killed Liu Yuyang; and because of that, it led to Liu Chen launching an all-out revenge on him and all his relatives and friends; and Liu Chen’s revenge, in turn, made it inevitable that Li Yan had to wipe him out!

This is what people mean by an eye for an eye, a debt of blood paid in blood, with no end in sight!

"It was you... haha! It was you! Li Yan!" Liu Chen had completely sobered up. When he looked at Li Yan, hatred twisted his features, but he didn’t panic or fly into a rage. Instead, he showed a gloomy, pleased grin. "So it really was you who killed Yuyang. Then my revenge was worth it!"

"Whether it’s worth it or not depends on the outcome. Maybe you think it’s worth it now, but who knows if you’re the one paying an even bigger price?" Li Yan stared at Liu Chen lying on the ground. He only needed to press down and he could crush him to death with one stomp, but killing him that easily would be too cheap!

The smile on Liu Chen’s face grew even more sinister. "You heard everything I said, didn’t you? You must be burning with rage right now! You really want to kill me, don’t you? Go on! It’s fine, my son’s already dead, I’ve got nothing to look forward to anyway. Kill me. Don’t worry, I’m not hoping anyone will come save me. I’ve already seen through life and death."

Seeing Li Yan frown, he continued, "Thinking of using my old woman to threaten me? That’s fine too. With Yuyang dead, she’s even more miserable than I am. If you kill her, you’re actually fulfilling my wish—that’s something I can’t bring myself to do!"

Li Yan’s frown was him thinking over this attitude of his, not considering using his wife as leverage. What puzzled him about Liu Chen was why Liu Chen looked like this. Shouldn’t he hate him to the bone? Seeing him here, shouldn’t he be furious?

"What’s wrong? Don’t dare? Can’t bring yourself to do it?" Liu Chen sneered disdainfully. "What I said just now isn’t some impulsive rant. I’ll tell you the truth! During this time, I’ve been investigating the cause of Yuyang’s death, and at the same time I’ve been making arrangements for afterwards. What needed to be put out there, what needed to be set up, I’ve already done. Most of the shares I own have already been sold off and converted to cash. What would I need that much money for? You should know exactly what use it has, right?"

Obviously, to take revenge!

After finding out his son had once hired assassins, what Liu Chen regretted wasn’t that his son had done such a thing, but that his son had only hired such unreliable low-level assassins! If you’re going to do it, you should spend big money and hire the very best assassins! — In fact, it wasn’t that those two assassins were too useless, it was because their target was Li Yan. If it had been an ordinary person, that guy would’ve been dead long ago.

Li Yan’s pupils shrank slightly. Compared to a professional top-tier assassin like him, Liu Yuyang’s hiring killers was nothing more than child’s play. But Liu Chen’s current "burn-the-boats" move was a completely different story!

Throwing out hundreds of billions just to hire assassins is obviously an exaggeration. But just a billion is enough to make S-class assassins restless. Just like how the leakers’ backer had raised a 1 billion International Coin bounty before—that didn’t mean one person could get a billion, but it was still enough to make the very top assassins willing to risk being hunted worldwide by Si Country’s SIA, and being jointly wanted with the help of organizations like the International Criminal Police, just to go after Si Country agents.

Li Yan wasn’t exactly sure how much money Liu Chen had. But the fact he could deal with Zhang Tianyi as an equal, plus what he’d seen of his residence, plus things Liu Yuyang had said before, meant he should be a magnate on the same level. Even if, for various reasons, the funds he could mobilize in a short time were limited, if he went all in like this, it would still be on the 10-billion level. That was enough to drive every assassin out of their minds! Maybe even including malicious shorting attacks on Paradise Group and the like.

...

Looking at Liu Chen laughing so heartily, not fearing death at all, Li Yan suddenly understood!

It wasn’t hard to understand why Liu Chen wasn’t afraid of death. He was clearly someone who put a huge emphasis on having a male heir to carry on the family name. At his age, when he’d failed to have more children and was looking forward to holding a grandson, his son suddenly died. After a blow like that, his mind was no longer rational.

But his lack of fear of death came with a precondition: his thirst for revenge!

From the vicious decision he’d just made toward Liu Yuyang (the photo), it was obvious the one thing he was determined to do, no matter the cost, was avenge his son—dragging everyone who might have offended his son into the grave with him! Before that goal was achieved, how could he be at peace with dying?

Li Yan gave a cold chuckle. "So what? You want me to kill you? What’s your aim? No rush, let me guess."

Once he figured it out, he actually calmed down a lot; he didn’t feel that surge of rage from before.

"If I’m not mistaken, your wanting to die is to buy time, right? Given the current situation, after hearing your vicious plan, I’d definitely have to kill you, and kill your wife too. And before I kill you, I’d definitely torture you, interrogate you brutally, force you to tell me who else knows about your plan, who’s executing it... That takes a lot of time. Even if I finally squeeze out all the intel I want, then kill you both, then handle the cleanup and get out of here, I’ll already have been delayed quite a while, right?"

Liu Chen avoided Li Yan’s eyes and said coldly, "You think the people around you can still escape death? Whether you kill me or not, you’re all about to go down and keep my son company in the grave!"

"Tsk, tsk... let me keep going. You keep trying to provoke me, to make me lose control and kill you in anger. That way, you’ll actually buy yourself plenty of time for revenge. All those things you’ve already set in motion will keep running smoothly. Like... you’ve already spent a fortune to hire top assassins to come to S City. Those operations are already underway and can’t be stopped, right?"

This time, Liu Chen couldn’t help glancing at Li Yan. He’d just gotten a phone call telling him many arrangements were already in place and that tonight would be the time to end everything. He believed he could withstand any torture and not spill all his plans; but he still didn’t know the full extent of Li Yan’s abilities. From the way Li Yan had silently, without leaving a trace, killed Liu Yuyang and then gotten into the study again, Liu Chen was sure Li Yan was anything but simple!

So his wish to die came after he knew his revenge was already halfway done and about to be completed—he wanted to hold Li Yan here at the last moment. To lure Li Yan into killing him, torturing him—because as long as he delayed things by an extra hour, his revenge would be that much more complete.

Even though his own death meant he wouldn’t get to see Li Yan die or be tortured, as long as Zhang Yurong was killed, plus the series of actions to follow, it would be enough to hit Li Yan hard. Even if the final plan didn’t work out and failed to torture Li Yan to death, it would still make Li Yan taste forever the pain of losing the one he loved most! Living like that would be worse than death!

But...

Now that Li Yan had seen through his scheme, why was he still so calm and composed?

"Aren’t you wondering, since I already know you’re making your move tonight and that there are professional assassins out to kill Zhang Yurong, why I’m not worried at all?"

Liu Chen didn’t say anything, but he really wanted to know.

Li Yan just let out a cold laugh. "You think I’m going to tell you? Keep puzzling over it."

"..." Liu Chen felt suffocated. If Li Yan hadn’t said that whole string of guiding words, he wouldn’t even have hoped for an answer. All he needed was to stall for time according to his own plan. Now that the topic had been brought up but he wasn’t getting any answers, and on top of that Li Yan had that utterly confident look, it made him not only frustrated but also a bit anxious.

’How does he know about the assassins?’

’Why isn’t he worried at all?’

’Did he make some counter-arrangements before he came? That doesn’t make sense!’

"You want to keep me stuck here so that when I get back I’ll receive the news that Yurong’s dead. That way, even if you die, you’ll go to your grave with a smile, right? You even think that if I kill you first and then get the bad news, I won’t be able to vent my anger on you anymore. That’ll make it even harder for me to swallow, and be more satisfying for you than watching me suffer with your own eyes, right?"

"Hmph!" Liu Chen’s words had been hit right on the mark, and seeing Li Yan’s unshakable confidence only made him more anxious. "You’re really not afraid? A man’s words are kind when he’s about to die. I don’t need you to torture me; I’ll give you some useful information for free! I have indeed spent a fortune hiring assassins, more than just one group, and their missions are of different types. One group, well, they’re just like the ones who tried to kill you before, probably the lowest-level assassins! But there are a lot of them, at least a dozen. Oh! Don’t worry, these dozen people won’t kill that bitch Yurong. I just told them to fulfill one of my son’s wishes for him!"

"?" Li Yan frowned.

"Heh heh heh... My son died because he wanted that bitch, because he wanted the Zhang Family. Since he’ll never get to realize that now, I’ll let other people satisfy that wish for him. What he couldn’t get, we’ll destroy completely! Can you still stay calm now?" (To be continued. To find out what happens next, please visit www.qidian.com. More Chapters, support the author, support legal reading!)