Chapter 232: Never provoke an honest person!

Inside the fire escape stairwell, Lin Yuan leveraged the narrow stairwell's advantage and went on a killing spree all the way through!

Below the stairs, a large group of bodyguards were kicked over one after another.

Miserable cries intertwined into a chorus.

Lin Yuan stepped over the bodies of bodyguards strewn across the floor, descending step by step.

But Lin Yuan didn't rush to escape; after going downstairs, he headed straight to search the other floors of Changsheng Group...

He was searching for the offices of other senior executives of Changsheng Group.

He found the executives of Changsheng Group!

Just now, as Lin Yuan passed through the hallway, he took photos of the 20 executives of Changsheng Group; now he must find each one of them!

These 20 senior members are core members of Changsheng Group, and their offices are located on various floors of the company.

Lin Yuan went after them one by one.

Lin Yuan pursued them all the way, and on the 25th floor of the group he found the office of Changsheng Group's Financial Director.

Lin Yuan burst into the office and directly seized the Financial Director.

He harshly interrogated him with silver needles; the Financial Director, never having endured such torment, kept begging for mercy.

"Speak! During your tenure as Financial Director of Changsheng Group, how many wrongdoings did you help the group commit? Spill it all! I'll spare your life!" Lin Yuan interrogated coldly.

Although Lin Yuan is an honest man, when pushed to the brink he becomes more ferocious than a wolf.

Hence there has always been an ancient warning: Never provoke an honest person!

At this moment, Lin Yuan became more ruthless than a wolf.

Under Lin Yuan's silver-needle interrogation, the Financial Director screamed repeatedly, feeling as if his entire body's muscles and skin were being torn apart, pain excruciating.

"I... I say... please let me go... uh..." the Financial Director begged while letting out ferocious screams.

He recounted, in detail, all the years of false accounts, bad debts, and various illegal acts he had done for Chang Jinghe.

In a grey-industry group, the Financial Director is the most important position.

Because a grey-industry group involves a large amount of non-compliant business, these businesses need to be liquidated, need balanced books, and need various money-laundering operations.

And these businesses can only be handled by financial accountants.

Therefore, a grey-industry group's financial accountant knows many of the company's illegal secrets.

The financial accountant of a grey-industry company also wields great power, equivalent to being the company's second-in-command.

Under Lin Yuan's interrogation, Changsheng Group's Financial Director disclosed all the group's extensive non-compliant businesses.

Lin Yuan recorded this entire scene on his phone.

These will become evidence to indict Changsheng Group!

After recording the video, Lin Yuan wasn't satisfied; he also had the Financial Director copy all sorts of confidential financial files from the computer, and Lin Yuan copied those confidential financial documents into a USB drive.

At that moment, outside the Financial Director's office, a large number of bodyguards were trying to rush in.

In a flash of raising his hand, several silver needles shot out!

Like a net in a rainstorm!

"Pfft... pfft-pfft-pfft!" The silver needles burst out; a group of bodyguards screamed, having no time to rush in before being struck by the needles and collapsing one after another.

Lin Yuan's needle technique and concealed weapons are terrifying; he can accurately strike several targets at once from over ten meters away.

With a raise of his hand, more than ten silver needles shot out, simultaneously hitting the acupoints of more than ten bodyguards.

More than ten bodyguards screamed as they collapsed simultaneously, their cries unceasing.

Lin Yuan used silver needles to seal their navel points, leaving their bodies paralyzed and unable to move.

Lin Yuan stepped out of the office, and in passing retrieved the silver needles embedded in the bodyguards.

Lin Yuan retrieved the silver needles and once again fought his way out.

Outside the hallway, wails filled the air.

Lin Yuan again went downstairs, found several other senior executives, and interrogated each one with silver needles.

Under Lin Yuan's ruthless interrogation, these senior executives all broke down, confessing fully to the criminal acts they had participated in for the group...

Lin Yuan continued his descent, locating the executives and interrogating them one by one.

Within the group, all twenty executives! He took them down, interrogated them using traditional Chinese acupuncture methods, extracting their criminal evidence! Lin Yuan recorded it all on his phone!!

He knew the principle of cutting weeds at the root! Since he had neutralized Chang Jinghe, he must completely dismantle the entire group!

And because Lin Yuan kept delaying time while interrogating the executives, his own injuries grew ever more severe.

After all, the group's building housed many bodyguards, and Lin Yuan alone could not stand against so many.

His stamina gradually waned, and the speed of his attacks grew ever slower.

Finally, Lin Yuan ran out of stamina; as he rushed down from the 15th to the 14th floor, he could no longer hold on, was kicked over by a gang of bodyguards, and tumbled down the stairs.

"Kill!!" Inside the stairwell, a gang of Changsheng Group bodyguards roared, countless blades slashing at Lin Yuan!

Lin Yuan, due to his exhausted stamina, carelessly received several more blows; blood had already stained his clothes dark red, even the blood clung to his clothing and congealed into scabs.

Lin Yuan trembled as he climbed up from the stairs, then swung his hand again, sending a group of bodyguards flying.

At this moment, Lin Yuan's face was covered in blood, making him look like a ferocious bloody figure.

"Pfft—!" Behind him, a bodyguard bellowed, suddenly thrusting a knife from behind that plunged deep into Lin Yuan's back.

"Die, you bastard!! Priest!!" the bodyguard roared ferociously, driving his knife further into Lin Yuan's body!

Blood instantly surged from Lin Yuan's back!

That lackey's eyes were ferocious, filled with madness and excitement!

It seemed he could soon take down Lin Yuan!

As long as he could kill Lin Yuan, he would receive a huge bounty from Chang Dong!

"Die! Priest Lin Yuan!! You're nothing more than this!!" the bodyguard's lackey snarled, putting all his strength into another thrust of his knife!

But this time, Lin Yuan suddenly reached out and fiercely grabbed that knife.

Immediately, in the bodyguard's shocked gaze, Lin Yuan actually pulled the knife out from his back with his bare palm!

Lin Yuan's palm was also slit by the blade, blood flowing freely, yet he managed to pull the knife out.

The next second, Lin Yuan snapped the knife in half and fiercely stabbed the broken blade into that bodyguard's abdominal cavity!

"Puchi!" The broken blade stabbed into the bodyguard's abdomen, piercing straight through his stomach and back!

That bodyguard's pupils dilated sharply, shocked, horrified, disbelieving!

He never imagined, even in his dreams, that this priest Lin Yuan, wounded as he was…… could actually strike back and wound him severely?!

"You……" the bodyguard's eyes blood-red and feral, wanting to speak, but as soon as he opened his mouth, a mouthful of blood spurted out.

At that moment, another large group of bodyguards rushed up from below the stairs.

"Kill!!!" the bodyguards roared, blades of cold weapons hacking toward him.

Lin Yuan, gritting his last strength, grabbed that bodyguard and used him as a meat shield!

Since they wanted to kill him, Lin Yuan showed no mercy, using that bodyguard as a shield to block!

"Puh… puh-puh!" blades hacked into the meat-shield bodyguard.

The meat-shield bodyguard's eyes feral and blood-red, his body covered in knife wounds, on his last breath.

Lin Yuan kicked a group of bodyguards down the stairs, then, enduring his last strength, he rushed straight into the 14th-floor corridor.

Lin Yuan's mind conjured the structural diagram of the Changsheng Group building.

Based on his knowledge of the building's structure, he knew that inside the Changsheng Group building's 14th floor there was a central duct vent—this was his sole escape route.

Before infiltrating the Changsheng Group, Lin Yuan had already planned his retreat.

He knew that relying solely on himself, it was absolutely impossible to survive charging down the fire escape stairwell.

Below the fire escape stairwell, countless security teams were still rushing upward.

Lin Yuan's strength was utterly insufficient; he feared he would soon collapse from exhaustion and be hacked to death by random blades.

Lin Yuan's only retreat was to withdraw to the 14th floor, then crawl into the ventilation duct and escape along it!

Lin Yuan had escaped into the 14th floor; suppressing his injuries all over, he rushed into the 14th floor.

Lin Yuan shook off the bodyguards behind him, turned left and right in the 14th floor, then, taking advantage of everyone's inattention, he vanished.

Lin Yuan quickly arrived at the equipment room on the 14th floor!

Here there is an entrance to the ventilation duct.

Lin Yuan climbed straight to the ceiling top, kicked open the ventilation duct cover, and barely crawled inside the duct.

This ventilation duct isn't large; inside a single duct, there's just enough room for Lin Yuan to crawl through.

Lin Yuan hid inside the ventilation duct, one person straining to climb…

Throughout the ventilation duct, the passages he had climbed retained a large patch of bloodstains.

Lin Yuan's body was suffering severe blood loss.

Meanwhile, inside the 14th floor of the Changsheng Group, a sea of bodyguards surged forward.

Yet the bodyguards had searched every inch of the 14th floor, but still couldn't find Lin Yuan's whereabouts?!

That Lin Yuan seemed to have evaporated into thin air, completely vanished?!

"Search!! He's definitely still in the building!! Search every lower floor too!! I refuse to believe he could just vanish!" the Security Captain shouted furiously.

A group of bodyguards continued frantically searching for Lin Yuan's whereabouts!

……

Meanwhile, in the Changsheng Group's underground basement level‑2 parking lot,

The mouth of a ventilation duct was suddenly pushed open; inside, a blood‑soaked figure slowly crawled out of the duct.

Lin Yuan was covered in blood; he expended his last breath and crawled out of the duct.

In the underground parking lot, Lin Yuan smashed a car's window glass, then opened the door and slipped inside.

His consciousness was growing increasingly hazy.

Lin Yuan ruthlessly drove a Silver Needle into his own heavenly acupoint, forcing his consciousness to recover.

He gritted his teeth, connected the car's two ignition coils, and the engine ignited instantly despite having no key.

Lin Yuan pressed the accelerator, driving straight out of the Changsheng Group's underground parking lot…

By the time Lin Yuan drove out of the parking lot, the security guards at the entrance finally reacted!

The security guards anxiously grabbed their walkie‑talkies to report: "Report! Report!! We've spotted Lin Yuan's movements! He's driving out of our group's underground parking lot!!"

"Bang!" Lin Yuan's car smashed through the gate's barrier, burst out of the lot, and sped away.

A few minutes later, inside the Changsheng Group, a fleet of BMW sedans sped out in pursuit!!

On the midday avenue, a fleet of BMW sedans madly chased a sedan ahead.

Inside the leading BMW, Lin Yuan sat in the driver's cabin, blood continually seeping from his body, his consciousness quickly fading.

He had lost too much blood; his body temperature plummeted, he felt cold, his temperature was only a few degrees, and he could barely hold on.

Behind him, dozens of BMW cars were still frantically pursuing!