Chapter 786: Fallen into Purgatory!

After several rounds of high-intensity combat, the gunshot wound on Lin Yuan's thigh was completely torn open.

The bullet lodged deep in his flesh kept rubbing and tearing at the fascia and muscles.

The excruciating pain… shot wildly along Lin Yuan's leg nerves throughout his body,

With every step he moved, it felt as if countless steel needles were viciously stabbing his flesh and bone.

But Lin Yuan showed no hesitation whatsoever, nor any intention to retreat.

He clenched his teeth tightly, forcibly suppressing the pain in his leg.

Lin Yuan's heavy steps stepped forward firmly, his gaze locked firmly on the spiraling staircase ahead,

Warm blood kept pouring out, completely soaking his trousers, spreading down the pant legs and dripping.

Half of Lin Yuan's pant leg had already been thoroughly soaked in scarlet blood.

He stepped on the marble floor, each step leaving a wet, bloody print, shocking to behold.

Seeing the crowd surging toward him, a cold light flashed in Lin Yuan's eyes, and he no longer engaged in close combat.

He raised one hand slightly, pinning several concealed special silver needles between his fingertips.

Lin Yuan's wrist jerked suddenly, releasing force with precise explosiveness.

At this moment, the stairwell had already been layeredly blocked by Du Jie's men.

Thick with thugs… they surged down the stairs in layers,

A sea of dark figures packed the entire stairway, layer upon layer, with no end in sight.

Everyone wielded weapons, their faces grim, madly charging at the lone Lin Yuan as he surged forward, vowing to stop him dead in the lobby's stairway entrance.

Lin Yuan raised his hand, and dozens of silver needles shot out explosively, like countless tiny cold glints, bearing extreme speed and piercing power, precisely aimed at the throng of thugs rushing up the stairs.

Whoosh! whoosh! whoosh!

All of Lin Yuan's silver needles struck their targets on the bodies, …

Some pierced the shoulder-neck acupoints, some penetrated the arm flesh, some lodged in the thigh's vital spots.

In an instant, shrill wails rose one after another on the stairs.

The thugs hit by the needles instantly went rigid, limbs numb, strength drained in an instant, unable to stand, each tumbling uncontrollably down the stairs.

Layers of figures tumbled down the stairs wildly, colliding and piling up.

At the stairway entrance, chaos reigned.

The originally impenetrable stairwell blockade was instantly torn open a huge gap by brute force.

Lin Yuan's steps did not stop; he seized the momentum, strode forward, and bent down to raise his hand.

His motion was swift and clean, retrieving each silver needle embedded in the thugs' bodies one by one.

He wiped every silver needle clean, returned them to their places, wasting none.

Lin Yuan moved fluidly throughout, without any hesitation.

After dealing with the wave of thugs that had just charged,

Lin Yuan's leg felt a tearing pain again, surging violently; his body swayed slightly, nearly losing balance.

He knew the bullet remained lodged deep in his thigh muscle; without immediate hemostasis and pressure, he could not sustain further high-intensity combat and would completely lose mobility.

He hesitated not at all, bent down and grabbed a nearby fallen but still alive thug!

Lin Yuan burst with brute force, gripping the man's suit collar tightly with both hands and tearing it hard!

Rip!

A crisp tearing sound rang out as the opponent's neat suit fabric was forcibly ripped by Lin Yuan into several sturdy strips.

Lin Yuan endured the piercing pain, lowered his head, bent over, and moved his hands swiftly,

He wrapped the thick strips tightly around the gunshot wound on his left thigh, layer after layer, tightening them.

The immense binding force fiercely compressed the bleeding wound, forcibly staunching the surging blood flow.

Lin Yuan's tightly bound strips firmly secured the wound and barely stabilized the displaced flesh.

This simple, crude emergency hemostasis made Lin Yuan break out in a fine layer of cold sweat on his forehead from the pain.

His veins faintly bulged, yet he succeeded in staunching the major bleeding, temporarily stabilizing his perilous condition, allowing him to barely continue fighting and climb the stairs.

The tight binding's sore, distending pain mixed with the tearing agony of the bullet grinding against bone and flesh, doubly tormenting Lin Yuan's nerves.

With every lift and placement of his foot, the wound was ruthlessly tugged.

His remaining blood continued to seep slowly into the bandage, darkening the cloth to a dull red, sticking firmly to his flesh, both suffocating and painful.

Lin Yuan shook his slightly numb left leg, suppressing the rising dizziness in his chest.

He gripped the blood-stained machete in his hand; the cold metal sensation instantly reconvened his scattered mind.

But this makeshift binding was ultimately just a temporary measure.

It could only barely suppress the bleeding, unable to dispel the bone-deep pain.

Lin Yuan lifted his foot and stepped out, treading on the scattered glass and blood pools covering the ground, step by step toward the spiraling staircase.

Lin Yuan had no time to rest, nor to hesitate.

The sounds of slaughter and fighting from the top floor faintly transmitted down through the stairwell gaps.

Just thinking that Qin Bore was still fighting alone, surrounded by heavy forces, made the chill in Lin Yuan's eyes grow even more piercing.

Several people wielded heavy steel pipes, bringing howling gusts as they smashed fiercely toward Lin Yuan's head, the force immense!

If struck, lightly it would crack the skull, heavily it would kill on the spot.

Moreover, several people gripped sharp short blades, crouching low to specifically attack his injured left leg.

They clearly saw Lin Yuan's grave injury, seeking to exploit it and cripple his mobility.

At the stairwell turn, the second batch of reinforcing thugs had already rushed down at full speed…

These men were even more ferocious than the grunts below, each with a savage visage, striking without restraint, utterly in a desperate, all-out combat stance.

Lin Yuan bore the intense pain in his left leg, his center of gravity shifted.

He turned sideways……precisely dodging the steel pipe smashing down from above, while the cold light of the machete in his hand flashed, too fast for the naked eye to follow.

Facing the deadly assault from all sides, Lin Yuan did not retreat but advanced, his figure suddenly accelerating.

Puchi!

Lin Yuan's blade……precisely sliced across the wrist of the foremost thug.

This slash of his directly severed tendons and bone halfway through, the thug's entire hand went limp and drooped, blood gushing out.

The thug didn't even have time to let out a full scream before Lin Yuan raised his knee and slammed it hard into his chest, a dull sound of bones shattering ringing out.

His chest caved in directly, the whole person flew backward, slamming heavily into the stair railing and passing out on the spot.

Two thugs behind took advantage of the opening to lunge, steel pipes striking from left and right, viciously sweeping at his waist.

Lin Yuan planted his feet, twisted his waist with sudden force, and bore the two heavy blows, bruising spreading instantly across his flesh, yet he seemed unfazed, swinging his machete sideways in a follow‑up strike!

Both men writhed in pain, their weapons flying from their hands, they clutched their bleeding wounds and collapsed on the stairs, only able to struggle feebly in their dying moments.

Lin Yuan's fierce blade swept across the narrow stairwell, he precisely cut open the chests and abdomens of the two men,

Two ferocious gashes burst open instantly, warm blood splattering onto the stair steps, bright red and glaring.

One after another, thugs rushing down from upstairs collided with Lin Yuan at the stair turn.

Without exception, none of them could withstand a single move.

The narrow stairway could hardly accommodate a ganging‑up crowd; instead it became Lin Yuan's exclusive killing ground.

Relying on his supreme agility, he twisted and turned, each move vicious.

Every slash of Lin Yuan……aimed to maim or kill, with no flashy moves, purely a hardcore fighting style of life‑or‑death combat.

In just a few tens of seconds, half the stairway……was already filled with thugs lying on the ground, wailing.

Corpses and wounded piled up in layers, filling the stairs,

Scarlet blood……slowly seeped down through the gaps between the steps, converging into thin threads.

Some had their arms chopped off, some had their chests and abdomens slit, some had their breastbones smashed by brute force……

Miserable wails echoed back and forth in the stairwell, the bloody smell continually drifting upward through the corridor, so thick it was suffocating.

And the intense pain in Lin Yuan's leg……had long gone numb, the sensation completely turning into icy killing intent.

The ongoing high‑intensity slaughter kept draining Lin Yuan's stamina.

It also repeatedly tugged at his left‑leg gunshot wound.

The wound bound with cloth……split open again and bled.,

Warm blood trickled down Lin Yuan's thigh.

Blood soaked Lin Yuan's shoes; each step he took on the stairs left a bloody footprint.

He lifted his gaze……to the layered stairs above, where a great black mass of thugs was still rushing down!

At this moment, Lin Yuan was soaked in blood, his suit torn to shreds.

His body……was covered in abrasions and knife wounds.

Lin Yuan's left‑leg injury was severe, yet he still stood tall, upright amid the pools of blood on the ground.

Lin Yuan now had only one thought.

Those who block the way, die.

Even if he had to raze this entire hotel today, he would personally bring Qin Bore out safely.

Lin Yuan tightened the loose blood‑soaked cloth on his leg with one hand, gripped the blood‑dripping machete, and lifted his foot to continue pressing upward.

Lin Yuan had just stepped onto two stairs when a piercing dull pain shot through his left leg.

The bullet lodged deep in his muscle……as he stepped, the pulling tugged it hard against the periosteum, sending waves of dizziness straight to his head.

The makeshift cloth binding on his leg……had been completely soaked through with blood, lying limp against the wound, unable to press back the internal congested pain.

Lin Yuan knew that if this remaining bullet wasn't removed, the continual pain from the foreign object……would keep draining his strength.

His subsequent……high‑intensity combat could easily cripple his left leg outright.

Lin Yuan's figure suddenly halted at the stair turn, he leaned against the wall to steady his center of gravity.

Lin Yuan ignored the endless stream of thugs still rushing in from all sides.

He with one hand……quickly produced several sharp silver needles.

No anesthetic, no emergency measures at all.

Lin Yuan's gaze was cold and hard as iron, his legs firmly planted, letting cold sweat drip down his chin.

He pinched a silver needle between his fingertips, precisely aimed at the blurred bullet hole in his leg's flesh, and without hesitation stabbed it deep into the wound.

Lin Yuan's silver needle……precisely separated the adhered fascia and shifted the torn muscle fibers,

He forced the silver needle deep into the flesh, hooking the brass bullet lodged at the edge of the bone crevice.

In an instant, excruciating tearing pain swept through his whole body.

Lin Yuan clenched his teeth tight, a creaking tense sound issuing from between them.

His neck veins bulged and twisted, beads of cold sweat rolled down his forehead and splattered onto his blood‑stained suit.

Lin Yuan showed no hesitation, his wrist exerting steady force along the wound's path, forcibly pulling the blood‑streaked bullet out of the tense muscle!

"Clack."

A bullet coated in fresh red flesh dropped onto the stair, making a clear sound.

His wound instantly lost the foreign object's support, and the accumulated blood spurted out violently,

Blood, wildly streaming down the outer side of Lin Yuan's thigh, instantly soaked the formerly dark cloth through and through, a shocking sight.

Yet in that brief pause, thugs from all directions swarmed to encircle him, packing the entire stairway and lobby floor, far more numerous than before.

Machetes, iron bars, and hammers were raised layer upon layer, cold light flashing, killing intent filling the sky.

Lin Yuan had only a single cleaver left in his hand, close-combat weapons were scarce, and he lacked any protective gear.

Facing a siege by dozens of armed men, relying solely on a short blade, he could not possibly withstand the furious barrage from all sides.

Head‑on confrontation would only be drained by the sea of people; to break through quickly and go upstairs, he needed sufficiently tough defense and a wide‑area crushing offensive.

In the blink of an eye, Lin Yuan settled on a plan.

He ignored the bloody wound on his left leg, suddenly turned, and his figure exploded forward...

Lin Yuan bore the sporadic striking of clubs, charging straight back to the Tesla car body lying sideways in the lobby center.

The thugs behind him, seeing this, thought he was exhausted and fleeing, and they all roared, accelerating their assault.

"Kill!! Don't let him get away!!" the thugs shouted as they chased after him.

The thugs' footsteps were chaotic and violent, layer upon layer closing in.

Lin Yuan reached the car body, Lin Yuan's gaze locked firmly onto the Tesla's heavy all‑steel door.

The next second, he dug his five fingers fiercely into the seam of the car door's steel plate!

Lin Yuan's knuckles tensed with force, his arm muscles instantly bulged, veins crisscrossed, and he forcibly clamped the hard steel car door.

"Ha!"

A deep shout exploded, Lin Yuan twisted his waist, and he poured all his brute strength into both arms!

Screech… Boom!

The spine‑tingling sound of metal tearing ripped open with a roar!

The reinforced car's weld points all ruptured, and the hard steel door was torn from the body by his bare hands alone!

The whole slab of steel door, weighing dozens of catties, flew off, its edges bearing sharp metal burrs, he gripped it heavily in his hands, instantly turning it into the hardest, most overbearing giant shield.

The moment he steadied the steel shield, Lin Yuan's figure suddenly spun back,

Lin Yuan's eyes brimmed with killing intent, facing the dense crowd rushing in, he boldly surged forward!

Three thugs ahead swung their iron clubs hard, the clubs whistling with force as they smashed toward his head.

Lin Yuan raised the steel shield sideways, taking the three heavy blows head‑on!

Clang! Clang! Clang!

Three deafening metal‑clash sounds exploded in succession!

The tremendous recoil force… directly bent and deformed the three iron clubs, the thugs' tiger mouths burst, blood poured out, their arms went numb and rigid.

Before the crowd could react, Lin Yuan surged forward, swinging the heavy steel shield sideways with brutal force!

Bang—!

Overwhelming mighty force bore the heavy steel plate, slamming hard into the chests and abdomens of several thugs in the front row.

The four or five thugs up close were like hit by a speeding truck, their bodies instantly crumpling, chest bones collapsing over a wide area, blood spurting from their mouths, they flew sideways through the air, knocking over more than ten people behind them.

The crowd collapsed in layers like stacked arhats, the crisp cracks of breaking bones, the dull thuds of metal impacts, and the shrill desperate wails intertwined, echoing throughout the hotel lobby.

The subsequent charging thugs could not contain their momentum, repeatedly slamming into the steel shield! @

The thugs either had their bones broken on the spot, flesh mangled, or were directly flung flying and rolling, crashing with heads split and blood flowing, unconscious.

Lin Yuan wielded the heavy steel shield, pushing and crushing all the way, each step a boom, each step a smash.

Anyone who got close could not stop this brutally overwhelming assault!

Wherever his steel shield passed, the crowds scattered completely!

The ground was littered with moaning wounded and limp incapacitated people, scarlet blood spread freely across the lobby floor, the whole space utterly turned into a bloody purgatory…