Chapter 1741: Li Laide

Hearing Chen Ling directly call out his name, the young Li Laide's brain crashed.

Oh no...

Is this a hunter who took down a wanted poster and is coming to take my head for the bounty?

But how is this possible? Coming to steal from this factory building today was a completely temporary impulse. How could the other party wait for him here in advance? Could it be the Path of Divination? But he looks more like the Path of the Thief...

Could it be that there's also the Path of Divination behind him? He isn't fighting alone, but has a team?

In this instant, countless thoughts flashed through Li Laide's mind, and his heart also sank to the bottom along with them...

He knew that this time he had most likely fallen.

He opened his mouth and was just about to say something when a surging power of thought crashed into his mind. He only felt his vision go black, completely losing consciousness.

...

Li Shangfeng sat up in the bright morning light, stretching lazily and yawning.

"Sleeping on this concrete floor for too long, my back still aches a bit... next... mm? Oh no! The lights aren't turned off! My electricity bill!!"

Li Shangfeng seemed to have remembered something, his sleepy eyes instantly widening. He looked at the electric light above in terror. After discovering that it seemed to have tripped and turned off a long time ago, his entire person breathed a sigh of relief.

Li Shangfeng washed up a bit first. Walking out of the factory building and returning home, he saw that the dining table was already full of breakfast: bread, milk, eggs, plain congee, fried dough sticks, everything one could wish for...

Li Shangfeng raised his brow. Just as he was planning to properly praise his good younger sister a few times, he saw a note placed on the tabletop:

[I went to school, this is breakfast for Boss Chen!]

[Li Shangfeng is forbidden from eating it!!]

Li Shangfeng: ...

The corners of Li Shangfeng's mouth twitched. Pretending not to see it, he threw the note into the trash can. After drinking a bowl of plain congee and eating a fried dough stick, he knocked on Chen Ling's door.

"Boss Chen, breakfast is ready... want to get up and eat a bit?"

He asked carefully.

A moment later, the door was slowly opened.

Chen Ling, wearing brown clothes, stood at the door, smiling and nodding to him: "Thank you."

"Ahem, I didn't know what you like to eat Boss Chen, so I just prepared some bread and milk... um, I'll go out for a bit first, just make yourself at home."

Li Shangfeng greeted simply, then returned to the factory building to grab some things and left hurriedly.

Chen Ling stood behind the window, watching the several illusory figures follow Li Shangfeng into the distance. The fingertips in his sleeve raised slightly, and a red paper tentacle passed through the living room to under the bed in the room, dragging out Li Laide who was sleeping soundly like a dead dog.

Li Laide in this period looked to be about seventeen or eighteen years old. Wearing a very decent black waistcoat, paired with his slightly curly long hair and those mixed-race three-dimensional facial features, he was like a young noble walking out of a storybook... It was just that the face of this noble right now was already blackened in patches by last night's fire, looking very wretched.

Chen Ling just stood by the window like this, narrowing his eyes and looking down at him. With a thought, the red paper tentacles clinging to Li Laide's body fiercely gave him a slap in the face.

The youth instantly woke up from his coma with a start!

Li Laide's reaction was incredibly fast. The instant he opened his eyes, he instinctively jumped up like a spring. But in the next second, several red paper tentacles heavily pressed on his back, forcefully pinning him in front of Chen Ling like chains...

Li Laide discovered he couldn't break free, so he could only glare at Chen Ling, the youth's deep blue eyes full of unyieldingness and stubbornness.

"What kind of look is this?" Chen Ling said faintly. "What... not convinced?"

"Who exactly are you? Why do you know my name, know I would come here?" Li Laide opened his mouth through gritted teeth. "You must have had your eyes on me from a long time ago, right? About my matters... how much do you know?"

"It's also a coincidence to say... I didn't do anything, it was you who delivered yourself to the door."

"Hehe, do you think I'll believe it?"

"Perhaps, fate is just this wondrous." Chen Ling opened his mouth unhurriedly. "However, regarding your matters, I indeed know quite a bit..."

Hearing these words, Li Laide's expression changed. He said coldly:

"If you want to kill, then kill! I have no background, no gang. Killing me to get the bounty, this matter will be considered clean and simple... It's my skills being inferior to others, I admit defeat!"

"...Oh?"

Chen Ling's ruby-like eyes narrowed, sharply staring at Li Laide. "I haven't said anything yet... what are you nervous about?"

"You!"

Li Laide gritted his teeth, unwilling to speak more with Chen Ling, stubbornly turning his head to look to the side.

"At this age, you're already almost at the 5th-rank of the Path of the Thief... worthy of being you." Chen Ling opened his mouth unhurriedly. "If I guessed correctly, from the time you stepped onto a Divine Path until now, it shouldn't have been long either."

"What? Do you know me very well?"

"In a certain sense... yes."

Of course Chen Ling knew Li Laide. When he was in the Wuji Domain, he had no lack of dealings with the other party... Moreover, in the Akashic Tower, he had even deduced Li Laide's limit state. I'm afraid even Li Laide himself didn't understand himself as well as the current Chen Ling did.

"...Psychopath." Li Laide rolled his eyes. "What exactly do you want to do? I'll tell you first, I have no money to compensate you... Either you take my head to get the bounty, or let me go."

"You aren't going anywhere."

Chen Ling walked slowly to the side of the dining table and sat down. He picked up a piece of bread, used a table knife to wrap a layer of butter, and slowly and evenly spread it on its surface, seemingly neither planning to kill Li Laide nor planning to let him leave.

Li Laide couldn't figure out what this guy in front of him exactly wanted to do. His gaze continuously swept around, trying to find an opportunity to escape. Even if this opportunity was extremely slim, he had never been a person who would easily give up.

Li Laide's brain cells were being consumed crazily. At the same time, a burst of rumbling sound of a hungry stomach rang out from his belly.

Li Laide: ...

Chen Ling glanced at him, silent for a moment.

He gently waved his hand, and all the red paper tentacles pinning Li Laide's body retracted. He said faintly:

"Come over, sit down and eat."

Li Laide was startled, seemingly not expecting Chen Ling to let him off so easily. His deep blue pupils turned. In the next second, overwhelming kitchenware was stolen out of thin air to in front of him, and then hurled toward Chen Ling!

At the same time, he nimbly flipped his body, leaping out from the window behind him!

Li Laide's heart had almost jumped out of his throat. While sprinting wildly at the risk of his life, he concentrated fully on listening to the movements behind him. When he didn't hear the sound of a single piece of kitchenware hitting the ground, he knew he was finished...

Sure enough, his figure that had run dozens of meters out began to retreat uncontrollably again. After tumbling back in backward from the window in a bizarre posture, along with the kitchenware dancing wildly in the sky just now, they returned to their original positions.

By the dining table,

Chen Ling unhurriedly put down the perfectly spread bread, his gaze looking at him leisurely...

"Come over..."

"Sit down and eat."