Chapter 045
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Chapter 045 Visitors from the West
It was already midnight, and most roads were quiet. Even in such a bustling city, the night brought considerable tranquility. On the road leading to the Lin family estate, few cars passed by. The bright street lights illuminated the straight avenue, and Su Rui was in a fairly good mood. Although he hadn’t slept for a long time, there wasn’t much fatigue visible in his expression.
Lightly patting his thigh with his palm, Su Rui muttered to himself: “Missing sleep in the middle of the night, it seems this task of mine isn’t really a good thing. That damn bastard, assigning me such a crappy job.”
This old guy must think he’s a big shot in the Western underworld, believing he has the ability to resist those restless Western forces, which is why he called Su Rui over.
But Su Rui really didn’t want to expose his identity in China, as many people there would create unnecessary trouble for him. This country, this place—he hadn’t been back for a long time. There was much of his past here that he was unwilling to mention.
Of course, if it weren’t for those events, his life wouldn’t have deviated from its path to become what it is now. But sometimes, a single moment’s difference can easily change a person’s fate. If he had continued being a soldier, obediently following orders and regulations, perhaps he could have had a decent future.
However, Su Rui was born to break rules. Trying to make him follow procedures and rules established by predecessors or superiors was truly harder than climbing to heaven.
People like Su Rui, who excel at breaking rules but not at following them, often accidentally become rule-makers themselves.
Su Rui understood that if people from the Western underworld appeared, then exposing Sun God’s presence in China would be inevitable sooner or later.
He had the taxi stop at some distance from the Lin family estate. After getting out, Su Rui didn’t take the main road but walked along the roadside greenery, staying in the shadows of the trees.
Along the way, Su Rui moved very lightly and quietly, not making a sound even with his footsteps. An ordinary person passing by wouldn’t know there was someone walking in these bushes.
Despite the thickets and short wood scattered throughout the green belt, Su Rui moved as if on flat ground, easily avoiding obstacles in his path without any hindrance.
When he was only five hundred meters from the Lin family estate, Su Rui spotted two figures ahead. These two looked somewhat suspicious, wearing black stealth suits and moving stealthily, clearly having some ulterior motive.
Moreover, the style of these stealth suits gave Su Rui a sense of familiarity, because in the Western underworld, many people would choose this type of suit for operations. These clothes weren’t even available for sale in China!
This indicated that these two people were from the Western underworld!
Having deduced this point, Su Rui’s expression gradually turned cold!
Following behind the two men, Su Rui walked several hundred meters, yet they hadn’t noticed him at all.
These two unfortunate souls had encountered the grandmaster of tracking today.
Su Rui saw that these two were heading toward the Lin family estate, making his expression even more solemn, with a cold glint in his eyes.
Speak of the devil—they had arrived with remarkable speed.
Su Rui considered himself a person with high professional standards and someone who always delivered on promises. Since he had agreed to take on this task, he would definitely do his best to complete it successfully. Keeping his word was one of the principles by which Apollo, the Sun God, operated.
It was evident that these two were professional stealth experts. Moving at night, they made almost no sound, with every action being professional. They were definitely not comparable to those ordinary, clumsy amateur thieves in China.
The two men targeting the Lin family estate clearly had malicious intent. Su Rui was only a few dozen meters behind them, yet they remained completely unaware as they walked directly to the wall of the Lin estate. They didn’t immediately climb over the wall but instead opened some portable device and began carefully checking everything around the wall. They moved cautiously with their instruments until finally stopping at a corner of the wall.
The two exchanged glances, nodded, pointed to the top of the wall, and then like spiders, they climbed up the wall silently.
Seeing these movements, a cold light flashed in Su Rui’s eyes, because he could perform the same climbing technique!
Well, they’ve finally come, these impatient fellows.
Su Rui felt somewhat relieved that he had come tonight; otherwise, letting these two approach the Lin family estate would have had unimaginable consequences. It seemed the situation had become extremely urgent—the Western underworld was already stirring!
For this so-called triazolam, driven by profit and tempted by enormous financial gain, they could do anything that violated human moral principles!
“It seems this so-called Lin family estate is quite easy to breach!”
As the two men were climbing the wall, they couldn’t help but feel a sense of ease. The organization had entrusted them with this task because they valued their abilities. This mission could secure enormous benefits for the organization, and if they completed it, they would also receive many corresponding rewards. Now, it seemed the task was about to be completed!
All they needed to do was climb into the Lin family estate, find the young lady Lin Aoxue, kidnap her back to the West, and then they could return to claim their reward!
In fact, from beginning to end, they hadn’t really considered the difficulty of this task. After all, China’s underground world and the Western dark world were completely different levels—the former couldn’t be compared to the latter. These two men were somewhat famous experts within their organization and believed that coming to China to capture a woman and take her back wasn’t too difficult.
However, these so-called experts failed to realize that their every move was clearly visible on the security monitors in the Lin family villa’s security room!
Su Rui had installed counter-surveillance cameras in all the blind spots of the estate. As soon as a moving figure appeared in the video, it would automatically trigger an alarm, but this alarm could only be heard in the monitoring room and in the bedrooms of Lin Fuzhang and Lin Aoxue!
At this moment, Lin Aoxue, wearing pajamas, was lying in bed with her eyes gently closed, occasionally fluttering her eyelashes as she slept sweetly. However, a series of urgent beeping sounds woke her from her dream!
Rubbing her eyes, Lin Aoxue’s expression became serious. She quietly got out of bed and walked to the alarm, gently pressing it to turn it off. She knew without thinking that this was equipment left by Su Rui, designed to notify them in case of danger!
She hadn’t expected that with Su Rui away today, this device would come in handy so quickly!
In the main monitoring room, the alarm also sounded softly but clearly! The security captain immediately went on high alert, quickly notifying his team to assemble. Just then, Lin Fuzhang, in his pajamas, arrived at the door of the monitoring room.
“Everyone heard the alarm?” Lin Fuzhang asked in a deep voice.
“Report to the boss, we all heard it, and I’ve already seen the figures on the video. That Mr. Su is really impressive—he’s incorporated all the previous blind spots into the surveillance range. We detected intruders as soon as they entered.”
“The people coming this time might be quite extraordinary. You must all assemble and respond carefully. Don’t underestimate them.” Lin Fuzhang, having weathered many storms, remained calm in this situation.
Although Lin Fuzhang didn’t know how formidable the Western underworld was, in his eyes, those foreign powers were indeed quite mysterious. Sending two people to the Lin family estate this time clearly indicated malicious intent—either to steal the formula for triazolam or to kidnap Lin Aoxue. In either case, Lin Fuzhang would not allow it to happen!
“Alright, go quickly. Leave two people to protect the young lady, and the rest must eliminate all intruders!”
At this point, Lin Fuzhang’s voice became even more solemn, “I said eliminate—we want them dead, not alive.”
“Yes!” The security captain released the safety on his gun, equally grave.
Having fought and struggled in the business world for so many years, rising from a small salesperson to his current position, Lin Fuzhang relied not only on wisdom and intelligence but also on tougher measures. He knew that sometimes one must be firm, letting everyone know your stance. This principle of dealing with the world was somewhat similar to Su Rui’s.
Lin Aoxue also arrived at the door of the monitoring room. Even in loose pajamas, her graceful figure couldn’t be concealed.
At this moment, Lin Fuzhang turned around and saw his daughter in her pajamas, saying with slight surprise: “Aoxue, why are you out here? Quickly go back to your room, it’s safer there. I’ll immediately arrange for two people to protect you.”
Lin Aoxue shook her head without saying a word. She walked to the monitoring screen and watched the two figures skillfully climbing the wall, a hint of hesitation and complexity flashing in her eyes.
Perhaps this was all her fault. If she had secretly researched triazolam, quietly applied for the patent, and kept it to herself without letting anyone know, then perhaps the Western underworld wouldn’t have coveted it so much.
The innocent bear the blame for possessing jade. Yet Lin Aoxue had insisted on publishing that paper representing significant research achievements in the most famous natural science journal. Of course, her intentions were good—she wanted to help Bikang gain recognition and let the whole world know about Bikang Group’s existence, given the journal’s enormous circulation and influence beyond imagination.
If she had known that this triazolam, after one simple synthesis, could become the main ingredient for a new type of Western drug, Lin Aoxue would never have published this hot potato so openly and prominently in the natural science journal.
Of course, at this point, regret was useless. All they could do was respond carefully; there was no other way.
Fortunately, the monitoring equipment brought by Su Rui had served its purpose. Those two people had detected the presence of the Lin family’s other surveillance equipment but hadn’t noticed these few hidden counter-surveillance cameras personally installed by Su Rui!
