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Chapter 16: Impossible to Guard Against Completely · Oct 23, 2026

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1 Chapter 1: This Job Entails Certain Risks 2026-10-23
2 Chapter 2: Does This Guarantee Pain? 2026-10-23
3 Chapter 3: Useless Person 2026-10-23
4 Chapter 4: Seeking Advice 2026-10-23
5 Chapter 5: The Reward for Rejecting Humanity 2026-10-23
6 Chapter 6: Test 2026-10-23
7 Chapter 7: Bluffing 2026-10-23
8 Chapter 8: Notes 2026-10-23
9 Chapter 9: Painstaking Effort 2026-10-23
10 Chapter 10: Restricted Scene 2026-10-23
11 Chapter 11: The Vitality of an Evil God 2026-10-23
12 Chapter 12: Special Reward 2026-10-23
13 Chapter 13: A Shocked Young Master Qin 2026-10-23
14 Chapter 14: Our Slacking Off Is Justified 2026-10-23
15 Chapter 15: Passive Slowdown 2026-10-23
16 Chapter 16: Impossible to Guard Against Completely 2026-10-23
17 Chapter 17: Eat My Spear 2026-10-23
18 Chapter 18: I’ve Wanted to Do That for a Long Time 2026-10-23
19 Chapter 19: Mirror 2026-10-23
20 Chapter 20: How Did You Make So Many Enemies? 2026-10-23
21 Chapter 21: How Many of You Can Fight Like That? 2026-10-23
22 Chapter 22: The 100% Kicked-Flying Constitution 2026-10-23
23 Chapter 23: Thug 1/3 2026-10-23
24 Chapter 24: Mindset Determines the Way Out, Perspective Determines the Ending 2026-10-23
25 Chapter 25: She Was Running Out of Time 2026-10-23
26 Chapter 26: Shadow Nightmare 2026-10-23
27 Chapter 27: Crimson Frenzy 2026-10-23
28 Chapter 28: Devour 2026-10-23
29 Chapter 29: Working Overtime Is Impossible 2026-10-23
30 Chapter 30: Whipping to the Core of Li 2026-10-23
31 Chapter 31: Is the Essence of Leveling Up Birthing an Alien? 2026-10-23
32 Chapter 32: Friends 2026-10-23
33 Chapter 33: Angel of Comfort 2026-10-23
34 Chapter 34: True Wall of Sighs 2026-10-23
35 Chapter 35: What Weapon Are You Using? 2026-10-23
36 Chapter 36: Li Weixuan 2026-10-23
37 Chapter 37: Amalgamation 2026-10-23
38 Chapter 38: Path to Survival 2026-10-23
39 Chapter 39: Anomalous Great Disjunction 2026-10-23
40 Chapter 40: Right, I Killed Him 2026-10-23
41 Chapter 41: You Still Don’t Realize the Severity of the Problem 2026-10-23
42 Chapter 42: Blood Puppet 2026-10-23
43 Chapter 43: They Realized the Gravity of the Problem 2026-10-23
44 Chapter 44: Do You Know What Ambergris Is? 2026-10-23
45 Chapter 45: Contention 2026-10-23
46 Chapter 46: I Only Seize the Day 2026-10-23
47 Chapter 47: Dark Night Flowing Frost 2026-10-23
48 Chapter 48: Feast 2026-10-23
49 Chapter 49: You Are the Legendary Dean Feng 2026-10-23
50 Chapter 50: Going Crazy 2026-10-23

Three minutes left.

Compared to the exterior, the villa’s interior was even more opulent.

Inside, a large group of identically dressed bodyguards in suits had just received a signal and was rapidly surging outward.

Fu Qian’s appearance here undoubtedly left the group shocked and uncertain.

Without a word, Fu Qian rapidly weaved through the crowd, setting off countless alarms along the way.

He turned a deaf ear to their shouts. When a few tried to block him, he nimbly dodged past.

The villa instantly descended into chaos.

The piercing alarms grew increasingly intense. Fu Qian clearly noticed a large number of bodyguards converging on the door of a specific room.

One minute left.

This should be the place.With the bodyguards so tense about this area, there was a high probability that Eldest Miss Wen was inside.

Fu Qian strode forward, casually snatched up a stone table, and hurled it.

Howling through the air, the table transformed into a flying disc. Its terrifying momentum forced the bodyguards to retreat in droves, violently smashing a clear path open in front of him.

Fu Qian followed right behind it and kicked the door open without hesitation.

Two women were inside.

One of them was in her early twenties, with beautiful features and picturesque brows, carrying the distinct air of a noble young lady.

Right now, she was sitting at a table, holding a bowl of soup in her hands, evidently about to drink it.

There was a high probability this was Wen Li.

Without a second thought, Fu Qian fired off an Air Bullet.

Although he still could not be certain how she died, one thing was clear: continuing her current action would lead to her death.

So stop right there.

After days of practice, Fu Qian’s accuracy had vastly improved.

The Air Bullet directly shattered the bowl in the woman’s hands into pieces. Amidst her scream, the scalding hot soup instantly drenched her like a drowned rat.

At that moment, footsteps echoed behind him. A large group of people rushed in, completely surrounding Fu Qian.

”Who are you? Who sent you?”

At the very front of the charge was a middle-aged man whose facial features somewhat resembled the soup-drinking woman’s.

Right now, his face was ashen, and he glared at Fu Qian as if he wanted to eat him alive.

Five minutes and one second, five minutes and two seconds, five minutes and three seconds...

Fu Qian ignored him entirely, simply counting silently.

All the way to five minutes and twelve seconds, the prompt for a mission failure did not appear.

The soup-drinking woman was also standing there perfectly fine, shielded behind a group of bodyguards.

Excellent!

Fu Qian was extremely satisfied with this result. He turned to glance at the middle-aged man.

”And who are you?”

You don’t know who I am?

The middle-aged man laughed in sheer fury, staring dead at Fu Qian.

”I am Wen Xiuxian. I will ask you one last time. Who are you, and who sent you?”

Wen Xiuxian? Never heard of him.

However, since the other party had already declared his name...

Fu Qian nodded and pointed at Captain Gu at the back of the crowd.

”Fu Qian, an elite member of Captain Gu’s team. He sent me.”

Holy shit!

Schwarzenegger Gu, who was already questioning his own life, nearly collapsed onto the floor when he heard Fu Qian’s words.

”And then...”

Fu Qian smoothly shifted the conversation, pointing at the soup-drinking woman again.

”I just saved your daughter’s life!”

Hmm?

Wen Xiuxian had been furious and was just about to order his men to take both of them down, but he froze slightly upon hearing Fu Qian’s words.

”What do you mean?”

”Is that so hard to understand? If you don’t get it, you can ask the person standing behind your precious daughter.”

Fu Qian pointed at the young woman in a maid’s outfit standing behind Wen Li.

He was now eighty percent sure that there was something wrong with this woman.

”Me?”

Seeing everyone’s gaze turn toward her, the young maid suddenly panicked.

”I don’t know what’s going on. I didn’t do anything!”

Watching her desperately deny it, Fu Qian only looked on without speaking.

Wen Xiuxian seemed to realize there was something suspicious going on. He looked at the shattered bowl on the floor thoughtfully.

Then, he gave a look. Two men quickly stepped up to restrain the maid, while another gathered the remaining soup from the broken bowl.

The results came out quickly.

”It really is poisoned!”

Wen Xiuxian looked at the young maid, a chilling killing intent in his eyes.

”Fang Ting, my Wen Family has treated you well. Why did you do this?”

”I... I really don’t know...”

The maid named Fang Ting stared blankly, shaking her head desperately in denial.

”You cooked the soup for Wen Li, and you say you don’t know?”

”Tell me, who sent you?”

”I really didn’t...”

Watching the farce unfold before him, Fu Qian paid attention to the person involved, Wen Li.

This genius who had just narrowly escaped death was a bit pale, but her demeanor remained calm. He wondered if she had already grown numb to this sort of thing.

Over there, Fang Ting repeated her denials of ”I don’t know” over and over again, and it looked as if Wen Xiuxian’s patience had reached its limit.

After questioning her two more times, he ordered his men to drag Fang Ting away, likely to subject her to severe torture.

Right at that moment, Fang Ting’s cries of innocence abruptly stopped, and she stood frozen in place.

After a few seconds of silence, a scream tore from her lips, the sound indescribably frenzied.

The next moment, as if imbued with divine strength, she forcefully broke free from the two bodyguards. She lunged forward, grabbed the still-stunned Wen Li, bared her pale white teeth, and bit down.

Crack!

A sound like tearing kraft paper rang out. Before the frenzied Fang Ting could even sink her teeth into anyone, she was sent flying by a punch.

Faced with Fang Ting’s sudden attack, Fu Qian did not intervene; instead, he began quietly observing changes.

In his view, while an ambush of this level was unexpected, it would not pose any substantial threat.

It was the perfect opportunity to see if there were any exploitable powers.

If the Wen Family couldn’t even handle this, then they might as well stop dreaming about being high-ranking elites.

Judging by the twisted angle of her body after hitting the floor, she was definitely not going to survive.

Fu Qian looked up; the one who had stepped in to save Wen Li was none other than the middle-aged man beside Eldest Young Master Ye.

It seemed this group had already finished a sweep outside and returned.

”She must have been hypnotized. It seems the enemy has an expert in this field.”

The middle-aged man crouched down to examine Fang Ting’s corpse, then nodded to Wen Xiuxian.

”Many thanks, Mister Ji.”

Wen Xiuxian, still recovering from the shock, thanked the middle-aged man.

”Uncle Wen, you’re too polite, it was just an effortless favor.”

Eldest Young Master Ye finally found a chance to make his presence known. Laughing, he stepped forward.

”With us here, Wen Li won’t face any problems—”

Before he could finish his sentence, the wall on one side of the room abruptly shattered.

A massive white stone pillar tore through the air with a furious howl, instantly engulfing Wen Li’s figure.

[Wen Li dead, Containment Failure]

Amidst the chaos, through the gaping hole in the wall, Fu Qian saw a massive figure with a bizarre appearance.

The monster was at least three meters tall. Its entire body seemed covered in a layer of rock, and its head was simply a round sphere with a few holes in it.

Right now, it was standing in front of a broken stone pillar. Looking closely, it was actually the same one Fu Qian had kicked in half earlier.

The broken stone pillar had been thrown like a javelin, crossing a distance of dozens of meters to execute a precise, instant kill.

The maid’s sudden frenzy and attack earlier was never meant to succeed; it was purely intended to act as a target locator for this creature.

Amidst Wen Xiuxian’s earth-shaking roar, the bodyguards finally reacted and began to attack, but everything was blocked by the thick rock plates on the monster’s body.

After forcefully smashing through the blockade, the monster dove headfirst into The Lake beside the villa, vanishing in the blink of an eye.

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