Chapter 3935: Everyone Is Striving

Chapter 3935: Chapter 3935: Everyone Is Striving

Guan Yan, undeterred, said, "He’s a good friend of our boss. Tonight, after causing such a commotion, shouldn’t he give us an explanation?"

Shadow laughed, "You’re mistaken. Tian Chen wasn’t involved; tonight is a private agreement between Lu Zhi and our empress. He owes our empress a big favor and had to lend us some manpower. It’s us taking action tonight."

"Heh." Guan Yan looked at him with deep eyes, "Do you believe what you’re saying yourself?"

Shadow squinted at her, then suddenly said after a moment, "Are you stalling for time?"

Guan Yan seemed unresponsive, but in reality, you could see her fingers curl slightly, a natural reaction when one is nervous.

Shadow, sharp-eyed, noticed her subtle movement and looked past them towards the mansion behind, where sounds of gunfire could be heard.

Because the radio signals inside were cut off, he didn’t know the specific situation at the moment.

But with Qin Si, Jian Jin, and others outside, only Ye Wangchuan was left inside; he didn’t think one person could cause much trouble.

So disdain filled his eyes as he softly said to Guan Yan and the others, "You don’t think Ye Wangchuan can walk out alive, do you?"

"What a joke!"

He said it, and he did it.

Shadow mercilessly mocked, "He’s human, not god. Even if god came tonight, they’d go to Hell! Stalling won’t help. The empress just wants to teach Qiao Nian a lesson, especially since he’s repeatedly ruined the empress’s plans; he’s asking for death!"

"You damn..." Ji Lin cursed aloud, drawing his gun.

Dozens of guns aimed at them were immediately cocked.

The scene was on the verge of erupting.

Fortunately, Jian Jin stepped forward, pressing down Ji Lin’s gun barrel, and then threatened those surrounding them, "Open your damn eyes and see who I am! Let me see who dares to make a move! If anyone makes a move tonight, as long as I, Jian Jin, have a breath left, I will remember him and retaliate against his entire family at any cost!"

The guns aimed at them shifted, Lu Zhi’s men began to eye each other uncertainly, unsure how to proceed.

They knew Jian Jin, and their attitude towards her was certainly different from that of an ordinary person.

Jian Jin made her threat clear; anyone who ignored it was asking for trouble.

Shadow, seeing everyone wavering because of Jian Jin’s few words, looked extremely displeased and sternly reminded, "Don’t forget who your master is!"

The scene shifted to a confrontation.

Neither side was willing to yield.

But those surrounding Jian Jin were mainly Lu Zhi’s people; Lu Zhi had ordered not to harm Guan Yan and Jian Jin. Coupled with Jian Jin’s harsh words, for the moment, truly no one dared forcefully to act and seize them.

Although the process differed from what they imagined, this back-and-forth effectively stalled for time.

Only the continuous sounds of explosions and gunfire from the mansion behind tortured Qin Si and the others’ hearts every second.

They could only stall for time here; they couldn’t see Lu Zhi, nor did they have any other viable way of rescuing anyone, hoping Master Wang could hold out.

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Five minutes in normal times is nothing more than a blink of an eye, not enough to eat a bowl of noodles or finish a game... But in life-and-death moments, five minutes is long enough, long enough to experience life and death several times.

Ye Wangchuan, on his own, had to hold off dozens of people himself, an extremely challenging feat. These people weren’t just randomly picked by Lu Zhi; they were figures from dangerous lists rich in combat experience.