490: Chapter 490: Death Without Mercy 490: Chapter 490: Death Without Mercy Lin Shuang’s expression turned utterly grave!
Could something have happened to Satan?
In the entire expanse of the Imperial Capital, no one was a match for Satan.
Unless, he had encountered those mysterious assassins!
Just as Lin Shuang was worried, his cellphone rang at last.
It was a call from Satan.
“Your Highness the Lord of the Underworld…
just now a group of mysterious assassins suddenly attacked Grandma Xu’s private hospital, but I was able to stop them.
I destroyed my phone during the fight, so I couldn’t answer your call in time…” Over the phone came Satan’s somber report.
“What happened?!” Lin Shuang asked with focused concern.
Satan recounted the events in detail.
These past few days, mysterious forces had been lurking around the private hospital, secretly stationing themselves.
Today they finally made their move, attempting to assassinate Grandma Xu, but Satan intercepted them.
The assassins were fearsomely skilled; even Satan was injured, but in the end, he annihilated them all.
Hearing Satan’s report, Lin Shuang’s face tightened—he had guessed right…
those assassins would target Grandma Xu.
Lin Shuang then instructed Satan to immediately move Grandma Xu to another secret hospital and to spare no expense in ensuring her and the Su Family’s safety!
After ensuring everything was in order, Lin Shuang finally hung up the phone.
He sat cross-legged on the bed, his face impossibly grave.
He had already surmised a possibility.
Perhaps, the fact that Grandma Xu was still alive was deliberately orchestrated by those mysterious forces?
Why, in the orphanage fire seven years ago, did everyone die except for Grandma Xu?
There was only one possibility, that the mysterious forces purposefully left Grandma Xu alive to use her as bait!
It was to lure Lin Shuang out, to draw more people in the know, and then to capture them all in one fell swoop!
With this thought, a murderous glint flashed in Lin Shuang’s eyes.
If this were true, then the enemy was truly terrifying!
What a demonic baiting scheme, a trap laid for an entire seven years!
…
Meanwhile, in the Imperial Capital city.
Within a mysterious ancient mansion.
An elderly man sat before a pond, angling for koi.
Just then, one of his subordinates hurriedly approached with a report, “My lord!
The attempt to assassinate Xu Cuilian has failed!
Xu Cuilian has top-notch overseas experts for protection, we have miscalculated!”
Upon hearing this, surprise flickered in the elder’s eyes, “Oh?
Failed again?
This Lin Shuang…
tsk tsk, he is indeed not simple.”
“Have you found out the background of this Lin Shuang?
What exactly did he do overseas during these missing years?” the elder asked indifferently.
The subordinate shook his head complicatedly, “Still no information…
His identity overseas is too concealed, we have yet to acquire anything.”
The elder uttered two words with disdain, “Useless.”
Frightened, the subordinate immediately knelt and kept kowtowing, begging for mercy.
“Enough, continue to dispatch assassins.
Head to Hanshan Temple first to kill that Lin Shuang boy.
He has been poisoned by us and should not have recovered yet; now is the perfect time to finish him,” the elder said slowly.
The subordinate asked with a complicated voice, “My lord, what about those monks in Hanshan Temple?”
“What do you think?
Of course, exterminate them as well!
Anyone who knows of Xia Yuhe and her son’s identities deserves death.
Need you ask more?” the elder coldly retorted.
Scared, the subordinate kept kowtowing, “Yes!
I understand!”
…
Hanshan Temple, Lin Shuang had been recuperating within Hanshan Temple for several days.
But his body still hadn’t recovered; the mysterious assassins’ potent poison…
made with a top-secret formula, even Wu Jiu, the abbot, and the Monk Doctor’s days of acupuncture detoxification had failed to cure him.
After the previous assassination attempt, Hanshan Temple had closed its doors and no longer opened to the public.
That evening, Wu Jiu and the Monk Doctor were giving Lin Shuang acupuncture detoxification.
But just then, suddenly, from the silent temple outside…
came a burst of screams!
“All monks to battle stations!!
Enemies are invading the temple!!” rang out an angry shout from outside Hanshan Temple!
At the same time, several monks rushed into the monks’ quarters, urgently reporting, “To Abbot Wu Jiu!
The temple is surrounded by assassins!!
There are thousands of them!
All masked!!
They are furiously attacking and killing in our temple!!”