34: Chapter 34 Li Zeyu sends people to sabotage the operation, Wang Defu is unexpectedly seriously injured.

The "donation" storm at the art exhibition was more than just a loss of two million for Li Zeyu; it was a humiliation, like having his intelligence toyed with and crushed.

After returning, he smashed the decorations in his office. Two million didn't hurt the Li family much, but he had never suffered such a stifling sense of grievance since he was a child!

"Chen Fan... a trash-picking hillbilly, dares to play dirty with me!" Li Zeyu sat on a leather sofa, his eyes as sinister as a venom-dipped snake, and immediately sent people to dig into Chen Fan's background.

The feedback made him sneer: the "Panshi Foundation" under Chen Fan's name had been registered for a very short time and was hidden in a remote waste station renovation area on the outskirts of the city. On the surface, it looked like an unremarkable small processing factory, having recently signed a few small-scale cooperation orders with several brands.

"Hmph, so he really became a small boss and thinks he's all that!" Li Zeyu automatically imagined Chen Fan's fawning face towards project managers. With such a small factory, killing him would be easy. "A broken factory renovated from a waste station... perfect!"

He didn't want to use complex business methods; that was too slow. He wanted Chen Fan to pay the price immediately and directly, giving him an unforgettable lesson.

That afternoon, he contacted a "reliable" middleman in the circle, threw down a hundred thousand in cash, and made a simple yet ruthless request: "Destroy the production equipment of 'Panshi Foundation,' especially the core processing area! The worse, the better. It must look like an accident or theft. I'll double the payment once it's done!"

The middleman was very efficient. That night, he found a notorious habitual thief, "Old Cat," who took three agile apprentices and, under the cover of a dark and windy night, crept toward the "Panshi Foundation" factory area in the suburban industrial zone.

Three stealthy figures used the shadows of trees for cover, quietly approaching the edge of the factory area. One apprentice was left in the car to assist them. Old Cat lowered the brim of his hat and looked at the old factory building in the moonlight. The fence was as low as a decoration, with only a few lights sparsely lit, desolate and completely defenseless.

One of Old Cat's apprentices couldn't help but spit: "This broken place? Why did Young Master Li bother? An accidental fire would have finished it. Why do we have to destroy some core equipment?"

"Stop talking! A hundred thousand isn't for nothing!" The apprentice behind Old Cat was also somewhat disdainful but was glared at fiercely by Old Cat. He put on a mask and gloves, patted the hydraulic shears, small gas cutting torch, and self-made delayed ignition device in his backpack. "The target is that newly built workshop. Smash it to bits. If anything goes wrong, no one gets paid!"

The three of them crouched and crept to the darkest corner of the wall, far from the gate and main road, with only thick tree shadows overhead. Old Cat had just squatted down, preparing to have his apprentices form a human ladder to climb in and scout the way, when his fingers touched the rough brick wall.

A seemingly discarded old light bulb on the wall suddenly flickered with a faint light—it was actually a modified surveillance camera disguised as a lamp. The low-light enhancement lens instantly locked onto the moving heat source outline.

Almost simultaneously, a monitor disguised as an old bird's nest on a tree seventy meters away and the "eyes" behind the ventilation grilles of the raw material yard captured these three stealthy figures from different angles. Encrypted data converged like lightning at "Xiao Zhi."

[Level 3 intrusion alarm! Coordinates A7, 3 people sneaking and peeping, intentions unknown!] The cold electronic prompt of the underground data center sounded, but the factory ground remained dead silent, with only the rustling of the night wind through the treetops.

Old Cat felt an inexplicable palpitation in his heart. He subconsciously looked around but saw only the deep night. He shook his head, cursed "hallucination" under his breath, and signaled his apprentices to move faster.

Just as an apprentice stepped on his companion's shoulders and grabbed the top of the wall, the moment his body weight pressed on the wall, the Ground-wave Vibration Detection Array buried in a three-meter shallow trench inside and outside the wall was instantly activated.

The sensor accurately captured the stepping vibration waves, and the waveform analysis was completed instantly: weight approximately 65 kg, motion sequence consistent with "climbing" characteristics, definitely not an animal!

The threat level was instantly raised to Level 2, and Xiao Zhi's interception program started at full speed!

The apprentice inside the wall had just landed and hadn't even had time to squat down and observe the environment when he heard two very faint "pfft" sounds from above. Two nearly transparent, milky-white viscous liquids shot out in a fan shape. In the darkness, the trajectory couldn't be seen at all. Before he could even cry out, he was enveloped in foam.

The foam instantly expanded and solidified upon contact with air and clothing, like a living gel monster. He struggled desperately, only to find that the more force he used, the tighter the foam stuck.

The apprentice lifting from outside didn't escape either; a small part of his body was covered by foam. He fell to the ground screaming. The two of them crawled out of the gate like conjoined twins.

Old Cat, outside the wall, was only splashed with a small amount of foam on his arms and pant legs. His dagger was stuck tight as soon as he pulled it out, and a pungent chemical smell hit his nose. He was scared out of his wits.

He assisted his two apprentices and roared hoarsely: "This broken factory is haunted! Run!"

But as soon as they turned around, four palm-sized Warning Drones quietly lifted off from the shadows of the workshop roof, their rotor noise so low it was almost inaudible.

After a very faint "click" of a mechanical mechanism, a high-frequency sound wave, so sharp it felt like it could drill through the brain, suddenly exploded in Old Cat's ears!

This sound wave acted directly on the vestibular nerve and cerebral cortex. The three small thieves felt the world spinning instantly, their stomachs churning. The intense nausea and dizziness made them unable to stand. With a "thud," they knelt on the ground, clutching their stomachs and retching wildly, almost losing their ability to move.

From triggering the alarm to the three of them being beaten into a pathetic state, the whole process took less than a minute! The noise they made disturbed Wang Defu.

At this time, Chen Fan was in the city discussing technical details of a new project with Old Master Qin and was not at the factory.

Wang Defu was originally checking alloy raw material receipts when he vaguely heard the cries outside the wall and saw the emergency lights of the factory flashing. His heart skipped a beat, and he instantly became alert: "Could a small thief really have broken in?"

The old man didn't have time to think. He grabbed a solid steel pipe leaning against the wall. Seeing the gate open, he immediately ran over. In the night, he saw a strange white object moving under the wall near the new workshop, and a figure kneeling on the ground. His blood boiled.

Fearing the thief would destroy the core equipment, he immediately shouted, "Catch the thief! Don't even think about running!" and rushed over with the steel pipe, stumbling through the darkness.

But he was old, and his eyesight wasn't good to begin with, making it even harder to see the ground in the night. There was a shallow trench for temporarily buried pipelines under the newly leveled ground, which wasn't filled in tightly. Wang Defu stepped into the void, lost his balance instantly, and fell forward heavily!

The steel pipe flew out of his hand, and his right knee hit the concrete floor hard. Then, a tooth-aching crack came from his right ankle, and piercing pain instantly swept through his body!

"Ah—!" Wang Defu cried out in pain, cold sweat instantly soaking his clothes. He clutched his twisted right ankle, curled up on the ground, unable to move. His face was as pale as paper in the moonlight, and pea-sized beads of sweat rolled down his forehead.

Xiao Zhi's surveillance cameras calmly recorded everything. An emergency alarm was sent to Chen Fan with the highest priority, the footage showing Wang Defu's painful groans and the clear image of his twisted ankle... Chen Fan called an ambulance and arranged for Wang Defu to be taken to the hospital. In the corridor of the hospital emergency room, the smell of disinfectant was pungent.

Chen Fan practically slammed on the gas to get there. The moment he pushed open the ward door, his pupils suddenly contracted—Wang Defu's right foot was suspended high on the hospital bed, and dark red blood was still faintly visible under the thick plaster. The doctor was shaking his head at the medical record, his voice full of helplessness: "A comminuted fracture of the ankle joint, accompanied by a severe ligament tear. Surgery is required immediately. The recovery period will be at least a year, and there may be a risk of limping in the future."

The anesthesia hadn't fully worn off, and Wang Defu was sleeping groggily, his brow furrowed tightly from pain. His old face was full of suffering, and his mouth was unconsciously murmuring, "The factory... the equipment..."

Chen Fan's fist clenched instantly, his nails digging deep into his palm. The smell of blood spread in his mouth, but he was completely unaware. Countless images flashed through his mind—Wang Defu's busy figure for the factory over the past few months, the hot soy milk and fried dough sticks he brought in the morning, and the silhouette of him stumbling out in the surveillance footage just now... Amidst the surging emotions, he suddenly remembered his special Amplification ability—it could not only strengthen machinery but also slightly amplify the repair power of biological tissues!

Chen Fan took a deep breath, dismissed the nurses in the ward, and walked slowly to the bedside. He reached out and gently covered the outside of Wang Defu's bandaged ankle, concentrating his thoughts on repairing the bone and ligaments, reducing the pain, and returning the injured part to normal.

[Detected patient's injured ankle. Host's strong intention to repair the injured part. Bone rejoining, pain reduction. Host's Mental Power is limited, repair 8%.]

The system prompt made Chen Fan feel relieved. Wang Defu's tightly furrowed brow gradually relaxed by eighty percent. It seemed the Amplification effect was working.

Chen Fan looked at Wang Defu, feeling heartache and anger toward Li Zeyu. He leaned down, whispered into Wang Defu's ear, word by word:

"Uncle Wang, don't worry."

"I can heal your injury. I won't let you have any lasting effects."

"As for Li Zeyu, and everything behind him..."

"I will make them pay! A hundred! Times! Over!"

At this moment, only bone-chilling cold and intense killing intent remained in his eyes, like a Sharp Sword that had just been unsheathed.