504: Chapter 504 You can't escape!

Sixth floor, outdoor pool.

In the resting area by the pool, several white sun loungers were scattered around. In the very center sat a blonde woman with blue eyes.

She wore a white bathrobe, the collar slightly open to reveal a delicate collarbone. Her wet blonde hair was draped over her shoulders, and water droplets trickled down the ends, creating a small dark patch on the robe.

Most of her sultry figure was covered by a bath towel, yet it still failed to hide her shapely curves.

Standing around her, however, were five men wearing black balaclavas.

Each of them held a submachine gun.

Two of them pointed their dark muzzles toward her, while the remaining two aimed at the entrance.

Directly opposite her, a man wearing a Yanzu mask sat on a sun lounger with his legs crossed, playing with a butterfly knife in his hand.

The blade flipped and flew under the lights, reflecting a cold, chilling gleam.

He tilted his head, looking at the blonde woman before him with a playful smirk tugging at the corners of his mouth.

"Your Highness, how much do you think you're worth?"

"When the embassy people arrive later, you'd better have a good grasp of the price."

Indeed.

The woman before him was the Eagle Country's princess, Euphemia.

At this moment, her expression was ice-cold.

"My knights will be here soon."

"If you are sensible and leave now, I can act as if nothing happened."

The masked man paused for a moment, then threw his head back and laughed loudly.

"Knights?"

"Your Highness, do you think we're filming a movie?"

"Even 'knights'..."

He laughed until he was out of breath, spinning the butterfly knife around his fingertips. "Then I shall wait and see if your knights can actually save you!"

He naturally knew that there must be people protecting the Princess of the Eagle Country in the shadows.

But what he was mocking was...

Euphemia actually treated that group of 'knights' as her confidence and bargaining chips.

Simply ridiculous! Naive! Ignorant!

Since they dared to make a move in Dragon Country, which was claimed to be the safest country in the world, they naturally had some real skills of their own.

Euphemia did not respond.

But she understood clearly that if she wanted to be safe right now, she needed to keep stalling with these criminals.

BANG!

The entrance door to the pool was kicked open from the outside, and seven or eight men in suits filed in.

Each of them had a violent aura, their entire bodies radiating a terrifying pressure.

Leading them was a white man in his forties, burly with a square jaw and a broad face, his blue eyes filled with fury.

His gaze swept across the room and landed on Euphemia, who was surrounded. His face instantly darkened.

"Release Her Highness!"

His voice was like muffled thunder, exploding over the pool. "Otherwise, I'll make sure none of you leave here alive today!"

As soon as he finished speaking.

The seven people behind him stepped forward in unison.

The auras of seven Earth Realm experts erupted. The floor tiles vibrated slightly, and ripples spread across the pool water.

The masked man tilted his head and glanced at them.

"Oh? So these are Her Highness's knights?"

He stood up, tucked the butterfly knife into his pocket, and clapped his hands.

"Earth Realm? Quite intimidating."

"However..."

"Who exactly won't be leaving alive?"

The white knight leader's face darkened, killing intent flashing in his eyes.

"You're looking for death!"

He let out a fierce roar and stomped his foot, lunging toward the masked man like a cannonball.

At the same time, the seven Earth Realm knights behind him moved in unison.

Eight figures and eight violent auras, like eight sharp swords, pierced straight toward the five masked kidnappers.

Seeing this, the masked man casually raised his right hand and waved it forward.

Behind him, one of the balaclava-clad men threw his submachine gun to the ground and stepped forward.

Then.

The moment he took his third step, he turned into an afterimage and vanished from the spot.

The next second.

THUD! THUD! THUD! THUD! THUD!

Five muffled sounds exploded almost simultaneously.

The five knights at the front of the seven Earth Realm experts were sent flying backward as if struck by invisible sledgehammers.

They didn't even see how the opponent had attacked.

A sharp pain radiated from their chests, and the sound of ribs snapping was clearly audible.

The five men slammed heavily onto the ground, sliding several meters away. Blood gushed from their mouths, and they could no longer get up.

The remaining two knights stopped abruptly, their faces pale and their eyes filled with horror.

The leader's pupils constricted even more. He forced his forward momentum to a halt and stumbled back two steps.

He stared fixedly at the man who had thrown down his gun, his voice trembling: "You... You're in the Heaven Realm?"

The man didn't answer. He simply turned around, walked back behind the masked man, picked up the submachine gun, and stood straight.

It was as if that move just now was nothing more than swatting a few flies.

The masked man tilted his head, looking at the pale knight leader, and laughed.

"Is that all you've got?"

"You can't even beat one of my subordinates, yet you call yourselves knights?"

He shook his head, his tone full of mockery. "Is your Eagle Country out of people?"

The knight leader's face turned the color of pig liver.

The two knights behind him who were lucky enough not to have fallen were also trembling, not daring to step forward at all.

Was this a joke?

A random subordinate of the opponent was actually a Heaven Realm Expert.

While the strongest among these so-called 'knights' was only at the Mid Earth Realm.

How could they fight this battle?

They weren't even on the same level...

Euphemia's expression turned completely cold.

"What exactly do you want?"

The masked man spread his hands.

"Haven't I already said it?"

"Make an offer. We only want money."

"And starting from now..."

"For every ten minutes the people from your consulate are late, I will behead one of your knights."

"One by one."

"After I'm done with the knights, I'll start on the Dragon Country people here. And after them..."

He paused, his gaze falling on Euphemia as his smile deepened.

"Then it will be Your Highness's turn."

Euphemia's face paled slightly, but she still held her head high, showing not a hint of fear.

"You won't get away."

"This is Dragon Country, not a place where you can run wild."

Hearing this, the masked man shrugged.

"Dragon Country?"

"Your Highness, do you have some kind of misunderstanding about Dragon Country?"

"In our eyes, Dragon Country is no different from any other country."

"As long as there's money, we can go anywhere."

He pulled back his smile, stood up, and looked down at Euphemia.

"So, Your Highness, you'd better pray that your consulate people move a bit faster."

"Otherwise..."

"You'll have to watch your loyal knights fall before you, one after another."

However.

Just as his words fell...

Suddenly!

At the entrance of the sixth floor, several more people walked out.

Leading them was a young man in a white shirt, hands in his pockets, walking at a leisurely pace.

Behind him followed a woman in a light blue dress with long hair over her shoulders and features as beautiful as a painting. She seemed as cool and elegant as a lotus blooming atop a snowy mountain.

Further back were Ma Tianlai, Sun Deming, Liu Quan, Mrs. Zhou, and a group of other business moguls from Guang City.

The group filed in, stepping into the outdoor pool area that was currently shrouded in gun muzzles and killing intent.

The masked man's gaze swept over the group. He was momentarily stunned, then couldn't help but burst into laughter.

He recognized them.

Weren't the middle-aged men and women at the back the very group of tycoons they had investigated when scouting Guang City?

Ma Tianlai, the head of the Ma Family and a titan of the Guang City business world.

Sun Deming, a real estate tycoon with over a dozen developments under his belt.

Liu Quan, a trade giant whose import-export business was booming.

Mrs. Zhou, the jewelry queen with chain stores across all the southern provinces.

He had seen photos of these people long before they took action.

He had originally thought that after finishing the job with the Eagle Country princess, he would conveniently fleece these tycoons for some extra cash.

Who would have thought they would deliver themselves right to his door?

The masked man tilted his head and spoke with a smile.

"Oh, am I seeing things?"

"The tycoons of Guang City have come as a group?"

"What, are you planning to give me some money?"

The four balaclava-clad men behind him also looked up, their eyes flashing with greed as they looked at the group of tycoons.

In their eyes, these people weren't business moguls of Guang City, but walking vaults.

Ma Tianlai and the others' expressions darkened.

Dammit!

This group was way too arrogant!

They actually dared to act tough in front of Instructor Ye?

Let's see if you can still laugh in a moment.

Ye Chen stopped walking and stood by the pool, only seven or eight meters away from the masked man.

He looked up and asked calmly, "Was it you who said... Dragon Country is no different from any other country?"

The masked man paused, then threw his head back and laughed.

"Hahaha—"

His laughter was very exaggerated.

When he had laughed his fill, he straightened up and looked at Ye Chen.

"That's right, I said it."

"Dragon Country is no different from any other country."

"Is there a problem?"

Arrogant!

Utterly arrogant!

The surrounding tycoons found it truly hard to believe.

Wait...

Has this guy really never seen Ye Chen before?

He actually dares to speak to Ye Chen like that?

He simply doesn't know how the word 'death' is written...