154: 154. It's Over

“Li Wanrong, it seems you and your father don’t exactly welcome my arrival,” Yu Tianxiong’s voice came through the phone, calm with a hint of icy mockery.

Li Wanrong held her phone and slowly walked to the window, looking at the illuminated manor outside. Without batting an eye, she said, “Yu Tianxiong, come out, don’t hide. Let’s sit down and talk properly. I believe this is the outcome you want from your visit, isn’t it? Come out, our Li Family never intended to harm you. If possible, I can compensate you… make up for past misunderstandings…”

In her opinion, Yu Tianxiong’s visit was nothing more than him relying on his immense commercial success to swagger into the Golden Triangle, reclaim what he lost, or negotiate for some benefits.

However, she was completely mistaken.

If it were the old Yu Tianxiong, he might still be fixated on reclaiming his lost industry and dignity, but at this moment, his state of mind was already different.

Having followed Lu Feng and witnessed a broader world and perspective, all of this before him was merely fleeting.

Nothing was more important than following Lu Feng to create the future.

“Is that so?” Yu Tianxiong’s voice remained flat, betraying no emotion.

Li Wanrong thought he was wavering, and her tone became even more gentle and mournful, as if filled with endless regret:

“Of course! Tianxiong, you were my first husband, and you are… the last husband I’ve acknowledged in my heart. How I treated you, did you not feel it during those past days?”

“I know my father is greedy and ruthless, but in that family… what could I, a woman, do? I… I was forced, I couldn’t help myself! Believe me, every day after leaving you, I regretted it, I suffered in pain…”

“Tianxiong… can you give me another chance? Let’s start over…”

There was a moment of silence on the other end of the phone, as if he was thinking.

After a long while, Yu Tianxiong’s voice finally sounded again, with an elusive meaning: “I’m… by the rockery.”

A look of wild joy instantly burst forth in Li Wanrong’s eyes!

She spoke into the phone with an even gentler tone: “Okay, you wait for me, I’ll have someone come pick you up right away, we’ll talk face to face…”

At the same time, she quickly and tightly covered the mouthpiece with her hand, turned her head to Li Fang beside her, and silently made exaggerated mouth shapes, pointing emphatically in the direction of the rockery outside the window, her eyes urgent.

The target took the bait! Send people to surround him quickly!

Li Fang’s face immediately showed a smug and cruel smile. He lowered his voice and ordered through the internal communicator, which was still on: “The target is in the rockery area! Everyone, surround him immediately! Once the target is confirmed, kill on sight!”

In the garden, more than a dozen armed bodyguards, who had been waiting, immediately raised their rifles in tactical formation and quickly and cautiously pressed towards the rockery area.

A bodyguard, eager to prove himself, had just approached the shadow of the rockery and hadn’t even had time to see what was inside… “Whoosh!”

An extremely faint gunshot rang out!

The bullet instantly pierced hisAjna, and blood and brain matter splattered out. He fell straight backward without even a groan!

“Open fire! He’s inside! All concentrate fire!!” The bodyguard leader roared in shock and anger, immediately giving the order!

Having received the order, all the bodyguards no longer had any reservations. Their assault rifles spewed flames wildly, and dense bullets rained down on the rockery area!

Bullets hit the rocks, sparks flew, and shattered stones scattered!

The Li Family father and daughter in the study looked through the window at the smoke-filled rockery, their faces revealing the joyful smile of having exacted their revenge.

However, Yu Tianxiong’s cold and slightly mocking voice sounded again, clearly coming through the phone: “Li Wanrong, didn’t we agree to have a good talk? This welcoming ceremony is a bit too enthusiastic, isn’t it??”

His tone carried an undisguised sneer, as if he was enjoying a clumsy farce.

As soon as his voice fell, several smoke grenades flew out from behind the rockery, landing on the ground with a “sizzle…” sound. In an instant, the scene was covered in thick mist, causing all the bodyguards to cough and retreat repeatedly.

“Puff, puff, puff…”

Gunshots with silencers rang out again, coming from different directions within the smoke!

Tian Peng’s squad members, already equipped with thermal imagers, were like reapers in the dark night, beginning to precisely harvest the bodyguards who had nowhere to hide.

“Ah!”

“There’s an enemy on the side!”

“I can’t see him!”

Screams and chaotic shouts rose and fell, and bodyguards constantly fell to the ground, hit by bullets.

The once aggressive encirclement was instantly disrupted, and the remaining bodyguards frantically sought cover, suppressed by the powerful firepower and daring not to show their heads.

Li Fang slammed his fist on the windowsill, snatched the phone, and roared into the mouthpiece, his voice full of venom and triumph:

“Yu Tianxiong! You idiot! Still talking tough even when death is at your doorstep! Do you really think you’re still President Yu, who could call the wind and summon the rain back then? In my eyes, you’re nothing but a stray dog who luckily escaped! And you dare to come back to die?! Go to hell! I’m going to kill every single one of you, chop you up and feed you to the dogs! Hahahaha!!”

Yu Tianxiong’s voice remained terrifyingly calm, even with a hint of pity: “Li Fang, is that all you’ve got? Only good at yelling? Come on, I’m waiting for you.”

“Waiting?! Good! I’ll send you to hell right now!!”

Li Fang was completely enraged, his face twisted and ferocious. He suddenly raised the demolition remote control he had been clutching in his hand, his eyes flashing with a crazy and cruel light. He aimed at the red button marked “rockery area” and pressed it down with all his might!

He seemed to have already seen the rockery area engulfed in flames, Yu Tianxiong and the others blown to smithereens, and a nearly deranged smile spread across his lips.

However… the button was pressed, but there was no reaction.

The expected earth-shattering explosion did not occur. Outside the window, the rockery area was still covered in smoke, a deathly silence.

The smile on Li Fang’s face instantly froze, replaced by a hint of bewilderment and confusion.

“What’s going on?!”

He subconsciously pressed the button several more times, even tapping it forcefully.

Just as he lowered his head to check if the remote control was malfunctioning… BOOM! BOOM! BOOM! BOOM! BOOM!

An indescribable, intensely hot blast of air appeared from beneath their feet, then suddenly erupted!

Like a dormant volcano suddenly awakening!

Followed by a deafening roar that shook their eardrums!

The ground beneath them shook!

The luxurious study was like a building fiercely gripped and crushed by an invisible giant hand!

The expensive chandelier swayed and fell, the walls twisted, cracked, and collapsed, and the ceiling crashed down like Mount Tai!

Scorching flames instantly devoured everything in the room!

“No!! No, no, no!”

Li Fang didn’t know what was happening, only managing to let out a short, desperate scream before his entire body was sent flying by the huge impact wave, crashing heavily into the bookshelf behind him, and then completely buried by the collapsing furniture.

“Ah ah ah ah!!!”

Li Wanrong’s meticulously maintained face was filled with terror. She turned to run, but the collapsing ground left her feet empty, and she disappeared as if falling into a hellish abyss, only her screams echoing.

Huge explosions sounded one after another. Not only the main building, but several other key points in the manor also experienced consecutive explosions simultaneously!

The entire Li Family manor, at this moment, turned into a burning purgatory.

The bodyguards ran for their lives in terror. The unlucky ones were swallowed by the explosion after only a few steps, some were hit by debris and lay on the ground, their screams echoing throughout the manor… In the jungle outside the manor, Lu Feng, Yu Tianxiong, and Tian Peng’s squad, who had successfully completed their withdrawal mission, stood quietly, indifferently watching the towering flames and rolling thick smoke in the distance.

Yu Tianxiong put down the phone he had been holding to his ear; it had long since gone silent.

He gazed at the sea of fire, slowly and deeply exhaling a breath of stagnant air that had been accumulating for years.

“It’s over.”

He said softly, his tone not showing much joy, only the calm of relief.