180: Chapter 180 Qin Hai Makes a Move

Clang!

Accompanied by a massive metallic crash, the Grade-A Armor-piercing Hammer in Wang Tiechui's hand slammed heavily against the deep blue wall.

Sparks flew in all directions as air waves rolled outward.

However, as the sparks dissipated, the entire scene fell into a deathly silence.

Everyone's eyes widened as they stared fixedly at that wall.

No cracks, no dents.

There wasn't even the slightest hint of a white mark left behind.

That wall, deep as the starry sky, continued to emit a faint blue glow, as if that heavy hammer blow—strong enough to crush a tank—had been nothing more than a light scratch.

"How is this possible?"

Wang Tiechui looked at the Armor-piercing Hammer in his hand, which was buzzing from the counter-shock, its head even showing a slight indentation. He was completely stunned.

This hammer of his was infused with deep sea sinking silver! Forget a wall, even the protective internal energy of a Grandmaster Level expert would ripple under such a blow!

"Whoa—"

After a brief silence, the crowd instantly erupted into a frenzy.

"Holy crap! Really no mark?"

"Is this damn thing really that hard? Could it actually be S-grade alloy?"

"I don't believe it. Who would use S-grade alloy as wall cladding? It must be some kind of optical illusion!"

Hearing the discussions around him, Second Elder Qin's face instantly turned ashen, looking extremely grim.

He had originally come to publicly expose the fraud and ruin Lin Fan's reputation. Instead, this hammer blow hadn't smashed through Lin Fan's lies; it had seemingly helped Lin Fan verify that the wall was indestructible.

This was practically slapping the Qin Family's face in public.

"Trivial tricks!"

Qin Hai took a sudden step forward, and his Peak Grandmaster blood and qi erupted with a boom, causing the surrounding air to crackle. He pointed at Lin Fan and shouted sternly:

"Lin Fan, stop trying to please the crowd with such nonsense. I have traveled the world for decades and have never seen a wall this hard. You are clearly using some special buffer coating or a one-time defensive formation!"

"You want to use this trickery to deceive the world and prove you have S-grade alloy? In your dreams!"

Lin Fan stood on the steps, still looking lazy. He even unscrewed his thermos and took a sip of goji berry tea before slowly saying, "Second Elder Qin, your hammer fails and you blame the wall for being too hard? The Qin Family's logic is quite unique. Since you don't believe it, what do you want to do?"

"What do I want?"

A sinister light flashed in Qin Hai's eyes.

He knew that if he didn't completely smash this warehouse today, the Qin Family's reputation would be truly lost. Since the walls might be protected by coatings or formations, he would strike where it must be defended!

His gaze shifted downward, landing on the floor beneath Lin Fan's feet.

The walls might be tampered with, but this floor was laid directly on the foundation. As long as he shattered the foundation below, the floor would naturally break apart.

When that happens, let's see how you can still boast about this being S-grade alloy.

"Since you say this floor is also S-grade star alloy, then I will personally verify it."

Qin Hai sneered, and his aura suddenly surged, a terrifying pressure instantly enveloping the entire area.

"The Second Elder is going to make a move personally."

"Heavens, that's a Peak Grandmaster expert! If he acts, can this warehouse even survive?"

"It looks like Lin Fan has really infuriated the Qin Family this time."

The onlookers exclaimed one after another, retreating to avoid being caught in the Grandmaster Level energy blast.

The reporters' hands were shaking with excitement as they zoomed their lenses in as close as possible, terrified of missing a single detail.

"Lin Fan, if I shatter this floor with a single palm strike, let's see what face you have left to open your Strategic Department here!"

Qin Hai roared, and his right palm suddenly rose.

In an instant, a gale began to howl.

An earthy yellow light gathered frantically on his palm; it was the Qin Family's ancestral technique, the High-grade Profound-tier Martial Skill, 'Mountain Cleaving Earth Rending Palm'.

The essence of this palm technique was to strike through the surface to shatter the internal structure directly.

Qin Hai didn't attack Lin Fan directly. Instead, he avoided the walls and aimed at the deep blue floor beneath his feet, slamming down ruthlessly.

His calculations were precise: I won't hit the person, I'll only inspect the goods. Furthermore, this strike would not only shatter the floor but also completely collapse the warehouse's foundation, leaving Lin Fan with no place to stand.

"Shatter for me!"

With a distorted expression, Qin Hai's palm, carrying the weight of ten thousand catties, slammed heavily onto the floor.

"Boom!" A dull, massive sound rang out, like a heavy hammer hitting a drum, causing the hearts of everyone present to skip a beat.

However, the expected scene of the floor cracking and stone fragments flying did not occur.

The moment Qin Hai's palm touched the deep blue floor, an eerie and terrifying counter-force surged out from within the floor like a tsunami.

This was S-grade star alloy floor refined by the system's 'Furnace of All Things' and perfectly fused by Lin Fan with Nano Self-healing Cement. With the system's enhancement, these thousands of square meters of flooring had long since become a single entity, its hardness comparable to the main armor of an interstellar warship.

Qin Hai's palm hadn't hit a floor at all; it had hit a solid, immovable star!

The next second.

A crisp sound of bone snapping, enough to make one's scalp crawl, abruptly echoed through the area.

"Crack!"

The sound was exceptionally piercing in the deathly quiet scene.

Immediately after, Qin Hai's face, which had been full of confidence and malice, instantly twisted into a purplish-red color. His eyes bulged out and his mouth hung open, looking like an old duck being strangled by the neck.

"Aaaaaah!"

A shrill, agonizing scream erupted from the mouth of this Second Elder of the Qin Family.

Qin Hai's entire body jerked as if he had been electrocuted, and he was sent flying backward, barely steadying himself after retreating seven or eight steps. His right hand was now twisted at a bizarre angle, the bone at his wrist clearly broken, with white bone fragments piercing the skin, dripping with blood!

The entire scene was dead silent.

Everyone's mouths were wide open, staring at the scene in stunned disbelief, their minds completely blank.

A Peak Grandmaster broke his own hand with one palm strike?

Is this a damn movie?

Meanwhile, Lin Fan, the person involved, acted as if nothing had happened.

He slowly crouched down, reaching out a hand to gently touch the floor that had just taken Qin Hai's full-strength blow.

Then, he performed an action that almost made Qin Hai cough up blood from rage.

Lin Fan pulled a tissue from his pocket and wiped the pristine floor with a look of distress, as if it had been stained by something dirty.

After wiping it, he even gave it a deliberate blow of air before standing up. He looked at Qin Hai, who was trembling in pain while clutching his broken hand, and shook his head with a tone full of regret and mockery:

"Tsk, tsk, tsk..."

"Second Elder, you were really too careless."

Lin Fan picked up his thermos, took a leisurely sip to moisten his throat, and then said in an infuriating tone:

"It seems the Qin Family's bones aren't as hard as my floor."

*Pfft.*

This time, not only the onlookers but even several reporters in the front row couldn't help but burst out laughing.

That was too cruel; it was straight-up psychological murder!

The man's hand is broken, and you're complaining that his bones aren't hard enough?

"Click, click, click!"

The reporters, finally snapping out of it, went completely wild. Camera flashes flickered like a storm, perfectly capturing Qin Hai's distorted, pained, and humiliated face.

Without a doubt, tomorrow's headlines would be explosive:

"Shocking! Second Elder of the Qin Family strikes floor, suffers counter-kill!"

"S-grade Alloy Confirmed! Grandmaster's bones not as hard as floor!"

"Lin Fan: Qin Family's bones are too brittle, suggests calcium supplements!"

In the back of the crowd, Zhao Wujing and the other second-generation heirs—who had been forced to work by Lin Fan and still harbored some resentment—were now staring in shock, cold sweat pouring down their faces.

Zhao Wujing subconsciously touched his own wrist, feeling a phantom pain.

"Holy shit..."

He swallowed hard and said with a trembling voice to Qian Duoduo beside him, "Fatty, did we... barely escape with our lives yesterday?"

Qian Duoduo was also terrified, nodding frantically. "Yeah, Brother Jing, Lin Fan's methods are too mysterious."

At this moment, the awe these wealthy heirs felt for Lin Fan skyrocketed to its peak.

"Lin Fan!"

By now, Qin Hai was completely blinded by shame and rage.

The pain of his broken hand was secondary; what was truly unacceptable was that he, the esteemed Second Elder of the Qin Family and a Peak Grandmaster expert, had been crippled by a floor in front of everyone and then mocked by Lin Fan.

If this got out, how could he, Qin Hai, ever show his face in the capital again? Where would the Qin Family's reputation go?!

"I'm going to kill you!"

Qin Hai let out a beast-like roar, his eyes instantly turning blood-red.

In his fit of rage, he disregarded everything and circulated his remaining blood and qi. His left hand formed a claw, and with a freezing killing intent, he lunged straight for Lin Fan's throat!

At this moment, he didn't care about bullying the weak, nor did he care about verifying anything.

He only wanted to kill Lin Fan, to kill this bastard who had utterly humiliated him!

"Second Elder, no!"

"Stop!"

The accompanying Qin Family members turned pale with fright, but it was too late to stop him.

Faced with Qin Hai's frantic killing move, the playful smile on Lin Fan's face vanished instantly.

It was replaced by a heart-chilling coldness.

He stood his ground, unmoving, not even putting down the thermos in his hand. But deep within his eyes, a terrifying murderous aura—as if he had crawled out from a sea of corpses—suddenly erupted!

That was a tangible killing intent condensed from slaughtering countless mutated beasts and reaping lives in the trial grounds!

"Boom!"

Though Lin Fan didn't move, the aura on his body was like a towering mountain, instantly crushing down on Qin Hai's heart.

Qin Hai's charging figure suddenly stiffened, as if a bucket of ice water had been poured over him from head to toe. He discovered to his horror that he was actually deterred by a single look from Lin Fan!

That gaze was too terrifying, like being stared down by an ancient vicious beast.

Lin Fan looked coldly at the close-range Qin Hai, his voice not loud, but it exploded in Qin Hai's ears like thunder:

"Attacking an active military officer... does the Second Elder want the Qin Family's properties to be seized?"

These words were like a sharp sword, instantly piercing through Qin Hai's madness.

Active military officer!

Qin Hai shuddered, his reason instantly returning.

He suddenly remembered that this young man before him was not just a businessman, but a consultant for the Special Strategic Department personally appointed by the General Ye Canglan Ye Canglan, holding the rank of Major General!

Publicly attacking and killing a Major General...

This was a crime that not even the entire Qin Family could bear, let alone him.

Moreover, there were so many reporters and so many eyes watching.

Fine beads of cold sweat instantly broke out on Qin Hai's forehead. His outstretched left hand froze in mid-air, unable to advance or retreat.

He felt the excited gazes of the reporters, heard the whispers from the crowd, and felt the faint, terrifying aura from Lin Fan that seemed ready to strike and kill at any moment.

He had no doubt that if he really followed through with that claw, Lin Fan would absolutely kill him on the spot without hesitation, and it would be legally justified as self-defense!

"You... you..."

Qin Hai was shaking with rage, his chest heaving violently. A mouthful of blood was stuck in his throat, unable to be swallowed or spat out.

He couldn't win in a fight (against the floor), he didn't dare to kill, and he couldn't win an argument.

This feeling of frustration almost made him explode on the spot.

Ultimately, under the deterrence of the military background and the immense pressure of public opinion, Qin Hai could only grit his teeth and swallow this bitter pill.

"Good! Good! Good!"

Qin Hai said the word 'good' three times, his eyes staring venemously at Lin Fan as he hissed through gritted teeth, "Lin Fan, you're ruthless! We'll meet again, just you wait!"

With that, he clutched his broken right hand and, supported by several attendants, miserably squeezed through the crowd and scurried into a car to flee the scene.