101: Infiltrate the Qin family's forbidden territory at night; tonight we'll venture into the lion's den!

Lin Yuan looked at Qin Hai, the playful smile on his face unchanged.

"Without anyone knowing?"

He repeated those words, then shook his head.

"Easy to say."

"What if you're leading us into a trap?"

Lin Yuan leaned back, sinking into the sofa again.

"I'm a timid person."

"I'm most afraid of dying."

Qin Hai's face paled, and he quickly argued, "I can guarantee it with my life! Every word I said is true!"

"Your life?"

Lin Yuan smiled.

"Your life is already in my hands."

"Using something that no longer belongs to you as a guarantee, Qin Hai, are you stupid?"

Qin Hai's breathing hitched.

He looked at Lin Yuan's eyes, which seemed to be smiling but were devoid of warmth, and a chill rose from the bottom of his heart.

This young man was a hundred times more troublesome than he had imagined.

"Then... then what do you need to believe me?" Qin Hai's voice was a bit dry.

He knew this was his only chance.

If he couldn't gain Lin Yuan's trust, he probably wouldn't even be able to leave this room today.

"Believe?"

Lin Yuan lowered his head, as if seriously considering the question.

Su Wanqing watched silently from the side, not interjecting.

A moment later.

Lin Yuan looked up at Qin Hai.

"Actually, I'm a very easy-going person."

"Whether you believe me or not isn't important."

"As long as you're under my control, then there's no problem."

Qin Hai was stunned for a moment, not understanding what he meant.

Lin Yuan extended his right hand, palm facing Qin Hai.

"Don't move."

He said softly.

"And don't resist."

"Otherwise, you'll die a very ugly death."

Qin Hai's body froze.

He could feel a dangerous aura emanating from Lin Yuan's palm.

The next second.

"Zzzzt—"

A wisp of black-purple current, even finer than a strand of hair, shot out from Lin Yuan's fingertip and entered Qin Hai's glabella.

In that instant, Qin Hai felt himself being dragged into an abyss.

He saw "himself" completely pierced by black-purple threads.

It was over in less than a second.

Everything returned to calm.

He gasped for breath, his forehead covered in cold sweat.

He instinctively touched his glabella, but there was nothing there.

As if everything just now had been an illusion.

"You... what did you do to me?" He looked at Lin Yuan in horror.

"Nothing much."

Lin Yuan withdrew his hand, saying lazily.

"A little trinket."

"You can think of it as a protective talisman. It won't affect you at all normally, and it can even help you resist the erosion of Abyss energy."

He paused, the smile on his face becoming even more benevolent.

"But..."

"With just a thought from me."

"Boom!"

Lin Yuan made an explosion gesture, uttering an onomatopoeia.

"You'll turn into a firework."

"The kind that leaves no trace."

Qin Hai's face instantly turned ashen.

He had no doubt about the truthfulness of Lin Yuan's words.

He had personally experienced that power just now.

It was a destructive power far beyond his comprehension!

"Now, do you understand?" Lin Yuan looked at him, asking with a grin.

Qin Hai swallowed with difficulty.

He looked at Lin Yuan, a smile uglier than a cry appearing on his face.

"Un-… understood."

"Very good."

Lin Yuan nodded in satisfaction.

"Since we're all on the same side now, let's not waste time."

He glanced at the night outside the window.

"Let's go."

"Take us to that place you mentioned."

"Now?" Qin Hai was stunned.

"Otherwise?" Lin Yuan glanced at him, "Wait until dawn and ask Qin Shan to give us a tour?"

Qin Hai: "..."

He took a deep breath and got up from the ground.

Things had come to this, he had no retreat.

"Alright."

He gritted his teeth.

"Gentlemen, please follow me."

Qin Hai turned first, ready to lead the way.

Lin Yuan subtly leaned into Su Wanqing's ear and whispered in a voice only they could hear, "Things aren't that simple. Be careful, this guy might not be trustworthy."

A hint of understanding flashed in Su Wanqing's eyes, and she nodded imperceptibly.

Subsequently, led by Qin Hai, the three silently left the dormitory again.

This time, the route was completely different.

Qin Hai didn't lead them towards Kunlun Pavilion but bypassed to the other side of the fortress.

This was the storage area for daily necessities.

Along the way, Qin Hai, relying on his familiarity with the place, led the two of them to avoid wave after wave of patrol teams.

Lin Yuan's Electromagnetic Induction was fully active, helping him bypass all electronic surveillance equipment.

The abilities of the two formed a strange complementarity.

Soon.

Qin Hai led them to a cold storage door.

"The entrance is in here," he whispered.

Lin Yuan raised an eyebrow.

Hiding the entrance to a secret passage in a busy cold storage.

Interesting.

Qin Hai clearly had authorization here.

He skillfully operated the access control system a few times, and the metal door opened a crack.

The three slipped inside.

Inside the cold storage, the air was biting cold.

Huge shelves were piled high with various processed beast flesh.

Qin Hai led them around rows of shelves to the deepest part of the cold storage.

Here, there was a metal wall.

"This is it."

Qin Hai walked to the wall and reached out, fumbling along it.

A moment later.

He seemed to find something and pressed down!

"Click..."

Accompanied by a faint sound of mechanical transmission.

The metal wall slowly split open from the middle, revealing a passage just wide enough for one person to pass through.

The passage was pitch black and unfathomably deep.

A faint, chilling aura seeped out from within.

Qin Hai looked back at Lin Yuan, his eyes complex.

"This path was the Qin Family's earliest emergency escape route."

"Later, after that place was built, this place was abandoned."

"Except for Qin Shan and a few of the oldest Elders, no one knows about its existence anymore."

Lin Yuan looked at the passage without speaking.

He could feel it.

This passage led to that... energy black hole he had detected earlier with Electromagnetic Induction.

"Let's go."

Lin Yuan gestured.

Qin Hai nodded and stepped forward first, walking into the dark passage.

Lin Yuan and Su Wanqing followed closely behind.

The passage was narrow and oppressive.

The three went downward.

After an unknown amount of time.

Ahead, a faint glimmer of light finally appeared.

After walking a few more tens of meters, their vision suddenly cleared.

They had arrived in an underground space.

When he saw the scene before him, even Lin Yuan couldn't help but narrow his eyes.