"Got it!"
After hearing this, Sun Linshou did not hesitate for even a moment.
He immediately decided to run.
It wasn't that he blindly trusted Qin Siyang.
Rather, he knew very well that Qin Siyang and Zhao Longfei, two people with considerable influence within the Safe Zone, had no reason to kill him.
Both of them were planning to stay on the legitimate path within the Safe Zone. There was no way they would kill him and then take the blame under the Snake Card.
Even Xiao Zhigang, who had directly clashed with both of them, was still alive. Why would they kill him, the Vice Minister of the Ministry of Justice?
Not to mention that Qin Siyang and Zhao Longfei had already cleverly resolved the crisis brought about by Jiang Yuanrui's death.
So, someone definitely wanted to kill him.
Run!
Just as he was about to open the door and leave, he suddenly heard footsteps coming from the hallway.
The footsteps were extremely quiet, and an ordinary Sequence ability user would have had difficulty hearing them.
If Sun Linshou had not already reached Sequence Level Five, with his perception significantly improved in all aspects, he would not have been able to detect the faint sound either.
The enemy was already here.
Sun Linshou anxiously scanned the room, his gaze fixing on the toilet in the bathroom.
WHOOSH!
BANG!
As the sound of the toilet flushing rang out, someone smashed open Sun Linshou's door.
At the instant the door fell to the ground, a mass of green flames surged in through the doorway, instantly swallowing the entire room.
In just a few seconds, everything inside the room had been reduced to ashes.
The person who came in looked at the scene inside and frowned deeply, "Huh? Where's Sun Linshou?"
"That doesn't make sense! He was in the room the whole time! Didn't we just hear his toilet flush before we came in?"
"Where did he go?!"
"I don't know! But our noise alerted the others. We need to leave now! It doesn't matter. Executive Wan is guarding outside. Sun Linshou can't get away!"
After exchanging a few words in low voices, the two quickly left.
District 7 was the Zhao family's home base. The Zhao family had made their fortune through a construction company.
So the construction and planning of District 7 was basically the best among all the districts in the Safe Zone.
From aboveground to underground, everything was orderly.
Even though the Safe Zone had never experienced a flood, the Zhao family had still built a very complete sewage pipe system.
Thanks to the Zhao family's "useless work," Sun Linshou was able to run quickly through the sewers.
He had no time to clean the filth off his body and sprinted through the sewage pipes at full speed.
As for Qin Siyang telling him to go to the main road?
He didn't know the route from the sewage pipes to the main road.
Besides, where he went now wasn't important. He had to stay alive first.
BANG!
Just as he was running at full speed, a sudden roar came from inside the pipes.
A large hole suddenly broke open in the pipe not far ahead of Sun Linshou. Sand and dirt collapsed through it, "clattering" as they fell and made the pipes echo.
Immediately afterward, a figure appeared inside the pipe.
The person in front patted the dust off his hair and said to the stunned Sun Linshou, "Minister Sun, you sure can run."
"Wan Tongwei, it's you?!"
Sun Linshou's eyes widened as he looked at the person blocking his path.
It was the same young official who had made things difficult for Qin Siyang in the conference room earlier that day.
For a moment, Sun Linshou could not understand.
"Wan Tongwei, I personally promoted you. Why do you want to kill me?"
"What's the point of knowing so much when you're about to die?", Wan Tongwei sighed, "It's just a pity. After killing you, I'm afraid I'll never be able to use the identity I've spent years building again. I won't be able to live this kind of aboveboard life anymore."
Suddenly, the muddy ground around Wan Tongwei churned, and several drops of water shot out from it toward his body.
Pfft! Pfft! Pfft!
The water droplets pierced through Wan Tongwei's clothes with precision, leaving several clear holes.
Seeing this, joy appeared on Sun Linshou's face.
His skill, [Water Bullet], condensed water droplets from the surrounding environment and fired them out at high pressure. It could easily pierce steel plates, and hitting a vital point was enough to kill.
However, the scene that happened next made the smile on Sun Linshou's face freeze.
The instant the water droplets touched Wan Tongwei's skin, its color suddenly changed, instantly turning into a dark, rocky shade, with hard stone-like textures faintly visible on the surface.
The water droplets struck this rock-like skin with a dull "pat" sound, losing their original penetrating force and unable to go any deeper. They slowly slid down the rocky surface, splashing a few drops of muddy water.
"How is this possible?"
Sun Linshou stared at Wan Tongwei's body, his face filled with disbelief, "How could my attack have no effect on you at all? Even if you're a [Petrification] Sequence, you shouldn't be completely unharmed!"
The corner of Wan Tongwei's mouth lifted slightly.
He suddenly drove his right foot into the ground. The sand and dirt beneath his foot exploded under the violent impact, while his body shot forward like a cannonball from that single kick.
As he charged, the degree of petrification across his skin increased further, and his entire body became as black as a chunk of ore.
Sun Linshou tried to flee backward, only to discover that at some point, his own feet had also turned to stone.
Having lost his balance, he fell into the pipe with a "thud."
In an instant, Wan Tongwei reached Sun Linshou.
"You ask me why?", The corner of his mouth stiffly twisted into a smug smile, "Because I'm a Sequence Level Six!"
As he spoke, several stone spikes with a hard, rock-like texture separated from Wan Tongwei's body, wrapping around his fist as they thrust straight toward Sun Linshou's throat.
Sun Linshou's eyes widened.
He had already used his escape skill at the hotel, and it was currently on cooldown.
Now, he could only wait to die.
BOOM!
At the critical moment, the pipe above Sun Linshou's head suddenly exploded.
From the corner of his eye, he caught a glimpse of a black shadow.
That shadow shot down from the opening in the pipe like lightning. It was moving so fast that even Sun Linshou, a Sequence Level Five, could not make out its exact form.
Sun Linshou could barely make out that it seemed to be a foot.
BANG!
That foot landed squarely on Wan Tongwei's head with a dull thud.
The instant it struck Wan Tongwei, his fully petrified, indestructible skin shattered.
Cracks rapidly spread from Wan Tongwei's head throughout his entire body.
His face still held the confident smile from before, but in the next moment, his body completely shattered like smashed pottery, and blood was squeezed out and splattered everywhere.
BOOM!
He did not even have time to let out a scream.
In just a moment, Wan Tongwei, who had just been preparing to kill Sun Linshou and had been wearing a smug expression, had turned into a pool of flesh and blood mixed with pieces of stone.
Qin Siyang glanced at the now-unrecognizable Wan Tongwei beneath his foot, "I was just worrying about not being able to find you. But you went and collapsed the pipe first, then started shouting, as if you were afraid other people wouldn't know you were here killing someone."
"And then there was the 'because I'm a Sequence Level Six,'" Qin Siyang repeated Wan Tongwei's words in his tone, then spat.
"Dumb as a pig. You'r six? What the hell?"