"Please... I beg you..." Zhuang Zhongbing wanted to kowtow to the man, but because he couldn’t move his body, he could only plead with his eyes, "Please spare her, there is our child inside her belly... I promise, she won’t say anything, I will have her leave, far away, never to return..."
"No, I don’t want you to die..." His wife clung desperately to Zhuang Zhongbing’s body, crying loudly, "I don’t want you to die, if you die, we can’t live on... If we are to die, let’s die together..."
Zhuang Zhongbing ignored his wife’s words, his gaze fixed intensely on the young man in white, continuing to plead, "Let her go, we have some diamonds at home, they’re all yours... All my possessions are yours..."
"Whatever you need to know... I will tell you, there will be absolutely no secrets..."
"Kill me, and there won’t be any trouble... Spare my wife... Spare my child..."
He found this couple a bit noisy, one nagging, the other crying too loudly.
He moved towards Zhuang Zhongbing with light steps, as if his body was floating above the ground, without making a sound.
A fine red line appeared on Zhuang Zhongbing’s throat.
Quickly, the line grew thicker, and blood began to spurt.
Zhuang Zhongbing’s eyes bulged, wanting to speak, but his throat could no longer make any sound.
In his eyes, as he looked at the young man in white, there was no blame, only pleading.
She saw the wound on Zhuang Zhongbing’s neck, reached out to cover it, but the blood still gushed between her fingers.
"Husband... you can’t die..."
"Husband, you can’t die, don’t scare me..."
Seeing that Zhuang Zhongbing’s eyes lost all their shine and his heart had stopped beating, and he was no longer breathing, she finally realized her husband was dead.
She sat on the floor, after a moment of stunned silence, she suddenly got up, picked up the handgun from the ground, and pulled the trigger at the young man in white.
The sword light flickered.
The young man in white struck again, swiftly slashing her throat.
Then, without looking at her again, he turned and walked outside.
After a while, a ’thud’ of a falling body could be heard from the house.
Two strikes, three lives.
Bai Ye got out of the car and asked the subordinates surrounding him, "Is this the place?"
"This is the place." Wang Zhuo, leader of the third team, stepped forward to report, "After Zhuang Zhongbing and his wife Wang Jing disappeared, we started tracking his spending... We know that if he wanted to live outside, he would definitely need money..."
"If he didn’t have a lot of cash on hand, he would have to use an electronic account... He bought an Energy Gun three days ago and transferred some money to a gun dealer named Hei Long..."
"We found Hei Long, and indeed, Zhuang Zhongbing had been there... and Zhuang Zhongbing had laundered money through him, exchanging it for cash... Following the trail, we were able to pinpoint his exact location."
"Hmm." Bai Ye nodded, speaking in a deep voice, "The orders from above are clear, we need a living person or a dead body."
"Zhuang Zhongbing is a brother of our Imperial Forbidden Team, I know many of you had good relations with him..."
Bai Ye’s expression was stern, his voice carrying a threat, "However, a soldier’s duty is to obey orders. This is an order, set aside your brotherly feelings, and when it’s time to take action, we must take action. Do you hear me?"
"Yes," everyone answered in unison.
"Go in and get the person." Bai Ye gestured broadly with his hand and followed the crowd as they rushed down the dark alleyway.
When they had surrounded the house, they found the door gone and two bodies lying inside.
Both had been slain with a swift cut to the throat, a fatal blow.
"Too late," he roared angrily.
In the sky, a black mosquito was buzzing around nearby.
If one observed closely, they would see the mosquito’s eyes occasionally flashing a tiny red light.
This was an electronic mosquito, someone was monitoring everything happening here through its eyes.