Siheyuan (courtyard house): My father, Li Yunlong!

Li Zhenhua followed casually behind, but his years of military service and reconnaissance training had given him a keen sense of observation, making him habitually pay attention to his surroundings and environment.

Just as they were about to walk out of the warehouse, the woman in front of them turned to the side to indicate which way to go, and the hem of her cotton coat was slightly lifted.

In that instant, Li Zhenhua caught a glimpse of a clear outline of a hard object against her lower back, visible through her clothing.

He recognized the shape all too well; it was the grip of a pistol!

His heart skipped a beat, but his face remained impassive, as if he hadn't seen anything.

However, an alarm bell had already been sounded in my heart.

Why would a woman who needs to buy oil on the black market be carrying a gun?

Stepping out of the warehouse, the early morning air was much cooler.

The burly man keeping watch glanced at them, and seeing that they were the people who had just gone in, he didn't ask any further questions.

The woman led Li Zhenhua away from the main alleyway where the black market crowd usually gathered or dispersed, and instead turned into a quieter, dimmer alleyway.

Upon entering the alley, Li Zhenhua's vigilance was at its highest.

His gaze, like the most sophisticated radar, quickly swept across the rooftops, windows, and distant intersections on both sides of the alley.

really!

Across the alley from an abandoned two-story building, behind a window without glass, one could vaguely see a half-crouching figure staring toward the warehouse door!

On the other side, further away in the shadows of a corner, there seemed to be someone hiding as well. The terrain there was slightly higher, and it overlooked an area of ​​the black market exit!

Although they tried their best to hide, their focused posture and the positions they chose were definitely not those of ordinary passersby or black market guards!

This is a standard surveillance point!

A fine layer of cold sweat instantly seeped out from Li Zhenhua's back.

The black market has been exposed!

This is not a simple security check, but an organized encirclement and surveillance operation!

The woman buying oil in front of us is probably not a real buyer at all, but rather... a law enforcement officer!

Her real purpose in buying oil was to lure him out as a "big fish" by making an excuse!

He immediately realized that he might be being regarded as a major speculator.

Selling two large barrels of premium soybean oil at once is certainly eye-catching in this black market.

What should I do?

Should we expose her now?

Or should we take the opportunity to escape?

When the woman saw Li Zhenhua stop, she turned around and looked at him with a hint of doubt in her eyes behind her veil.

"Comrade, what's wrong? It's just up ahead..."

Her voice was still pleasant, but to Li Zhenhua at this moment, it sounded dangerous.

Li Zhenhua's mind raced, but he forced a somewhat embarrassed smile and spoke first, his tone deliberately naive and a little anxious.

"Um...Miss, I'm so sorry! I think I've eaten something bad, I can't hold it in anymore! I'll leave this oil here for you, could you move it a few steps yourself? Or could you ask your family to come and help me? I need to find a place to take care of this right away!"

The moment Li Zhenhua finished speaking, a hand, with irresistible force, pressed heavily on his left shoulder!

"A stomach upset? That's not a very good excuse."

The woman's voice came from behind, still cold and clear, but with a hint of teasing, like a cat playing with a mouse. Her previous weakness and embarrassment had vanished without a trace.

"Don't move, just come with me obediently, or you'll suffer."

Li Zhenhua was startled; this woman moved so fast!

However, his mind was also racing.

How could a dignified head of the security department of a steel rolling mill be caught red-handed as a speculator for selling oil?

If this gets out, where will Li Zhenhua put his face?

If Li Yunlong, Li's father, finds out, he'll definitely whip this "disgraceful" wretch to death!

In the blink of an eye, Li Zhenhua didn't have time to think; it was almost an instinctive reaction from his body!

The combat skills honed through countless hours in the military suddenly exploded!

Suddenly, his body sank, and his right arm flashed backward and upward like lightning to block, accurately knocking away the woman's hand that was pressing on his shoulder. At the same time, using his left foot as a pivot, his body spun backward with incredible speed!

In the instant the woman's arm was parried and her front door slightly opened, Li Zhenhua's left hand gripped her right wrist like an iron clamp, and twisted it to the side and back!

With his right hand formed a palm, he forcefully pushed towards her shoulder blade!

This set of counter-grappling moves was clean, crisp, and lightning-fast, completely exceeding the woman's expectations!

She clearly hadn't expected this seemingly ordinary "opportunist" to have such sharp skills, and to be so audacious as to attack her, a "law enforcement officer"!

"Well!"

The woman let out a muffled groan, feeling a tremendous force come over her. Her wrists were restrained, and her body was uncontrollably pulled forward. Her center of gravity instantly lost its balance, and she was firmly controlled by Li Zhenhua, facing away from him with her arms twisted behind her back.

"Ugh!"

Before she could even cry out, Li Zhenhua's left hand swiftly moved up and covered her mouth tightly from behind, silencing any possible sound.

The immense power disparity rendered all her struggles futile.

"Don't move! If you move again, I won't be polite!"

Li Zhenhua lowered his voice and warned her sternly in her ear, while his eyes warily scanned the alley entrance and the surveillance point in the distance.

Fortunately, they were in a blind spot, and their brief exchange went unnoticed.

The woman was both shocked and furious. She twisted her body desperately and tried to kick backward with her legs, but Li Zhenhua's arms were as solid as cast iron and did not budge.

Feeling the elastic and powerful body in his arms struggling, especially the pert buttocks that inevitably rubbed against him, Li Zhenhua felt a surge of lust amidst his tension.

"Slap! Slap!"

He raised his hand and slapped her round, pert buttocks twice, not too hard, with a punitive tone.

"Behave yourself! If you move again, believe me, I'll strip you naked and throw you out!"

The humiliating threat and the burning sensation on her buttocks caused the woman's body to stiffen abruptly, her struggling movements ceasing instantly, and her ears and neck, exposed outside the handkerchief, turning bright red at a visible speed!

She has never been treated like this before.

Taking advantage of the brief moment when the woman was stunned, Li Zhenhua did not dare to delay and immediately communicated with the system in his mind to quickly place an order on Pinduoduo.

A bundle of the most ordinary hemp rope.

The rope appeared instantly in his free right hand.

He swiftly used his teeth to bind the woman's wrists tightly behind her back in a few quick movements, tying a tight knot that completely eliminated any possibility of her pulling out a gun to resist.

After doing all this, he finally breathed a sigh of relief, but curiosity kept nagging at him.

He wanted to see what this woman, who was quite skilled and dared to carry a gun to arrest people, actually looked like.

Li Zhenhua used his free hand to rip off the handkerchief from the woman's face.

In the dim light from afar, a face came into view.

Li Zhenhua was stunned for a moment, his breath caught in his throat.

This is an extremely young face, yet breathtakingly beautiful.