Arranged marriage, love blossoms; a fiercely devoted soldier dotes on her alone.

"A bet's a bet. I gave you a chance, but you're not as skilled. So you can't accept my offer now. Can you tell me?"

Where is Liu Shiyuan hiding?

Xiao Zhan walked up to the sniper and said coldly.

"Huff...huff..."

The sniper was in so much pain that he was panting heavily and his body was trembling slightly.

Xiao Zhan stared into the sniper's eyes and said, "Don't try to stall for time, and don't try to cheat by not telling me. I'm telling you without any modesty, I have a hundred ways to make you wish you were dead and regret ever being born."

The sniper trembled a few times upon hearing this.

He knew he had met his match today.

To his utter surprise, Xiao Zhan was incredibly strong. He was already a high-level ninja, yet he couldn't even last one move against Xiao Zhan, suffering a crushing defeat...

The sniper, in a final, desperate attempt, pleaded, "Xiao Zhan, if I tell you, will you spare my life?"

Xiao Zhan: "Impossible. You must die. A murderer must pay with his life, and a debt must be repaid. This is an immutable truth."

The sniper, utterly despondent, said with a lifeless look in his eyes, "Then can I choose to commit suicide?"

Xiao Zhan: "That's a possibility."

"If you keep babbling on, I'll cut off your idiot head and sever your head and tail, and see how you'll face your Amaterasu after you die."

The sniper was truly at a loss. If he were to cut off his own head and tail, according to the customs of the Little Day Country, he would not be able to enter the ancestral tablets after death and would only become a wandering ghost.

"Gurgle."

The sniper swallowed hard and said, "Liu Shiyuan isn't here. No, he left before you arrived. This is a well-designed trap waiting for you to take the bait."

Xiao Zhan raised an eyebrow and asked, "What kind of trap?"

Sniper: "I'll handle the long-range sniping, and another high-ranking ninja will take care of the close-quarters assassination. We'll attack you from both sides."

Xiao Zhan: "Where's the other ninja?"

The sniper said dejectedly, "I was killed by your men in a hail of bullets."

Xiao Zhan: "Those who commit many unrighteous acts will surely perish."

Tell me where Liu Shiyuan is hiding?

The sniper was stunned for a moment, thinking to himself, "Why is Xiao Zhan so stubborn? I've already told him that Liu Shiyuan has left, but he still insists on asking."

"I really don't know where Liu Shiyuan is hiding. I'm not high enough in rank; only his chief steward, Miki Hirofu, knows."

Xiao Zhan: "Then what else do you know?"

The sniper thought for a moment and said, "I know that Miki Hiroo has a lover in the capital, who is our ambassador's daughter."

Xiao Zhan: "What's this woman's name?"

Sniper: "Kane Suzuko is a graduate student at Tsinghua or Peking University. That's all I know."

Seeing that he couldn't get anything out of him, Xiao Zhan didn't want to waste any more time and said, "I keep my word. You should commit suicide to atone for your sins."

Then he kicked the sniper's dropped knife in front of him and said, "Hurry up and do it, I don't have time to waste with you, or I'll make my move."

The sniper was incredibly frustrated.

This is urging me to get on the road as soon as possible.

Things have come to this point, and there's no way to avoid dying.

He absolutely couldn't let Xiao Zhan make a move; if Xiao Zhan cut off his head and tail, wouldn't all his efforts have been in vain?

The sniper grabbed his dagger with his left hand, staring at the knife he had carried for years, overwhelmed with mixed emotions. To commit suicide with his own dagger—it was truly bizarre…

"puff!"

The sniper gritted his teeth, steeled his resolve, and plunged the knife into his own chest with his left hand. Then, enduring the excruciating pain, he twisted his wrist forcefully…

"Aww...!"

The sniper let out a scream before dying.

Xiao Zhan walked over and looked at the sniper's still convulsing corpse, coldly saying, "To prevent you from coming back to life, I'll break your neck."

As he spoke, he bent down, rubbed his hands together, and twisted them forcefully.

"Click."

The sniper's neck was broken.

Xiao Zhan loosened his grip, and the sniper's head drooped.

Xiao Zhan looked at the dead sniper with his eyes wide open and said, "You can close your eyes now. Your head is still attached to your neck. I told you I wouldn't cut off your idiot. I'm not that perverted."

Strange to say.

Xiao Zhan had barely finished speaking.

The sniper's eyes slowly closed.

Xiao Zhan laughed and cursed, "You son of a bitch, you really don't believe me? I'm a gentleman, do you think you little devils are like me, not keeping your word?"

Xiao Zhan picked up the light sniper rifle, checked it, and found that there were still dozens of sniper bullets left.

He muttered to himself, "This is the standard-issue sniper rifle used by our army. I'll use this gun to investigate the scoundrels in the military."

Xiao Zhan took out his phone and called Bai Zexiang. He first reported the situation to Bai Zexiang, then said, "Minister Bai, I seized a standard-issue sniper rifle from a high-ranking ninja under Liu Shiyuan's command. I'll send you the serial number on the rifle and the serial number of the bullet. Have someone secretly investigate the origin of the rifle."

Bai Zexiang: "No problem, it's time to investigate the scoundrels in the military."

Xiao Zhan took a picture and sent it over.

Then he called Xia Keke and asked, "Where are you?"

Xia Keke: "We're waiting for you at the village entrance."

Xiao Zhan had sent her a message before.

So he said, "I'll be right there."

five minutes later,

Xiao Zhan carried the sniper rifle and strolled to the village entrance to meet Xia Keke.

At this point, a large number of police officers arrived at the scene and began to investigate.

Five people died at the scene: two bodyguards from the Deng family, one member of the National Security Bureau, and two masked men in black.

Xiao Zhan said to Xia Keke, "I just interrogated the sniper. Liu Shiyuan ran away from here before you arrived. According to the sniper, Liu Shiyuan's head butler, Miki Hirofumi, has an unusual relationship with a woman named Kaneshiro Reiko."

"You should focus your investigation on this woman."

Xia Keke: "No problem. Do you know exactly what this woman does for a living? Or where she lives?"

Xiao Zhan: "This woman is a graduate student from Tsinghua or Peking University."

Xia Keke: "That makes things easier."

At this moment, Su Zixing walked up to Xiao Zhan and whispered, "I'm sorry, Xiao Zhan. I shouldn't have been willful, and I shouldn't have disobeyed my cousin and acted on my own."

Xiao Zhan glanced at Su Zixing and said calmly, "Su Zixing, if you want to live, you'd better behave yourself. This is Beijing, not Southeast Asia. If you take any more unauthorized actions, next time we'll only be able to collect your corpse."

Although Xiao Zhan's words were a bit harsh and rough, it was the truth. If Xiao Zhan hadn't arrived in time and killed the sniper, who knows what would have happened in the end?

Su Zixing's eyes reddened and tears welled up in them. She bit her red lips and said, "I'm sorry. I was so eager for revenge that I almost fell into an abyss of no return."

"I won't be willful anymore."

At this moment, Zhang Guoqiang ran over and said, "Young Master Xiao, Director Xia, I examined the two black-clad corpses and found that they both had gold cherry blossom tattoos, which means they were high-level ninjas."

Xia Keke asked curiously, "Ninjas are known for using their special stealth techniques to assassinate enemies. Why didn't they use stealth to ambush us this time, but instead used sniper rifles to kill us?"

Xiao Zhan: "Because they were afraid that we would use infrared thermal imagers to detect their location, and once we detected them, they would be shot to death."

Xiao Zhan looked up at the night sky and said, "It's getting late, let's all go back to the city. There's no peace and quiet every day."

If it weren't for this incident, I'd be enjoying a warm bed with my wife right now...

Su Zixing hesitated for a moment, her eyes flickering, and then said, "Xiao Zhan, can I discuss something with you?"

Xiao Zhan asked curiously, "What's on your mind? Just say it."

Su Zixing: "Can I stay at your house?"