CHAPTER 717: CHAPTER 713: YOUR OPPONENT IS ME!

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"Ah ah ah, you’re insane!" Yan Jinxian screamed at Xie Jingchen, panicking and livid.

The sudden encounter with the threat of his gunfire left Yan Jinxian’s heart palpitating uncontrollably, staring at Xie Jingchen with eyes as if looking at a madman!

Doesn’t he fear that in a fit of anger, he would simply shoot Yan Jinsu dead?

"You could say that!" Xie Jingchen, with a cold stare in his tiger-like eyes, looked intently at Yan Jinxian’s fierce little face and continued to raise the gun threateningly:

"Your opponent is me! If you touch even a hair on her head again, you can forget about ever getting that damned thing in your lifetime!"

"You!" Yan Jinxian’s eyes reddened with anger.

Yet, her hands were ultimately frightened by Xie Jingchen’s imposing aura and hesitantly withdrew.

"Mr. Xie Rongwei’s abilities are indeed impressive!" the man behind Yan Jinxian commented, his voice carrying a slight awkwardness: "But no matter how good your reaction is, I’m afraid it’s still not faster than us!"

Due to Xie Jingchen’s actions, half the people Yan Jinxian brought were aiming their guns at Xie Jingchen, while the other half were aiming at the unconscious Yan Jinsu.

Clearly, the opponent understood that Xie Jingchen’s weak spot was the unconscious woman, Yan Jinsu!

"Are you the person in charge of the Shantian Organization?" Xie Jingchen glared at the man, feeling eerily strange about him.

He hadn’t sensed any fluctuations in the man’s spiritual power, but he had a feeling that this man’s existence was a significant threat to him.

[Master, the life within the Spirit Lord is quickly fading.] Suddenly, the childish voice of Tao Nu resounded in Xie Jingchen’s mind.

Xie Jingchen’s Divine Power shook, and he felt an unbearable dull pain in his heart, yet his tiger-like eyes remained resolutely focused on the standoff before him—

"No, no, I’m merely the Mountain Leader, Yamasaki Yu. I have long admired Mr. Xie Rongwei, please enlighten me!"

"Cut the crap, what do I need to do for you to let go of my wife and child?" Xie Jingchen no longer expected these people to have a conscience or morals. To negotiate humanity’s basic principles with these beasts of an enemy nation?

Xie Jingchen wasn’t foolish. The adversaries simply wanted to coerce him into submission, but he could not.

As long as he was not absolutely certain that he could retrieve the evil artifact once it was out of his hands, he would not act recklessly.

Without him, without his wife, as long as Tao Nu was alive, the artifact would not be easily stolen from the earth—this is the national boundary of his own country, a small nation that cannot afford to provoke a war between two countries.

With Zhou Zhenghui present, Tanning Temple would not be privately purchased and owned.

In this way, for at least the next hundred years, the apocalypse would not arrive. If trading the lives of his family of five could secure a century of peace, allowing Xiaojiu, Xiao Shi, and the family to fight for a safe environment, Xie Jingchen had no regrets.

He deeply glanced at his little wife’s once again drooping face and locked his gaze on this Yamasaki Yu.

"Xie Rongwei Chief’s patriotic sentiment is indeed grand, willing to give up even his own wife and children, I am truly impressed; it’s a pity though—"

Yamasaki Yu gently caressed the gun in his hand with his thumb as he spoke, shifting the threat from pointing at Xie Jingchen to aiming at Yan Jinsu’s temple in an instant:

"What a pity, this woman, she’s married to the wrong man!"

"!" Xie Jingchen’s eyes narrowed, and his spiritual power surged to its peak in an instant.

[Tao Nu, as long as you pull the Spirit Lord another twenty feet closer, I can protect the Spirit Lord!] Tao Nu, sensing the three fetal tones inside the Spirit Lord’s womb growing weaker, urgently reminded him.

Xie Jingchen stared blankly at the little woman in the wheelchair who was completely unconscious. He could sense from Tao Nu’s anxious emotions that his wife’s condition was getting worse.

Moreover, Yan Jinsu was only a distance of five feet away from him, and his spiritual power completely enveloped his little wife. Even without looking at her, his spiritual power could clearly feel that the breath of his little wife was getting weaker and weaker.

"Yes, you’re right, marrying me, she really has suffered too many disasters and dangers. As her husband, I feel guilty for her..." Xie Jingchen stopped the motion of raising his gun, guiltily fixed his eyes on Yan Jinsu, and silently took two large steps forward—

"Stop! If you take one more step forward, I’ll really shoot!" Yamasaki Yu was stunned for a second by Xie Jingchen’s sudden action, and in that second, Xie Jingchen took two large strides, and the distance between the two groups was only about forty feet.

"Good people don’t bring trouble to their wives and children..." Xie Jingchen pressed his gaze onto Yamasaki Yu, his eyes fierce and scraping, and he stated in a chilling voice:

"Only the incapable harbor delusions. To an enemy, all effective actions are worth it!"

As he spoke, Xie Jingchen took another two steps, and the distance between him and Yan Jinsu was only a little over thirty feet.

"Stop!" Yamasaki Yu stared at Xie Jingchen’s stern face, with the gun’s chamber loaded and pointing even closer to Yan Jinsu’s forehead, he yelled at Xie Jingchen.

Because of Xie Jingchen’s earlier provocation, Yan Jinxian, who had calmed down, also held a handgun. As her companion called to Xie Jingchen to stop, she vigilantly fired a shot just a half-foot in front of Xie Jingchen’s feet.

"Bang"—the sound was followed by Xie Jingchen’s panicked cry:

"Fine, I’ll stop, I’ll stand still, be careful of a misfire!... You wretches, if this is the destined end, then point your guns at me—"

Xie Jingchen stopped in his tracks, glared at Yan Jinxian, and as if only then noticing Yamasaki Yu’s actions, raised his arm again, aiming at the opponent and shouting in a provoked manner.

[Tao Nu, please protect the Spirit Lord well!]

[Rest assured, Tao Nu will absolutely not let that piece of iron harm even a hair on the Spirit Lord!]

Xie Jingchen’s fierce eyes shifted from Yamasaki Yu’s body to Yan Jinsu, and what completely caught the others off guard was that Xie Jingchen actually dared to fire a shot—as everyone followed Xie Jingchen’s gaze, their attention was slightly diverted at that moment!

In just that one-second window, Xie Jingchen fired three shots, "Bang, bang, bang," three rounds, two of which were aimed at Yamasaki Yu, and the last one hit Yan Jinxian’s heart!

Unexpectedly, of the three shots, only one hit, which was very strange. He had clearly aimed at Yan Jinxian’s heart, but Yan Jinxian seemed to have ’supernaturally’ slipped and fell harshly to the ground!

Although Yan Jinxian’s fall seemed severe, it was truly nothing compared to the fatal shot from Xie Jingchen. The fall was truly child’s play.

Yan Jinxian was extremely frightened, shaking as she looked at Xie Jingchen, as if she was staring at a demon, with her eyes widened in horror, completely stunned.

Yamasaki Yu, however, had an unfortunate misstep and was actually hit by Xie Jingchen. Although it wasn’t where he had originally aimed, which was the center of the forehead or the heart, the accidental shot to his shoulder blade was an unexpected delight!

With such an action by Xie Jingchen, the Shantian Organization could not, still needing that object, act rashly out of a moment’s emotion and shoot at Yan Jinsu—