"Wait!"
Just as the crossbow was about to pull the trigger, Ling Chen suddenly shouted to stop.
Zhang Xueli slightly frowned, speaking with a mocking tone: "What, a moment ago you were all noble and selfless, ready to rescue your companion without regard to your own safety, and now you are afraid of dying?"
Ling Chen took a deep breath, touched his nose, his eyes gleaming subtly, and grinned: "In our line of work, we've long been prepared to make sacrifices. However, I don't want to die confusedly. You can kill me, but at least let me die understanding why."
"What do you want to know?"
"You just said you deliberately left me a way out, I'm not sure what you mean by that, could you clarify?" This was a concern of his. He hadn't thought much about it before, but when Zhang Xueli brought it up, he felt something was amiss.
If Zhang Xueli wanted to kill him, there was no need to change locations; it could have all been done in that room without any extra effort.
