This is still a relatively high-end way to put it, but for low-end behavior like Chen Qi, the consequences that would follow would lead to many derivatives, and not a single one of those outcomes is a path to life.
Chen Qi had obviously thought this through, and since the other party was not leaving him any way out, he had no reason to be polite. This led to his current brazen attitude, and in this audacious situation, Chen Qi believed that the other side would surely kill him soon, ending some of his suffering.
What Chen Qi feared most was the use of violent methods to torture him and extract information about the plot of land. He felt he had covered his tracks well, revealing nothing else about the plot in all his actions before. It was unexpected that Li Fei had still caught a whiff of something, which was not what Chen Qi wanted to see.
