Twenty minutes later, Lin Shuang arrived alone at Ye Corporation.
At this moment inside the entire Ye Corporation building, a group of security guards in dark suits stood on both sides, their eyes radiating a fierce glint.
Under the murderous gaze of these bodyguards, Lin Shuang went upstairs and was taken to the president's office on the top floor.
He briskly pushed open the office door and saw Ye Gucheng sitting at the desk with his legs crossed, a cigar in his mouth.
Next to him was a hospital stretcher, and upon it... Mrs. Xu, the comatose woman, lay with a ventilator still inserted in her mouth.
Lin Shuang's eyes grew icy as he quickly strode forward.
Yet Ye Gucheng suddenly raised his hand, a gun pointed directly at the comatose Mrs. Xu.
"Try moving a step closer, believe it or not, my bullet will go through her head?" Ye Gucheng's voice carried a playful tone.
Lin Shuang could only stop in his tracks, his eyes as cold as ice, "What do you want?"
Ye Gucheng's smirk was sarcastic, "You lad... had a great time beating me up at Su Corporation yesterday, didn't you? What? Didn't expect to end up in my hands, huh?" sarcasm laced his eyes.
At his command, the surrounding bodyguards stepped forward to frisk him!
Mrs. Xu was being used as a hostage, so Lin Shuang couldn't resist. He could only let these bodyguards search him.
They quickly found several dozen one-yuan coins and two cellphones on Lin Shuang but no dangerous weapons.
All these personal items were handed over to Ye Gucheng.
Ye Gucheng looked meaningfully at Lin Shuang.
Having been severely beaten by Lin Shuang the day before, nearly to the point of disability, Ye Gucheng couldn't just let this vendetta slide.
"Release Mrs. Xu, she's just a vegetable. If you have an issue, come at me," Lin Shuang said coldly.
Ye Gucheng chuckled coldly, "Tell me your identity and... cripple your own legs and feet. Then I might let this old woman go."
In that moment, the air turned ice-cold.
While threatening, Ye Gucheng curiously picked up Lin Shuang's two cellphones. One was a Xiaomi 13, and Ye Gucheng searched it, looking for Lin Shuang's identity information, but the phone was clean, without any clues.
Ye Gucheng then picked up the other black cellphone, a Huawei brand, but had he ever seen this model? It looked like a military phone for special use?
Ye Gucheng was about to power on this phone.
Suddenly, Lin Shuang yelled, "Don't turn it on, unless you want to die."
This military phone had always been off because it pertained to his other identity, the Lord of the Netherworld, the exclusive phone of the Nether King.
If this phone were turned on, his location signal would be transmitted, and the Netherworld Army would know his whereabouts.
Lin Shuang had been living incognito in Hai City to avoid being found by his subordinates from the Netherworld Army.
Huh? On hearing those words, Ye Gucheng laughed, "Who the hell are you trying to scare?"
Ye Gucheng powered on the phone, and as it started up, a complex string of English appeared on the screen. Ye Gucheng saw that all the fonts in this phone were in a complex Arabic script. He couldn't understand it at all?
...
Three thousand kilometers away, in the Middle Eastern war zone, the base of the Netherworld Army.
Suddenly, the mobile phone coordinates of the Lord of the Netherworld appeared on the radar of the Netherworld Army's satellites!
Instantly, the entire upper echelons of the Netherworld Army were shaken!
The Lord of the Netherworld, who had been missing for two whole years, his mobile signal suddenly popped up?
One of the four great Fallen Angels of the Netherworld, Angel Satan, immediately made a video call to the Lord of the Netherworld!
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Meanwhile, in Hai City, at Ye Corporation.
Ye Gucheng was flipping through Lin Shuang's mysterious mobile phone when suddenly the ringtone startled him.
He looked and saw that a mysterious video call had come in on this phone?
"Don't answer it, or you'll bring big trouble upon yourself," Lin Shuang warned gravely!
But would Ye Gucheng listen to him? He answered the video call right there and then.
In the video on the phone… a figure of a man wearing a devil mask appeared.
"Who are you? How did you get the Lord of the Netherworld's mobile phone?" the man behind the devil mask demanded in English.
"Yo? Speaking in English, are we? Pretty high-class, huh? I'm Ye Gucheng, the president of Ye Corporation. And who might you be?" Ye Gucheng mocked in his broken English.
On the other end of the video call, the masked man coldly revealed his name, "The devil, Satan."
"Pfft!" Ye Gucheng almost burst out laughing when he heard the name, "Wearing a mask and still afraid to give your real name? You're a real coward."
"Where is the Lord of the Netherworld? I want to see him," Satan demanded coldly on the video call.
"The Lord of the Netherworld? Are you referring to Lin Shuang? Heh… he's been captured by me. Are you planning to rescue him?" Ye Gucheng said, turning the phone's camera to show Lin Shuang being held captive.
"The Lord of the Netherworld?!" The man in the video call saw the scene, his pupils constricting. Murderous intent surfaced, "Release the Lord of the Netherworld immediately! Otherwise, you will be hunted globally by my legion!"
"Pffft!" Hearing this, Ye Gucheng burst out laughing, "What is this, kids playing house? 'The Lord of the Netherworld'? 'The devil Satan'? I'm damn Buddha himself!"
In the video call, Satan coldly said, "I have told you to release the Lord of the Netherworld at once, or I will come personally to execute you! When I, Satan, make a promise, I keep it!"
Ye Gucheng couldn't hold back any longer and hurled insults back, "Satan, is it? Come on then! If you've got the guts, just try it! I'm right here at Number 107, Ye Corporation Building, Hai City! Stop beating around the bush; I'm waiting for you! Don't come and you're a dog! If you don't show up, today I'll break the legs of this so-called Lord of the Netherworld and toss him in the trash to feed the strays."
On the other end of the video call, beneath the Satan mask, eyes filled with cold fury, he didn't waste time talking, immediately hanging up the call!
Lin Shuang slowly shook his head, "Hey, you shouldn't have answered that call. You've stirred up big trouble."
"Still playing goddamn tricks? Think some scam artist can fool me?" Ye Gucheng said with a face full of scorn, "I'll wait for him. Let's see if he dares to come. If he doesn't show today, I'll break your damn legs."
Ye Gucheng, with his legs crossed, sat down in his office to wait, curious whether this scammer would really dare to show up or not.
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Three thousand kilometers away, within the base of the Netherworld Army.
After hanging up the call, Satan immediately issued a command, "Netherworld royal troops, heed my order! Dispatch the air force combat squadron! Follow me to the south immediately! Within one hour, I want the air force combat formation to reach the skies over Jiangnan!"
Minutes later, dozens of terrifying supersonic stealth fighters took off from the base, tearing through the cloud layer, hurtling toward the eastern Jiangnan…!