Chapter 386: Please Don't Kill Me
Having done their work, the men swaggered off.
Before leaving, they made sure to loot the entire estate of all its valuables.
Outside the estate.
Xiao Ye watched the raging flames and slowly rolled up his window.
Just as he was about to step on the gas, a man suddenly flung open the passenger door and scrambled inside.
His face was a mask of panic. "Go! Drive!"
Xiao Ye frowned slightly. "Who are you?"
"Are you fucking blind?! You don't even recognize me? Now get this car moving!"
Xiao Ye looked the man up and down. He seemed vaguely familiar. 'I must have seen him around at some point,' he thought.
When the car still didn't move, the man grew agitated and looked ready to get physical. "I said get the fuck moving!"
Xiao Ye grabbed his wrist, then sent the man flying out the door with a single kick. "Who the hell do you think you are, trying to act tough in front of me?"
'Cursing in every other sentence. A filthy mouth, and an even filthier character.'
The man stared in disbelief. He glanced at the flames, staggered to his feet, and tried to get back in the car. "I'm Mr. Linton's assistant!"
"If you don't start driving, believe me, you won't live to see tomorrow!"
"A mere driver, daring to lay hands on me? I'm telling you, take me away from here right now, and I might just let you keep your pathetic life!"
It dawned on Xiao Ye. The car he was driving was indeed the same model as one of Linton's vehicles; only the license plate was different.
'The guy must not have looked closely,' he thought. 'He thinks I'm one of Linton's drivers.'
Xiao Ye didn't stop him this time. Once the man was back inside, he started the engine and sped away.
"To Molin Mansion, and step on it!"
Xiao Ye turned a deaf ear and just kept driving.
As they drove further and further into unfamiliar territory, the man finally began to panic. "Where are you taking me? Stop the car!"
"I'm telling you, I can command all of Mr. Linton's men!"
"If you don't want to die, you'll do exactly as I say!"
Finding the man far too noisy, Xiao Ye drew a gun and pressed the muzzle to his forehead. "Can you shut up now?"
The man instantly went silent, like a duck with its neck being squeezed. His eyes went wide, and he didn't dare make another sound.
Driving with one hand and holding the gun with the other, Xiao Ye soon arrived at a small, hidden building.
He dragged the man into the basement.
As soon as he saw Xiao Ye put the gun away, the man spoke up again. "You... If you dare do anything to me, Mr. Linton won't let you get away with it!"
"Do you have any idea who Mr. Linton is? He's a man that even the great families of the Imperial City trip over themselves to please!"
"Let me go right now, and I'll pretend today never happened. Otherwise..."
Before he could finish his threat, Xiao Ye cut in, "Linton is already dead."
"What?" The man was stunned. "That's impossible!"
He had thought the estate was just on fire, and since he couldn't get through to Linton's phone, he was rushing to Molin Mansion to find him.
He never imagined Linton was actually dead.
A faint smile touched Xiao Ye's lips. "That's right. And I'm the one who killed him."
He produced the pistol again. "Take a closer look."
Only then did the assistant's gaze fall upon the pistol.
It was a compact, golden pistol. One glance was enough to tell it was incredibly valuable.
His eyes widened. "That's... That's Mr. Linton's pistol!"
That pistol belonged to Linton, and now... it was in someone else's hands.
THUD.
The man's legs went weak, and he collapsed to the floor.
The thought of Linton being murdered filled him with uncontrollable terror.
'If this man dared to kill Linton, what chance did a nobody like him stand?!'
The faint stench of urine began to fill the air.
Xiao Ye's brows knitted in disgust. 'What a spineless coward. I've barely done anything, and he's already pissed himself in fear!'
"Don't kill me!" the man groveled, slamming his forehead against the floor. "Please, don't kill me! I'm begging you!"
"I'm just Linton's assistant! I couldn't make any decisions! It was all Linton's doing! He forced me to do it!"
He assumed Xiao Ye was there to take revenge on Linton.
But Linton had offended so many people that for a moment, he couldn't place which victim Xiao Ye represented.
Linton liked beautiful women, so most of the women he brought back had been taken by force.
Intimidated by his power, the victims didn't dare speak out. Some were paid off with a little money. But those who couldn't be bought, the ones who still sought justice, were dealt with by Linton using all sorts of methods.
In the end, those without power or influence had their families torn apart and their lives destroyed.
"Linton was a sicko! He got off on women he'd taken by force!"
"I was just following his orders! That first one, Xiaoling, Linton spotted her at a bar. I saw she was a college student and told him to leave her alone."
"But Linton wouldn't listen to me. He kidnapped Xiaoling anyway and buried her behind the estate."
"Oh, and Mei Mei, too! I tried to talk him out of it, but it was no use..."
The assistant continued to spill everything he knew about Linton.
He tried to absolve himself of blame with every word, but Xiao Ye knew this man was just as much a perpetrator.
"Then there was the woman from the Ouyang Clan. But it was their fault for coming to cause trouble in the first place, and they were the ones who brought a woman with them."
"Linton took a liking to her, and I tried to talk him out of it... but it was useless. He wouldn't listen. Plus, the people from the Ouyang Clan were being disrespectful, so the woman..."
Xiao Ye raised an eyebrow. "You mean the Ouyang Family? *The* Ouyang Family?"
"Yes!" The assistant's eyes lit up, thinking he'd finally said something useful. He quickly spilled everything he knew.
It turned out that after the United Group's business went to the Xiao Family, the Ouyang Clan refused to accept it and had secretly approached Linton.
But Linton had not only humiliated them, he'd even kept the woman who had accompanied them.
The woman wasn't even good-looking, nor was she Linton's type.
After forcing her to stay, he didn't even do anything to her... he just beat her to death to vent his anger!
After learning these details, an idea suddenly formed in Xiao Ye's mind.
He took out his phone and called his men, telling them to plant some "evidence" at the estate, where firefighters were already battling the blaze.
Xiao Ye ignored the assistant and turned to leave. He ordered his subordinate, "Keep him alive. Get more out of him, then compile everything and send it to General He."
"Yes, sir!"
「That evening.」
News of Linton's death shot to the top of all the major trending lists.
It was an exceptionally brutal murder case—not even the housekeepers had been spared—and it generated a massive amount of discussion online.
"This Linton guy was super rich. He must have pissed someone off."
"I had a friend, a beautiful girl, who was taken by Linton. The last message she ever sent me said she was at his place. Later, I heard she'd died."
"I seriously suspect this was someone getting revenge on Linton!"
The news trended wildly in Dragon Country, and naturally, word spread abroad.
「Country A.」
The higher-ups in the Angel Association were furious about Linton's death.
He was a man they had spent a long time grooming, and now he was dead, having failed to realize his full value!