Chapter 270: Kept a Trick Up The Sleeve
Gu Fan didn’t know how long he’d been unconscious, only that it felt like an eternity. When he woke up, he found himself alone with a lingering sense of fatigue.
Thinking back on events before blacking out, Gu Fan was irritated. What was this? Bridge-burning after crossing the river? What Lin Xi did was just too much.
Just as Gu Fan was fuming, he heard a chilling voice from behind him: "Finally, you’re awake. I thought I’d been waiting forever."
"You’ve got to be kidding me. That voice?" Gu Fan tensed up in cold sweat. When he slowly turned around, just one glimpse was enough for him to wish to pass out again. This was his most dangerous foe.
The big boss was sitting behind Gu Fan in an armchair, legs crossed, with a cold expression on his face. He said, "I want to know what happened, and I want the truth. Your life depends on your honesty."
Gu Fan immediately nodded in agreement: "Rest assured, honesty is my best policy. But I’d like to know how you ended up here."
"I received intel that you guys got the fourth blueprint, so I came to have a look." The big boss’s indifferent words made Gu Fan frown and he couldn’t help but blurt out, "Man, you’ve got sharp ears."
Gu Fan then filled him in on what happened, including how he was knocked out. Speaking of it, he found it somewhat embarrassing that he’d been taken down so easily by Lin Xi. It was, frankly, a disgrace.
"So it seems Qian Ye plans to leave you out now that he has the full blueprint..." The big boss gave a meaningful smile, looking at Gu Fan with mockery. He added, "You helped Qian Ye so much, yet you got used in the end. Tragic."