Chapter 133: Silencing the Witnesses

Night.
Qianshui Building.
The third level of the underground parking garage.

In the spacious area, half-lit and half-shadowed, one old man and four youths stood before a ventilation duct, waiting calmly.

A hundred meters away in a dim corner, Su Jingxing held his breath, his gaze fixed unblinkingly on the same ventilation duct.

Su Jingxing had arrived at Qianshui Building before nightfall.

The retreat route for Shi Jinnian, which connected to the underground passage of the Shi family estate, was exactly the ventilation duct both parties were waiting at.

Operating the "Ghost Python Breath-Concealing Technique" to its limit, Su Jingxing had slipped into the underground garage silently and waited patiently.

During this time, cars had come and gone through the parking garage.

Half an hour ago, two people had come down to disable the surveillance cameras in the corner of the ceiling.

Fifteen minutes ago, the one old man and four youths had arrived and waited quietly by the vent.

This scene indicated that Shi Jinnian was about to appear.

Sure enough.

Not long after, the cover of the ventilation duct was opened from the inside out.

A lean man crawled out.

He was expressionless. He first scanned the group of five, then glanced around the surroundings to ensure no one else was present.

Only then did he turn back and knock gently on the ventilation pipe three times.

A moment later, Shi Jinnian emerged from within, accompanied by five others.

"Master."

The old man and the four youths waiting on the side hurried forward. The old man, dressed in a suit, bowed and called out, "Master, everything has been arranged. The cars are over there."

"Very good. Thank you for your hard work, Old Cai."

Shi Jinnian scanned the surroundings, his gaze landing on the old man. He reached out to pat his shoulder, sighing, "Once I leave, I don't know when I’ll be back."

"No matter how long it takes, we will always wait for you to return, Master." Old Cai sounded a bit saddened, yet his tone was firm and resonant.

The other four echoed him in unison.

"Good, good. With you all here, I am at ease." Shi Jinnian patted Old Cai’s shoulder again and sighed, "Old Cai, I hope you don't hate me."

"Master, if it weren't for you, I, Old Cai, would have died long ago. How could I ever hate you?" Old Cai said solemnly. "Although I cannot leave with you, staying behind to guard this property for you is still serving you. How could there be any hatred?"

"That's good, that's good."

Shi Jinnian was full of emotion. "As long as you don't hate me, I have no other choice."

"Master, please don't say that, I..."

*Pfft.*

A strange sound rang out, and Old Cai’s words came to an abrupt halt.

His eyes widened, blood trickling from the corners of his mouth. He looked down at his chest.

There, a sharp hand covered in true energy had pierced through his chest and emerged from his back.

Piercing pain surged through his entire body, eventually concentrating in his brain, stimulating his eyes to brim with shock, anger, astonishment, and confusion.

Looking at the owner of the sharp hand, Shi Jinnian, his eyes were filled with disbelief.

He opened his mouth, wanting to say something, but in the end, his head dropped, and he breathed his last.

"Uncle Cai!"

"Ah!"

Exclamations and screams erupted, shattering the silence of the scene.

It was all too sudden.

Without any warning, Shi Jinnian had suddenly struck, killing Old Cai who had served him wholeheartedly.

The four men and women accompanying Old Cai had never witnessed such an event.

They were stunned at first, and once they realized what happened, they screamed and scrambled to flee.

But before they could move, the people standing to the left and right of Shi Jinnian had already acted.

*Swish! Swish! Swish!*

They were fast, short swords dancing in their hands.

Following a series of *pfft, pfft, pfft* sounds, the four men and women fell into a pool of blood, lifeless.

"Ruthless!"

In the dim corner, Su Jingxing watched this scene, his mouth curling into a slight smirk.

To ensure there were no future troubles and to prevent news from leaking, Shi Jinnian had silenced them.

He had the same style as his father back in the day.

...

"I was forced to do this, Old Cai. Don't blame me."

On the spot, Shi Jinnian glanced at the five corpses and sighed.

"Dad, why waste words on the dead? Let's leave here quickly," a youth urged.

"Go get the cars."

Shi Jinnian nodded. As he spoke, he let go of Old Cai's corpse and closed the man's wide-open eyes.

"Old Cai, have a safe journey."

"..."

Su Jingxing’s eyelid twitched slightly.

He felt disdain in his heart, but his aura remained completely concealed. Hiding in the corner, he watched as Shi Jinnian and his party got into the two cars Old Cai had prepared.

One after the other, they left the underground garage.

Su Jingxing flickered, following closely behind.

As they left the garage, he heard Shi Jinnian instruct someone to call the crematorium to come and collect the bodies.

Subsequently, the two cars headed straight south along the main road.

That’s right, they weren't heading to the outskirts, but to the Southern District.

This was because the Shi family's final secret base was located beneath a small hill on the south bank of the Tianshui River.

Su Jingxing followed firmly from a distance of over a hundred meters.

He never got too close, nor did he lose them.

Li Lilou, Yan Yuanfeng, Zhou Wencen, and the others were likely still waiting on the outskirts of the Shi estate, planning to move at dawn.

Su Jingxing, however, had already begun.

He hadn't notified them because there were many good things inside the Shi family's last secret base.

Su Jingxing had no interest in the Shi family's fixed assets.

But there were certain items he didn't want to share with others.

Half an hour later.

The two cars carrying Shi Jinnian and his party crossed the Tianshui River bridge and entered the south bank.

After driving for another ten minutes on the highway, they arrived at the foot of a small hill.

There was a landscaped building complex at the foot of the hill with many rooms inside.

The cars drove through a large gate and stopped in a remote corner.

Getting out of the vehicles, the group quickly turned into a small path and entered a building.

Inside the building, people were waiting.

After Shi Jinnian and his party entered, the others immediately triggered a mechanism, opening a sealed wall.

Behind the wall was an underground passage leading downward.

Shi Jinnian and his party entered the passage one by one.

After everyone had gone in, those left behind outside closed the wall again, restoring it to its original state.

Su Jingxing saw the entire process.

He waited for about five minutes before flashing into the house silently.

Without the guards outside noticing a thing, he knocked them unconscious from behind.

Then, he mimicked the action to trigger the mechanism, reopened the wall, and entered the underground passage.

There were soft fluorescent lights installed on both sides of the passage.

After entering, Su Jingxing immediately found the switch and turned off the lights.

He knew there were many surveillance cameras installed in the passage.

If the lights were on, how could he play the game of infiltration?

Night vision, long-range vision, and the "Sound Echo" technique were all activated simultaneously.

Su Jingxing moved silently and swiftly through the passage.

When he reached the exit, he listened to the surroundings for a hundred meters. Confirming no one was outside, he suddenly accelerated, darting in like lightning. He found the nearest underground room, opened the door, and closed it gently.

The entire process took less than a second.

Staying in the temporarily empty storage room, Su Jingxing finally relaxed slightly, listening to all movements within a hundred-meter radius.

Whether it was luck or not, less than three minutes after he began listening, an excited shout suddenly rang out...