After a slight pause, Lin Qi warned the woman in an utterly resolute tone, "Don't think you can get more detailed intelligence from anyone else! At least within the Dragon Mountain Empire, no one is more professional than we are!"
"They're within the Dragon Mountain Empire?" The woman spoke again, her voice carrying a deliberately revealed trace of amusement. "So the upper ranks of the Dragon Mountain Empire have someone providing them cover? Should I be grateful to you?"
Lin Qi spread his hands and slowly backed toward the mouth of the alley. "A woman who thinks herself clever—then there's nothing left for us to discuss! Two hundred million gold coins; the price has now gone up! We hate everyone who tries to be clever! Either you pay us for intelligence, or you investigate it yourselves. But don't think we're fools, or idiots for you to use!"
Not a sound came from inside the carriage.
The burly man narrowed his eyes, then charged at Lin Qi in great strides. His massive body smashed through curtain after curtain of rain, and two arms as thick as Lin Qi's thighs whipped up a shrieking gale as they grabbed for Lin Qi's shoulders.
"Then let us offend you just this once!" The big man laughed dismissively. "You barbarians of the Western Continent, you—"
With a bang, Lin Qi, whose shoulders had been seized by the man, drove a vicious knee upward. It struck the man in the lower abdomen. The flesh on the man's face twitched violently like Blackbeard after a drunken binge, while his eyes bulged so wide they seemed to occupy half his face. He stared fixedly at Lin Qi, then his complexion gradually turned green, and a thread of white foam trickled from the corner of his mouth.
This man