One Man Was Enough

Lin Zhiluo only needed to place his consciousness inside Zombie Cat.

Then he could accurately see the route Zombie Cat had taken.

Now Lin Zhiluo also understood where the Li Family's secret passage was.

He had to admit, they were clever.

The people who had run outside earlier had actually been sent to mislead Lin Zhiluo.

Zombie Cat had initially chosen to follow them, but discovered there was no trace of Li Haobo over there.

So it had turned around and followed Li Haobo instead.

In the end, Zombie Cat found that Li Haobo and Steward Zhao had actually been hiding in the villa's basement.

Li Haobo had no idea Zombie Cat had already located them.

He was still hoping desperately that Lin Zhiluo wouldn't find him.

Lin Zhiluo didn't go after Li Haobo and Steward Zhao right away.

Zombie Cat was keeping an eye on them for now.

What he needed to do was take care of the more than twenty people still inside the secret passage first.

In a safe room in the Li Family's basement.

"Uncle Zhao, what do we do? What do we do!" Li Haobo cried out in panic.

A strong, foul smell even came from him.

It seemed their Eldest Young Master of the Li Family had been so frightened that he'd lost control of his bowels and bladder.

"Young Master, don't panic. Rong Zhan and his Hunting Mercenary Group can hold off that killer. Besides, we sent other people to the secret passage. He won't think to look for us here," Steward Zhao reassured him.

That was what he said.

But he still felt deeply uneasy.

Could it really all be over so easily?

Would this mysterious person who had fought his way into the Li Family estate really be fooled by these little tricks?

"It's definitely someone Lin Zhiluo hired! It has to be him! First, he had someone kill Yao Jinghan, and now he's coming after me." Li Haobo was convinced Lin Zhiluo had hired the killer.

"I just don't know how he got this information ahead of time, or where he found such a powerful killer!" Li Haobo gritted out.

"Could Lin Jian have left Lin Zhiluo some kind of backup plan?" Steward Zhao asked.

"Impossible, impossible. When we killed Lin Jian, the Li Family had almost completely uprooted the Lin Family. There's no way Lin Jian could have left a backup plan."

"If that leader hadn't insisted we spare one member of the Lin Family, Lin Zhiluo should have died long ago!"

"Otherwise, I wouldn't have used that bitch Yao Jinghan to make Lin Zhiluo miserable. I would have sent someone to kill him ages ago," Li Haobo continued.

This was truly unexpected.

Lin Zhiluo had always thought the Li Family had targeted him because he'd once humiliated Li Haobo and Yao Jinghan.

Then their conflict had grown worse and worse, until the Li Family kept sending people after him.

He had no idea Li Haobo had planned all of it.

Including Yao Jinghan dating Lin Zhiluo.

Including having Yao Jinghan cheat on him later.

The ultimate goal had always been to strike at Lin Zhiluo mentally.

To completely break him.

"So that's how it was."

Lin Zhiluo's voice suddenly came from outside the safe room's metal door.

"Lin Zhiluo! That's right, that's Lin Zhiluo's voice!" Li Haobo shrieked.

"So you'd had your eye on me from the very beginning. Turns out there was so much more to my story." Lin Zhiluo's voice rang out again.

"Lin Zhiluo, I'm telling you, you should have died by my hand. I should have sent someone to kill you back then." Li Haobo was frightened. He could only try to drive away his fear with threats.

The metal door to the safe room was making a grating sound as someone chipped at it.

It seemed Lin Zhiluo was outside, trying to open the door.

"I'm curious, who was Lin Jian? And what did you mean when you said the Li Family uprooted the Lin Family?" Lin Zhiluo asked calmly as he pried at the door.

"Hahahaha! You're an orphan, and you don't even know your own father's name! You deserve this!"

"Back then, Lin Jian had to report my father just as he was about to get promoted!"

"That ruined years of planning by the Li Family. For that alone, your entire Lin Family deserved to die!"

"You should be grateful you were the only bastard from the Lin Family who survived!"

"I wonder who would even help you. Without them, I could kill you with any bodyguard I sent!"

As he listened to the scraping outside, Li Haobo grew more and more panicked.

He could only keep cursing and shouting, trying to vent his fear.

And he was still convinced Lin Zhiluo had brought help.

"None of that really matters. Whether you tell me or not, I'm going to wipe out the entire Li Family," Lin Zhiluo said calmly.

He'd only casually asked what had happened.

He no longer cared about the truth.

Just as he'd said, it didn't matter how he'd been orphaned, or whether the Li Family had killed his parents.

That wasn't important anymore.

He alone already had a blood feud with the Li Family.

Who would have thought?

As soon as Lin Zhiluo finished speaking,

Li Haobo burst out laughing. Even Steward Zhao, who had been standing beside him the whole time, wore a look of disdain.

What a ridiculous thing to say.

Lin Zhiluo actually thought he could bring down the Li Family all by himself.

That colossal family had been entrenched in the Dragon Kingdom for over a thousand years.

All because of some helper he'd found somewhere?

Just look—even though Li Haobo and Steward Zhao knew they were going to die,

neither of them believed Lin Zhiluo had the slightest chance of destroying the Li Family.

Just then,

the safe room's metal door finally groaned under the strain.

Then Lin Zhiluo slowly pulled it open.

Steward Zhao sprang into action.

He had been waiting for the chance to attack the moment Lin Zhiluo opened the door.

As soon as the metal door began to move, Steward Zhao shot toward it like an arrow loosed from a bow, moving too fast for the naked eye to follow.

At that speed, it was impossible to tell Steward Zhao was a man in his sixties or seventies.

As he ran, golden light shimmered around his hands.

But Lin Zhiluo had already anticipated this.

He watched Steward Zhao charge at him without the slightest panic.

A Zombie Cat the size of a leopard suddenly sprang out from behind Lin Zhiluo.

Then it used its body to block Steward Zhao's charged punch.

After taking the punch, Zombie Cat vanished into thin air.

Steward Zhao froze, unable to understand what had happened.

The truth was, Zombie Cat's thirty-minute summoning time had run out.

Not wanting to waste it, Lin Zhiluo had timed its disappearance to come just after it took the blow.

By then, Lin Zhiluo had forced the metal door open wide enough for one person to pass through.

He walked straight inside and stopped in front of Steward Zhao.

Steward Zhao came back to his senses.

He looked at the masked man before him and compared him to Lin Zhiluo.

Their builds and features were exactly alike.

Steward Zhao exclaimed in shock, "You're Lin Zhiluo! You were the killer all along! It was you from beginning to end!"

Li Haobo, cowering in the corner, stopped trembling. He stared in disbelief and said, "Impossible. It couldn't have been just him. How could Lin Zhiluo have become so powerful?"

"One person is enough."