"Got it!"
Sun Linshou did not hesitate for a moment after hearing that.
He immediately decided to flee.
It was not because he blindly trusted Qin Siyang.
Rather, he knew perfectly well that Qin Siyang and Zhao Longfei, two men with considerable influence in the Safe Zone, had no motive to kill him.
Both men intended to make their way through legitimate channels in the Safe Zone. They would never kill him and then claim responsibility under the name of the Snake Cards.
Even Xiao Zhigang, who had confronted them head-on, was still alive. Why would they kill him, a Deputy Minister of the Department of Justice?!
Besides, Qin Siyang and Zhao Longfei had already deftly resolved the crisis he had created by exploiting Jiang Yuanrui's death.
So someone really was out to kill him!
Run!
Just as he was about to open the door and leave, he suddenly heard footsteps in the hallway.
The footsteps were so stealthy that an ordinary Sequence Ability User would have struggled to hear them.
Had Sun Linshou not already reached sequence level five, significantly enhancing all his senses, he would never have detected such faint sounds.
The enemy was already here!
Sun Linshou frantically scanned the room, his gaze settling on the toilet in the bathroom.
Whoosh-
Bang-
As the toilet flushed, someone smashed open Sun Linshou's door.
The instant the door hit the floor, green flames surged through the doorway and engulfed the entire room.
In mere seconds, everything inside had been reduced to ash.
One of the intruders frowned deeply at the sight. "Huh? Where's Sun Linshou?!"
"That's impossible! He was in here the whole time! Didn't we hear his toilet flushing right before we came in?"
"Then where did he go?!"
"No idea! But we've alerted the others. We need