Chapter 59: Midnight Killing Intent

Lin Qi strode out of the Golden Rose. The cold wind, carrying snowflakes, slapped against his face. The biting cold made his blood-rushed head clear up a little. Ya and Ling were coming for him, without a doubt, these two women were coming for him.

But Lin Qi asked himself, he had never made enemies with anyone from the Vias Commercial Federation, and he had never made enemies with women either. Recalling all the troubles he had stirred up over the past few years, unless Ya and Ling were Black Horse Haus’s fiancées, he couldn’t think of any reason why these stunningly beautiful twin sisters from noble and wealthy families would come to cause him trouble.

“The Bavell Family, the Empire’s rising military nobility. With their power in the Empire’s military, it makes perfect sense for them to marry into a wealthy family from the Vias Commercial Federation.” Lin Qi walked slowly along the alley, reasoning based on the most likely possibility as he went.

“Those upstarts from Vias, they have money, but they lack powerful backing. The Bavell Family, they have thousands of soldiers willing to risk their lives, but they lack money. If these two powerful families were to unite through marriage, their growth would truly be unstoppable!”

With a cold snort, Lin Qi punched the wall of the alley. The faint pain in his fist brought him back to his senses. He recalled what Blackbeard had taught him when he was young, and he quickly dismissed this most likely possibility, starting to consider other options.

There was another possibility: these two arrogant and rude women were brought here by the young masters and misses of Dun Er Ke specifically to trouble him, Lin Qi. But based on Lin Qi’s understanding of Dun Er Ke’s spoiled brats, they didn’t seem like the type capable of such a thing.

The spoiled brats of Dun Er Ke were extravagant, flashy, vain, and hypocritical. Compared to their ancestors, these brats who were born into luxury had long lost any fighting spirit. That was the main reason why Lin Qi, in his youth, could treat them as his pocket money sources. They were bullied by the young Lin Qi, yet because they feared losing face, not one of them spoke about it openly. That was the primary reason why Lin Qi could exploit them year after year, month after month.

Would these brats, who had grown accustomed to Lin Qi’s bullying, specifically find two women like this to deal with him?

This possibility was small and could be dismissed.

Then, who else could it be?

After carefully sifting through countless faces in his mind, by the time Lin Qi exited the alley, his sharp thinking had locked onto a man with strikingly beautiful purple eyes, hair as bright as flames, an exceptionally handsome face, but who was, unfortunately, one-eyed.

“Arthur! You pretty boy who lives off women, you sure know how to surprise me!”

Without a doubt, the two women who were giving Lin Qi trouble were outsiders, and very rich ones at that, definitely from noble families. In such bitterly cold winter, these two outsider women, instead of finding a way to quickly return to the Vias Commercial Federation, were interested in asking a broker from the Dock District to take them to find some fun!

Two rich, delicate, and noble women actually randomly found a broker from the Dock District, in an unfamiliar, newly arrived, and notoriously unsafe place, to take them to an equally unfamiliar and unknown lounge to have fun! And the moment they entered, they set their eyes on Lin Qi, wanting to gamble face-to-face with him, and even rudely dragged Enzo’s life into it!

Is this something a pair of normal noble young ladies would do?

Those noble young ladies should all be like Angel, letting out a scream at the sight of a mouse running by, then fainting glamorously on the ground, waiting for some young master to rush over and kiss her red lips, waking her up with artificial respiration!

Where would those noble young ladies find the courage to casually bet millions, using human lives as stakes?

“Lovely Arthur, you damned one-eyed bastard, you really have a death wish!”

Without a doubt, these twin sisters were asked by someone to specially come and cause trouble for Lin Qi. Otherwise, how could everything be such a coincidence? Lin Qi had just returned to Dun Er Ke, his first time coming to the Golden Rose for pocket money, and such a pair of inexplicable women showed up?

With a cold laugh, Lin Qi crouched down and grabbed a large handful of snow from the ground. He compacted the snow into several fist-sized, hard snowballs. Then, with no regard for public property, he threw the snowballs. Repeated ‘crack’ sounds followed as dozens of street lamps near the alley entrance were shattered. The oil lamps inside the broken shades went out, plunging the long stretch of Seafront Avenue into darkness.

After walking forward a distance, Lin Qi stood on the breakwater and blew a whistle made from a conch only the size of a thumb.

A low sound, like a tiger’s roar, spread continuously. Though very deep, it had a strange penetrating power. Carried by the howling cold wind, the tiger’s roar quickly spread, and in the blink of an eye, nearly half the Dock District heard this strange sound.

Then, one after another, tiger roars echoed back from the distance. The roars spread wave after wave, quickly covering the entire Dun Er Ke in an instant, and even reaching beyond to the suburban Black Pine Forest, deep into the woods.

On dozens of ships, large and small, in the harbor, shadowy figures appeared, all looking toward Lin Qi.

Lin Qi focused intently on blowing the whistle. By changing its frequency and pitch, he conveyed his requirements.

A particularly large whaling ship, over a hundred meters long, moored at the edge of the harbor, violated port regulations and left its berth in the pitch-black night. Guided by an experienced pilot, the whaling ship navigated precisely through the thousands of vessels in the harbor, slowly approaching the breakwater where Lin Qi stood.

This type of whaling ship, over a hundred meters long, was a special vessel equipped with extremely powerful whaling harpoons. These harpoons, powered by magic, were used to hunt the high-level magical beasts native to the North Sea—the Frenzied Unicorn Whales.

Of course, under certain special circumstances, these overwhelmingly powerful whaling harpoons could also be used to hunt other targets—for example, people!

Over a dozen strong sailors jumped onto the breakwater. Lin Qi spoke to them in low tones. The sailors hurried back to the whaling ship, brought down three sets of whaling harpoons, and set them up right there on the dock.

From the distant alley, a large group of figures emerged silently. Lin Qi, with his sharp eyes, saw the tall, thin man walking at the front, carrying a strangely shaped Great Scythe on his back—one of Blackbeard’s staunch followers, the chief in charge of all the troublemakers in the Dock District, Bar, whose strength was not much less than Ironhammer or Butcher Knife, known as the ‘Right Hand of Death’.

Among those following Bar, some openly carried heavily regulated military heavy crossbows.