"Still not going to act?"
Ning Beichen asked with a smile.
"What do you mean? I'm here to deliver water."
The man delivering water said, feigning composure.
"Enough, stop pretending. Aren't you tired?"
Ning Beichen gave him a disdainful look.
"How did you see through me?"
The man delivering water, knowing he had been exposed, was not afraid. He put down the water and asked with some curiosity.
In his eyes, killing Ning Beichen would take less than a second. Before the elevator stopped, he would have enough time to kill his target and escape.
"You have too many flaws. I'm not interested in being your teacher."
Ning Beichen replied casually.
"It doesn't matter. If you don't say it, you probably won't have a chance to say it again. So what if I'm exposed by you? My goal was to kill you anyway."
After saying that, the man slashed his finger, and a white cold light shot towards Ning Beichen's neck. He was holding a razor used for shaving.
However, the man immediately saw a scene that filled him with horror.
Ning Beichen easily caught the razor with two fingers, preventing the man from pulling it back, let alone slicing Ning Beichen's neck.
With a bang!
The man let go of the hand holding the razor and punched towards Ning Beichen's abdomen.
Ning Beichen flicked his hand, the razor fell to the floor, and then he kicked towards the man's fist.
The two began to fight in the narrow elevator.
With a clang!
The man's punch hit the steel plate of the elevator, leaving four small dents. It turned out he suddenly had a brass knuckle on his hand.
"Ah!"
At this moment, the man let out a scream.
His hand, wearing the brass knuckle, was bent, and broken bones pierced through the skin at his elbow joint.
Ning Beichen also appeared behind him at some unknown time, grabbed his hair, and slammed his head forcefully against the steel plate of the elevator.
With another resounding bang!
The man's head was bleeding profusely, and Ning Beichen had one foot on his back, pinning him tightly against the wall.
"Tell me, who sent you to deal with me?"
Ning Beichen increased the force of his grip on the man's hair, tearing his scalp and drawing blood.
"I... I don't know. I just took a mission from a website. Once the mission is complete, I upload or show proof, and the website pays me. They don't reveal the identity of the employer or the contractor."
The man said hastily.
"So you're useless then?"
Ning Beichen snorted coldly and chopped his neck with a hand blade, only knocking him unconscious without killing him.
After all, this was a company, and killing someone here would bring a lot of unnecessary trouble to him, as well as to Liu Yilin and her Tianmei Technology Group.
"Someone actually hired an assassin to kill me."
Ning Beichen couldn't help but want to laugh. He originally thought the assassin was there to deal with Liu Yilin, but unexpectedly, it was him.
"Is it because I'm here that those who intended to deal with Liu Yilin have repeatedly failed, so they decided to change targets and eliminate me first?"
Ning Beichen pondered in his heart.
He couldn't have imagined that the one targeting him was not an external enemy or an old foe, but the best friend of the woman he was protecting.
Soon, the elevator stopped at the eighteenth floor.
Liu Yilin was pacing back and forth in her office, feeling agitated.
The news about her, Ning Beichen, and Ye Ya'er had reached even her family. Her family had just called to ask her what was going on.
What could Liu Yilin say?
That Ning Beichen was just her bodyguard?
Would her family believe that?
So, her family demanded that she bring Ning Beichen home for dinner this weekend.
Liu Yilin was utterly depressed, wishing she could rush out and tear Ning Beichen apart.
It was all this scoundrel's fault.
If it weren't for this scoundrel, none of this would have happened.
Just then, the door to her office was pushed open, and she saw Ning Beichen walking in.
"Ning Beichen, didn't I tell you to get lost? I said I don't want to see you."
Upon seeing him, Liu Yilin, reminded of her family's demand, was furious.
"Boss, I don't want to annoy you either, but I just encountered an assassin in the elevator. I knocked the guy out, and I'm here to ask you what you want to do."
Ning Beichen explained to her.
"Assassin?"
"Are you telling the truth?"
Liu Yilin was stunned by Ning Beichen's words.
"The person is still in the elevator. Do you want to take a look?"
Ning Beichen said to her.
Liu Yilin's heart skipped a beat. She remembered what her best friend had done and wondered if this assassin had been sent by her, which made her feel guilty.
"I'll have someone deal with it. You don't need to worry about it."
"Alright, call me if you need anything."
Ning Beichen turned and left her office. Since this woman didn't welcome him, there was no point in seeking unpleasantness.
Soon, Liu Yilin had someone take away the assassin from the elevator. Upon asking her best friend, it turned out it was indeed the work of her best friend, Fang Qing.
"How is it, Liu Fupo? Is that poor loser dead? I spent a fortune this time. Liu Fupo, you'll have to reimburse me."
Fang Qing said triumphantly on the phone.
"Dead nothing! How dare you say that? The guy you hired was knocked out by him in the elevator. I'm cleaning up your mess right now. I was almost exposed by him. Luckily, I reacted quickly."
Liu Yilin said on the phone, on the verge of tears.
"What? That guy's not dead yet? He's not even injured?"
Fang Qing was also dumbfounded. She had spent hundreds of thousands to hire this assassin.
"He's alive and kicking, perfectly fine."
Liu Yilin said helplessly.
"Liu Fupo, is this what they mean by 'good people don't live long, and bad people live for a thousand years'?"
Fang Qing was also very dejected. She had planned for so long, thinking it would definitely succeed, but reality had slapped her in the face again. Now, even she had no good solutions.
"Forget it, Fang Qing. Don't try to find anyone to deal with him for now. Let me figure out a way myself."
Liu Yilin said to her.
She was truly afraid of her best friend's style of "starting a fight but not finishing it."
After ending the call, the two finally reached a reluctant agreement to temporarily abandon the idea of sinking Ning Beichen in the river.
Of course, this was only temporary.
If Ning Beichen knew that the person in the elevator could have served such a purpose, he probably wouldn't have slapped his face, but would have kissed it a few times.