"Boss, if you want to play, I'll accompany you next time."
Ning Beichen didn't want to dampen her spirits, but he had no choice. He couldn't arbitrarily put her in danger.
Although he was confident he could protect Liu Yilin, it was better to be safe than sorry.
"Okay, I'll listen to you."
Liu Yilin nodded. She wasn't being difficult. If it were her sister, Liu Yixin, she definitely wouldn't listen to him and might even do the opposite.
Ning Beichen led Liu Yilin back on foot through a less crowded street. He wasn't surprised by the appearance of assassins.
When they were at home, assassins and bounty hunters had little opportunity to strike. Not only did he provide protection, but Ning Beichen's subordinates also covertly intercepted them from the periphery. For instance, Feng Wu's sniper rifle was always aimed at their heads.
Furthermore, in addition to Ning Beichen's men, there were also personnel arranged by Shi Yong. Therefore, as long as Liu Yilin stayed at home or at the company, she was generally not in much danger.
However, once they ventured out, it presented an opportunity for those rats, and they naturally swarmed in.
Although the Violet Orchid family had rescinded the bounty, who knew if they were still secretly offering rewards?
Moreover, besides the Violet Orchid family, there were still unknown parties who desired Liu Yilin's chip or wanted her dead.
These behind-the-scenes forces were so elusive that even Ning Beichen's informants couldn't track them, indicating they were more complex than he initially thought.
At the beginning.
Initially, Ning Beichen had suspected the behind-the-scenes force was the Violet Orchid family, as they fit the criteria: an old European family, wealthy and influential, and involved in high-tech industries.
However, Ning Beichen soon realized it wasn't them because the Violet Orchid family was too ostentatious.
In contrast, the forces targeting Liu Yilin were deeply hidden. Every move they made was indirect, leveraging others' strength without acting themselves, leaving no trace, like a wild goose's footprint.
Ning Beichen investigated all the renowned and powerful families and factions worldwide but found no trace of them targeting Liu Yilin. Ning Beichen believed they were likely unrelated.
Although Liu Yilin's chip was indeed remarkable, capable of propelling the chip industry to its peak in the ancient Eastern country, it had no significant impact on these large families.
These established old families were already wealthy beyond measure, and their businesses spanned various sectors, primarily focusing on physical industries such as arms, banking, hotels, automobiles, and real estate. Their involvement in high technology was limited.
In their eyes, the internet and high-tech were unreliable. Except for a very few families, most were not interested in what Liu Yilin was developing and would not go to great lengths to cross half the globe to deal with her.
As Ning Beichen and Liu Yilin walked back, his eyes scanned the crowd like a scanner, instantly identifying three suspicious individuals.
These individuals believed they were well-hidden, but in Ning Beichen's eyes, their disguise was their biggest flaw.
Rats were still rats, no matter how they tried to hide. They might deceive Shi Yong and his men, but they couldn't fool the experienced Ning Beichen.
However, Ning Beichen didn't panic. He didn't make Liu Yilin stop either. He pretended not to have noticed them and continued walking with her, even deliberately creating some distance between them to give these individuals an opportunity to strike.
But he didn't want the silly girl Meng Mei to know and ruin his plans. So, he used his Bluetooth earpiece to quietly instruct his brothers to handle the silly girl behind them.
Meng Mei followed them at a distance of about ten meters. Suddenly, a man wearing a hat appeared beside her and instantly embraced her as if he were her boyfriend.
As she was followed, Meng Mei felt a prickling sensation, and then she didn't know what happened. When she woke up, she found herself dumped in a room at a small hotel.
Although her clothes were intact, she was so terrified that her soul seemed to have fled her body. She immediately found her phone and called Shi Yong.
Soon, Shi Yong and others arrived at the hotel and reviewed the surveillance footage. Strangely, the footage showed no record of Meng Mei being brought in, and even the front desk staff claimed they hadn't seen her enter, yet she was inside.
Even more peculiar was that the hotel had no back exit; there was only one entrance, leading directly to the front desk.
Finally, Shi Yong and his team sealed off the entire hotel for an investigation but found nothing. Meng Mei, having failed her mission, naturally received a stern scolding from Shi Yong.
Fortunately, the person who had knocked her out had no malicious intent; otherwise, the consequences could have been dire.
Meng Mei herself was clueless as to who had knocked her out and brought her to the hotel. However, it was determined that the substance causing her unconsciousness was an agent that induced rapid晕眩.
Fast-forwarding to the time Meng Mei was incapacitated, Ning Beichen was walking with Liu Yilin on the street. Two individuals, dressed differently, were walking across the street with apparent purpose.
It was visible that they were concealing something in their palms.
Besides these two in front, two more individuals were approaching them from behind.
One was heading towards Liu Yilin, and the other was walking towards Ning Beichen, subtly forming a pincer movement around them.
Whether they moved forward or backward, these four had cut off their escape routes.
However, Liu Yilin was completely unaware of this, as many people were walking on the street, not just the two of them.
Moreover, these two individuals looked like ordinary passersby. One appeared to be a middle-aged man out shopping, carrying a plastic bag in his right hand.
The other looked like a student, holding a cup of pearl milk tea and drinking it.
Not to mention that she, an inexperienced girl, couldn't discern them, but even if Shi Yong and his men were present, they would likely find it difficult to identify these two as assassins.
"Boss, wait a moment, I have something to tell you."
Just as the two men in front were about to approach Liu Yilin, Ning Beichen suddenly called out to stop her.
"What do you want to say?"
Liu Yilin stopped and asked him.
"Boss..."
Ning Beichen took two steps forward and began to praise her.
"You look incredibly beautiful tonight. Your eyes are like stars, both deadly and captivating."