His motion was quick and smooth. After scarcely two minutes, the four men all lay down on the ground.
Brian paid a cold glance at the men groaning on the ground. A hint of indifference flashed through his eyes, and he strode into the warehouse.
The masked woman sat on a chair at the center of the warehouse. A dozen of men stood solemnly around her like pillars.
"Mr. Brian Long, you're worthy of your name," the woman slowly said, "I'm sorry that my men out there didn't greet you politely."
Brian stood still with his hands in his pockets. Although he was one facing a dozen, the aloof arrogance in his face didn't change. He stared at the masked woman, and his eyes gradually deepened as he asked, "Where's Molly?"
"You want to see her?" The woman grinned briefly before she turned her eyes to a man standing next to her. The man nodded and turned on the screen of a monitor at a side.
Brian glanced coldly at the screen. Molly looked like something the cat dragged in, her whole body covered in blood that Brian couldn't even see where the wounds were or how badly she was injured.
She bowed her head wearily, her face stained with blood and tears. A man standing aside was holding a knife in his hand and would create new wounds at any time.
Brian's eyes were filled with outrageous fury. He looked towards the woman and said, "You took the tracker out of her!"
"Bingo!" the woman replied with a smile, "But it's too late now. If you dare to take one step out of this warehouse, my man will kill her at once! Brian, you have no chance of winning at all."
Brian narrowed his eyes in exasperation. He asked in a cold voice, "What do you want?"
"I want nothing," the woman showed no intention of negotiating, "I want nothing except for seeing her struggling in despair. I feel great when I see her suffering and being tortured."
Brian's eyes darkened.
"Bri! Leave now! Leave me alone! Go now!" Molly's hysterical voice came from the monitor as she cried heavily. She didn't want to confirm anything now and only wished for his safety.
Brian listened to her painful cries and felt his heart wrenching. Withdrawing his eyes from the screen, he fixed his furious eyes at the woman and spat, "Fly, you take revenge on Molly for the old grudges of the last generation. Don't you think that I should take revenge on you in exchange?"
Upon hearing his words, Molly raised her head in shock. She couldn't imagine that the masked woman was actually Fly, her colleague at the Sasha Music Troupe.
"Mr. Brian Long, it seems that I still underestimate you," Fly said as she slowly took off her mask and showed her face. She continued in her usual voice, "All of my great efforts to mislead you are wasted, and you still guessed my identity so easily."
"No, not at all," Brian replied casually as he tried to think out a solution to save Molly, "I didn't realize it was you until now. Actually, I was thinking that it was Little Cutie."
Fly smiled and threw the mask onto the floor as she stepped towards Brian. She wasn't afraid that Brian would catch her to threaten her men, because every one of them had experienced the most tragic departure. She commanded, "Surrender your gun now."
A hint of hesitation flashed in Brian's eyes. Fly continued, "I need to finish it before your men discover here."
Brian still didn't give in. Immediately, Molly let out a groan of pain from the monitor. Brian glanced at the screen and saw the man stabbing the knife into her shoulder.
Violent rage flowed in his eyes, but he had no other choice but to take out his gun and hand it to Fly. Fly noticed the blue diamond inset into his gun, and the calm look on her face changed. She asked in shock, "You're from the XK Intelligence Agency?"
She had read her father's diary when she was learning about reconnaissance. Because of that, she knew a bit about that mysterious intelligence agency and mercenary army. In one page of the diary, her father mentioned about a man who was from the XK Intelligence Agency. Like Brian's, his gun was inset with a coloured diamond.
Brian didn't reply to her question but said flatly, "I can fulfill your every demand if you let Molly go. I can even help you to overturn the parties which shielded Justin Yan in the past."
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