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Day 2: The Double Decoy

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Two hundred yards north of the roaring inferno that used to be the decoy Escalade, Sofia stumbled out onto the rain-slicked asphalt of Route 9, waving her bruised arms frantically in the swirling mist.

Down in the dark drainage ditch beside the guardrail, Xiao Jue crouched completely motionless in the tall, wet grass, his suppressed 9mm already leveled at the road.

Seconds later, the low, guttural roar of a twin-turbo V8 cut through the night.

Twin LED headlights sliced through the fog as a sle

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Chapter 125: Sofia's Death
Sofia buried her foot into the floorboards, pushing the stolen Mercedes-AMG to its redline as the twin-turbo V8 tore down the rain-slicked country highway toward the glowing red pin on the dashboard.They were less than two miles from the perimeter marked by the Recon Ghost when Xiao Jue’s eyes narrowed behind his cracked visor.Ahead in the mist, approaching from the opposite access road leading toward the estate’s private lane, a pair of heavy, armored headlights cut through the dark—Sil’s extraction team, escorting her mysterious client in from the rendezvous point."Cut the lights and park sideways across the intersection," Xiao Jue ordered sharply. "Now."Sofia yanked the handbrake, whipping the matte-black AMG diagonally across the narrow two-lane crossroads to form a dead-end roadblock before scrambling out into the wet brush beside Xiao Jue.Thirty seconds later, the armored cartel SUV rolled up to the intersection and ground to a sudden halt, its high beams illuminating the f
Day 2: The Double Decoy
Two hundred yards north of the roaring inferno that used to be the decoy Escalade, Sofia stumbled out onto the rain-slicked asphalt of Route 9, waving her bruised arms frantically in the swirling mist.Down in the dark drainage ditch beside the guardrail, Xiao Jue crouched completely motionless in the tall, wet grass, his suppressed 9mm already leveled at the road.Seconds later, the low, guttural roar of a twin-turbo V8 cut through the night.Twin LED headlights sliced through the fog as a sleek, matte-black four-door sports sedan—a heavily modified Mercedes-AMG—screamed up the highway toward the smoke column. Spotting the disheveled blonde limping across the center lane in an oversized security jacket, the driver stood on the carbon-ceramic brakes, bringing the low-slung beast to a halt twenty feet away.The engine stayed running, a third man keeping his hands firmly on the wheel behind the tinted windshield, while the front passenger door and rear door clicked open simultaneously.
Chapter 123: The Snake's weakpoint
The heavy doors of the Escalade swung open, letting in the damp, freezing night air of the estate grounds.Rough hands hauled Jason out onto the gravel driveway. Sil took the point, her heels clicking sharply against the stone path as she led the procession toward the sprawling villa, while her burly cartel enforcers boxed Jason in tightly on both flanks.As his bare feet hit the cold stone steps, Jason’s mind was already working three moves ahead.Back in the SUV, he hadn't been baiting Sil just for the hell of it or out of petty spite. He had spotted a fatal flaw in her armor.On any ordinary night, a seasoned underworld operative like Sil would have taken the secret behind Alina’s illness to her grave. Even Xiao Jue himself had been completely blind to the fact that his wife’s terminal condition was engineered. Yet the moment jealousy and bitter envy over her ex-lover had clouded Sil’s judgment on that phone call, her discipline had fractured—and she had spilled a million-dollar se
Chapter 122: The safe house
The moment Sil ended the call, a suffocating silence settled over the dark cabin of the Escalade.The playful, sadistic warmth had vanished from her face, replaced by a tight, simmering fury as she stared down at her darkened screen.In the backseat, barefoot and bound at the wrists, Jason tilted his head against the leather headrest and let out a quiet, amused breath."He dumped you, didn’t he?" Jason asked smoothly.CRACK!Sil’s open palm whipped across the cabin with vicious speed, snapping Jason’s head sharply to the side. A red welt bloomed instantly across his cheek.Slowly, Sil’s crimson lips curved back into a cold, razor-thin smile. Reaching out, she gently patted the exact spot on his jaw where her hand had just struck."It seems you're begging to have your tongue carved out and fed to you, darling," Sil purred softly. "Xiao Jue is just a sentimental fool who never knew what was good for him."Jason rolled his jaw, tasting a faint metallic trace of blood on his lip, and tur
Chapter 121: Xiao Jue
Beneath the dark visor of his helmet, the Third Phantom’s lips curved into a thin ghost of a smile.It had been years since anyone on this side of the ocean had spoken the name Xiao Jue aloud. The handful of people who knew it were either six feet underground or sitting at the very top of the global food chain."It’s been a while, Sil," Xiao Jue said calmly, keeping the suppressed barrel resting lightly against Sofia’s trembling forehead. "You haven't changed a bit. Tell me, what crime did that big idiot on the asphalt commit to make you send him out here on a suicide run?""Oh, that stays between him and me," Sil purred over the speaker, her voice dripping with casual amusement. "Dead men tell no tales, old friend.""And what’s with the complimentary SUV and the screaming passenger you left in the back seat?" Xiao Jue asked smoothly."My bad," Sil sighed with mock sweetness. "I was just trying to be considerate. That highway breeze gets awfully bitter around three in the morning, Xia
Chapter 120: Chasing a wild goose
Seventy miles north on the rain-slicked expanse of Route 9, Xiao Jue—the Third Phantom—pushed his blacked-out interceptor bike past a hundred and ten miles an hour, the engine screaming through the empty highway corridor.To Sil, it looked like the legendary assassin had swallowed her bait hook, line, and sinker.She was only half right.The Third Phantom hadn't survived a decade at the apex of the underworld by being blind. The moment the two identical Escalades had erupted from opposite ends of that industrial body shop simultaneously, his instincts had screamed that a shell game was in play. The sudden split had briefly caught him off guard, forcing an instant tactical choice: follow the live GPS ping of Jason’s burner phone heading north, or chase the dark vehicle cutting south.Before banking north after the beacon, the Third Phantom had tapped his throat-mic twice, ordering a trailing Recon Ghost to break off and shadow the southern Escalade in complete radio silence.Within the

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