When he displayed the reverse side, the two cards appeared separate, and the four cards together, invisible to those around.

Zhuang Jia explained the secret with satisfaction, and even proudly performed a demonstration in front of Ling Zhenfei.

After listening to his explanation, Ling Zhenfei suddenly saw the light and was annoyed that he hadn't been more focused.

Although he possessed the Perspective Divine Eye, he had always thought Zhuang Jia's tricks were sleight of hand, never considering the problem lay with the cards themselves. Had he carefully observed Zhuang Jia's cards just now, he wouldn't have made such a rookie mistake.

It seemed that in the future, from every aspect, he needed to observe carefully and meticulously!

"Alright, kid, I've told you the secrets of the poker cards. Now, are you ready to die in peace?"

After demonstrating with the poker, Zhuang Jia grabbed the Desert Eagle in his hand, aimed the gun once more at Ling Zhenfei, and flipped off the safety catch.

Click! Click! Click!

Seeing this, the other gunmen also readied their weapons, preparing to shoot Ling Zhenfei dead.

Facing such peril, Ling Zhenfei showed no fear, his cold gaze sweeping toward Tan Shaojie, "Tan Shaojie, do you really think you can kill me and then escape across Huaxia's border?"

"I cannot!" Tan Shaojie's expression was as cold as ice, his words chilling and devoid of emotion, "Since whether I kill you or not, I die either way, why not take you down with me before my death?"

"You make it sound pretty reasonable, pulling me down with you before you die. After all, I'm your enemy and you'd be getting revenge. Why wouldn't you?"

Ling Zhenfei sneered, but suddenly, his eyes became as cold and sharp as knives, "But do you really think you can kill me?"

"How? Ling Zhenfei, I know you're skilled, but I don't believe you can escape unscathed from so many guns surrounding you!"

Tan Shaojie also stared intently into Ling Zhenfei's eyes, utterly unconvinced that Ling Zhenfei could escape from the encirclement of so many guns.

The trap today had been carefully laid by him, and though he was reluctant to come to this, he had no other choice. If he couldn't kill Ling Zhenfei now, then he would certainly be the one to die!

"Escape? Ha, Tan Shaojie, in my Ling Zhenfei's dictionary, there is no such word as 'escape'!"

Ling Zhenfei laughed coldly and suddenly said with disdain to Tan Shaojie, "Tan Shaojie, I wonder if you've ever heard of an idiom, 'The mantis stalks the cicada, unaware of the oriole behind'?"

The mantis stalks the cicada, unaware of the oriole behind?

Taken aback by his words, Tan Shaojie scoffed after a moment, "Of course I know this idiom. It's just, between you and me, who exactly is the mantis and who is the cicada?"

Upon hearing this, Ling Zhenfei chuckled and said, "Heh, actually, it doesn't matter who's the mantis and who's the cicada. What's important is..."

"Hmph, are you trying to say what's important is, who is the oriole, right?" Before Ling Zhenfei could finish, Tan Shaojie cut in with another cold snort.

"No, you're wrong!" Tan Shaojie thought he was making an absolute statement, but to Ling Zhenfei, it carried a different implication.

Ling Zhenfei gave Tan Shaojie a cold, sweeping glance, shook his head in disdain, and said, "Actually, whether it's the cicada or the mantis, or even the oriole, none of these are the real predator. The real danger is... there's a hunting rifle behind them!"

"What do you mean?" Hearing this, Tan Shaojie was shocked and exclaimed in disbelief.

In his mind, he originally thought he was the mantis, and Ling Zhenfei was the cicada at his mercy. The Young Master hidden in the shadows pulling his strings was undoubtedly the oriole.

But now, who could have predicted that behind them, there was a Hunter lying in wait with a shotgun ready to fire?

No! Impossible!

Tan Shaojie was confident that his arrangements were meticulous— from his successful prison escape to the deliberate trap set to lure Ling Zhenfei here, he had been extremely cautious every step of the way, leaving no trace.

Whoo Whoo Whoo...

However, just as Tan Shaojie was half doubting, half believing Ling Zhenfei's words, a series of urgent siren sounds shattered his soul like thunder!

As soon as the siren sounded, chaos erupted in the entire courtyard, and Tan Shaojie and Zhuang Jia's faces turned pale with shock.

As for the gunmen, though they were each armed, they were mere novices temporarily recruited by Tan Shaojie—good enough to brandish a gun to scare people, but not brave enough to face off against the police.

Upon hearing the siren, the gunmen scattered like startled rabbits, running away in a panic. Even when Tan Shaojie tried to stop them, he couldn't.

"Don't move! You're surrounded, drop your weapons and surrender now!"

The police were incredibly swift. As soon as the siren sounded, Han Lian led a team of riot police, sealing off the courtyard tightly, and used a loudspeaker to shout into the courtyard.

The gunmen were already so frightened that they had lost their wits. Some hid, and some, out of fear, went out to surrender their guns—none dared to resist.

Seeing this scene, Tan Shaojie and Zhuang Jia stood as if they had lost their souls, unable to utter a word.

"Tan Shao, what should we do?" Zhuang Jia still held the Desert Eagle in his hand, but seeing more and more police gathering outside the courtyard, he had already lost all confidence and anxiously sought instruction from Tan Shaojie.

Since hearing the siren outside, Tan Shaojie had looked utterly defeated. Now, he didn't even respond to Zhuang Jia's question, merely staring blankly at Ling Zhenfei and asking incredulously, "How did you notify the police? When you came, we blinded you, and we've blocked the satellite signals here..."

"Yeah, how did you get the message out..."

Zhuang Jia harbored the same doubts as Tan Shaojie and couldn't help but turn to Ling Zhenfei with a questioning look upon hearing this.

"Heh, actually, to discern one's location, one doesn't always need eyes. Sometimes, relying on the nose and intuition might yield even better results," Ling Zhenfei chuckled in response.

Would Ling Zhenfei easily reveal the secret of his Perspective Eye to others?

However, to dispel any suspicions Tan Shaojie and Zhuang Jia might have, or to give himself a more plausible explanation, he fabricated one on the spot.

"What do you mean?" However, they seemed puzzled by his response, looking at him with uncertainty.

"Isn't it obvious? Take a good whiff, isn't there a faint scent of camphor trees in the air?" Ling Zhenfei answered with a smile.

In truth, the explanation Ling Zhenfei provided wasn't entirely fabricated. Just now, he distinctly smelled the scent of camphor trees, which led him to deduce that there must be a large camphor forest nearby.

"This..."

Tan Shaojie took a deep breath of air and indeed noticed a unique botanical fragrance, looking at Ling Zhenfei in shock, "Ling Zhenfei, did you use the camphor scent in the air to figure out our exact location?"

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