Lord, give up! Madam has too many vests

Chapter 340 The Emperor Meets the Emperor

The room suddenly fell into a deathly silence.

Qin Shi's fingers had somehow found their way to the fruit knife that D had thrown on the ground.

The blade flashed a cold arc in the sunlight, and the next second it was pressed against D's throat.

"Qin Shi! How dare you!" D's voice showed a noticeable fluctuation for the first time, her red lips trembling slightly.

Qin Shi's hand was frighteningly steady, the tip of the knife remaining perfectly still against D's carotid artery.

His eyes were colder than a blade: "I've already died once, what else wouldn't I dare to do?"

Sunlight streamed through the gap in the curtains, casting a sharp beam of light between the two.

Qin Shi's pale face remained expressionless: "Rather than be threatened by you, let's perish together."

D's breathing became noticeably rapid, and his fingers curled slightly.

She stared intently into Qin Shi's eyes, trying to find a trace of wavering, but those eyes were as cold as polar ice, unfathomable.

“I hate it,” Qin Shi said, emphasizing each word, “that people are using my family to threaten me.”

Time seemed to freeze at this moment.

Only the sound of their intermittent breathing remained in the ward.

Finally, D's shoulders relaxed slightly: "I won't touch your family."

Her voice regained its usual calmness, "But you have to grant me one request."

The blade retreated slightly by an inch.

"I paid a heavy price to save you."

D continued, a bitter smile playing on her red lips.

Qin Shi then slowly put away the fruit knife and casually picked up an apple from the bedside table.

His movements were slow; the wound was clearly still painful, but his actions of peeling the apple were unusually steady.

“As long as it doesn’t affect my family,” Qin Shi said slowly, “the conditions are negotiable.”

The apple peel formed a perfect spiral in his hand, slowly drooping down.

D watched his movements and suddenly chuckled softly:

"Over the years, I have helped PrisonNet kill no fewer than a hundred people."

Her voice carried a hint of self-mockery, “They promised me that if I killed 100 of them, they would hand over the prison network to me completely.”

Qin Shi paused slightly as he peeled the apple.

"You are my 100th mission."

D's gaze fell on Qin Shi's chest, which was wrapped in bandages. "Unfortunately... it failed."

“So I have to kill one more person,” she whispered, “to become the real boss of the prison network.”

Qin Shi cut the peeled apple in half and handed one half to D: "For you, killing is very simple."

D took the apple but didn't eat it: "But I can't kill you."

Her voice suddenly became complicated, "For this assassination, Prison Network used two top assassins."

She took a bite of the apple: "If I hadn't been prepared, I really would have been dragged down with you."

Qin Shi looked at her quietly, then suddenly asked, "Why did you save me?"

D's movements stopped.

Her voice was very soft, almost like a sigh, "I can't kill you. I originally wanted to use the cramped space in the cockpit to kill you, but your reaction was too fast."

You were still controlling the helicopter at the last moment. My first bullet didn't kill you directly. If I had fired a second one, I wouldn't have had time to parachute to save myself.

And as you know, I never fire a second shot when I kill someone.

Since I can't kill you, I'll need your help. Only with your help can I possibly kill my next target.

Qin Shi leaned against the headboard, his pale face expressionless, only his deep eyes flashing with a dangerous light.

D suddenly tugged at her black gloves in frustration: "The one who helped me assassinate you last time was PrisonNet's second-in-command..." She paused, "...He's dead."

“So now…” D’s voice lowered, “I’m even less confident on my own.”

Qin Shi chuckled lightly, his voice filled with undisguised sarcasm: "Looking for someone to cooperate with? That's not like you."

“They were just too difficult to deal with.” Her voice carried a rare hint of frustration. “You probably don’t believe it…”

She suddenly leaned down, her long black hair falling down, her mask almost touching Qin Shi's nose: "Even the old man back then... couldn't kill him."

Qin Shi's pupils contracted slightly. He clearly remembered who "the old man" was—the king of assassins who once struck fear into the hearts of the entire underworld.

“Tell me,” his voice was low and dangerous, “who is this target that has stumped you…?”

“Your governor,” her voice was soft, yet it made the room feel colder, “that man known as the ‘King of Soldiers’.”

Outside the window, the sunlight was suddenly blocked by clouds, and the ward instantly became dark...

A few more days passed, and Yan Lan, nearly seven months pregnant, appeared at Qin Auto's R&D center. Since Qin Shi and the R&D director's accident, the R&D center had practically come to a standstill.

The moment Yan Lan appeared, all the employees in the R&D center stood up.

"General Manager Yan!" someone spoke first, their voice filled with barely concealed excitement.

“They should call him God Ou!” another voice chimed in, its tone full of admiration.

The staff at the R&D center looked at Yan Lan with a mixture of excitement at the reunion and sadness about the current situation—they knew the heavy burden that this pregnant "Goddess of Europe" was carrying on her shoulders.

“I know everyone has been feeling down lately,” Yan Lan said, gently pressing her lower abdomen. Her voice was steady yet strong. “We’ve also heard the rumors—the conditions offered by those car companies are indeed tempting.”

She paused, her gaze sweeping over every familiar face in the room: "But Qinqi doesn't belong to Qin Shi alone. It's the result of countless sleepless nights and hundreds of revisions of blueprints. Now that he's fallen, I can't let you all fall apart."

"For those who are willing to stay, I, Yan Lan, guarantee that Qin Shi will give you more and more in the future."

She raised her hand and gently stroked the design drawing on the table, her fingertips tracing the familiar lines. "Those who don't want to stay, I won't stop them. They'll still get their full salary and bonuses, and I'll even write them recommendation letters."

A murmur arose from the crowd; some clenched their fists, while others quietly reddened their eyes.

“But I want to tell everyone more,” Yan Lan’s voice suddenly rose, “that our next new car has already been designed and developed.”

This is the design drawing.

As she spoke, Yan Lan gently placed the few pages of drawings on the table, her fingertips pausing at the title of the top page.

"This is the final design of the new model that we finalized before Qin Shi's accident." Her voice trembled slightly, but she quickly regained her composure. "He said that this car would break all existing records."

The first few engineers who approached only glanced at it before their breath caught in their throats.

The structural design on the drawings is a significant improvement over the previous generation, especially in the layout of the battery safety compartment, which features several buffer structure markings that they have never seen before.

The crowd instantly erupted into a frenzy, like a lake ripped with pebbles.

"If this structure can be implemented, the range can be increased by at least 30%!"

"And this anti-rollover system is so much better than the version we tested before!"

Yan Lan looked at the scene before her, and a slight smile finally appeared on her tightly clenched lips.

She knew that these blueprints were not only the culmination of Qin Shi and her hard work, but also a way to bring everyone together again.