The Baby I Lost Is Actually with My Ex-Husband!-Chapter 170 - Death by a Single Strike

Chapter 170: Chapter 170: Death by a Single Strike

Chapter 170: Chapter 170: Death by a Single Strike

Huo Tingdong crossed his hands, smiling coldly with grace, “My words still stand, I am negotiating peacefully with you. You want money, I’ll give it, as long as you dare to take it.”

Dieter sneered, “Peaceful negotiation? Other than negotiating peacefully with me, what other choices do you have?”

Huo Tingdong replied, “Should another scenario arise, I do have a second option.”

Dieter was stunned for a moment, “What scenario?”

Huo Tingdong slightly parted his thin lips, articulating each word deliberately, “Negotiations break down.”

In an instant, Dieter was frozen in shock.

The next second, Huo Tingdong seized the moment, flipping over sharply and whipping out his belt, pressing the hidden mechanism within the buckle.

The metallic buckle immediately shot out a sharp little knife.

Huo Tingdong held the knife in reverse grip, striding over the coffee table and viciously stomping on Dieter’s thigh.

Fast!

His movements were too fast!

Before Dieter could react, as he stood up, Huo Tingdong forcefully stabbed backwards, the sharp knife piercing deeply into Dieter’s throat.

“Cough… cough…”

Blood gushed from his throat like a fountain.

Huo Tingdong coldly gripped his agonized and contorted face, wrist thrusting fiercely, the knife plunging deeper, killing with a single strike!

All around, Dieter’s men were too slow to react.

In the entire room, apart from Dieter and Huo Tingdong, the rest were Dieter’s men, each a top-notch bodyguard; hence, they couldn’t believe that Huo Tingdong, on his own, especially with Dieter still holding a hostage, would dare to lay hands on their BOSS and kill with a single strike!

Before Huo Tingdong entered the room, he was thoroughly searched to confirm he wasn’t carrying any lethal weapons before being allowed in.

He had no gun; with just a little knife, he assassinated Dieter right in front of them!

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By the time they reacted, they were already drawing their guns aiming at Huo Tingdong.

However, Dieter was dead. Without a leader, no one to command and without orders, in a moment of hesitation—

Huo Tingdong drew out a dagger and charged at a gun-holding bodyguard.

The bodyguard instinctively pulled the trigger, but Huo Tingdong had anticipated the move, dodging swiftly with a mere 0.5 second’s margin, as the bullet narrowly grazed his neck and hit the person standing opposite.

Huo Tingdong drove the knife into his eye, wrenching the gun from his grasp. Raising his hand, the metal cufflink reflected the movements of a bodyguard behind him. In 0.5 seconds, he determined the positioning of the man behind him, spinning around and firing three shots in rapid succession.

Not a single bullet missed!

In an electrifying flash—

Empty cartridges fell to the ground, and the people in the room collapsed lifelessly.

The smell of gunpowder filled the air.

In ten short seconds, he took down everyone.

From striking to crushing his opponents, it took just ten seconds—fast, accurate, and ruthless—every move sent shivers down the spine!

Dieter was overconfident, overestimating his armed forces and underestimating Huo Tingdong’s ruthlessness.

What made this man think that mere bodyguards would be sufficient against him?

Clearly, Dieter didn’t know much about his past; before taking over Huace Group, he was the ace of the special forces.

Huo Tingdong never fears negotiations, only that the other party would be too afraid to negotiate.

20 billion.

Handed to him and he refused.

Then his life it must be.

Whether in the business world or on the battlefield, if money isn’t the talk, firepower is.

Lin Qi was still on this ship; he had no patience to continue this ruse.

Huo Tingdong pressed the micro earpiece in his ear and gave the command: “Assault the ship.”

“Yes!”

Huo Tingdong casually tossed aside the handgun, now hot from the barrel, stepped over the fallen bodies, and walked up to Dieter, casting a cold glance at him before suddenly narrowing his eyes.

Dieter’s head hung limply to the side, mouth slightly open, revealing something dark between his lips.

Huo Tingdong grabbed his face, pinched his jaw, and as Dieter’s mouth opened, the dark little device fell into his palm.

He vaguely recognized it was a tiny remote controller, barely two centimeters in diameter. Dieter had been biting on it all along, refusing to spit it out even in his dying moments.

What is this…

Could it be… a controller for something?

Just then…

The entire cruise ship shook violently.

Huo Tingdong felt something enormous explode beneath the deck, instinctively grabbing the wall, which was also cracking deeply from the blast.

A bomb!?

Huo Tingdong’s face turned slightly pale.

Over the earpiece, Mo Ke’s urgent report came through, “Mr. Huo! There’s a bomb on the ship, someone seems to have detonated it!!”

Huo Tingdong opened the door, stepping out just as another series of explosions roared from beneath the deck.

“Boom—”

The explosive force of tons of bombs came rushing like a tsunami, tearing fiercely upwards from within the ship’s structure.

Huo Tingdong swiftly realized, a crafty old fox like Dieter always had the tiny bomb detonator in his mouth, and at the point of death, he’d bitten the controller to pieces!

Mo Ke was still shouting through the earpiece, “Mr. Huo! Retreat fast, the ship is going to be ripped apart!”

Everyone aboard the cargo ship, in utter chaos, was scampering frantically towards the deck, the ship violently rocking, people unable to stand steadily, tumbling in all directions.

Huo Tingdong ran to the corridor; the whole ship trembled, crowds fleeing from the rooms.

Mo Ke raced to him, grabbing his arm, “Mr. Huo, let’s go!”

Huo Tingdong clasped his hand in turn, “What about Lin Qi? Is she found?”

Mo Ke shook his head, “We haven’t had time! Mr. Huo, you go first, I’ll continue the search with others. It’s too dangerous here; any longer, and the ship might split in two!”

Bomb after bomb seemed to be set off in a series.

While the initial assessment suggested the bombs were not of a large yield, their sheer volume was overwhelming.

On his way here, Mo Ke had already fallen twice; he didn’t know how many more bombs would detonate, but the ship’s lower cabins were now on fire, and if the flames reached the boiler room…

The consequences were unthinkable.

Huo Tingdong said, “If you need to retreat, then go; I won’t stop until I find her.”

Mo Ke protested anxiously, “It’s chaotic here, too many people, too much disorder…”

Huo Tingdong insisted, “I don’t care!”

He couldn’t possibly leave Lin Qi alone on this ship.

He sent Lin Qi’s photo to every member of his team; as the ship disintegrated, before it sank, everyone had to board other vessels. If Lin Qi made it out, his team would definitely spot her.

Until her safety was confirmed, he wouldn’t leave alone.

Seeing Huo Tingdong’s determination, Mo Ke no longer tried to persuade him, just said, “Mr. Huo, I’m with you!”

As his subordinate, they naturally shared life and death.