Chapter 30 – Becoming Hostages
Novel Title: 龙血 (Dragon Blood)
Author：水千丞 (Shui Qian Cheng)
Translator: K (@kin0monogatari)
Protagonists: 单鸣 (Shan Ming -MC), 沈长泽 (Shen Changze -ML)
*Please read at Novels Space.space, the original site of translation. TQ*
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Ayer notified Shan Ming that the snipers were in place and that the nearby taller buildings had been cleared away. Shan Ming led the rest of the staff to escort Orais to the banquet site.
Two armed military cross-country vehicles drove on the road one after the other. In the armoured vehicle, there is Orais, Pell and Shen Changze. Shen Changze was seated in the middle of the two adults. Shan Ming was driving the car.
The journey went smoothly beyond their imagination.
When they arrived at the hotel where the banquet was held, three cars were parked outside the hotel lobby. The people from the two cars in front and behind got out of the car, surrounded the door, and asked Orais to get out of the car.
Although Ayer claims to have cleared the commanding heights that the snipers need to occupy, they still have to guard against someone shooting dark guns around. Although it is an unsightly method to block the protected person with layers of fleshy walls, it is very practical and will make it impossible for snipers to aim and strike.
It is a known fact that a sniper’s shot must be valuable. This is because after firing a shot, the enemy will find his location. Bullets and explosives will greet him. So this shot must be valuable since he has to run away right after firing. Orais must be kept safe in the event that he cannot be aimed.
So Orais successfully entered the banquet hall on the second floor of the hotel.
Shan Ming parked the car in the parking lot and took out a silver-white suitcase from the trunk. It looked like it contained a lot of money. But instead, it was full of his equipment. He pressed down the brim of his hat and prepared to meet those whose job was to lurk in the hotel. He will join them.
As bodyguards, Jushi and Koski could only stand guard in the lobby. People looked at them contemptuously, thinking that they were stupid and would be useless in case of an emergency.
The two inspected the guests coming and going in the lobby. In the lobby, there were also two ‘Peregrine Falcon’ members in casual clothes pretending to be guests staying at the hotel. Their job is to guard the only normal passage into the banquet hall together.
Orais took Pell by her arm and led Shen Changze into the venue.
The area of the venue is very large. It was more than 400 square metres, looking very grand. There are more than 100 guests present. With so many people, it is not difficult for someone with malicious intentions to get mixed in.
Pell was wearing a milky white haute couture low-cut high-fork dress, taking advantage of her brown skin and exquisite appearance. She looked even more charming in this dress. Meanwhile, Shen Changze was wearing a black suit with a red bow on his neckline. It looked bright and charming. His eyes scanned the surrounding crowd quietly, looking like a polite and elegant little gentleman. He was very beautiful and pleasing to the eyes.
Orais’ daughter came over to say hello to her father. It was obvious that the relationship between the father and daughter was not very good. The daughter glanced at Pell contemptuously and walked away on her own.
Orais sighed. He then tried to cheer up and began to communicate with other guests.
The Orais family is popular in Manhattan. So, there are almost all kinds of people who come to greet him. It makes Pell and Shen Changze feel a little bit overwhelmed. Their cheeks are stiff from smiling.
Pell took advantage of the gap of people coming and said to Orais, “This can’t work. You should find a place to sit down quickly and stop contacting so many people. It will get them to pay attention to me and the child.”
Orais nodded. He then took them to find a seat to sit down.
Pell fiddled with her hair and took the opportunity to adjust the earpiece in her ear. She adjusted it to the conversation mode and said softly, “Is everything in place?”
Shan Ming answered her quickly, “Zouhuo is in the exhaust duct above your heads. Slingshot and Heibaiji should be mixed among the waiters. Have you seen them? Me and the others are mixing in the guest rooms on the second and third floors to conduct an investigation.”
“I saw Slingshot and Heibaiji. Do you think they’re going to attack the building?”
“It’s hard to say. But they will get so many hostages here and these are all famous figures in New York. It is indeed a good opportunity to strike.”
The music stopped and a congressman began to speak as a guest representative. The venue became quiet and Pell stopped talking. But she exchanged glances with Shen Changze to hint that everything was going according to plan.
The child was sitting on a chair with his back straight. He held the sabre Shan Ming gave him against his chest. In his pocket and in Pell’s handbag, there was a HK4 pocket pistol. They are usually not used. After all, the performance is poor. It is only there to deal with any temporary situation. The company asked them to bring one. Since they have never used this type of gun before, neither of them think it was a good idea.
The party soon started. The ladies’ flowery skirts made the men feel dizzy. People’s emotions were warm and joyful. There was an atmosphere of luxury and glamour everywhere. This is a seemingly ordinary high-society event, but only the person involved knows that perhaps there is a terrifying murderous intent hidden behind this gorgeous illusion.
After more than an hour of the event, something unexpected happened.
The so-called unexpectedness is not that they did not expect the Nigeria terrorists to take advantage of this opportunity to act, but that they did not expect that they would come in from the main entrance of the hotel with machine guns in their hands and directly walk into the banquet hall, taking everyone as hostages.
Everyone in Peregrine Falcon is a veteran mercenary who has experienced many battles. Even a rookie recruit knows that when the commanding heights of sniping have been occupied by the enemy, if he rashly enters the hotel to take hostages, the final result will definitely be failure. You have to guard against the enemy’s surprise attack to rescue the hostages and you also have to guard against snipers who may shoot from any direction. Instead of eliminating the snipers first, they just swaggered like nobody’s business and wanted to take hostages. What kind of terrorists would be so stupid that they would not leave a way out for themselves?
Unless… unless they don’t even want to get out alive.
The number of the people who came in was around thirty. Three of them were shot and killed by Kali and the others at the door. After entering the banquet hall, they used guns to force the celebrities to gather in the middle and immediately shot bullets into the disobedient ones. There was no room for negotiation.
Jushi, Koski, and the other four were lucky enough to be in the hotel lobby and were seen as ordinary guests. In order not to attract attention, they ran out of the hotel with other guests in the lobby. But while the terrorists were not paying attention, they hid in behind the shelter in the lobby, waiting for an opportunity to act.
At this time, all the mercenaries realised that they had met a group of extreme religious believers who were not afraid of death for their beliefs.
Mercenaries who are motivated by profit are the least willing to meet such people. This is because they fight for money while the other party fights for ideals and for the almighty beliefs they think are right. They weren’t afraid to die at all. They didn’t intend to go back alive at all. So they dared not to leave a way out for themselves and made an attack that the ‘Peregrine Falcon’ hadn’t expected.
The battle situation suddenly became passive for ‘Peregrine Falcon’.
The terrorists in the banquet hall gathered the guests in front of the windows, while they stayed away from the windows to prevent snipers from shooting them. A man who seemed to be the leader carried an M249 machine gun in his hand. The weight and recoil of this thing are powerful. If an ordinary adult man holds it and fires this gun, he will probably be pushed off by the recoil. Only someone whose strength and physique is far beyond ordinary people could carry it around.
He looked at the guests who were squatting on the ground and said, “I’m looking for Bill Orais.”
All eyes focused on Orais in unison.
Orais was so frightened that he trembled all over. He dared not stand up for a long time.
The boss swept a round of bullets at a round table from Italy, turning it into sawdust. A timid woman burst into tears.
“I’m looking for Bill Orais!” the leader emphasised.
Pell continued to cover up by pretending to cry. He quickly said in a low voice behind Orais, “Don’t be afraid.” Then she pushed him over.
If these people want to kill Orais, they could just kill everyone in the hall. Anyway, they are ready to die so they might as well take out some of the American imperialist capitalists they hated the most. Since they named Orais, they must have not wanted to kill him for a while.
Orais stood up tremblingly. He passed through the crowd and walked out.
Orais’ daughter cried out, “Daddy!”
Pell rolled her eyes and cursed the idiot in her heart.
A rebel next to her also took Orais’ daughter out of the crowd.
The leader kicked Orais to the ground and put a gun to his head.
Orais put his hands on the barrel of the gun in vain, “No, don’t kill me.”
The leader said something in their language and a person next to him tied him along with his daughter with a rope. He then warned everyone not to move around.
This is obviously looking like they are waiting to negotiate terms with the government.
A single beep came from Pell’s radio headset, “Search for suspicious persons among the guests. But don’t act rashly. Follow my instructions.”
In general hostage situations, the terrorists will place one or two of their own among the many hostages as the last bargaining chip. But it is not very difficult to distinguish these terrorists from Africa. Looking at more than a hundred guests, there are no more than five dark-skinned people. Two of them are obese middle-aged women. Of course, it is not ruled out that they could also be part of the cooperation. After all, interests are a huge driving force.
After a while, the siren blared outside the hotel.
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☝🏻HK4 pocket pistol
☝🏻M249 machine gun
Next update: 2023.–.–
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