Inside the hotel building,
After Song Qi helped his companion Lian Ming find the pistol, the two of them proceeded to the rooftop ventilation duct according to the previous plan to stand guard.
“Brother Qi,”
As the two approached the wall edge cautiously, Lian Ming suddenly spoke up:
“By the way, have you ever seen He Heng in person?”
“Hush!”
Song Qi quickly gestured for him to be silent, then frowned and lowered his voice,
“No, why do you ask?”
He had been guarding in another building earlier and naturally couldn’t have seen He Heng in person.
He didn’t understand why Lian Ming, this second silly person, would have so many inexplicable questions.
Upon hearing this, Lian Ming looked at him with curiosity, “Brother Qi, then how do you know what he looks like?”
“If you haven’t seen him, how will we know if the person we catch later is He Heng?”
Song Qi knocked on the other’s head abruptly,
“Are you stupid?”
“I’m asking you, besides He Heng, who else would crawl out through the ventilation duct?”
“Oh.” Lian Ming rubbed the spot where he had just been knocked, sounding a bit subdued.
“Furthermore,” Song Qi disdainfully took out his phone, pulled up a photo, and showed it to Lian Ming, “This is a photo from He Heng’s wedding in the hotel lobby. Take a good look; won’t you recognize him later?”
“Oh.”
Seeing this, Lian Ming took the other’s phone, looked at it for a while, nodded absentmindedly, firmly imprinting He Heng’s photo in his mind.
Then the two stood on opposite sides of the ventilation duct, watching the movements within the iron mesh like waiting for a rabbit.
“Clang! Clang!”
At that moment, the sound of metal collision became clearer,
The next second, they saw a hand reaching out from the duct, removing the iron mesh. A round head appeared at the ventilation duct opening.
Seeing the person about to climb out, Song Qi and Lian Ming immediately exchanged a glance. Then, in perfect coordination, they grabbed the person’s hands and pulled him out with a swift motion.
Ji Yuan, who was struggling to climb out of the ventilation duct, had his hand suddenly grabbed and was yanked out. Caught off guard, he fell to the ground, ending up with a swollen and bruised face.
“Damn!”
This felt like solving a challenging math problem after much effort and brainstorming, only to have the teacher say she won’t collect it.
Even the usually patient Ji Yuan couldn’t help but swear.
Meanwhile, He Heng, still in the ventilation duct, witnessed the sizable person disappearing in an instant before him, his face full of question marks.
Just a moment ago, Ji Yuan was right in front of him, and in the next second, he vanished with a “whoosh!”
Is this some kind of magic trick for turning a person into thin air?
Right after that, he suddenly heard the voices of two people conversing outside the ventilation duct:
Lian Ming stared at Ji Yuan’s round face for a long time, scratching his head in confusion,
“Are you sure he’s the He Heng that Boss Huo wants us to find? Why do I feel like he doesn’t quite match the photo?”
Leaving aside the appearance,
Just in terms of height and physique, he’s quite different from the polished image of He Heng in the photo.
“Think about what I just said!” Song Qi, hands on hips, impatiently said, “Besides He Heng, who else could possibly crawl out of the ventilation duct at this moment?”
After being reminded by Song Qi, even Lian Ming found it somewhat reasonable.
After all, Brother Qi was such a reliable person; he wouldn’t make a mistake.
Moreover, the person who had checked the abandoned storage room earlier had told them that He Heng had escaped through the ventilation duct. So, at this moment, the person coming out of the ventilation duct could only be him.
As for the discrepancy between the real person and the photo, the only reasonable explanation was that…
His photo must have been meticulously edited with image software.
Thinking about this, Lian Ming was completely convinced by his own reasoning. He glanced a few more times at Ji Yuan, who was still sitting on the ground, and found a faint resemblance to He Heng’s photo.
“Damn.”
Thinking about this, he couldn’t help but sigh. In his heart, he marveled,
The photo editing software these days is truly terrifying!
Under Shi Shaowen’s leadership, Shi Shuang and the people under He Heng’s command immediately rushed to the storage room.
However, when they arrived, the door to the abandoned storage room was wide open, with visible marks of forced entry on the lock. Inside the room, there were scattered steel bars, concrete debris, cut ropes, and two rusty chairs.
It was evident that He Heng and his people were no longer in that room.
Seeing this, Shi Shuang furrowed his brows, ready to ask Shi Shaowen for clarification. At that moment, footsteps sounded in the distance,
His bodyguards immediately stood at attention, adopting a defensive posture.
The next moment, he came face to face with Huo Jia and his team, who had coincidentally rushed to the scene.
As the two groups faced each other,
Huo Jia casually swept his gaze over the other side and quickly deduced that the informant among them was likely Shi Shaowen.
He couldn’t help but curse inwardly,
Indecisive old thing, truly more harm than good!
Huo Jia then directed his gaze towards Shi Shuang. However, before he could speak,
Shi Shuang preemptively asked,
“Where is he?”
“You’re asking me? Who should I ask?”
Huo Jia looked at Shi Shuang standing in front of him, along with the row of black-clad bodyguards behind him, with a smile on his face, but bitterness in his heart.
Initially, he thought his plan was flawless, but he didn’t expect his subordinates to be foolish enough to let He Heng escape. What’s more, he didn’t anticipate that He Heng’s Omega would actually protect him.
Having been restrained by He Heng for two years, He Heng’s Omega still hadn’t given up on him.
How could there be an Omega so stubborn?
Could this be a case of Stockholm Syndrome?
While Huo Jia was lost in his thoughts,
“Where is he? I’ll ask you again.”
Shi Shuang’s icy tone brought his wandering mind back.
“I really have nothing to say.”
Huo Jia glanced disdainfully at Shi Shuang’s face, so beautiful it seemed unreal, and decided to play a game of Tai Chi with him.
What could an Omega do to him?
He probably wouldn’t even dare to give orders to He Heng’s men. At most, he would threaten him with some empty words here.
However, the next moment, Shi Shuang swiftly pulled a pistol from the waist of the nearest bodyguard,
“A click!” The sound of the gun chambering a round echoed,
Before Huo Jia and his people could react, Shi Shuang raised the gun and aimed it at Huo Jia’s forehead, a mocking smile playing on his lips,
“Nothing to say?”
Back in university, Shi Shuang used to frequent the shooting range, so he was familiar with assembling and loading a pistol.
But Shi Shuang was only concerned about where He Heng was. He had no patience to play games with Huo Jia.
Then, his expression darkened, and with the gun raised, he questioned Huo Jia,
“I’ll ask you again.”
Damn it,
Huo Jia cursed inwardly. He never expected that the seemingly gentle Omega in front of him would draw a gun faster than his well-trained bodyguards.
Huo Jia’s subordinates were also stunned. Upon realizing the situation, they drew their guns as well.
Seeing this, a cold glint flashed in Shi Shuang’s eyes. Her fingertip, resting on the trigger, moved an inch inward,
Huo Jia hurriedly reached out to stop his bodyguards,
These people seemed to want him to die quickly.
“I’m not joking with you,” this time, his expression finally turned serious, no longer the careless look from before. “I really don’t know where He Heng is.”
“Boss Huo!”
Just then, Lian Ming hurriedly ran up to Huo Jia and whispered in his ear,
“Boss Huo, we just found He Heng. He’s on the rooftop of the hotel right now.”
Watching the two whispering, Shi Shuang’s alertness heightened once again.
“He’s on the rooftop right now,”
After hearing Lian Ming’s words, Huo Jia’s face darkened. Without waiting for Shi Shuang to speak, he took the initiative to explain the situation,
“If you care about his life, go up there.”
After saying that, his face remained expressionless, but in his mind, he started to play another cunning move.
On the rooftop of the hotel,
When Huo Jia saw, in a corner, an Alpha with a round and chubby build, his hands tied behind his back, and his mouth sealed with tape by Song Qi, he couldn’t help but elbow Lian Ming in the forehead,
“What the hell? This is He Heng?”
If Ji Yuan had even the slightest resemblance to He Heng, Huo Jia wouldn’t be so outrageously furious.
Now, Huo Jia was even uncertain how he managed to hire people in the first place. Losing his mind was one thing, but how did he manage to lose his eyes too?
Upon seeing Shi Shuang, Ji Yuan immediately cast a pleading look towards him. His big eyes were filled with excitement, almost on the verge of tears. He emitted a series of fluctuating and unclear sounds.
Ji Yuan’s intended message was probably:
Mr. Shi, they got the wrong person, but don’t worry, President He should have successfully escaped.
However, to others, this series of musical notes sounded like:
“?! Waaah!”
Shi Shuang and the bodyguards behind him were also stunned upon seeing this. Just as he was pondering whether this was some kind of trick or if they were simply being taken for fools,
A large group of people in waiter uniforms suddenly appeared on the rooftop, surrounding them in a tight circle.
Seeing the situation once again turning in his favor, back to a scenario that was advantageous to him,
Huo Jia had a smug smile on his face as he walked out from the group, looking at Shi Shuang and saying word by word:
“Now, almost everyone in this entire hotel building is under my control. There’s no way for you to escape.”
“So, you better be sensible, cooperate with my plan, and not defy me. Understand?”
However, as soon as he finished speaking,
Suddenly, a deafening roar echoed from above, sounding like the rapid rotation of helicopter propellers,
Startled, Huo Jia looked up, only to see dozens of helicopters rapidly approaching the rooftop of the hotel, heading straight in his direction. The entire sky seemed to be covered by their ominous presence.
Oh no,
At this moment, a bad thought flashed through his mind.
Sure enough, the next instant,
All the helicopter doors on both sides opened simultaneously, and black-clad individuals with machine guns leaned out neatly, aiming their barrels at Huo Jia and his group.
At the same time, a strong wind suddenly swept across the rooftop, the sound of rotating propellers echoing loudly. Huo Jia and his subordinates were directly blinded by the blowing sand. Subconsciously, they bent down, shielding themselves from the powerful wind,
And at that moment, through the gaps in his fingers, he suddenly saw a black helicopter slowly rising from below, with what seemed like a person hanging from the landing gear.
Amidst the shocked gazes of everyone, He Heng was seen gripping a landing gear of the helicopter with one hand, slowly ascending from the sky.
In this moment, he seemed possessed by James Bond. Amidst the deafening noise of the propellers, he suddenly appeared, becoming the center of attention for all.
He Heng’s dazzling entrance left Ji Yuan utterly dumbfounded.
“Wow?!”
He really wanted to shout, “President He, so cool!”
However, upon seeing the smudges of soot on the man’s face and clothes, Ji Yuan’s voice gradually quieted down. He even thought about covering his face and hiding,
No matter what, as long as he could pretend not to recognize He Heng, that would be fine.
The next moment, He Heng simply released his grip and gracefully landed on the edge of the rooftop. He wiped off some soot from climbing the ventilation duct with Ji Yuan, but he didn’t completely clean it.
Like the others, Shi Shuang was also frozen in place, temporarily unable to react.
In a backlit setting, he watched as He Heng confidently walked towards him, the man’s deep black suit rustling in the wind. His hair was flowing, movements graceful, and the golden sunlight illuminated his handsome face,
It also highlighted the smudge of soot right in the middle of his nose and forehead.
He kind of looked like an Indian chief.
For some reason, at this moment, a sentence flashed in Shi Shuang’s mind:
“Your crush is a domineering CEO. One day, he will climb out of a ventilation duct, descend gracefully from a helicopter, and save you with soot on his face.”
“I’ve already informed the police.”
He Heng’s deep voice brought everyone back from their daze. He adjusted his tie, which had been tousled by the wind, and behind him were dozens of helicopters,
Under this terrifying display, he turned to look at Huo Jia and said:
“The police in City A will arrive here within ten minutes. You will have to pay for all the illegal things you’ve done.”
After hearing the words, Huo Jia realized that if things were to unfold as He Heng said, his remaining years would be spent behind bars. Thinking about this, he was almost infuriated to the point of grinding his teeth, his complexion alternating between blue and white.
In the next instant, a shadow flickered in Huo Jia’s eyes, and his face twisted into a sinister expression.
Without hesitation, he snatched a handgun from the waist of Lian Ming, aiming it directly at He Heng.
Huo Jia clearly understood that he was in deep trouble. If that were the case, he might as well take a gamble with He Heng. Even if he had to die, he would drag someone down with him.
At the moment he pulled the trigger,
“He Heng!!!”
“President He!!! Be careful!!!”
Shi Shuang shouted with all his might, disregarding the people behind him, and ran towards him.
Ji Yuan, in the corner, did the same. He violently broke free from Song Qi’s restraint and rushed forward, pushing He Heng away.
However, at this crucial moment of life and death,
“Biu! Biu! Biu!”
“Heart-shaped light beam launch!”
A series of dazzling heart-shaped lights were continuously emitted from the black handgun,
The adorable mechanical female voice, which stunned the entire scene, sounded again:
“Bara la la little magic fairy, ooh la la, little magic fairy transforms!”
Author’s Note:
Heng Bao: ? Ji Yuan’s not secretly in love with me, is he?
