Chapter 2 (2/2)

Everyone pointed at someone except for me.

Out of the fifteen people, seven were pointing at Shang Zhiyuan. I wasn’t surprised. Honestly, I wanted to point at him too, but for some reason I wasn’t able to reach out my arm.

What surprised me was, including Shang Zhiyuan, seven people were pointing at the middle-aged official.

All of the sudden, I had the most critical vote.

The middle-aged official who was used to being on the top looked at the seven people who were pointing at him with amazement.

“Gelaozi! What in tarnation are y’all thinking? How you gon’ go and pick me! Imma leader! So you believe him just cuz he said he’s a pa.s.senger? What if he’s a Howler?”

Unfortunately, his yelling didn’t change anyone’s decision. No one on this plane seemed to care if he was the district chief or the mayor.

At this moment, the middle-aged official pathetically realized that the vote was up to me.

Usually, the district chief would never look at me even once, but now he looked at me with the same face he had on when he was with the governor.

“Now boy, you listen to me – pick him. One look and you know he’s up to no good. Pick him, and once we get off the plane, I’ll make you the chief of bureau.”

I looked at Shang Zhiyuan. He looked like he has great ambitions and seemed like someone who we could depend on. However, if he was a Howler, he could be a dangerous enemy.

But when I looked at the middle-aged official, I felt disgusted from the bottom of my heart.

I gave him a cold smile and said,

“Your suit pants are Armani right?”

As soon as he heard me ask about the price of his suit pants, his face broke into a smile, as he thought to himself that youngsters are just suckas, he can handle them easily with just a pair of pants.

“That is correct. Buddy you got good eyes. These pants are Armani, it cost about thirty thousand. If you like, I’ll git you a dozen of these!”

These officials are so f.u.c.king generous.

I gave him a cold smile and kept asking,

“But I heard that the salary for the district chief each month is not even worth ten thousand.”

As soon as he heard what I said, his face turned green. Everyone around him was looking at him in contempt. A few of them even laughed out loud.

I raised my arm, and pointed my finger straight at him.

“Sorry, but I don’t like corrupted officials.”

Seven votes for Shang Zhiyuan, and eight votes for the middle-aged official. The middle-aged official was the first one out!

We choose our guy, but do we kill him or not? Who was going to kill him? This became the issue.

After voting, everyone kept their distance from the middle-aged official. Even him raised his guards, glared at the crowd and started yelling,

“Gelaozi! The h.e.l.l is wrong witchu? You gonna commit murder? It’s against the law ta murder people! I’m the district chief, if you kill me, y’all never gunna git away with this! Once you get off the plane, every single one of you are going ta jail!”

Maybe his yelling was having some effect. At least no one seemed to want to kill him. Even Shang Zhiyuan was only glaring at him coldly.

Suddenly, the plane cabin started shaking violently. It seemed like the plane was cras.h.i.+ng at full speed.

All the pa.s.sengers couldn’t even stand straight now, and they just then remembered, if we don’t kill him, the plane will crash and everyone will die!

“Hurry! Hurry up and kill him! Or else we’re all gonna die!”

Shang Zhiyuan fell on one of the seats with me. He grabbed onto the seat, stood up and yelled, but he wasn’t planning on finis.h.i.+ng the job himself.

Like most of the people, I didn’t want to kill anyone. But if we don’t, everyone was going to die. What should we do?

The middle-aged official was terrified by the shaking plane, but was more alert against us, the living people. His whole face turned red, and he kept screaming at us.

“Who dares to kill me?”

“Who dares to kill me?”

“Who dares to kill me?”

Just as the middle-aged official finished yelling “Who dares to kill me?” for the third time, finally someone made a move.

But I couldn’t imagine who, not even in my dreams. That person was…

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