Chapter 15 (1/2)

Translator: Atlas Studios

Editor: Atlas Studios

“Get out here!”

A group of men armed with guns and knives bellowed at a tightly shut door riddled with bullet holes.

“Sh*t up! If you continue prattling on, I’ll shoot him dead!” Zhou Zhenguo’s yell came from the room. He carried himself in an even more imposing manner than the people outside.

‘I have a hostage!’

There were a total of five people in the room.

One of them was sprawled on the ground with a pool of blood underneath him. He was still alive and spasming. It was the man whom Tang Luo and the others had been holding hostage and forced to lead the way for them.

Apart from him, there was another stranger whom Zhou Zhenguo was strangling and pointing a revolver to his head.

That person was Dr. Jack White, whom the man from before had led Tang Luo and the others to.

They were in Jack White’s office now.

A few minutes earlier…

Zhou Zhenguo and the man barely stepped into the office when the man suddenly put up resistance and turned around to seize the gun.

Zhou Zhenguo’s reaction was swift, and he managed to prevent the man from successfully snatching the gun away. Instead, he shot the man.

However, this also caused a huge commotion.

It led to the current situation where they were trapped and had to rely on hostages to prevent the other party from taking all-out action.

They were holding people hostage!? They were clearly detectives of justice investigating Jack the Ripper, yet they were holding people hostage as if they were villains.

Something must have gone wrong somewhere.

The office was on the fourth floor. There was only a door, and a window that was right opposite the door, escaping through the window, wasn’t easy.

Firstly, it was too high. Secondly, it was very easy for the enemy to shoot at him if he was behind the door. The bullet holes in the door were fine examples of that.

The door was relatively thin. Even bullets shot by a revolver, a weapon that wasn’t considered terribly powerful here could go through it.

Currently, Tang Luo and the others were beside the door, pressed against the wall. They stood in a blind spot where bullets couldn’t reach them.

Little Chu’s mouth was shut tight. His chest heaved up and down violently. Being mentally prepared and facing actual danger were two completely different things, much like the difference between watching war movies and personally going onto the battlefield.

“Mr. Jack, relax. I have a few things I’d like to ask you,” said Tang Luo to Jack White, who was close to dying from asphyxiation because of Zhou Zhenguo’s strangling.

The ‘relax’ in the middle of his sentence was directed at Zhou Zhenguo so that Jack could speak.

“Jack?”

The man’s eyes widened dramatically. “You’ve gotten the goddamn wrong person! I’m not Jack!”

Suddenly, mocking laughter rang out. With utmost satisfaction, the man on the floor took his last breath.

“F*ck!” Little Chu cursed aloud, slamming his fist onto the wall.

They had been tricked!

Zhou Zhenguo swore in his dialect too.

Tang Luo was very calm. With a nod, he replied, “So you aren’t. That’s fine. Do you recognize this?”

He took out Hodge’s letter and pointed at the symbol signing off the letter.

“I don’t know what you’re talking about. I’m just a normal doctor,” replied the man.

Tang Luo chuckled lightly. “Are those people outside just normal healthcare workers too?”

Armed healthcare workers.

“I don’t know.” The man shook his head vehemently.

“Is that so? In that case, if I push you to the back of the door, take a guess, will those normal healthcare workers open fire?” asked Tang Luo with a smile. “I hope you’re as normal as what you claim to be. That way, you can go a little more peacefully.”

“No—”

Before the man could finish, Tang Luo had already pushed him behind the door.

There were no gunshots.

Without waiting for the man to reveal a triumphant smile and run out the door, a hand reached out seemingly from nowhere. It grabbed the man around the neck, caught hold of him, grabbed hold of a little chick, and slammed him against the door. The back of his head slammed against the wall, causing the man to see stars from the great pain.

“Whether you’re Jack or not, you’re still pretty important to those people outside,” said Tang Luo.

Right at that point, they heard a cold and emotionless voice from outside.

“Don’t bother with him. Charge in and kill all of them!”

Someone even more highly-ranked than the man Tang Luo and the others were holding hostage had appeared. Not just that, the moment he showed up, he gave the order to kill.

He was probably a Russian.

A look of shock and fear appeared on the man’s face.

With a somber expression, Zhou Zhenguo aimed the revolver at the door.

Unfortunately, the revolver only had six bullets. After the shot earlier, there were only five left. But outside, there were probably seven to eight people.

“Watch him well.”

Tang Luo pushed the man over to Little Chu, whose heart was pounding hard and fast. Then, in a flash, he went behind the office desk.

Bam!

At the same time, the door was violently kicked open, and the entire door frame smashed onto the floor with a loud crash.

A group of people came charging in. They crowded in the doorway, the muzzles of their guns swinging about.

After ensuring that they wouldn’t misfire at their comrades in front, they immediately pulled the triggers, no intention of aiming whatsoever. Every single one of them had a crazed look on their faces as if they were lunatics.

Sparks flew out of the revolver in Zhou Zhenguo’s hand as well.

Screech!

The ear-piercing sound of a heavy object rubbing against the ground at high speed rang out among the gunshots.

The heavy office desk lay horizontally and spun 90 degrees by Tang Luo, so it could just so fit through the door.