Chapter 281 - CHANCE AT SURVIVAL (1/2)

Hu Lei heard the sound of the chopper outside and the corresponding alarm and looked at Dr Brown who seemed to have lost all hope of survival. Her wrists were bleeding, and her feet were bloody. The tendons in her limbs had been cut crudely, so it was inevitable for there to be bleeding.

”Looks like we are out of time, Dr Brown.” Hu Lei stood up and walked to the ŀȧptop on the desk. ​​

When she powered it in, she found that the system was locked. She was not a hacker, and her interest was not in the hidden information. Instead, she opened a command prompt interface just as Zhong Feng had shown her and sent a crude distress signal.

Zhong Feng would get a ping from his end.

In her head, she did not doubt that he was in a chopper looking for her. The certainty made her feel immense guilt at her actions. She should have reached out immediately instead of wasting time on Harriet Brown.

However, when she thought of all the pain that the woman had caused her and Zhong Feng, and the possibly thousands of lives she had destroyed, she felt like she had done the best morally questionable thing.

As she walked back to Dr Brown, a person knocked on the door. The sound was somewhat muted, perhaps due to a thick door. However, Hu Lei could still hear it.

She did not mind.

”We probably still have a couple of minutes. I will give you a chance to say something. If it pleases me, I might be inclined to not end it all. After all, your death is the only ȧssurance I have of uninterrupted peace.”

She bent over Dr Brown and pulled out the cloth stuffed in her mouth. She realigned her jaw, and it clicked in place. Unfortunately for her, she was too disoriented and weak to scream.

Still, the knocks on the door became more urgent before stopping.

”Please, I have a daughter.” She finally managed to speak out the words with a lot of pain.

Hu Lei's eyes narrowed and her lips pressed together in irritation.

”Please, I am all she has. You cannot let her become an orphan right?” She pleaded.

”What is her name?” Hu Lei asked.

”Yamazaki Akira. She is the most important thing in the world to me.” Dr Brown spoke softly with gasping breaths.

A thump on the door indicated that the soldiers outside were trying to break into the office. The lifeless eyes of Harriet Brown brightened a little with malicious intent.

Hu Lei's lips stretched into a smile. ”You have lost your chance at survival.”

”Why? I am telling the truth.” The woman was in imaginable pain, but she could not allow herself to faint before she saw the little b*tch captured.

”Perhaps what you have said is true. But you have no motherly affection towards this daughter.” Hu Lei smiled, but her eyes were cold. ”If you cared about this child, you would not share information with someone who hates you and just tortured you.”

Dr Brown's heart leapt at the thought. She should have considered what Helen would have done. But she was just grasping at straws.