Chapter 459 - Chapter 459: Chapter 287: Come with Me (2/2)

Everyone present stiffened.

Yu Qin held her breath and listened intently; from outside the staircase, a faint whirring of sirens could be heard.

The sound of the sirens was very untimely.

This meant that the police had arrived.

“I hear it!” the aide murmured in a deep voice, his complexion complex.

“Boss, are they coming for us?” someone among the thirteen asked.

This question echoed the sentiment of most present.

These people, desperate fugitives, feared being captured!

No criminal wanted to hear the siren’s call.

It was as if the Grim Reaper had raised its scythe overhead, poised to pass judgement on their sins.

The sound grew louder and clearer.

Those in the stairwell could now hear it distinctly.

The battle was imminent.

The aide hurriedly tried to maintain order, “What nonsense! Our operation is meticulous; there’s no chance of a leak. The sirens are probably just the police passing by on another task. Don’t panic!”

Yu Qin scanned the silent group and nodded, “It’s probably just a coincidence. Don’t worry.”

But then.

A voice from the loudspeaker in the stairwell boomed, “To the people in the stairwell, you are surrounded. Drop your weapons and surrender immediately!”

Yu Qin’s brows furrowed, her face drained of color in an instant.

The aide’s legs weakened, he clutched at the dusty handrail as if grasping a lifeline, and looked to Yu Qin in panic, “Boss, they’re coming for us! We’ve been discovered!”

The others went pale; the once well-organized group descended into chaos in an instant.

The loudspeaker continued to blare.

First, it called out in Chinese, and, worried that Yu Qin and her companions might not understand, Shen Qianqian considerately played the broadcast in English and Malay as well.

“The police are here! They’ve surrounded the building! What do we do?”

One of the operatives moved up a few steps and peeked out the window, casting just a glance outside, which was enough to feel like they’d just brushed past death’s door.

Downstairs, a long line of police tape stretched out, sirens blared, and the lights from the alarms were so dazzling even in daylight. Innumerable detective and SWAT teams, armed and ready, were making their advance—no fly could get in, much less get out.

What terrified him the most was the red dot that seemed to land on his head the moment he peeked outside.

A red dot from a sniper’s aim!

He immediately retracted his head and dared not look outside again.

“Disperse to different floors!”

Yu Qin, worthy of being the leader, didn’t panic in the face of an emergency and immediately ordered them to scatter. The more they dispersed, the better their chances of escape.

However, Lin Chuan had already anticipated her strategy.

The staircase exits from the first to the sixteenth floors were locked tight and couldn’t be opened quickly, nullifying the plan to disperse to different floors right where it was hatched.