Chapter 521 - Duel (Part 2) (2/2)

“How can we look alike if we’re not twins?” Gu Nianzhi said cheekily and showed the director her new Identification doc.u.ments from the Barbados government. “Look, this is my proof of ident.i.ty. The government stamp is right here. You can check with the relevant department if you’re still not convinced.”

“But our landlines and networks are down, so we’re unable to contact anyone at the moment.” The director was still trying to hinder them. “Why don’t you just wait for a while longer?”

Gu Nianzhi’s expression darkened, and she spoke in fluent English with a British accent. She looked firm and haughty and felt exactly like an unreasonable princess from a wealthy family as she said, “That’s your problem. I’ve provided you with the necessary doc.u.ments to discharge a patient. I’m not obliged to fulfill your every request at the last minute.”

The director was used to outmaneuvering people who tried to reason with him, but when faced with unreasonable people, he was at a loss for words. That was because the wealthy people he served from Barbados were all haughty and unreasonable like her. Now, he truly believed that Gu Nianzhi was the youngest daughter from the Gu family…

Yin s.h.i.+xiong appeared with four or four strong and buff-looking men, and they lifted Gu Xiangwen onto a stretcher. This was a stretcher that had been prepared by Chen Lie. It had been s.h.i.+pped over upon urgent request from Europe. There was everything a person in his vegetative state would need. Gu Xiangwen was merely being transferred from one bed to another, without any changes in medications.

“Go.” Huo Shaoheng waved and shot Yin s.h.i.+xiong a stare.

Yin s.h.i.+xiong nodded and brought his people out with Gu Xiangwen.

The moment they arrived in the corridor, there were two identical stretchers. Each of them contained a human in a “vegetative state.” These were decoys they had prepared. The objective was to not let people know exactly where they had gone.

However, they had underestimated the abilities of their opponent. Or, rather, they hadn’t known who their opponent was, exactly, or where they were…

The three stretchers did not even make it to the lift entrance before a huge explosive sound resounded through the building.

“Down!” Huo Shaoheng commanded. It felt like the explosion was directly below them. He hugged Gu Nianzhi immediately and rolled forward toward a pillar beside the door.

Boom! Boom! Boom!

The explosions were heard continuously from outside the building.

The entire building was filled with smoke. A bomb had exploded within the building. They could see the mountains and forests behind the hospital through the front of the building!

Yin s.h.i.+xiong protected his men and Gu Xiangwen, and he pushed him back into the ward. Sticking his head out of the window for a peek, he saw a couple of masked men in black outside, carrying flamethrowers, shooting flames and moving toward the hospital building.

“Mr. Huo! Take them away! I’ll cover you guys!” Yin s.h.i.+xiong grabbed his sniper rifle from the stretcher, placed it in the window, and began taking aim.

Bang!

A bullet spun its way toward the masked men and shot the one who was in front—a headshot.

Huo Shaoheng jumped up from the ground and took out another sniper rifle from the stretcher. He didn’t even take aim but just fired at the flamethrower of the man who had been shot by Yin s.h.i.+xiong.

Boom!

The flamethrower that the man was carrying had two tanks in total. One was pure oxygen, and the other was petrol. One bullet was all it took to blow up the entire tank of oxygen, along with the petrol. The fire that ignited from the shot was enough to turn the man carrying it into ashes within a minute.

Normally, anyone who saw this would be so afraid that they’d flee in horror. However, the remaining masked men were clearly not normal people. Not only did they not back down, but they even began aiming in the direction the bullets had come from!

The flames looked like devils from h.e.l.l, shooting directly at the windows on level three!

Huo Shaoheng and Yin s.h.i.+xiong quickly ducked to avoid the fire. The flames flashed past them and disappeared within seconds. What was left was thick smoke.

Gu Nianzhi was crouching at the pillar beside the door of the ward where Huo Shaoheng had left her. She observed the situation in shock and felt herself beginning to panic. She almost screamed out loud when she saw the flames coming toward Huo Shaoheng and Yin s.h.i.+xiong, so she quickly stuffed her fist into her mouth. She didn’t want to be a burden to them.

“Call the police! Quick! Call the police!”

“Our landlines are cut off!”

“Run! Run! These thieves don’t care about their lives anymore!”

The director of the hospital, Gu Xiangwen’s caretaker, and the hospital workers ran around randomly, panicking.

Huo Shaoheng couldn’t stand to look at them anymore and told Yin s.h.i.+xiong, “Escort them out through the back door. I’ll distract their fire here.”

“No! I’ll cover you guys. You bring them out, Mr. Huo!” Yin s.h.i.+xiong rejected. He couldn’t allow Huo Shaoheng to be in such danger again.

“This is a command.” Huo Shaoheng did not continue and sat up from the ground. He loaded his sniper rifle swiftly in one motion. “Your aim isn’t as accurate as mine. I can get out of this, but you can’t. Go!”

It really wasn’t the time to be indecisive or to give in to one another. Since his first reb.u.t.tal had failed, Yin s.h.i.+xiong did not insist. He knew that his aiming wasn’t as accurate as Huo Shaoheng, but he didn’t feel that Huo Shaoheng could get out of this, anyway. However, there were still Gu Xiangwen and Gu Nianzhi to think of—two people who needed him to escort them to safety. So he resolved to send them first before returning to help Huo Shaoheng.

“Then please be careful, Mr. Huo,” he said. “I’ll escort them out first.” Yin s.h.i.+xiong left his sniper rifle with Huo Shaoheng and took out two semiautomatic shotguns from the stretcher. He carried Gu Xiangwen on his shoulder and tied him to his body. Then he shoved a shotgun at Gu Nianzhi and commanded, “Take this and follow me! Cover my back—if you see anyone running toward you, shoot without mercy!”