Chapter 48 (2/2)

“Who’s Xiao Ping?” Xiao Chen couldn’t resist asking out of curiosity.

“He had a nickname in the past, ‘Hardboiled Detective’.” Xiao Chen heard the Mayor say after he sighed.

“What?!” Xiao Chen almost tumbled to the ground.

Anyone who knew that they had just met such a legendary figure would respond in such a manner.

“All right, with this, they shouldn’t be able to catch up to us anymore.” Zhao Lingjun said as he let Meng Xue down from his back. “Why did you ask me to run, and not let me handle the other two forcefully?”

At this time, Zhao Lingjun had already ran along the meandering river for who knows how many miles. Furthermore within Zhao Lingjun and Meng Xue’s sights were a straight road and a bustling district.

But a long time after Zhao Lingjun had spoke, he realized that Meng Xue behind him didn’t utter any sound.

Curious, he turned his head to take a look, and saw Meng Xue with teary eyes.

“What’s wrong with you?” Zhao Lingjun, seeing her in this state, panicked.

“Nothing’s wrong? You just ran too fast and small particles irritated my eyes.” said Meng Xue as she forced a smile. But behind that forced smile was still a profound sorrow.

How much does a bag filled full of gold ornaments and jewelry weigh? Previously, only with the combined strength of Meng Xue and Zhao Lingjun, could they drag that bag on the ground. Only a man with a build like that tall man could carry such a heavy bag.

“But now, Zhao Lingjun was holding that bag in one hand, and was even carrying me, and he still could run for such a distance at breakneck speeds. How much stamina did this consume? Is his body able to bear such a burden?”

Meng Xue thought that the Zhao Lingjun right now was having his life burnt away as they spoke.

The profound sorrow in Meng Xue’s eyes didn’t go unnoticed by Zhao Lingjun. His heart had a short moment of sorrow as well, but he pretended on the surface that he didn’t notice anything. With a feigned relaxed tone and expression, he said, “What do you think about reporting it to the police?”

Actually while running wildly earlier, Zhao Lingjun had already thought of this point. It was only that the tall man had searched for their phones during their walk from the bridge to the house and had smashed them into smithereens.

Now that they could see a bustling street not far away, if they wanted to report it to the police, it wasn’t such a difficult matter anymore.

Zhao Lingjun thought that Meng Xue would agree without the slightest bit of hesitation, because based on their plight and bitter experience, reporting it to the police would be the best option.

But out of his expectations, the teary eyed Meng Xue shook her head.

“Do you know why I didn’t let you to finish the other two men off?” Meng Xue instead asked a question of her own.

“You don’t wish for me to take risks?” Zhao Lingjun looked at her, “Because the thin man’s marksmans.h.i.+p was frighteningly accurate and quick, and furthermore, the short man had a lot of grenades?”

“Yup.” Meng Xue looked at his eyes, and used a voice choked with emotions and emphasized each word, “I don’t wish for you to undertake any more dangerous risks. I only wish to spend time with you.”

Seeing her eyes, Zhao Lingjun immediately understood her intentions.

If you like a person, and also knew that they may not live for much longer, then would you still allow that person to do something risky? Wouldn’t you want to spend every single hour, minute, second with that person during the time they had remaining?

Zhao Lingjun knew that at the start, she was afraid that a mishap may occur during the life and death battle with the other two criminals. Therefore, although Meng Xue really wanted to end their lives, in the end had asked him to flee with her.

But now, he knew that she was afraid that once a report was made, the two would face an unending amount of questions. Perhaps, solely because he ate that pill, many organizations in the field would flock over, turning him into a lab rat and frantically experiment on him. If the research didn’t obtain any results, he didn’t have to think about obtaining his freedom again.

How much time he had left, even he didn’t know. If he were to die in two days, and his corpse dissected in the name of research, then that really would be incomparably miserable. Thinking up to here, Zhao Lingjun trembled all over from fear, the notion of reporting to the police that was spiraling in his head immediately disappeared.

“Then we should go to my dorm room first.” Zhao Lingjun suddenly had a bulb light up in his head, and remembered that Xiao Bai had taken the pill a day earlier. If it was still fine, perhaps the situation wasn’t that terrible.

“Alright.” Meng Xue looked at Zhao Lingjun, with her mind wandering, suddenly her face with tears sliding down couldn’t help but turn red.

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