Chapter 328 An Advanced Escape Method (1/2)

The gun was a petite and exquisite Magnum pistol with a silencer installed. The hand belonged to a woman. The wrist was delicate and the skin was radiant and firm.

But Ning Tao had no intention to dote on and spare the lady.

A flash went by.

Whoosh!

Before that woman could aim at Ning Tao, a scalpel was stabbed right into her wrist. With the nerves damaged, an intense pain took over; her right hand was no longer in control of that small revolver. It fell as she lost grip of it.

Ning Tao reached out and seized the small weapon. In the next second, the pistol was pressed against that woman’s chest.

The woman was none other than the person named Audrey, who had volunteered to give him a tour. However, it was unknown whether it was a real name or not.

Audrey’s face was completely pale. Her blue eyes were filled with fear. She had thought that Ning Tao would climb out of the window, and she could have subdued him then. Yet, little did she expect that, in that very next instant, she would end up being the one subdued. The scalpel was pierced through her wrist; blood oozed out. The intense pain forced her to scream, but she did not dare to. Judging by Ning Tao’s emotionless gaze, she was sure that Ning Tao would pull the trigger and kill her with a single bullet through her chest, once she made any kind of noise!

“Why are you here, my tour guide lady?” Ning Tao’s voice was very cold.

Audrey gripped tightly onto her right wrist, attempting to minimize the blood loss. “I guessed that you would come, so I’ve been waiting for you here.”

“Who exactly are you?”

Audrey’s lips moved, but no words came out.

“Do you belong to the same company as those five?” Ning Tao asked once again.

Audrey’s lips were shut tight.

Ning Tao’s voice grew colder. He then pressed the silenced revolver against her chest. “I don’t have much patience. Let me ask you one last time. If you still choose to stay silent, I’ll kill you.”

Audrey’s lips twitched, but she still did not speak.

Ning Tao said, “You all are people of the Black Fire Company, right? Apart from you and those five, how many more of you are here in Florence? Is Nicholas Conway aware of your operation? I’m only giving you three seconds to answer.”

One second had passed.

Two.

Three…

Ning Tao’s right index finger started pulling the trigger.

Audrey suddenly spoke, “If you kill me, none of your four friends will survive.”

Ning Tao’s finger stopped.

He didn’t have any friends in Florence, but he knew who she was referring to. Those four she was referring to were Shalim Talman, Harley Poche and those two commando bodyguards.

Shalim Talman’s greeting had brought trouble to herself in that church. He made her go back to the hotel, but she had refused to listen to him. At the moment, it seemed that Shalim Talman, Harley Poche and those two bodyguards had fallen into the hands of the enemy.

“Give me the things, and you and your friends can leave Florence alive.” Audrey saw Ning Tao’s moment of hesitation, and continued pressuring him.

Ning Tao suddenly shifted the aim downwards and pulled on the trigger. A bullet was shot into Audrey’s abdomen.

Audrey whimpered and collapsed on the huge round roof. Her body was slipping downwards. She ignored the pain, and used her remaining strength in her left and right sides, to press against the windowsill, to prevent herself from slipping further.

Ning Tao emerged from the window, kneeling on the windowsill as he watched Audrey who was struggling to climb upwards. He said calmly, “Do you think you could threaten me with those people? What I have the most is people threatening me. I had already given you three seconds, and they are long gone. Let me ask you one last time, do you want to live or do you want to remain silent?”

The Magnum pistol was pointed at Audrey’s head, slowly sliding downwards, brushing across the back of her head and then her pale white neck; lastly, stopping on her nape.

Audrey was desperately grabbing onto the edges of the windowsill, preventing herself from slipping down, while having to endure the powerless feeling caused by the intense pain and blood loss from the knife and gun wounds. She also had to resist against the fear asserted by Ning Tao. She could no longer bear with it, and pleaded, “Pull… me up, I… can’t hold on much longer.”

Ning Tao said coldly, “Isn’t it a good thing to fall off? You can end your misery that way. I’ve been wondering, would your head explode like a watermelon after falling from such a high place?”

“We’re from the Black Fire Company…” Before she could complete the sentence, Audrey’s left hand could no longer hold onto the windowsill; her body slid down along the tiles.

Ning Tao reached out to grab Audrey’s hand, pulling her upwards, then placing her on the relatively more spacious windowsill.

Audrey was panting heavily; her chest was rising and falling intensely.

Ning Tao inserted a shred of spiritual power into her body, helping her to stabilize her heart rate. “Keep talking.”

“The Black Fire Company has many divisions in many countries all over the globe. I… am only a member of the Italy division… I’m not sure too sure whether Nicholas Conway is here. I only received an order to carry out the operation…”

“What kind of order? I want to know the details.”

“To tail you, then get rid of you once you found that piece of skull fragment.”

“Did the Black Fire Company headquarters send anyone here?”

“They already arrived an hour ago,” Audrey said.