Chapter 1234 — Once You're Here, Don't Leave
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"It's me. Xiaoxiao's boyfriend." Wei Zhao regarded the man with perfect calm as he answered. Since he had been spotted, he saw no point in putting on an act any longer and simply spoke the truth. He had no wish to enrage the thing before him and drive it to swallow poison.
"Mm -- mm --" The moment Feng Xiaoxiao saw Wei Zhao come in, she grew wildly excited, thrashing and gesticulating, trying to say something. But her hands and feet were bound, so all her flailing amounted to twisting back and forth across the sofa. With her mouth gagged besides, she could do no more than whimper and cry out incoherently.
The man listened to Wei Zhao's self-introduction with some puzzlement. The one who had come up was neither a policeman nor a man of the Mysterious Investigation Bureau, yet he was Feng Xiaoxiao's boyfriend? And from how agitated and tense the girl was, the two of them certainly did know each other.
"Stay where you are. Don't come any closer, and don't try any tricks on me. I warn you, don't think of using a tranquilizer gun either -- the pulse of a man knocked unconscious differs from that of a waking man. Once my heartbeat slows past a certain point, the explosives will detonate!" The man shot Wei Zhao a glance and delivered the warning.
His words were no empty bluster meant to frighten Wei Zhao; they were simply the truth. This, too, was a safeguard against anyone trying to bring him down with a tranquilizer dart. A man in drugged slumber has a slackened pulse, and the detonator for the explosives would trigger in response.
"Rest assured, I won't make a move." Wei Zhao's face was drawn with anxiety. "I only fear for my girlfriend's safety. I don't want anything to happen to her -- and if something did, I wouldn't go on living either. So when I came up, I came ready to die beside her. You needn't worry about anything: I'm not carrying a gun. I'm not a policeman."
"I dare say most of what you've told me is true. But I'm sorry -- I still can't trust you." The man spoke evenly. "As it happens, there's no word from Feng Tianlong's side yet, and I'm growing rather bored. Since you've delivered yourself to my door, why don't we play a game? Heh heh!"
So saying, the man snatched the towel from Feng Xiaoxiao's mouth.
Her mouth had been stuffed for so long that she was half suffocated. The instant the towel came out, she sucked in great ragged lungfuls of air, then cried out in a rush: "Hubby Wei Zhao, what are you doing here? He means to blow me up -- if you came up, you'll be blown to pieces too! Go, this is none of your business, don't come sticking your nose in!"
Seeing Wei Zhao come up, Feng Xiaoxiao was moved and furious at once. She was moved because he had been so good to her, refusing to abandon her even in this perilous moment, walking into the jaws of death of his own accord. But the same Wei Zhao had other girlfriends besides her -- Tang Zhi among them. If he died with her, what was to become of Tang Zhi?
And there were Gu Mengyao and Shen Yushu as well. Feng Xiaoxiao could see that while she could not be sure whether Gu Mengyao held any feelings for Wei Zhao, Shen Yushu certainly did. With so many girls' love weighing on his shoulders, if he died, those young women would hate her, Feng Xiaoxiao, to the end of their days.
"He's not going anywhere! Once you've come up, you don't leave!" The man laughed a cold laugh. "Did you take this for some place where you come and go as you please?"
"Even if I walked out this very moment, I don't believe you'd dare to set off the bomb and kill yourself." Wei Zhao tested him coolly. "Right now Uncle Feng is negotiating with the higher-ups to have your second-in-command released. Set off the charge, and your second-in-command won't be freed either."