“I’m not late this time.”

He Jinxing rarely reveals too much of his true emotions in front of outsiders, and even Secretary Liu has a stereotyped impression of him——

Even if the sky falls one day, Mr. He would probably just look up, smile, sigh "Oh", and then let it go.

But at this moment the situation has changed a little.

Through the only two-way glass in the office, Secretary Liu saw the usually calm man behind the desk finally change his expression after answering a phone call.

Between rage and stiffness, he immediately made a gesture to smash the phone, but before the phone flew out, he stopped himself and walked out in a hurry.

Outside the office, most of the company's employees were still there, because the typhoon landed very suddenly. When they, like the people in Zhaipu District, thought that it was just heavy rain and slightly stronger winds that would pass, it was too late to relocate.

They stood by the glass window, looking out at the dark clouds, so thick that the sky was invisible.

The big trees on the street that were so thick that two people could hug them were uprooted;

The office building next door sways in the wind;

There were no pedestrians on the road. Cars that tried to leave had to pull over to the side of the road blocked by buildings because of the heavy wind and rain, low visibility, and the possibility of being overturned by the wind.

“Like the end of the world.”

Someone in the crowd said something, and everyone was terrified...

Then the office door behind them was kicked open at this time, and the sudden loud noise almost made everyone jump up again.

They all turned around and saw their boss tug at the tie around his neck. The smile on his usually gentle face disappeared, and he announced expressionlessly, "Pull your brains together and find a car that can withstand such a strong wind. I'm going to pick someone up in the shantytown at Jinshan Wharf."

A “…” symbol appeared above everyone’s head.

Going out at this time? They thought Mr. He might be crazy.

Secretary Liu was more sincere and he realized at the first moment that He Jinxing was neither being willful nor joking.

Others didn't know what He Jinxing was going to do in that place at this time, but he knew it clearly -

According to Miss Gou's recent work content, she is probably in the most dangerous coastal area now; and as the developer of Jinshan Wharf, He Jinxing has held countless meetings with relevant staff of the Zhaipu District Fire Brigade... So in the whole Jiangcheng, no one knows better than him how poor the disaster resistance of the shantytown area is, which the fire brigade would subconsciously sigh and shake their heads when mentioning.

"Mr. He..."

Secretary Liu showed an uncontrollable worry on his face. If this were in ancient times, he should be the one leading all the ministers, kneeling first and shouting "Your Majesty, please think twice."

But He Jinxing gave him a look that saved him from further nonsense.

He clearly conveyed the expression "If it's not a suggestion, don't waste my time."

His Adam's apple rolled with difficulty, and under the gazes of this group of people who were looking at him as if he were a madman, He Jinxing himself was surprised at his own decision, which was so firm that it would not waver in the slightest.

"Gou An is there. The signal tower has been uprooted. The signal is cut off. I can't contact her." He Jinxing said, "I have to go pick her up."

There was silence in the office for a long time.

In front of nature, humans always seem very small. Those who often walk in front of He Jinxing have never heard their boss' tone full of powerlessness and despair.

Now, they heard it.

Just as he said the words "The signal is interrupted and I can't get in touch with you".

Is this dangerous? Any normal car could be overturned by the strong wind.

The rain is too heavy, and many roads must be flooded. Traffic must be a mess now. It would be life-threatening to go out rashly.

Don't go.

Really don’t go.

Forget it, what if! All the words of dissuasion were blocked in the throats of He's employees, but they couldn't say anything -

When the boss gave Miss Gou special privileges and allowed her to come and go freely at He's, they joked in the employee group and said: The boss has shown some worldly feelings this time, which is really rare.

Now it seems that it is more than just worldly desire.

Probably the first second the phone was hung up, he decided to hang his life on his belt and tie it to Gou An's.

——After the return of He Jinxing of Jiangcheng He's, he seemed to have completely calmed down from his past reckless behavior. He never engaged in any gambling or leverage behavior that would allow the company to fall into any crisis.

But now he has broken this rule, and this time the stakes are his life.

“A fire truck might be able to do that.”

In the silence of everyone, a girl from the secretariat gave her opinion. She had a good relationship with Gou An. Every time Gou An came to He's, she would take out chocolate powder from her drawer and make it for her to drink...

She was also surprised to hear that Gou An was in Zhaipu District.

After hearing her answer, everyone thought it was feasible. There would never be a special vehicle more sturdy than a fire truck.

Unless we get a tank from somewhere.

He Jinxing waved his hands, his expression still looking ugly.

He Jinxing had been to the shantytown too many times and knew it very well. The alleys were so narrow that fire trucks could not even get in.

The howling wind outside the window never stopped, and the power supply to the surrounding buildings was cut off one after another. The power supply to the He's Building was also completely cut off after a while.

After a short-circuit sound, the backup power supply turned on.

Standing in the dim light that was several degrees darker than a second ago, someone took out his cell phone and took a look: "Just received a text message, the power supply bureau notified that the whole city has a power outage."

Thinking of the "signal interruption" problem that He Jinxing had just mentioned, people suddenly became panicked, dispersed, and took out their mobile phones to call their families.

He Jinxing and Secretary Liu looked at each other. The head of the He family curled his lips at his secretary and said, "Don't you have any phone calls to make? You may not be able to get through in a while."

Secretary Liu was silent for a while in a relaxed and teasing tone. The person in front of him clearly knew that his parents and family were all in other provinces, and he would not know the situation in Jiangcheng immediately. There was no urgent reason for him to call -

Secretary Liu closed his eyes and heard his voice become terribly dry: "If you want to hear it, my opinion is, don't go."

He Jinxing chuckled.

"I never really want to listen to Secretary Liu's opinions."

The man said, "I have to go."

He Jinxing has a scale in his heart.

For a long time, this scale has been extremely unbalanced. The other side of the scale is empty, and what is firmly pressed on this side is everything about him: power, ambition, pursuit, selfishness, and desire for control...

All of this has created a complete, polite and gentle He Jinxing, but in fact he does not allow anyone to get close to him or cross a certain red line.

He himself was far away from this line, noble and high above, sitting on his own throne, looking down on all living beings.

Until one day he was pulled down from the throne, and a person appeared at the other end of the line, waved at him, and with a word and a smile, led him across the dangerous red line that he thought he would never cross.

By the time he had time to react, the scale had already tilted towards the balance that mortals should have.

He once felt something was wrong and wanted to stop immediately. In front of the lounge door of the Coming of Age Ceremony, he tried to straighten the scales back to their original state...

Just like the most experienced sailor, he threw down an anchor in the vast ocean, not knowing whether it could touch the bottom and remain stable.

If he let his intuition tell him, he might face storms and waves that he had never experienced before.

But that didn't seem to help.

When he sighed, closed his eyes and let everything grow wildly like weeds, he probably knew that it would become the situation today sooner or later...

He took the initiative to give up control and personally kicked over the throne that was engraved with the symbol of the highest authority of selfishness.

——So, you must go.

In his eyes, the most important thing is no longer anything about himself.

Because, at some point in time, one end of the scale had already lost balance.

The scale has already tilted towards her.

Jaipur District.

As a complex built on the coastline, everything here progresses faster than in the city.

The power went out, the connection was disconnected, trees were blown up, and then houses were damaged and the sound of broken glass could be heard one after another.

If he was still afraid the moment before, the scene that appeared in the next second made Gou An realize as never before that his life might be threatened -

As she and Zhou Yutong stood behind the tightly closed metal door and stared at each other, a middle-aged woman with blood all over her hands and face rushed down from a certain floor! The woman shouted "I want to go to the hospital, I'm bleeding", and the bright red blood dripped all over the floor along the stairs she ran past. Zhou Yutong was frightened and screamed! The door was locked, and the woman pushed it twice but couldn't move it, so she used her body to hit it. The rusty iron door looked like it could be kicked open on weekdays, but at this moment it was unexpectedly strong...

I don’t know if it was an illusion, but mixed in with the madness was the earth-shattering cry of a child, and the smell of incense wafting from the corridor—

Another gust of wind blew, and the roof of a building was blown off. Bricks fell right in front of the door of their building, hitting the door from the outside with a loud noise! ​​Everything seemed like a sign of the coming of death.

The flying brick frightened the middle-aged woman. She took a big step back, holding her bleeding hand. She knew she couldn't get out, and if she went out she would probably die. She cried in despair.

"I saw the glass window was dented by the wind, and I was so scared! I've never seen anything like this before! I don't know what I was thinking, so I reached out and pushed it!" She said intermittently, "I didn't expect the glass to break as soon as I touched it, and my husband wasn't at home--"

Her face was too pale, and it was unclear whether it was due to excessive blood loss or fear.

Gou An's throat tightened, and she couldn't say a word of comfort. She was just thankful that when the glass at home had the same problem just now, she was quick to pull Zhou Yutong away.

At this time, the neighbor on the second floor probably heard the voices in the corridor and stretched his head out. It was an elderly grandfather, who called out "Aqin Sao" and waved to the middle-aged woman.

"Don't walk around at this time, it's even more dangerous! What... your window is broken? Then come to my house, I have some gauze here, you can bandage it first, and don't go out, this wind can blow you out!"

Grandpa didn’t know Gou An and Zhou Yutong, but he asked them, “Are your windows broken too? Do you want to come in?”

Gou An shook his head. The old man was not someone who liked to meddle in other people’s affairs. He reminded the middle-aged woman a few times, “Really, don’t do anything,” and then took the middle-aged woman away.

After a few seconds of silence in the corridor——

At this moment, there was a loud noise from outside the iron gate! Gou An was so scared that his soul flew away. He looked up and found a person standing outside the door of the apartment building!

It was so windy outside that he didn't know how he got here. His black raincoat was blown away, exposing his entire lower body to the rainstorm. His dark jeans were soaked, but he didn't care at all.

As if sensing Gou An's gaze, the person outside the door raised his head.

The strong wind blew open the hood of his raincoat, revealing the long, slightly wet hair underneath. At this moment, the black hair stuck to the man's overly fair and delicate face. Even at this moment, his eyebrows and eyes were still cold.

"It's Mr. Bodyguard! Aaaah! How could he!?"

As Zhou Yutong grabbed Gou An and screamed, the person outside the door's black and white eyes stared at Gou An behind the iron gate for a second.

Ye Lang withdrew his gaze expressionlessly, and with his pale, slender hand, he firmly grasped the railing on the iron gate to steady himself.

His cuffs were blown away, revealing a pair of scarred hands underneath his sleeves. He must have been in the same situation just now, braving the strong wind that could easily blow a person away in the alley, constantly relying on grabbing some temporarily solid protrusion on the building, and moving towards them little by little.

At this time, his other hand raised high an iron rod that he got from somewhere, and smashed the locked door lock with force!

“Bang!”

Amid the loud noise of metal collision, the vibration from the palm of his hand and the icy rain made him frown. The rain that flew in from the eaves of the apartment building hit his face and dripped down along his strong jawline.

The "clang clang" sound of iron hitting became the only sound. At this moment, the raincoat of the person standing outside the iron gate became almost a decoration, and he was wet from head to toe.

In the distance, a white wall brick was flying over!

"Yelang! Behind!"

Gou An's pupils shrank as he shouted his name -

The man seemed to have eyes on the back of his head and dodged at the last second. He just glanced at the shattered bricks two centimeters away from his head, then moved his eyes away calmly and continued to break the lock.

You never know when the next brick will fly over, or it may be something even bigger and impossible to avoid.

Gou An had no interest in watching someone get hit on the head by a flying object like in a season of Final Destination, not to mention that this person was trying to save her...

Even if she survived, it would be a lifelong trauma for her.

"You should leave quickly!" Gou An came to the door, "Or Zhou Yutong and I should go back to the house first——"

The wind and rain were so loud outside that she had to shout loudly through the door.

The person outside the door just raised his eyelids and glanced at her: "This is the outermost layer. It can't hold up and will collapse."

He said simply, "Locking the door means you want to kill everyone in this building."

As for whose life was wanted, Ye Lang was too lazy to explain. This building was full of people from the lower class who had been abandoned by this city and even this era...

Apart from the two people standing here and talking to him through the door, what other "ant" whose life would disappear inexplicably and not be noticed is worth all the trouble? Even someone like Ye Lang who walks in dark alleys for many years can't help but feel that it is extremely ironic -

These were neighbors he lived with day and night, and even he couldn't cut off their livelihoods at the critical moment.

My eyes, which are always calm, still cannot remain indifferent, just like watching the once flourishing gardenia wither and rot right before my eyes one day...

Even if you are not a flower grower.

But he was also a passerby who saw the flowers almost bloom wildly.

Just like this typhoon, fate plays tricks on us.

The slight anger and sarcasm in his heart made the veins on his hand holding the iron rod bulge. After another heavy hit, the locked door lock suddenly showed signs of loosening! Ye Lang let out a long sigh, threw the iron rod, still holding the railing of the iron gate with one hand, and moved his body to the side: "Kick."

Gou An didn't want to waste time talking, so he took two steps back and kicked the iron door with all his might! "Bang-bang!"

Two earth-shattering noises were heard, mixed with the groaning of the iron gate unable to bear the weight, and the iron gate that had been blocking the way was kicked open!

Following the force of the wind outside, the iron door was suddenly pulled open with great force. Gou An was caught off guard and failed to control the force, and fell out! The strong wind outside swept in wantonly, and she only felt a strong wind sweeping her outward uncontrollably. She felt her feet lighten -

At this moment, five cold and powerful fingers grabbed her wrist tightly from the side.

Amidst the heavy rain and strong wind, a more determined force pulled her to the side, and she crashed into the arms of someone at the door who was already prepared and held her in place with one hand!

The smell of rust and bloody wounds immediately penetrated my nostrils.

The huge impact of the two people's collision only made Ye Lang frown silently. The next second, in such a noisy environment, he seemed to be able to hear his own heartbeat beating steadily, as if a spark was rekindled -

He lowered his head and looked at the person in his arms who was equally disheveled by the wind. He stretched out his hand, which was covered with rust and wounds and was a little dirty at the moment, and brushed away the messy hair in front of her eyes that was blown by the wind.

“I’m not late this time.”

(End of this chapter)