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While enjoying a full-body massage, Master Huo received a phone call from an unknown number.
This is his private number; no one outside of his close family knows it.
Without thinking twice, he answered the call.
"Hello?"
"Hello, Second Grandpa!"
When Huo Tingzhen spoke, Second Master Huo was stunned for a moment, "Tingzhen?"
"It's me."
Where are you?
"you guess?"
Master Huo narrowed his eyes but did not reply.
At this moment, the bodyguard outside opened the door and came in. He bowed and said in a low voice, "Second Master, Huo Tingzhen was spotted in the elevator surveillance footage two minutes ago. Judging from the direction she disappeared in, she came from this direction."
When Master Huo heard that Huo Tingzhen had arrived, he found it amusing, as this place was filled with his people.
Huo Tingzhen actually dared to barge in himself.
“I heard that an hour ago, you and your companion went to the police station to report that you were being chased by your own family? As a result, you were treated as a mental patient and almost sent to a mental hospital.”
Upon hearing this, Huo Tingzhen remained silent.
"I was just waiting for you to walk right into my trap! Unfortunately, you managed to escape halfway there."
Huo Tingzhen remained silent.
"You came to find me so I could escort you inside? Hahaha..."
The once authoritative voice had become kind, but the content of the words was far from friendly.
Listening to his laughter, Jian Yu felt that this person was like a venomous snake, with its head held high and fangs bared, ready to bite at any moment.
After hanging up the phone happily, Second Master Huo looked at his bodyguard and said, "Bring her over here."
The bodyguard immediately bent down and went out, selecting seven or eight people to follow him, and together they went to arrest the person.
Second Master Huo glanced at his assistant, "Is Fourth Brother still downstairs?"
"Here I am."
"Let him come up."
"Yes." The assistant immediately called Huo Si'an, but found that Huo Si'an's phone could not be reached.
I called Huo Si'an's bodyguard, but he hesitated and stammered.
The assistant immediately understood, "When Fourth Master is finished with his work, have him come up here."
Master Huo had already heard the contents of the phone call. After his assistant hung up, he waved his hand, indicating that his assistant didn't need to say anything more.
The assistant stood at the door, waiting for the bodyguard to bring Huo Tingzhen up.
The bodyguard, holding a phone in one hand, asked as he walked, "Have you spotted her?"
"She turned left after getting out of elevator A1, and she's still on the 11th floor."
The nearest elevator to the left of A1 is B2. The bodyguard immediately led his men into the B2 elevator car, preparing to go downstairs to stop the person.
The elevator had just descended one floor when it suddenly shook violently, and then everything went dark.
The bodyguard shone his phone's built-in flashlight over the area and discovered that the motherboard was black.
Pressing the call button has no effect.
I tried to make a call, but there was no signal.
They dared not bang on the door too hard, lest they cause more serious damage.
They can only wait until the people in the monitoring room notice something is wrong and send someone to repair it before they can be rescued.
Several minutes passed, and the elevator still hadn't opened.
The people inside grew increasingly anxious, and one of them couldn't help but frantically press the call button, hoping the monitoring room could see them.
The monitoring room and the elevator were empty.
The staff member on duty took a sip of water and then looked away, focusing on the newly arrived cleaner.
This cleaning lady is very tall and well-proportioned. Even in the oversized cleaning uniform, she still exudes a striking presence.
The staff member on duty sighed, "What a pity!"
Turn to the next screen.
A tall cleaning lady pushed her cleaning cart, her body hunched over, as she stepped out of the elevator. The bodyguard frowned when he saw her. "Why did you come up here?"
The cleaning lady lowered her head, her bangs covering her face. "The team leader sent me up here. He said Second Master's room needs cleaning."
"No need, you can go back first and come back later."
The colleague who went to find Huo Tingzhen hadn't returned yet, and the bodyguards weren't planning to let anyone in.
Footsteps sounded behind them, and the cleaning staff immediately pushed aside their cleaning cart to make way, while also shrinking into themselves against the wall to minimize their presence.
Several more bodyguards rushed out, but this man stopped them and asked what was going on.
"What happened?"
“Those idiots went up to the fifth floor, while Huo Tingzhen has already gone up to the 16th floor.”
The lead bodyguard also notified Huo Si'an's men, "You're closer, go to the 16th floor and stop her."
Huo Si'an left only one doorman behind; the rest of his men went to the 16th floor to block people.
The bodyguards hurriedly squeezed into elevator A1. When the number on the screen changed from the top floor to 16, they lifted one foot to rush out, but the door didn't open for several seconds.
Realizing something was wrong, the leader pressed the door open button.
As soon as the button was pressed, the elevator doors didn't open, and the entire screen went black.
The bodyguards wouldn't let her in, so the cleaning lady had no choice but to push her cleaning cart downstairs.
The bodyguard looked away when he saw her pressing the elevator button.
While waiting for the elevator, Huo Tingzhen observed the position of the bodyguards. There were fewer than ten of them. Could Jian Yu still get rid of them?
Why doesn't she try to see if she can take him down?
Just then, Jian Yu's voice came through the door, "There's only one bodyguard at Huo Si'an's door right now. I just got him to the first floor. If that doesn't work, bring him out."
If I can't take Master Huo, I can take Huo Si'an instead.
They desperately need a hostage, it doesn't matter who it is.
On the same floor, in another direction, a chubby, dark-skinned cleaner pushed a cleaning cart out of a VIP room.
In less than a minute, thick smoke filled the room, and the indoor smoke alarm went off. In less than half a minute, the fire alarms for the entire floor went off.
The next second, many people wearing bathrobes ran out of the room.
The bodyguards in the corridor immediately went on high alert to prevent anyone from taking advantage of the chaos to break into Master Huo's room.
Upon hearing the alarm, Jian Yu couldn't help but curse his bad luck under his breath.
When the fire alarm goes off, the remaining bodyguards will definitely escort Master Huo to a new location.
They might even take Huo Si'an away, so Huo Tingzhen has to get him out before that happens.
He continued to instruct Huo Tingzhen, "Go down the C2 elevator quickly."
Huo Tingzhen pushed the cart and quickly walked towards the C2 elevator.
Jian Yu's eyes darted across the grid of screens, observing the movements, especially the floors where Master Huo and Huo Si'an were located.
Inside Huo Si'an's floor, just after the bodyguard left, a waiter went in with two glasses of red wine, and came out with empty glasses just half a minute later.
Jian Yu narrowed his eyes, sensing that something was amiss.
Other waiters would bring in one or more bottles of red wine, along with wine glasses, and then bring them out on an empty tray.
Why would she only bring out an empty cup?
Jian Yu dared not let Huo Tingzhen take any risks, so she quickly checked her employee information.
After reviewing the document, Huo Tingzhen was immediately notified to withdraw.
"What's wrong?" Huo Tingzhen asked softly, without moving her mouth.
“There was a waitress on the 18th floor who was acting strangely. I had just sent the last bodyguard away when she came into Huo Si’an’s room with two glasses of wine and came out in just half a minute, carrying two empty red wine glasses.”
"You mean there's something wrong with the wine?"
“She seemed off. I just checked her information; she and the cleaning lady who just sabotaged the fire safety system on the roof are mother and daughter. Her father was also an employee of the Huo Group and died in an accident at work a year ago. Her mother’s name is also on the Huo Group’s employee family allowance program.”
Jian Yu added, "His father's body was never found after he passed away."
It is very likely that it became food.
Huo Tingzhen also thought of this, "What about the surveillance cameras on the 18th floor?"
"Someone turned it off for her."
Huo Tingzhen cursed inwardly. Did this mean she was going to take the blame?
"Get down from elevator C2 quickly."
The Huo brothers' bodyguards were trapped in elevator A1A2b2, while C2 was left by Jian Yu for Huo Tingzhen.
The four elevator screens were all dark. When others saw this, they either went down in another elevator or took the stairs.
Huo Tingzhen successfully entered C2. Some people saw her go in and wanted to follow her.
Before she could even get close, the elevator doors closed rapidly, not opening again until the staff area on the basement level.
A 50-year-old cleaning lady was counting money in a toilet stall when she heard the agreed-upon three knocks and immediately opened the door.
Huo Tingzhen took off his clothes and handed them back to her, saying, "Put them on quickly and see me out."
The cleaning lady took the clothes but didn't change them. Instead, she grabbed Huo Tingzhen's hand and said, "You said you'd give me two thousand for wearing them for a while, and when I see you out, you'd give me another ten thousand. Is that still true?"
Before she could finish speaking, Huo Tingzhen had already stuffed the money into her hand. "Here you go. Send me away now."
The chubby cleaner stuffed the money into his pocket, quickly put on his work clothes, took the cleaning cart, opened the trash can lid, and said, "Come in quickly."
After the smoke alarm went off, water started spraying automatically from the rooftop.
In no time, the ground was very wet.
Splashed with water, Second Master Huo finally got up and started walking outside.
Just as they were about to reach the elevator, someone connected the fire hose, and several streams of water shot straight at Master Huo and his group.
"careful---"
The assistant screamed as she watched the chubby cleaning lady lunge at Master Huo, only to be pushed by the bodyguard and end up bumping into her instead.
The two then crashed into a huge glass window and fell from the top floor...
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