Chapter 133 Dinner - 5 Anderson arrived quickly, and Don...
Anderson arrived quickly, and Tang Bufan only had to wait for him for five minutes.
Seeing Tang Bufan sitting alone on this secluded indoor park bench, Anderson frowned slightly and asked, "Where's little Louis?"
"I was called away by Yu Shi for a talk." Tang Bufan rested briefly, feeling his dizziness subside a bit, then got up from his chair and led Anderson in the direction the two had left: "Let's sneak over and take a look."
Anderson couldn't immediately recall who Yu Shi was: "Who is that?"
"It's the little boy I slapped that day," Tang Bufan said softly, his eyes scanning ahead for the two figures.
Anderson remembered and raised an eyebrow: "The one who flirts with everyone? 18 isn't young anymore, is it?"
"Young man." In Tang Bufan's eyes, eighteen years old is still half a child, at least in the 21st century.
Seeing Tang Bufan acting suspiciously, Anderson became interested and lowered his voice as well: "So what are we doing now?"
"Let's see if that kid is worth helping," Tang Bufan said, catching a whiff of Lu Yi's lingering scent in the air, and then following the fork in the path.
Anderson followed, and before they had taken more than a few steps, they suddenly heard a series of deliberately concealed footsteps.
They were four peacekeeping special police officers.
Tang Bufan wanted to suggest hiding, but the four SWAT officers were also sharp-eyed and spotted them from a distance behind the bushes. All four of them subtly changed their expressions, and then one of the men made a hand gesture to one of the team members. The four split into two teams, with two continuing forward and the other two walking towards Tang Bufan and Anderson.
"Are you lost?" the SWAT officer in front asked the two, pretending not to recognize them.
It was normal that they didn't recognize Anderson, but Tang Bufan remembered him from when he and Lu Yi met this group of special police officers before, so he found Anderson's feigned ignorance somewhat amusing.
"I'm looking for my fiancé, and also your young master," Tang Bufan said calmly, getting straight to the point.
He specifically called Anderson over because he had anticipated this situation. When Tang Bufan came out of the banquet hall, he noticed that all the special police guards were peacekeeping personnel.
Although he is now quite capable of fighting after training, the men are armed, so after much deliberation, he decided it would be safer to call Anderson over.
“We didn’t see Mr. Louis and Young Master Yu Shi. Mrs. Tang, please return to the banquet hall first,” the special police officer said, making a gesture as if to escort the two back.
Tang Bufan looked at him with a half-smile: "You recognize me now? And..."
He slightly raised his chin and pointed to the path: "Didn't your two colleagues already go there?"
The two special police officers looked slightly tense. Seeing Tang Bufan take a step forward, they hurriedly reached out to stop him: "Madam Tang! Our young master and Mr. Louis haven't finished discussing their private matters yet!"
Tang Bufan frowned, sensing something was wrong from their attitudes. He hadn't thought that Yu Shi, a human, could harm Lu Yi, but now... he was starting to panic.
"Get out of the way!" Tang Bufan pushed his hand away and strode into the depths of the alley. The two special police officers wanted to step forward to stop him, but were immediately frozen in place by a cold glance from Anderson, who was 2.2 meters tall.
The four of them then walked quickly forward, one after the other. The scent of Lu Yi in the air grew stronger and stronger, but soon a pungent odor rushed over from the front.
Tang Bufan quickly raised his arm to cover his mouth and nose, and took a step back in great discomfort.
Anderson, who had initially been watching the spectacle, now had a serious expression.
“A potent sedative, designed for orcs.” Anderson narrowed his eyes, gently pushing Tang Bufan toward some grassy areas with clearer air, and told him, “Wait here, I’ll go check it out.”
"Me too... Ugh!" Tang Bufan originally wanted to follow, but the smell ahead was too unpleasant. He already had a bit of an upset stomach from drinking red wine, and in his anxiety, he took a deep breath and immediately bent over to dry heave.
The two peacekeeping special police officers next to them exchanged nervous glances, their foreheads beaded with a thin layer of sweat. Although they could also smell the drug, their sense of smell was not as sensitive as that of the orcs, and since the drug was not designed for humans, they did not react much.
“Mrs. Tang, you don’t look well. Shall I take you to rest?” A special police officer approached Tang Bufan and tried to help him away from there.
"Get out!" Tang Bufan frowned and roared at him, regretting it to death. He just wanted to see what Yu Shi was up to, but he never expected that Yu Shi would be so bold as to do such a thing at Guo Wen's retirement banquet tonight.
"Xiao Tang, Evelyn isn't responding." Kai Ge's voice came from Tang Bufan's bracelet: "Its signal should be blocked."
As highly intelligent AIs, they react quickly. Unless they suddenly enter a signal-blocked area, Evelyn will not be unable to transmit the message in time.
"I deserve to die..." Tang Bufan's eyes reddened with nausea. He slammed his fist on the tree trunk beside him. "I knew Yu Shi wasn't innocent, yet I still felt sorry for him... I... I really was..."
Tang Bufan simply couldn't bear to see an eighteen-year-old being forced into marriage so early, even if it was a child he didn't particularly like. In the end, his kindness became a tool for the other party to attack him!
Anger suppressed Tang Bufan's nausea considerably, but the still strong smell of sleeping pills lingered in the area ahead. Although anxious, Tang Bufan didn't dare to rush in. Leaning against a tree, he gritted his teeth and thought for a moment, then immediately ordered Kai Ge:
"Brother Kai, contact Pei Zhishu and Bren and report what's happening here to them!"
The two peacekeeping special police officers standing nearby immediately became anxious. One of them moved closer to Tang Bufan and said, "Mrs. Tang, please don't panic. Tonight is Mr. Guo Wen's retirement banquet. Don't make things ugly..."
"You're the ones causing trouble!" Tang Bufan interrupted him with a sneer. Just as he was about to say something more, he saw Anderson return.
Anderson's face was flushed an unnatural red, but he remained rational. He told Tang Bufan, "Little Louis isn't up ahead; he's been taken away."
Before Tang Bufan could speak, he strode over, grabbed Tang Bufan around the waist, and then, with a push of his feet, leaped high into the sky with Tang Bufan in his arms.
The two SWAT officers could only watch helplessly as they disappeared from their sight!
"Brother Zheng, what do we do now?" a special police officer asked his colleague.
"Reporting to Elder Yu!" the special police officer said in a deep voice, his eyes fixed on the direction the two had left, and he raised the wristband to his mouth.
The inner hall was built inside Mount Tai. To ensure high-quality air, there were many trees and green plants. After Anderson jumped into the air with Tang Bufan in his arms, he stepped on the lush trees and led Tang Bufan to a building corridor.
Even though he cushioned his fall well, Tang Bufan still bent over and started gagging again.
Anderson disdainfully tossed him aside: "Why is your health still so poor? How did little Louis manage to raise you?"
Tang Bufan looked up, his eyes red-rimmed, and wiped his mouth with his sleeve: "I drank tonight... Let's not talk about it now, let's find Lu Yi..."
Before he could finish speaking, he caught a glimpse of something being thrown at him out of the corner of his eye. The two people in the corridor instinctively dodged to the side, but the object exploded in mid-air.
The sound wasn't loud, just a small "poof," but the area was instantly enveloped in smoke. Tang Bufan's breath caught in his throat, and the word "It's over" had barely crossed his mind when everything went black and he passed out.
Perhaps the headaches of the past five years had trained Tang Bufan's brain, because although he was unconscious, he was in a very dazed state.
He saw Anderson cover his mouth and nose with his arm, shielding him from view. After a brief moment of blankness, he saw rain falling from the "sky," soaking him and extinguishing the smoke around them... When he blinked again, Lu Yi, his face flushed, was anxiously squatting in front of him...
"Lu... Lu Yi..." Tang Bufan called out Lu Yi in a daze before sinking completely into darkness.
***
Tang Bufan didn't know how long he had slept. After inhaling the sleeping pill, he felt a moment. He opened his eyes and looked at the milky white ceiling, realizing that he had returned to the room he and Lu Yi had in the aircraft.
The room was dimly lit. Tang Bufan struggled to sit up in bed, finding his body feeling strangely unresponsive.
"Awake?" The two people sitting on the sofa not far away immediately stood up; they were Anderson and Dr. Jiang.
The room lights turned on automatically.
Tang Bufan hadn't seen Dr. Jiang for a long time. He was stunned to see him for a moment, then suddenly remembered what had happened before he fainted, and quickly asked:
"Where's Lu Yi?!"
He frowned uncomfortably after speaking, noticing that his throat was dry and sore.
Dr. Jiang went to the table to pour water for Tang Bufan, while Anderson slowly walked to Tang Bufan's bedside.
“He left an hour ago; he was called to a meeting by the Eastern Federation,” Anderson said, raising his wrist. “I’ll call him back for you.”
"No!" Tang Bufan quickly stopped him, not wanting to delay Lu Yi's important business.
Anderson didn't force him and lowered his wrist, while Dr. Jiang carried a glass of warm water to Tang Bufan's bedside.
Tang Bufan took it and drank it all in one gulp. His parched throat immediately felt much better, and he felt more energetic as well.
"How long have I been unconscious?" Tang Bufan asked, handing the water glass to Dr. Jiang as a token of gratitude.
“Two days,” Anderson said. “Today is the 21st.”
"So long!" Tang Bufan exclaimed in surprise, then asked anxiously, "What happened that day?"
“Yu Shi used a specially made sleeping potion to knock out Mr. Louis, and then had two human special police officers take him away.” Dr. Jiang answered first, a look of disdain on her face: “The potion also contained aphrodisiac ingredients. Yu Shi wanted to use this method to force Mr. Louis to accept him.”
Tang Bufan's head exploded with a "boom," and he instantly flew into a rage: "How dare he!"
He was so angry he was stammering, his emotions running high: "Lu Yi, where's Lu Yi! Is he... is he alright?!"
"It's nothing." Anderson told him to relax, then said irritably, "You two are both really stupid. When I saw you two traveling, it was like you were just playing around. Now, when I see you doing things, you don't have a single trick up your sleeve. How could he have found such a big loophole?"
"I...I didn't expect him to be so bad..." Tang Bufan's face flushed red. "He said he was forced into marriage by his great-grandfather, and I felt sorry for him because he was so young...After all, some kids are driven bad by their environment...I really didn't expect him to...he would..."
Tang Bufan was breathing rapidly, and his eyes were red. He thought he was confident and wanted to test Yu Shi's character to see what he would say to Lu Yi alone. He never expected that Yu Shi would dare to plan such a sinister thing.
“You’re so naive,” Anderson sneered. “If it weren’t for the fact that little Louis had been resistant to drugs since he was a child because he smelled the incense in his mother’s room, you would be regretting it.”
Anderson saw it clearly: this was definitely not Yu Shi's own plan, but his great-grandfather's scheme. The old man had grasped Lu Yi's nature; if he really had a relationship with Yu Shi, even if it was forced, given his personality, he would never abandon Yu Shi.
Tang Bufan had also thought of this, so his heart was clenching and he felt extremely choked up.
"I..." Tang Bufan's eyes reddened even more: "It's my fault that Lu Yi was harmed..."
"Mrs. Tang, Mr. Louis is perfectly fine, don't worry." Dr. Jiang said, giving Anderson a speechless look. She had never seen anyone irritate a patient like that.
When Anderson saw that Tang Bufan was about to cry from his scolding, he awkwardly shut his mouth, while glancing at Tang Bufan's stomach covered by the blanket with concern.
“Your report that night was very timely. After receiving the news, Mr. Pei immediately located your position through the surveillance and had the AI turn on the fire sprinklers to wash away the smoke in that area, effectively suppressing the effects of the medicine on the three of you. The two beastmen are fine, but you…” Dr. Jiang paused, staring at Tang Bufan, her tone becoming much gentler and more careful: “The fetus in your womb may be affected.”
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