Chapter 119 Chapter 119 Blow her up too!
Rumble——
More than ten seconds later, the aftermath of the explosion and the thick smoke gradually dissipated from sight.
Ji Yinhe stretched out her hand and pushed hard on the ground, trying to stand up with the strength of her forearm. However, the violent tremor just now made her dizzy for a moment. Her calf stumbled slightly, and her body weight fell back. Then, she fell to the solid brick wall behind her.
A warm embrace instantly came up to her, supporting her waist until she stood firmly on the ground.
"Are you okay?"
"...Huh, it's okay." Without looking back, Ji Yinhe also recognized the familiar voice. Her cheeks flushed slightly. She immediately took a step to the safe and solid floor next to her and looked up at the location of the explosion in front of her.
The power of the gunpowder was not as strong as imagined, but the ceiling of the glass corridor was still shattered into several pieces. The glass shards fell like hail along the gap in the ground and landed on the ceiling of the corridor on the fourth floor and the lobby on the first floor.
The phone rang. Lu Zheng clutched his cell phone and squinted his eyes. "Didn't the bomb really explode?"
"No, Gong Xie hated Gong Chenggong, Gong He, and me so much that he must have wanted to execute us. That's why they didn't plant much gunpowder." She glanced around calmly, assessing the situation. "But there's a hole in the corridor. We can only try to jump to the other side... How's it outside?"
Lu Zheng put the cell phone he had just hung up back into his waistband. "No one was injured. The hotel manager is on his way... Luckily, the countdown fireworks were just set off outside, drowning out the explosion. Most guests and spectators didn't notice it."
"..." Ji Yinhe breathed a sigh of relief. "That's good. This isn't the right time to stir up public opinion. But the explosion just now happened too quickly. I suspect Gong Xie and Zhang San must have seen me, so they deliberately bombed the covered bridge—"
Lu Zheng frowned, "You suspect..."
Ji Yinhe raised his head, his eyes were extremely dark and sinister, and he raised his chin towards the building opposite. "They are probably hiding over there!"
To be precise, at the moment when the smoke rose, she seemed to catch a glimpse of Gong Xie's hideous face appearing in a corner of the thirteenth floor opposite.
It seemed as if he was regretting that if he had waited two more seconds, or waited for her to take two steps forward before pressing the detonation button, he might have killed her too!
"—Team Leader Ji!" The person in charge of the Golden Ring Hotel ran over breathlessly, startled by the scene in the corridor. "Our people have already finished the cleanup downstairs. How about I sound the alarm and announce closing time now..."
Before Ji Yinhe and Lu Zheng could say anything, Guan Ye and his men came running over from the other side of the corridor, jumping up and down and shouting -
"Team Leader Ji, Teacher Lu, are you okay? They've planted several bombs. Are they going to explode again later?"
"Our people have already deployed control around the area. Raising the alarm now will only anger the criminals and escalate the situation." Ji Yinhe patted the hotel manager's shoulder and turned to look at Guan Ye. "We're not hurt, but there should be other bombs elsewhere in the hotel—Zhang Sangong Xie hopes to force us to a certain location."
"...Ah? A bomb?" The hotel manager's calf went limp as he held onto the wall.
"Don't worry, there won't be any serious damage."
Ji Yinhe comforted the person in charge and took a few steps forward. He grabbed Guan Ye, who was trying to jump over the explosion hole in a hurry, and said:
"Let's blow this up, but the suspect is still inside the hotel! — Have Gao Ge and Qiu Peng bring a few plainclothes officers to thoroughly search every room without disturbing the guests. Important corridors and stairways must be guarded by at least two people. Wear bulletproof vests and carry guns. Do you understand?"
Guan Ye saluted with a snap, "Understood!"
The deputy team leader who received the task ran away quickly, while the hotel manager turned pale and his legs went limp again. "There are still guns, otherwise we should just—"
"It's too late. Besides, if you close the shop suddenly and let all the customers rush out, they'll easily run into trouble. Leave it to us."
Ji Yinhe shook his head sympathetically and cast his sharp eyes at Lu Zheng. "Divide the guests into groups and evacuate them in an orderly manner. I'll leave this matter to you!"
"Okay, Jiang Nian and Cheng Mo are on their way here too." Lu Zheng nodded in understanding. "What about you?"
Ji Yinhe took a deep breath and cast his gaze towards the windows on the twin towers opposite, which were either bright or dark.
"Don't you want to see me? Then I'll go meet them!"
Without waiting for Lu Zheng to stop her, she kicked off her ill-fitting high heels, reached for the pistol at her waist, and stared at the embers in the corridor in front of her, eager to try -
At this moment, a drunken curse came from behind.
"I, Gong Chenggong, have conquered the business world my whole life. Why should I fear the wind and rain?" He still held the champagne glass in his hand and raised it high towards the other side. "The dragon has a reverse scale, and it will be angry if it is touched. How dare that bastard Gong Xie challenge me? Is he here? I want to take him—"
"Shut up! Get down!"
Before Gong Chenggong finished speaking, Ji Yinhe's ears twitched sharply and he heard the whistle of a bullet cutting through the night wind in mid-air!
—Bang! Bang!
A sharp bullet shell flashed by, hitting the vase in the corridor behind Gong Chenggong, shattering it instantly, and porcelain pieces fell all over the floor!
"Ahhhhh! He hit me! He hit me! How dare this rebellious son hit me! Ahhhhhh!"
Gong Chenggong howled loudly, covered his ears and rolled on the ground!
"...Where are you injured?" Ji Yinhe had to give up his plan to go to the opposite side to look for someone, and crawled over to check the wound using the wall as a barrier.
A drop of bright red flowed out from between his fingers. It turned out that the bullet had grazed his earlobe.
"It's just a little skin broken..." Ji Yinhe pinched his wound with one hand and grabbed his collar with the other, trying to lift him up, "Come on, I'll take you to find Gong He--"
"No, no, no! No way!"
The arrogant Long Aotian now felt like a loach, too weak to stand up, his hands tightly grasping the hem of the policewoman's clothes. Ji Yinhe looked down helplessly and saw that his legs were trembling and a pool of liquid had seeped out from under his expensive dark gray trousers.
“…”
Policeman Xiao Ji had to hold his breath and drag him forward a few meters along the floor, pushing him into a safe gap, then took out his mobile phone and dialed Gong He's number.
A minute later, Gong He and Lu Zheng appeared at the corner together.
Gong He ran over nervously, and Gong Chenggong stretched out his hand tremblingly, "Boss, oh, boss! Your father never thought that the rebellious son would really rebel!"
"Father, you've suffered! I'll call the bodyguards right away! Oh, and call an ambulance!"
The two men squatted on the ground with deep affection between father and son. Ji Yinhe and Lu Zheng beside them were speechless and looked at each other without saying a word.
"...Yinhe, I've already asked Cheng Mo and Jiang Nian to take the guests away separately." Lu Zheng's brows were grim. "I just saw the person firing from another angle downstairs standing opposite. She looked like a hotel waitress."
"-The Zhang San who hurt my father is a woman?" Gong He raised his head in disbelief.
"No, Zhang San is a man."
Ji Yinhe took a deep breath. "Yes, we knew from the beginning that the two suspects were men. We overlooked the men dressed as women during our previous search, which gave them an opportunity to take advantage... Last time at the train station, Xiao Wu was already in disguise. Gong Xie and Zhang San, one of them is very thin due to years of drug abuse, and the other is a little old man in his late 50s. They are both small in size and can easily squeeze into women's clothing."
"What should we do? Have they gotten here yet?" Gong He looked around nervously. "The enemy is in the dark and we are in the light. Where can we hide now?"
Ji Yinhe only thought for half a second before pointing to the restroom for mothers and babies a few steps away. "They probably wouldn't have thought you would be hiding there."
“…” Gong He lowered his eyes silently, looked at his still wailing father, then looked at the sign on the bathroom, and carried the man in with a helpless look on his face.
Ji Yinhe and Lu Zheng were the only two people left in the corridor.
Looking down from the window, one can see groups of plainclothes officers walking along the wall, forming a tight network on the ground floor of the hotel.
"There was another shot just now. There should only be six bullets left." Officer Ji poked his head out and looked across at the quiet place. "Teacher Lu, will you come with me to take a look?"
"good!"
The two men held their weapons side by side and walked step by step towards the glass corridor where the explosion had just occurred. They covered each other, jumped over the crater on the ground, and approached the quiet building opposite.
Lu Zheng pointed to the upper right corner, and Ji Yinhe understood what he meant - the person who fired the gun just now came from that direction!
The stairwell was at the end of the corridor. The two men crouched down, pushed open the door without making any sound, and quickly walked up the stairs.
The thirteenth floor of this building is not a magnificent conference room like the twelfth floor opposite, but consists of several private rooms and a linen warehouse.
"Damn it, that woman got away again!"
"Who told you to shoot just now? What a waste of bullet!"
"I was so close to shooting him!"
"What's the rush?! We have to force them all to... to be absolutely sure!"
Faint noises and voices could be heard from behind a wall. Lu Zheng stood in front of it, pressed close to the corner, and peeked to confirm that Zhang San and Gong Xie were both in the room.
This was a warehouse that stretched across half a floor. The door near them was half open, and it was pitch black inside. The shelves were piled with linens and sundries. There seemed to be two figures in the corner, and faint voices of talking could be heard coming from there.
Ji Yinhe's mind raced, and he gestured to Lu Zheng, indicating that he should come through another door and surround the suspect from both sides.
They have received armed police training for many years and have a tacit understanding. They can understand each other with just a glance.
As for Zhang San and Gong Xie, although they were extremely daring, they had been locked up in prison for so long that they were not smart people. They did not realize that the police, whom they despised, had come to their door and they were about to be trapped!
Ji Yinhe and Lu Zheng quietly moved forward under the cover of the shelves, but no one expected that at this moment, Zhang San, who was wandering around in place, glanced at his watch in the moonlight, suddenly said "almost done", then took out a remote control and silently pressed -
Boom!
A second explosion was heard outside!
Gong Xie clapped his hands in triumph, "I guess I'll finally kill one this time!"
Zhang Sanyi raised his eyebrows, "Who cares! This time we should be able to lead that policewoman and your father and brother to where we want them!"
Ji Yinhe, who was originally very close, turned pale: Although arrangements have been made, a large number of guests are evacuating the hotel at this time. What if -
She gritted her teeth and gave up the opportunity to catch someone, and retreated along the same path.
Lu Zheng also followed out in time. After running around a few corners, the two of them found a window and looked down. There was thick smoke downstairs and they couldn't see the casualties clearly.
Ji Yinhe quickly took out his cell phone and made a call.
"...Ah, yes, it's on the fire escape. Luckily you reminded us to search in pairs. Aside from an armed police officer who was blown away by the blast, no guests were injured!" Guan Ye sounded confused. "But it's all smokey here. Once we get the bomb disposal experts to clean it up... we won't be able to get down for a while!"
"Let's find a safe place first." Ji Yinhe's mind flashed, "Wait, where is the bomb?"
"Uh, the third floor."
Ji Yinhe held the cell phone between his neck and took out a five-fold notebook to take a look.
——A red dot popped up on the software again. She swiped the screen, and the 3D layer showed that the bomb was at the corner of the stairs on the fifth floor opposite!
She raised her delicate eyebrows. Zhang San and Gong Xie blocked the stairs to the third and fifth floors, forcing them to step onto the glass corridor on the fourth floor and lead them to this building!
Then they just need to wait at the end of the narrow corridor, and they can easily raise their guns and aim at the people who come to take revenge!
"Don't go up to the fifth floor, and don't go through the corridor on the fourth floor!" Ji Yinhe said sternly, "Contact the fire department as soon as possible and wait where you are!"
Guan Ye didn't understand why, but he still did as he was told.
After hanging up the phone, Ji Yinhe pulled Lu Zheng and ran to the fourth floor.
The terrain of the linen warehouse is too complicated. They have lost the opportunity to catch the person quietly, so they can only fight face to face!
*
Footsteps echoed in the quiet corridor. Zhang San led the excited Gong Xie down the stairs quickly and stopped at the end in front of the elegant round arch.
The aftermath had dissipated, and the point on the fifth floor had been detonated. According to his prediction, Ji Yinhe and her boyfriend should lead a large group of people including Gong Chenggong and Gong He through the glass corridor, attempting to leave the Golden Ring Hotel from this side of the twin towers.
However, to his surprise, the corridor was so quiet that you could hear a pin drop.
——Has his plan been discovered?
No, Ji Yinhe couldn't predict that there was another bomb on the fifth floor! Besides, he had been holding back and didn't detonate it when the guests first passed by. Instead, he calculated the time and deliberately waited until everyone was blocked from going down and had to return to the upstairs to press the infrared transmitter -
Zhang San took a deep breath, looked across expectantly, raised the gun he had snatched from the prison guard, and opened the safety with a click.
As long as a head appears on the opposite side, he can immediately pull the trigger——
"Bang!"
At this moment, a bullet suddenly hit a few centimeters in front of his feet, sending out a string of sparks!
Zhang San shuddered and turned his gun in terror. Gong Xie also turned around and shouted into the darkness, "Who is it? Get out!"
As the wisps of smoke dissipated, that beautiful face emerged from the shadows, smiling calmly and mockingly:
"Provincial prison escapee and the mastermind behind the series of bombings—Zhang San and Gong Xie—you are under arrest!"
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