"When you come up with me later, you must quickly deal with her henchmen. If you can't handle them, don't fight them head-on. They are all experts. Our goal is to kidnap her, understand?" The bald man spoke fluent Mandarin. After receiving a reply from his subordinates, he led ten men dressed as waiters through the underground parking garage to the presidential suite on the top floor.
As he walked down the corridor, he glanced at the security camera; the red lights there were off. Moreover, the entire upper floors of the hotel were sealed off.
Upon arriving at the corresponding floor, sure enough, the presidential suite was empty. Baldy secretly gloated. They had been observing for several days in advance and found that her security was at its most relaxed once she returned to the hotel, with a gap between shifts of three groups.
Although it was only a short two minutes, it was their perfect opportunity.
Holding Li Rui's phone, the bald man calmly knocked on the suite door and said in broken English, "Ms. Xia, we found a phone in the basement with your contact information on it. Is this yours?"
The kidnappers' idea was brilliant: lure her out, drug her, and take her to the underground parking lot. Even if they encountered her, it would be a small-scale gunfight, a quick and decisive battle.
As the suite door slowly opened, the bald man could barely contain his smile.
However, his smile froze when he saw the protruding gun barrel.
Bang!
Long Wu's first shot shattered the tranquility of the corridor. The other Dragon Guards, who had been lying in ambush, quickly emerged from the safety passage and dealt with the remaining men. The entire gunfight lasted less than three minutes.
A dozen minutes earlier, Long Wu had unintentionally encountered a "familiar face" while going downstairs. It was someone he had seen when he was a mercenary, who was also a mercenary assassin.
But he was wearing a hotel waiter's uniform. As someone who had once lived a life of danger, Long Wu immediately sensed something was wrong. His first reaction was to go to the monitoring room to check, only to find that all the staff inside were dead.
He came up to find Xia Yixin five minutes earlier, and the two hit it off immediately and decided to go along with the plan.
After Long Wu checked that everyone was dead, he let Xia Yixin out and said seriously, "We don't have much time. He must have more people under him. Miss Xia, you must leave immediately."
“But Li Rui is definitely in their hands.” Xia Yixin picked up Li Rui’s phone from the ground. “If I leave, they might threaten her with her life, or even kill her. No way. Why don’t you change into their clothes, and then I’ll go down with you and we’ll wait for an opportunity to act? After all, we don’t know how many of them there are yet.”
“Miss Xia…” Long Wu wanted to refuse, but when he met Xia Yixin’s firm gaze, he swallowed his words. “Then Miss Xia, you must be careful. I may not be able to take care of you during the operation.”
Xia Yixin was both amused and exasperated. She simply picked up the kidnapper's gun from the ground and demonstrated her gun-disassembly skills in ten seconds. Under the shocked gazes of Long Wu and the others, she raised an eyebrow and said, "My nearly one year of training hasn't been in vain. Although my firearms skills are not as good as yours, my accuracy is still acceptable."
Long Wu and his group changed clothes quickly. In order not to alert the enemy, they did not call the police. During this time, Xia Yixin almost subconsciously called Lu Yan, but the phone was switched off.
This was something Lu Yan had never experienced before; by this time, it was completely dark outside.
Dealing with the dozen or so kidnappers downstairs was much easier. With Xia Yixin feigning unconsciousness and Long Wu and the others keeping their heads down and wearing waiter hats, they managed to walk out of the direct elevator under the dim lighting of the underground parking lot.
The masked kidnapper even complained in Mandarin, "Why waste so much time? The higher-ups called again to ask."
Long Wu closed the car door the moment he put Xia Yixin in it, keeping all the kidnappers except the driver out of the car.
The other kidnappers were completely bewildered, and only a beat later realized that the "bald man" wasn't among those who had come down, exclaiming in surprise, "Who are they?"
Before he could finish shouting, a bloody hole appeared on his forehead.
Bang bang bang!
Outside the car, Long Wei and his men were fighting three against one, the sound of gunfire deafening.
Inside the car, the kidnapper who was driving took out his gun and was about to get out when suddenly a cold gun barrel was pressed against his head.
Xia Yixin said coldly in Y language, "Put the gun down."
The kidnapper paused for a moment, pretending to obediently put down his gun, but the instant the gun left his hand, he suddenly raised it again, his eyes filled with desperate madness. If he could control this woman, he would have a chance to turn the tables!
However, he was overthinking it. Just as his hand was about to grip the gun, Xia Yixin fired.
"Ah!!!" the man screamed, clutching his bleeding wrist that had been shot through it, but he dared not pick up the dropped gun again.
By this time, the masked kidnappers outside had been mostly brought under control by the Dragon Guards.
She wrapped her left arm around the man's neck to hold him in place, pressed the muzzle of a gun against his head with her right hand, and asked coldly, "Who sent you here?"
She was determined to find out what was going on with these people.
The kidnapper was completely terrified, stammering, "Don't kill me, I'll tell you everything, it's...!"
Boom boom boom!
Suddenly, three bullets pierced the windshield of the car, and the kidnapper was killed before he could even utter a word.
Xia Yixin crouched down and used the car seat to block the bullets, and heard the screams of the surviving kidnappers outside.
A group of heavily armed special forces soldiers rushed into the underground parking lot, and there were also police officers among them.
"Everyone stay still! We are federal police, you are surrounded!" The loudspeaker announced righteously.
The police opened the door of the van that Xia Yixin and Li Rui were in, and a white police officer asked with concern, "Ms. Xia, are you alright? We're sorry we're late."
Under the cover of night, more than a dozen police cars with sirens blaring and flashing lights drove to the nearest police station.
Neither of them noticed that a black motorcycle had been trailing behind them.
Li Hai, the manager of Xia Group's branch in Country A, was already waiting at the police station entrance.
Ambassador Li was not very tall and was slightly overweight. In his thirties, he looked exceptionally kind and approachable. At this moment, his face was full of worry. When he saw Xia Yixin get out of the police car unharmed, he immediately went to greet her. "President Xia, it's so good that you're alright. You don't need to worry about the rest. Leave it to us. You can stay in Country A. We will do our best to protect your safety from now on."
Xia Yixin remained outwardly calm, glancing around at the parked police cars but not seeing Long Wu and his men. "Where are my men?"
The police officer who brought her over interjected, "Madam, some of your employees are injured. We've taken them to the hospital first, so you don't need to worry."
Something's not right.
Everything is getting more and more wrong.
Before being led into the temporary rest area meeting room in the police station by Li Hai, Xia Yixin made an excuse to go to the restroom.
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