"It's Lao Fang's voice!"
Gao Ang immediately recognized that it was Lao Fang knocking on the door.
Cao Kun gestured to him, slowly reached the door, and simultaneously released the safety lock.
He wasn't sure if they had slipped up or if this was a ruse by Fang Ziying and his men, so it was best to be cautious just in case.
Lao Fang's voice was loud, filled with a heart-wrenching fear that she was about to die. Although Gao Ang and the others were worried that it was a ruse, a living life was right in front of them. If there really was a problem within their ranks, they had to ensure Lao Fang's safety.
Cao Kun found a reasonable angle, nodded to Gao Ang, and gestured for him to open the door.
Just as Gao Ang opened the door a crack, another voice came from outside, "I only hit you once, is it really necessary to scream for help? I won't do anything to you, come back quickly, don't disturb people's rest." If I'm not mistaken, this should be Fang Ziying's voice.
It really was an internal problem!
Cao Kun couldn't analyze any further. He had finally waited for Fang Ziying to leave the house, and he had to control him. His task was to ensure that there were no other dangerous items in the house, and if there were, to ensure that no serious accident would occur. As long as he controlled Fang Ziying and prevented him from pressing the remote control, everything would be resolved.
Currently, Lao Fang appears to be in a vulnerable position and is likely a passive victim of the crime. Therefore, Fang Ziying should be the mastermind!
Cao Kun took a big step forward and was about to leave when Gao Ang grabbed him and said in a low voice with a serious expression, "There's a huge amount of that stuff!"
He could already smell the strong nitroglycerin odor emanating from the stairwell. This smell might be negligible or even unpleasant to others, but to his mutated sense of smell, it was extremely strong, hundreds or even thousands of times stronger than the smell he had detected on Lao Fang that morning.
Cao Kun stopped abruptly in front of the door, looking at Gao Feng and Ju Liang with a look of horror.
Seeing the high-height door open, Lao Fang was about to rush inside, but Fang Ziying had already sensed something was wrong. With a shirt draped over her right arm, seemingly holding something, she darted forward, grabbed Lao Fang, and tried to drag her into her own room. "I told you, let's talk about this in private. It's so impolite to disturb someone's rest!" she said, giving Lao Fang a fierce glare, though the glare seemed menacing and didn't appear to be murderous.
How could a weak woman's strength compare to that of a grown man? Lao Fang was unwillingly dragged across the floor by Fang Ziying. At this moment, she stopped shouting and even stopped struggling, as if she was preparing to accept her final fate.
"Big brother, what's wrong?"
Gao Ang shook off Cao Kun's arm and walked out of the room with a curious look on his face. He rubbed his eyes to make the other person think he had been woken up.
"It's nothing, it's just a family matter. I'm sorry to have kept you from resting. I'll treat you to a meal sometime to make up for it!" Fang Ziying immediately put on a smiling face and explained to Gao Ang with a smile, while not loosening her grip at all.
Seeing that Lao Fang was about to be dragged into the house, Gao Ang could not let Fang Ziying return to the house so easily. He rushed forward, grabbed Lao Fang's arm with his right hand, and then reached out with his left hand to touch Fang Ziying's right hand.
"Even if you're arguing, you shouldn't hit someone so hard. Let go of my sister, you're hurting her!"
As he shouted, Gao Yang unconsciously increased the force in his hands.
When Fang Ziying saw Gao Ang trying to grab his right hand, he suddenly pulled away, creating distance between them. It was this effort that caused him to miss the best opportunity to return to the house.
Gao Ang lunged forward again, blocking their way back to the house. At this moment, Cao Kun also came out of Gao Ang's house. "What are you doing? My junior brother was just trying to stop the fight. Why did you have to fight? You want to fight?"
Adopting a stance of siding with his family regardless of right or wrong, Cao Kun charged forward aggressively.
"Call the police! Call the police immediately! He's a fugitive!" Lao Fang, who had been silent for a while, suddenly said this.
The scene fell silent immediately. Fang Ziying never expected that his woman would betray him at this moment.
What Gao Ang and Cao Kun didn't expect was that their script wasn't written this way.
Their plan was to take advantage of the chaos to pin Fang Ziying to the ground, seize his weapon, and pretend it was a civil dispute. That way, Fang Ziying would definitely not hurt anyone, right?
But Lao Fang actually popped the balloon, putting them in a difficult position.
If they back down and don't go, Fang Ziying will definitely go back inside, and the situation will definitely get out of control; if they go, that would be too abnormal. When an ordinary person hears that someone is a dangerous element, their first reaction is to run away as far away as possible. Who would be so stubborn as to rush forward?
The scene paused for less than a second before Fang Ziying and Gao Ang also came to their senses.
For Fang Ziying, now that Lao Fang had revealed the secret, there was no need to hide it anymore. He definitely couldn't stay in this place any longer. With that thought, he flicked his right hand and revealed the thing that was covered by his shirt. "Those who don't want to die, go back. Just pretend nothing happened."
Although he was a desperate man, he dared not take any risks at this moment.
Once he fires that cannon, within three minutes the area within a ten-kilometer radius will be completely blocked. Even if he were the reincarnation of Sun Wukong, he might not be able to escape the encirclement.
As long as those two cowards go back, he will have a few more minutes to deal with the situation.
To Fang Ziying's surprise, the two cowards opposite him were not intimidated by the weapon in his hand. The particularly young and handsome brat even took a step forward, seemingly ready to fight him head-on with his bare hands.
He was stunned: Are young people these days so reckless?
Since that's the case, then so be it. Just as I raised the weapon in my hand to finish him off, the guy suddenly disappeared again.
It turned out that Gao Ang had no choice but to save his own life after seeing that the other party had drawn his sword. At this critical moment, he dared not test whether he could withstand the bullets. However, he could not let Fang Ziying return to his room. The only thing he could do was to block him outside his door.
Based on his observation, he had determined that Fang Ziying did not have anything like a remote control on her.
In the sweltering summer heat, he was wearing shorts and a vest. There wasn't a single pocket on the shorts, let alone on the vest. The moment he raised his hand, Gao Ang saw that he had nothing in his hand except a weapon.
As for his left hand, which he was holding onto Lao Fang, it was empty.
At this moment, Cao Kun took a step back and returned directly to Gao Ang's front door.
This floor of Vanke Apartment is designed in an L-shape. Gao Ang is the last room in the K-shape, located at the end of the L-shape, while Fang Ziying and their group's room is located at the corner of the L.
Gao Ang closed and locked the door, which meant that Fang Ziying was directly exposed in the entire corridor.
Cao Kun no longer concealed his identity and, using the corner as cover, shouted to Fang Ziying, "Fang Ziying, you are surrounded! Surrender immediately!"
Upon hearing this, Fang Ziying's expression changed drastically. He immediately pulled Lao Fang back to the stairwell between the seventh floor and the rooftop, leaning against the corner, which gave him a sense of security.
There's no way to take the elevator. Since this guy has already made it to the seventh floor, there must be heavy guards downstairs, and maybe even on the roof and nearby. He can't expose himself to the view from a high vantage point.
Apart from the corridor, there was no other visible area here, making it an excellent location that was easy to defend and difficult to attack, not to mention that he had a 'hostage' in his hands.
"I can't believe it. Twenty years have passed. I thought the statute of limitations for criminal prosecution had expired and you would stop investigating us."
"The long arm of the law will eventually catch you. Don't think it will take twenty years, or even thirty or fifty years; you will be brought to justice sooner or later!"
Cao Kun continued shouting into the stairwell. He had already seen Fang Ziying retreat back into the stairwell and begin calling for backup through her built-in earpiece.
Fang Ziying wasn't deaf; he could already hear hurried footsteps approaching, and if nothing unexpected happened, it should be reinforcements arriving.
“You still believe that ‘the net of justice is vast and its meshes are wide, yet nothing escapes it’? You’ve all been missing for twenty years.”
"Hmph, still being stubborn even when facing death." Hearing that the main force was coming to support them, Cao Kun finally felt relieved.
At this point, Fang Ziying did not use anything else to threaten him, which suggests that the remote control or similar device to detonate such a thing was not within his control.
Cao Kun's colleagues, carrying shields, finally caught up. They had seen the entire scene through the recorder Cao Kun was wearing concealed on his chest.
The entire corridor was packed with comrades who came to help, but unfortunately he curled himself up completely behind Lao Fang, giving no opportunity for outsiders to take advantage of him.
The support staff quickly dressed and entered Fang Ziying's room. When they saw the neatly arranged stacks of things under the bed, they broke out in a cold sweat.
They couldn't imagine what would happen if this pile of things...
"Fang Ziying, surrender. You have no way out. Accepting the punishment of the law is your only way out."
Director Zhao Yinglai, who personally came to the scene to direct the operation, gave a stern warning.
"Hmph, do I have a choice? I should have died in twenty years. I'm content to have lived another twenty years. I won't be lonely on the road to the underworld with someone by my side." It seems he plans to take Lao Fang with him in death.
However, no one could do anything about it. Fang Ziying had no interest in the negotiation expert's conversation, and the others had no angle to shoot.
The scene became tense for a moment. Fang Ziying did not make any demands, but just waited quietly, perhaps enjoying the last few moments of his life.
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