Chapter 826 Chen Bao extra (24)
Zhou Mian seems to be in better condition than before.
When Murong Chen came over to hug her, she slightly opened her eyes and said weakly, "Don't worry about me, go first."
Murong Chen looked at her flushed face and chuckled, "How come I never noticed how selfless you were before?"
Zhou Mian frowned: "I'm not joking with you, you..."
"Alright, enough with the 'you' and 'me' stuff. If I dumped this here for you in this situation, would I even be considered a man?"
Ignoring Zhou Mian's thoughts, he picked her up and covered her face with his coat, saying, "Hold on tight to my neck later."
Zhou Mian looked up at the man in front of her.
His smile was nonchalant, with a touch of roguishness, but his eyes were resolute, which made her think of...
In a daze, she reached out and touched his face.
Murong Chen froze, reached out and grabbed her hand, coughing lightly as he said, "What are you touching me for?"
Zhou Mian smiled and said, "You look like a younger brother I knew when I was little."
Upon hearing this, Murong Chen clicked his tongue lightly: "You have quite a few younger brothers."
Zhou Mian hummed in agreement: "There's nothing I can do about it. I've been loved by everyone since I was little, and my younger brother likes me too."
Murong Chen didn't hesitate and immediately rolled his eyes.
He pulled her closer to him and said, "Hold me tighter."
After saying that, he lifted his leg and ran towards the stairwell.
Zhou Mian suddenly remembered something as he was about to finish: "Oh right, Xiao Xiao..."
"Don't worry, she set the fire, and she's definitely already escaped."
Hearing Murong Chen say this, Zhou Mian understood: "So you'll have Xiao Xiao set a fire to distract them first, and then you'll come and help me?"
"Hmm, the division of labor is clear, right?"
Zhou Mian curled her lips: "I didn't expect you to be so smart at such a young age."
Murong Chen: "..."
Is it impossible for him to overcome the age barrier?
Just as the two finished speaking, the sound of a police siren suddenly rang out outside.
The two looked at each other and saw that they both breathed a sigh of relief.
The police car finally arrived.
The two of them continued running smoothly for the rest of the time.
Because the fire was started from upstairs, although there was a lot of smoke, the actual fire didn't really start because it was just burning substances that easily produce smoke.
However, this was enough to keep everyone in the building busy and in a flurry of activity.
As Murong Chen ran downstairs, he encountered countless other people rushing down the stairs, and no one paid him any attention.
These people only wanted to escape the fire, but they never expected that one by one, like dumplings being thrown into a pot, they would be pinned to the ground by the police as soon as they got out.
When Murong Chen rushed out with Zhou Mian, the people outside had already been taken into police cars.
Xu Xiaoxiao was standing next to Sun Dehai, pointing at the building and saying something. She was probably saying that he and Zhou Mian were still inside and wanted them to go in and rescue people as soon as possible.
Seeing this, Murong Chen breathed a sigh of relief and said to the person in his arms, "It seems that things are going more smoothly than we thought."
"Um, um... could you put me down?" Zhou Mian said softly.
She hadn't felt anything while inside, but now, with so many people making a ruckus, even though no one seemed to notice them, she still felt quite embarrassed.
Murong Chen curled his lips into a smile: "Can you stand up straight after being put down?"
Zhou Mian coughed lightly and said, "I'm much better now..."
Thinking of the scene in the private room earlier, her face became even hotter.
Murong Chen was originally going to greet Sun Dehai, so he definitely couldn't hug her. He was just saying this to tease her.
Seeing that her face was flushed and the corners of her mouth curved up even more, he then prepared to put her down.
Before he could make a move, a loud voice rang out from not far away: "Don't move! All of you back off, or I'll blow it up!"
Murong Chen looked in the direction of the sound and his heart skipped a beat.
What the other person was holding was a piece of explosives.
Sun Dehai had obviously seen this as well, and immediately took out a megaphone: "You are surrounded by the police. Put down your dangerous weapons and try to get lenient treatment."
"I'm talking nonsense! You've planned to wipe us all out. I've worked so hard to get to where I am now, and I would have died countless times by now if I had believed your lies! Get me a car and let me go, or we'll all die together!"
His expression was somewhat manic. Zhou Mian, who was not far away, frowned and said, "It's Zhang Shoujun, the owner of this place."
"Is he the boss?"
Zhou Mian nodded: "He came this morning to personally 'brainwash' us."
Not far away, Sun Dehai was still trying to persuade him, but Murong Chen knew that he must have already arranged for someone to go around to the back and take the bomb from his hand.
Zhang Shoujun grew increasingly impatient with Sun Dehai's words and immediately said, "Stop dawdling! I just want the car, or else I'll—"
Before he could finish speaking, a policeman behind him suddenly lunged at him!
Zhang Shoujun cursed and rolled on the ground.
"Get down!!"
Sun Dehai's desperate shouts were amplified through the loudspeaker.
At the same time, the sound of an explosion resounded throughout the surrounding area.
Murong Chen reacted extremely quickly at the moment the explosion occurred, lying down and shielding Zhou Mian with his body.
The moment the loud noise struck, it felt as if his ears were submerged in a vacuum, and he couldn't hear a sound at all.
He then felt blood flowing down his forehead, and then he completely lost consciousness.
...
A week later, the Municipal Bureau of Rehabilitation and Rehabilitation Center.
After doing fifty pull-ups, Murong Chen jumped off the bar and said helplessly to Kong Chi, who was peeling an apple for him, "Brother, I'm really fine. Look how well I've recovered. Just let me leave the hospital."
Kong Chi placed the peeled apple on the bedside table and calmly said, "Whether I get discharged or not is not up to me. If you want to get out, go ask Dad."
Murong Chen: "..."
After the explosion, he was rushed to the hospital, and his parents and siblings rushed to see him when they found out.
In fact, the explosion did not cause any serious consequences at the time, because it was accidentally detonated by Zhang Shoujun due to improper handling while rolling over.
The bomb wasn't that powerful to begin with, and with Zhang Shoujun acting as a human cushion, apart from Zhang Shoujun himself, the others weren't really affected.
Murong Chen was just unlucky.
He was in that spot, neither too close nor too far, when a stray shrapnel grazed him from behind his ear. It's said that if it had been any lower, it could have cut his carotid artery, and even a miracle worker couldn't have saved him.
But in the end, it was a close call without any real danger. As for fainting, it was purely because he was shocked by the sound of the explosion.
His mother didn't say anything after hearing this, but his father got quite angry with him. After learning the whole story, he arranged for Kong Chi to stay there and told him not to leave until he had stayed in the hospital for a full month.
This isn't hospitalization; it's clearly a form of house arrest!
After only a week, Murong Chen was already dying of hunger and kept trying different ways to beg Kong Chi to let him out.
However, his older brother, who usually stood by him, surprisingly did not share his views this time. Instead, no matter what he said, his brother acted as if he should ask Dad instead of me.
He wants to find it, but does he dare?
He still vividly remembered the scene of his father giving him a good scolding after he woke up—"Murong Chen, do you think you're something special just because you know a little bit of kung fu? Going undercover all by yourself, do you think you're in a cop movie! Do you really think you're some kind of invincible superhero?! I shouldn't have agreed to let you become a policeman in the first place. With your reckless nature, I should have sent you to the Shaolin Temple to ring the bell!"
Murong Chen was dizzy and lightheaded at the time. He was scolded by his father but couldn't say a word in rebuttal. He almost died of frustration.
Later, his mother stopped his father, and things calmed down for two days.
To be honest, he did feel guilty.
The situation was indeed far more dangerous than he had anticipated, and he never expected to encounter it there...
Thinking of Stephen Chow, he couldn't sit still again.
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