Not going to lie, after being starved for so long, eating some popcorn actually tasted pretty good.
However, as he chewed away, he suddenly felt something strange in his mouth.
With a click, he bit down on some hard object.
Wait, why was there a little stone?
Young Master Fei discovered her dirty work.
"..."
Well, this fellow hadn't washed her hands; they were filthy, and she'd directly shoved food into his mouth with dirty hands.
Yet, looking at A Jiu's shining eyes full of anticipation, Young Master Fei had no choice but to swallow it down and say against his conscience, "Delicious, it's delicious."
Hopefully, he wouldn't get diarrhea later on.
Anyway, what didn't kill you made you stronger.
"Hehe (#^.^#)"
Young Master Fei grabbed her hand and pried it open.
Sure enough, from just crawling on the ground, both of her hands were covered in dust.
"Don't eat with your hands, I'll feed you."
He flipped his jacket inside out, pulled the dust-stained outer side over his hand, and used the clean side to pick up a piece of popcorn and feed it to her.
"Ah~" A Jiu also cooperated by opening her mouth wide.
"Honestly." Young Master Fei shook his head with doting fondness, feeding her one by one while watching those hostages stagger along the wall one after another toward Su Yao's side.
Yet this leisure was soon shattered by a flying kunai.
!
In a flash, Su Yao's life was hanging by a thread.
Young Master Fei pressed a hand to his forehead. Isn't she too idiotic?
She actually fell for the trap just like that.
No, that couldn't quite be said either.
How could a normal person ever expect that someone behind them would betraying them?
What the hell was wrong with these enemies, each one sneakier than the last?!
This Ji Gangji was clearly supposed to be nothing more than an early-game experience pack meant to supply experience to Ye Chen.
Yet how, how could his IQ be this high?
Listening to what that middle-aged man had just said.
He couldn't remain leisurely anymore.
What should he do now?
Right now.
For him to sit by and do nothing when someone was dying was completely unjustifiable.
Besides, she was also the female lead.
What kind of sense would it make if she died here?
Ye Chen was already short of one female lead, and now he was losing another?
Was that reasonable?
Without the female lead Jiang Anran, the Dragon King protagonist's completeness was already hanging by a thread.
If he lost another one, Young Master Fei couldn't even imagine how to play this game without cheating.
He had to seize every single opportunity for a perfect completion.
He had to save her, absolutely.
And yet, she couldn't be allowed to know.
Otherwise, given Su Yao's personality.
If she found out she'd been saved by Young Master Fei, Young Master Fei had no doubt she'd latch right onto him.
Then saving her would be no different from not saving her at all.
Therefore, he couldn't show his face.
What about A Jiu? Could A Jiu go?
Not gonna lie, she actually could.
Originally, Young Master Fei hadn't brought A Jiu in with him when he first broke in.
The reason was that he didn't know what dangers lay inside.
On top of that, she was his own person and he couldn't bear to risk her, whereas Su Yao was different.
Su Yao was a person of the authorities, and this was inherently her job.
When the sky fell, the tall ones held it up.
But now, this tall one was about to collapse, and if no one else could hold it up, the sky would completely cave in.
It seemed he had no choice but to send her in.
However, the good news was that the danger had already been scouted out by Su Yao.
Young Master Fei estimated that aside from the gun lying on the ground, the enemy didn't have a second one now.
If they did, they wouldn't need to resort to such a desperate gamble.
The opposite side had no guns, and the old man with the highest combat power was busy fighting Su Yao—these were both good news for A Jiu.
Still, just to be safe and ensure absolute security.
Young Master Fei decided to think of a plan.
He couldn't push them into a corner.
Instead, he would encircle three sides and leave one open.
He had to give them hope of escape. He remembered in the novel that this factory building had a secret passage leading elsewhere.
That way, they wouldn't realize they couldn't escape, get desperate, and pull out some hidden trump card to die together with A Jiu.
By the way, the enemy probably wouldn't resort to slaughtering the hostages either.
As for arresting them? That wasn't his line of business.
But the Gu Corporation would definitely be safe.
He slowly formed a plan.
However, this required careful execution.
He remembered there were still a few subordinates of Ji Gangji monitoring the area.
He would summon them over with text messages...
Although Ji Gangji's eyes were watching the two people fighting, his thoughts had drifted elsewhere.
Just now, his entire focus had been on how to get rid of this female police officer, and he hadn't had the time to think about anything else.
Now, thinking about it carefully, he found the background of the female police officer before him extremely suspicious.
Why did someone know about this matter?
Logically speaking, apart from his own people, only those high-ups of the Gu Corporation whose family members had been kidnapped knew about the kidnapping.
Even apart from his few trusted aides, not even those bottom-feeder trash knew who these people were or where they came from.
Yet if those people from the Gu Corporation had called the police, it shouldn't have been just one person coming.
Although her martial prowess was indeed formidable, there were so many criminals and hostages that even a single person couldn't handle it all.
If not, why would anyone know about this?
Discovered by accident?
Impossible. If it had been discovered by accident, then it should have been the police officers from Changning District here.
He would have received news in advance and wouldn't be in such a sorry state.
Which district's police were they, then?
Thinking of this, he casually picked two of his subordinates.
"A Long and A Qiang, you two go outside and check if there are any cars, and note down which district any unfamiliar cars belong to. Come back and tell me, and keep an eye on the outside while you're at it."
"Yes..." The gazes those two cast toward the middle-aged man carried a hint of dread, and they trembling pushed the door open slightly and went outside.
As a result, not long after stepping out, those two unlucky fellows were knocked unconscious from behind.
The ones who knocked them out were none other than Zhao Jinfei and his group.
Although they could interrogate them to get some clues, Young Master Fei wanted to maintain his anonymity, and secondly, he didn't have that much time.
Knocking them out directly was much simpler.
Looking at the two figures lying on the ground, Young Master Fei remarked with emotion, "These two are truly sending charcoal in the dead of winter."
The missing catalyst in his newly formulated plan was now also complete.
The good show was about to begin.
Inside the factory building.
Seeing that Su Yao's stamina was gradually failing and she was on the verge of collapse, Ji Gangji was preparing to order his subordinates once again to recapture all of these hostages.
He had tried this once just before, but that time his subordinates had been instantly sent flying with a single strike, and it had only made her even more ferocious.
Seeing this, although he didn't care much for his subordinates, he wasn't in a hurry and simply waited for Su Yao to drop.
It should be fine now.
Yet at this moment, the sound of police sirens drifted in from outside?
"Wuwu—wuwu—"
Growing from distant to near.
At the same time, the voices of A Long and A Qiang, who had just been sent out, rang out: "Cops! It's the cops! So many cops! So many..."
Then they suddenly paused, as if they had run into someone and immediately changed their tunes: "Officer, I, I surrender!"
Simultaneously, with two thuds, they either were shoved to the ground or dropped to their knees on their own.
Right after that, a woman wearing a... baseball cap on her head rushed in?
Furthermore, her hair was completely wrapped up inside a jacket.
She shouted at the top of her lungs, "I'm a poleece, nobody move!"
Though she kept a straight face and acted all serious, he vaguely felt it was somewhat incongruous and utterly ridiculous, almost making him want to laugh out loud.
He had a feeling she was still biting down on something in her mouth while acting out this scene.
What was this, some kind of comedy studio?
Still, ridiculous as the police might be, this wasn't the time for him to laugh.
"Get her, all of you!"
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