The sudden ringing of the phone filled everyone in the living room with a sense of foreboding.
Qin Ran waved Aike De off as he moved to answer the phone, then walked over to it himself.
"Hello."
"Mr. 2567, I'm pleased that your voice is the first one I heard."
"It saved me unnecessary trouble and wasted no time."
"I imagine you've roughly guessed why I called."
"So..."
"Are you willing to save Officer Mei Huasheng?"
Qin Ran picked up the phone. A voice distorted by a voice changer came through the receiver, making its age impossible to determine, let alone its gender.
All it had was a shrill, grating quality.
Rather than asking who the caller was, Qin Ran calmly gave Gobaer a signal.
The latter nodded slightly and disappeared from the living room.
The other party had tracked Lin An's movements so precisely and called the villa at exactly the moment Lin An entered. Qin Ran did not believe the caller had supernatural foresight.
Either they had followed him or monitored him.
One of the two had to be true.
Or perhaps both.
In fact, just as Qin Ran had guessed,
Gobaer spotted the stalker almost the instant he stepped outside.
After all, the man was simply standing in the torrential rain in a raincoat.
The moment the stalker saw Gobaer, he lifted a corner of his raincoat. After seeing what was hidden underneath, Gobaer, who had been about to attack, immediately stopped and pressed the alarm on his person.
There was no alarm sound.
But the vibration reached the phones of every bodyguard, as well as Aike De and the makeup artist.
Along with the vibration came a text alert—
Bomb!
The instant Aike De saw the message, he raised his phone toward Qin Ran.
Qin Ran