Shen Bing and his four companions left the room and headed straight into the elevator. They planned to take it directly to the Underground Garage.
As for checking out, they did not have to do that in person. A phone call later would suffice.
Just after Shen Bing's group entered the elevator, four more people stepped inside.
The doors closed, and Lu Xian glanced at the four newcomers.
Shen Bing's lips curled as he looked at them. What a bunch of idiots!
Standing near the doors, Li Xiao pressed the button for the first basement level.
Almost simultaneously, a brutish-looking man among the four newcomers pulled his hand out of his trouser pocket. He was holding a remote control.
"Mr. Shen, right?" the man said without preamble. "We're short on time, so I'll get straight to the point. All four of us have High Explosives strapped to our bodies, and this remote is the trigger. I know you're very capable, but we have three of these remotes, and they're specially designed. The explosives don't go off when we press the button, but when we release it. You'd better not resist. Let my friend here put these handcuffs on you."
It was undeniably a ruthless tactic! Against someone with sufficiently fast reflexes, a push-button trigger might leave them subdued before they even had a chance to press it. These three men had also been extremely cautious, using three remotes at once.
In other words, stopping them meant seizing control of all three remotes instantly, so quickly that none of them even had a chance to release the button.
In theory, that was utterly impossible.
Unfortunately for them, the people they had encountered today were anything but ordinary. One of them was not even human...
Just as one of the men took