“Liu Dong!”
Liu Rong was smashed by a hundred and seventy to eighty pounds of a big man, he lost his reaction on the spot, fell to the ground and did not move, those few security guards were not in the mood to pester me at this time, and hurried to check whether Liu Rong was dead or alive.
I helped Lao Gan up: “Go.”
It was only at this time that Lao Gan grunted as he covered his arm, his left arm was hanging and he couldn’t move, but he didn’t say anything and ran out of the room after me.
“The lift is over there.” Old Gump said.
“I know, we’ll take the stairs.”
I saw that Old Gump couldn’t run fast enough, so I squatted down and ran on his back.
“Young master, I can walk on my own.”
“No, you’re too slow. Liu Rong will wake up soon and we won’t be able to run out.”
Old Gan nodded, “Good.”
I carried Lao Gan on my back and made it down to the ground floor in just two minutes, Lao Gan was too stunned to speak. I didn’t have time to stop and explain to him now, because there were already many more security guards on the ground floor, gathered around the lift entrance.
“Where are the emergency doors again?” I asked.
Old Gump pointed to the left and I dared not pause and ran to the left. Sure enough there was a back door that required a swipe to get out and Old Gump swiped it open with his own work card and as soon as it opened, a salty sea door blew in my face.
“Gump, there’s no way I can get around to the front to get the car, their men must have surrounded it all around, we’ll have to go by the sea, just bear with me.”
I set Old Gump down, who was freezing and blue in the face. It was now early autumn and the weather had gotten a lot colder, and the sea breeze at night rolled in and hit my face, hurting like a knife cutting through it.
The sea breeze was so strong that we had to speak with a roar, and Old Gump could only nod as his arm hurt so much that he couldn’t speak.
I touched his arm, then patted him on the shoulder, signalling him to bear it, then grabbed his little arm and dragged it upwards. Old Gump grunted in pain and almost burst into tears, but soon, to his astonishment, he found he could move his arm.
I said, “It’s just dislocated, let’s get out of here.”
Seeing him shivering with cold, I took off my jacket and offered it to him, but Old Gump refused to take it in horror: “Young master, this is not allowed.”
“I’ve been in the army before, this weather is nothing to me, I’ve slept bare-chested in the snow. Don’t treat me like a young boss, I’m just a soldier, even if I’m a veteran, that’s what I should do. Now the situation is urgent, let’s not dwell on such trivial matters.”
Lao Gan knew I was right, it was dark and windy, if we didn’t find a clean place to get out of the wind, we would all freeze to death. Even if we didn’t freeze to death, would Liu Rong leave us alone? No, soon Liu Rong’s men would be searching the area, and we wouldn’t be able to escape.
Lao Gan nodded and we both immediately headed for the sea against the wind.
At first, I thought it was simply the wind on the beach, but after twenty minutes of walking, I felt that something was wrong, the wind was getting stronger and stronger, and if I hadn’t pulled Lao Gan, he would have been blown over.
Tong is a seaside city and we are all familiar with this weather, so I immediately understood that this was a typhoon coming!
People from coastal cities know best how scary typhoons are by the sea. When we were kids, schools would be closed on typhoon days. Every year a few people would die when a typhoon came, and some people would disappear on typhoon days and a few days later their bodies would appear far out at sea.
Old Gan realised it too and shivered, “It’s a typhoon.”
Not long after his words, a few drops of rain fell on my face, I touched my face and my heart skipped a beat, it was over, it had started to rain.
“Move! The map says there’s like a small hotel about twenty minutes away, just get there.”
I looked back behind me, far away there were already a few torch lights shining around, it must have been Liu Rong who had someone looking for me and Lao Gan in the building after waking up, after searching for half a day and not being able to find them, he transferred the surveillance and found that we had run away.
The beach is a tourist attraction developed by the city government and is not isolated, but we were worried about our pursuers, so we looked for places where no one was looking.
Old Gump was not easy, he was still running behind me at an old age and didn’t drag his feet at all. Of course, I would stop and wait for him from time to time, as people are older, their heart and lungs are not as strong as those of younger people, so I couldn’t let him run to his death.
“We’re almost there, Gump, hang on a bit longer.”
The rain was so heavy it looked like a hole in the sky, the torches behind us had disappeared, and no one would be desperate enough to come out and chase me on such a rainy typhoon day.
The waves were five or six metres high, and the waves were being swept up by the wind and hitting us in the face.
Old Gump nodded in silence, and it was clear that he was at the end of his rope, just barely hanging on.
“Wait ……” Old Gump suddenly pulled me back, his face covered in rain and shivering with cold.
I thought he couldn’t run anymore, so I said, “Uncle Gan, let me carry you.”
Old Gan shook his head, “There are people ahead.”
Someone? I thought to myself, “On a typhoon day, who would be there? Who else but us would be so desperate.
No wonder I hadn’t noticed that there was a sampan riding the waves several storeys high, drifting towards the sea.
I felt that something was wrong and wanted to pull Lao Gan to run, but when Lao Gan stopped, the energy he had been holding had been removed and he was out of breath, so he couldn’t run.
I wiped the rain from my face and held Lao Gan behind me. The figure was riding on the sampan, thrown into the air and sinking into the waves, but he was standing firmly on the sampan.
Lao Gan said, “This man is not in any danger, is he? Why is he still in the sea in such a heavy typhoon? Let’s call the marine police to come over, maybe he’s trapped by the typhoon.”
I took a breath of cold air and said, “Lao Gan, you run first, this man is not simple, he is coming for us.”
“No way.”
“Who can stand so steadily in such a big wave? Do you see him like he’s trapped? He’s as steady as can be. This man is coming for us and has two tricks up his sleeve. You run first, I’m afraid he’s one of Liu Rong’s men.”
“What do you mean? It can’t be!”
As soon as Old Gan’s words left his mouth, the man’s sampan sailed up the beach as steadily as if it had been put on an engine, and Old Gan’s mouth opened wide in surprise, unable to utter a word.
My reaction was no better than his, for I could see the face of the man who had come.
