After discussing with Cai Xiaobing, we both got a few magazines and blew them out after lighting the fire to make the smoke as big as possible. In no time the room was full of smoke and the smoke alarm immediately emitted an ear-splitting sound while the water jets overhead started spraying water.
“Sh*t, this won’t work, we’ve only got a small fire for him to douse.” Cai Xiaobing muttered.
“Don’t do it.” I said.
“How can we muddy the waters if we don’t get it?”
I walked over to the fire alarm and smashed the plastic casing of the fire alarm with one fist, the ear-splitting sound of the alarm immediately filled the whole floor, and then I shouted outwardly at the top of my lungs, “Fire, run!”
Cai Xiaobing looked dumbfounded, “You’re still the best, Captain.”
If the 13th floor was a mess like a pot of porridge, now it was like a pot of porridge that had exploded.
“It’s on fire, run!”
“Sh*t, there’s so much smoke!”
“Oh my God, I just wanted to have a good time, but this happened to me, I won’t come back.”
Shi Sheng pulled open the door of his room, he had just taken off his trousers when there was screaming and alarm outside, interrupting his good work, making him very unhappy.
He opened the door and was about to curse, but at that moment a hand suddenly reached over and dragged him straight out of the room.
It was Gongsun Qingfeng, who was sweating profusely with anxiety!
“Brother Shi, run, it’s on fire!”
“No, no, my trousers are still on.”
“What are you wearing? Don’t wear them, it’s important to run away!”
We didn’t get that fire going, but the smoke was really not bad, and with the fire alarm it really had a sense of doom.
The building was full of smoke and pedestrians couldn’t see each other clearly, so I hugged Sun Qiaoqiao and raced down the stairs with my head down.
If I hadn’t been afraid of attracting too much attention, I could have gone downstairs even faster.
It took me more than an hour to bring Sun Qiaoqiao safely to the square outside.
Not daring to delay, we hailed a taxi straight away and asked the driver to drive towards the hospital.
On the way, Sun Qiaoqiao was already in a coma, probably due to high fever. She smelled of foul-smelling Sh*t and urine. The driver was disgusted and told us all the way that he wanted to increase the price and that he had lost money on this trip.
The high fever made Sun Qiaoqiao very uncomfortable, and the person twitched from time to time, falling into a coma intermittently. When she woke up, she glanced at Cai Xiaobing and me and asked with difficulty, “Uncle Liberation Army, am I out?”
I was particularly sad and held her body so that she could get up and look out as much as possible: “Look, we’ve brought you out of there, hold on a little longer, we’ll be at the hospital soon.”
The driver swept a glance in the rear view mirror, “Damn, how did it get like this? The little girl sinned, sit tight, the hospital will be here soon, no need for you to add more money to the fare.”
I could see that Sun Qiaoqiao was already holding on, she was breathing out more than she was breathing in, and the hand holding my wrist was gradually becoming weak.
I had rescued so many hostages, but I had never been more upset than now, my heart felt as if it had been hammered hard by a hammer, painful and uncomfortable.
“Big brother, I’ll survive, we’ll be at the hospital soon, can I sleep for a while?”
She called us uncle one moment and brother the next, already in the wrong mess. I had seen too many people die and knew exactly what it meant for her to look like this.
Cai Xiaobing grabbed her hand, “You must survive, do you hear me? The captain and I took such a big risk to save you. The hospital will be here soon, Master, drive a little faster.”
“Five more minutes to go!”
I said, “Five minutes to go, do you hear me? Hold on.”
“Okay …… I still have a lot to do that I haven’t done.”
“Yes, think more about your ambitions and do them one by one when you are well.”
“How else can I fall in love, if I find someone in the future, I have to find a person like you, Uncle Liberator. But who would want me …… uncle, I hate them so much, I want revenge, you take revenge for me.”
I was too sad to speak, and could only choke back a sob and pop the word good out of my mouth.
“Shi Sheng, who raped me, had an appointment with someone to ship out on October 28. Uncle Liberation Army, he is not a good person, and he has done nothing good, and this shipment is definitely not good, so help me catch him and avenge me.”
After saying these words, Sun Qiaoqiao suddenly breathed violently a few times, her whole face screwed up in pain from the heat.
Seeing that the hospital was about to arrive, I gave Zhao Zichen a call, explained the general situation to him and asked him to bring over some trusted doctors.
“Little girl, you must hold on, no one can avenge you better than you can avenge yourself!” The driver also encouraged.
But Sun Qiaoqiao struggled a few times and closed her eyes incomparably exhausted, and when she tried to speak again, it was all in an airy voice.
By the time we reached the hospital, Zhao Zichen had already brought someone to get ready. I put Sun Qiaoqiao on the pushchair, and she was already unconscious and barely breathing.
The red light in the emergency room was always on. We didn’t say a word and smoked a lot of cigarette butts.
It’s not that Cai Xiaobing and I have never seen a dead person, we’ve seen countless times more brutality than this on the battlefield.
But this is not a battlefield, there are no bullets here, this is just an ordinary city.
But it is such an ordinary city, safe and peaceful on the surface, but behind the scenes there are so many cruel things that cannot be seen.
I kept thinking of all the things I had seen at the nightclub, the rich people there, the johns, the bosses of the nightclub, and even the lapdogs at the nightclub who were paid a regular salary.
In that place, a human life could be cheapened to such an extent that a person’s dignity could be abused like that.
Is this still the Tong City where I grew up? What’s the difference between this and the battlefield?
“Captain, when we escaped from the building, would anyone have seen us?”
“If they saw it, they saw it. It’s best if they saw it, let them come straight to me! The account on Sun Qiaoqiao, I’ll settle it with them in one breath.”
“But Shi Sheng’s side of the trail will be cut off.” Cai Xiaobing lamented, “Master won’t give us that much time, if Shi Sheng’s trail is broken, I’ll have to start the investigation all over again, which is very delaying.”
I controlled my emotions for a moment and regained my composure before saying, “Yes, it’s a big loss. But never mind, we have two other leads. One is what Sun Qiaoqiao said, Shi Sheng has a delivery on October 28, I don’t know what kind of goods, but I think it must not be his batch of hardware appliances to be delivered.”
“It should be that batch of guns.”
“Apart from that, there must be some clues in the hands I gave you. You’ll be in Kunlun tomorrow, go and return quickly, and be back by October 28. I can’t manage it alone.” I said.
We chatted and suddenly out of the corner of my eye I caught a glimpse of the red light over the operating theatre going out.
Cai Xiaobing and I were so anxious that we stood up and went to wait for the doctor to come out.
I had a bad feeling when I saw his expression.
“The man is gone, not saved, brother condolences.”
Even though I had expected it, my heart felt like it had been hit hard and my chest felt like it was blocked by a huge stone.
“If she survived, how was she supposed to live? Her dad sold her and now she’s incontinent and will probably need treatment for the rest of her life, and that’s not the worst of it, the worst of it is that she can’t afford treatment right now. This is probably the best thing that can happen to her now, she might be happier in another world.” Zhao Zichen rea*sured me.
“Did she say anything at the end?” I asked.
Zhao Zichen let out a long sigh, “Yes, by the end she kept chanting two words, revenge.”
