Pyramid Hanging Upside Down Chapter 50

Chapter 50

Because there was no reference, Qi Feiluan could only make a rough estimate based on his own sense of time. He sat in the cold night for at least half an hour.

Until Qi Feiluan wondered if he was about to lose his temperature. Suddenly, the roar of helicopters was heard in the sky, and the sound of speeding vehicles was also heard on the ground.

Grantham leaned on the back of his wheelchair with a tired look and said, “We’re finally here.”

The lights of vehicles speeding in the distance instantly illuminated the pier.

Grantham squinted his eyes and took out something similar to a remote control from the cashmere blanket covering his legs. The man next to him handed him the phone. He said to the connected call: “Ji Xingyuan, if you don’t want him to be blown into a pulp, just get off the top and stand in front of me in person.”

Ji Xingyuan’s voice came from the other end of the phone: “Grantham, you don’t want to live anymore.”

Ji Xingyuan’s words sounded like a simple statement, without anger, hatred or frustration, but Grantham knew that if he was really as calm as he sounded, he wouldn’t have taken the helicopter here so quickly.

“Yes.” Grantham turned the remote control in his hand and said, “Don’t try to kill me before I press the explosion switch. The bombs installed nearby are connected to my physiological signals. Once my heartbeat stops, the bomb will explode.”

After Grantham finished speaking, a helicopter in the sky fell towards the ground.

Qi Feiluan naturally heard what Grantham said. He had been thinking of ways to find opportunities to save himself, but he had never found a suitable opportunity, and he suspected that Grantham had other preparations.

Sure enough, a bomb connected to the heartbeat?

But since there are bombs, where are those bombs hidden?

Qi Feiluan’s eyes passed over the abandoned containers around him, and his heart sank a little bit.

Apart from abandoned containers, there is no other place to place bombs in this terminal.

No wonder Grantham would choose this dock. No matter how powerful he was, Grantham would not be able to transport a large amount of explosives into the capital. An explosion in the capital would completely exceed the bottom line that the government could tolerate, and things would become extremely troublesome and out of hand.

As long as he leaves the capital, it is not only easy for Grantham to obtain explosives, but after detonating them, he can also cover up the past with similar excuses such as “the accumulation of chemical substances failed to be handled in time and caused the explosion.”

Except for containers…

As a professional and someone who understands powerful people like Grantham, Qi Feiluan feels that in addition to the container, there may also be bombs stuck under the iron chair where he is currently tied up.

Ji Xingyuan’s helicopter landed in the open space next to the pier. He stepped off the plane, and the strong wind caused by the propeller made his clothes rustle.

The attention of Grantham and everyone else present was all attracted to him. Qi Feiluan took this opportunity to step down slightly on the ground and at the same time lift up his body. Because his legs and the legs of the chair were cuffed together, the iron chair was also lifted up a little.

This was not enough to lift the iron chair off the ground, but it was enough for Qi Feiluan to feel the weight of the iron chair.

Sure enough, the weight of the iron chair is a bit subtle.

Qi Feiluan’s suspicion became even more intense, but he couldn’t directly lower his head to check now.

But it doesn’t matter, he can’t lower his head, and there is someone who can help observe——

As soon as Ji Xingyuan stood firm, his eyes were fixed on Qi Feiluan, who was tied to the iron chair. Then, with the light on his back and the gun pointed at him, he strode towards the dock without hesitation.

One step, two steps, three steps… Every step is closer to Qi Feiluan, every step is closer to danger and death.

Finally, Ji Xingyuan stood ten meters away from Grantham, his eyes fell on Qi Feiluan’s fingers, and he said coldly: “I’m here, how can you let him go?”

“Don’t worry yet.” Grantham put his finger on the button of the remote control explosion and said, “What is the relationship between you and Mu He’an? Is it just a simple cooperation?”

“Cooperation.” Ji Xingyuan answered without any hesitation and took a step forward.

“No emotional or physical entanglements?”

“No.” After answering, Ji Xingyuan took another step forward.

Qi Feiluan also saw clearly the movements of Ji Xingyuan’s fingers, and he immediately understood that there was really something that was probably a bomb stuck under his chair.

Qi Feiluan was mentally prepared for this. He already had a plan. He moved his fingers slightly and conveyed his plan to Ji Xingyuan.

The rhythm and pause of the fingers, this is the unique communication method established when the two of them were training together on the planet. This is the “Morse Code” that only the two of them know how to interpret.

However, this method of communication is rarely used during planetary training, and they have never used it once when they leave the planet. It has been five or six years since the planetary training ended. Qi Feiluan did not expect that Ji Xingyuan, who was busy with everything, did not forget at all. The moment he saw him, he understood the message he had passed on.

Although Qi Feiluan already had a plan and passed it on to Ji Xingyuan, he knew very well that he only had a very short time and only one chance, and this opportunity also required Ji Xingyuan’s cooperation.

They must completely trust each other.

Grantham faced Ji Xingyuan and turned his back to Qi Feiluan. His attention was on Ji Xingyuan’s words.

After hearing Ji Xingyuan’s answer, he laughed and said in a low voice: “That’s really a little liar. He lied to me from beginning to end. He lied to me very simply and purely.”

“He thought he could take over the Grantham Group after I died. How naive. You would never miss the opportunity to annex the Grantham Group. I found out too late and died in the hands of my own Omega…” Grantham sneered, “What a joke.”

“Since it’s already too late, dying as he wishes is probably the only thing Alpha can do for his Omega. But you and Qi Feiluan have to be together, so that I can be willing to…”

Before Grantham finished his last note, Qi Feiluan’s prosthetic arm suddenly fired a bullet, which hit Grantham directly in the head from behind.

Before anyone else at the scene could react, Qi Feiluan’s left prosthetic leg broke the iron chain tied to his left foot, and then quickly transformed into a scissor.

Qi Feiluan brought his left prosthetic leg closer to his right leg. Because the iron chain was tied too tightly, it would take too long to cut the chain directly and required high precision.

Qi Feiluan had no time to delay, so he directly let the scissors cut the legs of the iron chair.

In this way, although his right leg was still tied together with a chain and a small chair leg, both legs were free.

At the same time, Ji Xingyuan strode to Qi Feiluan almost as soon as the gunshot rang out. His left hand transformed into a scissor at the same time, cutting off the armrest of the chair, helping Qi Feiluan to be completely liberated from the iron chair.

The bomb was connected to Grantham’s heartbeat, but after brain death, the heart would not stop synchronously due to its own autonomic system, and there would be at least a ten-second interval.

The bullet fired by Qi Feiluan deliberately avoided Grantham’s brainstem. The brainstem is connected to the center that mediates the basic life activities of the human body. As long as it is avoided, the heartbeat will not stop immediately.

This will not only make Grantham brain-dead and lose the ability to press the explosion button, but also gain a very short period of activity.

Qi Feiluan was able to open the iron chain on his leg, but it was difficult for his left leg prosthesis to quickly untie his hands that were handcuffed to the armrests of the chair.

After Grantham was brain-dead, the probability of the bomb exploding became higher with each second that passed, and Qi Feiluan had no time to untie his hands.

Fortunately, there is Ji Xingyuan.

There seemed to be an invisible second hand sliding in the void. Qi Feiluan and Ji Xingyuan could not even look at each other again. The two of them turned around and rushed towards the edge of the pier in tacit agreement. Below them, there was the dark and boundless sea.

The night wind blew up the hair of the two people, and when it fell on their skin, it brought a stinging and chilling feeling like a knife.

There is a long gap between the pier and the sea below. When the sky and the sea are equally dark, Qi Feiluan can’t tell how big the gap is. If it weren’t for gravity, he can’t even tell whether he is falling towards the sea or towards the night sky.

In the cold and darkness, the only warmth Qi Feiluan could feel was the hand held by Ji Xingyuan.

In fact, the weightless feeling of falling only lasted for a moment. Ji Xingyuan’s left prosthetic leg was firmly embedded in the edge of the pier, and the joint between his wrist and arm fell away. A continuous rope was pulled downwards, and the two of them were hung in the air below the pier.

Almost at the moment when the two people turned over and jumped down, a huge explosion sounded from above the pier. The explosions sounded one after another, and then the sky lit up with flames.

The explosion and fire almost engulfed the pier, but Qi Feiluan and Ji Xingyuan, who were hanging under the pier, successfully escaped the fatal explosion.

When Qi Feiluan learned about the bomb at the pier and Grantham’s heartbeat and made an escape plan, he knew that he might have a chance to escape from the iron chair, but he would not have enough time to leave the pier normally. The only way to survive was to turn around and jump into the sea.

This pier has been abandoned for too long, and the sea has continued to erode the pier, further widening the existing gap.

Qi Feiluan didn’t know how big the gap between the pier and the sea was, and he didn’t know when the bomb would explode. If the two of them happened to be swept by the explosion shock wave when they jumped down, and they couldn’t control their free fall, and the gap between the pier and the sea was too big, it would be the same as jumping off a building and landing on the concrete floor.

Therefore, they must not jump directly, there must be a buffer.

Both Qi Feiluan and Ji Xingyuan’s prosthetic limbs have extendable ropes inside, but obviously Ji Xingyuan, whose left hand has been replaced by a prosthetic limb, is more suitable to complete this buffer.

Fortunately, they were not swept away by the blast wave. Ji Xingyuan pulled Qi Feiluan, and the rope extended from his left prosthetic leg hung the two of them safely under the dock.

The flames on the dock lit up the entire night sky, and it was through the light of the fire that Qi Feiluan could clearly see the sea below.

Visual inspection was not accurate, so Qi Feiluan took advantage of this gap to open the height testing instrument inside the left leg prosthesis and measured the distance between them and the sea surface.

“About 7 meters.”

When Qi Feiluan got this data, he slowly breathed a sigh of relief.

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The author has something to say: I checked the information about the gap between the pier and the sea surface, and there are various opinions. They all say that it depends on the terrain. In addition, the site set up here is a long-abandoned pier, so the gap may be larger than that of ordinary piers.

Everything is done to serve the plot, don’t take it too seriously.