WWY Chapter 59
by VolareChapter 59: Making Way Lan He didn’t waste words because…
Tuxi Ling appeared calm while directing, but his heart was actually a mess.
When faced with his demand to “make way,” he agreed in less than half a minute. He thought, as long as Lan He was safe, there would always be a chance to rescue him.
Especially since the other party had suffered a gunshot wound and couldn’t afford to delay; the blood loss alone could kill him.
He figured Lan He must be terrified, but he didn’t seem that scared, so he tried to stall for time and get some information.
“When will you release him?”
“Once I’m safe, I’ll naturally release him.”
“His heart isn’t good; you have to let him take his medication, right?”
“If he dies of illness, I’m willing to pay with my life. Are you? Are you willing?”
“It’s futile. Even if you capture him, you can’t escape at all!”
“If I can’t escape, then so be it. Anyway, if I live, he lives; if I die, he dies!”
Tuxi Ling knew the desperate man in front of him was telling the truth. He knew all too well how long he’d been pursuing Lan He. Faced with the police encirclement and confrontation, he wouldn’t be timid but would instead be more likely to have the idea of perishing together with the hostage.
He decided not to push him into a corner. Publicly and privately, Lan He was a person of important status.
But, for some reason, he always felt that this guy’s words and actions were strange, making him very uncomfortable.
Before getting into the car, Qi A unexpectedly fired a shot at Tuxi Ling. Lan He managed to nudge his ribs with his elbow in time, causing the bullet to go astray and leave a hole in the fountain statue.
Qi A resented him for protecting the police officer and wished he could shoot him dead, but he simply couldn’t bring himself to do it.
He dragged and pushed him into the car, from the driver’s seat to the passenger seat, and then sped away amidst the chaotic actions of the police.
The car drove extremely fast. Even after getting on the expressway, he could still see police cars chasing closely in the rearview mirror.
Lan He sighed: “Why did you have to bring me back? Did you want to see me die at his hands that much?”
Qi A gripped the steering wheel, blood almost soaking through his upper body.
Hearing this, he roared fiercely: “He won’t kill you!”
“I don’t want to see him.” Lan He took out a piece of wallpaper knife blade from somewhere, pressed it against his carotid artery, and said quietly, “Rather than see him, I’d rather die now.”
Qi A spared a glance at him while speeding, instantly feeling cold all over, unsure if it was from shock or excessive blood loss: “Are you crazy!”
“You’re the one who’s crazy!” Lan He, with a strange sob, suddenly broke down and shouted, “Why did you have to come looking for me? He’s already given up on me, can’t you see that? If he wanted to find me, he wouldn’t have waited this long! Didn’t you say you’d protect me forever? Didn’t you say you hoped I’d be well? Didn’t you say I’d always be happy? I’m doing well now, I’m happy, but you just had to come and mess things up!”
Qi A let go of the steering wheel, turned to look at him, his pale lips trembled a few times: “Lan He, I just…miss you so much!”
“Idiot! Pig-headed fool!” Lan He released the blade, covered his mouth and nose, the warmth in his palm flushing his eyes red. He tilted his head back slightly for a while, cursing him with tears in his laughter, “You’re thinking too simply!”
Qi A smiled quickly, staring at him and asking: “Just now, did you really want me to stop? Actually, you were telling that police officer, right?”
Lan He closed his eyes: “I just didn’t want to see you die in front of me, even though I foresaw long ago that if you continued like this, one day you’d die in the wilderness, your bones unburied!”
It was clearly a vicious curse, but Qi A laughed a few times happily, which turned into a hideous grimace because it involved his wound.
The car was still speeding. He took out his earpiece and put it on.
“Crinum, find a safe route and help me drive remotely. I’m tired.”
“The battery can hold.”
“Okay.”
Finally, he turned to Lan He and said: “Crinum sends his greetings from headquarters.”
Lan He rolled his eyes and turned his head to the car window: “Do you think there’s such a thing as your so-called safe route under Tianyan?”
“Don’t worry, Crinum is no problem.”
Lan He didn’t believe his confidence.
Massive blood loss made Qi A’s head increasingly dizzy. He leaned his head back on the headrest, his thick Adam’s apple constantly bobbing up and down.
His neck was completely exposed, seemingly forgetting that Lan He had a sharp wallpaper knife in his hand, and as long as he pulled it, he would die instantly.
Lan He stared at his Adam’s apple, squeezed the blade hard, and the blade cut a bloody mark in his soft fingertip.
He winced in pain and gradually let go, helplessly asking: “Does it hurt? Go to the back seat, and I’ll help you treat the wound?”
Qi A struggled to lift his eyelids: “The bullet is stuck in the joint, you can’t handle it.”
Lan He asked: “What do you plan to do?”
“I don’t know.” Qi A stared blankly at the road ahead, “I really shouldn’t have gone to find you without permission. I didn’t expect it to turn out like this. I don’t know how to explain it to Dad when I go back.”
Lan He pursed his lips and said: “Then, why not not go back.”
Qi A slowly turned his head, staring at him.
Lan He smiled: “I inherited a large inheritance, I’ll support you?”
Qi A continued to stare at him, and after a long while, finally said: “Let me watch you and that policeman live happily ever after? You’re so cruel.”
Lan He looked like he was looking at an idiot: “My feelings for you aren’t that kind, I’ve said it several times, right?”
“But my feelings for you are…” Qi A finished seriously, sighed, and pressed the stop button, “Get out of the car!”
Lan He was stunned for a moment, turned around, opened the door, and got out of the car without any hesitation.
Qi A didn’t dawdle either, instantly accelerating the car to 120 mph, quickly disappearing on the sparsely trafficked expressway.
Lan He didn’t waste words because he didn’t want to delay his escape time.
He preferred to think that way.
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The suspect in a major case was silenced at the Public Security Bureau, a police officer and a civilian were injured, and an innocent wealthy businessman was kidnapped at home and used as a hostage, then abandoned on the highway. The perpetrator possessed at least two types of firearms and also stole a police-issued gun. The heinous case caused a social uproar and finally alarmed the Provincial Department.
The special investigation team arrived quickly, and after carefully reviewing the case files, officially took over the case two days later. Tuxi Ling had a disagreement with the team leader assigned by the Provincial Department at the meeting and was politely asked to leave the special investigation team.
Yaojin Ke laughed at him: “I told you, the Deputy Captain of the Provincial Criminal Investigation Corps, Kun Tian, is young and promising and a polite smiling tiger. You had to argue with him. Is your little foundation stronger than their expert analysis ability?”
Tuxi Ling glared at him unhappily: “Those two foreign suspects are definitely not as simple as they say! What are you thinking! I’m asking you, the submachine gun he dropped was obviously homemade, how did he bring it in? And the sniper rifle, that precision, do you think it’s worse than our SWAT team’s Type 88 sniper?”
“Didn’t Team Leader Tian say it all? It was smuggled in. Yishi Pan and those people can do it! They can transport people, why can’t they transport guns?”
“We can’t control people being transported out, but let him try to transport one in?”
“You’re just arguing!”
“The hacker who invaded our system is from abroad. They are clearly in contact with overseas. From Qin Man’s murder to Lan He’s attack, this is an organized group of people. They must have ulterior motives for coming to the country. They are clearly targeting Lan He! Is it appropriate to limit our vision to Zijinghua Villa? I think the robbery and murder case and the case of Yingying Zou being abducted are just things they did incidentally!”
“Then do you have evidence? Doesn’t that Young Master He insist that he didn’t commit any crimes abroad? Conversely, even if he committed crimes abroad and was targeted, but he doesn’t tell the police anything, then he must also have something to hide. That means he’s in cahoots with them, serves him right!”
“Yaojin Ke, Lan He is now a legal citizen of our country. Is that how you act as a police officer?”
“How am I acting as a police officer? People are so tight, I even sent two people to protect him 24 hours a day, what else do you want me to do?”
……
The two argued fiercely, and the entire floor was silent. In the end, Tuxi Ling quit and left.
Anyway, they wouldn’t let him participate in the case, so what was the point of staying here? He might as well go to the People’s Hospital diagonally across the street to see Shengbo Xia.
Shengbo Xia originally had Li Wu taking care of him, but after the special investigation team came, they started assigning tasks, and there was a severe shortage of manpower. Li Wu was called back to work. He thought that at this time, the seriously injured patient must be pitifully lying on the bed, crying while complaining, and maybe occasionally coughing up blood.
Unexpectedly, when he arrived at the hospital, he saw Shengbo Xia lying on his side on the bed, peacefully enjoying the cookies that Lan He was feeding him.
Seeing Tuxi Ling coming, Lan He stuffed the rabbit-shaped cookie in his hand into Shengbo Xia’s mouth and walked towards the bathroom.
“Captain Ling, why are you here? Didn’t you say the special investigation team arrived?”
The special investigation team did arrive, and then he was marginalized.
Tuxi Ling looked at his back, unable to discern anything. At this time, he was shirtless, covered with fixing plastic and bandages, and not wearing a hospital gown.
“How are you? Recovering well?”
“Very good!” Shengbo Xia glanced at the bathroom, “Young Master He is really nice, he paid to upgrade me to a special care ward and also had the nanny make juice and cookies for me to eat, saying they are rich in vitamins!”
Tuxi Ling wanted to spit on him.
Shengbo Xia, where is your principle? A police officer who is easily bought off with a special care ward and cookies, what’s the difference between him and salted fish?
Lan He came out of the bathroom, shaking the water off his hands, and asked with a smile: “Why is Officer Ling here? Don’t worry, we’ll take good care of Officer Xia!”
Tuxi Ling asked unhappily: “Didn’t Captain Ke send two people to protect you? Where are they?”
“I asked them to go back.”
The answer was similar to what Tuxi Ling had guessed, but he still asked: “Why?”
Lan He raised the corner of his mouth: “I have nothing to protect.”
Tuxi Ling’s brows furrowed, noticing that Shengbo Xia was looking at them with a gossipy look on his face, he tilted his head towards the door: “Come out with me for a moment!”
Shengbo Xia: “Huh?”
Why go out? Being in the hospital is already boring, is there anything a seriously injured patient can’t hear?
The People’s Hospital is a key provincial hospital, and the environment of the inpatient department is quite good. It is far from the road, the air is fresh, and it is very quiet. It was nearly noon, and there were many patients chatting and basking in the sun in the garden-like yard.
Lan He followed Tuxi Ling, chatting and walking. They rarely had such a relaxed time together. He felt that the sun was really good today, shining warmly on his body, and the chill of late autumn was dispelled.
Tuxi Ling had just briefly explained why he had time to chat with him at the hospital today. Lan He laughed so hard that he twitched, teasing: “How come the wise and mighty Captain Ling isn’t working? It’s true that an official of a higher rank can crush people to death!”
Tuxi Ling glanced at him speechlessly: “I stick to my own opinion!”
Whether it’s right or wrong, let’s not talk about it first, who turns their elbows outwards? Of course, he should speak for his own people!