Chapter 137: The Action Team is Wiped Out

At the entrance of the Liuguo Fandian, dozens of corpses lay helter-skelter on the frozen ground; the blood that had flowed out quickly froze. The arriving Police maintained the scene while checking to see if there were any survivors.

Tie Lin ran back twenty minutes after the gunfire; Jin Hai and Xu Tian were with him, while Dayingzi and Jia Xiaoduo had taken a rickshaw home.

By this time, the scene had already been cleared, and the corpses had been arranged in two rows.

Only after Tie Lin showed his credentials to the Police was he allowed in. He walked past the two rows of corpses, looking at the brothers who had died with their eyes wide open, and immediately squatted on the ground to vomit, only recovering after a long while.

Suddenly, another stretcher was carried out from inside the hotel. Tie Lin stepped forward to check, but was grabbed by the wrist by the cold hand of the person on the stretcher.

Tie Lin shuddered in fright; he had already recognized the person on the stretcher—it was Li Jin, the younger brother of Group Leader Likuan.

Li Jin had already seen the two rows of corpses. He looked at Tie Lin and cursed weakly, "Tie Lin, you coward! Both members of the Action Team are dead, and only you are alive! When I go back, I will report you to the superiors for deserting in the face of battle and have you shot!"

Upon hearing this, Tie Lin immediately smiled and said, "Brother Li Jin, you misunderstood. I was just off chasing a suspect."

"You're lying!" Li Jin did not believe his words at all.

Tie Lin looked at the two Police officers carrying the stretcher and asked, "Has the hospital staff arrived yet?"

One Police officer said, "An ambulance came just now and took a few wounded, but there are no vehicles left now."

Tie Lin sniffed and said, "Big brothers, Li Jin's injuries are too severe. If we keep waiting, he probably won't make it. I'll drive him to the hospital myself! Please help me put him in my Jeep."

Seeing that Tie Lin sounded sincere, the two Police officers carried the stretcher to the Jeep.

Tie Lin gave Jin Hai a wink, and Jin Hai immediately helped put Li Jin into the back seat of the Jeep.

Tie Lin said to Xu Tian, "You go back first! There's no room for you in the car."

Xu Tian nodded: "Big Brother, Second Brother, then I'll head home first. You two stay safe!"

Tie Lin said to Jin Hai again, "Big Brother, you drive for me; I want to stay with Brother Li Jin."

Li Jin wanted to say something weakly, but was immediately stopped by Tie Lin, "Brother, stop talking. Save your strength; you still have to undergo surgery later!"

Jin Hai seemed to guess what Tie Lin was about to do. He got into the car, stepped on the gas, and the Jeep sped away like an arrow released from a bow.

Once the car drove away from the scene, Tie Lin slapped Li Jin's face hard and said, "Brother, I'm sorry. Your mouth is too foul; I can't keep you around today!"

Li San cursed, "Tie Lin, I f*** your grandfather, you, you, you will die a horrible death. Even if I die, I'll drag you to hell as a ghost!"

Tie Lin sneered, "Then give it a try!" After saying that, he covered Li Jin's mouth tightly.

Li Jin struggled for a while before he stopped breathing.

Tie Lin asked Jin Hai for a cigarette; it took a long time to light it. He took a few deep drags and said, "Big Brother, I owe it to you today, otherwise, I'd end up the same as this bastard."

"Tie Lin, what are you saying?"

"A great kindness is beyond words; I'll host a dinner another day."

Jin Hai said, "Tie Lin, I still want to advise you to find someone and get transferred out of the Secret Service Bureau! It's too dangerous here; so many people died in just one night!"

"Big Brother, I won't hide it from you, I've always wanted to quit, but the superiors won't agree at all. Of the sixty-plus people we just recruited, over twenty were wiped out today. I'm afraid my position as Group Leader won't last either."

At Liugongguan, Liu Rusi was escorted home by a platoon of soldiers.

Pingping hurried to greet her and said, "Miss, I'll draw your bath immediately; go take a shower first."

Liu Rusi took off her clothes, her curvaceous body slowly entering the bathtub. She closed her eyes and said faintly, "I'm exhausted today."

Pingping waited for Liu Rusi to soak for a while before she began to scrub her back.

She whispered, "Miss, were you a bit impulsive today? How could you trust He Yuzhu's words? How could a figure like Dai Laoban just die like that?"

"Even if he doesn't die, we would have had to act today. Bureau Chief Liu of the Secret Service Bureau and Bureau Chief Wang of the Police Bureau have long treated us as a thorn in their side. It's only a matter of a day or two before we get arrested."

"They haven't caught us in the act. How dare they..." Pingping muttered unconvinced.

"Isn't it easy to fabricate evidence? Find a few people to make up some words and press a thumbprint, and that's ironclad proof. Besides, of all the things we've done, how many were by the book?"

Liu Rusi finished her bath, wrapped herself in a bathrobe, and slowly wiped her hair.

The telephone on the table rang with a "ding-a-ling."

She picked up the phone; it was Shen Shichang's irritable voice, "Xiao Si! Get over here immediately! Don't delay for even a moment!"

"Dad, what can't wait until tomorrow? I've already laid down." Liu Rusi's tone carried impatience.

"No! Come over immediately!"

"Understood." Liu Rusi hung up the phone, grabbed her coat, and walked out.

She entered Shen Shichang's study; the expensive tea set had been smashed, and the floor was covered in porcelain shards.

Liu Rusi hung her coat on the rack, walked to the sofa and sat down, pulled out a cigarette and lit it, then lifted her foot to gently kick away a few shards of porcelain at her feet, "Dad, you are a veteran of many battles, how come you're getting more timid as you age?"

"You're the one who's bold! You actually dared to assassinate Bureau Chief Liu! You've poked a hole in the sky! Bureau Chief Dai will definitely not rest until you're dead this time!"

Liu Rusi blew a smoke ring and mocked, "That's if he can stay alive."

"You... you want to assassinate him! You are simply daring to defy the heavens!" Shen Shichang's eyes widened, as if he were seeing his daughter for the first time.

"Dad, look at what you're saying, I don't have that kind of ability. It's someone else who wants to kill him, and I received the news."

Shen Shichang sighed and said, "Xiao Si! I almost don't recognize you anymore! Since when did you become so bold?"

"Dad, if I didn't do this today, then tomorrow it would be you and me who die. You don't know how arrogant that Tie Lin is. Yesterday, if I hadn't called Battalion Commander Liu, I would already be in the interrogation room of the Secret Service Bureau by now," Liu Rusi said loudly.

"Why didn't you tell me about this?" Shen Shichang asked.

"If I told you, you would have come with your 'righteousness to destroy one's own family' and sent me directly over, wouldn't I be finished?"

"Is that how you see me?" Shen Shichang said.

"After all, I was born to your concubine, I'm not that important to you..." Liu Rusi complained.

"Now the responsibility is all on me, are you happy?" Shen Shichang let out a long sigh and slumped on the sofa like a deflated ball, appearing to have aged ten years in an instant.

"Dad, cheer up. Get a good night's sleep tonight, and when you wake up tomorrow, you'll find that everything is fine!" Liu Rusi flicked the ash from her cigarette and said with a hint of sarcasm.

Shen Shichang remained silent for a long time before he stood up shakily and walked toward the door.

Liu Rusi walked to the window and watched the sky where snowflakes were drifting down again.