Translator: Deyonna
The ward was very quiet. The assistant had gone out to handle work-related phone calls. He Yu was sitting on the bed, waiting for the anesthetic to wear off, while slowly putting the files of information back into the box.
However, when closing the inner compartment, his hand paused.
There was an odd color between the silver handcuffs and the black holster.
It was bright red. A rose petal.
He Yu remembered that he put this briefcase in the corner of the desk, and next to it was a porcelain vase filled with red roses.
Perhaps it accidentally fell in when it was opened.
But he obviously never opened the box in the study.
The assistant hung up the communicator, walked into the ward with a yawn, and saw He Yu staring at the box in front of him in a daze
He couldn’t help but worry a little that a single shot would make his boss stupid.
“Commander?”
He Yu lifted his head and suddenly asked, “What time is it?”
“It’s 3:30 in the afternoon,” the assistant replied. “There was supposed to be a charity banquet, but it was already late. I have sent an apology letter as an explanation.”
As he said that, the assistant frowned. “Just now, a wired report came. There were suspicious movements from the Yu family in the banquet hall. It’s unknown if something has been tampered with. It’s better if you don’t go, so as not to have another accident.”
As soon as the words fell, He Yu went silent for a while, then turned his gaze to the briefcase beside him, and the look on his face suddenly changed.
“Check Zhou Mushi’s location.”
The assistant was taken aback but subconsciously followed his order. A moment later, his expression also changed. “In… the central banquet hall.”
Before he finished speaking, the man on the bed threw off the quilt and jumped down.
“Commander!”
He Yu’s muscles were still in a state of paralysis and he hadn’t fully recovered. His limbs were not well coordinated, and he stumbled to the door. He pushed away the assistant who came to help him. His eyes were terribly dark as he said, “Arrange for a car to come over, now.”
Zhou Mushi shook the red wine inside the glass as he looked at his blurred reflection.
The male beta sitting across the table was the Vice Secretary-General surnamed Liu. After the two fought with their wits for almost half an hour, they more or less understood each other’s thoughts and didn’t say more.
Older people are always more cautious. Zhou Mushi has a full understanding of the other man’s personality in their past cooperation. This person’s family background is not inferior to Cheng Huanqing, and he even has more experience and connections in the political circle. The biggest drawback is his indecisiveness.
But every man has ambition, especially when an opportunity is thrown his way.
The moment the wine glasses collided lightly in mid-air, the purpose of Zhou Mushi’s trip had already been achieved.
When he came out of the private room and stood at the door, the communicator on his wrist rang for the third time. He glanced at the caller ID and rejected it without changing his face. After politely saying goodbye to the man in front of him, he slowly walked away with his cane to the other end of the corridor.
After a few steps, he turned to a corner and stood in front of the elevator. The communicator rang persistently for a while, and then suddenly fell silent.
Zhou Mushi’s footsteps paused.
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Suddenly, a “ding” sound cut through the silence, and the floor indicator lights lit up from top to bottom and stopped on number 1.
Bullets were loaded silently.
Immediately afterward, the closed metal door in front slowly opened——
But there was no one inside the bright box, only a bright silver cane that slowly rolled out.
The fifth floor of the banquet building is divided into separate boxes. The corridor is winding and desolate, empty and deserted. Zhou Mushi walked forward, supporting himself with the wall. While looking for intermittent signals, he sent a report to the security department.
The situation is a bit bad now.
What he was sure of was that taking the elevator down must be the most dangerous choice, and the corridors were also very likely to be ambushed. After that surnamed Liu left, the people watching from below had no worries, and they might come up soon.
Nowhere is safe.
And as an omega with an inconvenient leg and feet who has no power to bind a chicken, he is no different from a humanoid moving target.
Zhou Mushi coming here was completely unplanned. Even if someone wanted to deal with him, it would be too late to set up an ambush, unless…
He remembered that he ran into Yu Min upon coming here. The other had an odd look on her face. Without giving it much thought, he already understood the twists and turns of events.
Too careless, Zhou Mushi frowned as he thought.
Bodyguards are not allowed to enter the charity banquet. The security measures have always been perfect, but unexpectedly, the Yu family has the ability to infiltrate it.
This word “Yu” might have brought him bad luck.
Just as he was thinking about how dangerous it would be to pry open the electronic lock and hide in a room first, a young man dressed as a waiter suddenly walked into the corridor in front of him.
Zhou Mushi slowly stopped his footsteps.
At this moment, such a person appears here. The word “weird” is simply the best word to describe the occurrence.
“Sir, is there anything I can help you with?” The other party carrying a tray saw and greeted him.
Zhou Mushi didn’t answer, only indifferently watching the person in front of him take two steps forward as he pinched his cuff calmly.
The young man smiled slightly, lifting his hand under the tray little by little. The corridor was narrow and quiet, with dim light reflecting on the glass walls.
“Chi——”
There was a soft sound. The sound of a sharp blade sinking into the skin and flesh.
Zhou Mushi’s white knuckles hadn’t loosened yet. His eyes slightly widened as he watched the waiter in front of him collapse without warning.
Blood slipped from the tip of the knife and splashed on the marble floor, staining the reflection of the tall figure.
“Am I not late?”
When the alpha’s familiar voice sounded, Zhou Mushi looked at the man who appeared out of nowhere in front of him. He blinked his eyes, slowly relaxed his body, and let out an “en”.
He Yu flicked the blood-stained dagger casually, slid it into his arm, raised his other arm to hug him, and asked, “Were you scared?”
Zhou Mushi put distance between their bodies and said, “No.”
He Yu smiled and was about to speak when he suddenly noticed something. He lowered his head to look.
In the cuff of the omega’s snow-white shirt, a tri-dagger military weapon flashing with electric light was sticking out, looking extremely fierce.
Zhou Mushi’s face carried no expression as he calmly turned off the electric power source button.
“…” He Yu raised his eyebrow and said, “How did you get the license for that military weapon?”
“Bought it.”
“This thing is too dangerous,” He Yu stretched out his hand to him, held the tip of the blade through his sleeve, and slowly pulled it out, “Give it to me, you use this.”
Zhou Mushi lowered his head, looked at the black pistol stuffed into his palm, and raised his eyes to look at the alpha in front of him.
“You use it very well. You shouldn’t need me to teach you.”
Zhou Mushi faintly smiled and put the gun in his pocket.
Behind the white alloy door is an empty corridor.
“We’re just gonna go on like this?” Zhou Mushi asked.
“We can take the elevator if you want, but it’s more troublesome.” He Yu looked at his legs. “Shall I carry you?”
“No need.” Zhou Mushi refused. “Are you sure there’s no one here?”
“There used to be, but now it’s clean. After all, I came up from here.”
“Then let’s go.”
The distance between the five floors in the banquet hall is neither near nor far, at least at normal times, but at the moment of their escape, it seems to be much farther than usual, not to mention the slow-walking Zhou Mushi.
He Yu didn’t seem to be in a hurry at all. He didn’t feel the danger of being trapped in an ambush. He kept pace with him, who had an inconvenient leg and feet. Step by step, they both walked through the empty corridors.
He was right. This place is really clean, except for the occasional dry bloodstains on the walls, and the motionless bodies of a stranger at the corner. The alpha pheromones caught in the faint smell of blood showed a brief fight that took place here not long ago, ending in a one-sided victory.
Neither of them spoke as they both tacitly kept silent. When they reached the third floor, Zhou Mushi suddenly stopped and said, “You…”
“You hear that?”
As soon as the words fell, the expressions of the two changed at the same time.
Needles could be heard falling in the quiet corridor. After a short while, the sound of cement cracking echoed from the top of their head.
Zhou Mushi’s eyes flickered, and before he could react, he was picked up by the alpha in the air and rushed toward the bottom of the building.
The slight cracking sound continued into a loud rumbling noise, followed by the falling wall stones that chased after them. The corridor behind them collapsed in an instant and turned into a terrible ruin in the blink of an eye.
Zhou Mushi felt gravel falling into his neck. His forehead was scraped and bleeding from the falling stone, and the surrounding walls seemed to shake violently. It looked like a scene of doomsday, but nothing came louder than He Yu’s heartbeat in his ears.
The alpha was running towards the end of the stairs almost recklessly, his arms tightly clasped around his shoulders like soldering irons. Looking through the other side of the man’s shoulder, Zhou Mushi saw the sudden fall of the huge stone pillar. A scream was stuck in his throat, his fingertips breaking the skin of his palm.
He Yu’s figure swayed, he stepped on the unbroken handrail and jumped down, hugging him in the ruins of the crash and rolling into the bottom of the stairs.
Afterward, the air and light were blocked by the ruins.
There was a violent shaking around, and the sound of the collapse took a long time before it gradually returned to silence. Zhou Mushi’s eyes went dark for a moment. He recovered from the dizziness, coughed twice, and blinked hard, only to see the alpha’s neck close to his face.
His hand was confined by the man’s embrace, and his other hand was pressed by something unknown. He had to lower his head and put his lips on the side of He Yu’s neck. The moment he felt the warm pulse, he closed his eyes and breathed a sigh of relief.
The person in front of him was motionless. Zhou Mushi couldn’t see clearly, so he tried his best to raise his head, and called out, “He Yu? Yu Yuan?”
There’s no sound.
His heart sank slightly. He knocked on the other man’s chin but still got no response.
Little by little, Zhou Mushi pulled out his imprisoned hand, raised it, and slapped it hard on He Yu’s face.
After the crisp sound, the man’s hoarse voice rang in his ears. “It hurts…”
“Don’t sleep if it hurts,” Zhou Mushi’s voice sounded colder than usual. “Are you injured?”
He Yu didn’t answer, and after a while, he asked slowly, “How about you?”
“No.”
“En,” he said, “me neither.”
Zhou Mushi stopped talking.
There was a gentle touch on his forehead. He Yu’s lips swept between his eyebrows, rubbing against the wound on his forehead, then he said softly, “Don’t frown…does it hurt?”
He spoke very slowly, as if every single word was laborious.
Zhou Mushi felt a lump in his chest. He calmed his breathing and opened his eyes again in the surroundings where he couldn’t see his fingers, hearing the slight tremor of his own voice in the darkness. “Are you hurt or not?”
The person against his body went silent again. This time, there was no sound for a long time.
It seems like he had fallen asleep.
The palm of his hand was wet and sticky. There was blood.
Not his.
Zhou Mushi lowered his head again. His slightly trembling lips pressed against He Yu’s neck, drawing a sense of security from the weak pulse. He opened his eyes, but couldn’t see any light from the gap of the ruins. After a while, he opened his mouth and took a hard bite of the other’s neck.
He Yu finally moved a bit and woke up stimulated by the pain. He seemed to laugh weakly. “So fierce…”
“He Yu, don’t sleep, talk.”
“Um… what to talk about?”
“Anything.”
The man went silent again, so silent that it made him flustered, and when he was about to urge him, he pressed his lips against his ear, moved his lips slightly, and said with a breath so weak that it was almost inaudible, “……I love you.”
Then, as if he had exhausted all of his strength, he fell on his shoulder and fell completely silent.
In the alpha’s remaining consciousness, only the deep tingling pain from his neck was extremely vivid. The arrogant and calm omega bit deeply into his pulse, like a whimpering trapped beast, silently lamenting in the deep darkness.
Translator’s Corner: Ahaha, it turns out it was only wishful thinking when I say I wanted to finish this novel this month. After I saw the characters (5k and 7k) for the last two chapters of the main story I really have to chop them up for the sake of my sanity.
He better be alive
That was so exciting and abrupt at the same time!!
Thank You for the new chapter (๑╹ڡ╹)╭ ～ ♡
Stay strong… Keep at it.