Something came from the microphone, like someone had moved the phone.

"Mr. Gu?"

Bronze felt weak in his knees. Although he had made up his mind, he realized now that he didn't fully believe that he could hear Gong Yu's voice again.

"Thank goodness." Bronze blurted out.

"I can't believe it's you. How are you-"

"I don't have time to explain. You okay? ”

"It scared me to death, but they didn't hurt me." Her voice was soft and weak, and trembling with nervousness, but he would never fail to hear it. He remembered the first time Gong Yu spoke to him, and remembered that her voice reminded him of wind chimes and champagne.

"I miss you so much," said bronze, "and I'll get you out of there." How many people do you have there? ”

Suddenly there was a collision in the microphone, and Ryan spoke, "Now you know she's alive." How can I get out of here alive? ”

"Turn on the lights. Pull back the curtains. ”

"What?"

"Let Gong Yu come to the window, it should be easy to see. Take the money out and out. Get in. You can keep your gun on her while you do this. That way, you know I'm not going to do anything against you. ”

"Until I got out into the street and couldn't see her and couldn't aim. That's when you're going to want to kill me. ”

"You have to trust me."

"Fart."

"Because I can be trusted. I'll show you how trustworthy I actually am. You know, you will be fine after you leave Gong Yu in the room, because I will get in the car with you. I'll be your hostage. You drive a little bit on the road, make sure no one is following, get me out of the car, and our deal is done. ”

Silence again. Thunder.

"You're kidding." Ryan said.

"I've never been so serious."

"How do you know I'm not going to kill you?"

"I don't know." "But if you do that, I've got friends who will hunt you down." I'm willing to bet you want to get it all done right now. I'm serious, Ryan. Give me Gong Yu, you take the money and leave. I will never look for you again. ”

Ryan didn't speak for a moment. Bronze imagined that he was making up his mind.

Then Ryan muffled his voice to say something to someone else in the hotel room. "Okay." He said to Bronze, "Give us five minutes, and then we'll come out." You waited in my car with your hands raised. ”

"You've made the deal, Ryan. But in case you want to go back on it, remember this – someone else is targeting you. ”

Bronzer felt a dry mouth due to concern. He hung up the phone and walked into the rain, feeling even colder. He walked briskly across the street, into the black parking lot of the motel, and under the cover of darkness, came to the back of the dumpster, and whispered to Officer Blue about the deal he had made. The sound of rain blurred his voice.

"You're risking your life." Officer Blue said.

"Is there anything else to say?"

"Go ahead, man."

"He's not going to kill me. He didn't want to spend the rest of his life running for his life. ”

"Escape from your imaginary friends."

"Well, I think if he kills me, you'll chase after him."

"Yes." Officer Blue thought for a moment. "Yes, I will."

The lights were lit behind the closed curtains in the opposite room.

"I can't let him find weapons on me. Give you my pistol," said Bronze, "in case things go bad, don't hesitate to shoot him." ”

"It will be my pleasure." Officer Blue said.

"When I tell you to throw something at the front of the inn, pick up the empty bottle at your feet and throw it over. Throw it higher and he won't know where you are. ”

Bronze didn't want to reveal Officer Blue's hiding place. He crawled back into the darkness and walked out of the darkness in another part of the parking lot. With his hands raised, he waded through a pool of stagnant water and walked to the front of Room 19.

The curtains were pulled open like the curtains in a theater. Bronze saw what was revealed, and it made him feel like his body had lost its normal rhythm and made his mind numb. Gong Yu was tied to a chair and stuffed with a ball of rags in his mouth. Her otherwise good-looking eyes were terrified with horror. Her hair was loose, her egg-shaped face was taut, and her high cheekbones were pressed against her skin. She looked very pale because of fear. But then she saw him through the window, and Bronze was touched by the affection in her eyes that had replaced fear, and the look of trust that had seen her. Apparently, she felt relieved and full of confidence in him. She believed that he was the hero she dreamed of as a child, her hero, and that he would save her.

A man hid behind the narrow cinder brick wall between the window and the door, stretched out an arm from the left and pointed to Gong Yu's temple. In that hand was holding a revolver with the safety open.

Bronze tensed up. He heard a noise behind the door, the lock opened, and the handle turned. Light came out of a narrow slit.

"Old Gu?" Ryan didn't lean out.

"I'm next to your car - I said I'd be here."

The door was wide open. Ryan stepped out, the light outlining his sturdy shoulders and athlete's figure. His chest looked thicker than the last time Bronze saw him, and his hair was cut shorter than he remembered, making his boxy, rugged appearance even more striking. His eyes reminded Bronze of a pig's eyes.

Ryan smiled and raised his gun to him. Bronze panicked, really afraid that he would shoot. However, Ryan walked through the open door, grabbed the bronze, and jerked him against the still-warm bonnet of the Fiat.

"You'd better not have a gun, old friend." Ryan rudely searched him while holding the muzzle of his gun to the back of his neck.

"I don't have a weapon," said bronze, "and I've always kept my promise since I negotiated a deal." "The bronze cheek pressed against the Fiat's wet hood. He squinted his eyes and caught a glimpse of the window in the light and the revolver aimed at Gong Yu. The cool rain poured on his face, and he kept blinking his eyes so that he could see better.

Gong Yu writhed in fear.

Ryan crudely finished his search and took a step back. "Oh my God, you did that. You gave yourself to me. You're so sure of yourself. What makes you think I'm not going to shoot you in the head? ”

"I told you - I have backup."

"Yes, of course, yes. Who's going to help you? Military commanders? That's not how they do things. Zhongtong? This has nothing to do with national security. Why should they bother with this? ”

"I have friends."

"Hi, I've been spying on you, remember? In Santa Fe, you don't have any friends, no friends you can trust to back you up. ”

"It's a former friend."

"To hell with it."

"Make some noise." Bronze shouted to Officer Blue in the shadows.

An empty bottle suddenly landed on the sidewalk next to the inn door, and Ryan cowered in terror. Pieces of glass splashed in all directions.

He grimaced, and turned his gun at the bronze again. "Hehe, maybe it's a homeless man, you pay him and he throws that bottle."

"The problem is that you don't know if that's the case." Bronze said, "Why take the risk? ”

"I'll be so happy to have you disappear from my life."

Bronze was in a panic again, he was really afraid that the other party would pull the trigger.

Ryan, on the other hand, shouted at the open door, "Let's go." ”

A figure appeared—a medium-sized man, wearing an overly long black raincoat and a rubber rain hat with a wide brim that hung down to obscure his face. No matter who he was, this person carried a suitcase in his left hand, and still held a revolver in his right hand and aimed at Gong Yu in front of the window.

Ryan opened the rear door of the Fiat and told the man in the raincoat to throw the suitcase into the car. Only when the man was in the back seat did Ryan open the door next to the driver's seat and let Bronze get into the car and sit on that side. The man in the back seat sat behind the bronze and pointed a gun at his head, while Ryan sat behind the wheel while aiming a gun at Gong Yu.

"Well done." Ryan smirked. "Without all these troubles, I don't have to worry about it. Now, old friend, you get what you want. His tone grew serious. We'll take you for a ride. ”

He started the Fiat, turned on the headlights, and started reversing. The strong light of the headlights shone on Gong Yu. Through the rain-soaked windshield, Bronze saw her struggling to break free from the rope that bound her, while turning her head to avoid the glare of the headlights. Fiat continued to fall backwards, and she became smaller and smaller. Then, Ryan turned around and drove forward, picking up speed and slowly driving away from the inn. Gong Yu was relieved, and Bronze felt relieved, but at the same time he felt very lonely and empty. He turned to look at her one last time, and saw that she was struggling to break free from the rope that had tied her to the chair. She looked in his direction, her eyes melancholy and heartbreaking, and she was worried about him.

"Who would have guessed?" Ryan pulled the car onto the dark street outside the inn and turned right. "A piece of romance."

Bronze didn't say anything.

"She's definitely got you hooked." Ryan said.

Bronze still didn't answer.

"Hey," Ryan looked away from the road, pointing his pistol at Bronz's face. "It's boring."

"Yes," said bronze, "she's attractive to me." ”

Ryan grunted contemptuously and turned back to look for directions. He looked in the rearview mirror. "There are no lights, no one is following."

"Did she know who I was when I first met her?" Bronze asked.

"What?"

"Is she just using me for extra protection?"

"You're weird. On the surface, he looks like an expert who can control himself, but he ruined his life for a woman. ”

"I don't see it that way."

"And what the hell do you think?"

"I didn't ruin my life," Bronze said, "and I found my true life." ”

"But this life won't last long. Do you want to talk about ruined lives? Bronze snapped, "You've ruined my life." If it weren't for you, I would have continued to work in the military command, I would have been promoted, my father would have been proud of me, and I wouldn't have had to do this damn job in the executive office as a bodyguard for the gangsters. Ryan raised his voice. I'll be able to stay in Shanghai again! ”

The man in the back seat said something - his voice was hoarse, as if it had been squeezed out of his throat, and it was strange. Bronze didn't understand him. Bronze had heard this strange sound - it was when he eavesdropped outside McKittrick's room. But somehow, the voice sounded familiar, as if he had heard it a long time ago, and it made him a little uneasy. Ryan was obviously familiar with the voice, and immediately understood the meaning of the words.

"I'm not going to shut up!" Ryan said, "I didn't say anything!" He knows as well as I do, and he can't stand it when he sees me succeeding! He shouldn't have interfered! If he had told me to do it my way, I would have been a hero! ”

"If you're a hero, you won't let yourself get mixed up with scum like Giordano."

"Hey, since the good guys are determined to kick me out the door, I think I should see how the bad guys treat me. It's so much better, thank you. I've come to realize that there's no big difference between good guys and bad guys. Ryan laughed. I've got a lot to gain when it comes to money. ”

"But you betrayed Giordano again."

"I eventually realized that there was only one side of all that mattered – my side. You are on the wrong side, and now is the time for revenge. Ryan held something up. For a moment Bronze thought it was a weapon, and then he recognized the channel. "I'm not as careless as you think. Ever since you called, I've been asking myself, how did you find me? I threw the briefcase away at the delivery location in case it was tampered with. But I never thought of banknotes. So I checked every bundle of bills, and I guess this is the one you dug a hole in. ”

Ryan shook the handlebar, and the window pane on the driver's side was lowered. In a fit of rage, he threw the guide into a ditch where the car was speeding by. "Now, who's smarter? Whoever is working with you, he can't follow us anymore. You're in the palm of my hand. ”

Ryan drove onto a side road, drove the car to the shoulder of the road with a row of trees, stopped, and turned off the Fiat's headlights. In the darkness, the rain pounded on the roof of the car, the wipers on the windshield swayed rapidly, and the bronze heart beat violently. A flash of lightning flashed, and he saw Ryan aim his pistol at him.

"I can hide for a long time with a million," Ryan said, "but if you don't chase me anymore, I don't have to hide at all." ”

Ryan placed his finger firmly on the trigger.

"We made a deal." Bronze said.

"Yes, and I bet you'll keep your word. Get out of the car. ”

Bronze is more nervous.

"Get out of the car," Ryan repeated, "get out of the car." Open the door. ”

Bronze moved a little further away from him and rested his hand on the passenger door. He knew that as soon as he opened the door and stepped out of the car, the other party would shoot. He was anxious, nervously thinking about how to get out. He could try to distract Ryan and snatch the gun from him, but as for the man in the back seat, he would shoot him immediately if he made any provocative move. He thought, I could jump into the ditch, it was at night, and it was raining, and they probably wouldn't be able to hit me.

He slowly opened the door and prayed, ready to lean over and get out of the car.

"Does she really love you?" Ryan asked, "Does she know who you are?" Is it taking advantage of you? ”

"yes, that's exactly what I want to know." Ryan said.

"Go ask her."

"What?"

"Go back and ask her."

"What are you talking about?"

Ryan reverted to his smug tone. He's playing a game, but Bronze doesn't know what it is. "I'm fulfilling my promise in this regard. You're free. Go back to An Ruoxi and see if she is worth the price you paid voluntarily. ”

"It's for Gong Yu."

"You're such a complete romantic."

No sooner had the bronze foot stepped onto the rain-soaked side of the road than Ryan jerked on the accelerator. Fiat roared away from the bronze, nearly rolling him in the foot. The door slammed shut, and Ryan burst out laughing. The taillights of the car quickly faded away, and the bronze was left alone in the dark and rainy night.

Bronze didn't immediately realize what was happening. He felt like he was in a dream. He was not killed, which surprised him, paralyzed him, and made him shudder. He even wondered if Ryan had really let him go. The maniacal laughter of the other party echoed in his head, making him uneasy. There must be something wrong.

But he didn't have time to think about it. He turned sharply and ran back to the faint light that had come from before. Although he was now exhausted from too little sleep and not enough food, although all the wounds on his body were hurting, and the cold from his wet clothes was draining his physical strength, he felt that he had never run so fast and never been so resolute.

The storm hit him violently, but he ignored it and continued to lunge forward in the darkness. He stretched his legs as long as he could. His lungs heaved and heaved. No matter what it was, it couldn't stop him from going to Gong Yu's side. He rushed to the edge of town and saw the car in a vague way, which Officer Blue parked on the side of the road near the hotel. Then, the hotel appeared in front of you. He spun around the corner almost in a frenzy, gathered the last of his strength, and rushed past the dark rooms to the gleaming lights of Room 19.

In the room, Gong Yu collapsed on the side of the bed, and Officer Lan was bringing a glass of water to her lips. The stuff and rope that gag was thrown to the floor. Aside from these details, everything else in the room doesn't seem to have to be seen. Bronze's attention was focused on Gong Yu. Her long hair was a mess, her eye sockets were deep, and her cheeks were thin. He walked quickly up to her, knelt on the ground, and gently raised his hand to hold her face. He was only vaguely aware of his unrecognizable appearance, of his soaked hair clinging to his head, of bleeding from the abrasions on his face, of the mud and dirt on his soaked rags. But apart from Gong Yu's An, nothing matters.

"...... you?" His voice was hoarse with strong emotion, and even he was startled. "Are you okay? Did they hurt you? ”

"Nope." Gong Yu shuddered. She seemed to wonder if she was still conscious. "You're bleeding. Your face ......"

Bronze felt his eyes hurt and his throat hurt. He realized he was sobbing.

"Lie down, old Gu," Officer Blue said, "you look worse than she does." ”

Bronze hugged Gong Yu. Although his heart was full of emotion, he still hugged her as gently as he could, and then he tasted the saltiness of his own tears. It was this moment he had been waiting for. All his determination and tribulation was for this moment.

"You're hurt." Gong Yu said.

"It's okay." He hugged her and never wanted to let go again. "I can't tell you how worried I am. Can you be sure you're all right? ”

"Yes. They didn't hit me. The rope and the stuff that gag is the most uncomfortable. And that feeling of thirst. I don't get enough water. ”

"I'm serious, Gu." Officer Blue said, "You look terrible. You'd better lie down. ”

But Gu Bronze didn't listen to him, so he picked up the glass of water and repeatedly asked Gong Yu to drink more. He was pleasantly surprised, repeating "You're still alive." It seemed that in the deepest part of his mind, he had always doubted whether he could save her.

"I was terrified."

"Don't think about it." Bronzer caressed her messy hair. "It's all over now. Ryan is gone. ”

"And the woman."

"Women?"

"She freaked me out."

Bronze leaned back and looked at Gong Yu in confusion. "What woman?"

"The woman who was with Ryan."

Bronze felt a chill in his stomach. "But I only saw one man."

"Wearing a raincoat and a rain hat."

A chill spread through his already cold body. "That's a woman?"

The bronze shuddered. "She's beautiful, she's a foreigner, but her voice is very weird. There was something wrong with her throat, a crumpled hole, a scar, as if she had been hit by something. ”

Bronze now understood why he felt something familiar with that disgusting hoarse voice. No matter how strong the voice became, there was still something that indicated an accent. White Russian accent. "Listen carefully. Is she tall? Short brunette? Does it look like White Russia? ”

"Yes. How are you-"

", did Ryan call her name? Did he call—"

"Renata."

"We have to get out of here." Gu Tong stood up and pulled Gong Yu up as well. He frantically surveyed the room.

"What's wrong?"

"Did she leave anything behind? Briefcase? Luggage? ”

"When they were ready to leave, she went into another room with a bag, but came back without it."

"We have to get out of here." Bronze shouted as he pushed Gong Yu and Officer Lan towards the open door. "She's a blasting expert. I'm afraid it's a bomb! ”

He knew exactly what had happened in Shanghai, and that Renata was an expert in explosives.

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