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The Blossom Guardian · Page 1 of 2
Meanwhile, at the door of an abandoned warehouse in the suburbs of Songshan City, a black modern commercial van sat parked, though its license plates had already been taken off.
"Holy shit, are these cops crazy? We only stole a million-plus, right? Is all this necessary?" Baldy spat a thick glob of phlegm onto the ground in disgust.
"Yeah, Boss, this can't go on much longer. Are we trapped here or what?" Ma Liu was just as restless: "Fucking hell, what shitty luck."
"Enough, stop complaining. I'm waiting on Brother Cihua's call." Baldy waved his hand impatiently.
A phone rang. Baldy snatched it up and answered with an oily, fawning tone: "Is that Brother Cihua? This is Baldy."
"What the fuck are you doing over there?" a cold, sinister voice came from the other end.
"Brother Cihua, what did I do..." Baldy blinked, caught off guard.
"Did you take the bank's money with you?" Brother Cihua asked in a chilling voice.
"I... I just grabbed it on the way out... What's the big deal..." Baldy felt wronged. He had finally gotten around to robbing a bank after all this time - if he didn't take the money after hitting it, wouldn't the whole thing be pointless?
"Pig brain, what did I tell you? I told you not to take the money. Are you deaf?" Brother Cihua erupted in fury: "If you hadn't taken the money, the police wouldn't be going all-out hunting you down. It's because you took the money that they're working so damn hard."
"Ah..." Baldy thought it over and realized it was true. It was all his own greed that had brought about this disaster. Remembering that, he pleaded desperately: "Brother Cihua, I've bled for you. You can't just leave me hanging. You have to save me!"
"Hmph, is that girl still okay?" Brother Cihua snorted coldly.
"Girl? What girl?" Baldy was baffled.
"Gu Mengyao! Don't tell me you laid a hand on her? Shit!" Brother Cihua's voice turned urgent: "If you touched her, we're done for."
"Uh..." Only now did Baldy remember Gu Mengyao, and his voice faltered: "I'm sorry, Brother Cihua... she was rescued by someone..."
"WHAT?" Brother Cihua howled: "FUCKING HELL - you didn't catch her?"
"No..." Baldy said, voice trembling.
"Then you can fucking wait to die. Hiring you was a goddamn mistake," Brother Cihua cursed at the top of his lungs: "You're a complete wreck. You deserve every bit of what the cops are doing to you."
With that, Brother Cihua hung up.
"Brother Cihua, Brother Cihua..." Hearing this, Baldy panicked and begged: "Brother Cihua, you can't abandon me - I'm your man..."
But after pleading for a long while, Baldy realized in shock that Brother Cihua had already cut him off.
"Boss, what did Brother Cihua say?" Ma Liu asked anxiously the moment Baldy set the phone down.
"Brother Cihua's abandoned us. We're finished," Baldy said, deflated.
"Finished?" Ma Liu stared blankly: "What's that supposed to mean? Brother Cihua won't look after us anymore?"
"They've written us off, just because we didn't catch that little tramp Gu Mengyao," the bald man said with a sigh, slumping down onto the ground.
"Damn you, you bald bastard, it's all your fault! If that brat hadn't taken you hostage, would she have gotten away?" Ma Liu suddenly turned savage, leaping up from the ground and lunging at the bald man.
"You dare rebel?" The bald man was stunned, staring in disbelief as Ma Liu's fist landed on him.
"Look at the state we're in, and you're still putting on airs?" Ma Liu sneered.
"You son of a bitch, if that brat hadn't swiped your gun, would we be in this mess?" the bald man shot back, and the two of them fell into a brawling scuffle.
Bang. Bang. Two gunshots rang out, and both the bald man and Ma Liu collapsed in pools of blood, their eyes wide open in death.
The shots had come from the bald man's subordinate, the one who had done the shouting at the bank. His name was Ji Laosan, and among the gang he was second only to the bald man in standing, their second-in-command.