Chapter 872 — No One Answers
The Blossom Guardian · Page 2 of 2
With the door torn off by the man in white, Qing Bo could hardly stay sitting in the car; against an expert like the one before him, that would be nothing short of waiting to die! This man posed such a threat that he could not protect Gu Mengyao even if he wanted to!
There was nothing for it—Qing Bo steeled himself and got out of the car, hoping only to stall for time so that Gu Mengyao and Shen Yushu could call Wei Zhao! But because the front door had already been wrenched open by the man in white, the two men in black had no trouble at all reaching in from the front to unlock the doors. They pulled open the rear doors, drew two pitch-black pistols from their waists, and leveled one each at Gu Mengyao and Shen Yushu!
"Hand over your phones!" the man in black barked, staring coldly at Gu Mengyao and Shen Yushu.
"Oh..." Shen Yushu obediently handed over her phone. A wise girl does not fight when the odds are against her; these two looked murderous, and Shen Yushu knew this was no joking matter, so she said nothing more.
Gu Mengyao had just been about to call Wei Zhao, but now it seemed she would not get the chance. With a helpless look, she handed her phone to the man in black—except that she had already dialed Wei Zhao's number, and had not hung up.
The man in black took Gu Mengyao's phone, glanced at it, hung up at once, then switched the phone off. He gave Gu Mengyao a cold look and said, "Don't try to be clever! Get out of the car. Into the one behind!"
When Wei Zhao received Gu Mengyao's call, he was having breakfast with Tang Zhi. The young lady's phone rang twice, and before Wei Zhao could even pick up, the caller hung up, which left him rather startled. He called back, but the line told him the phone was switched off.
Had the battery run out? Wei Zhao did not think much of it; after all, Uncle Qing drove Gu Mengyao to school every day, and that set his mind at ease.
"What is it?" Tang Zhi asked when she saw Wei Zhao make a call that failed to go through.
"Nothing. The young lady just called—rang twice and hung up. I called back, but it says the phone's off..." Wei Zhao shrugged. "Probably out of battery."
"Oh..." Hearing that it was the young lady who had called, Tang Zhi pouted and said nothing more, though a faint sense of disappointment settled in her heart.
"What's wrong?" Wei Zhao asked, noticing that Tang Zhi seemed a little downcast.
"Nothing..." Tang Zhi shook her head. "You don't think something's happened to the young lady, do you? Why don't you give Shen Yushu a call?"
Wei Zhao thought it over and agreed—if Gu Mengyao's phone would not go through, then he would try Shen Yushu's. He dialed Shen Yushu's number, but that too gave the message that the phone was switched off! Wei Zhao frowned; something felt wrong.
It was possible that Gu Mengyao's phone had suddenly run out of battery, but how could both Gu Mengyao's and Shen Yushu's phones be dead at the same time? And the road from the villa district to the school had no dead zones for cell signal—there was no way this was caused by a lack of reception!
At that thought, Wei Zhao grew tense in an instant. He hurriedly dialed Uncle Qing's number, but once the call connected, no one answered...