Chapter 396: Hostage Exchange 0395 (First Update)_1
“Guess who I am?”
Ye Xiong pulled down Kassoff’s mask, revealing a Western face in his thirties.
“Kassoff, you don’t look much like your dead brother. Were you not born to the sa father, or maybe not the sa mother? But it seems quite normal in the West. Even this kind of lascivious masquerade party, you could manage to throw. Does your family often play these kinds of depraved gas too?”
“You’re Reaper?” Kassoff asked in shock.
The thugs in the hall reacted and all surrounded him, pointing their guns at Ye Xiong.
“Put the boss down now.”
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“If you dare touch the boss, we’ll make sure you have no place to be buried.”
Crack!
Ye Xiong swiftly drew his gun and shot the talking thug in the head, his accurate marksmanship startling the remaining guards.
“Who else wants to make sure I can’t be buried?” Ye Xiong asked.
The ferocity of Ye Xiong frightened the thugs; they all sought cover, none daring to speak.
Ye Xiong walked to the wall, turned off the dim lights, and turned on the incandescent lights, dazzling the people below. So of them were gradually coming to their senses.
Pop pop!
Ye Xiong fired two shots, destroying the speakers playing the hypnotic music and the air conditioner blowing the intoxicating drug, cutting off both auditory and olfactory stimuli.
After the three things inducing hypnotic states were broken, the people in the hall gradually regained consciousness.
“What’s going on, what happened to ?”
“I feel like I went back to my childhood and had a dream.”
“This feeling is too strange.”
People around were all talking, expressing their confusion.
Suddenly, soone yelled, “All my money was scamd; they’re fraudsters.”
As one person realized what had happened, the rest of the victims also started to speak up, turning the entire hall into an uproar.
The scene started to beco chaotic, with so people attempting to break out.
Suddenly, a barrage of gunfire sounded, and a leading thug shouted, “Nobody move, I’ll kill anyone who does.”
Soone was hit; they fell to the ground, screaming in agony.
Subsequently, about a dozen thugs brought the crowd under control.
That’s when the leading thug stepped forward and said to Ye Xiong, “If you ss with a single hair on my boss’s head, I’ll start killing people here until there’s no one left.”
“Johnson, good job. If he doesn’t release , you kill them all,” Kassoff laughed heartily, “Reaper, if you don’t want any harm to co to them, let go at once.”
Inside the room.
Xiao Fangfang was pacing back and forth anxiously.
The sounds of gunfire and screams from outside made her very worried.
Although Ye Xiong had told her not to go out at all costs, she couldn’t sit still.
“Zhang Liyan, you stay here; I’m going out to have a look.”
“He told us to stay in the room and not go anywhere. It’ll be very dangerous if we go out now,” Zhang Liyan did not agree with her.
“I’m just going to peek out quietly; it won’t be dangerous.”
“I’m going out too.”
The two foolish won put on their masks and cautiously opened the door to the room.
As soon as they stepped out, they were discovered by a patrolling thug.
“Get back to the hall, or I’ll shoot,” the thug pointed his gun at them.
“We were just going to the restroom, nowhere else,” Xiao Fangfang quickly raised her hands.
“We’re just weak won, with no threat. Please don’t kill us,” Zhang Liyan pleaded, her face pale with fear.
“Get out, move it,” the thug ordered.
The two won were escorted back into the hall, rging into the crowd.
Xiao Fangfang looked pitifully at Ye Xiong on the stage.
Watching them being escorted out, Ye Xiong’s face beneath the mask turned dark. If it weren’t for the fact that he had Kassoff in his grasp, he really wished he could rush over and severely punish those two foolish won with eighty paddle hits.
He had told them to hide in the room and not co out, yet they had to run out and cause chaos.
Running out was one thing, but staring at him relentlessly was another; weren’t they just telling Kassoff that they were related to him?
All brawn and no brains, truly all brawn and no brains.
Kassoff’s eyes were vicious, and he imdiately picked up on the unusual ssage in the two won’s eyes, saying on the spot, “Let’s start with those two won.”
Two criminals ca over, seized Xiao Fangfang and Zhang Liyan, and pointed guns at their heads.
“Release our boss, or I’ll have them buried with us.”
The two won scread in terror.
“Ye Xiong, save , I don’t want to die!” Xiao Fangfang cried out in panic.
Good heavens, how could she be so foolishly fearless?
If he claid that he didn’t recognize them, he would still have room to negotiate, but now that the other party knew they were acquainted with him, wouldn’t they use her as a bargaining chip?
“So you do know each other, this is really too perfect,” Kassoff laughed heartily.
“You release them, and I’ll release you, just like that,” Ye Xiong could only compromise.
“You release first, then I release them.”
“Do you think I’m stupid?”
“I’m not stupid either, what if I release them and you don’t let go?”
The negotiation was unsuccessful, and at this mont, Ye Xiong suddenly said, “Release one of them, and after that, we’ll exchange the remaining one as a hostage.”
“Which one do you want to release?”
“Release the shorter one,” Ye Xiong referred to Zhang Liyan.
“Soone, release the taller one,” Kassoff ordered.
Ye Xiong breathed a sigh of relief, grateful for his own shrewdness.
Imdiately soone released Xiao Fangfang, and she quickly ran to Ye Xiong’s side and whispered, “I’m sorry.”
“Go into the crowd and keep your head down.”
Xiao Fangfang obediently made her way into the crowd, crouched down on the ground, and dared not speak anymore.
Next up was the exchange of hostages.
Ten or so criminals were escorting Zhang Liyan, while Ye Xiong had Kassoff in his hold, and the two sides slowly approached each other.
Zhang Liyan, pressed by two criminals, had two dark gun barrels pointed at her head, a cold dread rising from the bottom of her heart, making her tremble all over and tears streaming down her face.
One criminal took off her mask, revealing her exceptionally beautiful face.
“Oh my god, Zhang Liyan.”
“Isn’t that the pure maiden star Zhang Liyan? How could she appear here?”
“That’s the Asian diva!”
People around recognized Zhang Liyan, and the place erupted into a uproar.
Ye Xiong hadn’t expected that this woman was a female celebrity. No wonder she had asked if he recognized her earlier.
“Keep calm, you’ll be fine,” Ye Xiong’s gaze fell into her eyes and he said lightly.
His words were like a tranquilizer, calming Zhang Liyan down.
For so reason, from the first mont Zhang Liyan saw this man, she felt that he was different from others.
Now, facing a dozen gun-wielding criminals without fear, he truly was extraordinary.
“Stay calm, you must stay calm, just pretend you’re acting in a movie,” Zhang Liyan kept encouraging herself.
Both sides stopped about five ters apart.
Ye Xiong released Kassoff, a handgun in his hand, pointing at him.
On the other side, the ten or so people also released Zhang Liyan, with ten or so guns pointed at her.
Zhang Liyan and Kassoff walked towards each other, their eyes locked tightly, this scene very much resembling a scene from a movie.
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