It was an underground business, so they had to pass security at the entrance, identity confirmation, pat-downs for weapons, and the whole process. The entrance itself was disguised as an abandoned warehouse, but the door leading to the first underground floor was reinforced steel.
Above ground, it looked like nothing but green grass and derelict buildings.
Two guards stood at the entrance, heavily ard, their expressions bored but alert.
"Welco to our clubhouse," one of them said in a tone that suggested this wasn’t a welco at all. "You do know the rules..."
"You either let in," Tang Fei said coldly, her hand resting casually near her concealed weapon, "or you will die."
The guard blinked, then laughed, a harsh, mocking sound. "Haha... Little girl, are you threatening ? I guess you’re in the wrong place!"
He’d just finished speaking when a bullet imdiately shut him up permanently.
The shot was so quiet, the silencer reducing it to a soft phut, that the second guard barely had ti to process what happened before Tang Fei’s gun swung toward him.
"A smart choice would be to step aside," she said calmly.
The other guards further down the corridor lifted their weapons, aiming at the three intruders.
But Tang Fei was faster.
Her previous life’s muscle mory took over completely. She moved like water, like death itself, each shot precise and economical. Silent bullets rained down, and bodies began dropping.
Twilight moved in perfect synchronization with her mother, covering the left flank while Tang Fei took the right. Huo Wu, after a mont of shocked paralysis, drew his own weapon and provided backup.
Within thirty seconds, the entrance corridor was clear.
And a very, very bloody floor lay behind them.
Tang Fei stepped over the bodies without hesitation, her expression cold and focused. This wasn’t the gentle woman who cried over romantic scripts. This was soone else entirely.
Soone who had lived through violence before.
Soone who knew exactly how to kill efficiently and without remorse when necessary.
"Let’s move," she said quietly. "Soone down there is waiting for help."
They descended into the underground levels, where the real nightmare was about to begin.
Behind them, the bodies lay still and silent unable to alarm others or send signals.
And sowhere in the city, Huo Ting Cheng was about to realize his wife was missing.
The storm that was coming would make everything that happened tonight look like a gentle breeze.
But Tang Fei couldn’t think about that now.
Soone needed saving.
And she’d been given a second life specifically to be the kind of person who answered when help was needed.
Even if it costs her everything. They hurriedly put their guns away, since they were inside, no one was gonna know they killed the guards, they got so masks and mingled with other people.
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"Check out what’s happening..." Huo Ting Cheng’s voice was tight with growing impatience. He set his laptop aside, his instincts screaming that sothing was wrong.
Twenty minutes. She’d been gone for twenty minutes to use a washroom.
Huo Qi imdiately pulled out his phone and called Huo Wu. The line rang once, twice, three tis, then went to voicemail.
He tried again. Sa result.
A cold feeling settled in Huo Qi’s gut. He imdiately contacted the guards stationed on the 50th floor. "Status report. Where is the Missus?"
There was a pause on the other end. "Sir, they took the stairs down approximately eighteen minutes ago. We assud they had clearance since Huo Wu was with them...."
Huo Qi didn’t wait to hear the rest. He pulled up the building’s surveillance system on his tablet, rapidly scrolling through cara feeds.
Going through the 50th-floor corridor, it was empty.
In the public elevator of the 49th floor, he could see three figures entering after taking the stairs.
They knowingly avoided the private elevator since it could have taken them down directly.
He went to the Ground floor reception, and he could see three figures exiting to the parking lot of the company, which was just in front.
His blood ran cold.
"They’re not in the building, they have already exited," Huo Qi said grimly, turning the tablet to show Huo Ting Cheng the recorded footage. Ti stamp: exactly eighteen minutes ago.
The recordings show Tang Fei in the driver’s seat of a civilian taxi, Twilight in the passenger seat, and Huo Wu reluctantly climbing into the back.
The car had peeled out of the garage entrance at a speed that suggested Tang Fei had no intention of following traffic laws.
Huo Ting Cheng stared at the screen, his expression going completely blank, that terrifying calm that everyone who knew him recognized as the mont before the storm.
"She left," he said quietly, his voice devoid of emotion. "She looked in the eyes, said she needed to use the washroom, and she left."
"Sixth Master...." Huo Qi stuttered.
"She lied to ." Huo Ting Cheng’s hand shot out, grabbing the tablet and throwing it against the car window with explosive force. The screen shattered, spiderwebbing across the reinforced glass but not breaking through. "She lied to you know! She looked into my eyes and lied to "
His voice had risen to a roar on the last words, the fury and fear and betrayal all mixing into sothing volcanic.
"Sixth Master, I will be honest with you, she knew you won’t allow it, and she decided to do it that way!" Huo Qi had served Huo Ting Cheng for over a decade. He’d seen him angry before, coldly, calculatedly angry. But this? This was sothing else entirely. This was a man realizing the person he loved most had deceived him and put herself in danger for God knows what reasons.
"Track Huo Wu’s phone," Huo Ting Cheng ordered, his voice dropping back to that dangerous calm. "Now."
Huo Qi was already pulling out his backup tablet, fingers flying across the screen. Every security team mber’s phone had embedded GPS tracking, standard protocol for exactly this kind of situation.
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