227: Chapter 227 Dry (Fourth Update) 227: Chapter 227 Dry (Fourth Update) Under normal circumstances, if anyone dared to blatantly say “I despise you” in front of Zhang Fan, he would’ve definitely thrown a punch.
However, now, Zhang Fan was secretly thrilled.
Haha, he actually had the chance to flaunt his connections for once, and it was in front of the special police force captain, Hua Ling.
Looking at his dad’s figure, if one were to describe it with a curse word.
It would be…
Freaking awesome.
Glancing at his dad, Zhang Fan turned back and asked Hua Ling, “What do we do now?”
Hua Ling’s gaze also became serious, “Go upstairs!”
“What if they start shooting?” Zhang Fan’s expression became anxious, “Xiaoyuan and Ye Xuan, the two girls, are still in their hands.”
“We don’t know the enemy’s position, and snipers won’t fire without confirming the safety of the hostages,” Hua Ling said again.
“Position?”
Zhang Fan’s eyes narrowed, and then he sneered.
A position, huh?
I have Telepathy.
A hundred meters distance, one-meter-thick walls, these can’t stop me.
Immediately, Zhang Fan activated his Telepathy, looking upwards intently.
The nineteenth floor, thankfully within a hundred meters range.
Soon, Zhang Fan spotted two people standing by the window.
But as he looked further inside, his cold sweat began to pour.
“Why are there so many hostages!” Zhang Fan was shocked, “Over thirty people crouching on the floor in the lobby of the nineteenth floor.”
Zhang Fan’s face showed urgency, “Why can’t I see Xiaoyuan and Ye Xuan, the two girls?
And Li Xuan is not here either.”
Zhang Fan abandoned the lobby and looked further inside, but after seeing through three walls, his Perspective could no longer penetrate any further.
Damn, the one-meter limit of Perspective is cumulative!
This is no good, I totally can’t see Xiaoyuan and Ye Xuan.
We have to go upstairs!
“Move!” commanded Hua Ling, leading the group toward the interior of the building.
However, just then, gunfire suddenly rang out.
“Bang bang bang bang!”
“I’m telling you, if one person goes upstairs, I’ll kill one, and if ten people go upstairs, I’ll kill ten,” a voice from upstairs shouted.
Hua Ling and her team instantly changed color.
Hua Ling and her team retreated, looking up toward the floors above.
“How many hostages?”
“Over thirty in the lobby, unknown in other areas,” a sniper asked.
“Circle around the building!” Hua Ling ordered, and they immediately retreated, heading to the right side of the square.
“Bang bang bang!”
As Hua Ling and her team arrived underneath the building, the gunfire started again.
“Stop trying, there are people on all sides; we can see you, don’t think we’re blind.”
“Damn it, these bastards,” Hua Ling cursed as she retreated.
The shopping mall was a very regular rectangle, and furthermore, there was absolutely no cover around it.
Anyone on the upper floors could clearly see everything below.
“What do we do?” Hua Ling was also getting anxious.
Zhang Fan’s eyes flickered, “Parking garage.”
Hua Ling and her team’s eyes also lit up.
Right, the parking garage.
From the parking garage, those people wouldn’t be able to see them, right?
“Structure plan,” Hua Ling demanded, and the team huddled behind to study the entire mall’s layout.
“Damn, why are there no stairways?
All elevators?” Hua Ling was furious.
In such a large shopping mall, there were no staircases to the floors.
Zhang Fan rolled his eyes, “Does anyone still take the stairs these days?”
“The electrical switch has been sabotaged, it’s impossible to take the elevator,” one person said.
“Break the elevator door, climb up,” Zhang Fan ordered.
“Alright, grab the tools and go,” Hua Ling said, and immediately a group of people carrying tools headed towards the garage.
Soon, Zhang Fan and his team arrived at the elevator doors in the garage.
“Pry the door open!” Hua Ling commanded.
After prying the door open and seeing the steel cables, Zhang Fan immediately took the lead and started climbing up.
Hua Ling and the rest followed suit.
“Hey, are we done yet?” Hua Ling said, panting.
Zhang Fan spoke in a low voice, “The elevator is out of power, we can only use the stairs to go up.
If someone is blocking the stairway entrance, we have no way of getting in,” he explained.
“Do they have that many people?” Hua Ling asked hesitantly after a moment.
“Better safe than sorry,” Zhang Fan said, looking up before adding, “We need to climb at least to the twentieth floor and then make our way down through a window.”
“What, the twentieth floor?
That’s almost a hundred meters, right?
And because this is the second basement level, it’s definitely a hundred meters.
This is going to be difficult,” Hua Ling swallowed hard and said.
In shopping malls, the height of one floor is roughly five meters.
Climbing a hundred meters would certainly spell doom if one were to fall.
Even though they were special police, their usual training for climbing buildings was only up to thirty meters.
Zhang Fan ignored Hua Ling and said straightforwardly, “Give me the crowbar, I’ll go up.”
Grinding his teeth, Hua Ling then said to the people behind him, “You guys climb up from here, Zhang Fan and I will go up.”
The few behind nodded.
This wasn’t the time to show off.
They knew their limits – at most forty meters.
Any higher would be too much for them.
“Huff huff huff!”
Zhang Fan’s breath grew laboured; his hands were already blistered from the climbing.
Steel cables are not like soft ropes; when you’re tired, you can’t just step on them for a rest.
You have to just hug the steel rope tightly and catch your breath.
“Can you make it?” Zhang Fan asked.
Hua Ling was exasperated, “Damn it, I have to climb even if it’s beyond my abilities.”
“By the way, how many floors up are we?” Hua Ling asked.
“Fifteenth floor!” Zhang Fan responded.
“Keep going, I can still hold on,” Hua Ling said.
Only then did Zhang Fan slowly continue climbing upwards.
“Alright, pry the door,” Zhang Fan said, holding the crowbar and inserting it into the elevator’s crack.
Two minutes later, Zhang Fan and Hua Ling were lying on the ground, gasping for breath.
“I owe you one this time, damn, I didn’t expect prying a door inside the elevator to be so difficult,” Hua Ling said with lingering fear.
After resting for a while, Zhang Fan whispered, “Let’s go.”
“Captain, there are people in the hallway, we can’t get up,” Hua Ling felt a wave of fear upon hearing the voice through the earpiece.
It was a good thing they had listened to Zhang Fan’s advice; otherwise, they would have had no way to proceed.
Zhang Fan’s eyes were ice cold, staring down at the floor below intently.
With just one floor in between, Perspective was no stress at all.
“What are you doing?” Hua Ling asked confusedly, seeing Zhang Fan intently staring at the floor.
Zhang Fan ignored the question and began to move around the twentieth floor.
He felt a deep anxiety in his heart; the key now was to find Ye Xuan and Zhang Xiaoyuan.
Otherwise, he wouldn’t feel at ease.
When Zhang Fan saw Ye Xuan and Zhang Xiaoyuan in one of the rooms, he breathed a sigh of relief.
Damn!
More than twenty people!
Looking at the more than twenty fully armed individuals, Zhang Fan was also infuriated.
Where did all these people come from?
“This way!”
Zhang Fan directed as he tied the rope to the steel frame and then embraced the rope, slowly descending downwards.
“Sss!
The twentieth floor, God, how did they get up there?”
Watching Zhang Fan’s body dangling in mid-air, the group of police officers on the ground all tensed up.