Chapter 5
He couldn't help but turn to the side and pull away the shirt that was tightly pressed against his back. Just as he tilted his head, he caught a glimpse of a shadow quickly approaching the car door. He blinked once, and his heart immediately leaped to his throat, not daring to turn his head back.
Before Fu Zheng arrived, she had to display a kind of helplessness, as if she could only cooperate in isolation.
It was confirmed that she was not carrying a shotgun on her person. Since she got out of the car, the muzzle of the shotgun pointed at her had finally been lowered. Someone handed a walkie-talkie from the mercenary's vehicle to Yan Sui, to assist Lu Xiao with the translation.
Yan Sui tore open the packaging, and the palm-sized pain relief patch perfectly sealed the driver's mouth.
Let go of my hand, Yan Sui held his wrist, moved the walkie-talkie to his mouth, and added the final sentence: "I am relatively safer going than you."
Lu Xiao immediately knew she was joking and felt somewhat helpless: "President Yan."
Apart from the watch, she has no accessories on her body at all
"Alright, alright." Yan Sui said seriously: "Let them provide a bundled price."
She no longer dared to be careless, raising her hands in a gesture of submission: "Alright, 500,000, I will give it to you"
As she uttered harsh words, she picked up the satellite phone that was still on the call, opened her collar to stuff it in, wedging it between the sponge pad and the shoulder strap. Concerned about being discovered, she adjusted the chest support.
Very afraid
The coolness of the wooden barrel pressed against her brow, the sensation traveling down to her heart, causing a spot the size of a bullet, burned by a spark, to itch so intensely that her entire body went weak
The dialogue in the headset is not clear, as if shrouded in a layer of impermeable gauze, dull and sluggish
Yan Sui originally wanted to smile, her lip line just beginning to curve upward, but out of the corner of her eye, she caught sight of his hand gripping his pants, the knuckles protruding from the force of his grip. If there were light, one would surely see the tendons in his hand straining, dark and twisted.
However, among the five response plans she had envisioned, the only one that was not considered was the intimidation with a wooden warehouse
Yes
Before opening the wooden warehouse, Yan Sui actually did not think it through
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The dawn in Somalia, the night breeze is steeper than the spring chill of February, a single trench coat is simply insufficient to ward off the cold
I do not have cash, and I will request a computer to conduct a bank transfer. I need you to translate the entire process of negotiating this toll fee from them. You are not just sitting in the car doing nothing
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This was originally to prevent shoulder and back pain from long flights, but now...
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Yan Sui closed his eyes and simply decided to go along with the plan.
Although Yan Sui did not intend to pay this toll, there must be sincerity in the performance
Lu Xiao was perplexed and did not dare to respond, merely nodding slightly, completely displaying an attitude of being entirely subservient to her.
As they approached the task point, Fu Zheng, who had been silent the entire way, finally spoke: "Stay alert"
She put away the wooden gun and handed it to him: "Do you remember the man who just urinated on the windshield?"
"Keep this wooden gun for me," she casually tossed the wooden gun into his arms, "and I will take the opportunity to teach him how to be a proper person."
Lu Xiao stopped translating halfway, not daring to translate the latter half literally... fearing that the armed leader, in a moment of indiscretion, would truly resort to violence.
The toll is calculated per person, including the mercenaries... Lu Xiaoyin's tone changed, unable to hold back, he complained: "One hundred thousand US dollars per person, that's even more exorbitant than the pirates from 'Yan'an' who rob us."
Yan Sui remained silent
Distracted by the phone call, she watched as the car window was about to be pierced by a bullet. Almost instinctively, she acted with determination and, without much thought, blew up the dashboard.
She turned her head and looked at Lu Xiao
In that fleeting moment, it seemed as though she could hear the sound of the bullet flying out of the wooden barrel, piercing through her skull and landing directly on the gravel-strewn yellow earth
In addition to him, there were three other special forces team members in the same vehicle.
Upon realizing the determination with which Lu Xiao uttered this sentence, Yan Sui could no longer muster even a trace of a smile
She sniffed, feeling a bit cold, and mumbled: "You ask them, I won't pay the security team, is one car with a driver and four people acceptable?"
Fear
On the other side, Fu Zheng, taking a shortcut through the alley, remained vigilant as he began to move the coordinates, while also accelerating with full power, speeding past the narrow roadway
Lu Xiao had not yet spoken; she sniffled, crying as she reminded, "I saw it clearly, it is the national flag"
Imagine, for someone who tends to procrastinate, how could she possibly act weak and pitiful enough to lower others' guard? If she were fierce enough to make the other party wary, that would be a sign of mental instability
The driver, who also saw the shadow of a person, had a pain relief patch on his mouth. He attempted to attract attention, but as soon as he let out a sound, he was choked from behind by Xin Ya.
The entire convoy, including the three of them, totals twelve individuals. Calculating at one hundred thousand U.S. dollars per person, that amounts to one million two hundred thousand U.S. dollars. Yan Sui is not foolish; he understands that this is merely a price they have thrown out to test the waters.
She imitated Yan Sui, wrapping her arm around the headrest of the seat and applying a slight pressure.
Outwardly compliant, yet harboring malice within
I do not have that much cash on me, I need a computer for bank transfer, and I must negotiate with the group's vice president to mobilize funds..." Yan Sui took a deep breath, slowly moving the wooden gun away from his forehead: "Please do not point the wooden gun at me, I cannot help but want to break your fingers.
After Lu Xiao grasped Yan Sui's intentions, he began to feel restless. A fiery tongue still licked at his heart, and his cheeks felt as if they had been struck hard by a large mouth, stinging painfully.
He lowered his voice, speaking in a steady tone: "Control the vehicle as soon as possible, ensure the safety of the hostages, and await instructions for evacuation"
Just startled out of a cold sweat, the damp shirt clung to his back, uncomfortably sticky
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"Otherwise, I will go..." He moved his lips and gathered his courage: "I am a man"
The sudden turn of events startled Lu Xiao, causing him to shout in fear, his voice trembling at the edge of his throat, and he quickly conceded
It seems that fearing a long night filled with dreams, the leader of the armed group did not indulge in pretentiousness. He glanced towards the mercenaries, perhaps having reached a consensus, and gestured with his hand to indicate five, requesting five hundred thousand US dollars
The wind was indeed a bit cold, and Yan Sui was somewhat dazed by the gusts. Just as he was thinking of wasting more time haggling, Lu Xiao's words had just been passed over when the already impatient armed leader let out a breath, stepped forward several paces, drew the wooden gun from the holster at his waist, and aimed it at Yan Sui's forehead.
The communication range of the walkie-talkie is within one kilometer She leaned forward, pressing down on Lu Xiao's nape, applying slight pressure with her hand, turning his head to look at the roadblock not far away: The roadblock is about two hundred meters away, and their territory will not be more than half a kilometer from here
the last half of the sentence, gritting one's teeth
Lu Xiao was the translator arranged for her by Yan Chen before she came to Somalia. Prior to this, Yan Sui had met him once in Ethiopia during the Yan Group's overseas project.
She lowered her head and, while rubbing her hands together, glanced at her watch—five minutes had just passed
"If nothing unexpected happens, they will definitely want money." Yan Sui rummaged through the bag but found nothing else of use. She sighed and glanced out the window, suddenly feeling a sense of desolation akin to a hero at the end of their road
"You should now use the intercom to inform them that there are injured individuals in the vehicle, and you do not wish for any further conflict; any conditions can be discussed." Yan Sui bent down to pick up the backpack that had fallen on the car mat; she remembered that there was a box of pain relief patches inside, which Xin Ya had brought back from her vacation in Thailand.
He glanced sideways at the time displayed on the dashboard, switched from high beam to low beam, and gradually reduced the speed of the vehicle in preparation for parking nearby
After Yan Sui got off the vehicle, in addition to the satellite phone hidden in the chest pad, he emptied the pockets on his body one by one in front of the armed leader.