hotmtlnovel Chapter 118: 118 Please Spare My Family!
Chapter 118: 118 Please Spare My Family!
Chapter 118: Chapter 118 Please Spare My Family!
Wang Jin wasn’t sure if Zhou Wei could see in the dark but twisted his head to make an OK hand gesture towards him anyway, and then tiptoed to the fire exit on the 32nd floor.
However, he quickly realized something was off:
The footsteps coming from below were too heavy and chaotic, clearly indicating that a large number of people were approaching, and they were almost all men.
Wang Jin furrowed his brows, according to the original plan, the crowd his sister Wang Jiamei had gone downstairs to call for shouldn’t have been this numerous.
Although he was thinking this, he still cautiously poked his head out a bit further and saw a beam of flashlight shining in the stairwell.
Not two seconds later, a man who was dark-skinned and fat, of medium build, with a somber and menacing face appeared at the corner of the stairs.
...
Behind him, led by a fierce-looking man holding a flashlight and machete, with a scar on his face, a group of men followed with aggressiveness.
Among those men were young lads in black work clothes, as well as middle-aged men in casual attire.
What surprised him even more was that his sister Wang Jiamei was at the end of the line, her mouth corners stained with fresh blood, and her face filled with despair.
“Biao... Brother Biao...”
A trace of fear flashed across Wang Jin’s eyes, and the slight excitement and joy that was left in his heart instantly vanished, but he still suppressed his inner rage and said with a flattering expression,
“Brother Biao, what brings you here with such gusty winds!”
His last sentence was considerably louder.
Ma Longbiao gave him a meaningful glance, squinted his eyes, but said nothing.
On the other hand, the muscle at the corner of Scarred Man’s lips twitched, and he let out a cold laugh that did not bode well.
Zhou Wei, just about to open the last Jing-ball, stopped his fingers, hastily withdrew the wire in his hand back into his pocket, and then quickly walked towards his own apartment’s entrance.
Before he had even made it halfway, Ma Longbiao and his men had reached the fire exit.
No one spoke, as if waiting for his command.
“Brother Biao.” Zhou Wei bent down and called out in a low voice, while his sidelong glance fell on the group of people behind him.
Unfortunately, the lighting was very dim, and Wang Jiamei trailed at the end of the line.
At that moment, only one door of the fire exit was opened, and he couldn’t see anything.
Ma Longbiao paused in front of the fire exit, his malevolent gaze cautiously swept over 3201, then 3204, before he spoke in a lowered voice, “Let’s talk inside!”
“Okay.”
“Don’t!”
“Mmmph!”
“Help!”
“Mmm!”
“...”
The group of middle-aged men in plain clothes standing next to Scarred Man contracted their pupils in panic at the sight.
Wang Jiamei, seeing her daughter also stuffed with a filthy rag, struggled and sobbed trying to resist, but the person next to her simply “slap!” slapped her across the face.
The slap was so harsh, and exactly at the area around her eyes and temple, that Wang Jiamei’s gaze instantly blurred.
Seeing this scene unfold, the veins on Zhou Wei’s forehead bulged out at once.
Yet he, about to grind his molars to dust with tension, did not choose to fight back. Instead, his burly body “thud!” dropped to his knees in front of Ma Longbiao.
“Brother Biao, I was wrong! It was all my idea, please spare my family!!”
“Mmm mmm mmm!” The few people with rags stuffed in their mouths also had tears streaming down their faces as they frantically thrashed about.
They didn’t beg for mercy, but their eyes were filled with defiance and desperation.
“Brother Biao, they’ve arrived.” The young man who had been guarding the peephole quickly walked over and reported in a low voice.
Ma Longbiao didn’t even lift his eyelids, “Let them in.”
The door “creaked” open and then “click” gently closed.
A young man in black attire entered with a middle-aged couple whose eyes were hollow.
There were traces of blood at the corners of their mouths.
They hadn’t been gagged with cloth, but neither of them had said a word.
Their walk was staggered.
“Brother Biao, as per your instructions, we kept those two, the rest have been dealt with.” The young man came closer and reported quietly.
Zhou Wei’s pupils contracted upon hearing this, and he shuddered all over.
Ma Longbiao did not speak but said to Zhou Wei, “Extend your hands.”
The kneeling Zhou Wei didn’t understand, but held out his hands palm up in front of him.