Chapter 35 — I'll Be Your Hostage
The Blossom Guardian · Page 2 of 2
For some reason, Gu Mengyao was suddenly not as frightened as before. With a look she stopped Shen Yushu, who wanted to rise with her, and stood up resolutely.
Shen Yushu had meant to stand up together with Gu Mengyao, but Gu Mengyao's eyes told her not to come, to go back and find a way to save them. So Shen Yushu naturally would not act on impulse.
"Let's go." The bald man pressed the muzzle of his gun against Gu Mengyao's head and said.
Wei Zhao was somewhat puzzled as to why the bald man had singled out Gu Mengyao and would not let her go. Could he have taken a fancy to her looks? That was the only explanation Wei Zhao could think of, for he could find nothing else about Gu Mengyao worth the bald man's trouble.
By rights, one hostage should have been enough. In negotiations with the police, what mattered was not how many hostages you held, but whether you held any at all. Even with a single hostage in hand, the police would not act rashly.
"Listen up, all you cops outside." The bald man's subordinate, the one who had gone out earlier to shout at the police, stood in the bank's doorway and resumed shouting: "Pull back a hundred meters, all of you. And after we get in our car, don't send anyone to follow us, or we'll kill the hostages."
Outside the bank, Qiu Lingshan frowned at once when she heard the robber's words. She was naturally unwilling to retreat a hundred meters, but at the thought of the hostages still inside the bank, she had no choice but to sigh and say to her subordinates, "Fall back."
In truth, Qiu Lingshan had never been in favor of surrounding the bank so ostentatiously; it only put psychological pressure on the robbers and drove them to do something desperate. Had they surrounded and trailed them covertly, perhaps the robbers would not have chosen to take hostages at all.
But Qiu Lingshan's suggestion had been dismissed by the bureau chief as individual heroism, which left her deeply frustrated.
The bald man was quite satisfied with the police's current behavior. With his gun at Gu Mengyao's head and Ma Liu's gun at Wei Zhao's, they walked out of the bank together.
"Yaoyao!" Uncle Qing, standing beside Qiu Lingshan, suddenly caught sight of Gu Mengyao in the robber's grasp. His heart lurched and he cried out.
"Mr. Li, you know one of the hostages?" An uneasy feeling rose faintly in Qiu Lingshan's heart.
"That is Mr. Gu's daughter, Gu Mengyao..." Uncle Qing was extremely tense. Mr. Gu was away on business; if anything happened to the young lady at this juncture, his fault would be grave indeed.
"What..." Qiu Lingshan was stunned, and her anxiety deepened. How had the robbers, of all people, happened to choose Gu Pengzhan's daughter as a hostage? The very thing she feared most had come to pass.
Qiu Lingshan had no choice but to report the situation to the chief over the radio: "Reporting to the chief, one of the hostages is Gu Pengzhan's daughter, Gu Mengyao..."
The police chief was breaking out in a cold sweat as well. Hearing that the robbers had indeed chosen Gu Mengyao as a hostage, he was startled. "Be prudent. You must be prudent. Do not act rashly under any circumstances."
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