護花近衛 - 第45章 被放棄的劫匪 - 墨香閣

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Meanwhile, outside an abandoned warehouse on the outskirts of Songshan City, a black Hyundai commercial van was parked — though its license plates had already been stripped off.

"What the fuck, have these cops gone insane? We only robbed a little over a million — is all this really necessary?" Baldy spat a thick gob of phlegm onto the ground, thoroughly displeased.

"Yeah, boss, this can't go on. Aren't we just trapped here?" Ma Liu was just as edgy. "Fuck, what rotten luck."

"Enough, stop complaining. I'm waiting on Brother Cihua's call," Baldy said, waving his hand impatiently.

The phone rang. Baldy snatched it up at once, then said in a rather fawning tone: "Brother Cihua? It's Baldy here."

"What the fuck do you want?" A cold, sinister voice came down the line.

"Brother Cihua, what did I do...?" Baldy was taken aback.

"Did you bring the bank's money out with you?" Brother Cihua asked in that creepy, drawn-out way of his.

"I... I just grabbed it on my way out... what's the big deal..." Baldy felt wronged. He had finally pulled off a bank robbery; if he hadn't taken the money, wouldn't the whole thing have been for nothing?

"You pig-brained idiot, what did I tell you back then? I told you not to take the money — are your ears deaf or what?" Brother Cihua cursed furiously. "If you hadn't taken the money, the cops wouldn't be hunting you this hard. It's because you took the money that they're going at it with everything they've got."

"Ah..." Baldy thought about it, and it really was so. It was all his own greed for money that had brought this disaster down on them. At that thought he hurriedly begged: "Brother Cihua, I've been risking my life for you! You can't just cast me off — you have to save me!"

"Hmph. That girl, is she all right?" Brother Cihua snorted coldly.

"Girl? What girl?" Baldy was stunned.

"Gu Mengyao. You didn't touch her, did you? Fuck." Brother Cihua's voice grew urgent. "If you touched her, then it's over."

"Uh..." Only then did Baldy remember Gu Mengyao, and his voice began to stammer. "I'm sorry, Brother Cihua — someone rescued her..."

"What?!" Brother Cihua shouted. "You motherfucker, you didn't catch her?"

"No..." Baldy said, trembling.

"Then you can fucking sit there and wait to die. Sending you to do a job was a mistake," Brother Cihua raged. "Useless piece of shit. You deserve to be caught by the police."

With that, Brother Cihua hung up.

"Brother Cihua, Brother Cihua..." Baldy panicked at his words and hurriedly pleaded: "Brother Cihua, you can't just leave me like this — I'm your man..."

But after pleading for a long while, Baldy discovered to his horror that Brother Cihua had long since hung up.

"Boss, what did Brother Cihua say?" Ma Liu asked anxiously once Baldy set the phone down.

"Brother Cihua has abandoned us. We're finished," Baldy said, his voice hollow.

"Finished?" Ma Liu was stunned. "What do you mean? Brother Cihua is washing his hands of us?"

"He's washing his hands of us, because we didn't catch that little chit Gu Mengyao." Baldy sat down on the ground and sighed.

"Fuck you, you bald bastard — it's all your fault! If you hadn't been taken hostage by that kid, would the little chit have gotten away?" Ma Liu suddenly turned violent, leaping up from the ground and lunging at Baldy.

"You dare turn on me?" Baldy stared in disbelief as Ma Liu's fist landed on him.

"Look at the state we're in, and you're still putting on airs," Ma Liu sneered.

"You bastard — if your gun hadn't been taken off you by that kid, would we be in this mess?" Baldy said, and the two of them fell to brawling.

Bang. Bang. Two shots rang out, and both Baldy and Ma Liu collapsed in pools of blood, dying with their eyes still open.

The shots had been fired by one of Baldy's men — the one who had done the shouting at the bank. The man was called Ji Laosan, and among this crew he was the most respected after Baldy: the second-in-command.