Chapter 53: Death Stare

Chapter 53: The Death Stare

Qing Tianfeng looked up at the countdown and the woman who was so immersed in her own technical work that she seemed unable to extricate herself.

Perhaps... there was someone who truly was not afraid of death.

Even death became insignificant before her.

Maybe he had been slightly infected by her aura, allowing him to remain so calm and face death so composedly at this moment.

【3】

【...】

【2】

【...】

【1】

【1】

Time seemed to hit a pause button at this very moment.

The explosion everyone expected did not come.

The crowd was bewildered.

Qing Tianfeng was still dazed, staring fixedly at the jumping numbers that had stopped at 1.

It had stopped.

It had stopped!

"Stopped!" was the only thought in Qing Tianfeng's mind.

【It stopped!!】 【It really stopped?】 【So all those messy ways she was dismantling it were actually correct?】 【My goodness, what kind of innate bomb-disposal divine physique is this!】 【I won't even mention anything else, but she didn't even wear any protective gear and dared to tinker around there. Her mental fortitude is not ordinary at all.】 【Sister Dumb is destined to be a female lead!】 【Well, she's someone who has been to the gates of hell several times; she knows the way by heart.】 【Captain Qing's expression is basically me right now.】 【I have a question: how many skills has Sister Dumb triggered? Does she really have no bottleneck period?】 【No, are you telling me you figured that out from watching dramas? Are we watching the same show?】 【Forget watching dramas; even studying abroad wouldn't necessarily be as useful as this. She is truly gifted.】 【I'm starting to doubt her identity. She must be some genius expert in a certain field, participating in the show low-key just to shock us ordinary people.】 【Not just a little, it's a massive, massive shock!!!!】

Upon seeing this result, the anti-fans felt disappointment, but more so, anger.

【I knew it was fake!】 【How could it possibly stop exactly at one second?】 【The production team faked it to this extent, and netizens actually believed it.】 【Fake at a glance! Don't ask me why I say that, because I'm a professional. If our professor were here, he'd probably want to smash the blackboard.】

Following the steps provided by the system, Jiang Xiaoya finally connected the last piece in the final second, letting out a heavy sigh of relief.

She shook her aching wrists, and with her other hand, she pried the ammunition loose and tossed it to Qing Tianfeng beside her.

Qing Tianfeng reached out to catch it cautiously, crouching his body halfway down.

A package of explosives weighing several kilograms.

Fuck!

With this much ammunition, they were planning to blow up the whole building!

Jiang Xiaoya quickly unlocked the door and pushed it open gently. She saw the situation inside: various high-precision computers were running frantically.

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Security Office Building.

When they first heard that Jiang Xiaoya and Qing Tianfeng were handling a case in the abandoned factory area, they didn't take it to heart. They simply released the guard dogs, wanting to teach them a lesson.

A girl, after all—seeing such a large pack of guard dogs, she would surely be scared to death.

That was until the camera in the cabin aimed at the girl's face as she suddenly looked up. Those large eyes, staring with a gaze that seemed to come from the abyss, caused the high-level executives in the security room to leap up from their seats in shock.

"Not good!"

"They are in the rooftop cabin!!"

"They've entered the cabin!"

The security executives seemed to have received some sort of shock, rising from their chairs one after another, panic visible on their faces.

As a group, they were about to run to the rooftop, but then they remembered something and stopped in their tracks, seeing fear in each other's eyes.

"Don't go! Don't go up there! Just detonate the ammunition!"

"Yes, detonate the ammunition!"

"Right, right, right! We'll go out and detonate the bomb!"

"Scare them to death!"

The crowd echoed in unison, hurriedly retrieving remote controls from the safe, preparing to detonate the bomb in the rooftop cabin.

But then again...

Almost at the same time, everyone looked up blankly, glancing at one another.

Only now did they realize.

If Jiang Xiaoya could appear in the cabin's camera lens, didn't that mean she had already opened the cabin's combination lock?

But there was another problem.

"How did she open the combination lock?"

"How should I know how she opened it?"

"The combination lock isn't even a lock; no one can get in. No one can get in."

"So how exactly did she get in?"

"She's in? She's in? How could she possibly be in! If she's in, where are we now?"

"If she's in, we shouldn't be here; we should be under the car—no, underground!"

The crowd argued incessantly, unable to understand how Jiang Xiaoya had entered the cabin.

"Forget how she got in for now. If you want to figure out how she got in, just go up and see."

The security director quickly calmed down.

"Can we go up? If we go up now and it explodes, we won't be able to run," a short man said with a face full of terror.

Facing death, no one could remain indifferent.

"She's already inside and it hasn't exploded. What are you worried about? What are you worried about? Hurry up!" the security director snapped fiercely.

The others stared at the cabin camera with faces full of fear.

That woman must have seen the camera and turned it toward the ceiling, so nothing could be seen.

However, their director was right.

The woman had already gone in—someone who shouldn't have been able to get in—and the ammunition hadn't exploded, so they didn't need to worry too much.

Moreover...

"Do you think the combination lock's self-destruct program failed? Or maybe the quality of the ammunition is bad and it can't explode right now, but it'll suddenly go off when we go up?!!" the short man said, his expression shifting unpredictably.

"We'll know once we go up and see!"

The director's voice was teeth-gritting. After speaking, he was the first to head for the door. Seeing them still hesitating, he lost his patience and shouted in a rage, "What are you still standing around for! Move!"

The others snapped out of it and hurriedly followed.

The director cursed all the way.

"No matter what, she cannot leave this place today!"

"I will make her die a hundred times more miserably than a bomb explosion!"

The few people behind him, who had been trembling with fear just a moment ago, had already regained their composure. Knowing that the bomb above might have failed and might not explode, their faces were now filled with cold, sinister expressions.

That place absolutely could not be discovered.

The group rushed toward the rooftop. When they reached the rooftop stairwell, they suddenly collided with the two people who had just exited the cabin.

As their eyes met, the security personnel recognized Jiang Xiaoya almost instantly as the woman from the cabin camera.

Jiang Xiaoya didn't recognize them, but encountering them here at this time, she knew it wasn't a good sign.

Qing Tianfeng and Jiang Xiaoya had borrowed a burlap sack to use first; the bag of explosives was hidden inside the sack in his hand. Seeing the group appear, he naturally handed the sack to Jiang Xiaoya beside him and walked in front.

"Captain Qing?"

The security director had met Qing Tianfeng once before; it was he who had received Qing Tianfeng during his last visit to the abandoned factory.

(End of Chapter)