Chapter 259: Someone Wants to Kill Wang Baobao!
Chapter 259: Someone Wants to Kill Wang Baobao!
The scene shifted back to Z City. After Tang Chen finished speaking with Boss Pang, he followed him to Tianyu Entertainment Company. Everyone there, whether artists or staff, showed deep respect to Tang Chen.
After all, what Tang Chen did last time made no one want to be the next one.
Afterward, Tang Chen left the entertainment company and went to the hospital. After some casual chatting, he returned home, only to find that the three young women—Yang Mi and the others—had red eyes and sat on the sofa looking very sad.
Tang Chen quickly walked over and hugged Yang Mi, asking nervously, “Honey, what’s wrong? Did someone bully you? Why are you crying?”
Yang Mi shook her head and said, “No one bullied me. It’s just that Baobao is leaving, and I can’t bear it.”
Wang Baobao was leaving? Tang Chen was stunned, then felt relieved right away. He laughed heartily and said, “Great! That troublemaker is finally leaving.”
“Hey, could you at least talk behind someone’s back when you say bad things about them? I’m right behind you. Is that really okay?” Wang Baobao unhappily threw a cushion at Tang Chen. This guy was too much—even if he cared about his wife, he shouldn’t ignore her and Ding Xiang like that.
Tang Chen smiled awkwardly and said, “Sorry, I was so excited I forgot you were still here. By the way, why are you willing to leave now? Last time I tried to send you back, you absolutely refused to go.”
Wang Baobao said with a sad tone, “I don’t want to go either. I can’t bear to leave Sister Yang Mi and Sister Ding Xiang. But my dad called directly and said their flight would arrive home this afternoon. If I’m not home by then, I’m in big trouble.”
“Baobao, I can’t bear to see you go either!” Girls’ sadness always seemed to come out of nowhere. Yang Mi and Ding Xiang both choked up as they spoke, then stepped forward to hug Wang Baobao. The three young women began crying loudly together. Anyone unaware might have thought something terrible had happened at home…
Tang Chen looked stunned, his mouth twitching as he said, “Are you three really being this dramatic? Wang Baobao is just going home—it’s not like you’ll never see her again. If you miss her, I can take you to Jingdu to visit her.”
Yang Mi scoffed at Tang Chen and said coquettishly, “Tang Chen, you don’t understand. You men will never understand how deep our sisterly bond is.”
Tang Chen felt utterly speechless. Yeah, he really didn’t get it. Casually, he said to the System, “System, do you understand this crap?”
“Dear Host, you seem to have forgotten—I am not human.” The System replied calmly, nearly making Tang Chen spit blood again.
After finally comforting the three young women, Wang Baobao said to Tang Chen, “Tang Chen, take me back now.”
Tang Chen pointed at his own nose and said, “Me? Seriously, why do you want me to take you back when you could just take a plane?”
Wang Baobao pouted proudly and said, “Wang Xiangyu told me to. He said he’s not comfortable with me flying back alone, so he asked you to drive me back.”
Just as Tang Chen was about to complain, Yang Mi persuaded him, “Forget it, Tang Chen, just take Baobao back. It really isn’t safe for a girl to travel alone.”
Being the good guy he was, Tang Chen naturally listened to his wife. He didn’t argue anymore. They let Wang Baobao pack her things, and then the two of them left together.
This wasn’t the first time Tang Chen drove the Extravagant Battle Car to Jingdu. He knew the route by heart, so the drive was relaxed. However, the little girl Wang Baobao seemed in low spirits; it looked like she still didn’t want to go home.
“Wang Baobao, don’t be too sad. If you miss them, I can always pick you up again so you can see your Sister Yang Mi and the others, okay?” Tang Chen couldn’t stand seeing a cute little girl frowning all the time, so he tried to comfort her for once.
Wang Baobao sighed and said in a mature tone, “Tang Chen, you don’t understand. Once I go back, it’ll be hard to leave again. My parents are very strict. Besides going to school, they hardly let me go out. I have almost no freedom.”
Tang Chen didn’t know what to say. Just then, his phone rang. He picked it up and saw it was Wang Xiangyu calling. He answered and said irritably, “Wang Xiangyu, don’t tell me you’re calling to hurry me up about taking your little sister home. I’m already unhappy being her free driver—don’t make me ask you for payment.”
On the other end, Wang Xiangyu sounded anxious as he said, “Big Brother, it’s good that my sister is with you. You two must be careful. I got word that someone might be targeting my sister.”
“What’s going on? Tell me about it.” Tang Chen didn’t repeat Wang Xiangyu’s words out loud. Wang Baobao was already upset; if he told her, her frown would probably get even worse.
Wang Xiangyu quickly said, “I’m not entirely sure about the details, Big Brother, but I’ll be honest with you. My family is in business, and in business, you make enemies. Last time, Baobao told me that when she first went to your place, you were attacked. I looked into it later—those killers weren’t after you; they were after my sister!”
“You mean their target last time wasn’t me?” Tang Chen hadn’t paid much attention to the last incident. He had many enemies, so he naturally assumed any attack was from his own rivals. It never occurred to him they were after Wang Baobao.
Wang Xiangyu said seriously, “That’s right, Big Brother. And now I got another message from my contacts in the underworld. They said someone posted a bounty of one million on a killer website to take my sister’s life. It scared me to death. That’s why I asked you to escort her back. Big Brother, please, you have to protect my sister.”
One million for Wang Baobao’s life? What kind of deep hatred was this? It seemed the enemies the Wang family had made over the years were more than he imagined. No wonder Wang Baobao said before that she was often targeted by killers when she studied in the United States.
“Don’t worry. I just returned to the country. If any idiots show up in front of me, I’ll take care of them. I’m about to enter the Jingdu highway with Wang Baobao. Let’s meet at Heaven on Earth Club later.” Tang Chen truly didn’t take those killers seriously. After all, he had encountered so many assassins that he was used to it.
Wang Xiangyu agreed on the other end and then hung up. Wang Baobao asked curiously, “Tang Chen, what did my brother want?”
Tang Chen smiled easily and said, “Nothing. He was just asking where we are. Your brother is just worried about you.”
Wang Baobao said “Oh,” took out her Apple mobile phone, and started watching Pleasant Goat and Big Big Wolf.
Tang Chen didn’t notice that inside the tire of the extravagant car, a red button was emitting a faint light. It was a state-of-the-art tracking device!
Meanwhile, in room 403 of a hotel in Jingdu, a man wearing headphones and staring at a computer screen suddenly stood up. He called out to the man lying on the bed behind him, “Lord Sa, the target is about to enter the Jingdu highway.”
The man had a handsome face with sharp, distinct features. His expression was gloomy, his skin deathly pale, and a faint, elusive smile always played on his lips. At that moment, he was wiping a curved blade with a tissue!
The blade was about 22 inches long—not too long, not too short. A vivid dragon was carved on the blade, and on the hilt, there was a character: Sa!
Safishen, a young master from an underground killer organization, also known as the cold-blooded number two on the Killer Ranking List. Safishen had been famous for decades. He killed his first target with a knife when he was twelve, and now he was twenty-five!
“Tell the brothers to get ready. We must succeed; failure is not an option.” Safishen slowly stood up, sheathed his knife, his face expressionless.
“Yes, Lord Sa.” The man acknowledged and was about to pick up the walkie-talkie when he paused. Hesitating, he said, “Lord Sa, there’s something I’m not sure if I should say. With your status now, just killing a little girl—it shouldn’t require your personal involvement, right?”
Safishen slowly turned his gaze toward him, a chilling, snake-like glint that made one shiver: “In the world of killers, there are only the dead and the living. You all couldn’t even kill a little girl, forcing me to step in personally. How dare you say that?”