Zhang Yaochen believed that there was a divine will in the dark.
On the day Jin Yanchai died, he felt that he would get his comeuppance one day, so Xu Hang’s appearance gave him the feeling that the time had come.
He slowly took off his glasses, trying to find some resemblance between the child and the one he remembered. He looked for a long time before he sighed, “You used to look a lot like your mother, but now you’ve changed a lot.”
“The world is ever-changing. Appearance is determined by the heart. If the heart changes, how can the appearance not change?”
If Zhang Yaochen had a little fear just now, then it was gone by now, and he even felt a little emotional. If Xu Hang hadn’t looked at him sternly, he would have almost reached out to touch his hair: “I held you in my arms before, and you grew up so big in a flash… I thought you left with your mother, but I didn’t expect…”
“You didn’t expect I was still alive and came back to find you. I made your son disabled, your daughter’s old illness relapsed, and I made all the tobacco dealers in Shanghai your enemy. I made you unable to sleep or eat. Chief of Staff, how does it feel to fall into hell?” Xu Hang pointed out everything one by one, just to let Zhang Yaochen know what he had done.
Thinking of his own children, it would be a lie to say that Zhang Yaochen was not sad. However, if the person who did this was Jin Yanchai’s son, he felt that he had no reason to hate him.
Looking at the photo on the table, Zhang Yaochen frowned, and there were some long-standing secrets in his cloudy eyes: “You should hate me… I owe her. I will repay her with a tit for tat. I don’t blame you. It’s God’s will. But this is my debt, and they shouldn’t bear it.”
Xu Hang’s mouth curled up, and his voice turned cold: “Tit for tat? Heh… does the Chief of Staff really think so?”
Zhang Yaochen was stunned.
Xu Hang added, “You took one day to push me into hell, but it took me eleven years to push you into hell. Do you think this is fair?”
Now this conversation was actually very strange, not at all like a conversation between two enemies. It was too calm, no quarrels, no fights, but the tension was no less.
With a slight click, Zhang Yaochen put down his glasses, rubbed his nose, and slowly said, “Go, child; since you survived, you should live a good life and lead an ordinary life. I don’t want to hurt you. This is my way of making up for her.”
Xu Hang felt sick in his stomach after hearing every word Zhang Yaochen said, but he kept smiling: “You don’t want to hurt me, or are you afraid that I will hurt you guys?” He paused, “Are you afraid now? It seems that you are old and don’t have the courage you had when you were young. It’s a pity that you didn’t see your son crawling and your daughter crying. It was really ugly. Believe it or not, if you give me a few more days, I will definitely let you know what it feels like to have a broken family.”
Zhang Yaochen trembled. Yes, he absolutely believed that Xu Hang could do it.
After thinking for a while, he smiled softly and said, “Child, if you stop here, I am willing to give you half of my wealth as compensation. You know if I wanted to hurt you, I could have activated the mechanism just now. I feel guilty towards your mother, so I am willing to let you go, but if you insist on doing it, then I can’t watch you hurt my children as well.”
Xu Hang’s eyes moved slightly. “Your family is a family, but other people’s families are worthless? Speaking of feeling guilty, you didn’t even mention my father. I still clearly remember how you patted your chest and said that you would be willing to work like a cow or a horse for my father in this life! Zhang Yaochen, you don’t have to sound generous. You held back because you were scared of me. You might as well go ahead and try, let’s see whether your machine gun or my gun is quicker.”
“You are so young, is it worth it to perish together with an old man like me?”
Xu Hang smiled and said, “Whether I go to hell or not, what does it have to do with you? But I know very well whether you can go to hell or not.”
As he finished speaking, it was one in the morning, and the big pendulum clock in the corner began to chime.
The hammer of the clock swung left and right. The clock was very heavy, about the width of two people. The sound of the clock echoed between the two people who were on edge, which seemed particularly appropriate.
Just when the bell sound was about to end, Xu Hang’s hand suddenly shook, followed by the candlelight. The golden thing suddenly dazzled Zhang Yaochen’s eyes. He subconsciously turned his head, and the gun in Xu Hang’s other hand shot at Zhang Yaochen!
Cong Lin told him that Zhang Yaochen’s mechanism room was somehow connected to the Western clock. Every time it was on the exact time, the mechanism would get stuck for one second, so this second was his golden time to win.
Time is short, opportunity is rare, and once missed, it will never be able to reverse.
Honestly speaking, at such a close distance, there should be no possibility of making a mistake. However, Zhang Yaochen’s body swayed, and the bullet seemed to hit his heart solidly, but no blood was seen splattering. Instead, he covered his chest with a little pain, and then a round iron block fell from his arms.
It’s mirror armor[mfn]It’s armor that protects the chest[/mfn]! Xu Hang’s pupils constricted.
Zhang Yaochen carried such a heavy thing on his body. He is really a cautious old fox!
It was this episode that made Xu Hang stunned for a moment. Zhang Yaochen pressed the mechanism of the chair heavily, and immediately several bullets shot out from the wall above the western clock. Xu Hang hurriedly rolled to the ground and barely avoided them!
But one bullet just grazed his wrist, and he loosened his hand in pain, and the gun rolled far away.
He frowned, knelt on one knee, and looked in the direction of Zhang Yaochen, then saw Zhang Yaochen pressing down his other hand. Then there was a rumbling sound above his head, mixed with the rustling sound of chains. He looked up and saw an iron cage falling towards him!
Without having time to think, he fell to the ground again and slid out at a very fast speed. Seeing from the corner of his eye that Zhang Yaochen was about to do something, he threw the golden hairpin in his hand hard, aiming at the back of Zhang Yaochen’s hand and actually piercing through it!
“Ah!” Zhang Yaochen cried out in pain, and he didn’t dare to pull it out for a moment.
Xu Hang finally stood still and was wiping the blood from the corner of his mouth with his thumb when he heard messy and noisy footsteps in the corridor. It seemed that the gunfight just now had alarmed the guards.
“Who’s there?!”
“Break the door open! Protect the Chief of Staff!”
Xu Hang looked at the rickety door with hatred, gritted his teeth, and rushed towards Zhang Yaochen. Zhang Yaochen was horrified, retreated repeatedly, leaned against the wall, and slapped a dented brick on the wall.
Suddenly, some short arrows came at Xu Hang from all directions. He thought Xu Hang would be scared and retreat, but he didn’t hesitate at all. He looked like a resentful ghost in the underworld who didn’t want to reincarnate. He exuded a dark aura and ran straight towards him!
Some of those short arrows went off track, some grazed Xu Hang’s flesh and cut his skin, and one even pierced his shoulder. He just frowned slightly and rushed to Zhang Yaochen with unstoppable force.
Perhaps a person’s aura can really change some things. This dragnet-like arrow formation was actually afraid of Xu Hang’s sharpness and managed to find a way for him to survive!
At this moment, Xu Hang stood in front of Zhang Yaochen, covered in blood, with torn clothes and eyes full of hatred, like the agate brilliance of a black cat in the dark night. He pinched Zhang Yaochen’s neck and pulled out the golden hairpin on the back of his hand.
“Uh… um…” Zhang Yaochen wanted to say something but couldn’t.
Is this the end? Is this how Zhang Yaochen feels when he says, ‘That’s it?’
That swallow flying through the peony was really similar to the one on Yanchai’s head. Zhang Yaochen squinted his eyes in the pain of suffocation and saw the cold light of the tip of the needle flashing. The blood from head to toe seemed to solidify.
That is a message of death!
When Xu Hang just raised the golden hairpin, the guards had already broken down the door. They were surprised to see the mess in the room, there were bullet holes and arrows everywhere, and the killer was strangling Zhang Yaochen like a madman.
Their first reaction was that they thought Zhang Xiuming was crazy, but when they looked more closely, they realized that it was a strange face wearing Zhang Xiuming’s clothes.
Although they were surprised, they were top-notch guards picked by Zhang Yaochen after all. They reacted immediately, loaded their guns, and pointed them at Xu Hang.
Bang!
Bang!
Bang!
