Imperial Treasure-Chapter 696 - 438: Fifteen Minutes_2

Someone once described the Imperial Guards like this.

—If three people were kidnapped, one a key official whose role was crucial, and the other two were their parents, with only a moment to choose who to save, the Imperial Guards would choose the official in the first second.

Even if they have suffered immensely in the previous 0.9 seconds, their decision in the last 0.1 second must be unanimous.

This is the Imperial Guards.

Born for this nation, and must also die for this nation.

Su Zimu was the one Ming Lanyuan had painfully decided to give up after 0.9 seconds.

Because she was an Imperial Guard.

As the atmosphere turned somewhat tense and differences had already formed, Sui Yi’s phone rang.

Sui Yi had not yet answered when the phone automatically connected the call, which was on speaker.

"Sui Yi, you are truly more formidable than I imagined, Pu Qinghan noted down 37°28, Xiao Xianting remembered 34°55′, 116°35′, but everyone knows Xiao Xianting’s numbers must be wrong, subconsciously feeling he provided phony coordinates, or possibly looking into it backwards... yet unexpectedly, when cross-referenced with Pu Qinghan’s coordinates... what Pu Qinghan remembered was actually not east longitude but north latitude, and what Xiao Xianting got right was only half, namely 116°35′. Together that would be east longitude: 37°28, north latitude: 116°35′, so the location is..."

Jinghua University!

Ming Lanyuan looked across... just at the forefront, that colossal university campus... was it really right in front?

This trap... smeared his face with blood!

"You’re saying all this either to stall for time, or to tell me, you’ve already captured them?" Sui Yi’s tone was calm, emotion indiscernible.

The person on the other end of the phone chuckled lowly, "I only wanted to compliment your sharp reaction, you so quickly determined the location... getting a step ahead and having your men take away the weapons... but not to worry, we still have Su Zimu in our hands, and your men and weapons are still inside the school."

This statement revealed a significant bit of information: first, Sui Yi had already had the weapons taken away!

Ming Lanyuan looked deeply at Sui Yi, admiring such a formidable person, who had snatched food from the jaws of competing tigers...

And all without a sound, only up until now did they find out—clearly, MEID had just found out as well.

But the danger had already arrived.

"By the way, I also want to tell you... although I’m very grateful that you worked so hard to find the weapons for us, it’s now time for you to hand them over... if you ever want to see Su Zimu cook for you again..."

Uh... Sui Yi finally frowned, why were both sides so fixated on his having eaten a meal at Su Zimu’s place... what a peculiar obsession~...

But it also exposed something.

—They couldn’t find Yhan Qingwu, the two people, or the weapons. Jinghua University was too vast, too crowded... they weren’t even sure who exactly was carrying the weapons, or if somebody had hidden them again...

Ming Lanyuan breathed a sigh of relief, looking at Sui Yi, somewhat silent...

The choice was ultimately back in his hands.

After a moment of silence, Sui Yi said, "There are fifteen minutes left."

"What?" The other side asked back.

"The time you gave me before, fifteen minutes are left. Now, are you planning to break the earlier agreement?"

"Heh, you’re quite serious... But the creation of the agreement is always in the hands of those who have the conditions, and you..."

"If I don’t see Su Zimu unharmed in front of me within fifteen minutes, these weapons will end up in official hands, and I will ensure their safety.." 𝐟𝕣𝕖𝐞𝐰𝕖𝚋𝐧𝗼𝚟𝐞𝕝.𝗰𝐨𝐦

After that, Sui Yi hung up the phone.

He glanced at Ming Lanyuan, that look soft and faint; the latter waved his hand: "I think it’s most important now to get Miss Pu back to Villa Number One... Anyway, it’s the same road"

For two people with five hundred years of Inner Strength cultivation, carrying an ordinary person and moving swiftly along rooftops was far too easy—within less than a minute, they were back at Villa Number One...

But Sui Yi and Ming Lanyuan didn’t even enter the villa before leaving, leaving Pu Qinghan to run inside on his own...

In fact, during that minute, Ming Lanyuan had managed to contact Yi Chilian using a mobile phone pilfered from a man in black...

Yi Chilian and others were just about to leave the villa for Jinghua University when Sui Yi and Ming Lanyuan already stood at the crossroads separating the villa area from Jinghua University...

Unfortunately, while they could move swiftly on rooftops and glide through woods like ghosts at night, they simply couldn’t perform their lightfooted skills openly when vehicle traffic was heavily congested...