Surrounded by the Billionaire's Deep Doting-Chapter 616 - 479: Lies (Seventh Update)

Chu Jiao chuckled softly, "There’s so many charred corpses outside, no one can tell who is who, and how many can guess there’s a storage room beneath?"

"Yin Shixiu will."

"..."

"Even if everyone else assumes I’m dead, he definitely will come looking for me."

Su Xiaomeng was so resolute.

Yin Shixiu was all her faith, and her only remaining belief.

She stubbornly believed that if Yin Shixiu didn’t come for her, then no one else would.

And if Yin Shixiu couldn’t find her, then no one else would either.

"If you didn’t turn back to find me, perhaps you’d already have met with Arthur. He’s probably been worrying sick these days..."

"If I hadn’t turned back to find you, maybe I’d have fallen dead trying to climb the stairs with my foot injury."

"..."

"Cherry, in this world, there’s no ’if’, nor any so-called assumptions, right?"

"I used to think you were too young to understand anything, but now, it seems you’re more perceptive than I am."

"Using ’perceptive’ to describe me is too profound, isn’t it?"

Su Xiaomeng blinked at Cherry and then suddenly smiled,

"I just think, if what you’ve done isn’t 100% confirmed as wrong, then don’t regret it."

The mildew smell in the storage room was really strong, and Xiao Meng felt quite uncomfortable at the moment.

She casually glanced at Chu Jiao beside her, but that glance was enough...

"Are you... alright?"

"Huh?"

"Your lips have lost all color."

Though they had been held hostage by the bandits for almost forty hours and faced such perilous conditions, no one would feel great, and their complexion was certain to be as terrible as it looked!

But...

Su Xiaomeng couldn’t ignore the fact that—

Chu Jiao was pregnant, and not at a young age.

Chu Jiao licked her lips after Su Xiaomeng spoke, initially wanting to say it was nothing, but when lowering her head, she saw the wedding gown that had long been torn, stained with a large patch of blood red...

Only then did she become aware of a sticky liquid slipping from her lower body, and then...

The abdominal pain was even more startlingly belated.

Chu Jiao saw it, and Su Xiaomeng saw it too!

In terms of pregnancy, Xiao Meng had more experience than Chu Jiao, not only in pregnancy but also in similar experiences of miscarriage.

Seeing the shocking bloody red on Chu Jiao’s white dress, Su Xiaomeng almost instantly thought of the scene when Little Treasure had an accident.

Her heart sank...

At this moment, it wasn’t just Chu Jiao’s complexion that was pale, but Su Xiaomeng’s too.

Chu Jiao forced a smile, abdominal pain surging like a tide,

"What do we do? I think... this child might not be so strong..."

"..."

Su Xiaomeng was stiff all over, her blood cold from the soles of her feet to the tips of her fingers.

She could do nothing.

————

Shan Mingxu climbed to the top of the chapel holding Shuangshuang and Huanghuang.

Earlier, the helicopter Fang Zi had Yin Shixiu summon had already taken off as the fire spread from within the chapel, circling overhead.

Shan Mingxu dared not recklessly rush out with Shuangshuang and Huanghuang, as not all the hijackers had been shotdead.

Hidden gunshots were hard to defend against.

In fact, Shan Mingxu’s judgment proved extremely accurate.

As he stood in the door leading to the chapel roof, he heard gunfire breaking out above.

Not just gunfire, but also a helicopter picking up members of some organization, with a gunner directly strafing at our helicopter.

Bullets flew wildly, Shan Mingxu’s heart was anxious; once the fire spread to this staircase, rescue actions would become remarkably difficult!

Shan Mingxu was at his wits’ end, but he was never the type to resign himself to fate.

With only a short gun in hand, shooting the helicopter gunner from the roof wasn’t feasible, but dealing with the hijackers scrambling to be rescued was still possible.

Shan Mingxu carrying Shuangshuang and Huanghuang, constrained in movement, felt his way to the rooftop, hiding behind a square pillar, something akin to a chimney.

"Shuangshuang, Huanghuang, just curl up here, don’t make a sound, brother will deal with the bad guys, once they’re handled, I’ll take you to see Dad, okay?"

"Mom... Mom is still down there..."

Prince Huang exclaimed anxiously, afraid Shan Mingxu would forget about it.

Shan Mingxu nodded,

"Yes, so you must be good, so brother won’t be distracted. Brother finishes dealing with the bad guys quickly, he can go pick up mom faster, alright?"

Shuangshuang and Huanghuang nodded vigorously, without any further questions.

Shan Mingxu still covered the two little ones with clothes, grabbed the handgun and moved to a crouching point farther from Shuangshuang and Huanghuang.

Luckily, the rooftop wasn’t like flat roofs that can be seen in one glance; there were still things to hide and cover on the chapel roof.

Shan Mingxu was racing against time, pinpointed the spot and angle, bullets followed and shot out!

His shooting remained precise, timing still perfect, and his guesses of the enemies’ positions were spot-on.

He remained the battlefield’s decisive elite Special Forces.

The only difference was... attitude.

He was anxious, anxious, so he acted more swiftly, attention more focused, anxious, causing vulnerabilities around him to increase!

He realized a bullet swept across when it did, but mobility was indeed restricted on the roof, a shot to the shoulder, bullet lodged in flesh!

Shan Mingxu gritted his teeth to endure.

Then, a rumbling chaotic noise erupted, the enemies’ helicopter was shot down from below by the sniper!

The helicopter crashed on the lawn, followed by a burst of flames!

The rooftop firefight had ended, all five hijackers killed, one being Shan Mingxu’s target for the London mission.

Shan Mingxu carrying Shuangshuang and Huanghuang finally linked up with the rescue helicopter from our side.

Shuangshuang and Huanghuang were sent to the civilian helicopter arranged by Yin Shixiu, Shan Mingxu turned to go back to pick up Su Xiaomeng.

But saw people flooding out of the door were other hostages, Shan Mingxu felt a jolt internally, momentarily unsettled.

He hurried to rush back inside but was suddenly pulled by the hand.

Turning around...

"Wu Ye?"

Wu Ye was the regiment commander of Shan Mingxu’s troupe before he joined Special Forces.

Nowadays, this person’s military rank had elevated many tiers.

"You’re wounded."

The blood from Shan Mingxu’s shoulder flowed down his arm.

"Quickly, go find the medical team!"

"But there’s still someone down waiting for me to rescue! My aunt—"

"Leave it to me."

"You..."

"Su Xiaomeng, Mr. Yin’s daughter-in-law—I know, we came here specifically to rescue them."

Wu Ye vowed earnestly.

Shan Mingxu was still a bit uneasy, Su Xiaomeng was really crucial, without rescuing her personally, he didn’t feel at ease.

"With just one hand, whom do you think you can rescue? Get treatment now, or do you want an early discharge due to injuries?"

This sentence genuinely struck Shan Mingxu’s nerve; injuring the shoulder, if it hit the joint, this arm used to hold the gun, if a residual condition was left—

"Alright, quickly catch the helicopter for treatment! I assure to rescue your aunt!"

Wu Ye had already spoken to this extent, Shan Mingxu was no longer stubborn.

He was indeed concerned whether with his injured state, could he successfully rescue Su Xiaomeng.

As Shan Mingxu hadn’t yet boarded the helicopter here, Wu Ye over there had already "streamed down"...

Standing at the door, with the entire chapel interior having become a massive furnace, every kind of odor was present, quite pungent.

He saw the wooden stairs leading to the chapel base were thoroughly broken.

Wu Ye raised his brows, though not in a hurry, climbed down along the exterior wall of the chapel!

He stood at a slight distance, watching the fire spread from inside to the outside of the chapel, burning the whole structure into a giant bonfire.

He turned around, walked towards the army gathering point——

Yin Shixiu grabbing a medic asking if Su Xiaomeng was there! Grabbing a soldier asking if he’d seen Su Xiaomeng...

Wu Ye walked up to Yin Shixiu...

"Where’s Xiao Meng?"

"Oh, I think I saw her being put in the previous ambulance, probably heading to the hospital?"

"..."

Without a second word, Yin Shixiu turned around and drove off!