When I saw this dagger, my whole brain exploded! Lin Yingxue also discovered the origin of this dagger and said anxiously: "Did Bai Longfei really get into trouble?"
If this dagger is the one in Bai Longfei's hand, then there is no doubt that Bai Longfei must have been in danger. The masked man in black caught Bai Longfei, and then took the dagger from him. He used the dagger to set up a simple mechanism here to attract me to chase him.
"I don't know yet. Let's solve the problem at hand first, and then we will go find Brother Long immediately!"
I took out my cell phone and checked the time. There were less than fifty minutes left until one o'clock. All the things were piling up at the same time, making me anxious and angry. Although I was very worried about Bai Longfei's safety now, there were many lives involved in this matter. The most urgent thing was to resolve the bomb crisis first. I hoped that Bai Longfei would be fine. As long as I could solve the bomb problem, I would do my best to find Bai Longfei's whereabouts!
I gritted my teeth, threw away the cigarette butt in my hand, and then prepared to go downstairs with Lin Yingxue to find the two police officers. Then I took the two police officers and continued to walk upstairs to see if I could find any clues. As for the masked man in black, I didn't have time to pay attention to him for the time being. Once I find out the real cause of Director Zhao's death, I believe he will naturally appear in front of me.
But before we got down to the third floor, we saw the two police officers walking down the stairs towards us. I hurriedly asked, "What were you doing just now? I called you for a long time and you didn't respond?"
I always felt something was wrong with these two policemen, but I didn't have time to observe them. One of them whispered, "Everything in the office down there is too complicated. Maybe we were so engrossed in our search that we didn't hear them."
"Alright, let's continue to the fifth floor. There's no need to check so carefully this time. Just take a quick look. If there are no clues, change locations immediately. We don't have much time."
Having said that, I turned around and walked towards the fifth floor with Lin Yingxue, while the two police officers behind us followed closely and strode up the stairs.
I had only taken a few steps when I suddenly felt Lin Yingxue grab my hand. I thought, is she still willing to hold my hand at this time? But then I felt Lin Yingxue gently tapping my palm with her fingers. I immediately turned to look at her and found that she was signaling to the two police officers behind us with her eyes, as if to tell me to be careful.
Although I didn't know why she did this, I still nodded, my eyes fixed on the front, but my ears were always listening to the footsteps of the two policemen behind me. I heard that the two policemen were going up the stairs faster and faster, and they were getting closer and closer to us.
Finally, when the two police officers behind us were less than one meter away from us, Lin Yingxue suddenly turned around and kicked the police officer behind her, kicking the police officer directly into the air and causing him to fall heavily at the bottom of the stairs!
As Lin Yingxue took action, I turned around and looked behind me. I saw that the police officer who was kicked away by Lin Yingxue had a sharp axe in his hand! When he fell to the ground, the axe also fell to the ground with a clang!
The police officer standing behind me at this time also had a machete in his hand, but Lin Yingxue's action was too sudden, and the police officer behind me was in a daze and did not take action immediately.
"What are you still standing there for? Hurry up and do it!"
The police officer who was kicked out screamed and covered his chest while yelling at the other police officer. The other police officer's eyes clearly showed a trace of struggle. Finally, he sighed, threw away the machete in his hand, and said, "So what if we fight? So what if we kill them? In the end, only one person can walk out alive, right? Have you already decided to kill me in exchange for your own escape?"
"You! Didn't we agree on this? Kill everyone and then plead with the man who controlled the bomb to let the two of us go. Why are you going back on your word?"
After hearing the conversation between these two people, I finally understood why they took action. It turned out that their previous strange behavior was because they found the weapon that the person who controlled the bomb said was placed in the building, and they had the evil idea of killing everyone and leaving here!
People are often like this, looking honest on the surface, but a person's true nature can only be seen at the critical moment of life and death. Obviously, under the current circumstances, the two police officers still could not escape the ugliness of human nature and chose to harm others in order to fight for a chance to survive.
At this point I didn’t know whether I should blame them or not, and the police officer standing in front of me said, “Don’t explain. I knew from the look in your eyes just now that you would kill me in the end. Rather than dying in your hands, it’s better for us to be blown up together and perish together.”
Then the police officer said to me with an apologetic look on his face: "I'm sorry, I was impulsive just now. You two are free to punish us in any way you want."
Although the police officer in front of me wanted to kill me before, he repented at the critical moment. This immediately made me respect him in my heart. I sighed and said, "Now we are all grasshoppers tied to the same rope. There is no blame. Don't worry, I will do my best to find a way out and take everyone away alive!"
The police officer didn't seem to believe what I said at all. He just said "oh" softly and said nothing more.
The police officer below kept scolding us, and we didn't have time to waste with him, so I picked up the machete on the ground and said to the police officer in front of me: "You just watch him here now, and leave the rest to us. Time is running out, and we can't keep this vicious man around. I'll leave this to you."
The police officer was stunned when he took the machete from my hand. He obviously didn't expect that I would choose to trust him at this time. But then he nodded and said, "Go ahead and investigate. I will never let him go out and cause trouble for you."
After saying that, the policeman put the machete on the neck of the other policeman, and then the two of them went to the fourth floor together, chose a room and waited quietly for our news.
After getting rid of the two troublesome police officers, we did not waste any time and immediately went to the fifth floor, ready to look for any clues there. However, when we arrived at the fifth floor, we suddenly found a beam of flashlight shining from the depths of the corridor!
The owner of the flashlight obviously noticed us and immediately looked at the two of us with the flashlight. Lin Yingxue stood in front of me vigilantly, and I asked, "Who is it?"
The person who had the flashlight at this time must be one of the people in our group. After I finished asking the question, a familiar voice came from the front: "It's me, why are you here?"
Judging from the voice, this man should be Xiao Chen, one of the three security guards in the newspaper office. Among these three security guards, only Xiao Chen seems to have a good character. I really can't say anything good about the others.
Xiao Chen immediately came to our side, and I looked at him in confusion and said, "It's normal for us to come up here, why are you here alone? Where are the others?"
Xiao Chen sighed and briefly told me what had just happened.
After Xiao Chen, the office director and another security guard went upstairs, the three of them each found some weapons scattered around the building. With weapons in their hands, the three people, who were originally not on the same page, became even more wary of each other, and no one dared to approach each other easily.
In this way, they went up the stairs to the seventh floor. Suddenly, they heard the noise we made downstairs before. Xiao Chen suggested going downstairs to check it out, but the office director and another security guard had no such intention at all. They wanted to go directly to the tenth floor and catch the person who was controlling the bomb in the monitoring room on the tenth floor. So the three of them parted ways. Xiao Chen followed us all the way and finally met us on the fifth floor.
I asked him if he had met Bai Longfei, Xiao Chen shook his head and said no, he had not even met Xiao Wei, the security guard who had run away before.
Then I asked Xiao Chen why he appeared in the corridor on the fifth floor. Xiao Chen said that he had heard our movement and was about to go downstairs to take a look, but before he went downstairs, he heard footsteps in the corridor on the fifth floor. He stood at the stairs and asked several times but didn't get any answer. He felt curious and was about to go over to take a look, but we came up just as he walked into the corridor.
"Footsteps? Are you sure they came from the corridor?"
Xiao Chen nodded and said, "Of course I am sure. This is a dead end. The man made footsteps but didn't dare to answer my call. I didn't know what he meant, so I wanted to go up and see if he was the one who operated the bomb."
Since Xiao Chen said so, it proves that there must be someone hiding in the corridor on the fifth floor. No matter who this person is, I have to go over and take a look. After all, we are short of time and cannot miss any clues.
So we followed Xiao Chen and walked into the corridor. As we walked, I asked, "By the way, I haven't asked you yet. How many years have you worked here? Do you know the details of Director Zhao's death?"
Now I have determined a way to leave the newspaper building. I have finally found someone inside the newspaper. Naturally, I have to ask him about the situation at that time so that I can make a judgment as soon as possible.
Xiao Chen said helplessly: "We have only been here for less than a month, and we are not very clear about Director Zhao's situation at the time."
"You've only been here for a month? Are there all three of you? Wasn't there a security guard here before?" Hearing this news, I immediately became alert, and an idea gradually emerged in my mind.
"Yes, but it seems that it was because Director Zhao proposed to lay off employees, and those security guards were also old, so they were fired by the newspaper. The three of us were security guards recruited later."