19 – I will break off the engagement tomorrow
A City Municipal Maternity and Child Health Hospital.
The largest obstetrics and gynecology hospital in A City, built on the east side of Guhu River, it is the oldest and most prestigious gynecology and obstetrics hospital in the city.
The flow of people coming and going is extremely high.
Around ten o’clock at night, the hospital, bustling all day, gradually quieted down. Large sections of the ward building lights went out, while the outpatient department remained brightly lit.
Along the street parking spaces outside the maternity hospital, a black van had been parked all along.
This was a van that looked utterly ordinary on the outside—the most common type seen on the roadside, completely inconspicuous. However, behind the black, opaque one-way window tint, the interior presented a completely different scene.
Inside the van, the seats were replaced by a long, soft-upholstered sofa running along the side. This sofa was specially made, covered in top-grade leather. The floor was laid with pure white soft mats, edged with a blue stripe and a green stripe. Sitting upright on the sofa was a man; even on the soft, plush sofa, his back remained ramrod straight.
If Ye Yuntong were here, she would definitely recognize him.
This was none other than Qin Dingzhang, whom she had scammed out of a hundred thousand yuan today.
He was resting with his eyes closed.
In front of him was a large computer console. Below the console hung a row of peculiar equipment. The first row consisted entirely of various cold weapons: knives, rods, iron hooks, and the like.
The row below was a set of tightly closed cabinets, their contents unknown.
Sitting in front of the console was a muscular man in a sports tank top, his solid physique stretching the fabric taut. He was intently focused on the computer, manipulating the mouse with great concentration.
The whole vibe seemed oddly intense.
The interface he was operating displayed a large grid, with nearly all the small squares already marked with little red flags. His cursor hovered hesitantly over the last two squares. After a three-second pause, he clicked the left one, and instantly, all the squares he had previously flagged exploded across the screen.
He lost…
Terrible luck.
“Damn!” He tossed the mouse aside, both angry and frustrated.
“Lost again?” Hearing the sound of the mouse, Qin Dingzhang didn’t even lift his eyes, asking lightly.
“Isn’t it normal for Dongzhi to lose at Minesweeper?” The third man in the driver’s seat stretched lazily, turned to look at the two behind him, and grinned, his eyes narrowing into slits, radiating a sunny warmth.
A warm, handsome guy.
“This loss really isn’t my fault,” Xu Dongzhi grabbed his own buzz cut, closed the Minesweeper window on the screen. “It was just bad luck. I set it to 199 mines, cleared 198, and the last one was a 50/50 chance—pure luck. Sigh, I actually lost. Seems like my luck isn’t good today.”
“Since when have you become so superstitious?” Qin Dingzhang still hadn’t opened his eyes.
“It’s not superstition…” Xu Dongzhi swiveled his chair to face him, hands clasped behind his head as he leaned back against the seat, his expression serious. “Dingzhang, this is what I call intuition. My intuition has always been accurate. I have a feeling this mission of ours won’t go smoothly.”
“I’ve only heard of women having intuition, and it’s usually about men,” the man from the driver’s seat chimed in with another laugh. He glanced at his watch, unbuckled his seatbelt, climbed from the driver’s seat into the back, opened a wall cabinet, and tossed a set of clothes to Xu Dongzhi. “Time’s about right.”
“Wishful thinking. You think you’re Dingzhang, with endless romantic luck and a fiancée waiting for him at home?” Li Weifeng tossed another white coat to Qin Dingzhang.
“I may not be as handsome as Dingzhang, but I’m not bad either! There must be girls who like my type!”
Xu Dongzhi flexed his muscles, watching Qin Dingzhang, who hadn’t moved yet, and sat beside him to pull on his pants. “But Dingzhang, speaking of your fiancée, aren’t you supposed to visit her tomorrow?”
“Hmm.” Qin Dingzhang made a sound in his throat.
“Then I’ll go with you tomorrow to see if your fiancée is pretty?”
“I’m going to break off the engagement tomorrow.” Qin Dingzhang, who had been keeping his eyes closed, finally opened them. His deep, starry eyes seemed to hold galaxies within them, sharp and profound.
They concealed emotions no one else could decipher.
“No way…” Xu Dongzhi looked at him with utter disbelief. “You’re breaking off the engagement?”
Qin Dingzhang offered no further explanation. He removed his suit jacket, draped the white coat over his shoulders, and pulled open the bottom row of the operating table. A sealed cabinet opened, revealing an array of various firearms.
With a series of clicks, he quickly assembled two guns and loaded the magazines with Freon Bullets.
These were anesthetic bullets, specially forged with anesthetic inside the bullet tips. Upon entering the human body, the tips would shatter instantly, releasing the anesthetic and paralyzing the target.
The oversized white coat now served as excellent concealment.
He tucked two revolvers into his waistband and pulled two short blades from the cold weapons cabinet above, slipping them into his boots. At the same time, he assembled several red-dot guns and batons, tossing them to Xu Dongzhi.
Xu Dongzhi caught the weapons thrown his way, tucked the guns into his clothes, gripped the baton in his hand, and took the large key ring hanging on the van wall. The muscular man now looked every bit the part of a security guard.
As for Li Weifeng, watching the two now fully equipped, he took Xu Dongzhi’s previous seat and began typing rapidly on the keyboard. The screen immediately displayed the floor plan of the maternity and children’s hospital.
He would remain in the van.
“Ten minutes from now, the hospital will lose power for fifteen minutes. Electricity will be restored at midnight.” Qin Dingzhang’s stern face showed no trace of a smile, exuding steadiness and the aura of a leader. He succinctly outlined the mission to the other two. “The target this time is Bruce. He’s currently hiding in the hospital. The area outside is under 24-hour surveillance by Sky Eye. The moment he shows himself, he’ll be captured. Bruce must know he’s being watched and refuses to come out. Our task is to force him out!”
“Dongzhi!”
“Here!”
“Place sensors in the inpatient ward and cafeteria first. When the power goes out, seal all passageways and guard every exit!”
“Yes!” Xu Dongzhi shed his playful demeanor and responded seriously.
“Weifeng!”
“Here.”
“Stay in the van for backup and report the hospital’s situation in real time!”
“Got it!”
“Now, synchronize your watches!”
The three gathered together and adjusted their watches simultaneously.
The hands now pointed to 11:30.
“Begin the operation!”
The van door opened, and the first to step out was Xu Dongzhi, dressed in a security guard uniform. Carrying the large key ring, he glanced around and, without drawing any attention, headed toward the hospital.
Three minutes later, a man in a white coat also stepped out of the van.
He walked toward the other side of the hospital.
The night was quiet, unnoticed by anyone.
Except for one bored individual watching the little red dot ticking away on their phone screen.
Ye Yuntong watched the small red dot on the screen drawing closer and closer, then lifted her head to look out the window.
A man in a white lab coat passed coldly by the front of her car.