Chapter 1378: Who Isn’t A Drama Queen
Huo Shaoheng calmly held Gu Nianzhi’s hand and led her out of the gates of the Imperial Women’s Prison.
Xiao Ye threw the semi-automatic modified gun to Yin s.h.i.+xiong and said, “These are the weapons that those people brought in. I was wearing gloves and didn’t leave any fingerprints.”
Yin s.h.i.+xiong nodded and said very politely, “You can go. Protect Miss Gu well.”
Xiao Ye chased Huo Shaoheng out of the prison and saw that Huo Shaoheng had already escorted Gu Nianzhi into the car.
She quickly ran over and opened the car door. “Miss Gu, where are you going?”
Gu Nianzhi looked at Huo Shaoheng. “Where do you think?”
“To the base.” Huo Shaoheng glanced at Xiao Ye. “You go back to Miss Gu’s house.” He paused and reminded her, “Be careful.”
Through the car window, Xiao Ye looked at Gu Nianzhi with concern. “Miss Gu, are you okay?”
Gu Nianzhi narrowed her eyes and her plump lips curved into a happy smile. She suddenly asked, “Xiao Ye, have you been to Russia?”
Xiao Ye reacted quickly and immediately looked confused. “No, Miss Gu, do you want to go to Russia?”
“Not yet, maybe in the future.” Gu Nianzhi smiled and waved at her.
Huo Shaoheng sat back in the back seat and said calmly to the driver, Fan Jian, “Drive back to the base.”
The window next to the back seat slowly rose, blocking Gu Nianzhi’s line of sight.
Xiao Ye’s heart skipped a beat. She couldn’t figure out where she had exposed herself.
She had once been the best field officer in their cla.s.s, and the record she had left behind had never been broken.
Gu Nianzhi was smart, but she hadn’t been specially trained, so she shouldn’t have been able to tell, right?
The KGB in Russia hadn’t even noticed, so how could Gu Nianzhi have known?
Could it be that Major General Huo had said it?
Xiao Ye shook her head. It was impossible.
She believed in Huo Shaoheng absolutely. He would never mix business and personal matters by revealing such things nonchalantly.
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In Huo Shaoheng’s bulletproof car, Gu Nianzhi had been tilting her head while looking at Huo Shaoheng.
Huo Shaoheng retracted his gaze and glanced at her. “What’s wrong? Are you scared out of your wits?”
“No, no, I’m just happy to see you.” Gu Nianzhi hugged Huo Shaoheng’s arm and sweet-talked him to make him happy.
Huo Shaoheng knew that she had other thoughts on her mind, but he still smiled and caressed her head with his big hand. He then pressed her into his arms and let out a sigh of relief.
His heart, which had been beating intensely, slowly returned to normal.
Gu Nianzhi had wanted to tell Huo Shaoheng about Xiao Ye, but he had changed the subject several times, so she stopped asking.
She also felt that it was amazing. They had two completely different faces and two completely different bodies, but when she moved, she seemed extremely familiar.
Looks could be deceiving, and a body could be deceiving, but actions couldn’t be deceiving, especially when it was an emergency and she had to behave out of natural instinct to survive. It was completely impossible to disguise.
Gu Nianzhi couldn’t help but say, “Major General Huo, it’s very dangerous over there, right? Why don’t you let Xiao Ye come with us to the base?”
“She’s your personal a.s.sistant. She can’t go to the base,” Huo Shaoheng said calmly. He picked up a newspaper beside his seat and started reading.
Gu Nianzhi resisted the urge to roll her eyes inside.
Pretend, he’s just pretending.
She was in the midst of silently criticizing Huo Shaoheng when she heard her phone ring.
She took it out and saw that it was He Zhichu.
She quickly swiped open her phone and said with a smile, “Professor He, what can I do for you?”
Huo Shaoheng’s gaze finally moved away from the newspaper.
Gu Nianzhi couldn’t help smiling even more happily.
He Zhichu’s voice was very anxious. “Nianzhi, where are you? Are you okay?”
Gu Nianzhi’s heart skipped a beat. She opened the location sharing app on her phone and saw the little icon representing He Zhichu hurrying over to the foot of Yan Mountain.
She then looked at the trending news on Weibo. It was all about the attack on the Imperial Women’s Prison.
He Zhichu knew where she was. When he saw the news, he probably immediately realized what had happened.
Gu Nianzhi quickly said, “Professor He, I’m in Major General Huo’s car… yes, I’m already out… it’s fine, it’s fine… but something happened to Luo Jialan. I’ll tell Professor He more about it when I get home.”
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He Zhichu was driving on the highway that led to the Imperial Women’s Prison at the foot of Yan Mountain.
Upon hearing Gu Nianzhi say that she was in Huo Shaoheng’s car, and looking at Gu Nianzhi’s position, he finally breathed a sigh of relief when he realized that she was indeed getting further and further away from the Imperial Women’s Prison.
With both hands on the steering wheel, he drove off the highway and turned around to return to the city.
Since Gu Nianzhi was with Huo Shaoheng, there was definitely no danger.
…
Gu Nianzhi followed Huo Shaoheng back to the headquarters of the Special Operations Forces. At night, Chen Lie arrived with the DNA test results.
“Major General Huo, the deceased is indeed Luo Jialan.”
Chen Lie showed the results of the DNA test to Huo Shaoheng. “Look, it’s a complete match.”
Huo Shaoheng didn’t suspect that the deceased wasn’t Luo Jialan.
He glanced at the DNA report and said, “Thank you for your hard work. It’s a waste of your talent to have to do something like this.”
With an impa.s.sive expression, Chen Lie pushed up his round gla.s.ses on the bridge of his nose and said, “Major General Huo, if you hadn’t had such a fake smile on your face when you said that, I would have believed you for a minute.”
Huo Shaoheng glanced at him indifferently and said aloofly, “You saw wrong. I wasn’t smiling.”
Chen Lie: “…”
Would it kill him to compliment him?!
He pursed his lips and said, “Where’s Nianzhi? Is she hurt?”
Huo Shaoheng pointed to the room upstairs. “Go see for yourself.”
Chen Lie thought about it and went upstairs with Yin s.h.i.+xiong. He knocked on Gu Nianzhi’s door.
Gu Nianzhi took a shower and slept again. She was just about to call He Zhichu.
She heard someone knocking on the door. She looked at the surveillance video and saw that it was Chen Lie and Yin s.h.i.+xiong outside. She quickly opened the door and smiled. “Brother Chen, Brother Xiong, why are you two here?”
Chen Lie walked in first. He carried his small medical kit and said, “Let me check you. Were you hurt in prison today?”
Gu Nianzhi stretched out her wrist. “I rolled around on the ground a few times. There were abrasions on my arms and legs.”
Chen Lie examined her carefully. There were only slight redness and swelling. He gave her a bottle of medicine after making sure there were no major problems. “If you want to rub it on, rub it on. It’s okay if you don’t want to rub it on. You’ll be fine on your own in two days.”
Actually, it wouldn’t take two days. She would probably be fine by the time she went to bed at night.
Before she went to bed in the afternoon, Gu Nianzhi still remembered that her wrists and legs were swollen and bruised. It was a large area of abrasions, and it looked quite serious.
After waking up after sleeping, she saw that there was only a small area of redness and swelling. The abrasions could no longer be seen.
Chen Lie had a lot of things to do, so he was temporarily pulled over by Huo Shaoheng to work for a few days before returning to his own medical laboratory.
Yin s.h.i.+xiong held his coffee cup and sat on the sofa in Gu Nianzhi’s room. He said lazily, “Remember not to act alone in the future. Xiao Ye is quite capable. Did you see everything today?”
Gu Nianzhi rolled her eyes and said with a smile, “I saw it, I saw it all. I think I saw it once in Russia, and it was exactly the same as her movements!”
Gu Nianzhi raised his long legs and kicked twice in the air. “I remember that move too clearly.”
Yin s.h.i.+xiong stopped talking and only looked at Gu Nianzhi with a smile.
Gu Nianzhi was embarra.s.sed by his smile and sat over to push his shoulder. She whispered, “Brother Xiong, tell me honestly. Had Xiao Ye always been one of your people?”
Yin s.h.i.+xiong rubbed his chin and stared in the direction of the windowsill. He said with a half-hearted smile, “It doesn’t matter who she is. She’ll always be one of us.”
Gu Nianzhi’s suspicions were verified and she nodded vigorously. She said excitedly, “Oh my, I should have thought of that earlier… I was wondering why I like that young lady so much…”
“What young lady?”Yin s.h.i.+xiong flicked Gu Nianzhi’s forehead with his finger. “Don’t talk nonsense. She’s your personal a.s.sistant and also your bodyguard. She’s doing fine. Don’t sell her out.”
“Of course I won’t.” Gu Nianzhi anxiously sat up straight. “Isn’t it just acting? Who isn’t a drama queen?!”
“Yes, you’re a drama queen.” Yin s.h.i.+xiong stood up and observed Gu Nianzhi. When he saw that she really wasn’t frightened, he caressed her head and said, “You’ve really grown up. You’re braver than before.”
He had been worried that the b.l.o.o.d.y scene in prison would give Gu Nianzhi a nightmare, and had wanted to find a psychiatrist to relieve her of it. He hadn’t expected that he was simply overthinking things.
He went downstairs with a fatherly smile on his face. Yin s.h.i.+xiong came to the living room and saw Huo Shaoheng standing on the sofa in the living room with his back to him. He had one hand in his trouser pocket and the other holding a cigarette. It was obvious that he was talking to someone through the bluetooth headset.
Yin s.h.i.+xiong stood firmly by the spiral staircase.
Huo Shaoheng’s face was solemn as he listened to his subordinate’s report.
“… Chief, the incident today was quite serious. In addition to the pressure from our department, the Ministry of Justice conducted a comprehensive investigation on the Imperial Women’s Prison. The results showed that 34 of the 346 felons held there had been replaced.”
“Among them was Dou Qingyan, the daughter of former Prime Minister Dou.”
Because Dou Qingyan’s case was related to Huo Shaoheng, the subordinate investigated very carefully.
Huo Shaoheng took a puff of his cigarette and blew out a smoke ring. He said calmly, “Have you found out where she went?”
“The Ministry of Justice has already formed a special task force to station at the Imperial Women’s Prison. Everyone from the warden to the cleaners are being investigated.”
Huo Shaoheng frowned impatiently. “Don’t wait for them. Give the order. Put Dou Qingyan on the global wanted list. Tell them that she has just escaped from the prison during the civil unrest. Send all her information to all of our field staff and Interpol.”
Although Dou Qingyan had been replaced a long time ago, in order to hide the truth, they had used the incident in the prison today to bring the matter of Dou Qingyan’s wanted list to the surface.
“Yes, sir.”
Huo shaoheng asked again, “Where are the fake medical examiners?”
“They’re all dead.” The subordinate couldn’t hide his admiration. “Miss Gu’s female bodyguard was too powerful. She was the one who killed all of them. If she hadn’t killed all of them, our casualties would have been greater. Later, they found a few heavy-fire semi-automatic submachine guns in Luo Jialan’s cell. They were much more powerful than the modified guns they used.”
The reason why they didn’t use them was probably because Xiao Ye’s reaction speed was too fast. The few of them didn’t have time to change their guns before she took care of them one by one.
A smile flashed across Huo Shaoheng’s eyes and he said, “Write a report and hand it in. Focus on Miss Gu’s female bodyguard.”
He wanted to give her credit.