Break out of the courtyard

"Rat, I still don't think this is reliable!" The thin young man sitting in the passenger seat of the Jiefang truck looked uneasily at the approaching Peace Hotel and said with suspicion:
"The chicken head is giving you 1 yuan, only asking you to drive this truck to the road between Heping Hospital and Heping College and park it for 30 minutes. There's definitely something fishy going on here!"

"I knew something was fishy going on, otherwise I wouldn't have asked you to come with me to check this car this afternoon!" The short, thin young man driving the car laughed. "It's just an empty car, do you think we'd get shot by those guards if we drove it over there?"

Following this, the skinny young man's gaze began to sweep over the guards outside the Peace Hotel. "There are six armed guards at the main entrance, but I only see four guards with dogs on the side."

"No, Dog!" the short, skinny guy laughed. "We're not driving to the restaurant, so why do you care how many guards there are?"

The skinny young man nicknamed "Dog" frowned and said, "There are no guards at the Peace Hospital across from the restaurant. If something happens, we'll run there first!"

"There are patients and their families over there providing cover, making it easier for us to escape!"

The short, skinny guy nicknamed "Rat" turned to look at his childhood friend beside him. Seeing that the other didn't seem to be joking, he agreed, "Okay, whatever you say!"

Dog opened his military green jacket, pulled open the collar of his tattered white vest and fanned himself to let in some fresh air, then suggested again, "When you park later, try to park closer to the hospital. Anyway, the pimp doesn't have any designated parking spots!"

Mouse hadn't taken it seriously at first, but now he was getting a little nervous because of the other person. "How about we get out of the car later, instead of pretending to repair the car, we go straight to the hospital and pretend to go for a medical checkup? What do you think?"

"That's a great idea!" The dog, who was sweating profusely, brightened up and agreed, "We'll park the car on the side of the road and then go to the hospital!"

……

At the end of Xueyuan Road, where the Jiefang truck had just passed, a tall, thin young man with hair standing on end like a rooster's comb lowered his binoculars, looked at the gray-haired American man next to him wearing a black hoodie, and said in an unfriendly tone:
"Mr. Taylor, the truck is almost past Peace Hospital. Shouldn't you pay us the remaining balance now?"

The American in black stared at the truck through his binoculars for a few more seconds before putting them down and looking at the thugs next to him who were scraping their nails with daggers.

"The remaining 100,000 yuan is in the backpack. It's a pleasure doing business with you!" said the old American man, Taylor, as he handed over the backpack on his shoulder.

A thug excitedly took the backpack and immediately unzipped it.

The other thugs also gathered around and helped count how many wads of cash were inside.

Seeing the American man help up his bicycle by the roadside, the leader of the pimps asked, "Mr. Taylor, I'm curious, what exactly do you want us to do by sending a truck over there...?"

Before the chicken leader could finish speaking, he noticed that the American across from him suddenly lit up.

Immediately afterwards, there was a loud bang.

When Chicken Head looked incredulously at the fireball rising into the air, his mind went blank, leaving only the word "impossible" stuck in his mind.

~
boom!
As Mr. Hua was telling Mr. Zheng about Zhang Heping's childhood, a burst of light was followed by a loud bang, which made the car jolt twice.

Both elderly men were veterans who had led troops and fought in battles. Upon hearing the sound, they immediately realized that there was something wrong with it!

Looking again at the fireball rising into the air ahead, it was indeed an explosion!

The convoy came to an abrupt stop, and the guards got out of their vehicles to stand guard around the area, while the others got out and gathered in front of the vehicles to get a better view.

"It seems to be heading towards the Peace Academy!"

"Could the lab have exploded?!"

"Such a huge explosion and flame, could it be that the ammunition depot guarded by the Peace Academy has been blown up?"

While others were discussing the matter, Old Hua kept repeating "Nothing will happen" as he shakily pulled out his phone.

However, no matter how he tried to enter the login password with his trembling fingers, the message was always wrong.

After his initial doubts, Old Zheng's face darkened.

Seeing that Elder Hua was in a daze, Elder Zheng reached out his right hand, grasped Elder Hua's trembling left hand, and said solemnly, "Let's go back and check on him first!"

"Yes! Yes!" Old Hua suddenly realized, and immediately yelled at the driver, Xiao Qin, "Drive! Go back now!"

"But the situation ahead is unclear, and there's Old Zheng in the car..." Driver Xiao Qin wanted to delay, but unexpectedly met a pair of red eyes in the rearview mirror.

"Drive!" Secretary Chen, sitting in the passenger seat, put down the phone, glanced at the driver, Xiao Qin, with a deep frown, then rolled down the window and called to the people outside, "Get in the car quickly and go back to the academy, something's happened!"

Old Hua took a deep breath and then slowly exhaled, his right hand resting on the back of the passenger seat. For a moment, he hesitated to ask Secretary Chen what had happened.

At this moment, Professor Hua thought of many security loopholes, and of those scientists who had lived in anonymity...

~
The Zhang family was taking a walk on campus when the explosion occurred.

When they saw the fireballs erupting outside the academy, their thoughts were only a beat slow before they remembered Zhang Heping, who had just left the house.

"Husband!" Tang Xin called out and ran towards the school gate.

However, the bodyguard captain reacted even faster, shouting, "Take Madam, Young Master, and Miss to the underground bunker, quick!"

Then, the male and female bodyguards who were originally scattered around suddenly surrounded them, not only stopping Chen Shuting and Zhang Bei, but also bringing Tang Xin back.

"Get out of the way! I'm going to fly over there with my drone to check the situation!" Zhang Long glared at the bodyguard who was pulling him, and then flew the drone, which was already in the air, toward the explosion site next to the hospital.

"Young Master, I'm sorry, this is the security procedure set by the boss!" The male bodyguard said, giving another male bodyguard next to him a wink, and then grabbed Zhang Long's arms on both sides, dragging him towards the nearest air-raid shelter entrance.

Faced with this rigid security procedure, Tang Xin, Zhang Long, and others were naturally very dissatisfied and angrily rebuked the bodyguards who were dragging them along.

Chen Shuting remained somewhat rational. Holding her youngest son, Zhang Hao, she ran with the bodyguards towards the air-raid shelter while saying to the bodyguard captain, "Quickly call the security guards at the restaurant across the street!"

Everyone present had a bad feeling, mainly because the direction of the explosion was very close to the Peace Hotel where Zhang Heping had gone!

Before the bodyguard captain could even get through on the phone, the college's loudspeakers started blaring air raid sirens!

The others in the Peace Academy who hadn't reacted at first also rushed to the nearest air-raid shelter or ran into the basement.

At the same time, urgent bells rang in the Nanshan military camp on the mountain, and groups of people scattered in all directions.

The academy's guards are gathering, and the massive alloy gates of the underground base are closing!

The rooftops of buildings such as teaching buildings, laboratories, libraries, and gymnasiums are illuminated by large lights that shoot beams of light into the sky and onto the ground, as if to light up the entire world.

"Put me down, or I'll really turn on you!" When Zhang Long was dragged to the entrance of the air-raid shelter, he finally couldn't help but kick the two bodyguards on either side.

Seeing this, the two bodyguards knew that the other party was not joking.

Plus, this is the entrance to the air-raid shelter, so Zhang Long can be dragged in at any time.

Then, the two bodyguards exchanged a glance, put Zhang Long down, and stood guard vigilantly beside him.

But the next second, as Zhang Long controlled the drone to land and fly near the two burning vehicles, one large and one small, his hands trembled, and he almost dropped the remote control.
At the Shenzhen Smart City Management Center, Zhao Jianguo is holding a meeting to summarize the reception work this evening.

Most people didn't pay attention to the sudden rumble of thunder outside the window, but the next second, a female staff member on duty suddenly stood up.

"Master, Director!" The female duty officer's voice trembled slightly. When others looked over, they saw that the large screen in the lobby had changed its display. It turned out that she had switched to the surveillance footage of the Peace Hotel and Peace Hospital.

"Where did the accident happen? Quickly notify 119, 120 and the traffic police!" When Zhao Jianguo saw the two cars burning fiercely and the small fires scattered around the vehicles, he felt a bit overwhelmed.

Considering that the inspection team just witnessed a snatch-and-grab robbery on the street today, and now another major traffic accident has occurred, I wonder what the inspection team will think of Shenzhen!

Someone nearby reminded him, "Director, it seems to be from the Peace Hospital area. Look at the surveillance footage in the lower right corner; there's a red plus sign and the words 'Peace'!"

Zhao Jianguo was startled and rushed to the large display screen. Pointing to one of the smaller screens, he shouted, "Zoom in on this surveillance footage and identify the license plate number of this car!"

After speaking, Zhao Jianguo took out his phone again.

Just as he was thinking that his wife Ding Ning had already finished get off work and was at home taking care of the child, and that there was no way she was in danger for the time being, nor could she find out about the situation outside the hospital so quickly, he turned off the phone and called his wife.

Before Zhao Jianguo could find the phone numbers of the guards and security personnel at the Peace Hotel, Peace Hospital, and Peace College, the person in charge of the Shenzhen government called.

The urgent voice of the person in charge from Shenzhen came through the receiver, "Director Zhao, there has been an explosion at Peace Academy, have you seen it?"

"Explosion?" Zhao Jianguo initially thought it was a traffic accident.

Just as Zhao Jianguo's doubts arose, a female voice interrupted his thoughts, "Director, the license plate number couldn't be identified, but according to satellite positioning, it seems to be Consultant Zhang's official car!"

"Someone's gone to put out the fire!" As this voice rang out, one of the duty officers quickly zoomed in on the scene around the overturned car.

Then, in a moment of oppressive silence, someone on screen disregarded the fire and fire extinguishing powder and tried to pry open the back doors of the car!

Seeing this, even if Zhao Jianguo was slow to react, he understood that there was an important person in the back row whom the guards were willing to risk their lives to rescue.

Thinking of the owner of this car, Zhao Jianguo's heart skipped a beat, and then he roared, "Investigate!"

"Review the nearby surveillance footage and find out what happened!"

"Bring out all those involved in and mastermind behind this bombing!"

"Director!" Deputy Director Hong of the Smart City Management Center pointed to the phone in Zhao Jianguo's hand, "Should you ask your superiors to notify other departments for assistance?"

Zhao Jianguo glanced at his phone instinctively, only to find that it was still in a call.

~
Self-healing: Transcendental State (1%).
The moment the Jiefang truck exploded, Zhang Heping, who was passing by in a car, was knocked unconscious by the shockwave.

Fortunately, his constant self-harm over the years has elevated his self-healing abilities to an unparalleled level.

If it weren't for the fact that each 1% increase in proficiency at the Transcendent Realm level required 7 hours of continuous self-harm, he could have leveled up even further.

Even so, he woke up under the intense heat of the gasoline and battery flames.

Just as Zhang Heping's dazed consciousness was violently contracting due to the stimulation of the raging fire, countless white powders suddenly sprayed in from all around.

Immediately afterwards, a cacophony of noises filled my ears.

Under the intense pain, Zhang Heping finally regained his normal thinking.

Then, he suddenly shoved the car door next to him.

The immense force kicked the rear door open.

Faced with this unexpected turn of events, the guard who was pulling the car door didn't pull back at all and rolled backwards quite a distance.

"boss!"

"Advisor Zhang is still alive!"

"Change to a water-based fire extinguisher! Don't you dare spray people with a dry powder fire extinguisher!"

As Zhang Heping quickly climbed out of the back seat of the car, the people who rushed to the rescue shouted, but in their panic, they didn't know how to help him.

The next second, to the astonishment of those around him, Zhang Heping, covered in black and white welts, forcefully opened the driver's side door and dragged out the driver, who was still barely breathing.

As for the bodyguard in the passenger seat, he suffered the most damage when the truck on the right exploded. He didn't even get to see the side airbags deploy before being killed instantly by the shockwave of the blast.

Although Zhang Heping could no longer sense the bodyguard's heartbeat or breathing, he still forcefully opened the passenger door and dragged his body out.

We need to see him alive or dead, at least to give his family some answers.

Just after Zhang Heping finished doing these two things, the emergency personnel from the nearby Heping Hospital ran over with a stretcher and a makeshift hospital bed.

Zhang Heping was speechless at this moment, so he could only grab a guard and point to the truck that was the culprit of the explosion.

Whether intimidated by Zhang Heping's current prestige or impressed by his indomitable spirit and physique, the guard suddenly understood Zhang Heping's meaning: "Please rest assured, Advisor Zhang, we will definitely extinguish the flames on the truck and do our best to protect the evidence."

Zhang Heping nodded before sitting on the makeshift hospital bed pushed by the anxious emergency doctor next to him.

The makeshift hospital bed was slowly pushed along, and the nurse next to her pleaded with a tearful voice, "Teacher Zhang, please lie down, okay?"

Zhang Heping glared with red eyes, ignoring the nurse's words, and instead reached into the chest pocket of the emergency doctor pushing the cart next to him and took a ballpoint pen.

Then Zhang Heping held a pen in his right hand and reached out with his left hand to ask for paper.

Although the doctors accompanying Zhang Heping were also anxious about his serious injuries and the need to further degrade his own health, one of them still took out a small notebook from his pocket.

Coincidentally, these small notebooks were essential items they carried with them at all times so they could listen to Zhang Heping's lectures.

Zhang Heping tried to swallow, but only felt a burning pain and numbness. He judged that his throat was injured and could only use paper and pen to write a treatment plan for the dying bodyguard.

However, what he didn't know was that, in other people's eyes, a large piece of flesh was missing from his neck, as if it might break at any moment.

scoff!

Zhang Heping tore off a piece of paper, handed it to a doctor next to him, and then pointed to the stretcher running ahead.

After quickly glancing at the note, the doctor burst into tears. "Dr. Zhang, we will treat him according to your treatment plan. Could you please lie down and rest now so we can move the bed faster?"

...(End of chapter)