Ultimate Firepower

Chapter 675 was too sudden.
Gao Yi was unable to answer, so he remained silent for a long time. The president looked at him for a long time without saying a word, but waved his hand with a slight disappointment.

"Never mind, I know you don't have any good ideas either."

Gao Yi breathed a sigh of relief, then said with an embarrassed look, "I'm sorry to disappoint you, but what I can do depends on your will. If I were to make the decision myself..."

Gao Yi adopted a very humble and polite attitude, implying that he was merely a tool and that Gao Yi could not allow him, a tool, to have his own thoughts or decide for him who to do what and how to do it.

Attitude is still very important, and emotional value must be provided. Although the president is knowledgeable and won't be fooled by a few words, nice words at least won't anger the president, and this is very important.

As expected, the president nodded with satisfaction after Gao Yi said those words.

Just then, there was a knock on the door, and the president raised his voice, saying, "Come in."

The door opened, and a middle-aged man in a suit with headphones on his ears, looking every bit the classic bodyguard and secret agent, walked into the office. He went straight to the president's side and whispered a few words to him.

The president nodded, pursed his lips, shrugged, and then nodded and said, "I understand."

The bodyguard took a step back and stood behind the president.

Strictly speaking, bodyguards shouldn't leave the president's side, so the fact that the president was able to spend almost two minutes alone with Gao Yi shows that he trusts Gao Yi a great deal and is also a very respectful gesture towards Panetta.

Gao Yi is an assassin, and even the president knows that he can kill anyone with his bare hands.

The president said to Gao Yi, "The interrogation results are in. Margaret was bribed. The price for her bribe was one hundred million dollars plus the lives of all her relatives."

After speaking, the president looked at Gao Yi very seriously and said, "Do you know what this means?"

Even if you know, you have to pretend you don't, especially since Gao Yi really doesn't know what this means.

"I am not very sure."

“Margaret has worked for me for six years. She has been very responsible in protecting my family, and I have also given her a lot in return. So why would she be threatened? There is only one answer: the people who can threaten and buy her off are the people around her, or even her colleagues.”

Margaret was sent to the president by the Secret Service.

The president sighed, then shook his head and said, "They paid Margaret a hundred million dollars to assassinate me, but the bounty on you by the Japanese has reached eight billion dollars. You are worth more than me."

Gao Yi couldn't even respond to that.

The president's ideas were truly wildly imaginative. After marveling at how Gao Yi's bounty was higher than his own, he suddenly changed the subject and said very seriously, "They've reached out to me. This is a provocation, an insult. I cannot tolerate such an insult. So, it's time for you to make your mark."

Gao Yi said respectfully, "It is my honor."

The president nodded with satisfaction.

If nothing unexpected happens, the president should let Gao Yi step down.

Actually, the president's words were superfluous. He shouldn't have said these meaningless things to Gao Yi himself. He should have said them to Panetta instead, and then Panetta could have had Gao Yi take care of whoever he pointed at.

This is the true meaning of Gao Yi's existence, and the president should never have any direct contact with Gao Yi.

But what can you do when the president is someone who doesn't like to play by the rules?

The president didn't let Gao Yi leave immediately. He glanced at his watch and said with a smug look, "Panetta hopes you can achieve greater success. He wants you to rise from the underground to the surface, and I'm willing to give you that opportunity. After the banquet begins, I'll introduce you to some important figures. You'll definitely..."

The president was in high spirits, and it seemed he really wanted to brag to Gao Yi.

But the knocking interrupted the president's self-praise.

The president stopped speaking, pouting as if annoyed that someone was knocking on the door at this time.

The bodyguard standing behind the president shouted, "Who is it?"

"This is Jack. I have an emergency to report."

The president nodded with a stern face, and his bodyguard behind him said loudly, "Come in."

The door opened, and a man also dressed in a black suit entered. He glanced at Gao Yi, who was present, and then looked at the president, as if he had something difficult to say.

The president looked at Jack, slightly puzzled, and asked, "What's wrong?"

Jack whispered, "Mr. President, we have received urgent intelligence."

The president frowned, and his bodyguard beside him also frowned. Gao Yi, however, subconsciously stood up. At this moment, he naturally knew that it was better to avoid the situation.

As soon as the president spoke, Gao Yi turned to leave, but the president asked with a puzzled look, "What urgent intelligence?"

"The time is ripe."

The agent behind Gao Yi said something, and the president looked puzzled and asked, "What?"

At that moment, the bodyguard standing behind the president suddenly turned slightly to the side, raised his hand that had been at his waist, and in his hand was a pistol.

Gao Yi was stunned. He reacted quickly, but before he could make any move, the person standing behind the president fired two shots.

Gao Yi was shot twice in the chest.

The first shot was aimed at the heart, the second shot was also aimed at the heart, according to the Mozambican shooting method. The third shot should have been aimed at the head by raising the muzzle, but there was no third shot.

The president's bodyguard fired two shots at Gao Yi, while the person who had entered and stood behind Gao Yi bypassed Gao Yi and approached the president from one side of the desk.

The president was stunned and speechless. He didn't shout, but instinctively shrank back a couple of times.

Strictly speaking, the president has good mental fortitude.

The bodyguard who swept past Gao Yi suddenly had something in his hand. He swung his arm and smashed it down on the president.

Gao Yi saw something very familiar.

A hammer, a very small, round-headed warhammer.

Gao Yi was shot twice and could no longer stand; he looked like he was about to fall.

The shooting and the hammer swinging happened simultaneously, so after Gao Yi was shot twice, the hammer was about to fall on the president's head.

It was all so sudden. Gao Yi was in a daze, confused, but he wasn't dead, at least not yet.

Because Gao Yi's heart is located on the right side.

This wasn't the first time Gao Yi had been shot in the left chest, but he survived the last time, so he's sure he won't die this time either.

So, just as Gao Yi seemed about to lunge forward onto the table, his right hand miraculously grabbed the heavy landline phone from the table, and with a flick of his wrist, he smashed the phone toward the bodyguard who was holding a hammer.

The president instinctively turned his head to one side.

It all happened in an instant; everyone's reactions and actions were completely unpredictable.

Gao Yi braced himself on the table with his left hand. He didn't jump or run. Instead, when his body was limp and he had lost most of his strength, he slid his entire body off the desk. Then, with a flick of his right leg, he kicked the bodyguard in the chin, who had a good chance to fire a third shot.

The phone hit the bodyguard who was swinging the hammer right in the face, near his eye.

With lightning speed, using both hands and feet, he smashed the phone at the person while simultaneously kicking them.

The bodyguard who fired the shot was kicked in the chin by Gao Yi, and his head snapped back as he fell to the ground.

The hammer aimed at the president didn't stop, but the bodyguard, distracted, slightly deflected the hammer.

Gao Yi did his best; his biggest secret saved his life, preventing him from dying instantly.

However, Gao Yi was also unable to completely stop the hammer from falling towards the president.

The hammer fell and struck the president on the head.

Fortunately, it veered off course, and fortunately, the force wasn't fully applied, so the head that was supposed to explode didn't burst open like a watermelon.

But the president still collapsed upon hearing the sound, slumping directly into the enormous office chair.

Gao Yi's heart wasn't broken, but it had begun to grow cold.

Gao Yi watched helplessly as the side of the president's head caved in.

It was too sudden, too sudden.

Gao Yi spun around on the table, kicked the hammer that the bodyguard had slipped off, and then tried to jump off the table by bracing himself with his left hand.

He was right in front of him, and could kill the bodyguard with a single punch or palm strike, but Gao Yi's body was not strong enough to support him in performing the action that should have been easy.

Gao Yi fell back onto the table, and the bodyguard, horrified, raised the hammer again and brought it down on Gao Yi's head.

Everything changes in the blink of an eye.

Driven by his survival instinct, Gao Yi did what he could.

Before the hammer fell, Gao Yi reached out but couldn't reach the bodyguard's right hand and swung it horizontally, his finger poking the bodyguard's eye.

With a cry of pain, the bodyguard closed his eyes and slammed the hammer down, which landed on the table.

But Gao Yi's head was no longer in the same place.

Gao Yi flipped off the table, pressed down on the iron hammer that the bodyguard had slammed onto the table with his left hand, and with his right middle finger protruding from its knuckle, he placed it with all his might on the bodyguard's Adam's apple.

Gao Yi had used all his strength, but the punch was still light and weak. But it didn't matter. The bodyguard who was punched in the throat immediately clutched his throat and began to stagger backward.

Gao Yi held the hammer in his left hand.

This hammer doesn't belong to Gao Yi; the weight is different, but it looks very similar to the hammer Gao Yi uses.

Gao Yi wanted to throw the hammer away immediately, but when he saw the bodyguard he had just kicked down struggling to point his gun at him, he suddenly lunged forward.

Unable to move freely, Gao Yi practically threw himself out, striking the bodyguard who had fired the shot on the head with a hammer in his left hand.

They're all dead, the bodyguard is dead, so Gao Yi must be the assassin.

It’s over.

Gao Yi's vision went black, and he almost fainted. Then he thought it would be better to just die.

Gao Yi felt he was doomed, but he ultimately didn't want to be the scapegoat.

Gao Yi braced himself on the ground with both hands, struggling to get up. When he finally managed to lift himself off the ground and stand up, he found that the president, whose face was covered in blood and whose temple was dented, was staring at him with his eyes open.

Gao Yi didn't know what he was thinking, nor did he know what he should be thinking. He just instinctively said to the president, "It wasn't me... faking death!"

The president closed his eyes, but Gao Yi didn't know if he was really dead or just pretending.

A large group of bodyguards should rush in, claim Gao Yi is an assassin, and then kill him instantly.

escape?

Revolt?

Gao Yi didn't even think about it.

Gao Yi only hoped that the president could survive, and that the surviving president could say something. No matter who planned this impossible operation, at least he shouldn't be made the scapegoat.

But the door that should have been broken down was not, and the bodyguards who should have rushed in did not.

Gao Yi waited briefly, but when the bodyguards who were expected to appear did not appear, he suddenly felt that he should at least try to save himself.

Gao Yi fell backward and lay down again.

Play dead. At least the image of being shot twice in the chest does make him look like he's dead.

The people outside were slow to come in; they might have been waiting for the people inside to stage the scene, such as putting the hammer in Gao Yi's hand, and then placing the body in its proper place, and so on.

Finally, a full twenty seconds after the gunshot, the door was pushed open, and Gao Yi finally heard the exclamation that should have come long ago.

(End of this chapter)