Act 44: A mess
"Close your eyes and don't look ahead."
Roger hugged Cao Yunqi tightly in his arms and pressed her head to prevent her from watching the scene where the grocery store owner dismembered Yang stammering.
"Brother Luo, I'm afraid..." Cao Yunqi held back and didn't cry, but her body kept trembling, obviously she was extremely frightened.
"Don't be afraid, no matter what, Brother Luo will protect you." Roger whispered, turned around, covered Cao Yunqi with his back, and stared at the grocery store owner with a machete in his hand.
Cao Yunqi did not dare to open her eyes, so she could only lean her face tightly against Roger's broad spine. The smell of Roger was everywhere during her breathing. Gradually, this manly smell made Cao Yunqi calm down and no longer tremble, but she still did not dare to open her eyes because the sound of chopping meat showed no sign of stopping.
"Don't come over, don't come over, don't come over..."
Although Roger kept chanting "spells" and praying to the grocery store owners not to approach them, it was obvious that the grocery store owner was not a god or a Buddha, and he could not hear his prayers.
After losing interest in the corpse on the ground, which could no longer be seen, the grocery store owner stood up and focused his attention on Roger who was close to him.
"Don't... don't come here! Don't you want a shop? I'll compensate you, I'll pay you a thousand dollars. One thousand dollars is enough for you to go home and buy land to live a good life, and you can live a good life in the future!"
When he heard Roger was willing to give him a thousand dollars, the grocery store owner hesitated, his face relaxed a lot, and he said, "Money! Give it now!"
Roger touched his pocket, only a few oceans - he came out to attend the dance today, not shopping, so he would carry so many dead silver oceans with him, so he had to discuss:
"That... no one can take so many oceans with him when he goes out, right? I'll go home to pick them up. What will I give them to you tomorrow?"
Seeing that Roger turned left and right, he couldn't get out the ocean, and just threw a light sentence to try to dissuade him, the grocery store owner's anger suddenly rekindled, and he waved his kitchen knife and slashed at Roger.
"I just knew that none of you rich people are good! They deserve to die!"
Seeing that the negotiation failed, Roger had no choice but to grab the broken basket that someone at hand threw into the alley as a shield, erected a machete and went forward to fight.
After all, the crazy grocery store owner had chopped two people in a row, and his physical strength was no longer good at this time. In addition, after chopping and chopping, the kitchen knife was full of gaps, and the lethality was not as good as an iron plate. After this knife cut through the basket, it only left a shallow mark on Roger's arm and no longer had any lethality.
When the grocery store owner's knife stopped, Roger grabbed his right wrist with his left hand and prevented him from pulling his hand back. He held the machete in his right hand and waved it out suddenly, slashing the grocery store owner's neck. The red blood immediately splattered Roger's face.
A few seconds later, the grocery store owner collapsed softly to the ground, his body twitched for a few seconds and then stopped moving.
Roger felt very strange. He had just killed someone, but his heart was extremely calm, and he didn't even have the least fear. He didn't understand whether he had seen life and death too much in the Republic of China or had just been too frightened and was already numb.
He was too lazy to care about those things. He was still alive anyway, and Cao Yunqi was not injured, which was enough.
Dropped the machete in his hand, Roger wiped the blood splashed on his face, then pulled Cao Yunqi's hand and said, "Let's go and go find your father."
The two of them walked hand in hand through the burning grocery store at the alley and walked to the street - at this time, there was no gunshot on the street.
Walking all the way to the hotel, there were corpses everywhere, some in military uniforms, some in black clothes, and some indistinguishable from anything they were wearing.
After a careful inspection at the hotel entrance, Roger finally entered the hotel. There, he saw Principal Jiang who was reprimanding several officers furiously. He didn't want to get into trouble, so he pulled Cao Yunqi to Director Zhou next to him.
"Director Zhou."
Director Zhou turned his head and was startled when he saw it. After a closer look, he recognized that this "blood man" was Roger, who had just been called "a talent".
"Mr. Luo, why are you like this? Why don't you hurry to go to the hospital to do what you do?"
Roger shook his head: "These blood is not mine, Director Zhou, what's going on with this attack?"
Director Zhou felt relieved when he heard that the blood was not Roger's, and said, "It's not the remnants of the business group. I don't know who they heard about the dance. The third young master of the Chen family who escaped a few days ago led a group of dead soldiers to avenge him. Fortunately, they targeted the guards with guns at the beginning. The two sides shot each other a lot of time, so that the patrol teams around had time to come here, otherwise they wouldn't know how many people would die."
"Then...Director Zhou, have you met Mr. Cao Zonghan and Miss Alisha?"
"Oh, they both, I just saw them, and they were not injured, but they were a little scared. Now they should be on the second floor, so you can look for them. By the way, this kind of thing just happened, and our appointment tomorrow may be another day."
"This is also impossible. When things settle, I will definitely visit you."
After saying that, Roger led Cao Yunqi to the second floor all the way, and finally met Cao Zonghan and Alisha who were anxiously waiting for the news.
"dad!"
As soon as he saw his father, Cao Yunqi's tears that had been held in for a long time finally burst out, and she cried and threw herself into her father's arms.
"You... where did you go? How did you do this??" Alisa walked to Roger, nervously checked Roger's condition, and looked carefully and only found a shallow scar on her arm before breathing a sigh of relief.
"It's hard to describe." Roger sighed, "Let's go back to the consulate. Now I just want to take a good shower and sleep, and I don't want to care about anything else."
"Okay, I'll prepare the car now. The situation on the street is not peaceful now. If you want to leave, you must notify the military and have a military escort. You can rest here first and I'll contact them." As he said that, Alisa walked downstairs quickly.
"Mr. Luo, I really don't know how to thank you. My daughter is my lifeblood!" After comforting Cao Yunqi, Cao Zonghan walked up to Luo Jie and thanked him.
Roger smiled and said, "A woman who is such a beautiful and lovely will be well protected by anyone who sees her. By the way, Mr. Cao, I want to ask you for help."
"Help? How can you and me be so kind? I saved your little girl's life at you. If you have any questions, Mr. Luo just asks me. Even if I, Cao, will never refuse!"
"Don't say that's so serious, I just want to check someone."
"Check people? This should not be a problem. My Cao family still has some connections in this Guangzhou City. I wonder who Mr. Luo is going to investigate?"
"It's the owner of a grocery store next to the hotel."
"Grocery shop owner? Check what he does?"
"No, why? It's just that I'm sorry for him and want to compensate his family for one or two. Perhaps, I also want to know why a 32-yuan can turn a civilian into a life-seeking evil spirit."
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Chapter completed!