Time felt as if it passed ever so slowly.
"Boss, we've arrived!"
Bang!
By the time Long Ying arrived by the site, he immediately rushed inside without caring for the police officers or the firefighters. Lan Huo quickly helped to make sure that Long Ying's path was smooth and not hindered. Even if they got into trouble later on, it would be able to be settled peacefully. Right now, it was more important for them to find Yu Yan.
"There's no one else alive inside," one of them said kindly.
"Please make way." Lan Huo looked at the person who spoke and shook his head. the rescue team was still going inside and tried to save whoever they could save.
"Yan'er!" Long Ying called out.
Long Ying kept on running as his heart prayed hard that his wife would be able to stay alive. He had placed GPS on his wife's phone, so he knew the location of the phone.
Smell of blood, gunpowder, and dust enveloped the entire area. Many people were crying as they held their loved ones or their friends who could barely make it. The tall mall was completely destroyed in this place.
"Yan'er! Yu Yan! Answer me!" Long Ying shouted. He scanned the area as he felt his heart turned even colder. There was no answer. None at all.
There was not even any sign of her body around here. This caused his heart to drop even further in his heart.
No… he couldn't lose her.
Long Ying glanced at his phone as he felt as if his heart was stabbed with countless needles and blood seeped out endlessly. The location was supposed to be here but there was no sign of Yu Yan at all. His eyes were pointed at the floor before he caught the sight of a phone with cracked screen.
His movement stopped.
The phone had pink color and girlish design. It looked like one that girl teenagers would like but Long Ying knew that it was Yu Yan's phone. She liked this kind of design and would not care about what other people were thinking about her very girlish phone style.
Since Yu Yan often used the phone to snap photo of him, Long Ying was exceptionally familiar with her phone.
Bending down, Long Ying noticed that the phone call was still connected. Yu Yan had called him at the last minute, but she was now nowhere to be seen.
"Boss! An Lin!" Lan Huo shouted from the side and Long Ying turned around. It was at this time he saw An Lin laid on the ground with a pool of blood below him. The scene caused his blood to turn even colder.
Long Ying had already called his men and at this time, he gave them order to bring An Lin to the hospital.
"Is he still alive?"
"Y..Yes, but he lost too much blood." Lan Huo was pressing on An Lin's wound as he prayed in his heart. It was so severe and from the wound, he could guess that the wound was made from close distance battle.
There were even bullet wounds on An Lin's body.
Long Ying nodded. He looked around and noticed several men fallen down on the ground. Some of them were burned purposely after they died while some of the corpses were dragged. Whoever did this purposely tried to cover their track after they were done.
The secret guard whom he had sent to monitor Yu Yan and An Lin from a distance had all died. The enemies were already prepared for a long battle and knew how many people whom he brought here.
The thought of the enemies knowing about him so much made Long Ying's gaze turned murderous.
Whoever responsible for this would never be able to escape this alive!
With the condition of the road and the number of people around, it would be impossible to bring these corpses around without arousing suspicion. To make it easier for them to do their work, the corpses were burnt to erase all evidence.
Crouching down, Long Ying picked up the badge that fell down from when one of the corpses were dragged. His eyes narrowed.
"Lan Huo, bring An Lin to hospital."
"Boss?" Lan Huo was stunned. He watched as Long Ying walked away but he didn't dare to leave An Lin here and could only continue to press the wound and tried to bandage it so that An Lin would not lose too much blood.
He knew very well that An Lin required medical attention almost immediately.
Thankfully there were ambulance coming.
Long Ying stood on one side, not caring for the destruction that occurred here as he made a call.
Du! Du! Du!
"Yes."
"Mr. Long, do you just pissed off the Xiao Family?" Long Ying asked coldly.
"Just some people from the branch family. What? Those rats create trouble?" Long Shao Huai asked back in a cold tone, clearly not caring for the consequences of what he did. Even if a lot of people died because of those branch family of Xiao Family created trouble, it would matter little for him.
Long Ying laughed coldly. Knowing full well that it was just like Long Shao Huai to do this. That man never cared how much problem he caused for Dragon Clan and the fact that he and his uncle had to clean up their messes almost every single time.
If not for the fact that the Dragon Clan was behind the Long Family, Long Shao Huai might have already destroyed the entire Long Family with the sheer number of enemies he had.
"Make sure to give the report next time if you don't wish for another enterprise of Long Family to be destroyed."
"Oh."
There was just one word of reply from Long Shao Huai before hanging up.
Long Ying looked at the phone coldly, getting the itch to smash it down right now. He had only remembered that this mall was under Long Family after he had reached it. And the opponent that his father offended just had to be that Xiao Family…
He quickly made another call.
"What is it?"
"Xiao Lin, did Long Shao Huai offend you? Do you take my wife?"
Xiao Lin, who was currently working on her laptop, immediately stopped. Her eyes turned cold. "No. You know very well that even if Long Shao Huai offend me, I'll never take it out on you. It must be other factions in Xiao Family. I'll send you the list of their identities soon."
"Alright."
Long Ying hung up as fast as he made the call. He watched from the side as An Lin was carried on Dragon Clan's personal ambulance to be taken to the hospital. His heart was getting colder as time passed.
He made another call.
"A, help me track Yu Yan."
"Your wife? Wait a minute. Why so suddenly?"
"She got involved in the attack just now."
"Wait, what attack? I was busy arranging something else…. Ok, I'm checking the cameras right now."
Long Ying walked towards the car and one of his subordinates quickly opened the door. He signaled for them to start driving outside of this venue. At the very least, he had to be quick to respond when A sent him the precise location later.
A is a hacker and also his friend whom he met through Zhang Liang a few years prior. Even though he rarely met with the other party directly, he knew this hacker's skill very well and often asked for some help in exchange for some matters to be done covertly. At the very least, A was far better than Dragon Clan hackers.
Since A already owed a lot of favors from him, Long Ying had no qualms of asking him to help when it was most necessary.
"They take your wife to a van. From the video, she didn't seem to be harmed. I sent the location to your phone."
"Thanks, you owe me one less favor."
"….I can't even remember how many favors I owe you by now. Just take care of your wife. I'll contact the others to help with this matter."
"I can handle it."
"Don't be shy and just let us help you, Dumbass. We won't ask for any payment."
Long Ying put his phone down and noticed the notification from another group lit up. A had started to contact the others to help with this matter. However, Long Ying didn't really want to rely on them as he called his men.
"Everyone gather in this location within half an hour. Those who are late will be sent to Island A for half a year." Long Ying didn't care how unreasonable his order was as he only wished to gather as many as he could to help him deal with that group.
Even if it was only a branch group of Xiao Family, it was still a very powerful one that had a lot of people inside.. To reduce the casualties in his side, he had to ask for reinforcement as many as possible.