Chapter 113

Chapter 113: How to Save Yourself

Everyone in the room turned pale with fear when they heard this. As the party concerned, Du Bi Xiao was even more shocked, and the words on the tip of her tongue changed into: “Go ahead, I know how serious this is.”

Du An Rao took a deep breath and said hoarsely: “In your tribulation, I saw a shopping mall.”

“A mall?” Du Bi Xiao’s heart gave a jolt, and she almost asked on reflex: “What kind of mall?”

“I can’t say it clearly.” Du An Rao tried hard to recall the fragments that had just rushed into her mind: “It was a really big mall, with jewelry stores, clothing stores, restaurants… oh right, there was also a movie theater. On the day it happened, there was a poster outside the theater for one of my second brother’s movies.”

Du He Xuan’s expression turned strange. If he didn’t know his own sister would never talk nonsense, he would have suspected Du An Rao was a spy sent by his enemies to smear him.

Everyone already knew that Du Bi Xiao’s job was special, and this matter was tied to her life. Eight or nine out of ten, it had to be a big case. A mere entertainment star like him showing up in a serious social case, anyone could guess it wouldn’t be anything good.

Luckily, all Du An Rao did was try her best to describe every detail she had seen, so Du Bi Xiao could pull more information out of it. And Du Bi Xiao really did not let her down.

When she heard this, Du Bi Xiao’s eyes flashed. She reacted quickly and asked: “Do you remember which movie poster it was? What was the title?”

“I don’t remember. I just remember Second Brother standing in the center, and there was a mass of fire behind him.” That was already the most detailed part Du An Rao could give.

All the scenes she had just seen had only flashed past, there for a second and then gone. Being able to catch even this much information was already pretty good.

Du Bi Xiao sighed and did not make it harder for her. She lifted her head and met Du He Xuan’s eyes.

Du He Xuan’s whole body trembled. He too realized a certain possibility, and he nodded with a serious face, planning to find a chance later to have a good talk with her.

“Besides that, I also saw a clock. It was a square digital clock in a restaurant. The time was 14:39 in the afternoon.”

Du Bi Xiao frowned. A square digital clock was really a bit too vague as a clue. Lots of places used digital clocks now. If they really started checking, the search range would be huge.

Hearing all this yet still not hearing the main point of how their daughter got into trouble, Du Bi Xiao’s parents grew anxious.

“An An, in those scenes you saw, what exactly was it that made Bi Xiao… end up in danger?”

Du An Rao had almost gotten to this part already. She quickly gave her answer: “It was a man, about one meter seventy-five tall, wearing a blue jacket, taking revenge on society. Inside the mall, he took a little girl of about six or seven years old hostage.”

The people around them had already prepared themselves in their hearts, but they still could not help drawing in a sharp breath.

Du An Rao frowned as she tried to remember. What she saw in her mind was a big blur of mosaic: “I couldn’t see his face. I only saw him holding a knife against the girl’s neck, yelling for everyone to get out and stay away, or he would kill the child. That little girl was crying and calling for her mama…”

Her aunt and uncle listened with their hearts pounding: “So, Bi Xiao put herself in danger in order to save that child, and then…”

“No, that’s not it. Cousin was indeed part of the rescue team, but it wasn’t because of saving the child…” When Du An Rao remembered the bloody scene she had just seen, her stomach turned and she dry-heaved twice.

The Du family grew nervous again when they saw this. Before they could say anything, they heard Du An Rao throw out a heavy bomb. And it was a real heavy bomb.

“There was a bomb! There were bombs inside that mall!”

“What?!” Du Bi Xiao jumped in shock. But after she calmed down and thought about it, it actually made sense.

She had been wondering just now. If it was only about rescuing a hostage child and catching a criminal, she had seen far more dangerous situations than that. There was no reason for her to “flip the boat in a little ditch” over this.

But if that criminal had also planted bombs in or near the mall beforehand, then it made sense.

The problem was, if that was true, the level of seriousness of this matter had to be raised several grades.

“I heard five separate explosions, so most likely there were five, or even more than five, bombs in there. That mall is very busy, and there were a lot of guests, so…”

Even if Du An Rao didn’t finish her words, the others could imagine the rest.

The killing power of five bombs was no joke. No wonder she could not help dry-heaving when she recalled it just now.

But it was exactly because they understood how serious this was that Du Bi Xiao’s parents now felt even more dizzy and weak.

No matter how capable their daughter was, she was still only flesh and blood. How could she withstand a weapon like a bomb?

“What are we going to do? What are we going to do?” Her aunt panicked, and instinctively turned to her husband for help. Then, like grabbing the last straw, she suddenly grabbed Du An Rao’s hand.

“Child, since you can see these things, you must also know how to save Bi Xiao, right? She counts as your sister too, so save her. As long as you can save her, Auntie can even give you my life. As long as you can save her…”

This was the first time Du An Rao had been faced with something like this. She stood there stunned, not knowing what to do.

The Du family also hadn’t expected her to suddenly lose control like that. They weren’t on guard, so they accidentally let her rush up to Du An Rao. All of them looked very unhappy.

Instead, it was Du Bi Xiao who reacted first. She stepped up at once, grabbed her mother’s hand, and comforted her: “Mom, calm down first. Cousin already told us a lot of information. She has helped a lot. As for how to save ourselves next, and how to save those innocent people in the mall, that is what I should be doing.”

Her aunt froze and looked up without thinking. When she met Mother Du’s disapproving gaze, she finally realized how out of line she had been.

She quickly let go of Du An Rao’s hand in embarrassment and said: “I’m sorry, An An. Auntie got scared by what you just said and lost my head for a moment. I must have frightened you.”

Du An Rao really didn’t mind. Seeing that her aunt was no longer begging her like that, she secretly let out a breath and said: “It’s fine. I understand. Aunt, you also need to believe in Cousin and in Cousin’s colleagues. They will definitely find a way to make the harm from this as small as possible.”

“Yes, yes, yes. Tomorrow you go back and tell the people in your unit about this, and ask them to really think about a plan.”

Du Bi Xiao gave a bitter smile. Of course she had to report something this big. The main problem now was how she was going to make her supervisor and her colleagues believe that what she said was true.

Thinking this, she instinctively turned her head and looked at Du An Rao.

Du An Rao did not know what she was struggling with inside. She lowered her head, hesitated for a moment, and in the end still chose to follow her heart and speak her true thoughts.

“I’m not sure if the bombs have anything to do with that man who took the child hostage, but it is a fact that his presence delayed your time in finding the bombs. And I suspect that the reason he took that child hostage…”

Du An Rao paused, her face turning a bit darker: “Might have been to lure you over on purpose.”