Chapter 42 Don’t Believe It

• That smile made the robbers feel like they were staring at a ghost. Too creepy. “I’ll cooperate, I’ll cooperate!” The robber bobbed his head fast. “What I need you to do is simple.” “When you meet them, just pick up the remote for their remote bombs.” “It’s easy. No way you can’t do that, right?” Gale Bush eyed him with a lazy grin. The robber nodded like crazy. He didn’t dare say no. He never wanted to relive that worse-than-death moment. “Alright then, the rest is on you.” “I’m heading home.” Gale Bush tossed the cleanup to Rebecca North. Helping her this far was more than enough. What, did he have to arrest the robbers too? The Rockville Law Enforcement Bureau had people for that. No need for him to step in. “But it’s not over yet!” “You said you’d help me take them all down at once!” Rebecca cut in. “Girl, you’re a handful.” Gale Bush was speechless. He’d practically handed her the win, and she still wanted him to spoon-feed her? “If it’s not done, you don’t get to call off the engagement.” Rebecca threatened. “Fine, fine… I’ll go, okay?” Gale Bush rolled his eyes. All this just to break off an engagement—could he catch a break? Rebecca and the robber got the next phase of the plan straight, then sent everything back to Li Hengzhou. All units moved out right away. Since he had to go along again, Gale Bush asked the Wheeler family to send another Mercedes. The two earlier ones had already been in accidents. Even an idiot could tell something was off. Two hours later. Fifty kilometers outside Haidong District. In a deserted village. Eight black, plate-less Mercedes rolled in one after another. Night had fully fallen. No electric lights in the village, just the moon overhead washing everything in silver. “Target in sight, all units on alert!” Li Hengzhou commanded from the outer ring. Rebecca North led a team hiding around the inner perimeter, not far from the eight Mercedes. While they were setting up, some hostages were already rescued. But some were driving the cars out of town per the robbers’ demands and were still on the road. According to the robber on the inside, the hostages’ remote devices were triggered by SIM cards. Even a thousand miles away, the remotes in their hands could still detonate. Just as Rebecca waited for the insider to collect all those remotes, she turned her head— Gale Bush was gone. “Captain, look!” A subordinate tapped Rebecca, spotting trouble inside the cordon. “Gale!” “Why did he go in there!” “Isn’t that a disaster!” Rebecca was furious. She’d told him to stay put on the sidelines. Blink of an eye, and he’d slipped into the cordon—straight to the eight robbers? “Captain, what do we do now?” the subordinate stammered. “Report to the chief and let him decide!” Rebecca snapped. “Captain, they’ve got guns!” The subordinate lifted his comm, then froze, tense at the scene inside the ring. Gale Bush wasn’t some random guy. He was the Wheeler family’s son-in-law. If anything happened to him, nobody here could carry that blame. “Save him!” Rebecca gritted her teeth and charged, team on her heels. No time to call the chief. Saving him came first. … In the center of the cordon, by the Mercedes. While the robbers were busy splitting the loot, Gale Bush strolled up like he had all night. “What’s up, fellas? Busy?” “Whoa, that’s a lot of cash.” “Finders keepers, right? Mind cutting me in?” Gale’s silent arrival made the robbers jump out of their skins. They’d been high on pure adrenaline, hauling stacks of cash out of the cars. “Who the hell are you?” “This is a dead village!” “Where’d you come from?” The robbers snapped to alert. “If I said I just happened to pass by, would you buy it?” Gale Bush smiled. Talking, he threw the insider a quick look—move, grab all the remotes now. He’d watched from the sidelines forever, practically dozing off. The insider still hadn’t found the right moment to scoop the remotes. And Gale didn’t feel like feeding mosquitoes out there. So he came in to help. “You think we believe that?” Seven robbers swarmed Gale Bush. Seven black muzzles leveled right at his head.