"Zzzzzz!"

Inside the deformed elevator, the overhead light flickered on and off, and exposed wires sparked.

Su Tiannan lay sprawled on the floor, the young woman still pressed against him.

Both of them had suffered head injuries from the impact, and blood seeped out.

"Squeak, squeak!"

A grating sound rang out, and the elevator suddenly lurched downwards, jolting Su Tiannan awake. He looked around, dizzy, and quickly sat up.

"Cheng Yao!"

Su Tiannan reached out and pushed the girl.

"Ugh...!" Cheng Yao gasped, slowly raising her arm to touch the wound on her head. "Explo...exploded?!"

Su Tiannan shook his head. "Damn it, someone intercepted us! Can you get up?"

"I, my leg hurts." Cheng Yao tried to sit up, but found her left calf unbearably painful.

"Don't move yet."

Su Tiannan immediately and cautiously got to his feet, grabbing the elevator handrail. He whispered into the intercom, "What's the situation outside?"

Hearing Su Tiannan's voice, Liu Tao felt a slight relief from his tense emotions. "There was an explosion on the 11th floor. A large number of armed personnel have rushed in at the entrance. What's your situation?!"

"I'm okay, I can move," Su Tiannan retorted. "Did you see a third party rushing in at the entrance with your own eyes?"

"Yes, we came face to face."

"Damn it, I'm not doing this anymore." Su Tiannan immediately glanced at his watch. "External personnel, retreat. Leave a small group to back me up."

"What if they can't kill him?" Liu Tao asked.

"Damn, even if they can't, we can't do it anymore. As soon as the guns go off, people will come. Retreat, retreat!" Su Tiannan decisively ordered.

"Okay, I'll back you up." Liu Tao replied as he ran, "I'm at the designated location."

"That's it!"

Su Tiannan took off his headset, bent down to help Cheng Yao up. The two of them worked together to pry open the deformed elevator door, only to find a half-wall in front of them.

There was a half-meter-high gap at the top of the elevator door, through which they could see the panicked crowd running around outside, and hear shouts from all directions.

"Damn it, I don't know if the people in the monitoring room are dead or not!" Su Tiannan said, supporting Cheng Yao. "If they're not dead, they must have spotted us. Let's go, I'll get you out."

"Okay!" Cheng Yao nodded.

Su Tiannan stepped on the elevator handrail and was the first to climb out of the opening at the top of the elevator. He then bent down, reached out his hand, and shouted, "Come on, I'll pull you up."

Cheng Yao endured the pain in her leg, using Su Tiannan's strength, and climbed out of the deformed elevator with him.

As soon as they entered the tenth floor, they smelled a pungent gunpowder smell, and fierce gunfire could be heard from the upper floors.

"Director, are we being used?!" Cheng Yao asked quickly. "Someone knew we were coming, so they deliberately acted at this time, preparing to frame us?"

"Not necessarily. If it was a frame-up, you and I wouldn't have fallen into the elevator. We would have been shot to death by now." Su Tiannan supported Cheng Yao and quickly ran towards the fire escape. "It's probably a third party. They also learned that the people from Puson and Tagu were meeting here tonight, so they chose to attack."

"Who could have done it?"

"Let's not talk about that now. Take off your work clothes, quickly!" Su Tiannan replied, helping Cheng Yao rush into the stairwell.

Inside the stairwell, a large number of tourists on the tenth floor were panicking, running downstairs in a frenzy.

Su Tiannan turned his head and glanced around, his eyes locked on a very thin man. He immediately walked over and patted the man on the shoulder. "Hey, brother, give me your coat."

The black man turned to look at Su Tiannan, his eyes flashing fiercely. He roared in English, "Are you trying to rob me? Yellow-skinned...!"

"Pa!"

Before Su Tiannan could make a move, Cheng Yao suddenly reached out and grabbed the man's Adam's apple. She decisively pulled out a dagger from her waist and said, "Do you want to die, you black devil?!"

The man froze.

Su Tiannan glanced at Cheng Yao in surprise, ripped off the man's clothes, and shouted, "Go!"

"Keep your mouth clean! I'll stab you to death!" Cheng Yao looked young and beautiful, gentle and refined, like a girl next door, but when she got down to business, she was fiercely tough.

The two quickly went downstairs. Cheng Yao took off her coat, threw it in the trash can, and put on the black man's loose-fitting clothes.

"Da-da...!"

Fierce gunfire came from downstairs, and everyone was so frightened that their faces turned pale. They turned around and ran back upstairs, only Su Tiannan pulled Cheng Yao, standing against the wall. "Don't panic, don't move, whatever you do, don't move."

Cheng Yao's forehead was sweating, and she nodded obediently.

Ten seconds later, a group of masked armed men rushed up. Two of them, holding guns, shouted in English, "Don't move, heads down!"

The people who were still in place immediately lowered their heads. The armed men quickly passed by, completely ignoring them.

"Go!"

Seeing the other party leave, Su Tiannan immediately helped Cheng Yao continue to flee downwards.

Thirty seconds later, the two arrived on the second floor of the stairwell. Su Tiannan wrapped his fist in his coat and smashed the window glass with one punch.

"Come on, step on my shoulders, go up first." Su Tiannan bent over.

While stepping on Su Tiannan and climbing upwards, Cheng Yao said gratefully, "I'm causing you trouble, Director!"

"At this time, don't talk nonsense."

After a while, the two jumped from the stairwell window on the second floor to the outside, staggering for hundreds of meters before turning their heads to look at the Londo Hotel.

Half of the windows on the 11th floor of the hotel were glowing with fire, a large amount of thick smoke was billowing out, and explosions sounded from time to time.

"It's over, Puson must be dead." Cheng Yao said blankly.

"...It's all right, saves us from doing it ourselves." Su Tiannan took Cheng Yao's small hand and quickly slipped into the alley.

Five minutes later.

Outside the Londo Hotel, Su Tiannan sat in the car, watching the people above the 12th floor of the hotel descending along the ropes, while holding the phone and saying to Su Tianyu, "We didn't succeed, someone opened fire first."

Su Tianyu frowned. "Are you guys okay?!"

"A little twist, no big problem." Su Tiannan swallowed. "Who do you think did it?"

Su Tianyu was silent for a moment, then immediately got up and replied, "It's hard to say who did it, but Panama City will be playing with its cards on the table starting tonight. Something big is going to happen!"

"I think so too." Su Tiannan agreed. "Tagu is already close to putting the coast guard in his pocket, but Puson has gone to heaven. This kind of blockade is too blatant."

"You guys continue to lie low, I'll go find Brother Hu." Su Tianyu replied, "Be sure to ensure your own safety!"

"Understood!"

...

An hour later.

The exact news of the Londo Hotel bombing reached Tagu's ears.

After the explosion, Puson was shot to death by eight armed men ambushing him in the hotel, and all the officers sent by Tagu were also wiped out.

More than forty people were killed or injured at the scene, which was extremely tragic.