I Received Messages From Future Self!-Chapter 165 - Tom: Hi Miss Han Xue, we meet again
Chapter 165 -165 Tom: Hi Miss Han Xue, we meet again
After sending the message to Fang Xiaocao, Tom swiftly got up, deliberately took a detour, and passed by the stairwell door on the first floor on his way to the elevator.
As he passed by the stairwell door, Tom glanced at it out of the corner of his eye. Through the small window on the door, he could see a human silhouette hiding in a corner inside the dimly lit stairwell.
“Just as I suspected!”
Tom muttered to himself.
Tom arrived at the elevator and pressed for the fifth floor.
He always carried his bomb disposal tools with him.
For Tom, dealing with ordinary bombs only took minutes.
It wasn’t that Tom was arrogant, but that he was confident.
Tom was professionally trained.
He was a rare bomb-defusing prodigy.
The stairwell on the second floor!
Reading the WeChat message from Tom, Fang Xiaocao was a bit troubled.
Tom was about to defuse a bomb…
Should she agree,
or not?
Fang Xiaocao admitted that Tom’s analysis was spot on.
Han Xue certainly planned to seize the chaos to leave the hotel.
The moment of the bomb explosion would be the perfect opportunity.
Tom’s plan directly thwarted Han Xue’s chance to leave, leaving her with only two options if the explosion didn’t happen as expected: one was to risk leaving, and the other was to return the same way and once again retreat to the room she had been hiding in.
But there was a problem…
Would Han Xue dare to go back?
She didn’t even know why the bomb hadn’t gone off.
Fang Xiaocao hesitated for ten seconds, her mind in turmoil, but eventually she clenched her teeth and agreed with Tom’s idea.
Even though Hot Noodles had provided a foresight that the second floor was safe, the thought of a bomb right above her head was still frightening.
What if Hot Noodles’s prediction was inaccurate?
Or what if something from above fell during the explosion and hit her clever little head?
“Tom, make your move!”
“Remember to block the surveillance camera, don’t leave any record of you defusing the bomb, and make sure there’s no camera capturing us when we deal with Han Xue later.”
Fang Xiaocao composed the WeChat message and sent it to Tom.
At that moment, there were only three minutes left until the explosion.
Upon seeing Fang Xiaocao’s reply, Tom immediately entered the elevator.
[Tom: Received!]
Tom reached the fifth floor, with two minutes and thirty seconds left to the explosion!
Tom didn’t rush to step out of the elevator, but instead pulled out a small ball from his chest, turned on the switch, and threw it out. The ball rolled down the corridor and lit up with streaks of electrical arcs.
The next second, all the lights in the fifth-floor corridor flickered, several surveillance cameras blinked, and the infrared sensors immediately went dark.
Tom took out his phone and opened the app he had used to view surveillance footage. In the settings, he pressed a red button.
The next second, all the screens in the surveillance room turned to static.
On a nearby computer, a progress bar appeared, stating that it was clearing the surveillance storage.
After completing all these steps, Tom put away his phone.
With only one minute and thirty seconds left to the explosion, Tom glanced at the time, stepped out of the elevator, and holding a device resembling a Dragon Ball Radar, walked from one end of the corridor toward the other.
When Tom arrived in front of room 508, the Dragon Ball Radar flickered twice and a red dot appeared.
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“Ohoho, found you, cutie.”
Tom murmured, crouched down, and lifted the carpet in the hallway.
Looking at the palm-sized device with scarlet numbers ticking away, Tom smiled.
“What a surprise, it’s quite a delicate little thing,” he mused.
Tom smirked playfully and pulled a pair of small pliers from his pocket, his eyes beginning to wander over the bomb.
Time ticked by, second by second.
Soon, only thirty seconds were left until the explosion.
Tom seemed to have seen enough, and the small pliers in his hand quickly grabbed a red wire, “snip,” he cut it.
Then, Tom took out a button-sized metal patch from his pocket and stuck it on the bomb.
He just picked up the bomb and slipped it into his pocket.
Tom stood up and headed toward the elevator.
Getting on the elevator, he pressed the button for the first floor.
[Tom: My dear Princess Your Highness, I’ve accomplished my mission without disgrace. I’ve successfully disarmed the bomb and am now taking the elevator down to the first floor. I’ve hacked the entire hotel’s surveillance system, and the hard drives storing the surveillance footage have been formatted.]
“Well done!”
Seeing Tom’s message, Fang Xiaocao smiled.
Tom was indeed reliable.
Not killing Tom at the beginning, but instead keeping him to work for her, was truly the right choice.
Fang Xiaocao muttered to herself, beginning to plan her move against Fang Hanxue.
If Han Xue came upstairs, Fang Xiaocao would take care of her personally; if Han Xue chose to run away instead, it would be up to Tom.
“Tom, keep an eye on Han Xue, don’t let her get away.”
Fang Xiaocao sent Tom a message on WeChat.
[Tom: Rest assured, Princess Your Highness, I won’t let Han Xue escape.]
After replying to Fang Xiaocao, Tom put away his phone and walked toward the hotel’s main entrance.
The hotel lobby was too crowded, which wasn’t conducive to action.
Tom planned to wait for Han Xue outside the hotel.
Tom had analyzed the situation and concluded that even if the bomb didn’t go off, there was a 90% chance Han Xue would risk fleeing.
After all, with a bomb upstairs, Han Xue definitely wouldn’t dare go back. If she tried to hide on the second floor, she would encounter Fang Xiaocao.
By then, Han Xue would surely run.
After all, Fang Xiaocao knew Han Xue.
Even if Han Xue still wanted to kill Fang Xiaocao, she wouldn’t dare to confront her at that moment and would only choose to turn and flee.
Once entangled by Fang Xiaocao, just one shout from her would make it hard for Han Xue to run away.
In the first-floor stairwell!
Han Xue took out her phone and glanced at it.
She realized that more than a minute had passed since the bomb was supposed to explode, yet there had been no sound of it detonating.
A feeling of unease began to echo in her heart.
“No, I need to get out of here!”
Biting her lip, Han Xue muttered and immediately walked toward the stairwell door.
As Tom reached the hotel entrance, suddenly, the sound of the stairwell door opening came from behind.
Tom was startled and turned his head to look.
Just then, he saw Han Xue coming out of the stairwell, heading towards the hotel’s main entrance.
“Ah-ha?”
“This woman is quite decisive!”
Seeing this, Tom muttered.
While Tom was thinking about how to deal with Han Xue and prevent her escape, suddenly a police car pulled up outside the door, and Shi Guang and Officer Xiaoli, along with two others, got out of the car and quickly made their way toward the hotel entrance.
Seeing this, Tom had an idea.
“They must have received my report and come to arrest Han Xue. This is the perfect opportunity to use them to my advantage!”
Tom muttered to himself, standing at the hotel entrance.
As Shi Guang and the others pushed the door open, Han Xue was just stepping out of the hotel, keeping her cap low.
Seeing this, Tom pulled a smile, waved at Han Xue, and said, “Hey, Miss Han Xue, we meet again!”
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