Surrounded by the Billionaire's Deep Doting-Chapter 612 - 475: If My Teammates Are as Useless as Pigs, I Don’t Want Them! (Third Update!)
No one expected Huang Huang, who was not even three years old, to be capable of such a feat.
Who could have thought that a child of this age could already be considerate of others?
Su Xiaomeng turned her face away, tears falling silently from her eyes. With such children, how could she despair?
Shuangshuang pouted, wiping her tears after hearing her brother’s resolute words.
Prince Huang quickly put a finger to his lips, signaling Shuangshuang to stop crying...
Shuangshuang immediately understood, her little hand quickly covered her mouth, blinking her eyes forcefully, as if to say, "Yes! Brother, I got it!"
The chocolate in her mouth slowly melted, and Shuangshuang couldn’t bear to swallow it all at once. It was quite disgusting to say, but... the sweetness was real.
Shuangshuang’s cries eventually attracted the attention of two hostage-takers, who walked over and glared at them with fiercely vicious eyes!
One of the assailants even acted as if he was about to drag Su Xiaomeng and Shuangshuang out. Xiao Meng shrank, and over here, Shan Mingxu squinted, reluctantly prepared to fight desperately.
In just a few seconds, Shan Mingxu had already planned how to subdue the assailant while he was attacking Su Xiaomeng, and seize his gun for his own use!
Just before he was about to take action, Han Tan grabbed the man, said a few words in the local language, and the two seemed to argue, but Han Tan looked more stern than the other man.
The man spat on the ground, snorted, and walked away.
Han Tan squatted down, looked at Su Xiaomeng, and asked in an extremely cold voice,
"Do you have a death wish?"
Su Xiaomeng pressed her lips together; her eyes were filled with tears, not frightened by the current situation, but feeling pain for her well-behaved children.
"Who wants to die?"
She retorted to Han Tan.
"If you don’t want to die, then stay quiet. Don’t let them cry, or else——"
"Or else you can’t protect us either."
"... As long as you know that."
"Han Tan, I don’t need you to protect all of us. I’m only asking you, please get Shuangshuang and Huang Huang out... I’m really, really begging you!"
Su Xiaomeng said this, her teeth clenched, and tears slid silently down her cheeks.
She hoped the man in front of her could develop just a little bit more of that indulgent sympathy.
"In the current situation, I can’t do that."
"..."
Su Xiaomeng closed her eyes; when she opened them again, there was a hint of sarcasm in her words,
"You managed to pose as a top student in Bath, but you can’t even send two innocent children out?"
"Su Xiaomeng, I actually have no obligation to protect you."
"That’s why your woman left you."
"..."
With this one sentence, Su Xiaomeng directly stabbed into Han Tan’s heart!
"Mercenaries... they’ll do anything for money, with no sense of right and wrong, no limits, no ethics, that’s the profession you rely on to survive... how could she not leave you?"
"Su Xiaomeng, I can now be sure, you really have a death wish."
"You’re not giving me a way to live, why would those people give me a way to live? It’s not that I want to die, but rather you want us dead."
"..."
"It’s been more than thirty hours, right? How many people have you killed already?"
Su Xiaomeng looked at him,
"Han Tan, I’m begging you... Shuangshuang even called you uncle, and you fed her... Please, at least get them out safely... okay?"
Han Tan lowered his voice,
"Su Xiaomeng, I’m just a mercenary. I work for others for the money—"
Just when Han Tan said this, Su Xiaomeng almost immediately lowered her voice and said to him,
"Whatever they’re paying you, I’ll pay ten times that, as long as you get Shuangshuang and Huang Huang out."
"..."
"If I live, I will pay you, and if I die, my husband will pay you. You just let me leave a message for my husband, I guarantee he will pay you every penny."
If emotions won’t work, then use money.
Mercenaries...
"You think of mercenaries too simply, Su Xiaomeng."
Han Tan took a deep breath and stood up.
Even mercenaries have their professional code of conduct. If it were so easy to defect with just a higher pay, no one in the world would bother to hire them.
The profession would lose its credibility.
Su Xiaomeng clenched her fists, wanting to say more, but Shan Mingxu gave her a pull and shook his head, pointing his finger at the top of the church.
"They’re here..."
Su Xiaomeng’s heart skipped a few beats.
Shan Mingxu had heard what Han Tan and Su Xiaomeng had spoken, and thankfully Han Tan could play the role of a cold-blooded mercenary while still receiving their people when rotating to guard the church perimeter.
Shan Mingxu was still uneasy about Han Tan, but at this point, he had no choice but to treat a dead horse as if it were alive.
The people who arrived were none other than the special task force led by Shan Mingxu, including him, totaling five people.
Two snipers climbed up the outer walls of the church from the support point, and the liaison officer Fang Zi did not sneak inside; he was coordinating outside.
The other two team members circled around the outside of the church, investigating the terrain while administering tranquilizing attacks on the assailants guarding the periphery.
This was the condition Han Tan agreed to help Shan Mingxu with.
Each profession has its own ethics, Han Tan was keen to protect Su Xiaomeng and her children, but to him, they weren’t important enough to trade the lives of other companions.
Shan Mingxu compromised and agreed to his condition, with the only requirement being not guaranteeing the life of that Chinese leader.
Han Tan shrugged, people from that organization didn’t matter, they would do as Shan Mingxu pleased.
The time for action was midnight.
"When you hear gunfire, don’t panic, slowly move with Shuangshuang and Huang Huang behind the piano. Don’t panic and dash out; otherwise, you’ll draw the fire of these assailants."
Shan Mingxu wrote word by word in Su Xiaomeng’s palm.
Su Xiaomeng pointed to her foot, offering a bitter smile.
Even if she wanted to dash out, she couldn’t.
Shan Mingxu’s expression was solemn as he looked at Su Xiaomeng, his little aunt by only a year’s age...
"After moving over, just stay there and don’t make any rash movements. Wait for me to handle these bastards, and then we’ll walk out upright and aboveboard."
Su Xiaomeng squeezed Shan Mingxu’s hand, writing six words in his palm,
"Take care of yourself."
The time ticked away second by second; it had been a long time since the church bell last tolled, and it was less than half an hour until midnight.
The sniper tranquilizing operation outside went relatively smoothly. By this point, more than half the assailants by the church walls lay quietly asleep.
Shan Mingxu closed his eyes, silently counting time...
"Rumbling sounds..."
Suddenly, the sound of a helicopter echoed above the church again.
Shan Mingxu thought it shouldn’t be right; the operation hadn’t started yet, so why was the helicopter already in motion?
"Quickly go and see, what’s the situation outside!"
This time the helicopter suddenly hovering overhead made the Chinese leader nervous!
One of his men ran out and took up a hidden position. After observing, he ran back to report the situation to the leader.
Just as he finished reporting, the Chinese leader became furious!
He immediately kicked over the nearby wooden long bench!
"Damn it! How could these people move so fast?! The helicopter flew over, and no one outside noticed?! Are they all damn dead?!"
The leader’s fierce scolding frightened the hostages even more, making them tighten their grip on their heads.
Shan Mingxu was greatly alarmed; the situation was dire, and he didn’t know if the helicopter launching the operation was from London or their own people.
He knew that China had sent over two small teams.
Those two small teams had successfully connected with Fang Zi.
The ones leading the infiltration were Shan Mingxu’s men, and as the clock struck twelve, the other two small teams would start their support actions!
The helicopter... arrived too early! And this commotion... it’s way too loud!
Shan Mingxu couldn’t help but curse, which damn fool was directing?!
Shan Mingxu quickly typed out a series of words in a hurry, code 010, and listened for further instructions.
It wasn’t Fang Zi.
China had sent two squads over; as soon as midnight struck, the other two squads would begin their support actions!
If only father time were on their side, for the one who needed it now he didn’t need!
