Operation Red Book

Chapter 505 Official Family

As Ivy pocketed some items from the store, she discovered her electric whip was missing.

It must have been dropped when she was threatened by the Clown just now. For this reason, Ivy's resentment towards the Clown deepened a little bit.

Outside the shop, the people who were freed from the clown's control were transferred to the medical ship. The ruins of the guillotine had been almost cleaned up. The workers carried away the broken beams and wood, leaving only a few piles of debris and fine ashes in the huge open space.

"Ms. Ivy!"

The person she was talking to was a man with a rat-tail haircut.

He was holding a shovel, sweat beads were dripping from his head, and he was smiling.

"There's too much dust here, be careful not to choke yourself, I'll clean it up right away, please go back first..."

Ivy nodded politely, and she turned slowly, but the moment she glanced, she noticed a hint of bright red in the pile of dirt.

Suddenly, Ivy's heart skipped a beat, and an ominous premonition gave her goose bumps.

not right...

"Wait!" Ivy yelled immediately.

The man was startled by Ivy's scream and stopped the shovel in mid-air in time.

"Ah? What happened?"

Without time to explain, Ivy pushed the man aside, squatted on the ground, and used both hands to sweep away the sharp corners of the pile of dirt.

As the bright red color gradually appeared, Ivy's breathing became more and more rapid.

The pile of earth was very loose, and Ivy dug it open easily, but she had to put in some effort to expose everything underneath.

After a while, fine gravel piled up on both sides. Surrounding the gravel was a sunken floor tile. The bright red thing embedded in the tile was a bundle of explosives with a fuse.

There are 12 explosive tubes, each of which emits a strong smell of gunpowder.

Seeing the explosives, Ivy's chest heaved violently. She carefully took out the explosives, her eyes full of disbelief.

The explosives were embedded in the sunken floor tiles throughout, hidden in the shadows of the huge guillotine.

At that time, everyone's attention was attracted by the unusual guillotine. If someone was confused and accidentally lit a cigarette or accidentally collided with it, the explosives would have a high probability of exploding.

If it explodes, no one will survive.

If Bo Fu had not arrived in time and cut all the wooden beams with his sword, perhaps when the flames rushed to Ivy's eyes, she would not have thought that there was a large amount of gunpowder buried here.

It turned out that what I felt was wrong from the very beginning was the thick smoke and fire surrounding my nose.

While feeling the danger, Ivy couldn't help but sneer twice. Was she the "Princess and the Pea"? It was just that she didn't have delicate skin, and she relied on her keen intuition and sensitive sense of smell.

"Haha! Great! We found a bundle of explosives..."

She said with lingering fear, her sweaty head shaking up and down.

"Yes, dynamite." The man behind him echoed.

"Luckily I stopped you just now. If your shovel had collided with the gunpowder and even the slightest spark had been produced, we would both be finished..."

"Yes, it's all over."

After successfully defusing a crisis, Ivy heaved a long sigh of relief, hugged the explosives and closed her tired eyes.

But the next second, Ivy suddenly opened her eyes, and her pupils suddenly shrank... There was something vaguely unusual here.

All of a sudden, a lot of questions and concerns filled her mind:

Aren't shovels used to scoop away wood chips? Why do we have to smash straight down with the shovel?

Why was the explosive buried in the pile of earth? Has no one discovered it so far?

Also, why is there only one person left? Where are the people around him?

How could he be so calm after discovering the explosives?

Only the person who planted the explosives could be so calm...

"Shh-"

A bone-chilling chill flashed behind her, coiling up her spine like ice cracks and spreading to the back of Ivy's head.

Her mind went blank, and she could only roll to the side instinctively...

"Bang--"

The shovel smashed down heavily, breaking the brick where Ivy was squatting into pieces.

Looking back, the man was still smiling, but this time, Ivy saw undisguised viciousness and cruelty in his slender eyes.

"Who sent you here!" Ivy hugged the dynamite tightly in her arms and stood up quickly.

"You sons of bitches, spies. Of course the government sent me to suppress you evil forces!"

The man replied bitterly, and then he raised the black iron shovel high up, as if he was the central figure in the rebellion.

With the faint moonlight, Ivy saw a large pool of dark blood that had solidified on the shovel, which was shocking.

She didn't think. The shovel flew towards her at an extremely fast speed. Ivy looked at the direction where the shovel was coming from and quickly squatted down to escape.

"Officials?" Ivy wondered in her heart.

But before she could think about it, she heard a sharp wind in her ears. She squatted down again, but she didn't expect to fall into the man's ambush.

"Uh!"

Ivy was kicked hard on the waist, and the explosives in her arms flew out and fell on the hard floor tiles with a dull thud.

She looked at the explosives in the distance and was kicked again before she could stand firmly.

Her body suddenly lost balance and quickly fell downwards. Before she fell to the ground, the gust of wind hit her ears again...

"Pong-"

The back of the shovel flew down from above and hit Ivy's forehead hard, making her eyes see stars.

The world before her eyes began to spin, and when she opened her eyes again, Ivy found that her vision had become blurry.

My head hurt so much that I wanted to tear it apart. A warm current flowed down from my forehead, wetting my right eye which I couldn't open to begin with.

Before she could react, the man stepped on Ivy's lower abdomen, causing her to scream in pain.

"You are a disaster star, do you know that?" the man said softly, with the smile on his face still bright and dazzling.

Ivy's right ear seemed to be bleeding, and the sound was muffled and could not be heard clearly.

"The King of Wu died because of Xi Shi, Dong Zhuo was assassinated because of Diao Chan, Yang Guifei ruined the entire prosperous Tang Dynasty, and Empress Cixi brought about an eternal disaster..." The man gritted his teeth and said word by word.

"Women, you can't touch power. Once you have power, you will harm others, such as you... such as the Chinese dock..."

"You're fucking... you're switching concepts..." Ivy retorted, her breath barely cleaving.

"Mr. Zhu is no good. I have seen his future. He is a coward, a lackey, a spy, a betrayer... and you are the one who brought disaster upon yourself!"

"Cough cough!"

Ivy stared at the man's ferocious face, her eyes full of disgust. Just as she was about to open her mouth, she was kicked hard in the stomach by the man.

She screamed in pain and coughed up a pool of blood, which wet her chin with dark red. Her delicate makeup had been completely distorted.

"Official, I don't like you, I don't like Mr. Zhu, I don't like these cowardly bastards, and I don't like this damn place even more..."

As he spoke, the man threw down his long thick braid and raised the shovel in his hand high.

This time, the shovel's curved corner was pointed downward, aiming for Ivy's neck.

The man's eyes were cold. He saw Ivy's trembling feet from her chest, and spoke with greedy excitement:

"But the emperor likes me... As long as I blow up this place and kill you and Mr. Zhu, I will be a national hero and a first-rank general. Even the newly appointed No. 1 and No. 2 in the imperial examination will have to give me face!"

"I can go home, with land, money, official titles... and a host of beautiful wives and concubines!"

"You guys! Just stay in this damn place and die here. If you wander around here, the Bull-Headed and Horse-Faced Monsters won't come here, and the King of Hell won't bother to care about you either!"

The man laughed a few times, not sure whether he was celebrating his victory or making fun of himself.

"You must pay the price for the government, for the Buddha, and for your betrayal of your ancestors!"

After saying that, the man shouted loudly and smashed the shovel in his hand down heavily.

“Swoosh—swoosh!”

Suddenly, a strange sound interrupted the man's actions, and a sapphire blue afterimage flew over the man's head like a soaring seagull.

The man shuddered as if a bullet had pierced his body, and then he fell on his back.

But the bad thing was that the man's body fell down, and his arm fell straight down with the shovel.

Ivy lay on the ground, even her moans became extremely rare, her vision becoming increasingly blurry and dim. She gasped weakly and watched the blackness quickly occupy her sight.

“Bang—bang!”

There was another loud bang, which frightened Ivy so much that she trembled all over.

The sound was very close, right next to my ear.

Ivy slowly tilted her head and immediately noticed the sapphire blue color in her peripheral vision. She squinted her eyes, trying to merge the two images in front of her into one.

Gradually, she saw the bright red in the distance and the shovel that fell next to the explosives.

Turning her head further, Ivy gradually saw a jewel-studded sword. The sword was inserted next to her head, cutting off a tuft of curly hair on the side of her face.

"Ms. Ivy!"

Someone was calling her name in the distance, sometimes far away, sometimes near, and she couldn't tell who it was.

The only thing she could hear clearly was a series of soft sounds like bells.