Thriller Night Talk

Chapter 74: What should we do?

Translator-Rhapsodite

Editor- PerpetualMreow, Proofreader-Ghostie

Bei Quan and Wei Fuyuan briskly walked down the corridor.

The sound of gunfire could be heard faintly. It was difficult for Bei Quan and Wei Fuyuan to determine the correct path.

Such a large mansion with dozens of rooms was home to only five people— one of them was an elderly man who was gravely ill, unable to care for himself. It was far too deserted.

It didn’t take much thought to realise that cleaning such a vast estate with only two maids was impossible.

As a result, excluding the? frequently used places, the furniture in the unoccupied rooms were covered with white cloth, making most of the house appear miserably white and oppressive.

Bei Quan and Wei Fuyuan discovered a landline phone in one of the unoccupied rooms. Wei Fuyuan took up the receiver and held it up to his ears, but there was no sound. It was hard to tell if the line was severed because the room was abandoned or because the intruder had cut the phone line.

“Otherwise, I’ll climb down the window and go out for help?”

Wei Fuyuan angrily dropped the receiver and proposed to Bei Quan.

“From the second floor, I can jump easily.”

“No.”

Bei Quan resolutely rejected Wei Fuyuan’s proposal.

“Do you remember how far this manor is from town? Without a car, are you going to run all the way to find someone for help?”

Texas is located in the western part of the country, and this mansion was built far out from the town; in the countryside, which was a large area of wasteland in the suburbs. It could be described as “the land is wide, and the people are sparse.”

Bei Quan and Wei Fuyuan came from another country. Naturally, there was no car, which meant that Wei Fuyuan would either have to run for several kilometres on foot to find the nearest family, or try his best to stand by the road and try to hitchhike by attempting to stop a car with his thumb.

“Besides, are you sure that the gunmen wouldn’t have left anyone outside to guard?”

Bei Quan pointed towards the courtyard and slapped Wei Fuyuan on the back.

“Although I let you stick your nose in trouble, I won’t let you use your body to block bullets.”

Wei Fuyuan gave a low “Oh”, gave up the idea of escaping from the mansion, and asked with a drooping voice. “What should we do?”

Bei Quan, “Attack them all.”

He answered simply.

Wei Fuyuan’s eyes lit up immediately, “You mean, disarm those gunmen?”

Bei Quan nodded.

“If they were invited by one of the other three heirs, their only purpose is to kill us.”

“This house is so big, in order to find us as soon as possible, they will surely spread out and search through the house.”

He turned his head and smiled at his assistant, “This time is the best chance for us to take them out one by one.”

Bei Quan was injured, and his ability was just 20% of what it should have been. He could not guarantee that if a swarm of armed gunmen charged in, he would be able to defend his small assistant, but if they came one by one, he believed he could handle it.

“It’s just that ……” He whispered softly.

Wei Fuyuan: “?”

“Nothing.”

Upon meeting Wei Fuyuan’s questioning gaze, Bei Quan shook his head.

There were two things that he was worried about.

One was the other person who could use magic, but he didn’t know who that person was or how powerful their ability was. The second was the other people in this home; while he wanted to save them if he could, he didn’t want to die here.

Bei Quan was no God.

His abilities were limited, and he was unable to defend everyone. At this point, he could only hope that everyone would be intelligent, pick the proper method of self-help in perilous times, and be lucky enough to survive until he and Wei Fuyuan removed all the dangerous components.

——So it seems that Dai Bo Qian’s hunch was really accurate.

Bei Quan recalled what the rightful heir, the person whose identity he was currently acting under, had stated before departing for the United States.

Dai Bo Qian, had stated at the time, that his sixth sense urged him not to return because he felt he would not be able to return alive.

Even though Bei Quan had no gift for divination or fortune-telling, he knew one or two experts who could grasp and perceive fate. He, like Dai Bo Qian, had never learned how to read and interpret divination and fortune-telling, but Dai Bo Qian’s perception was astounding even so.

It was a pity that he hadn’t studied divination. Such a good seedling could have become a master in a few years.

Thinking of this, Bei Quan turned and looked at Wei Fuyuan again.

His little assistant was also gifted. His big dog was very clever most of the time, but sometimes silly and lovely— that could also be considered a natural talent.

It’s a shame that, although he had such a fate, Wei Fuyuan was not included in their circle. Wei Fuyuan will leave “Sāntúchuān” and return to his affluent and young life with both happiness and longevity when his new partner arrives.

When Wei Fuyuan turned his head, he noticed Bei Quan’s gaze on him.

“Why are you looking at me?”

He asked suspiciously.

“Nothing.”

Bei Quan smiled, shook his head, and took his mind off the topic.

“I’m wondering where the Hui Gui is.”

His answer was not a lie.

So far, relying on the existing clues, Bei Quan had roughly cleared up the whole story.

However, the Hui Gui he had been looking for didn’t show up.

Bei Quan had not been able to determine with whom the Hui Gui was in this family and what role it had played in the storm of inheritance— this was one of the important reasons why he felt tied up and did not dare to do anything carelessly.

So now they were going to find Chen Dafa, who was dying in the hospital bed and try to get more clues from him.

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While Bei Quan was talking to Wei Fuyuan near Chen Dafa’s room.

They only needed to take a turn in the corridor to see the master bedroom built on the central axis of the big house.

However, just then, they heard the footsteps of another person.

It was the sound of thick-soled Martin boots on the floor tiles, dull, heavy, and powerful, and the rhythm was very fast.

The next second, a man turned out from the corner of the corridor.

His face was covered by a dark grey ski headgear, and he was holding an automatic gun. He was one of those gunmen.

When Bei Quan and Wei Fuyuan saw the man, the other party also saw them.

The man named Robin had received the order to kill them, so without saying a word, he raised his gun and shot at them.

Bei Quan reacted faster than the gunman.

He pushed Wei Fuyuan away.

Robin pulled the automatic trigger.

“Bang bang!”

The sound of dense bullets one after another almost in a row, hitting Bei Quan.

Wei Fuyuan was caught off guard and was pushed back vigorously. After falling back to the corner of the corridor, he heard the gunshots before he could stand up.

He suddenly felt his heart freeze over, “Bei Quan!!!”

However, Bei Quan was not beaten into a hornet's nest by the bullets as Wei Fuyuan expected.

The five bullets appeared to strike an air screen, leaving only a ripple of an unseen vortex, before the bullets fell to the ground.

Wei Fuyuan was taken aback.

Robin, the one who fired the gun, was even more terrified. He couldn’t trust what he was seeing, so he merely kept the gun pointed ahead. He was enraged and tongue-tied, yet he couldn’t even remember the fundamentals of wielding a gun like “reloading the gun”.

Bei Quan naturally would not give him time to dwell.

He took a yellow talisman from his sleeve and quickly weaved symbols with his hands.

“Go!”

Following Bei Quan’s stern order, the thin yellow talisman instantly turned into a straight piece of metal, flew towards the culprit, and slammed onto his forehead.

In the next second the spell talisman landed on the bandit, and even though there were no windows in the room, a thunderbolt rang out.

With the sound of thunder less than half a second apart, a lightning bolt fell and struck directly on Robin’s body.

The poor gunman, who had never seen the power of the thunder charms, did not even have time to grunt, and was electrocuted, falling motionless on the ground.

Bei Quan coughed slowly twice, pressing down the blood that was surging in his chest.

“Get up.”

He turned back and stretched out his hand to Wei Fuyuan, who was still sitting on the ground, “Help me tie him up and find an empty room to throw him in.”

Wei Fuyuan took Bei Quan’s hand and stood up.

His emotions had fluctuated so erratically in a short period of time, and he was a little overwhelmed, “What did you just… Do?”

“Do you still need to ask?”

Bei Quan replied, “Of course, I took the person down.”

Although his opponent was a ferocious gunman who kills without blinking an eye, the rule given to him by Bei Quan’s master was to never use magic to kill. He couldn’t break this rule even for a great reason, otherwise Zhu Ling, as his monitor, would extinguish his life lamp.

Therefore, the thunder talisman used by Bei Quan was improvised by him. Its lethality was greatly reduced. It would not be fatal when used on ordinary people. It would only make the other party unconscious for a while.

According to Bei Quan’s instructions, Wei Fuyuan dragged the unconscious Robin into an empty room nearby, searched for all his weapons, tore a white sheet, tied the person with cloth strips, and tied him to the toilet pipe in the bathroom before stuffing his mouth with a towel.

“Now you can’t run away.”

Wei Fuyuan recalled the police and gangster films he had seen before and felt that he had done it perfectly.

“Yes.”

Bei Quan nodded and motioned to leave the person there.

“By the way, forget the gun. We can’t use it anyway.”

Before going out, Bei Quan pointed to the things taken from the gunman.

“But take this walkie talkie.”

Although they couldn’t use the walkie-talkie to call the police, with this, they could at least know the movement of the intruders.

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Bei Quan and Wei Fuyuan quickly rushed to Chen Dafa’s master bedroom.

The bedroom door was closed, so Wei Fuyuan tried to twist it and found it was locked.

Bei Quan pulled away Wei Fuyuan and held the door handle.

“Click.”

The crisp sound of the door opening sounded.

Wei Fuyuan: “……”

——Sure enough, there is no lock in the world that can block Bei Quan!

The door was pushed open, at the same time a woman’s scream could be heard, an infusion rack smashed down towards Bei Quan.

Bei Quan dodged agilely and with a “bang”, the stainless steel iron bar hit the ground hard.

The female nurse holding the infusion rack in her hand saw that the blow missed and wanted to swing again.

“Don’t be afraid!”

Bei Quan swiftly grabbed the iron rod swinging towards him and spoke to the woman.

“It’s us!”