Chapter Ninety-Seven: Escaping Death

  Now, on the scene, there was another commotion. Everyone was discussing one thing: where were the two people in the video recording? Could they still be flying?

  At this moment, Liu Fei and Xue Lingyun were lying on the rooftop of the World Trade Hotel building. Both of their heads had a big red bump. Next to them, two mineral water bottles were scattered around, each with a small amount of water inside.

  A gust of cool wind blew over, and Liu Fei couldn't help but shiver.

  It's early autumn now, and the weather has gradually cooled down.

  Liu Fei slowly opened his eyes, and a wave of headache immediately came over him. He instinctively rubbed his head, "Damn, how did it get swollen!" Liu Fei slowly got up, and unintentionally glanced to the side, finding Xue Lingyun lying on the ground as if she was sleeping. Only then did Liu Fei recall that when he and Xue Lingyun had just escaped from the elevator shaft, they seemed to have seen two black shadows falling from the sky. Looking at the two mineral water bottles scattered beside him, Liu Fei suddenly understood what had happened. He gazed up at the blue sky with white clouds in a gloomy mood, and couldn't help but curse out loud: "Who's so cruel as to throw things down from above!"

  At this time, a flock of wild geese flew over in the sky, and their cries seemed to be saying "An Hong" "An Hong"!

  Liu Fei woke up Xue Lingyun and walked down the stairs.

  As they approached the 19th floor, Xue Lingyun said: "My dad's room is on the 19th floor, let's go there together first!"

  Liu Fei smiled wryly and pointed to the oil stains on Xue Lingyun's body, saying: "I think we'd better find a room to take a good bath and change our clothes before going?"

  Xue Lingyun looked at Liu Fei and smiled, revealing a mouthful of black teeth, as well as his clothes full of oil stains, and couldn't help but laugh. At this moment, Liu Fei looked like a mud monkey that had just crawled out of the mud.

  Looking at her laughing at herself, Liu Fei also laughed: "Xue Lingyun, don't laugh at me, you're not much better than me either, your face is all greasy too!"

  "Ah, really!" Xue Lingyun, who had always been fond of beauty, immediately stretched out her hand and hastily wiped her face twice, hoping to wipe away the oil stains. However, Liu Fei laughed even harder. She couldn't help but scold him, "What are you laughing at? Don't laugh!"

  Liu Fei patted the little beauty's shoulder and said, "Hehe, you didn't wipe your face before, it was actually quite clean. Now that you've wiped it, it's all covered in makeup."

  Xue Lingyun looked at her own hands and was also stunned. She had not noticed that her hands were already covered in oil stains earlier.

  Then, the two people immediately went to the service desk on the 20th floor. Liu Fei took out his ID and money and asked the staff to help open two rooms and buy two sets of clothes. The two then rushed into their respective bathrooms. After a while, the staff delivered a set of clothes to each of them. After getting dressed, they reappeared and walked down the stairs to room 1919 on the 19th floor. The two people had no idea that downstairs in the lobby, everything was already in chaos because of them.

  In the room in 1919, Xue Rengu was furious. He had also received news that Liu Fei and Xue Lingyun were involved in an accident while taking the elevator upstairs. When he first heard the news, the old man almost fainted, fortunately, his secretary supported him. After he came to, he immediately instructed his secretary to call and scold the hotel, contacting Hebei Provincial Government's Executive Vice Governor Ma Ao Wen. When Ma Ao Wen informed him that Vice Governor Jiang Zhengyuan was directing on site downstairs, his anger subsided a little.

  Soon, he received another message that Xue Lingyun and Liu Fei were not in the crashed elevator after all. This news made him both excited and nervous. He was excited because his daughter might still be alive, but he was anxious because he didn't know where his daughter was now.

  At this moment, the door of the room rang. Xue Renguiguan thought it was a hotel service staff or manager coming to apologize, so he waved his hand and said to his secretary: "Let them go, I don't have the mood to deal with them."

  The secretary opened the door and was about to shoo people away, but found Liu Fei and Xue Lingyun standing at the door. She immediately became excited and hurriedly opened the door to let them in.

  Hearing the footsteps, Xue Rengu was slightly annoyed and furrowed his brow, just about to scold his secretary, but unexpectedly looked up to see his daughter Xue Lingyun standing in front of him with a lively expression. He excitedly jumped up from his seat, rubbed his eyes vigorously, and when he confirmed it was indeed his daughter, he burst into tears of joy.

  Xue Lingyun also rushed into Xue Rengu's arms and cried!

  It was almost a matter of seconds, and it would have been an eternal farewell. The feeling of escaping death has left her with lingering fear to this day.

  When the two of them had calmed down, Xue Rengu asked how they managed to escape. Xue Lingyun recounted the entire process in detail, causing Xue Rengu to frown and nod repeatedly. The thrilling tale was no less exciting than a foreign blockbuster. Finally, the old man stood up, grasped Liu Fei's hand, and said: "Liu Fei, I originally invited you here to express my gratitude. I didn't expect that you would save Lingyun's life this time. There's no need for me to say more. From now on, if you have any difficulties or need help with anything within my power, I will definitely make it happen!"

  Liu Fei smiled: "Director Xue, you're being too polite. Lingyun and I are friends, it's just a small favor. You don't have to take it to heart."

  The two men exchanged a few more pleasantries, when Xue suddenly said: "By the way, Liu Fei, your leader Jiang Sheng is currently on site directing operations. I just watched some live TV and he's getting anxious. You'd better hurry up and go see him!"

  Liu Fei immediately stood up and bid farewell to Director Xue, then hastily ran downstairs. What a joke, such a big deal actually made the leader come in person, he couldn't take it.

  Liu Fei rushed down the stairs, stepped into the hall, and walked through the cordon to stand in front of Jiang Zhengyuan, rubbing his hands together as he said: "Governor Jiang, I've come to report to you."

  Jiang Zhengyuan was so anxious that his throat was on fire, just now the provincial party secretary Xu Guangchun personally called to instruct him that no matter what he must find out Liu Fei's whereabouts. From his tone it seemed like some big shot is paying attention to this matter. This made Jiang very shocked. He was very clear that the big shot Xu Guangchun mentioned was definitely not the vice minister of public security Liu Jianqing and the vice minister of finance Xu Wei, although their ranks were not low either, but whoever could make Xu Guangchun attach such importance to it, must be someone of a much higher rank.

  He has now dispatched two search and rescue teams, starting from the first floor and top floor of the World Trade Hotel, to conduct a floor-by-floor search and rescue operation. Suddenly, he saw a familiar figure rushing over from the stairwell entrance. When he saw that it was Liu Fei, his heart was initially filled with joy, but then he became furious and shouted: "Where did you run off to? You didn't even give me a call to let me know you're safe!"

  Liu Fei smiled bitterly and picked up his phone, stretching it out in front of Jiang Zhengyuan: "Leader, my phone is out of battery."