Volume 1: The Fierce Tiger Leaves Its Leash Chapter 33: The Tiger Does Not Eat Its Cub (Part 2)

  As time ticked away, Ling Tianxiang grew increasingly uneasy. The guards outside might discover something unusual at any moment, and he couldn't stop thinking about the words exchanged between Luo Zhuchang and his son over the phone. No matter how hard he thought, he believed that there was no hidden meaning in those words; if there were, it would only prove one thing - that Luo Zhuchang himself had a problem.

  Ling Tianxiang glanced at his watch, nearly forty minutes had passed. Just as he stood up and thought of going to the window to take a look, the sound of car brakes came from outside. After hearing the sound of closing the car door, Ling Tianxiang heard the conversation between the security guard and a young man.

  "Who are you and why are you in my house?"

  "You are..."

  "I am Luo Guodong, this is my home, who are you?"

  "Sorry, we're your father's bodyguards."

  "I want to see my dad, where is he?"

  "In the study, I'll take you up."

  Ling Tianxiang immediately looked at Luo Zhuzhang, who also picked up the phone and dialed the number downstairs. "Little Li, let Guo Tong come up alone."

  Before long, footsteps were heard outside, and Ling Tianxiang quickly walked to the door and pulled out his gun. When the footsteps stopped outside the door, he quickly opened it and pulled in the young man standing outside. It was indeed the middle-aged man who had taken the envelope in the park, although he had changed into a new set of clothes and wasn't wearing sunglasses, Ling Tianxiang would never mistake him for someone else. The mole at the corner of his mouth was too distinctive.

  "Who are you?" The young man looked at Ling Tianxiang in surprise, holding a handgun.

  "This question should be asked by me. Don't move, put your hands behind your head!" After Luo Guotong did as he was told, Ling Tianxiang pointed the gun at his occipital bone and searched him to find a 77-type police pistol. "What's with this gun?"

  "Guo Dong he is..."

  "I didn't ask you!" Ling Tianxiang glared at Luo Chuzhang, then pushed Luo Guodong to the center of the room. "Speak, what's going on with this gun?"

  "I am an undercover police officer, this is my sidearm."

  "Right, I almost forgot, so what did you go to People's Park for today?"

  "Renmin Park?" Luo Guodong was suddenly startled, and then his expression returned to normal, but the change in that instant had already been seen by Luo Chuzhang opposite him.

  "Guo Dong, you... did you do something that wronged the country?" Director Luo became agitated.

  "Dad, what did you say?"

  "Guo Dong, be honest with me, are you...are you..."

  Ling Tianxiang didn't interrupt, now it's time to watch this father and son perform their play.

  "Dad, don't get excited, what exactly do you want to say."

  "What I want to say is, did you steal a confidential document from me? Tell me, have you betrayed your own country?"

  "I don't have..."

  Luo Chuzhang rushed over. "You're still lying, these years, since you returned from studying abroad, I've felt that something was off about you, tell me, are you or aren't you..."

  "Yes, I did it. What's wrong with that? Did I do something wrong?"

  Ling Tianxiang sneered and his goal had been achieved. In his pocket, a miniature recorder had already recorded the conversation between the father and son.

  "You damned fool!" Luo Zhuang's palm slapped his son's face, "Since you were a child, I taught you like this, you...you damned fool, you've disgraced our Luo family, your grandfather used to be for the Republic, for..."

  "Damn it!" Lu Guodong also became excited, "Don't mention my damn grandfather, I don't have a grandfather like him. For his own damn career, he can even abandon his relatives, is he still human?"

  "You just farted, you damned thing, you...you..." Director Luo clutched his chest and retreated two steps.

  "Dad, what's wrong?" Lu Guodong immediately showed a surprised expression and rushed up to support Lu Chuzhang in one swift motion.

  When Ling Tianxiang realized the problem, Luo Guodong had already hugged Luo Chuzhang, and a dagger less than two inches long was pressed against Luo Chuzhang's neck. Ling Tianxiang also drew his gun without hesitation, aiming at the traitor hiding behind Luo Chuzhang.

  "Get out of my way and let me go, otherwise I'll kill him right now."

  "He is your father, can you bear to do it?" Ling Tianxiang would never back down.

  "Let me tell you, I can do anything, I've completely lost hope in this country, don't push me, don't push me!"

  "Why should I force you? Are you really daring to take action?" Ling Tianxiang sneered, "You've reached a dead end, put down the knife and I can still let you go, but if you make any reckless moves, then you'll absolutely not leave this room."

  "Fart, I, Luo Guo Dong, have never acknowledged him as my father, he is not my father at all!" Luo Guo Dong shrieked, "Twenty-five years ago, when he brought me back, I knew he was not my father. Don't think that I was only two years old at the time, but I remember very clearly, he is not my father."

  Ling Tianxiang was shocked, and Luo Guodong's life experience was surprisingly similar to his.

  "Get out of my way! Scram!"

  "Alright, alright!" Ling Tianxiang had already heard the footsteps coming from outside the door. "I'll let you leave, but you have to release Luo Zuchang. With him around, you won't be able to go anywhere."

  The two of them were moving slowly, and the footsteps outside also stopped at the door.

  "Why are you betraying your own country?"

  "Motherland? Screw the motherland, I've had enough of these hard days, I've also had enough of this abnormal society. A small police officer, with an annual income of just a few tens of thousands, still has to risk his life to work, while any official, doing nothing, has an annual income of several millions. What's worth my nostalgia in such a society, such a country?"

  "This is treason!"

  "Traitor? Bullshit, only idiots like you would sacrifice themselves for this crappy country. Why can't I live a good life? Why do we have to suffer and struggle? You tell me, why?"

  "Are you willing to sell out your own country for money?" Ling Tianxiang was intentionally stalling for time, the guards outside the door must have already sensed what was happening inside and were making corresponding deployments.

  "Of course, money is everything. In this society, the dogs of rich people live more comfortably than the children of poor families, why can't we work hard for money? Who isn't working hard for money?"

  "Then name your price and release Luo Zhongliang, I'll pay you."

  "You? You're just a stinky security guard, are you rich?"

  Ling Tianxiang sneered, at this time Luo Guodong had already taken Luo Chuzhang hostage and retreated to the door. The next moment, the door was violently kicked open, and two gunshots rang out simultaneously...