"Who's team?" Qin Zhi Ai turned her head in confusion and took a sneak peek at Gu Yu Sheng standing beside her.

  It was unclear whether Gu Yu Sheng was startled by the police officer's "Captain Gu" or if he hadn't heard him, but he remained silent, his gaze fixed intently on the police uniform.

  After a long while, he finally regained his composure and smiled wryly at the police officer who was greeting him, saying in a half-joking tone: "What's with this 'Officer Gu' business? I'm now Director Gu..."

  As he spoke, Gu Yu Sheng hooked his lips again and said with a teasing tone: "Captain Gu sounds way cooler than General Manager Gu!"

  Gu Yu's tone was much more relaxed, with a faint smile still hanging on his face, looking very sincere.

  But Qin Zhi didn't know if she had an illusion or not, she always felt that at this moment, Gu Yu Sheng's smile was very forced, or even self-deprecating. His delicate eyebrows and eyes were clearly devoid of any emotions, yet somehow gave off a strong sense of sadness.

  However, Gu Yu Sheng soon put away the smile at the corner of his mouth, took out a cigarette from his pocket, lit it up and raised his eyes to glance at the three thugs holding hostages in front. He mumbled indistinctly towards the police officers in front: "What's going on?"

  "What about those three? Drug traffickers, they've been hiding well since the beginning of the year, but today we finally caught them in the act. What I'm most worried about is that when we catch them, they might burst into a public place and cause a scene like this. After all, people in their line of work are desperate and dare to use explosives, killing hostages... But there's no choice, today's incident happened suddenly, and if we didn't catch them on the spot, who knows when we'll be able to catch them again... We've already notified the anti-terrorism unit, they're probably having a meeting now to figure out how to resolve this..."

  As the police officer continued to describe without stopping, the thug on the other side became impatient: "Are you going to accept my conditions or not? If not, I'll take action right now..."

  As he spoke, the thug's knife pressed heavily against the neck of the woman he was holding hostage, and a drop of blood slowly rolled down.

  "Okay, okay..." and the police negotiating with the thugs immediately spoke in a gentle tone.

  "Stop wasting my time here, do you think I don't know that you're already mobilizing your men? If the sniper really comes, which of us can leave?" Another thug, with a vicious and sinister tone, spoke up.

  "Right, in one sentence, either let us go now or we all die together!" The thug held the remote control for the timed explosive, looking like he was about to press it at any moment.

  Three hostages were pale with fear, except for the little boy who occasionally shouted "Mom", and the other two women couldn't cry anymore.

  "Captain, I'll catch up with you later. I'm going to take a look around. These people don't seem so easy to deal with..." The police officer who came over to greet Gu Yu Sheng hastily left these words behind and rushed towards the scene.

  He ran for no more than two steps when Gu Yusheng, who was biting on a cigarette, called out his name in a slurred tone: "Qin Yang."

  Officer Qin Yang stopped in his tracks and turned to look at Gu Yu Sheng.

  Gu Yu Sheng took the cigarette away from his mouth, looked around and asked: "Which one of you is carrying a gun now?"