Chapter 89: The Mad Demon Dragon

“Then let’s do it this way. You and I settle this one-on-one. If you win, I let you walk. If you lose, you come with me. Whoever goes back on their word jumps from here and is cast into everlasting ruin.”

Chu Feng was plainly trying to provoke the Black Dragon. He did not know how formidable the man was, but he felt he should at least be evenly matched with him.

There was another reason as well: he was buying time. Once the larger force arrived, the Black Dragon would have nowhere left to run.

“I’m not going one-on-one with you. I’m not that stupid. You’re stalling for time, waiting for the armed police and SWAT teams to get here. And on the building behind me, you’ve probably already set up a sniper, haven’t you? I’d bet that sniper has already put a bead on my head.”

“You want to take me alive, which is why my head hasn’t already been blown apart.”

The Black Dragon was a clever man, and he had seen through all of Chu Feng’s intentions. He was right: Chu Feng had indeed positioned a sniper in the tower across the street.

The sniper was Little Black, and the spotter was Wang Chen. After the Black Dragon entered the elevator, Wang Chen immediately left the hotel and went to the roof of the opposite building.

The moment the Black Dragon finished speaking, a burst of chaotic footsteps came from behind Chu Feng. Without even turning around, Chu Feng knew they were the armed police and SWAT teams that had been sent in from headquarters.

“Black Dragon, surrender quietly. Come back with us and face the judgment of the law,” Mahan said, standing shoulder to shoulder with Chu Feng. He had read plenty of files on the Black Dragon before, but this was his first time seeing the man in person.

“Chu Feng, let’s make a bet. If I win, you let me go. If I lose, both of us go with you.”

As expected of a battle-hardened veteran, the Black Dragon showed not the slightest panic at a time like this. His tone was brimming with confidence.

“All right. Say your conditions. If you can beat me, I’ll have them clear a way for you.”

Seeing how confident the Black Dragon was, Chu Feng could not help but grow suspicious. Could this man still have another trick up his sleeve? But no report had come in from below about any other armed men entering the building.

“I’m betting that you won’t shoot me dead. If I die, none of the people here will survive, and even this hotel will be dragged into it.”

As he spoke, the Black Dragon slowly unfastened the buttons of his suit. His companion beside him did exactly the same.

“Damn it!”

Chu Feng seemed to realize something and could not help blurting out a curse. Mahan, on the other hand, wore a look of shock.

“The two of us are carrying a total of twenty-five kilos of high explosives. The moment I die, the charges on me will detonate. They may not bring this hotel down, but they’ll be enough to kill every one of you.”

While the Black Dragon spoke, Chu Feng kept staring at him. Sure enough, a coil of explosives was wrapped around both the Black Dragon’s waist and his companion’s.

The bastard was insane. He had run that fast just now without even worrying that the explosives might go off.

“All right. State your conditions.”

At that point, Chu Feng truly could not think of any way to persuade the Black Dragon to remove the explosives from his body.

“I only have one condition: prepare a plane for the two of us. I want a passenger plane, not a helicopter.”

The Black Dragon made his demand. Right now he only wanted to escape; he had no intention of fighting Chu Feng to the death.

“No way. A plane costs at least several hundred million. I can’t afford one. Even if I got you a plane, civil aviation wouldn’t let you take off, and you still wouldn’t be able to fly. Maybe once you reached a certain altitude, you’d just be shot down by air-defense missiles.”

On the surface, Chu Feng sounded as though he were worried about the Black Dragon’s safety, but in truth he was refusing him. Even if Chu Feng agreed, the authorities in the capital would never agree to let the Black Dragon go so easily.

“You have to agree whether you want to or not. And you don’t need to worry about me being shot down by missiles, because your men won’t dare fire. Besides the explosives on my body, I’ve also planted bombs in several places in the city. If my heart stops beating, those bombs will all go off.”

The moment those words were spoken, Chu Feng and the others were stunned.

Chu Feng had never imagined the Black Dragon would be this ruthless. He had actually planted bombs in the city as well.

“Spare me that. You expect me to believe you? Security checks for firearms in this country are so strict, where would you have gotten bombs? Did they fall from the sky?”

Though Chu Feng said that aloud, he suspected the Black Dragon was not lying. A man like that would never joke with his own life.

“Then send people to check whether there’s a bomb in the first car of the underground parking garage on the ground floor of the World Trade Center. And check your bus station too, as well as a small hotel next to City Hall.”

The Black Dragon directly named the places where the bombs had been planted. The reason he was so fearless was simple: there were indeed bombs in every place he named, and he was confident he could set them off before the bomb disposal experts could defuse them.

Chu Feng quickly spoke through his earpiece and told the commander to send people to those locations at once. He also ordered him to contact the bomb squad and have the bombs removed first, if possible.

“Don’t waste your breath. With the level of skill your makeshift team has, those bombs can’t be defused. I’ll say it again: prepare a plane for me. I’ll fly it out of China with these bombs aboard.”

It looked as though the Black Dragon had truly made full preparations this time, or else he would never have dared take such a risk.

What was even more baffling was how the Black Dragon had known Chu Feng was lying in wait for him here. If no one had tipped him off, there was no way he could have prepared so thoroughly, let alone guess Chu Feng’s next move.

“I need to report this to my superiors first. You should wait patiently.”

After saying that, Chu Feng left Mahan to keep watch and went to the stairwell to make a call.

“Little Black, the Black Dragon says that once his heartbeat stops, the explosives on his body will detonate. Can technology really be this advanced now? And he’s also planted bombs in several places downtown.”

Chu Feng had never heard of bombs like that before, but he did not dare take the risk, so he had no choice but to ask Little Black.

Little Black had undergone the most rigorous special forces training in China, and he also knew certain highly classified secrets. That was why Chu Feng called him.

“Modern technology can indeed make bombs like that. But those bombs would have to be strapped to the body to work. If the bombs planted in the city would also detonate after the Black Dragon dies, then someone must have fitted them with chips and used a computer for remote detonation.”

As expected of someone professionally trained, Little Black explained the mechanism to Chu Feng in one breath, and even urged him to buy time first.