Chapter 1179
Chapter 1179: I Have More Knowledge in the Industry Than You (1)_1
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July, the sun blazed down.
Inside the forest, trees crisscrossed each other, leaves lush and abundant, the scorching sunlight sprinkled through gaps, casting dappled circles of light on the thriving Grassland.
Half-past ten in the morning.
Behind the trees that blocked the view, two parties faced each other.
The weather was unbearably hot. The atmosphere, tense as drawn swords.
On one side were six SWAT officers and one female soldier, and on the other was a drug trafficker with a pregnant woman.
The two sides were only about ten meters apart.
The drug trafficker held Dagger to the pregnant woman’s neck, his other hand gripping her shoulder tightly, his show of strength barely concealing his fear.
The pregnant woman seemed to be in labor, sweating profusely with pain, not even having time to feel afraid, her face twisted in agony.
"Ah... save me..."
The pregnant woman cried out in a panic, her voice piercing through with the rawness of her pain.
As for those surrounding the drug trafficker, the hands holding their guns tightened slightly, wishing they could just shoot the bastard dead right there and then.
The drug trafficker roared irritably, Dagger pressing in slightly further, swiftly piercing the skin on the pregnant woman’s neck.
Scared by this, the pregnant woman immediately stopped struggling, but tears continued to flow down her face uncontrollably.
"All of you stay right there!" the drug trafficker, hiding behind the pregnant woman, his forehead veins bulging, yelled at the people opposite him. "I’m telling you, take one more step, and she’s dead!"
The line of officers exchanged looks, subtly retracting their advancing feet.
The emotional instability of the drug trafficker meant that if they didn’t comply, he might indeed be willing to have a Pyrrhic victory, dying together with the hostage.
In that case, the loss of the pregnant woman and her unborn child wouldn’t be worth it.
Ella Pemberton stared for a few seconds, her hand dropping from her handgun, as she walked over to the team leader and whispered, "Deputy, the pregnant woman needs to be taken to the hospital immediately, she can’t hold on much longer."
The deputy’s brows were tightly knitted, his face heavy with concern.
They had come expressly for the hostage; her safety was their first priority, the drug trafficker was second. But letting the drug trafficker escape again could jeopardize the hostage further.
Right now, the priority was to figure out a way to rescue the hostage.
By any means necessary.
After some thought, Ella Pemberton furrowed her brow and whispered a few words in the deputy’s ear.
The deputy immediately rejected the idea after hearing it.
That method...
How could it be possible?!
"It must be," Ella Pemberton said sternly, "we have to save her first."
"No buts, that’s the decision,"
Ella Pemberton cut him off resolutely.
The deputy stared blankly for a moment, then sighed deeply, his frown deepening.
Seeing that he no longer objected, Ella Pemberton turned and walked directly towards the drug trafficker.
"I warn you, don’t come any closer!"
As she took two steps forward, the hand of the drug trafficker holding Dagger trembled, and he immediately yelled nervously at her.
Ella Pemberton stopped abruptly with a serious expression, tossed her handgun aside, then took off the sniper rifle from her shoulder and threw that aside too, and even unstrapped Dagger from her thigh and discarded it.
All her weapons lay scattered on the ground.
𝐟𝕣𝕖𝐞𝐰𝕖𝚋𝐧𝗼𝚟𝐞𝕝.𝗰𝐨𝐦
The drug trafficker watched her, growing increasingly tense.
Having thrown away all potentially lethal weapons, Ella Pemberton looked at him calmly, and enunciated, "I’m here to exchange for the hostage."
— End of Chapter 1179 —