Welcome to the Wasteland

Chapter 30: Revenge

Translator: EndlessFantasy Translation

Editor: EndlessFantasy Translation

“I will find you, and I will cut your head off from your neck and kick it around like a ball.”

In the hospital’s monitoring room, through the walkie-talkie, the leader Locke heard Zhou Qingfeng’s words clearly. At the same time, the CNN reporters on the scene spread his words to the world.

Billions of people all over the world were following this kidnapping case. After all, the protagonist was the woman behind a famous American conglomerate, the inheritor of a trillion-dollar fortune, a socialite renowned for her charm—Leila Fox.

Shockingly, in the middle of this case that attracted worldwide attention, a no-name murder suspect started to steal the show.

He had killed a robber and peeled all the clothes from the bodies of two policemen. Although the New York police were furious, the motive of those actions was understandable. In the end, he managed to stick his foot into Leila Fox’s kidnapping case and create a lot of trouble for the kidnappers’ side!

Just as people all over the world speculated how long Zhou Qingfeng could hang on, he was not only all hyperactive, but he had also polished seven of Locke’s subordinates. This ability baffled the onlookers.

Seven, seven people! At first sight, Locke’s gang of kidnappers seemed to be seasoned, brutish thugs. None of them were easy prey. Even the experienced and capable NYPD found them difficult to deal with, but then they fell into the hands of a boy no one knew. No one could make any sense out of this.

The NYPD hastily opened a press conference immediately. They announced that they had contributed to the resolution of the kidnapping case. They were not “at their wits’ end” or “wasting the taxpayers’ money”.

“We have already investigated the identity of the gang leader Locke. His full name is George Locke. He served 12 years in a correctional facility in New York before he was released this June.

“From the phone calls 911 has received, Miss Fox’s bodyguard Raj has also taken part in this kidnapping. According to our investigation, Raj and Locke are half-brothers with the same mother. We have now confirmed that they have gathered 24 accomplices together in total, taking five cars.

“We have reason to believe that the bodyguard Raj has arranged to change Miss Fox’s bulletproof car at the last minute and tricked her to go to a gathering in Brooklyn. This created a good opportunity for Locke to kidnap her. But…”

The speaker did not know how to continue on the topic of the investigation details, as they were getting more and more hard to believe. “Uh… According to camera footage and our interviewing of the witnesses, it was Victor Hugo, posing as a policeman, who saved Miss Fox as she was almost kidnapped.

“And then they rushed into the Lower Manhattan Hospital. According to the words of citizens who have escaped the hospital, Miss Fox has mistaken Victor Hugo as a real police officer. This fake Officer Hugo has once again become the enemy of the Locke gang.

“Both sides are fighting in the Lower Manhattan Hospital, and it seems that Victor Hugo, who is alone, is at an advantage at the moment.”

After he relayed the information about the case, the NYPD speaker felt that he was trapped by the person who wrote the script. Everything happened in such a baffling way. How was he supposed to explain everything to the media?

Just as he had expected, a couple of reporters raised their hands to ask questions after he finished speaking.

A reporter from the Wall Street Journal asked, “Do the police have any plans pertaining to the current situation? Are you going to agree to the kidnappers’ requirements, or are you going to order the ESU to charge?”

The speaker shook his head. He said, “We do not plan to attack with force. There are roughly 500 hostages trapped in the hospital, and Locke has planted bombs inside. Any forceful attack will cause the deaths of many hostages. We are now still using negotiation to solve the problem.”

The reporter from the New York Times asked, “Can the police reach Victor Hugo? Have you considered working with him to finish Locke off?”

“We have just cut off the means of outside contact from inside the hospital, including the Internet and phone lines, and we do not plan to contact the murder suspect directly for now.” The speaker thought, ‘Are we not embarrassing ourselves enough for you? We must be crazy to work with a murder suspect to deal with another gang of suspects.’

While the speaker dealt with the reporters, something shocked the entirety of New York. The gang leader Locke was infuriated by Zhou Qingfeng. He pulled seven hostages and dumped them in front of the reporter from CNN. He then prepared to kill all of them in front of the camcorder.

“Officer Hugo, you think you’re amazing, don’t you? You killed seven of my subordinates, so I’ll kill the same number of hostages. Look at their crying faces. They’re dead because of you.” Locke seized a woman and pushed her to the front of the camera. His malicious expression could shock people all over New York to the point of losing sleep.

As the hostages screamed for help, Locke shot them dead one by one. The cries of the hostages and the sight of their bloody bodies were spread all over the world through CNN.

Although CNN had cut the live broadcast immediately, the impact of this kidnapping case was beyond salvation. American families that had witnessed this scene fell into terror and confusion. Countless calls were made to the NYPD. Everyone was asking the police to do something, to immediately save the hostages in the hospital.

“What can we do though? Send people in so that the kidnappers blow up the place? Look on as the entire building explodes and all the hostages in the building die? This will be another 9.11 incident. All of us will be sued!”

Pressured by the media and the society, the commissioner of the NYPD was almost tearing his hair off. They were at their wits’ end. Aside from surrounding the hospital, there was nothing they could do.

Currently, in Catarina’s house, a couple of Zhou Qingfeng’s acquaintances sat in front of the television, watching the live broadcast. When they heard Zhou Qingfeng say that he had killed seven kidnappers, Tony Parker laughed, “Hah, this friend of mine is really good making himself sound great. I bet that he’s actually just sitting in the corner trembling.”

“Trembling?” Catarina sneered derisively from his side. “If this kid only hid in a corner trembling, do you think those kidnappers would be furious enough to kill seven hostages?”

Tony Parker had no retort. The lackey could only turn to David Lawrence who was sitting beside him, but David stayed silent, his expression unreadable.

This big hero who would eventually save America hated Zhou Qingfeng and the fact that he had been relatively close to him. When the police had come to him in the process of interrogation, they showed him photos of Rachel Connor, which made him even more furious. No one liked it when photos of their wives were taken stealthily, save for disgusting perverts.

Even so, the level of skill Zhou Qingfeng had demonstrated was beyond anything he had conceived!