Movie variety show soul travels between two worlds to become a rich man

Chapter 563 Catching a Turtle in a Jar - A Swift and Decisive Move

The Parisian night was like an overturned ink bottle, thick and unyielding. Neon lights cast long streaks of light on the car window, making Gao Dongxu's profile appear particularly sharp in the flickering light. In the back seat of the taxi, Laura's knuckles turned white as she gripped her phone tightly, her other hand unconsciously clutching the hem of her dress, which crumpled in her palm.

"Don't worry, we'll be at the hospital soon," Gao Dongxu reassured Laura in a deep and steady voice. He had just hung up the phone with Leng Feng, asking him to take Erpang and the Ruxin and Ruqing sisters to the hospital to provide support.

Laura suddenly grabbed his arm, her nails digging almost into his muscle. "Alexander, you have to help me stop them from hurting Liu Can..." Her thick Italian accent trembled, and her brown eyes, which had captivated all of Europe, were filled with fear.

Gao Dongxu didn't answer, but simply pulled her voluptuous body into his arms. He smelled the faint fragrance in Laura's hair, felt her curvaceous body trembling slightly, and gently kissed her red lips.

Laura's red lips trembled as she responded passionately, and the kiss had a very good calming effect.

"Don't worry, I've got everything covered." After a long silence, Gao Dongxu and Laura looked into each other's eyes and he said softly.

Laura nodded with tears of gratitude and trust in her eyes, hugged Gao Dongxu tightly, and nestled in his arms.

Gao Dongxu gently stroked Laura's back and kissed her forehead. It wasn't just about getting Laura, but also about the four totem spirit stones; the other party had to die.

This isn't a movie set; there are no second chances—he knew that better than anyone.

The taxi screeched to a halt at the hospital emergency room entrance. Gao Dongxu tossed the driver a banknote and pulled Laura through the revolving doors. The lobby was filled with the smell of disinfectant mixed with the noise of the crowd. They squeezed into the soon-to-close elevator, and Laura frantically pressed the button for the 12th floor, as if that would make the elevator go faster.

“Listen,” Gao Dongxu pressed down on her trembling shoulders, “whatever you see, stay close to me.”

The moment the elevator doors opened on the 12th floor, everything seemed to move in slow motion. Four burly men in white coats pushed a mobile hospital bed, on which a small, thin Asian boy lay with his eyes closed. A real doctor, wearing glasses, had a gun pressed against his lower back, his face deathly pale. Laura's scream pierced the corridor—

"Liu Can!"

Gao Dongxu's pupils contracted sharply. He saw the two "doctors" at the front simultaneously lift their white coats, the metallic gleam of their black pistols flashing under the fluorescent lights. His body moved faster than his mind; he grabbed Laura and tumbled back into the elevator with her in his arms.

The sound of bullets shattering tiles mingled with Lara's screams as Gao Dongxu's back slammed heavily against the elevator wall, but he managed to shield Lara beneath him.

"Close the door! Close the door!" He frantically pounded on the close button with one hand. It seemed that the other party had gone all out and was disregarding everything else. Kidnapping someone in a hospital and firing guns indiscriminately could only be described as madness.

The elevator began to descend, and Laura trembled violently in his arms, tears blurring her delicate makeup. "They took him away. God, they took my child."

Gao Dongxu took out his phone; Leng Feng's name flashed on the screen. "The man was taken away by four fake doctors. Keep a close watch on all exits, especially the ambulance."

He hung up the phone, cupped Laura's face in his hands: "Listen, I need you to call the police, tell them you witnessed the kidnapping. Just tell the facts—you saw four armed men take Liu Can and a doctor away." His thumb wiped away the tears on her cheek. "Trust me, we'll bring him back."

Chaos erupted in the lobby. Gunshots triggered the hospital's security system, and the alarm blared shrilly. Gao Dongxu, pulling Laura along, rushed against the flow of people out of the main gate. Leng Feng's black Mercedes van drifted to a stop at the bottom of the steps. The door slid open, revealing Erpang and Ruxinruqing, both fully armed.

"Boss—" Leng Feng suddenly rolled down the car window and called out, "West parking lot—"

Gao Dongxu immediately looked over and saw five doctors in white coats pushing a mobile hospital bed quickly toward an ambulance that was already running. He watched as they lifted the hospital bed into the ambulance.

“It’s them—” Gao Dongxu pushed Laura into the car, then quickly got in himself and closed the door: “Follow them—”

With a roar of its engine, the ambulance crashed through the guardrail and sped onto the main road. Leng Feng floored the accelerator, and the van gave chase like an arrow. Laura gripped the handrail tightly, the Parisian streetscape outside the window blurring into colorful streaks.

"Don't stop them in the city." Gao Dongxu stared at the ambulance's taillights, which were appearing and disappearing ahead. "Wait until they leave the city before—"

Before he could finish speaking, the ambulance suddenly swerved and sped into a narrow alley. Leng Feng cursed, jerking the steering wheel so hard the car tilted almost to its side. Laura shouted through the violent jolting, "They're heading towards District 13! There are three intersections ahead!"

Gao Dongxu squinted. The ambulance's roof light suddenly went out, appearing and disappearing like a ghost in the intricate alleyways.

Fortunately, Leng Feng's driving skills were exceptional, and he kept a close following of the ambulance.

They quickly drove away from the city of Paris and headed towards the suburbs. After driving at high speed for about two hours, the ambulance crashed into a farm with its gate wide open. When Gao Dongxu and his car followed closely behind and crashed into the farm, two armed security guards suddenly appeared at the gate. They closed the gate while firing at their car.

"Get down—" Leng Feng shouted, then slammed on the gas and sped off. Bullets hit the car with a series of thuds, startling Laura, who was pinned down by Gao Dongxu, into another scream.

Leng Feng's lips curled into a cold smile. He floored the accelerator, the engine roaring like a beast. The van, like a runaway steel behemoth, slammed into the farm gate. The two armed security guards, clearly not expecting them to dare to charge so directly, scrambled to avoid it, but one of them was still grazed by the front of the vehicle and tumbled into the roadside bushes.

"boom!"

"boom!"

Two more shots rang out, and bullets pierced the rear window, sending shards flying.

Gao Dongxu quickly looked up and, through the broken rear window, saw that the ambulance had stopped in front of a huge warehouse, and four kidnappers were quickly dragging Liu Can and the doctor into the building.

"Leng Feng, go around them! Don't give them a chance to move the hostages!" Gao Dongxu shouted sternly.

Leng Feng jerked the steering wheel, causing the van to fishtail, its tires screeching as they scraped the muddy ground. Erpang, Ruxin, and Ruqing all drew their pistols, ready to fire at any moment.
"Laura, you stay in the car." Gao Dongxu turned to look at her, his voice low and firm. "No matter what happens, don't get out of the car."

Laura was pale, but her fear had been replaced by anger, and her beautiful eyes burned with maternal fury: "No, I'm going in with you! That's my child!"

Gao Dongxu frowned, but quickly nodded: "Okay, but stick close to me and don't be impulsive." The car had barely stopped when Leng Feng kicked open the door and jumped out like a ghost, the pistol in his hand gleaming coldly in the moonlight. Erpang followed closely behind.

The warehouse door was ajar, and bright lights shone from inside. Gao Dongxu pressed himself against the wall, listening intently, and could vaguely hear low voices talking inside.

“They’re coming too,” a hoarse male voice said.

“Proceed according to plan,” Laura’s foster mother replied, her tone icy.

Gao Dongxu's eyes narrowed, and he kicked the door open with a sudden thud, shouting, "Move out!"

"boom!"

"boom!"

Gunshots and screams rang out almost simultaneously, along with the roars of a giant bear, the cries of eagles and crows, and the growls of a fox. The warehouse instantly descended into chaos.

Laura's foster mother and her group seemed to have not expected that Gao Dongxu and his group also had handguns, so they were caught off guard.

In addition, Leng Feng, the Wolf Warrior, had such powerful marksmanship that anyone in the warehouse armed with a gun was taken out by his rapid-fire attack in no time.

"Don't come any closer, drop your weapons, or I'll kill him—" Laura's foster mother's expression changed drastically as she watched all her men being killed. She then held a dagger to the neck of the unconscious Liu Can.

"don't want--"

At this moment, Laura, who had followed Gao Dongxu into the warehouse, immediately turned pale and screamed, trying to rush forward, but Gao Dongxu held her back tightly.

While holding Laura's hand, Gao Dongxu looked at Laura's foster mother and three others standing next to a private plane, along with four guardian spirits ready to go.

"Leng Feng, Er Pang, you two go and deal with the small fry outside. Ru Xin, Ru Qing, you two take the guns off the ground—" Gao Dongxu ordered, ignoring Laura's foster mother's threat, as he looked at the four armed kidnappers on the ground.

The four acted immediately. Gao Dongxu held Laura tightly as she struggled and said to Laura's foster mother, "With your IQ, how could you be a bad guy and use him to threaten us? Are you senile? You would never hurt him. After all, you are still counting on him to gain immortality."

"You—" Laura's adoptive mother was speechless with anger, glaring at Gao Dongxu.

Just then, several gunshots rang out from outside the warehouse, startling Laura, who was in Gao Dongxu's arms, causing her to tremble slightly.

"It seems I have the upper hand now," Gao Dongxu said with a smile.

"Stop wasting your breath on him, let the guardian spirit kill them—" At this moment, Laura's ex-boyfriend, his face pale and his eyes filled with resentment, glared at Gao Dongxu, who was tightly embracing Laura, and shouted fiercely.

Laura's foster mother looked at Laura, whose eyes were filled with resentment, with complicated emotions, and finally gave the order.

"Kill them—"

The giant bear, fox, eagle, and crow immediately swooped down on Gao Dongxu and his companions.

"Bang bang bang bang-"

The sisters Ruxin and Ruqing immediately raised their guns and aimed them at the four guardian spirits that were rushing towards them. However, the bullets hit the four guardian spirits, but did not stop their attack. Instead, they pounced on them even more ferociously.

“Bullets won’t kill them. You two protect Laura. I’ll take care of it.” Gao Dongxu stopped the two sisters from firing any more shots, pushed Laura to the two women, and then took out the shaman’s knife from his spatial storage with a cold smile, channeling his spiritual energy into it.

"Om-"

The shaman's crystal blade suddenly expanded into a white light blade over twenty centimeters long. To everyone's astonishment, Gao Dongxu cleaved the eagle that was pouncing on him and clawing at his face in two with a single strike.

"puff--"

"what--"

"boom--"

Laura's ex-boyfriend coughed up blood again, letting out a chilling scream before collapsing to the ground, his eyes wide open and bulging as if about to burst, dying instantly.

While everyone stood there dumbfounded, Gao Dongxu didn't stop. He kicked the black fox that was biting his right leg, and with a swift swing of his crystal witch knife, the fox, which was over 1.5 meters long, was cut in half like a hot knife through butter.

"puff--"

"what--"

Laura's best friend coughed up blood and let out a shrill scream. She clutched her head and began to roll on the ground with a ferocious expression.

(End of this chapter)