A Girl Traveling Through Troubled Times

Jinbao asked her what to do.

Guier said angrily, "What can we do? We don't have any bombs."

When the two were getting anxious, two gunshots suddenly came from somewhere.

There were few pedestrians on the road, and they were so scared by the gunshots that they hid in the corners. Jinbao also pulled Guier to a nearby residential building, and then looked down from a street-facing window in the stairwell.

"Bang, bang, bang," there were several more gunshots, as if there was an exchange of fire.

Guier looked through the window in the direction of the gunshot, but saw a figure flash by on the second floor of the building diagonally opposite where the car was parked.

Sha Yanyao, Gui'er recognized him at a glance. He had changed his clothes again, still dressed in the same fierce style as last time. He raised his gun and aimed at a building opposite.

"Bang bang" he fired two more shots and then hid.

Gui'er quickly looked towards the building he was aiming at, and saw a person lying on the balcony. It was not Director Zhou and his two men. Through the glass window, he could see someone inside. A woman was slumped on the ground, and it was unknown whether she was dead or alive. There was a man holding a gun and confronting someone.

"Bang bang" the man fell to the ground and didn't move.

Gui'er was a little confused when she saw this situation, but Jinbao was so scared that he grabbed her hand and trembled slightly.

Guier said to her, "Let's move away from the window."

The two of them stood on either side of the window, looking out with their heads tilted.

After a long while, Guier finally saw a person through the window. It was Director Zhou's driver. The two men and one woman who were killed in the room should be Director Zhou, his driver, and the new subordinate who had just arrived.

Gui'er felt that Director Zhou must have a personal grudge against these people. Unfortunately, they had just taken care of them and were about to come down, so they missed this good opportunity in vain.

Sure enough, after a few minutes, Director Zhou and his two men walked out of the house and headed towards their car.

Gui'er and Jinbao quickly retracted their heads, but some of the surrounding residents were curious and stood by the windows to watch. Gui'er hid in the blind spot of the window and looked out quietly.

The three of them walked around without any panic at all.

Director Zhou walked to the side of the car and was about to open the door and get in.

"boom"

Guier was startled and looked in the direction of the gunshot. It was the woman who had just collapsed on the ground, trembling as she walked out of the building with a pistol in her hand.

Director Zhou and his men seemed to be startled as well and quickly looked for cover. One of his men turned around and fired two shots at the woman, who fell motionless.

Director Zhou pointed at the subordinate, who walked over, touched the woman's neck with his hand, turned to Director Zhou and shook his head. The woman must be dead.

The air around seemed to be frozen. It was broad daylight, and there should be many witnesses in the residential buildings, but no one said anything and no one tried to stop it.

Director Zhou and two of his men got into the car and slowly drove out of the alley.

Gui'er and Jinbao also breathed a sigh of relief. Jinbao said, "What a pity that those three people weren't beaten to death just now."

Guier said, "They are professionally trained. It's not that easy for them to be beaten to death. Let's wait until their car goes away and then call a rickshaw to go back."

As he spoke, he glanced at the house where Sha Yanyao had just hidden. Sha Yanyao had changed his clothes and was standing in a more secluded corner. Jin Bao was only focused on looking at Director Zhou's house and didn't notice Sha Yanyao at all.

"Guier, let's go." Jinbao said as he looked at the car going farther and farther away.

Guier stuck her head out of the window and looked outside. The car had already gone more than 100 meters away. Some residents of nearby houses stuck their heads out of windows or balconies, and some even walked out of the doors on the first floor to look in. They were all whispering to each other.

At this time, there were a lot of people gathered downstairs, and the car's rearview mirror couldn't see that far, so it shouldn't be a problem.

Gui'er nodded, and the two of them walked down from the second floor.

The neighbors nearby and passers-by who had just hidden stopped to watch the woman's body, and some even ran to the upper floor where the gunfight had just taken place to watch the excitement.

Gui'er and Jinbao passed by the door of the house where the accident happened and took a look at the dead woman. She was very young, no more than 20 years old. There were several bloody holes on her body that were still bleeding. She looked quite scary, but there were no injuries on her face. It can be seen that she was a pretty girl, and her cheeks even had a little baby fat.

There was a loud "boom", as if the ground was shaking. Looking up, the car driving in front turned into a pile of flames and even formed a small mushroom cloud.

People who were close to the car were blown away. If you look closely, you can see that the glass of nearby buildings is also broken.

Gui'er had experienced the scene where Director Shen was blown up, and immediately realized that the amount of explosives must be huge, because she could feel a little shock wave even though she was more than a hundred meters away. If she was closer, she would definitely be blown up.

Everyone around was so frightened that they ran away in all directions. Gui'er pulled Jinbao back and said, "Let's take another way. It's too dangerous over there."

At this time, a person blocked their way. Guier looked closely and saw that it was Sha Yanyao. He said to Guier, "Hurry up and leave here quickly."

As he spoke, he led them through the alleys in twists and turns, and finally arrived at a street. The street was very busy, with shops on both sides and stalls selling vegetables and various groceries on the roadside.

Sha Yanyao slowed down his pace, and Guier heard a nearby vendor say to someone, "I just heard an explosion in that alley over there, and there's so much black smoke. What's going on? Could it be the Japanese attacking us?"

"Attack us? Not so early, right? Aren't we still in Shanghai? Besides, this is the capital, the government won't give up easily, they will definitely fight to the death, the Japanese may not be able to get in."

"So what do you think happened?"

"How would I know? Let's go and take a look."

"I'm not going. I still have to check on my stall. Go check it out and tell me what's going on."

Sha Yanyao called a rickshaw and asked them both to get in. He said to Gui'er, "Go home and stop talking nonsense."

Guier nodded and said to the rickshaw driver, "Let's go to the Café de Café in Xinjiekou."

Jin Bao was stunned as if he was frightened by what just happened. It took him a while to react and asked Gui Er: "Why are you going there?"

Guier said, "Let's go to the movies."

"Still watching movies?"

The two got out of the car at the door of Café de Café and walked to the Victory Cinema.

Jinbao leaned over to Guier's ear and whispered, "Didn't your elder brother tell us to go home right away?"

Guier glanced around warily before saying to her, "Director Zhou was a high-ranking government official. His death will definitely be investigated. We have to go to the movies as planned. If we're discovered there, it would be disastrous."