Chapter 145: Unexpected Disaster, Splattering Blood on the Spot!
Cai Ruoyong, already scared out of his wits, immediately took the transfer check to the bank, transferred 38 million to his bank card, and activated overseas payment services.
Because Chinese citizens are limited to carrying 20,000 chinese yuan when entering or exiting the country, Cai Ruoyong withdrew 20,000 chinese yuan in cash.
After leaving the bank,
Cai Ruoyong quickly walked to the side of the road and waved for a taxi.
However, on this quiet street, a seemingly ordinary black Santana private car suddenly broke the silence. It was originally driving steadily, but incomprehensibly, the vehicle suddenly and strangely veered off its original path and sped directly towards Cai Ruoyong.
“Holy crap!”
Cai Ruoyong reacted extremely quickly; he instinctively dodged sideways, narrowly avoiding the fatal impact of the Santana car.
At this moment, Cai Ruoyong brushed past death, and a chill rose from his spine, causing him to break out in a cold sweat.
“Bang…”
With a loud crash, the Santana car hit a lamppost on the roadside.
The car hood was severely deformed, the airbags inside deployed, and the windshield shattered into countless pieces scattered on the ground.
This sudden and severe car accident startled the surrounding pedestrians, who stopped in their tracks and watched the commotion from a distance.
“Damn it!” Cai Ruoyong cursed inwardly.
“It couldn’t be such a coincidence, just a driver losing focus and causing an accidental car crash, could it?”
Various possibilities kept surfacing in Cai Ruoyong’s mind, but the more he thought about it, the more he felt that things were not that simple. A strange fear surged into his heart, making him feel a chill down his spine.
“Ugh…”
Cai Ruoyong was somewhat afraid to think, the more he thought, the more terrifying it became.
This is a place of trouble; it is not advisable to stay long.
Cai Ruoyong wiped the sweat from his forehead, quickly hailed a passing taxi, and prepared to go home to pack his luggage, planning to take his passport and leave the country as soon as possible to avoid potential danger.
While driving, Cai Ruoyong kept looking back through the car window to ensure he wasn’t being followed by any unfamiliar vehicles. This inexplicable sense of dread made Cai Ruoyong feel extremely frantic.
Cai Ruoyong, drenched in sweat, rushed back to his rented apartment complex. Just as he was about to enter the building entrance, he heard a “smash.” A white ceramic flowerpot suddenly fell from upstairs, shattering at Cai Ruoyong’s feet, narrowly missing his head and almost taking his life.
“Holy crap!”
“Is this trying to kill me?!”
AI Generated High-altitude falling flowerpot
Cai Ruoyong shivered with fright, his body trembling uncontrollably. His eyes were filled with fear and unease, and he instinctively looked up towards the high-rise building, but he didn’t see any suspicious figures or other unusual circumstances.
“Ugh…”
“Could it really be such a coincidence?”
“Just a flowerpot blown down by the wind almost took my life?” Cai Ruoyong muttered to himself, his voice trembling with a hint of disbelief.
At this moment, Cai Ruoyong was already scared out of his wits, his heart filled with doubt and fear, and he began to feel paranoid and see danger everywhere.
Every neighbor entering and exiting the building seemed to hide some unknown danger in Cai Ruoyong’s eyes; perhaps they were assassins disguised as ordinary people.
The more Cai Ruoyong thought, the more scared he became, sweat constantly seeped from his forehead, and his palms were also damp.
So, Cai Ruoyong quickly wiped the sweat from his forehead with his hand, then rushed home in a hurry and began to pack his luggage.
Passport, valuable jewelry and watches, a few simple clothes. Cai Ruoyong, in a panic, pulled his suitcase and wanted to leave.
However, as Cai Ruoyong reached the door, he was startled by a sudden knocking sound from outside.
“Knock, knock, knock…” The knocking was very urgent.
Cai Ruoyong was so scared that he almost had a heart attack. Trembling, he looked through the peephole of the anti-theft door at the suspicious person knocking outside.
“Natural gas inspection, is anyone home?”
Cai Ruoyong, sweating profusely, saw through the peephole that the young man knocking on the door was wearing the uniform of the natural gas company.
But Cai Ruoyong couldn’t be sure that the person was truly a safety inspector from the natural gas company and not an assassin in disguise.
No exaggeration, Cai Ruoyong’s heart was in his throat at this moment.
“Knock, knock, knock…”
“Natural gas inspection, is anyone home?”
“Creak…”
The neighbor across the hall opened their anti-theft door, and the safety inspector in the natural gas company uniform, holding a leak detector, walked into the neighbor’s home across the hall.
Seeing this through the peephole of the anti-theft door, Cai Ruoyong finally swallowed and wiped away his cold sweat, his tightly suspended heart finally easing a little.
Cai Ruoyong, at his limit of tension, drank a large glass of water at home, feeling parched.
He had only drunk half the water when an urgent knock came from Cai Ruoyong’s anti-theft door again.
“Knock, knock, knock…”
“Postal delivery, is anyone home?”
Cai Ruoyong’s heart rate once again accelerated wildly. He tiptoed to the anti-theft door, looked out through the peephole, and saw a postman in a postal uniform, holding a postal package.
“Ugh…”
Although Cai Ruoyong had a postal package to sign for, he wasn’t sure if the postman outside was an assassin in disguise.
“Ring, ring, ring…”
A classic old Samsung phone ringtone suddenly sounded.
Cai Ruoyong was startled by his own phone ringtone, instantly breaking out in a cold sweat. It truly was a case of one person scaring another to death!
“Hello?!” Cai Ruoyong answered the phone in a low voice.
The postman outside the door said during the call, “Mr. Cai, you have a postal delivery. Are you home? If you are, please open the door and sign for the postal delivery.”
Cai Ruoyong bravely asked, “Who is listed as the sender on the package?”
The postman outside the door replied, “The sender is Cai Hongsheng, mailed from Harbin, Northeast.”
Only then did Cai Ruoyong dare to open the door and sign for the express package his father, Cai Hongsheng, had sent him.
After opening the postal package and seeing the local specialties his father had sent him, Cai Ruoyong’s tears immediately streamed down his face.
Thinking about how he wouldn’t be able to contact his family in China or return to the country after going into exile abroad, unable to fulfill his filial duties to his parents until their passing, Cai Ruoyong collapsed to the ground, crying uncontrollably.
“That damned Chu Yiren!”
“She’s really f*cking dead!”
Cai Ruoyong cried, his face covered in tears, and put the tea tree mushrooms and lion’s mane mushrooms his father sent him from his hometown into his suitcase. This was the taste of Cai Ruoyong’s hometown.
Escaping was paramount; there was no time for sorrow.
Cai Ruoyong wiped away his tears, composed himself, took a deep breath, and was about to leave with his suitcase.
“Meow…”
A cat’s meow made Cai Ruoyong stop in his tracks.
Cai Ruoyong suddenly remembered that his Garfield cat was locked in a cat cage in the bathroom. So, Cai Ruoyong quickly walked into the bathroom, opened the cat cage, and hugged Garfield for a moment of affection.
“Meow, meow, our fate is over. I hope some kind person will take you in!”
Cai Ruoyong reluctantly released his cat into the hallway. Even if no one adopted it, becoming a stray cat was better than starving to death locked in the house.
This shows that there is no absolute evil; it’s just that everyone serves their own master, and their interest groups are different.
It was just a pity that Cai Ruoyong chose the wrong opponent and shouldn’t have harbored murderous intentions towards Chu Yiren.
What Cai Ruoyong didn’t expect was that the seemingly indifferent relationship between the wealthy siblings was not as fragile as he thought. The family bond of the Chu bloodline was not easily severed by an outsider like Cai Ruoyong.
To put it bluntly, Cai Ruoyong overestimated his own position in the heart of his lover, Chu Tiannan, and underestimated the sibling affection between Chu Tiannan and Chu Yiren.
After releasing his Garfield cat, Cai Ruoyong dragged his suitcase and hurried into the elevator lobby.
Cai Ruoyong rode the elevator alone, pressing the 1st floor button from 24F. After the elevator descended to the 23rd floor, it made a “bang” sound and suddenly jammed, causing Cai Ruoyong to break out in a cold sweat.
A premonition of ill omen arose spontaneously.
Cai Ruoyong hurriedly pressed the button for the 23rd floor, wanting to escape the elevator, but not only did the elevator door not open, the car also accelerated and plummeted towards the elevator pit in a free-fall, scaring Cai Ruoyong into shouting, “Help!”
“Help…”
Cai Ruoyong wanted to save himself, pressing all the floor buttons as quickly as possible. In the end, the rapidly falling elevator miraculously stopped at the first floor.
AI Generated Elevator Shaft
Otherwise, if the elevator had free-fallen at high speed, Cai Ruoyong would have certainly died.
“Ding…”
The elevator door suddenly opened.
Cai Ruoyong scrambled out of the elevator, only then realizing that he had been so scared he wet his pants.
“Damn it!”
“It couldn’t be such a coincidence, that the elevator just happened to malfunction and fall, could it?”
“This almost took my life!”
Cai Ruoyong, still shaken, didn’t care that he had wet his pants. At this moment, he only wanted to rush to the airport immediately and buy a ticket to any country.
So, Cai Ruoyong, whose legs were already weak from fright and who was drenched in sweat, dragged his suitcase and frantically walked towards the main entrance of the building.
However, just as Cai Ruoyong stepped out of the building’s main entrance, he heard a “smash.” A glass window fell from the sky, landing squarely and unluckily on Cai Ruoyong’s head.
Cai Ruoyong let out a muffled groan and was mercilessly knocked to the ground by the high-falling glass window, lying on the ground covered in blood, his body twitching a few times. He stared at the shattered glass fragments on the ground with eyes wide open in death, and soon stopped breathing.
AI Generated Falling Glass Window
After the public called 120 and reported to the police, the police quickly responded, sealed off the crime scene, and began a rigorous investigation of the accident scene to thoroughly investigate the possibility of homicide.
Ultimately, the dilapidated hallway window bore all the blame.
Don’t ask why the hallway window of a high-rise residential building, built less than 10 years ago, would be dilapidated and fall from a height, killing someone.
If you ask, it’s simply that the construction quality was substandard, and Cai Ruoyong was just unlucky.
As the saying goes, the poor should not contend with the rich, and the rich should not contend with officials. Those who do not understand this principle and act contrary to it will naturally suffer terribly.
Amitābha! How merciful…