Chapter 415

Chapter 415 What a Generous Gift!

Yamamoto-gumi’s headquarters was a 108-story skyscraper with an all-blue glass curtain wall,easily one of the most iconic landmarks in the Eastern Capital!

　　In normal times,this high-profile crime syndicate made no effort to conceal its location. Nearly all of Japan knew who the true owner of this building was,because its name was simple and straightforward——the Yamamoto Building!

　　In a sense,Yamamoto-gumi couldn’t even be considered an underground gang in the strictest meaning of the term. This massive organization lived almost entirely in the open,indifferent to the world’s gaze.

　　A crime syndicate bold enough to erect such a building in a nation’s capital——there was probably only one like that on the entire planet,and that was Yamamoto-gumi.

　　It was currently four in the morning in the Eastern Capital. Many people were on the night shift inside the Yamamoto Building as usual,and several hundred core members who kept their quarters there had already fallen into a deep sleep at this hour.

　　At that very moment,a private jet that had been flying level suddenly dipped its nose and plunged violently toward the Yamamoto Building!

　　The two fighter jet pilots had been completely absorbed by the earlier high-difficulty erratic flying,and not only had they missed the parachute jump in the night sky,they had also forgotten where they had flown to!

　　When they saw the private jet heading straight for Yamamoto-gumi’s headquarters,they felt as though their very breath had stopped!

　　A terror that reached into their souls engulfed them in an instant!

　　”No……this is bad,this is bad,the plane……the plane is going to hit the Yamamoto Building!” the pilot managed to force out those words with great difficulty,stumbling over every syllable,feeling as though his tongue had stopped obeying him!

　　”What?”

　　The suited man in the ground command center nearly dropped the walkie-talkie when he heard those words,and a wave of dizziness rushed to his head!

　　”Are you sure what you’re saying is true?” He took a deep breath.

　　”I’m sure your whole family is! It’s about to hit!” the pilot exploded in a string of curses!

　　…………

　　Su Rui held Zhang Ziwei as they fell,not opening the parachute until they were only 200 meters from the ground.

　　By then,the howling wind had snapped Zhang Ziwei awake and she was no longer in a daze,but when she saw clearly that she was suspended in midair,she nearly passed out all over again.

　　”It’s fine,I’ve got you.”

　　Su Rui shouted into her ear and at the same time tightened his arms,pulling Zhang Ziwei firmly against his chest.

　　He was quite confident in his arm strength——if his hands slipped even slightly,the young miss would be in free fall.

　　A silhouette whooshed past Su Rui and Zhang Ziwei and dropped at tremendous speed,not opening the parachute until only 150 meters from the ground!

　　Jin Taeju certainly had a more direct way of coming down!

　　Feeling Su Rui’s strong arms around her,Zhang Ziwei’s anxiety instantly melted away. She pressed her lips together,her long hair whipping in the fierce wind,and wrapped her arms around Su Rui’s neck from behind.

　　In that moment,this girl who had known Su Rui for only a few days suddenly thought to herself——it would be nice if this descent could last just a little longer!

　　To rescue her,this man had risked his own life and ventured deep into Japanese territory. Even though their relationship was nothing more than an ordinary superior and subordinate,Zhang Ziwei still found herself completely captivated at this moment.

　　Even if it hadn’t been Zhang Ziwei——even if it had been some ordinary person who’d been abducted by the Japanese——he would have done exactly the same. Yet Su Rui had no idea how devastating his actions could be to the women around him!

　　Zhang Ziwei was not a romantic person. On the contrary,when it came to handling certain matters,she was even more level-headed than most men. But right now,her heart was overflowing with an overwhelming sense of romance.

　　This romantic feeling had nothing to do with attraction between men and women——think about it: flying openly into Japanese territory,pulling off high-difficulty aerial maneuvers through the gap between two fighter jets,then parachuting to safety——was there anything cooler than that?

　　At the thought of it,Zhang Ziwei couldn’t help but shout into the night sky,”That is so cool!”

　　Su Rui pointed ahead and laughed loudly,”There’s something even cooler!”

　　At that moment,the private jet running on autopilot had already plunged down out of the clouds,as if it had eyes of its own,heading straight for the midsection of the Yamamoto Building!

　　At the sight of this,the two fighter jet pilots had already squeezed their eyes shut in terror!

　　Those brief few seconds felt as long as several centuries!

　　Then came a thunderous boom——the nose of the plane finally slammed into the midsection of the Yamamoto Building,sending a blinding burst of flames erupting into the night sky!

　　Carrying enormous impact force,the jet was like a razor-sharp sword whose blade effortlessly sliced through the glass curtain wall at the fiftieth floor of the Yamamoto Building!

　　Many years ago,on a September 11th,Afghan terrorists hijacked passenger jets and brought down the Twin Towers of the World Trade Center in New York,an event that dealt a devastating blow to the global financial world and ignited the fury of people everywhere against terrorist organizations.

　　But the nature of this event was the exact opposite!

　　In Su Rui’s view,Yamamoto-gumi was the largest terrorist organization in all of Asia——an outfit brazen enough to dispatch hundreds of ninja warriors to carry out unrestricted assassinations on Chinese soil,behavior that was even more terrifying than that of actual terrorists!

　　In his personal creed,if someone slapped your face,you slapped back immediately. You absolutely could not swallow the humiliation!

　　All that talk about a gentleman waiting ten years for revenge was nothing but the helpless excuse of a helpless person!

　　Since the Japanese had the gall to kill people on Chinese soil,he,Su Rui,would use even more direct and brutal means to slap them right back!

　　Originally,Su Rui’s plan had been to rescue Zhang Ziwei first and then separately plan a retaliation against Yamamoto-gumi,but during the flight a wild idea had struck him——why not seize this opportunity and deliver one thoroughly satisfying counterstrike?

　　He wanted this massive crime syndicate,dominant across all of Japan,to understand that the Chinese people were not to be trifled with! Those who dared to run amok on Chinese soil would pay in blood!

　　If you dared to act,you had to be ready to bear the consequences! This time,Su Rui had not a shred of mercy!

　　The jet bored into the building’s midsection,snapping through several support columns and load-bearing walls one after another,not stopping until the entire fuselage had disappeared inside the building!

　　And this spot,by no coincidence,was exactly the floor where Yamamoto-gumi’s quarters were located!

　　Those men were still deep in their sleep when the plane came crashing through the walls,shattering their skulls and crushing their bodies!

　　In that instant,the world seemed to freeze for a single second.

　　Then a fierce surge of flames erupted with tremendous force,lighting up the night sky over the Eastern Capital in an instant!

　　Viewed from the outside,the Yamamoto Building’s fiftieth-floor area erupted in fire from its midsection,the roaring flames shooting outward on both sides for a full hundred meters or more!

　　That explosion,which rang out across the entire night sky,was like the loudest slap imaginable,striking Yamamoto Taiichiro squarely across the face!

　　In the moment of the explosion,the glass curtain wall of the entire building shattered completely,and tons of glass shards rained down from on high in a cascading torrent——like a waterfall of glass!

　　The impact of the jet had already destroyed nearly half of the load-bearing columns across those two floors,and the explosion directly demolished whatever support columns remained!

　　The fiftieth and fifty-first floors were reduced to rubble almost instantaneously!

　　Everything above the fifty-first floor,stripped of its support,collapsed downward in an instant,effectively dropping the equivalent of two full floors!

　　Under such force,the forty-ninth floor was also crushed completely flat. Everyone in those three floors was either pulped or pancaked!

　　With a deafening roar,a thick cloud of smoke and debris dense enough to choke countless people to death in seconds burst from the midsection of the building and spread across the entire Eastern Capital on the night wind!

　　In that instant,people sleeping across the Eastern Capital felt the ground shudder,as if their very souls had been jolted. They opened their eyes one after another,dazed and uncertain what had just happened!

　　Although the structure above the fifty-third floor had come down and met the forty-eighth floor,the building swayed several times and then barely held——it somehow did not fold and collapse!

　　Even so,many of the building’s structural elements had been destroyed,and it was absolutely unfit for any further use!

　　Everyone above the fifty-third floor had no way to return to the ground by elevator or stairwell. At that height,even a fire truck’s aerial ladder couldn’t reach them. Getting everyone above out safely would undoubtedly give the Eastern Capital government a massive headache!

　　Zhang Ziwei and Su Rui were still drifting slowly downward,the former’s mouth hanging slightly open,her expression completely frozen!

　　She never could have imagined in her wildest dreams that she would witness such a spectacular sight!

　　Yes,spectacular was the word for Zhang Ziwei,but for Yamamoto-gumi of Japan,it was a catastrophe!

　　”It’s a bit of a shame,the building didn’t come down.”

　　Su Rui seemed not entirely satisfied with the final result of the impact. He held Zhang Ziwei as they drifted down,then discarded the parachute,pried open a car door in the swirling clouds of dust and smoke,and together with Jin Taeju——who had Yamamoto Gokusen pinned under his arm——used the cover of chaos in the dead of night to head straight for the Eastern Capital’s port!

　　Now that the impact had happened,dealing with its consequences was a matter for later. What Su Rui needed to think about right now was how to get out of the Eastern Capital and back to China as quickly as possible!

　　He was confident that even with the Japanese government’s fastest response,they couldn’t possibly seal off every exit route within just a few hours!

　　If it were just him and Jin Taeju,they could handle things any which way,but now that they were carrying Zhang Ziwei,who had zero combat ability,and the half-dead Yamamoto Gokusen,Su Rui had to reduce every risk to the absolute minimum!

　　Still,he had left a little too early——the real spectacle was yet to come! The main act had only just begun!

　　Having watched helplessly as the plane smashed through the Yamamoto Building,one of the fighter jet pilots had completely forgotten how to operate his aircraft. He had been tailing the private jet from behind,and at the moment of impact,the erupting smoke and flames had blinded his vision!

　　By the time this pilot,stiff all over,belatedly thought to pull up,he realized it was already far too late. The Yamamoto Building,its curtain wall shattered everywhere,was already right in front of him!

　　How could you let your focus slip at such a critical moment? This pilot,through his own actions,added one more powerful weight to the gift Su Rui had already delivered to Yamamoto-gumi.