Chapter 18 Assassination

• At the end of the straight road was a mountain road, with patterns like screws on its surface.
• After driving in the mountainous area for half an hour, the convoy finally stopped.
• Lu Yanxi got out of the car and looked at the sea of clouds in front of her. A vague and elusive memory flashed through her mind.
• It was fleeting, too fast for her to grasp.
• The sound of the closing car door interrupted her thoughts. She turned her gaze and saw Huo Jingran adjusting his clothes with a serious and solemn expression.
• She took the initiative to walk towards Huo Jingran, carefully observing the surrounding mountains, searching for any suspicious places.
• Lu Yanxi was very serious about her work. Years of professional habits allowed her to concentrate all her attention and focus in a very short period of time.
• This also caused her to focus too much on the mountains and accidentally bump into Huo Jingran's arms.
• In that moment when her cheek touched Huo Jingran's chest, she saw the white shirt in front of her and realized that she had walked into Huo Jingran's embrace!
• Lu Yanxi had always been calm and composed. Even when her identity was almost exposed, she could remain unfazed and chat with drug dealers. But now, she was too flustered, in a complete panic.
• "Do you plan to stick to me forever?" Huo Jingran's cold voice reached her ears.
• Lu Yanxi was startled and quickly straightened her body. Her fair face turned red in an instant.
• Damn it!
• She was too flustered just now, constantly thinking about how to ease the awkwardness, but she neglected the passage of time.
• Although the time she spent in Huo Jingran's embrace was only a moment for Lu Yanxi, in reality, a whole minute had passed!
• Accidentally bumping into his embrace, Huo Jingran could understand. But having a beautiful bodyguard stay in his embrace for a whole minute, that puzzled him.
• Seeing Huo Jingran's eyes fixed on her, Lu Yanxi quickly turned around, facing away from him. "You do your thing, I'll be responsible for vigilance."
• Her serious words made Huo Jingran can't help but suppress a smile.
• As footsteps sounded from behind, Lu Yanxi finally breathed a sigh of relief and turned around to see that Huo Jingran had walked onto a huge rock. At the end of the rock was a cliff.
• This was too dangerous.
• "Huo Mr. Huo!" Lu Yanxi shouted to him.
• Huo Jingran turned around and looked at her.
• "You can't go there, it's too dangerous!" Lu Yanxi said loudly.
• "Every year on this day, I come here to pay tribute. If it's dangerous, how could I have survived until now?" Huo Jingran asked in return.
• "Then be careful." Lu Yanxi casually reminded.
• Huo Jingran looked at her deeply, then turned around and walked towards the end of the rock.
• At the end of the rock, there was a stone tomb formed by more than ten stones piled up.
• To Lu Yanxi, this seemed very strange. She didn't understand why Huo Jingran would drive hundreds of kilometers to this deserted mountain cliff in Su City to pay tribute to someone.
• If it was Huo Jingran's father, with the Huo family's wealth, it would be impossible to build such a simple stone tomb on the edge of a cliff.
• A bodyguard followed closely behind Huo Jingran and presented a bouquet of white chrysanthemums to him.
• Huo Jingran reached out and took it, then solemnly knelt down on one knee and placed the bouquet in front of the stone tomb, slowly closing his eyes.
• The entire forest was extremely quiet, so quiet that it felt eerie.
• Lu Yanxi walked over, intending to mourn as well, but the corner of her eye caught a flash in the distance.
• Her deep-rooted professional habit made her immediately pounce on Huo Jingran, rolling with him to the side of the stone tomb.
• "Be careful!"
• Immediately after, a bullet hit the stone tomb. If Huo Jingran hadn't been knocked down, the bullet would have pierced his heart from behind.
• The bodyguards quickly entered combat mode, taking out their pistols from their waists and hiding behind the vehicles.
• Lu Yanxi didn't hesitate either, she helped Huo Jingran up and hurriedly took cover behind a rock.
• Not far behind them was a cliff.
• "Mr. Huo, stay here and don't move." Lu Yanxi instructed.
• Huo Jingran nodded.
• Since the sniper rifle was equipped with a silencer, the bodyguards couldn't determine the sniper's location based on sound alone. So they could only stay behind the cars obediently.
• Lu Yanxi secretly looked towards the spot where the reflection had just appeared, took a quick glance, and quickly hid behind the rock.
• "Did you see the sniper's position?" Huo Jingran asked.
• Lu Yanxi shook her head and said to him, "Mr. Huo, all we can do now is hide behind this rock."
• "How long will it take?"
• "I'm not sure."
• "The sniper could be waiting for an opportunity to strike from the shadows, or they might choose to escape because of the failed assassination. We can't determine whether the sniper has left, so we can only stay here." Lu Yanxi said.
• Huo Jingran nodded.
• This situation made Lu Yanxi a little nervous. She didn't know why, but she kept her ears perked up, carefully listening to any movement nearby.
• Snipers were terrifying, and the mobile team also had to be on guard.
• Lu Yanxi was worried that there might be a group of unknown people ambushing here in advance. If the sniper failed, they would come out from the shadows to continue the mission.
• After listening carefully for more than ten minutes, there was nothing around except for the sound of birds chirping and their own heartbeats. Only then did Lu Yanxi relax a little.
• "Mr. Huo..." she turned to look at Huo Jingran, preparing to say something, but found herself pressed tightly against him...
• In the urgent situation just now, all their attention was focused on observing the surroundings, and they didn't notice that they were almost glued together.
• This made Lu Yanxi's face instantly turn red.
• There was no other way. The rock was too small, and in order to completely cover their bodies, they could only be pressed tightly against each other.
• "You smell really good." Huo Jingran said seriously.
• Lu Yanxi rolled her eyes at him. At such a critical moment, he still had the mood to smell fragrances. It was truly unbelievable.
• "Is it your body fragrance?" Huo Jingran asked again.
• Lu Yanxi was speechless.
• "No, it's the scent of floral water!" Lu Yanxi said irritably.
• "Your lying skills are not impressive." Huo Jingran said coldly.
• Lu Yanxi was speechless and had black lines all over her head. "Mr. Huo, there's a sniper targeting you, can you not talk about these trivial things?"
• "Is that what I should be concerned about?" Huo Jingran asked in return.
• "Huh?" Lu Yanxi was completely confused.
• "You are my personal bodyguard, so naturally, you are responsible for my safety." Huo Jingran said confidently.
• What kind of strange logic was this?
• Lu Yanxi felt a headache coming on.
• "What if I'm no longer your personal bodyguard?"