637: Chapter 637: A Fine Line Between Life and Death 637: Chapter 637: A Fine Line Between Life and Death Huo Hongyan just felt a numbness at her neck, then the sensation spread through her entire body like electricity.
Before she could bite the poison pill in her mouth, her vision darkened, and she lost consciousness.
Ssss—
After Huo Hongyan collapsed, Fang Bai rapidly and violently tore up her outer clothing, revealing sothing wrapped around her waist—it was an explosive device.
Seeing the explosive device, Dragon Maiden, Long Da, and others who had entered the cockpit all inhaled sharply.
The numbers on the bomb’s tir kept jumping and changing, with less than thirty seconds to detonation.
The lives of the more than twenty people on the plane hung in the balance in that instant.
“Thirteen, defuse it quickly!”
Dragon Maiden scread out.
Before her words had finished, Long Shisan, standing by her side, had already rushed over and crouched next to Huo Hongyan.
Long Shisan was not only an Earth Rank Ancient Martial expert but also a bomb defusal specialist.
His skill in bomb defusal was so advanced that even the military’s top experts felt inferior.
Long Shisan’s face was grave, his fingers moved like lightning as he rapidly dismantled parts of the explosive device.
When the tir reached ten seconds, he paused, hesitating over a red and a blue wire in front of him.
Those red and blue wires represented the difference between heaven and hell: cut the wrong one, and the explosive device would detonate imdiately, the aircraft would be torn apart, and everyone would turn to ash; cut the correct one, and they would all escape from the brink of death, unhard.
With more than twenty lives hanging on his decision, Long Shisan felt his mind go blank with tension as sweat beaded on his nose.
“Life and death are decreed by fate!”
Long Shisan gritted his teeth, his fingers touched the blue wire, ready to cut it with just a little pressure.
“Cut the red wire!”
Fang Bai’s eyes narrowed slightly, his Divine Sense scanning the red and blue wires.
The red wire gave him a stronger sense of crisis, so without further thought, he imdiately shouted.
Long Shisan hesitated, but owing to his trust in Fang Bai, he closed his eyes, applied gentle pressure with his fingers, and the red wire was cut.
The tir on the explosive device, with only two seconds remaining, stopped there.
Eyes were glued to the tir on the explosive device, anxiously fearing it might suddenly resu counting down.
The cockpit was as silent as death.
“It’s safe now…”
After what seed like an eternity, Long Shisan, crouched next to Huo Hongyan, let out a long breath, sat down on the ground with a thud, wiped the sweat from his face, and began to smile broadly.
The Dragon Guard mbers like Long Da and Long Er also had smiles on their faces, all feeling as if they had just narrowly escaped death.
The flight attendants and stewards were the happiest.
Initially, they had thought their death was certain, but to their surprise, they had found salvation from a desperate situation.
Realizing the danger had passed, they high-fived one another and erupted into cheers.
The captain and the co-pilot soon regained their freedom and continued to pilot the plane, while recounting the attack by Huo Hongyan.
Everyone listened, feeling lingering fear, and all were very grateful to Fang Bai.
If it hadn’t been for Fang Bai, at this ti, everyone on the plane would have probably already perished in the vast ocean, their bones gone without a trace, right?
For safety’s sake, Fang Bai let Long Da and Long Shisan stay in the cockpit, and he himself picked up the unconscious Huo Hongyan, removed the poisonous pill from her mouth that could have been fatal, and then returned to the cabin with the Dragon Maiden and the others.
What disappointed Fang Bai was that afterward, no matter what he tried, he couldn’t get any useful information from Huo Hongyan, such as who the leader of Wrathful Beauties was or where their stronghold was located.
This incident had also been orchestrated by Huo Hongyan herself, following instructions given over the phone by her superiors.
Huo Hongyan was just an ordinary assassin, one of the lowest in the Wrathful Beauties organization, and she had no access to the secrets of the higher-ups in Wrathful Beauties.
After interrogating Huo Hongyan, Fang Bai handed her over to the Dragon Maiden, who planned to take Huo Hongyan back to Huaxia for punishnt once they were in Arica.
The matter of Huo Hongyan, although it did not cause any damage, had affected everyone’s mood, and for the next few hours, all of them sat in silence, with no one joking around anymore.
After more than ten hours of flight, the plane arrived at Las Vegas International Airport in Arica that evening.
After dealing with Huo Hongyan’s affair, Fang Bai and the others checked into a five-star hotel designated by the organizers of the “World ta-Human Organization Elite Championship.”
In the hotel room’s large bath, Fang Bai soaked comfortably in a hot bath and, after changing into new clothes, left the room to dine in the restaurant with the Dragon Maiden and others.
After sitting on the plane for more than a dozen hours, if they were ordinary people, they would undoubtedly be exhausted and would want to go to sleep after dinner to rest up for the next day to experience this world-famous gambling city.
However, Fang Bai and his company were martial artists; before disembarking the plane, they had already ditated to adjust their breath for a while, and now not only did they not feel any fatigue, but they were also brimming with energy.
“Instructor Fang, can we go out and have so fun?”
After the al, instead of going back to their rooms to rest, Long Da and the others surrounded Fang Bai, asking with big grins on their faces.
Looking at Long Da and the others gazing at him with eager eyes, Fang Bai laughed heartily, knowing what they wanted to do, and waved his hand, “Go ahead!
All of you, go have fun.
Do whatever you want, just don’t stay out all night!”
“Thank you, Instructor Fang!”
Long Da and others were overjoyed, and in groups of two or three, they left the hotel and made their way to the casinos and other entertainnt venues in Las Vegas.
Before coming to Arica, Fang Bai had specifically researched Las Vegas and knew a lot about the city, understanding that it had the reputation of the “Entertainnt Capital of the World,” with dining, gambling, and entertainnt of every kind, especially the casinos which were particularly attractive to people from all over the world.
Due to the strict discipline of the Dragon Guard, core mbers like Long Da and Long Er usually stayed at the Dragon Guard headquarters, burying themselves in cultivating the Martial Dao and only having the chance to see the outside world during certain missions.
This could indeed allow the Dragon Guard mbers to cultivate their martial arts with a peaceful mind, benefiting their martial strength in the short term, but Fang Bai did not see this as a good thing.
If he were to lead the Dragon Guard, he would not set so many rules and constraints to restrict their mbers from interacting with the outside world.
On the contrary, Fang Bai would prefer a “free-range” approach, encouraging the Dragon Guard mbers to go out and explore, to get closer to nature, so they could have more opportunities to comprehend the marvel of the natural world and sense the Martial Dao, and perhaps even encounter so fortunate opportunities.
Just like himself, if he had stayed at ho cultivating all the ti, how could he ever have co across the Blue Ice Fish under that waterfall—a creature that was extrely rare even in the Cultivation World of his past life?
This principle was the sa as the saying, “Reading thousands of books is not as useful as traveling thousands of miles.”
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