Chapter 29: The Cannon King Reappears
Everyone just greeted each other politely, and these people left Luke and the governor's daughter, Lena Condrick, alone.
Lena and Luke came to the corner and pretended to have a passionate conversation.
It was Lena who spoke first:
"Boy, this is an arrangement between you and my mother. It's just an arrangement. Don't think too much about it, okay?"
When Luke spoke, he looked as if he knew it was true.
So he smiled and said:
"I admit that you are beautiful and have a good figure, but you are not my type. Let's be friends. After all, I still have to deal with the elders at home. What do you think?"
Lena stared at Luke for a long time and said:
"OK, I admit that you are handsome, but I know very well about people like us, and this is not what I want."
After the two exchanged contact information, Luke said:
"Have a merry Christmas Eve, Miss Condrick."
After saying that, Luke walked into the crowd with a champagne, leaving Lena alone in a daze in the corner.
She is indeed a good girl in the eyes of her family, but deep down she still longs to escape this cage.
She doesn't want her life to be arranged, she longs for freedom.
She knew very well how ridiculous the young people in the big family played when they were young.
Although these people received elite education, their family's influence was strong enough to allow them to make mistakes.
They have more opportunities to try and make mistakes, so these people generally achieve some success after the age of thirty.
Nowadays, class stratification is very serious. The ultimate goal of these family members is to protect the family business. As long as they do not ruin the family business, they can continue to pass it on.
So they also know what the future will be like, and they enjoy themselves to the fullest while they are young.
Because this society will be more tolerant of young people.
Luke knew that she imagined him to be that kind of family master, but Luke didn't want to explain.
He has no shortage of women, so he doesn't need to kowtow to anyone.
But Lena's chest is so strong that her dress is almost torn.
When I was thinking about finding a beautiful woman to have some quickie, someone came to my door.
"Luke? Why is it you?"
Luke looked in the direction of the sound.
"Annie? Why are you here? Where's your band?"
Anne came to Luke dressed as a clerk and said:
"My band wasn't very popular, so we disbanded. I found a job and just got a permanent job last month. How about you?"
"I came here because... um... my mother brought me here. She's an executive at an investment bank in California."
Luke didn't say it was the president.
"Oh my god, it's your mother who has been chatting with our president? I didn't expect you to be a playboy?"
Luke smiled and said:
"Hey, didn't you already know this?"
Seeing Anne looking at Luke with a somewhat dull look in her eyes, Luke also became interested.
Today, Annie put her hair up behind her head, and wore black-framed glasses and an OL uniform...
Unexpectedly, Annie was also interested. Luke looked so handsome in his custom-made suit today.
Suits in the 1980s and 1990s were all baggy. After Luke encouraged his grandmother to acquire many fashion brands, he held a meeting with their designers.
Bringing out those fashion elements from later generations really shocked these unruly designers.
Since then, Qin's slim-fitting high-end suits and dresses have become an international trend, and many people are scrambling to make reservations.
This operation made Grandma Qin rich. Whenever she looked at her eldest grandson, he always had a kind look on his face.
Anne glanced around and whispered to Luke:
"Shall we find a place?"
Luke had the same idea, so he winked at Annie.
Anne then took Luke to the 31st floor.
“This is our meeting room, reception room and president’s office.”
Luke looked around the environment and found the decoration was indeed good, so he said:
"Don't go to the president's office. Go to the recreation room over there. It looks like an indoor golf course."
Anne said excitedly:
"Yes, hurry up, I can't wait."
After saying that, he pulled Luke inside.
Half an hour later...
Anne gasped:
"Luke, why are you so gentle this time? What a magical experience..."
Luke said helplessly:
"I'm worried that you won't be able to bear it and become dehydrated. Then we won't be able to go downstairs and face people."
Anne looked at Luke sadly and said:
"Is it my fault?"
Just as Luke and Annie were getting passionate, Officer McClain, who was waiting for his wife to attend a social event downstairs, was so embarrassed that he was about to pick his toes in his wife Holly's lounge.
When they first came, the couple were very harmonious.
But as we were talking, we ended up parting on bad terms.
The reason? Because McClane saw on the computer downstairs that Holly gave up his last name and used her original last name again.
This caused McLean to feel a little unbalanced.
Although Holly explained the reason, the two still quarreled over it.
Lena sat alone for a while, feeling bored, and finally returned to her mother.
Seeing that Luke did not come back, Elsa still showed her dissatisfaction with Luke and apologized to Condrick and his daughter.
Fortunately, Condrick and his daughter did not say anything. After all, the identity of the governor's family is nothing compared to the purse of a person in charge of a consortium.
Just when Elsa was about to find Luke, a group of unidentified gunmen appeared at the banquet and started firing at the ceiling.
Gunshots, screams, shouts...
McClane also heard the gunshots, so he quickly took out his pistol and took advantage of the chaos when the criminals were driving away the crowd to go to the 31st floor through the emergency passage.
Soon after, four gangsters brought Yoshinobu Aoki, the president of the Nakatomi Group, to the president's office.
The leading gangster was dressed in a suit and looked like a guest at the banquet.
He spoke with a standard London accent, but his words and actions revealed a tough aura.
Luke and Annie were hiding behind the curtain of the golf room. The lights in the golf room were not on, so no one would have thought that there were people hiding there.
But Luke still saw McClane hiding under the table outside the office.
Listening to the conversation between the gang leader, the man in a suit, and Yoshinobu Aoki, Luke realized that this group of people were coming for the bearer bonds worth $6.4 million in the basement safe in the building.
Old man Aoki was brave enough to remind the group of people that even if they got the password, they would not be able to open the last electromagnetic lock.
Luke also agreed with his last sentence.
"You only want money? What kind of terrorists are you?"
Seeing that the suited bandit leader was showing some impatience, Luke decided to take action. He must not let old man Aoki die here.
After all, my mother brought him to old man Aoki's banquet twice, which means he is very likely a big client of my mother, and I have to help my mother keep this guy.
With Annie around, it was not a good idea to use his supernatural powers too obviously, so Luke looked around.
Golf balls are everywhere. Hey, this is a good thing. It can be used to play holes, and it can also be used to play "holes"...
So Luke found a basket of double-layer balls, the hardest kind...
Just as the bandit leader pointed his gun and ordered Aoki to hand over the password, Luke took action.
