Chapter 3 First appearance on stage_3

Gao Guang started his no-props performance with a voice frantic and desperate, yelling, "Shut him up! I need to take this call!"

Only after shouting did Gao Guang put the phone to his ear, speaking respectfully, "Hello, Mr. Carlos, it's chaotic here and I didn't hear you earlier."

The Captain, with his mask, had his expression hidden, but he stared at Gao Guang with eyes filled with surprise, holding a gun in his right hand and making a very vulgar gesture with his left.

The Captain was cursing Gao Guang silently while someone on the phone spoke in a very angry tone, "Dammit, what's going on with you, why did the alarm go off?"

Gao Guang replied in an utterly astonished tone, "What? Alarm? No, there's no..."

There are many kinds of alarms and ways to set them off, and Gao Guang didn't know how Sanchez had managed to send out an alarm, nor what kind of alert those outside had received; thus, he could only speak vaguely, leaving his sentence half-finished.

At that moment, eagerly looking for a reason to abruptly end the call, Gao Guang's eyes fell on a corpse at his feet. With a stroke of inspiration, he stepped forward and kicked the bodyguard's corpse hard in the back, producing a dull sound.

Unable to understand Spanish, the Captain had no idea what Gao Guang had said to trigger it, but right after Gao Guang's kick, the Captain suddenly screamed out loud, "Ah! Ah..."

The Captain's screams were of extreme agony, as if he really had been kicked.

The Captain's performance was perfectly timed, creating the necessary screams, but Gao Guang was completely caught off guard by the Captain's outburst and nearly threw his phone away in fright.

However, Gao Guang's shock quickly turned into delight, and he nodded at the Captain repeatedly, signaling that the Captain had done a great job with those two screams.

Without hesitation, Gao Guang spoke in an apologetic tone, "I am terribly sorry, I was disciplining a foolish bastard, uh... you received an alarm? Sorry, I don't know what happened; I am really sorry, Mr. Carlos. I've got cars arriving here, are you outside?"

Gao Guang didn't expect a few words to send the people outside away, but he hoped to lure them inside because ambushing was a completely different game from a forced breakout.

His words remained ambiguous, but Gao Guang's act seemed to have had an effect; the man on the phone sounded a lot more relaxed, saying, "What a mess you've made, you idiot..."

Just then, Gao Guang heard a weak voice say, "Let me go; let me out of here, you..."

Gao Guang and the Captain turned their heads simultaneously, and their eyes were filled with utter shock because they saw Arturo, who had fainted, trying to sit up.

Hitting someone in the back of the head with a gun butt can easily be lethal; Gao Guang had never done this before so he didn't know how much force to use and thus, he hadn't dared to hit Arturo too hard. The result was that Arturo, who had fainted, was now waking up and even started to speak.

For the Captain, the most painful thing was that he couldn't understand what Gao Guang or Arturo were saying, but he knew allowing Arturo to blabber at this time could be deadly.

The Captain made no sound; he used hand gestures and rushed towards Arturo. There was only the bodyguard's corpse between Gao Guang and Arturo, so without thinking, Gao Guang instinctively kicked out towards Arturo.

Gao Guang's kick landed on Arturo's stomach, and the unfortunate Arturo let out another scream, pleading rapidly in Spanish, "Don't..."

Gao Guang was truly at a loss, his frustration pouring out in two successive kicks, the second one hitting Arturo's chest hard.

Arturo suddenly clutched his chest; he didn't pass out, but the heavy blow to his chest left him unable to speak. Now all he could do was lie back down and writhe in pain.

The Captain had already arrived; he slid knee-first and pounced on Arturo, gun in one hand and covering Arturo's mouth with the other, assuming an extremely awkward position to prevent Arturo from making any further noise.

But Arturo's cries seemed to have worked as a fine cover; the person on the phone promptly said, "Alright, alright, I'll come in and talk about it. Let's hang up for now."

The call ended, and the Captain, understanding nothing, had no idea how it went; he looked as if he were going insane.

Gao Guang said with a trembling voice, "The call is over, we've passed the test."

The Captain's eyes conveyed a multitude of meanings, first bewildered, but quickly turning into elation.

Gao Guang continued hurriedly in a low voice, "You can talk now, they received an alarm and have come to check things out, but I've successfully deceived them, now they are about to come in!"

In the urgent moment, there was no time for further explanation, but a few words were enough to clarify the situation. The Captain violently shook his head, saying urgently, "Everyone, pay attention, did you hear that? The enemy is coming in, get ready for battle!"