Chapter 21

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Chu had a headache but he was alive, as was everyone else in the office but the gunmen were unconscious and had been disarmed. The staff were all well but totally confused about the last five minutes and didn't really know what had happened, except that the specialists had saved them, the same ones that they had previously seen when She Wei was rescued. The gunmen had been removed and dumped down in the cells while the staff were discussing possibilities about rescuing Zhao Yunlan but the guards all suddenly froze, causing concern to everyone in the office who assumed that they weren't interested in helping.

"No, it's not that, it's something else." Chu informed his colleagues while he looked towards Yezun who spoke out loud.

"My Lord has been kidnapped and injured, he's unconscious just now. We don't know where he is, but we will when he wakes up."

"Is there anything we can do?" Chu asked while the staff listened.

"Keep looking for Zhao Yunlan, he must live, we will help but two of us must follow Black Robe."

Zhu Hong and the rest of the staff automatically associated the name to the bank robberies and they challenged Chu.

"Maybe it's time you explained a few things to us before we help criminals." Cong Bo demanded.

Chu sighed and looked towards the guards for help or permission to tell the staff and Yezun nodded.

"I will try and make it as simple as possible. Remember the first bank robbery when the customers and staff had been calmed and cared for, that was the real Black Robe, not the fake one who has just kidnapped Yunlan and held us at gun point. These specialists,... are Black Robe's Guards. There were six, but Guo Ying died protecting him. They all would die willingly to protect him."

"What makes him so special that they would do such a thing, to ask this of anyone, to die for him, too full of himself to expect that." Zhu Hong said with venom in her tone while Chu looked with sadness towards the guards.

"Could you show them please." Chu asked with respect while the staff paid attention.

The guards lined up and the level of heat dropped, the room became colder with frost particles emanating from their position. Low dark clouds manifested violently bubbling and multiplying aggressively showing the anger of the guards as it rose. One after the other, the black robes began to appear from the guards ankles, gradually rising, passing their knees, legs, waists, shoulders and ending with their hoods which partly concealed the half face masks. When Yezun was complete he turned to Chu and offered him a temporary position until they could find a replacement for Guo Ying and he thanked them for their generous offer but declined because he was a doctor first.

The staff were still in shock about the appearance of the guards in full dress when they next discovered that Chu was a doctor. Yezun dismissed two of the guards to wait and track Shen Wei's signal when he became conscious, and they nodded to him before they turned around and knelt to Chu out of respect, then vanished immediately afterwards.

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