My Co-renting Lady Boss
Chapter 173 - 0173: Eating Explosives

Chapter 173: Chapter 0173: Eating Explosives

At this moment, Tang Ming was in the operation room mixing diet popsicles. Although the sales had recently declined, other items in the cold drink shop saw a sharp increase in sales, boosting Xia Family’s cold drink business to be many times better than before.

As school let out, the shop was bustling during this peak business hour. Wei’er’s mom was continuously taking and giving change at the counter, while Xia Wei’er was busy serving customers with various ice creams and milk teas.

As soon as Monkey entered, he ordered a hot milk tea and an egg tart, then sat down in the shop, slowly eating and drinking.

Due to the booming business, the Xia mother and daughter did not pay attention to Monkey’s movements, thinking he was just a tourist tired from walking around the snack street, resting in the shop for a while.

After waiting for a bit, Monkey saw Tang Ming come out of the operation room once, seemingly to grab a towel, and then hurried back in.

"He’s indeed here."

Monkey took out his phone and sent Chen Cang a text message: "Boss, he’s in the store."

"Good, I’ll have Xiao Jun bring the stuff over immediately. Be careful not to get caught,"

Chen Cang replied with a hint of excitement.

Soon, Xiao Jun walked into the shop with a bulging backpack and sat down directly opposite Monkey.

"Where’s the thing?"

Monkey whispered.

"It’s in the backpack, Brother Monkey. This isn’t a time bomb, how do we set it off?"

Xiao Jun’s legs were shaking with fear.

Monkey hissed, "You damn waste, what’s there to be afraid of? Don’t worry about it, I’ll think of something."

Saying this, Monkey took the backpack from under the table, and Xiao Jun’s face relaxed immediately, then he quickly ran out of the cold drink shop.

With a hot potato in his hands, Monkey couldn’t think of any good methods. This explosive would detonate on impact, and if he triggered it directly, there would be no chance to escape.

Monkey quietly slid the backpack towards the wall under the table and then took out a lighter from his pocket.

After hesitating, Monkey decided to first ignite the area around the backpack, which would give him some buffer time, but he was also afraid of accidentally setting off the explosives inside, causing him to break out in a sweat and have a flurry of thoughts before finally using the lighter to set the cold drink shop’s partition wall on fire.

The partition was made of plywood, which was dry and easily ignited, with some pieces already curling up at the edges.

After setting it on fire, Monkey quickly left the cold drink shop. The fire was close to the backpack, and it wouldn’t take long before it spread to it. Once it exploded, Tang Ming inside the shop would surely be affected. Such a large pack of explosives would definitely blast Tang Ming into minced meat. As for the fate of Xia Wei’er and her mother, Monkey couldn’t care less.

Chen Cang stood not far outside, watching Monkey come out, and quickly asked, "Is it done?"

"Brother Cang, the explosives are in place,"

Monkey said, panting.

"Then why hasn’t it exploded yet?"

Chen Cang asked anxiously.

"Brother Cang, that explosive isn’t remote-controlled. I couldn’t just ignite it there and then, so I placed it against the wall and set the shop’s wooden wall panels on fire. The fire will spread, and soon the explosives will detonate,"

Monkey explained, drenched in sweat.

"Ah, that’ll work."

Just as Chen Cang finished speaking, thick black smoke billowed from the cold drink shop, and he burst into laughter, saying, "Great, it’s burning so quickly. We’ll hear a huge bang any minute now."

Inside the cold drink shop, complete chaos ensued. The plywood walls suddenly ignited from the bottom, dense smoke began billowing, and customers, mostly near the door, fled in terror at the sight of fire, leaving only Xia Wei’er and her mother inside.

Seeing the fire, Xia Wei’er reacted swiftly, grabbing a bucket of ice water to douse it, but the burning wood blazed intensely, spreading the fire around them. Wei’er’s mom, seeing the uncontrollable blaze, shouted urgently, "Wei’er, quickly move all the valuables out!"

"Oh."

Xia Wei’er ran over, frantically beating on the door of the control room, shouting, "Tang Ming, run quickly, there’s a fire!"

Inside the control room, Tang Ming heard her, and quickly ran out to see that indeed the fire was not small, and with no water hose to put it out, it wasn’t going to be easy to extinguish. He immediately asked, "Is your dad still inside?"

"No, my dad went to the hospital for a check-up."

Xia Wei’er said, "Tang Ming, can you help me move the valuable things out, like the cash register?"

"Okay."

Tang Ming ran to the counter, and carried the machine outside.

"Whose backpack is this?"

Suddenly, Wei’er’s mother noticed a backpack leaning against the corner of the wall. The fire had already spread over there, and just as it was about to light up, she quickly picked it up.

"Mom, why bother with that backpack?"

Xia Wei’er said urgently.

"Oh."

Wei’er’s mother thought about it and indeed, threw the backpack aside. But she threw it too hard, and it tore open, revealing the contents inside.

At that sight, Wei’er’s mother was scared half to death, tremblingly saying, "Wei’er, run quickly, there’s explosive in this bag!!!"

Tang Ming, who was in the midst of moving things, was also startled and hurried over to see. Good Lord, there really were explosives in the backpack, with the clear TNT symbols and hazard markings.

The flames were rampaging all over the room. If it was left unattended, it would soon be ignited, and once it exploded, the entire room would be blown apart, not to mention Tang Ming, even the nearby shops would be affected.

"Throw it out quickly, or it will explode."

Wei’er’s mother exclaimed in fear.

With quick reflexes, Tang Ming grabbed the backpack, wanting to throw it out, but the doorway was already on fire. He was worried that a careless touch to the frame could cause an accidental explosion. But if he didn’t throw it, and it stayed in the shop, it would definitely explode. In a moment of urgency, he grabbed the backpack, tore open the packaging tape, and, putting his mind to it, dumped the explosives into his mouth.

"Ah, can you do that?"

The mother and daughter, Xia Wei’er, were in complete shock; Tang Ming had actually eaten the explosives.

In a few seconds, a backpack full of explosives had gone into Tang Ming’s stomach. Since they weren’t lit, there was naturally no explosion, but the outside of the backpack was already scorched and blackened by the heat.

After a loud burp, Tang Ming patted his stomach and said, "Now we don’t have to worry about the explosion."

"Tang Ming, aren’t you afraid of blowing open your stomach by eating the explosives?"

Xia Wei’er asked worriedly.

"Not afraid, my stomach has very good digestion. In no time, the explosives will turn into... you know, and come out the other end."

Tang laughed it off nonchalantly.

After resolving the explosive scare, Tang Ming also rescued several valuable machines from the ice cream shop, but the shop itself was already burnt out. Someone must have called the fire department because the fire truck arrived quickly and started to spray water immediately.

"Tang Ming, with the shop burned like this, my family’s business is really finished,"

Xia Wei’er said with a tearless sorrow.

"I couldn’t do anything else but help you dispose of the explosives and rescue the equipment."

But Tang Ming felt something was amiss; with the fire and explosives, who could be behind this, attempting to create such a disaster and seeming intent on taking lives?