Chapter 82: Either Dead or Injured

Xi Huaizhi lifted his chin toward the police: "Throw your handcuffs over here."

The young officer standing at the very front looked back toward his superior; seeing the other man nod in agreement, he tossed the handcuffs over.

"Boss, let's cuff this kid." Xi Huaizhi's shoulders were broad, and at this moment, he carried a tempered aura, steady yet sharp: "Lest he gets restless."

"Click!"

The silver handcuffs were placed onto Yin Huaiyu's wrists by Ling Wu.

Yin Huaiyu lowered his head, his gaze sweeping over the eyesore on his wrists. Without the slightest self-awareness of being a prisoner, half-languid and half-mocking, he retorted: "So arrogant? Then you'd better be able to kill me today."

"Otherwise, I'll send your whole family to the underworld to eat New Year's Eve dinner sooner or later."

Xi Huaizhi's voice was steady, imbued with the deep resonance of a mature man: "You've got a sharp tongue."

The twilight faded completely, and the dusk hung low.

Ling Wu urged: "Alright."

Xi Huaizhi also realized it was getting late and they should make a quick decision. His voice transmitted clearly into the ears of everyone present: "Clear the way for us."

Everyone outside the Abandoned Warehouse consciously cleared a path for people to pass, letting Ling Wu and the others go, yet they remained highly vigilant. The current calm was merely an illusion; in the next instant, they could be at daggers drawn.

Xi Huaizhi pressed his gun against the back of Yin Huaiyu's head and gave him a shove: "Move!"

"Hurry up!"

"Stop dawdling."

Ling Wu turned his back to Xi Huaizhi, aimed his gun at the officer in charge of the police group, and walked to the black SUV. Xi Huaizhi escorted the captive into the backseat. Ling Wu pulled the door open with one hand, sat in, started the engine, and sped away, leaving a trail of dust.

Just after they left.

Several police cars followed behind.

They formed a unique scene within Ganan City.

Yin Huaiyu had his hands cuffed in the silver shackles, his legs slightly parted, leaning back against the seat. He was leisurely and carefree, completely ignoring the muzzle pointed at his head. His gaze landed on Ling Wu in the driver's seat: "Your blade work is very beautiful."

"Who taught you?"

Ling Wu controlled the steering wheel with one hand, seeing the string of police cars in the rearview mirror. He didn't even frown, but he couldn't be bothered to talk to Yin Huaiyu.

He had no good feelings toward this person.

If Ling Wu had to use words to describe Yin Huaiyu, they would certainly be things like arrogant and contemptuous, temperamental, arbitrary, and unreasonable.

There was nothing to say to a person like Yin Huaiyu either.

At best, he was just a restless piece on a chessboard.

"Don't want to talk?" Yin Huaiyu tapped his slender fingers on his leg: "What kind of deal did Huo Xi make with you to have you hold us up in Ganan?"

Xi Huaizhi could bear it no longer, and there was no need to bear it: "Don't ask about things you shouldn't. Want to know who we are? No, are you even worthy?"

【Young Master Jin, come quickly, your closed-door disciple is here.】

【This line also has boundless attack power, haha.】

【Family, don't worry. Based on my ten years of experience in the novel and manga circles, the protagonist will definitely escape when kidnapped. Relax, Young Master Yin will be fine.】

【Author, you're arrogant for messing with the plot, and you're courting death for making me angry. Some random passerby from who knows where can kidnap the protagonist and even get so many highlight shots? If you mess around again, I'll make you fly!】

The car was silent for a long time.

Yin Huaiyu spoke out of the blue: "Oh, right."

"I have a Positioning Chip in my body."

A Positioning Chip?

Just as expected, Yin Huaiyu saw Ling Wu's gaze flicker for a moment through the car mirror.

"Let's make a bet." Yin Huaiyu leaned forward, his hands gripping the back of Ling Wu's driver's seat, and whispered into his ear: "In such a high-speed situation, after the airbags deploy, what percentage of a chance do we have of surviving?"

"I bet I have a seventy percent chance of survival, and you two have zero."

The next instant, a car drove over like lightning from a street corner, trying to force them to stop in a mutual-destruction maneuver.

But clearly, the three people in the car—two "kidnappers" and one hostage—were all madmen walking on the edge of a knife.

No one was afraid.

Ling Wu's expression didn't change. Controlling the steering wheel, he didn't stop; instead, relying on his superb operational skills and extraordinary courage, he floored the gas pedal: "Ever heard of finding life in a desperate situation?"

When that car was 3 meters away and about to crash into them, he performed a 180-degree spin on the spot. The world turned upside down, the rear of the car whipped away objects on both sides of the road, and he used the distance gap to swerve away from the car that was about to collide with them.

Because of inertia and reaction speed, that car couldn't hit the brakes in time and slammed hard into the glass door of a storefront.

"Crash!"

Everything from the start to the evasion took only a few seconds, yet Ling Wu had completed the process of thinking, calculating distance, reacting in time, and successfully dodging.

A genius.

Someone who could make such precise reactions was simply a genius.

Yin Huaiyu couldn't deny this point. He saw the car that had crashed into the glass, his expression turned gloomy, he exhaled a turbid breath, and closed his eyes tightly.

Useless things that ruin everything!

Ling Wu and Xi Huaizhi drove the car to the bottom of an office building. Xi Huaizhi escorted the person out of the car and shoved him into the building. People on the ground floor saw them enter; they were surprised at first, then took out their phones to film.

"Wow, that person is so good-looking. Are there actors filming here?"

"There's even a gun, it looks pretty real. Those two kidnappers have great eye acting; is this a spy thriller? If it airs, I'll definitely watch it just for their looks."

"Quick, take a picture."

"Which production crew is this?"

Not just Xi Huaizhi, but even the expressions of Yin Huaiyu and Ling Wu became very subtle upon hearing these words...

Ling Wu followed the direction of the signs into the elevator and pressed the 30th floor. The elevator started, and the numbers quickly changed from 1 to 21, finally stopping at the 30th floor.

Further up the stairs was the rooftop.

Xi Huaizhi destroyed the rooftop door lock with a single shot.

"Creak!"

The door opened.

Police cars pulled up one after another at the base of the office building, surrounded by a large crowd of onlookers; Ling Wu stood at the edge of the rooftop looking down, the wind whipping his clothes high, his stray hair fluttering, and at such a height, there was an illusion of gazing into an abyss...

Two minutes later.

A helicopter arrived from the dim horizon; the woman in the pilot's seat wore sunglasses, had red lips and wavy hair, her features were exquisite and beautiful, her skin fair and flawless, and tucked at her slender waist were two guns, both alluring and threatening; she kicked the helicopter door open with her long legs, took off her sunglasses, and curled her lips into a smile: "Long time no see."

The High Priestess, Shi Yu.

Tarot Card High Priestess, image source from the internet.

Ling Wu was the first to board the helicopter: "Have you dealt with everyone?"

Shi Yu lifted her eyes slightly, casual and unrestrained, and made a salute gesture toward him: "When I take action, they either die or get injured."

Xi Huaizhi saw the police arriving and kicked Yin Huaiyu off the helicopter; the rotors whirred, and the three of them quickly disappeared into the aimless night.

The sound of the bomb exploding crackled like the Lunar New Year.

【Author's Note: Happy New Year's Eve, good luck in the Year of the Snake, wishing you smooth sailing, prosperity, happiness every day, and in the days to come, may everything go your way and may you sing your way to success!】