An Eye for News Chapter 22

   “Who said I’m crying, it’s the rain and get away from me! My phone’s dead, I can’t call a car now if I want to.”

Xin Yu used her bag to shove Se Cai who moved in to console her back. She huffed angrily, “Driver, drive me to XY Residence!”

Se Cai was familiar with XY Residence, it was a high-scale residential area for the county’s rich and famous. In other words, a place he wouldn’t be stepping into in his lifetime.

“Yes, miss. Then, what about you, sir?”

The driver frowned as he gestured at Se Cai.

“Drop her off first, my house’s a bit further away.”

Se Cai said in a voice as lecherous as he could muster, “Pretty lady, don’t worry, I’ll see you home. We wouldn’t want a pretty little thing like yourself to get wet from the rain, would we?”

“F*ck, your place is obviously closer because I know you rent a house near the tv station!”

Xin Yu finally lost her patience and cursed.

Perhaps it was her years of diction training, her cursing didn’t sound coa.r.s.e, instead Se Cai found it to be quite melodic.

 “Man, let’s cut to the chase. She’s obviously way out of your league and not interested. Why not be a gentleman and let the lady go?”

The driver advised. His target was Xin Yu so it would serve him well if he could get Se Cai to voluntarily leave.

“Yes, Se Cai, listen to the kind sir. I am really NOT interested.”

Xin Yu declared as she pulled from her bag a small eyebrow knife that she waved in front of her as a form of defense.

“You think I would be interested in a dumb woman like yourself?”

Se Cai snorted in anger. The woman was as thick as a brick. If he departed, she would be left to the villainous driver’s device.

“Who are you calling dumb?”

Xin Yu’s fear was overwhelmed by anger from being insulted.

Xin Yu was used to people treating her on the basis on her looks so she took perhaps a little too much pride in her intellect.

“Alright, alright. Cut it out, you two. We’re moving!”

The man seemed to have reached the end of his patience and pressed down hard on the oil pedal.

The car lurched violently forward, throwing its pa.s.senger back.

“Driver sir, can you drive a bit more carefully…”

A nervous Xin Yu implored as she fastened the backseat seat belt.

Se Cai though was worried about something else.

He noticed the car was heading not towards XY Residence but Blue Sky Rehab.

“Driver sir, why are you taking this route?” he asked in a rushed manner.

“It’s because of the rain. You know the county’s drainage system has always been bad. The normal route must have flooded already… So I’m taking the long route, don’t worry, I won’t charge extra.” The man smiled in response.

Xin Yu might not be familiar with County S’ landscape but Se Cai knew that they were heading outside of the city area. It was easier to dispose of them in a secluded part of the county.

As the city lights retreated further and further away, Se Cai hurriedly sent off a SOS text to his housemate Gao Xiang.

“Gao Xiang, Zhang Xin Yu and myself are kidnapped by an armed man. The car plate is PL0523. I suspect this is a trap set by the Blue Sky Rehab people because we’re heading towards the school compound northern side of town. Please call the police for us!”

Se Cai sneaked a glance at the driver through the rearview mirror. While the driver wasn’t looking, he tried to catch Xin Yu’s eyes, trying to notify her of the danger they were in.

When Xin Yu didn’t respond, he whispered, “Xin Yu, can you give me your phone number?”

He handed her his phone and it showed the message he just sent Gao Xiang.

“In your dreams!”

Xin Yu said condescendingly. She didn’t even turn her head his way.

“Gah! F*ck me! I’m going die because of this woman!”

Se Cai cursed inwardly, meaning to shove the phone in her face.

However, he didn’t dare to do so because he noticed the driver started to gaze their way with suspicion in his eyes.

Se Cai took a deep breath and tried to come up with a new plan.

“h.e.l.lo… yes… we’re almost there…”

The driver answered his phone and only snippets of the conversation floated to the back because he was cautious to not let the pa.s.sengers overhear him.

This call made Se Cai even more nervous because it confirmed the presence of possible multiple partners. If they wanted to get away, they needed to do it in the car while they still had the number’s advantage.

Se Cai surrept.i.tiously scanned the car’s interior. His gaze landed on his broken umbrella and an idea popped into his mind.

Se Cai put on his seatbelt and leaned forward to ask, “Erm, driver sir, why doesn’t your phone show the Uber app?”

The man replied, “Oh, yes, sorry I forgot.”

It was clear to Se Cai that the man wasn’t a real Uber driver because of that obvious mistake and the fact that the man wasn’t even wearing his seat belt.

The man decelerated to search for the app.

 In that moment, with a swift movement, Se Cai reached forward to pull the hand brake. Before the driver could react, Se Cai grabbed one the umbrella skeletal frames he had untangled and jammed it into the man’s leg!

The car skidded on the wet tarmac floor and veered off the road into a patch of wildflowers field.

Shocked by the sudden pain, the driver’s phone fell from his hand and he flew right into the winds.h.i.+eld because he wasn’t wearing his seatbelt. He screamed in pain.

“We got to go!”

Se Cai roared after disengaging from his seatbelt. He grabbed Xin Yu and made to leap out the car.

The rain was still falling, creating a muddy swamp land out of the countryside field. However, it was still better than waiting for the driver’s partners to come.

“What are you doing!”

Xin Yu screamed and she instinctually moved out of Se Cai’s grabbing hands.

Se Cai didn’t have the time to explain. He eventually latched onto her hands and they both went tumbling out into the rain.

“Help… Someone help me!”

Being forcefully pulled from the car, the panicked Xin Yu screeched.

“Shhh… Ouch!”

Se Cai was about to explain everything when he felt something sharp stabbed his arm. He immediately retracted his hands.

With his enhanced vision, he saw Xin Yu’s eyebrow knife glinting in the dark.

“d.a.m.n, why did you do that for!”

Se Cai rubbed the wound on his arm and said disgruntledly.

He was trying to save their lives and this was the thanks he got?!

“You mean to hurt the driver and take advantage of me in this wilderness, don’t you!”

Xin Yu held the small knife with shaking hands in front of her. She stared at Se Cai with fear in her eyes.

“What are you talking about! Listen to me…”

Se Cai s.n.a.t.c.hed the knife from her hands and tried to knock some sense into her hand when the car’s headlights turned back on, catching Se Cai in it.

The driver had regained his consciousness and was shuffling towards them with unsteady steps.

“Driver sir, help me! This man here is trying to rape me!”

Xin Yu’s face lit up when she saw the driver, and she started to take small steps towards him and the safety of his car.

The driver lost his baseball in the car crash and his bald head was bleeding from injuries suffered when he rammed into the winds.h.i.+eld. The blood mixed with the rain and painted his face, making him looked especially vicious.

The most serious wound though was on his leg, the one inflicted by Se Cai.

He didn’t look exactly like a knight in s.h.i.+ning armor but in Xin Yu’s eyes, he was one because he was going to save her from the s.e.xual predator, Se Cai.

However, when she got closer to the driver, he chuckled darkly before pulling her into his tight grasp. His other hand pulled out a black object.

“Wait, don’t shoot!”

Se Cai yelled and put his hands up in surrender when the driver pointed his gun at him.

His plan was to lead Xin Yu away from the driver because he knew from his mind-reading skill that he was armed.

He knew they couldn’t outrun a bullet but they had a running lead. Plus, the driver couldn’t see in the dark. They had a good chance at an escape.

Zhang Xin Yu though had ruined that completely. Not only that, she practically delivered herself to the enemy.

“You there, don’t move a muscle or I’ll blow your brains out!”

One of the driver’s eyes was swollen shut by his injuries but the hand that held the gun was firm. Se Cai believed this man was familiar with handling firearms.

“Gun… why do you have a gun?”

Xin Yu was as white as a sheet of paper, but it was unsure whether it was fear or the cold.

“Do you still not get it? He’s here to kidnap you but you still treat him as the good guy.”

Se Cai glared at her and said dejectedly.