An Eye for News Chapter 23

“I truly have underestimated you. Didn’t expect you to have correctly guessed so many things, and I almost died by your hands there. Are you the girl’s bodyguard?”

The driver sneered. He waved his gun and ordered Se Cai, “Come over here!”

Since the cat’s out of the bag, he would force Se Cai to drive while he kept Xin Yu under control.

“Se Cai, save yourself and run!”

Xin Yu yelled.

Regret couldn’t even begin to describe her feelings then. She mistook Se Cai who was actually trying to save her as a rapist and her kidnapper as the virtuous one.

“Run? Believe me, I want to!”

Se Cai laughed bitterly. There was no place to take cover and the swampy condition of the surrounding would greatly slow him down. He couldn’t possibly get away from a trained marksman. The Eye for News system didn’t exactly make him bulletproof.

“Shut it, and get back in there!”

Xin Yu opened her mouth to say something but the driver cut her off. After he shoved her inside the car, he pulled from underneath the seat a pair of handcuffs and cuffed her to the a.s.sist handle.

He slammed the door in her face and then pointed his gun at Se Cai, “Right, now it’s your turn!”

“Alright, don’t be reckless here, I’m sure the Blue Sky Rehab wouldn’t want a murder on their hands…”

Se Cai kept his hands up and moved slowly to the car.

The driver chuckled mirthlessly.

“Well, I didn’t expect you to figure that out as well. You’re right, I’m hired by Blue Sky Rehab but I don’t work under them. I’m a free mercenary. It’s just so happens that our target overlaps so I’d figured I would make use of them.”

Se Cai didn’t expect Blue Sky Rehab to be vicious enough to hire a mercenary but the more he thought about it, the more sense it made. If the thing fell apart, at least they can wash their hands clean of it.

“But why are you telling me all this?”

Se Cai was curious.

“You’ve guessed correctly so many things but not the girl’s true ident.i.ty? Maybe you’re not as smart as I thought. Come on closer, I’ll tell you.”

Se Cai leaned in towards the man but suddenly the man snickered and moved to smack Se Cai on the side of his head.

The swipe came as fast as lightning, it once again confirmed for Se Cai that the driver was a well-trained mercenary.

Se Cai’s right eye tensed and the mercenary’s movement slowed drastically down.

He leaned back in the nick of time, and the arm cut the air in front of his face.

Normally, Se Cai wouldn’t opt for a physical confrontation but when he took in the mercenary’s delayed reaction, his opponent become less threatening.

With ease, Se Cai evaded nimbly the mercenary follow-up jab.

“Now is the time!”

Se Cai put his entire weight in his body and slammed into the driver’s torso, pus.h.i.+ng both of them to the ground!

The driver pointed his gun at Se Cai and pulled the trigger. Thankfully, all his shots missed because his hand was wounded. An eyebrow knife was sticking out of his arm.

Turned out Se Cai still had the knife he s.n.a.t.c.hed from Xin Yu in his grasp and he had hidden it from the mercenary’s view all this while. When they both came tumbling down, Se Cai utilized gravity and plunged it into the mercenary’s armed hand.

Thank G.o.d Xin Yu came from a good family background, or else any other cheap eyebrow knife would have broken in the tussle.

“Se Cai, are you alright?!”

Xin Yu heard the multiple gunfire and screams outside of the car and she yelled worriedly.

Se Cai didn’t have the time to reply because he realized with growing alarm that the mercenary was too strong for him to be able to fully pin to the floor.

The driver tossed the empty gun away and kicked Se Cai off.

“I’m going to kill you!”

The mercenary wailed furiously as he loosened his unharmed left arm at Se Cai.

Se Cai ducked and his punch hit the car door, creating a dent. The man must have been incredibly powerful because the door was made out of steel. If it had landed on Se Cai, he would be knocked out cold. Se Cai quickly scurried away.

“We’ll see how much longer you can run!”

 The man said with a manic glow in his eyes and he charged once more at Se Cai.

“F*ck me, your hand and leg are both injured so why are you still so agile?!”

Se Cai cursed inwardly.

Xin Yu struggled against the cuffs until her wrist was red from chaffing but it was futile.

“Se Cai, run, you’re not his match!”

Xin Yu shouted despairingly.

When the driver revealed his mercenary ident.i.ty, she knew they were both goners. But if possible, she wanted Se Cai to save himself.

“Run? If I run, you’ll be dead!”

Se Cai uttered through gritted teeth. He believed he could outrun the mercenary because his leg was injured but could he really leave Xin Yu behind?

 “Turn off the headlights!”

Suddenly, Se Cai was blessed with an idea. He yelled at Xin Yu who was in the car.

“Turn off the headlights?”

Xin Yu was caught by surprised but she didn’t hesitate. She pulled herself as forward as she could and turned off the ignition.

She was unclear about Se Cai’s intention but she had full faith in him now.

Furthermore, she really didn’t have any other option.

The car’s engine came to a halt and the area was submerged into darkness.

The mercenary lost his target so he stopped mid-charge. The car headlight’s was the only light source within a 300 meters’ radius. He couldn’t even see the step in front of him much less Se Cai who was further away.

However, this was an irrefutable advantage for Se Cai.

The Eye for News system had gained for him night vision.

He saw the mercenary crept towards the general direction of his car, probably aiming to switch the lights back on.

Se Cai’s presence was shrouded by the enveloping darkness and pouring rain.

“He’s basically a cripple and a blind. If I still can’t win him, I probably don’t deserve to live anyway.”

Emboldened by the thought, Se Cai picked up a st.u.r.dy branch from the floor and slunk towards the mercenary. When the man found the car handle, Se Cai swung the branch hard down on the back of his head.

The mercenary crumbled instantly to the floor.

The back of one’s head was responsible for one’s respiratory, digestive, homeostatic and cognitive functions. Furthermore, it was more vulnerable than the front of the skull.

Se Cai was in the hospital yesterday for a head concussion and the knowledge he had picked up from his own health report turned out to be quite helpful in that situation.

Se Cai nudged the mercenary with his feet. After he made sure the man had fainted, he dropped the branch and started to catch his breath.

After all, he was only a temp reporter. This was his first time getting involved in such a volatile situation.

He started s.h.i.+vering in fear after the adrenaline that had kept his blood pumping melted away.

He could have easily ended up in an unmarked grave in the middle of nowhere.

Se Cai stumbled towards the car and when he opened the car door, the piercing wail of a woman pulled him back to reality.

Xin Yu had leaned in as far as she could and she was aiming her high heels at Se Cai.

She was wearing a pair of YSL heels and its heel was about 8 centimeters long. It could definitely inflict some pain.

Se Cai pulled her legs into a grapple hold but she kept struggling.

“Stop, stop, stop, it’s me!”

Se Cai yelled as loud as he could and flipped on the car’s internal light.

The weak light filtered down into the cramped s.p.a.ce and when Xin Yu saw Se Cai’s mud-splattered face, she stopped struggling and started to cry.

The tears were from a rollercoaster of emotion, there were anger, fear, worry and now relief.

“Why are you crying, I’m not dead.”

Se Cai joked but winced when he felt the wound in his abdomen.

When he tackled the mercenary, he was kneed in his abdomen. The pain previously dulled by adrenaline surfaced.

Se Cai searched the bottom of the seat for the key to unlock the cuffs. He saw the mercenary kept the key in the cuff’s hiding place with his enhanced vision earlier. In the rush of things, he forgot to inform Xin Yu of that.

After he unlocked her, Xin Yu flew into his arms.

“Thank G.o.d, you’re okay and still alive. I’m so sorry I misjudged you and dragged you into this mess.”

Before Se Cai knew what was happening, he felt her lips on his mouth.

The rain was still falling and they stayed in that tight embrace for quite some time…

Then, they parted. The kiss wasn’t romantic, it was more of a joy from being alive than anything else. Both of them were silent, each nursing their own thoughts...