Artifact Report

Chapter 206: Chase: How could such a small alley hold so many people?

His falling momentum seemed to be buffered by some force.

...Is this his illusion, or is it really happening?

But the force that was holding him up seemed to feel that the firewood was not to its taste, and in the blink of an eye, it disappeared from under him like a firewood being pulled out of the bottom of a cauldron.

Chai Si fell straight to the ground in the alley and was thrown down by Hei Fang, into the narrow gap that could crush and burst a human body.

There are countless kinds of unexpected situations.

For example, Brianna would rather let him die than release him; for example, she had blind faith that she could find a way to dig out "rumors" from his body later; or, perhaps, she simply sent her men to assassinate him, but her men did not dare to make a decision on their own, and Chase was crushed to death...

However, if people don't dare to give up something, it will be difficult to snatch something from the world.

When people die, they die. It's that simple. It's not worth being afraid of.

Chai Si closed his eyes and felt as if he was sinking to the bottom of the deep water, as if he was falling from a higher place, and the fall was much longer than he had imagined - but also surprisingly short.

He didn't even finish his turn before he fell heavily to the cold brick floor with a thud.

Even though he was lifted up during the fall, the air was still shaken out of his chest, and his muscles and bones seemed to be buzzing and numbing.

At that moment, Chai Si could only lie on the rough and uneven ground, his naked skin immersed in the cold puddle, unable to move; the pain of being hit hard by the ground made his eyes and chest go dark.

The fact that he felt pain meant that he was still alive; he had to get up immediately and get ahead of the assassin.

Just as the thought came to his mind, a figure suddenly fell from the sky and hit Chai Si heavily, knocking out the breath he had just taken in.

Not only on his body, but also several shadows fell from the air around him, shaking the ground; at that moment, it seemed as if someone sprayed insecticide into the air, and flies fell one after another like rain.

……what happened?

Chai Si was knocked unconscious by the fall. He gritted his teeth, grabbed the heavy shadow on his body, pushed him down and threw him to the ground. It was a man with a pale and tired face. He looked a little familiar, as if he had seen him in the bar just now. He endured the pain, turned over and got up, and found himself facing the door of "Backlight Room".

Han Liuyue just happened to poke her snow-white face out from the door.

The moment their eyes met, even Han Liuyue seemed stunned, not knowing how to react.

"Huh? What's going on..."

For a moment, she even forgot to attack Chai Si. Instead, her eyes turned and swept across the ground in the alley.

It just so happened that Chai Si didn't have the time to look around or get entangled with her.

While she was distracted, he kicked the door and it slammed hard into Han Liuyue's face; she shrank back, and in the aftermath of the door's "bang", Chai Si turned his head and rushed to the alley on the left.

Just now when he was inside the door, the assassin was on his right. Now that he changed direction, the assassin was on his left - logically, this is how it should be.

However, Chai Si stopped abruptly and was stunned by the empty alley.

...where are the people?
From the moment he landed, climbed to his feet, and lunged at me, it took no more than two or three seconds. The alley stretched straight ahead for nearly a hundred meters, with no forks, and building walls on both sides... How could someone escape in just two or three seconds and vanish without a trace?

Hiding behind a trash can?

"Chai Si, this way!"

When he realized that the words were shouted by Jin Xueli, Chai Si's body had already obeyed the order and turned to the back.

Perhaps because he was shirtless and the cold November rain was falling under the sky, goose bumps appeared on his skin.

Jin Xueli is still alive.

She got up in a hurry. Apart from her hair being wet from the rain and sticking to her cheeks, she looked no different from before.

"Why are you taking off your clothes?"

As expected of Jin Xueli, she was the first to notice the least important problem.

Chai Si ignored her; his eyes turned to the alley in the distance, and he immediately understood why Han Liuyue was stunned just now.

...Are there too many people falling out of the black side?
Beside her, the waitress in the backlight was groaning and straightening up from the ground; the woman who was selling lipstick was very alert, dragging another man who had been thrown twice, and hurriedly retreated to the side against the wall, as if to avoid bullets.

It seems that even if someone enters the black side, the initiator can choose to do nothing - compared with Chai Si's embarrassed appearance, the people who were hit look much better.

The man seemed to mutter something like, "You're right, you should leave earlier," but he didn't hear clearly.

As soon as he limped out of the way, Chai Si saw it.

"do not move,"

A tall, thin man, one he had clearly never seen before, yet looked vaguely familiar, was pointing a black muzzle at him. Next to him was the burly man who had just been thrown into the black square by Chai Si. He had just regained his footing, his face looking both angry and embarrassed.

"...Brianna sent you here?" Chai Si asked, staring at the tall and thin man.

The tall, thin man's expression remained unchanged.

"Yes," he said, "don't make me shoot."

Chai Si almost wanted to laugh.

"If killing me was an option, you wouldn't have been forced to remove the artifact. Who are you to Brianna? No—who are you to Vesile?"

A false image of this level on the Black side is very likely one of the targets of the "Nest Domination Game". After Vesile's death, it was held in the hands of this seemingly unknown man, which is enough to show that he has a close relationship with Vesile and a different status.

After a pause, the tall, thin, fair-skinned man said, "...To me, Vesile is nobody."

He turned the muzzle of his gun and pointed it at Jin Xueli standing by the door. With the help of the sensor light, he looked Jin Xueli up and down.

As if he suddenly realized that he had seen something extremely unpleasant, the tall and thin man frowned unconsciously.

He swallowed, and his Adam's apple rolled clearly.

"You're right. I'm afraid to kill you. But she... she's from your Kai family, right? I heard that Chase Monroe has always attached great importance to the brotherhood between family members. Is that true?" It seems that Jin Xueli's hint just now made him misunderstand.

"...She is not a member of Kai's family." Chai Si said in a low voice.

"Really not," Jin Xueli said hurriedly, a little panicked, "He still has a bill he owes me."

Even when being pointed at with a gun, her attention was still like a net; any movement in any corner of the net would make her turn her gaze accordingly.

Among the people in the alley, Jin Xueli was the first to notice the doorknob turning. Her eyes lit up, and she immediately pointed at the bar door and said, "If you want to find Kai's family, look for this one, the one who just came out!"

It was too late for her to block the door at this moment.

Han Liuyue pushed the door open again and stuck her head into the alley. Her snow-white face was intact. She looked around - fortunately, she did not start fighting as soon as she pushed the door open.

"What's going on now?" She looked around twice and said, "Who has the upper hand? Who's left to take me to see the mayor?"

...He is such a guy who changes his attitude according to the situation and doesn't hide anything at all.

"My proposal still stands," the tall, thin man chuckled and said, "Chase Monroe is standing right here. Let me see how you can do it."

"Oh?" Han Liuyue said, turning to Chai Si.

The situation is actually worse than before Black's trap disappeared.

Before, the tall and thin man didn't seem to realize that Jin Xueli was on his side, so he let her out alive; now, not only is Chai Si still at risk of being attacked by Han Liuyue, but Jin Xueli has also become a hindrance.

But he had almost no cards left to play.

Apart from temporarily delaying time, Chai Si couldn't think of what to do.

"Han Liuyue,"

From the outside, no one would have thought that Chai Si was actually just bluffing - because he had made real threats to others so many times that he was already very familiar with it.

He lowered his voice and said softly, "I promise you, if you let me die, he will never live long enough to take you to see the mayor."

"That's right, if you die, the Kai family will indeed avenge you..." Han Liuyue seemed to be reminded, "After all, he is Brother Chai Si."

This patchwork thinking of one piece being a resident and another being Han Liuyue really made Chai Si very uncomfortable.

"The most capable person in the Kai family is dead. Who else can avenge him?" The tall and thin man said with a soft smile.

As luck would have it, before he could finish his sentence, Chai Si suddenly felt the cell phone in his trouser pocket start to buzz and vibrate - luckily, the phone was not thrown out.

At this critical moment, he could only think of one person who would call him.

Is Tianxi coming soon?

"There's no need to involve irrelevant people in our affairs."

Chai Si lowered one hand and pretended to accidentally press the phone through his pants to reduce its buzzing sound. He had to seize any excuse to delay time.

"Those people have nothing to do with this matter, so why not let them go first—"

When Chai Si said this, he suddenly realized that the woman selling lipstick, the limping man, and the waitress following closely behind them had formed a line at some point and were moving out along the wall. When he made this suggestion, the three of them seemed to be caught and froze, not daring to move.

"If you hadn't said this, we might have slipped away long ago."

Although the woman selling lipstick didn't say anything, this sentence was clearly written on her face.

Moreover, they seemed to feel that the tall and thin man who released them intact made them feel safer than Chai Si, so when they moved out, they chose to walk behind the tall and thin man.

The tall and thin man glanced at the three of them out of the corner of his eye and hesitated briefly.

...It turns out that he is from Vesile's side.

Even though the hunter families each had their own style, it was rare to see them fighting to the death; on the Wesile side, they hadn't even managed to form a hunter team. Except for very rare cases, they usually preferred to solve problems with money - there was a psychological barrier for a tall and thin man to kill innocent people with his own hands to silence them.

What's more, if he killed someone here, it might become a handle for Chai Si to use against him in the future.

Blackmore City is not a nest after all.

"If you don't want to get into trouble--" the tall and thin man really spoke.

From afar, Chai Si heard the sound of a car engine at the end of the alley behind him, and then it stopped abruptly.

The message he gave to Tianxi instructed him to lead people in from this direction.

The sound of tires braking, the sound of car doors opening, and the silent gap where no one spoke... Chai Si seemed to be able to feel that the raindrops in the dim sky were shaken and broken by several heavy footsteps, falling into the puddles and being stepped on by leather boots.

"Jin Xue Li,"

Chai Si raised his head and called out in a normal tone.

Under the dim light of the sensor lamp, she turned her head when she heard the words; the shadows blended deeply into the dull tiredness under her eyes, and her skin was washed white by the rain.

"what?"

"Get down."

The gunshot rang out from the end of the alley almost at the same time that Jin Xueli fell to the ground, and the sound echoed in the alley; the stray bullet hit the sensor light, and with a "pop", the sky and the earth went dark.

　The reason why I laughed today was because of the mayor of New York, yes, the one Han Liuyue is going to meet (bushi)

　　He told reporters, "We already know the gunman's name, but we won't tell it because we don't want to alert the gunman."

　　1. Is it possible that the gunman knew that the police were looking for him? 2. Is it possible that the gunman knew his own name?

　　Well, with a supporting role, he can even tell crosstalk.

　　
　
(End of this chapter)