Artifact Report

Chapter 212 Switching Perspectives: Dressage
"Catch up,"

These three words were calm and light, as if Chai Si had only been gently touched by a thought. It seemed that the thought was unimportant, so he was still half-sunk in the hazy dream that had not yet dissipated.

The last syllable of the last word was completely drowned out by the sudden roar of the engine.

The car seemed to be furious and wanted to throw everyone out of the rear window; Jin Xueli was caught off guard and was pushed hard by inertia - if she hadn't grabbed the front seat in time, she would have almost fallen onto Han Liuyue in the back seat.

Her heart pounded against her back, but she couldn't resist scratching out of curiosity when she was told to sit back down.

She was still clinging to the front seat, her eyes widened even more than usual - in front of her, the car window glass was like a movie screen, the night road rushed past at a rapid speed, and in the misty lens, the red taillights of the black SUV were quickly magnified.

The cold wind and rain that rushed in from the car's window coiled around the car like blades.

As the two cars were rapidly closing the distance between them, Chai Si had already unbuckled his seat belt, holding his MP5 in one hand and supporting the seat with the other, and leaned his entire upper body out of the window.

Wait, he was planning to—

The next second, Jin Xueli's thoughts were interrupted by a series of rapid gunshots.

Countless flames suddenly split the darkness, and dazzling white light flashed and splashed on the black SUV, on the road, and beside the tires.

A series of bullets hit the roof of the SUV, sending up a burst of scorching light that burned through the rainy night. The SUV was so hot that it quickly swung its tail and staggered onto the cross-sea bridge.

What if she recognized the wrong car?

A hand reached out from the passenger seat of the SUV.

"Be careful!" Jin Xueli screamed.

There was a small pistol in that hand; the muzzle turned and fired several shots towards the rear - but Chai Si was one step ahead, he suddenly bent down, avoided the wind and bullets, and fired another series of shots at the side of the SUV.

...Ah, fortunately I didn’t admit my mistake, Jin Xueli thought to herself.

***
"Get down!"

When Dylan roared, Brianna felt his hand dig into her shoulder and pull her down hard: "Hold on!"

She didn't know what Dylan was planning, but he was a trained professional bodyguard, far more experienced in defensive driving than Brianna—whose eyes flicked out the window at the last moment before she ducked.

In the rearview mirror, Chai Si was still alive and well, and the flashing white light of the submachine gun in his hand was continuously bursting through his vision.

Several cars nearby had already turned on their red tail lights and turned to the sides for shelter; the cars that stopped should have called the police, right?
As this thought came to her mind, Dylan slapped the emergency brake device, and at the same time, he stepped on the brake to the end.

If it weren't for the seatbelt, Brianna would have almost certainly hit her head and bled.

The SUV's tires were locked in a position where the rear wheels were almost lifted off the ground and the car rolled forward, and it suddenly stopped in the middle of the road. The rain on the road seemed to be burned by the friction, and a puff of white smoke floated between the sky and the earth.

The car behind them was closing in on them, and they couldn't brake in time, let alone avoid it. With a loud bang, the SUV was slammed into the back of the car, and for a moment, Brianna's world turned into a boat being suddenly pushed into the dark lake.

She blinked hard, and after a few seconds, when her vision returned, she found that Dylan had one hand on her.

"Are you okay?" Dylan asked, restarting the car.

"It's okay." Brianna's body seemed to still be reeling from the aftermath of the heavy collision, her mind still wavering slightly. She wanted to look back, but her neck couldn't turn. "Why...?"

"Hope it worked," Dylan said with a sigh.

The SUV restarted its engine and sped towards the night road ahead.

***
Tianxi cursed and stepped on the accelerator a few times; the engine made a series of futile and angry empty noises.

"Is it damaged?" Chai Si sat back down and asked in a deep voice.

After experiencing such a fierce rear-end collision, he not only managed to stay steady and not fly out, but he even managed to hold the MP5 in his hand.

Jin Xueli couldn't stand being thrown back and forth like that again and again. She felt dizzy and felt really sorry for eating so much before. "It seems that it's not broken, but it hurts so much..."

"I wasn't asking you," Chase interrupted her, "I was asking about the engine."

How can you treat your savior like this?

"That kid made a quick judgment," Tianxi said angrily as he started the car again, "Brother Chai, if something breaks down—"

Chai Si turned his head and looked at the car that had just stopped urgently on the side of the road on the bridge.

Although he didn't say a word, Jin Xueli couldn't help but feel uneasy - well, after following him all night, he was almost going to commit every federal felony he could; it would be better to just drive the car to the prison and save some time.

She was about to say something when she suddenly felt the car body tremble and the engine finally reignited. Amid the humming sound, Tianxi slapped the steering wheel and said with a sigh of relief: "Alright!"

Although the engine was not completely damaged, the hood of the car twisted and rose under the impact and squeeze, blocking half of the windshield.

Chai Si stared at the hood of the car, and somehow, he suddenly paused for a moment.

"... catch up," he said softly again.

***
“They’re on us again,” Brianna muttered, glancing up at the rearview mirror.

"What exactly was your plan?" Dylan gripped the steering wheel tightly, the speedometer needle slowly increasing to the right. "If you just didn't want them to find you, there were plenty of places to hide in Blackmore City, but you didn't. Did you arrange for them to recognize this car?"

"No," Brianna shook her head. "That's unexpected. To them, this should just be an ordinary car on the road... Strange, how did they recognize it? I thought we'd encounter them near the Webster Building."

Dylan's impatience and dissatisfaction were clear. "Even though I'm responsible for your security, that doesn't mean I have to cooperate with whatever you do. Do you understand?"

"I see,"

Brianna glanced back at the car closing in on them, its front half destroyed, and said, "You're right. I do have an idea for how to get rid of them once and for all, but I need your help."

Dylan let out a long breath.

"What do you need me to do?"

***
Jin Xueli knelt on the floor of the car, holding on to the front seat with both hands to steady her body.

She squinted her eyes and looked up at the sky where rain clouds were falling. For a moment, she felt a little dazed, as if her soul had left her body.

She didn't know why she was sitting in a half-destroyed, speeding car, looking at the tens of thousands of silver-white steel cables on the cross-sea bridge sweeping across the night sky; looking at the dark and wet road, like a long reflective river, rolling under the wheels.

Her hair and eyelashes were already soaked. She sat trembling in the wind and rain, with the sea not far away.

Next to her head, Chai Si's big hand, which was whitened by the rain, had just inserted a new magazine into the MP5 submachine gun with a "click".

The two cars, one chasing and the other fleeing, had already exceeded the speed limit and were speeding in the howling night wind, causing bursts of sharp honking from the roadside.

Seeing the bad situation, the scattered small private cars either slowed down and fell behind or made emergency stops on the side of the road - but there was still a heavy truck towing a tall container, rumbling along the road ahead, seemingly unaware of the gunfire and collision a few minutes ago.

It seemed even unaware that at this moment, a black SUV was heading straight towards the container, without any sign of slowing down.

"...Huh?" Jin Xueli couldn't help but straighten her back. "Why didn't they change lanes? Aren't they afraid of hitting the truck?"

"Tianxi," Chai Si warned solemnly, "No matter how he opens it next, hold on and don't let go."

This means that if the car in front does not change lanes, they cannot change lanes either.

Once he let go of the SUV's tail, he would have cleared a way out for the man named Green; even if he only gave them a brief opportunity, the consequences could be very different.

"Yes," Tianxi swallowed and replied.

Jin Xueli breathed a sigh of relief. It turned out that besides her, there were others who were also nervous. Someone could understand—oh, wait, that's not right. Was the driver the only one who was nervous?
Just as her heart was about to rise again, she heard Chai Si call out, "Han Liuyue."

Han Liuyue, who had been watching the car chase silently, sighed again in a very human way.

"I understand," the tone of her voice just as she spoke made Jin Xueli feel a vague intuition, and she quickly lowered her head - as expected, it seemed as if something flew past the back of her head.

"You want my face, huh?"

Jin Xueli watched as Chai Si's big hands opened and closed, grabbing a few pieces of debris.

From the side of his face, it was impossible to tell whether he felt sick or not.

The tentacles of the fragments stretched out from between his fingers, swaying, and he pressed them against the muzzle of the gun, and the tentacles immediately wrapped around the barrel - the street lights on the cross-sea bridge passed by, and his jaw, nose bridge and brow bone passed through the light and shadow heavily.

"Brother Chai Si," Tianxi suddenly called out in a low voice.

Jin Xueli suddenly raised her head.

The SUV stepped on the accelerator again and rushed towards the rear of the truck almost as if it was committing suicide. At the moment before the collision, which would cause death to the car and people on board, the front of the car suddenly twisted sharply and swung to the right.

On the cross-sea bridge amidst thousands of raindrops, the black SUV seemed to suddenly start a dressage dance - the speed was sharply increased, the rear wheels slipped rapidly, and the rear half of the car body drifted sideways, stirring up a cloud of white rain.

Still held down by a hand, it continued to twist its head. For a moment, it was completely stuck between the truck and Jin Xueli's car. The SUV was top-heavy and bottom-light, and its rapid drift caused half of its body to flip upside down. It tilted on one wheel, swayed a few times, and finally landed with a "thump".

As soon as it landed, the SUV immediately reversed and drove back onto the left lane next to the truck, which was close to the sea. The truck container exposed by it was rapidly growing larger with the force of a mountain collapsing, and its shadow fell on Jin Xueli's face.

"Change!"

At that moment, Jin Xueli seemed to hear Chai Si shout.

She had no time to tell whether it was because his prompt came quickly or because Tianxi turned the steering wheel first; she was thrown hard by the inertia of the car and hit the right door. Her eyes went black and all her thoughts were briefly blank.

Before Tianxi drove off the cross-sea bridge, he finally managed to turn his head again in time and rushed straight towards the SUV in front that was still driving backwards.

The next second, Jin Xueli suddenly felt her body lighten, and the car that had originally wrapped around her disappeared from around her.

　There is an activity in the background of Qidian authors where they form teams to compete in typing speed. It seems that if you win, you can draw various rewards. I was attracted by the material rewards and clicked in to take a look.

　　The opponent is a randomly selected male author, who seems to be a great writer and writes more than 10,000 words a day.

　　I withdrew again because I am a clean-handed person who will not bow down to money.

　　PS: This chapter has a lot of scene descriptions, which is not very pleasing, but I found it quite enjoyable to write. Alas, I wrote it for my own entertainment.

　　
　
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