Artifact Report

Chapter 213: Chase: Villains Don’t Die from Talking Too Much
The entire process, from the black SUV turning its head, drifting, turning around, to starting to drive backward, took less than half a minute - after all, if it had delayed or hesitated in any of its movements, the result would have been either a collision with a truck or a fall off the bridge.

However, twenty seconds is enough for a lot to happen.

"Brother Chai Si," Tianxi called softly.

From that moment on, time seemed to slow down, stretched into a long shot. The world fell silent, sinking all the way to the deep sea beneath the bridge, leaving only the sound of my own breathing and heartbeat.

Gently, Chai Si leaned out of the car window and raised his submachine gun.

The rear wheels of the black SUV in front were slipping and turning sideways, as if being pulled in a different direction by an invisible hand - the tires kicked up countless splashes of water, and the white waves looked up to meet the black rain, making it difficult to distinguish between the sky and the sea or the human world, and all was flooded.

Chase narrowed his eyes.

White raindrops splattered on the black barrel of the gun; several tentacles of a piece of debris, like a tiny hand, tightly grasped the muzzle of the gun, curling and expanding from time to time.

The moment the SUV's passenger window came into sight, the MP5 opened fire in the rain.

As the first bullet left the chamber, the impact caused the fragmentation tentacles to release the muzzle.

At that moment, Chai Si seemed to see the bullet head wrapped in a swaying "tassel" headscarf, rushing into the sky and rain along with the fragments, with its tentacles opening and closing and shaking in the air.

"Han Liuyue!" he shouted in a deep voice.

"No," a mumbled voice came from the back seat. "It hurts..."

Whatever the second half of the sentence said had already slipped out of Chai Si's mind.

The muzzle of the submachine gun in his hand emitted a white light, which continuously broke out an angry and strong light in the rainy night; the second bullet, the third bullet... countless bullets shattered the bulletproof car windows, leaving a string of dazzling fireworks on the SUV.

But the truck never managed to land the fatal shot; it successfully swung its tail and turned, backing into the lane on the left side of the truck, close to the sea.

Behind the windshield were two blurry figures; the driver was turning his head and hurriedly pulling the SUV backwards.

Chai Si immediately slapped the MP5 with his palm, and the piece of debris that was originally hanging on his finger immediately wrapped around the muzzle of the submachine gun - Han Liuyue finally did not make a mistake at the critical moment.

"Change!"

After Chai Si finished speaking, he fired another burst of bullets at the front of the SUV.

"Ah," Han Liuyue suddenly shouted.

At the same time, the car suddenly turned its head and was pulled away from the track that was about to hit the container truck; the tires burned the rainwater on the road, and a cloud of white smoke rose.

For a moment, there was only a vast black sea in front of the car, as if Tianxi was about to drive off the cross-sea bridge.

"I—" Han Liuyue was still shouting, as if she also knew that time was running out; but every word seemed to have infinite length. "Feeling—"

it's time.

His left hand, which was not holding the gun, gently opened the car door beside him.

Inertia threw Jin Xueli heavily to the side, and Chai Si heard a muffled "bang" coming from the seat behind him - at the same time she hit the door, Chai Si was thrown high into the rainy night along with the suddenly opened car door.

He remembered that he was tumbling in mid-air; one moment his vision was of the gun tightly grasped in his hand, the next moment his vision was of the road rushing towards him, and the next moment, his vision was of the vast, starless, moonless, and misty night sky.

Even though Chai Si curled up in time to protect his head and face, when he fell heavily to the ground, his mind still went blank for a few seconds - except for the severe pain, his body did not allow him to think or perceive anything.

The truck seemed to finally realize that something was wrong. Like thunder, it roared angrily for several long times in the rainy night, pulling Chai Si's consciousness back to the cross-sea bridge.

He climbed up panting, the effect of the stimulant had long passed, and the adrenaline rushed into his muscles, making him tremble.

The MP5 was knocked away and no one knew where it landed.

Half of my coat was wet, I didn’t know if it was from the rain or from my own bleeding.

In the endless, swaying rain, there was some movement that made Chai Si raise his head.

He raised his eyes and saw the car he had just jumped out of was thrown into the sky as if it was being played as a joke.

The car, with its hood bent and twisted, flipped over completely, with its four wheels facing the sky as it streaked across the night sky.

It drew a long parabola, and under the parabola was the black SUV that was slowing down; the Kai family car flew over the SUV's head, and finally, with a loud bang, it crashed onto the bridge surface dozens of meters away, shaking the rainy night.

Chai Si ran away.

The heavy truck's path was suddenly half-blocked by a car that fell from the sky and was smashed into scrap metal. At this time, it was braking clumsily and anxiously. Chai Si used all his strength and maximum speed to catch up with the gradually slowing truck. When it stopped, he slid quickly and rushed to the back of the truck, using its tires to block himself.

He reached back and pulled out another .45 pistol from his waistband and gripped it tightly.

Suddenly there was a loud bang in the distance, as if the Kai family car was on fire; Chai Si couldn't see it, but he could see the flames burning, flickering orange light and shadows on the dark and wet road.

...Did the people in the car notice that he jumped out?

At this moment, the black SUV, which had been rapidly reversing, finally stopped before crashing into the fire; it happened to stop at the junction of the front of the truck and the container, almost a whole container's distance away from Chasi.

Chai Si already knew clearly what was within this distance.

After thinking for a moment, he went around to the other side of the truck, quickly ran across the distance of an entire container, and came to the front of the truck; on the road ahead, under countless raindrops, the ruins of the car were burning fiercely.

When Chai Si walked around the front of the truck, the truck driver in the cab suddenly leaned over the steering wheel and stared at him with wide eyes.

My face was seen...?
Chai Si subconsciously wiped his eyes - as if rain had flowed into his eyes - but he felt that his eyes were sticky and even the rain could not wash them away.

He looked down and saw his hands were covered in blood.

Well, no face was seen.

Chai Si raised his gun and ignored the driver. He looked out from behind the front of the truck.

In that glance, he saw the rear end of a black SUV and two open doors; two men, holding guns, were walking cautiously step by step towards the empty road ahead.

"What did you do?" one of them asked. "Why did that car—"

"I told you, we're going to get rid of them once and for all. This is my plan." The other man suddenly stopped and said, "Stop here. Don't move. Look around. There should be someone nearby."

...No, there are two people nearby, Chai Si thought.

Besides myself, who had jumped out of the car, Han Liuyue had also flown out with it. The only people who had "disappeared" were Tianxi and Jin Xueli. The person who spoke was undoubtedly Secretary Green... So, if you don't get close, you can't see the prey in the trap?

Chai Si silently raised the muzzle of his gun from behind the truck, narrowed his eyes, and pulled the trigger.

It is irrational to delay even half a second if something can be solved in one go.

As the gunshot rang out, the bodyguard holding the gun fell straight to the ground as if he were a puppet with his strings cut.

He immediately turned the gun and fired a second shot at Secretary Green who had just reacted - but the guy's reaction speed was faster than he expected. Almost at the same time as he pulled the trigger, he rushed to the road. Chai Si was not sure whether he had hit him or not.

"They are all still alive," a faint voice suddenly sounded behind him, startling Chai Si so much that he almost turned around and shot.

"The bodyguard passed out and appeared to be wearing a bulletproof vest."

Han Liuyue stood not far behind him. On his face, several broken tentacles were surging, trying to connect with the gaps and repair his face.

In the truck cab, the driver seemed to scream and rubbed his eyes hard; but no one paid much attention to him.

"That's just right," Chai Si tilted his head and said, "Your fragments can come in handy."

"My face has played a big role."

As Han Liuyue spoke, a piece of debris had already flown out, heading straight for Secretary Green, who had just stood up and pointed his gun at the back.

"If my face hadn't sensed it, how could you have immediately noticed that Mr. Green had seized the split-second opportunity and deployed the Black Square trap on the road?"

As early as the beginning of this long nonsense, Chai Si's eyes had already followed the small piece of white in the darkness, and followed it across the rainy night.

Amid the sounds of rain, waves, and distant sirens coming from nowhere, the small piece of debris silently pierced Green's cheek.

Green stood there in a daze, motionless, as if he still didn't understand what was happening to him.

Chai Si walked over step by step.

He didn't trust Han Liuyue, so he pulled her over and asked her to walk with him - Han Liuyue didn't struggle, and her obedience was almost disgusting.

This was a tall, thin man with fair skin, only half a head shorter than him.

There was no such thing as him in Chai Si's memory. It was the first time he saw this face in his life.

"Give me the black piece," he said, and it was unclear who he was talking to. Green had lost consciousness, so it must have been Han Liuyue.

But it took Han Liuyue several seconds before she said "Huh?"

"what happened?"

"strangeness……"

Han Liuyue's Noh mask moved closer to Green, examining his body and face carefully. "It's so strange... I can't touch him."

"What do you mean?"

"I've already stabbed him in the face, and he's unconscious. But he won't listen to me... What's going on?"

You ask me, who do I ask?
"So you can't ask him to give me the black piece?" Chai Si impatiently interrupted Han Liuyue's words "How strange, so strange".

"No, he can't even move a step." Han Liuyue paused, then added, "In fact, even if I could make him move, I don't know how to put the black pieces away."

Chai Si held his breath.

He turned his head and glanced at the empty road next to him; this was the road that Tianxi had driven on just now after turning around in time and catching up with the car.

Indeed, if the bullet had not wrapped around Han Liuyue's facial fragments and Han Liuyue had not felt it when the bullet passed through the black side, he would have missed the opportunity to jump out of the car and would have rushed into the black side with Tianxi and Jin Xueli - only the non-human car and Han Liuyue would have been thrown out from the other side.

The two of them are still floating in the black square, probably broken into countless parts.

If Green can't take the initiative to remove the Black trap... Based on Chai Si's experience, there is only one way left.

It’s just right, this is the ending anyway.

"...Well done." Chai Si walked up to Green and whispered.

Green seemed to be in a lucid dream, unconscious.

"You react quickly and are brave enough. Who would have thought that you would dare to set up another black trap on the way to escape?" Chai Si smiled and said in a low voice.

Green intentionally left behind breadcrumbs, probably to see if Chase could find him. If Chase didn't find the clues and follow him, Green would have escaped safely; if he did, there would be another trap waiting for him.

The fleeing prey is actually the hunter who is secretly waiting for the hunter to take the bait.

Although I don't know who Green is, he is indeed a good opponent.

He deserves to be respected by Chai Si before he dies.

"Why praise him?" Han Liuyue muttered, "It's my face that sensed it..."

Chai Si turned a deaf ear, turned around and walked to the unconscious bodyguard, picked up his gun, and dragged Green to the gap in the bridge guardrail.

Chase replaced his bodyguard's gun with his own and pointed it at Green's temple.

The deep black sea surface was rippling outside the bridge; raindrops fell between heaven and earth, constantly hitting Green's cheeks and eyelashes, and sliding down his cheeks, as if shedding tears for him.

The muzzle of the gun flashed against his temple, and Green's body fell limp.

Chai Si lowered his head and watched him fall straight into the sea, dragging a line of blood behind him.

　Well, that’s the title, but who is the villain? That’s your Hamlet.

　　I have seen some people think that Kaijia’s valuation is low before, but it is actually like this:

　　1. I wrote “far more than” million;
　　Look, Chai Si appeared on the 2th, but by the 18nd, only four days had passed, and he'd already scrapped three (good) cars, hired two groups of people (mercenaries and a cleanup organization), and spent 22 on Jin Xueli alone, not to mention the small change... As I wrote this, I thought, this guy must be very good at making money to be so generous! It's a good thing the Kai family didn't go bankrupt!

　　PS: In the last chapter, everyone thought that Jin Xueli had entered the lair, but I was actually shocked. It was so difficult for me to resist spoiling the plot.

　　
　
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