“Who said I’m crying, it’s the rain and getaway 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 Caiwho moved in to console her back. She huffed angrily, “Driver, drive me to XYResidence!”
Se Cai was familiar with XYResidence, it was a high-scale residential area for the county’s rich andfamous. 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 hegestured at Se Cai.
“Drop her off first, my house’sa bit further away.”
Se Cai said in a voice aslecherous as he could muster, “Pretty lady, don’t worry, I’ll see you home. Wewouldn’t want a pretty little thing like yourself to get wet from the rain,would we?”
“F*ck, your place is obviouslycloser because I know you rent a house near the tv station!”
Xin Yu finally lost her patienceand cursed.
Perhaps it was her years ofdiction training, her cursing didn’t sound coa.r.s.e, instead Se Cai found it tobe quite melodic.
“Man, let’s cut to the chase. She’s obviouslyway out of your league and not interested. Why not be a gentleman and let thelady go?”
The driver advised. His targetwas Xin Yu so it would serve him well if he could get Se Cai to voluntarilyleave.
“Yes, Se Cai, listen to the kindsir. I am really NOT interested.”
Xin Yu declared as she pulledfrom her bag a small eyebrow knife that she waved in front of her as a form ofdefense.
“You think I would be interestedin a dumb woman like yourself?”
Se Cai snorted in anger. Thewoman was as thick as a brick. If he departed, she would be left to the villainousdriver’s device.
“Who are you calling dumb?”
Xin Yu’s fear was overwhelmed byanger from being insulted.
Xin Yu was used to peopletreating her on the basis on her looks so she took perhaps a little too muchpride in her intellect.
“Alright, alright. Cut it out,you two. We’re moving!”
The man seemed to have reachedthe end of his patience and pressed down hard on the oil pedal.
The car lurched violentlyforward, throwing its pa.s.senger back.
“Driver sir, can you drive a bitmore carefully…”
A nervous Xin Yu implored as shefastened the backseat seat belt.
Se Cai though was worried aboutsomething else.
He noticed the car was headingnot towards XY Residence but Blue Sky Rehab.
“Driver sir, why are you takingthis route?” he asked in a rushed manner.
“It’s because of the rain. Youknow the county’s drainage system has always been bad. The normal route musthave flooded already… So I’m taking the long route, don’t worry, I won’t chargeextra.” The man smiled in response.
Xin Yu might not be familiarwith County S’ landscape but Se Cai knew that they were heading outside of thecity area. It was easier to dispose of them in a secluded part of the county.
As the city lights retreatedfurther and further away, Se Cai hurriedly sent off a SOS text to his housemateGao Xiang.
“Gao Xiang, Zhang Xin Yu andmyself are kidnapped by an armed man. The car plate is PL0523. I suspect thisis a trap set by the Blue Sky Rehab people because we’re heading towards theschool compound northern side of town. Please call the police for us!”
Se Cai sneaked a glance at thedriver through the rearview mirror. While the driver wasn’t looking, he triedto catch Xin Yu’s eyes, trying to notify her of the danger they were in.
When Xin Yu didn’t respond, hewhispered, “Xin Yu, can you give me your phone number?”
He handed her his phone and itshowed the message he just sent Gao Xiang.
“In your dreams!”
Xin Yu said condescendingly. Shedidn’t even turn her head his way.
“Gah! F*ck me! I’m going diebecause of this woman!”
Se Cai cursed inwardly, meaningto shove the phone in her face.
However, he didn’t dare to do sobecause he noticed the driver started to gaze their way with suspicion in hiseyes.
Se Cai took a deep breath andtried to come up with a new plan.
“h.e.l.lo… yes… we’re almost there…”
The driver answered his phoneand only snippets of the conversation floated to the back because he wascautious to not let the pa.s.sengers overhear him.
This call made Se Cai even morenervous because it confirmed the presence of possible multiple partners. Ifthey wanted to get away, they needed to do it in the car while they still hadthe number’s advantage.
Se Cai surrept.i.tiously scannedthe car’s interior. His gaze landed on his broken umbrella and an idea poppedinto his mind.
Se Cai put on his seatbelt andleaned forward to ask, “Erm, driver sir, why doesn’t your phone show the Uberapp?”
The man replied, “Oh, yes, sorryI forgot.”
It was clear to Se Cai that theman wasn’t a real Uber driver because of that obvious mistake and the fact thatthe man wasn’t even wearing his seat belt.
The man decelerated to searchfor the app.
In that moment, with a swift movement, Se Caireached forward to pull the hand brake. Before the driver could react, Se Caigrabbed one the umbrella skeletal frames he had untangled and jammed it intothe man’s leg!
The car skidded on the wet tarmacfloor and veered off the road into a patch of wildflowers field.
Shocked by the sudden pain, thedriver’s phone fell from his hand and he flew right into the windshield becausehe wasn’t wearing his seatbelt. He screamed in pain.
“We got to go!”
Se Cai roared after disengagingfrom 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 stillbetter than waiting for the driver’s partners to come.
“What are you doing!”
Xin Yu screamed and she instinctuallymoved out of Se Cai’s grabbing hands.
Se Cai didn’t have the time toexplain. He eventually latched onto her hands and they both went tumbling out intothe rain.
“Help… Someone help me!”
Being forcefully pulled from thecar, the panicked Xin Yu screeched.
“Shhh… Ouch!”
Se Cai was about to explain everythingwhen he felt something sharp stabbed his arm. He immediately retracted hishands.
With his enhanced vision, he sawXin Yu’s eyebrow knife glinting in the dark.
“d.a.m.n, why did you do that for!”
Se Cai rubbed the wound on hisarm and said disgruntledly.
He was trying to save theirlives and this was the thanks he got?!
“You mean to hurt the driver andtake 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 fromher hands and tried to knock some sense into her hand when the car’s headlightsturned back on, catching Se Cai in it.
The driver had regained hisconsciousness and was shuffling towards them with unsteady steps.
“Driver sir, help me! This manhere is trying to rape me!”
Xin Yu’s face lit up when shesaw the driver, and she started to take small steps towards him and the safetyof his car.
The driver lost his baseball inthe car crash and his bald head was bleeding from injuries suffered when herammed into the windshield. The blood mixed with the rain and painted his face,making him looked especially vicious.
The most serious wound thoughwas on his leg, the one inflicted by Se Cai.
He didn’t look exactly like aknight in shining armor but in Xin Yu’s eyes, he was one because he was goingto save her from the s.e.xual predator, Se Cai.
However, when she got closer tothe driver, he chuckled darkly before pulling her into his tight grasp. Hisother hand pulled out a black object.
“Wait, don’t shoot!”
Se Cai yelled and put his handsup in surrender when the driver pointed his gun at him.
His plan was to lead Xin Yu awayfrom the driver because he knew from his mind-reading skill that he was armed.
He knew they couldn’t outrun abullet but they had a running lead. Plus, the driver couldn’t see in the dark. Theyhad a good chance at an escape.
Zhang Xin Yu though had ruinedthat completely. Not only that, she practically delivered herself to the enemy.
“You there, don’t move a muscleor I’ll blow your brains out!”
One of the driver’s eyes wasswollen shut by his injuries but the hand that held the gun was firm. Se Caibelieved this man was familiar with handling firearms.
“Gun… why do you have a gun?”
Xin Yu was as white as a sheetof paper, but it was unsure whether it was fear or the cold.
“Do you still not get it? He’shere to kidnap you but you still treat him as the good guy.”
Se Cai glared at her and said dejectedly.