An Eye for News

Chapter 29

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“I’m impressed, I have totally misjudged you,young man!”

Jin Feng frowned deeply andsaid.

She kicked off her shorn boots andcircled around Se Cai, looking for a break.

Se Cai stood still and went asfar as putting his hands behind his back, looking at Jin Feng withcondescension in his eyes.

This was all a front to put JinFeng off because if she knew he only had an eye that could help him see thingsin slow motion, he would be dead meat!

“You… *sshole, aren’t youunderestimating me a bit too much?!”

Jin Feng said in a low growl,provoked by Se Cai. She was furious because this was the first time someone wasso visibly cavalier in her threatening presence. She was used to the fear inher victim’s eyes before she snuffed them out so Se Cai’s challenging gazeunhinged her.

She arced her leg and leaped atSe Cai like a loosened arrow. Instead of utilizing her legs, she pulled her armback, aiming to land a sideway elbow blow at Se Cai’s chest.

Se Cai could feel the forcebehind her action from the vibration in the air.

“Come at me!”

Se Cai teased as he leaned andtook a step backwards.

The elbow jab narrowly missed Se Cai.

Jin Feng smiled because she hadpredicted as much. She swing her arms back open in a wide arc and Se Cai saw alittle bit too late the glint of the dagger that she hid in her palm.

“Now die!”

The dagger shot of out her handscarrying her previous momentum. The first elbow jab was a decoy intended to unbalanceher opponents for when she shot out the dagger that she stashed in her palm. Thissly trick was the skill that cemented as her name as the Black Widow because itwas akin to the unexpected moment when the spider bared her fatal fangs.

“F*ck!”

Se Cai cursed, leaned intogravity and fell to the floor on his back!

Se Cai landed heavily as thedagger sliced the air above him. Se Cai avoided the fatal hit but he wasfeeling light-headed from the impact.

Jin Feng saw the advantage and leapedinto the air to commit an elbow drop.

The elbow drop was a commonwrestling skill. While the ones shown on tv were all show with no punch, JinFeng’s elbow drop was meant to crush Se Cai’s trachea.

If hit, Se Cai would die on thespot from internal bleeding and asphyxiation.

Se Cai gritted his teeth androlled desperately out of the way.

Jin Feng landed on the carpetedfloor with a ma.s.sive thump. Based on the dent in the floor, Se Cai believed morethan a few wooden planks of flooring underneath were broken.

Jin Feng deftly turned her bodyaround and tried to grapple Se Cai with her legs.

“A lock down this time?”

Se Cai knew he would be left toJin Feng’s mercy if he was chained by her legs.

In the nick of time, he pushedagainst the floor and leaped into a wobbly standing position, narrowly escapeddeath.

“We’ll see how long you can keepup!”

Jin Feng spat. She realized SeCai was weak at close-quarter combat. She too leaped off the floor to continueher pursuit, unwilling to give Se Cai the chance to recollect himself.

The attacks came like lightning…Jin Feng utilized every parts of her body to a.s.sault Se Cai. He was pressureddeeper and deeper into the room.

Se Cai retreated with heaviersteps, his eye was useless in close combat. Jin Feng was too close for him tolock her down in his sight. Her attacks came from way too many angles of herbody.

Eventually, Se Cai felt the wallon his back and his heart sunk with despair.

“Am I going to die here today…?”

Se Cai closed his eyes toprepare for death when his hands found the light switch.

“Right, the same trick couldwork again!”

He flipped the switch and theroom descended into darkness.

As the saying goes, don’t fix itif it ain’t broken. Darkness had aided Se Cai in his last physicalconfrontation. It leveled the playing field for him.

Jin Feng was temporarily dazedbecause normal human eyes needed some time to adapt to the sudden change inlighting.

This was a hindrance that Se Caiwas exempted from.

He swooped behind Jin Feng witha slick movement. Grabbing a vase that was conveniently on the bedside table,he swung it at the back of Jin Feng’s head.

Like déjà vu, Jin Feng crumbledto the floor following a scream.

“One more fell with a smack onthe head. Maybe this is my special skill?”

Se Cai said as he stared at thebroken vase in his hand.

He chuckled mirthlessly becausewithout an aggressive combat skill, a blunt force trauma to the back of hisopponent’s head seemed like his best bet at winning a physical altercation. Infact, it seemed tailored made to fit his pa.s.sive ability.

Xin Yu poked her head outcautiously from under the covers when she heard the sound of combat stopped.

“Se Cai, are you okay?”

She implored as her hands foundthe switch to the table lamp. Looking at her ruined bedroom, and the ceramicpieces that littered the floor, she added, “That’s my Grecian Wedgewood Vase,it’s an authentic antique piece…”

Se Cai scratched his headawkwardly as he set the broken vase gingerly back down on the table.

“I’m sorry, I didn’t realize itwas so expensive.”

Se Cai noticed the colorationand engravings that ran outside the vase and realized it was probably worthmore than his whole a.s.set combined.

“I’m sure you can replaceanother one easily right? There are vases being sold practically all over thecountry, and many are much prettier than this!”

“This is an artisa.n.a.l piece thatcan only be found outside of China… Never mind, now is not the time for an artlesson.”

Xin Yu shook her head andsighed, “It is a piece of object after all, the important thing is that you’resafe and sound!”

Se Cai was trying to save herlife, he could have leveled the whole house and her father probably won’t evenbat an eye.

She crawled out of bed with thecover draped over her body to check up on Sister Xu.

“Be careful of where you step,there are broken gla.s.s everywhere.”

Se Cai warned kindly.

“Sister Xu is like my stepmother…I really couldn’t believe she would do this…”

Xin Yu said sadly. Witheverything simmering down, the reality of her closest companion’s betrayalstruck her once more. Sorrow framed her expression as she looked down at SisterXu’s face.

“People change and greed couldcorrupt a person easily!”

Se Cai said matter-of-factlysince he didn’t share a history with Jin Feng.

“Her accomplices are still around,let’s go before they return.”

Se Cai added when he heard otherpeople moving nearby with his enhanced hearing.

“Right, we’ll take the elevatorto the garage!”

Xin Yu b.u.t.toned the Burberrycoat she had on and pulled Se Cai out of the room.

As they raced to the elevator,Xin Yu’s coat keep fluttering in the wind, revealing intermittently the slip ofa dress she was wearing underneath.

Xin Yu caught Se Cai’sreflection in one of the hallway mirrors and asked curiously.

“Why do you keep looking down atthe floor?”

“Nothing!”

Se Cai quickly stared fixedlyahead and replied.

The piece of clothing Xin Yu hadgrabbed from the closet was a negligee gown and a coat. The gown was halfway toher knees and the coat was barely longer. Needless to say, they proved to bequite a distraction for Se Cai.

“h.e.l.lo, my eyes are up here andyou’re going to trip if you don’t keep your eyes on the path.”

Xin Yu said warningly after shecaught Se Cai’s wandering gaze again.

She pulled her coat down as faras she could.

“Well, to be fair it’s not everyday you’ll get views like this.”

Se Cai joked.

It was the third time Se Cai hadsaved Xin Yu in a 2 day’s period but she wasn’t above gouging his eyes outthere and then.

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