Chapter 468 Chase to Kill
A boom sounded!
Pressed hard by the chaser and becoming anxious, Yoshiko suddenly threw out a smoke bomb, which made a heavy smog permeating the air. When the smog disappeared, Yoshiko and the black-robed man had disappeared from the scene.
Ding Ning covered his mouth and nose and frowned. Although Yoshiko’s fighting power was quite weak, her Ninja tricks were various and unpredictable, giving him a serious headache.
Sensing that Xiaojin had gone to follow them, Ding Ning sneered. “No matter how many tricks you may have, you can’t escape today.”
“Quick, catch him.”
“Kill him.”
“Someone has slipped in.”
The security guards at the Takahashi Company finally realized it at this moment. As numerous voices sounded, hundreds of security guards swarmed to the backyard.
Ding Ning frowned slightly. These were ordinary people, and he did not want to kill them. The only unhappy thing for him was that Liu Junwei had fled. What a cunning man!
Without the black-robed man, Liu Junwei was only a stray dog. Ding Ning did not care about that and headed like lightning for the direction where Xiaojin conducted the pursuit.
At his heels, a panther carried a snowy white little dog on its back. The dog was Doudou, who was clinging to the fur of the panther’s neck with its small paws, barked excitedly.
The barks traveled with the wind, making Yoshiko, who took any path she could find to flee in a panic, even more panicky.
“Yoshiko, put me down, and go now.”
The clothes at the neck of the black-robed man were soaked by the blood he spat, and he said feebly, but the sound he made at the moment was a crisp, melodious voice of a lady that resembled the chirp of an oriole.
“No, Miss, Miko is dead now, but Yoshiko is still alive. As long as I am alive, I will never allow anyone to hurt you, Miss.”
Despite the fact that all her clothes had been soaked by her sweat, Yoshiko bit her lips tightly and stubbornly and carrying the black-robed woman, ran forward with staggering steps.
“Alas!”
The black-robed woman heaved a sigh and closed his eyes in pain. She never imagined that a flawless plan had now become a dead end. Suddenly, she felt that she had lost interest, staring blankly at the bustling city, which, however, was so far away from her.
She remembered her childhood, when she was doted on by everyone and lived her carefree life among the wonderful and beautiful cherry blossoms. The life at that time was so simple and so beautiful.
But she, a little princess who was liked by everyone who met her, had fallen from heaven to h.e.l.l since her parents pa.s.sed away one after the other. In order to achieve the ambition of the family, she was sent out and became the test object of the Descendants of G.o.d Organization.
At that time, the gene potions were not steady. After going through all kinds of sufferings, she survived out of very good luck and also awakened the Invisibility Superpower, becoming the new favorite of the organization.
When she returned from h.e.l.l to heaven and saw those previous cold and merciless people put on a broad flattering smile of a poodle, she became highly spirited, extended great grat.i.tude to the organization, lost in the feeling brought by the growth of strength, and also took the initiative to come to Shenzhou and become the Hall Chief of the Shenzhou Hall.
But now, only one of the two maids left to her by her mother was alive, and someone was pursuing her close behind, making her realize that she had returned from heaven to h.e.l.l again.
She did not think that she did not deserve this, nor did she have hatred. If she were Ding Ning, she would also choose to kill all.
She only felt that she was very tired. Since this was the end of her life, she should face it bravely. “Death is perhaps the best relief.”
“Miss, hold on, and we are bound to escape successfully. As long as we reach the seaside, where there are speedboats prepared for unexpected situations all the time, we can get rid of the chaser.”
Yoshiko panted heavily and her lungs burned in pain, but she had to do her best to comfort her Miss.
“Yoshiko, put me down at the bend in front, and you should work out ways to run away.”
The black-robed woman’s voice was so calm that it sounded fearsome.
“Miss, no, I will never…”
Yoshiko said in a panic. She would never give up her Miss and run away herself. When the mother of her Miss was still alive, she showed great kindness to her family. Why was she sent to practice the Ninja techniques with painstaking efforts when she was young? Because she must repay the kindness. Unless she died, she would never give up her Miss.
“Yoshiko, I ask you to put me down. Don’t you know that you are a burden for me now? Have you forgotten my superpower? Without you as my burden, I can easily get rid of the chaser.”
The black-robed woman felt the pain in his heart, but she had to restrain her sadness and shouted angrily.
Yoshiko was not angered by what her Miss said. Instead, her eyes brightened, and she said in remorse, “Right, how could I have forgotten your superpower, Miss? Miss, you must take care of yourself.”
Perhaps due to her confidence in the superpower of her Miss, Yoshiko regained infinite strength, suddenly sneaked into an alley, and put down the black-robed woman.
The black-robed woman stood straight with her hands on the wall for support and shouted at Yoshiko angrily, “Go, you the burden; go, don’t drag me down.”
“Miss, I’m leaving, but you must survive.”
Yoshiko suddenly knelt down, kowtowed three times respectfully, and standing up, ran to the outside.
Restraining her grave sadness, the black-robed woman looked at the devoted maid and working hard to endure her pain, turned around and ran to another direction, for she knew that she was Ding Ning’s main target. As long as she drew Ding Ning’s attention, Yoshiko was safe.
What she did not tell Yoshiko was that being seriously wounded, she could not even launch the Invisibility Superpower and could only try her best to run forward.
A faint sound of waves came from the front, and the salty and moist air made the black-robed woman excited. Unexpectedly, she had covered such a long distance. If they had persisted for a few more moments, maybe they would have got on the speedboat now.
“No, I must go back to find Yoshiko, go home with her by speedboat, return to Fuso Country where cherry blossoms flourish, conceal our ident.i.ties, and will never come back to Shenzhou anymore. By then, there won’t be the Hall Chief of the Shenzhou Hall, but only Yagyuu Asamayu.”
After making up her mind, Yagyuu Asamayu removed her mask, took off her black robe, and threw them into the sea, revealing a stunning angry-delighted face, which was hidden under the dark and elegant hair. She was dazzling even in the dark night.
Quickly, she turned around. As she wiped away the blood coming out of the corner of her mouth, she ran fast to the path where she had come from.
“b.a.s.t.a.r.d, I am here. Come and pursue me!”
The provocative voice of Yoshiko came from the distance. Yagyuu Asamayu was so worried. “Does this silly maid want to die?”
Trying hard to endure her pain, she moved faster to the direction where the voice of Yoshiko came from.
Ding Ning drove his car slowly. With Xiaojin’s surveillance, he did not worry that the black-robed man could run away.
What he had no idea about was that in order to buy time for Yagyuu Asamayu to run away, Yoshiko went to the street to provoke him on purpose.
The reason was that Xiaojin lost them. Although it had an amazing vision, it conducted the surveillance in the air and had dead angles.
Yoshiko suddenly rushed out of the alley, so it went to follow her subconsciously. When it found that the target was not correct, ready to go back to look for the black-robed man, Yagyuu Asamayu had run from the alley to the seaside, taken off her black robe, and thrown away her mask. After just looking around, it did not care about her anymore.
Xiaojin was anxious now and could only keep following Yoshiko because its six- or seven-year-old child’s IQ a.s.sured it that it would find the black-robed man as long as it watched Yoshiko.
When it found Yoshiko again, it saw her shouting and swearing on the street in a flagrant manner, so it was very confused. “What is wrong with this woman? She has become idiotic, hasn’t she?”
“Creak…”
A heavy-duty truck came over. It was unclear whether the driver drove so fast because he thought no one would come out in the middle of the night or he was too tired and was distracted. Only when his truck was more than ten meters way from Yoshiko did he found that she was there. He was so scared that his tiredness left him immediately, and then he slammed on the brakes.
The headlights were so brilliant that Yoshiko could not even open her eyes and covering them instinctively, screamed.
“Yoshiko…”
Yagyuu Asamayu had just come out of the alley and saw this scene. Scared, she shrieked and unhesitatingly rushed to Yoshiko, hoping to save her.
“Miss, why have you come back? Leave, quickly!”
After all, Yoshiko was a Ninja. Hearing the voice of Yagyuu Asamayu, she shouted and turned around and held the neck of Yagyuu Asamayu, hiding her in her arms, but her own back turned to the heavy-duty truck.
With a bang, two figures were hit and sent flying for more than ten meters. At this moment, the heavy-duty truck finally screeched and stopped.
Gravely scared, the driver trembled and opened the door, jumped down and gasped. Looking at the two people, he had a lot of sweat on his forehead because it was hard to tell whether they were alive or dead.
“Creak!”
Ding Ning finally arrived. Seeing the traffic accident, he stopped immediately and contacted Xiaojin in his mind. “What happened?”
Xiaojin faltered and could not tell him the detail because the scene happened too fast just now. No matter how good its vision was, its eyes were momentarily blinded by the headlights of the heavy-duty truck.
“I clearly remembered that there was only one woman on the street, but how could two women have been hit?” It could vaguely say that while Yoshiko was shouting and swearing on the street insanely, the black-robed woman suddenly disappeared.
Ignoring the heavy-duty truck driver’s ashen expression, Ding Ning hurriedly went over but found that Yoshiko had been hit so hard that her body had fallen apart, but she still held the neck of the woman in her arms tightly.
He immediately thought that he had learned the details of the matter. “The black-robed man must have asked Yoshiko to come out to attract my attention, so as to buy time for him to escape.
“In order to protect herself, the abandoned Yoshiko held a woman pa.s.sing by hostage, hoping to force me to let her off.
“As a result, she did not expect to meet a heavy-duty truck driver who was drowsy driving. He drove too fast and had no time to step on the brakes in time, so his truck hit her, and she died.
“Yes, this deduction is very logical. And only this reason can explain why Yoshiko was shouting and swearing on the street. She must have been abandoned by the black-robed man. In desperation, she held this lady hostage, hoping to negotiate with me.”
Ding Ning made this judgment in a short moment and ordered Xiaojin to continue to search for the black-robed man, while he himself worked to rescue Yagyuu Asamayu who was still breathing.
“Why are you still motionless? Do you think you can escape? Call the police, quick!”
Ding Ning shouted at the heavy-duty truck driver who was so sad as if his parents had just pa.s.sed away.
According to Xiaojin’s description, Yoshiko had been on the street for quite a while. If the driver had been slightly careful or had not driven so fast, the traffic accident would have been avoided.
Although he had no good impression of Yoshiko, the woman she had held was innocent. Anyway, she was a human life.
As we all know, a truck filled with goods and an empty truck are quite different when they meet an emergency. If the empty truck driver is aware of an emergency when the truck is ten or 20 meters away from it, he can stop the truck by stepping on the brakes, while the truck filled with goods has great inertia, and its driver cannot stop it by doing so before it keeps moving forward for 30 meters. Therefore, the heavy-duty truck driver had an unshakable responsibility for this accident.
“Yes, I… I’ll call the police.”
The heavy-duty truck driver also knew that he could not escape. Although there were no surveillance cameras in this part of the road, there were surveillance cameras before and after this part. If the police checked the video footage shot during this time, he would have no excuse to deny what he had down.
More importantly, there was still a witness at the scene. Anyway, he could not kill this person after he had hit two people to death, could he? Trembling, he took out his cellphone and began to call the police.
But Ding Ning had no time to care about him. The woman was seriously injured: Her sternum was broken and plunged into her lung lobes, causing blood acc.u.mulation in her chest cavity; the back of her brain had also been severely injured. She was in real danger.