Chapter 180: A Fierce Confrontation
Translator: EndlessFantasy Translation Editor: EndlessFantasy Translation
As he drove the Explorer out of the factory, Zhang Lisheng immediately connected his phone to the car via Bluetooth the moment he turned the car into the highway.
The most number of missed calls displayed on the car’s central control screen was none other than his mother, Lili. After pondering about it, he quickly used the car phone to call her back.
Even though it was only slightly over six o’clock and the sun was just rising up, the call was immediately picked up. “Oh, baby! Where have you been? I have been worried to death! In the past few days, I have been calling you all the while! I’ve contacted all of your friends who can be contacted and all the subordinates in the factory. If it was not for the text message you sent me, I’d have long called the police already…”
“Mom, I’m fine, I’m sorry that I haven’t contacted you these few days and have made you worried. I’m on my way home now, I’ll see you in about an hour. I’ll explain it to you when I get back home later…” As Zhang Lisheng was explaining to his mom, two black Chevrolet SUVs suddenly drove from behind him and sped up before sandwiching his car in between.
In an instant, the friction of the paint between the speeding Explorer and the Chevrolet SUVs gave off a series of ear-piercing sounds, emitting a series of sparks in the process.
“What’s going on, baby? What’s that sound?” At the other end of the Explorer’s car phone, Lili’s panicked voice gradually weakened until it disappeared. It was apparent that somebody had blocked off the signal.
Then, the rear seat windows of the two SUVs that sandwiched Zhang Lisheng’s car rolled opened as st.u.r.dy men wearing black bullet-proof vests with infrared night vision goggles on their faces extended out. With their hands holding on long and thick rifles, they broke the Explorer’s window gla.s.s and fired six to seven tear gas bombs in a row, shrouding the car from inside out in a cloud of thick yellow smoke.
At the same time, in a black extended van driving on the outskirts of New York City about 500 to 600 meters away from the distressed Zhang Lisheng, a thin bearded white man was staring at the monitor screen while whispering in a low voice maniacally, “Don’t hold back! Be enraged! I can sense the anger in your heart! Use your strength…”
“Ca.s.sandro, come to think of it, your plan is completely crazy! Without having any substantial evidence, you secretly arrest New York’s most outstanding new industrialist in this new era in accordance with the procedures for arresting terrorists.” Next to him, a tall and thin man, who was also staring at the monitor, muttered.
“Louis, no matter how crazy I am, I’m still nothing compared to you. Don’t forget, you’re the man who planned and is currently the commander of this operation. Don’t tell me that you only think about it after the plan is carried out.”
“Of course not,” the tall, thin man gritted his teeth and replied with a complex expression on his face. “But if this plan fails, I’ll no longer be the commander of the FBI…”
“But if you succeed, you may become another legend in the FBI. Think about the commotion Rowen from the CIA made when he caught that enemy agent, Kamil, brought over by the invaders from Shrimp World No. 1 in Hawaii. Don’t worry! That person will not just fold his hand and wait for his death. As long as he displays his superpower, we’ll have enough proof to capture him and all of our actions will become justified!” Ca.s.sandro stared at the monitor and said with confidence as his mouth twitched.
In the monitor screen, the interior of the Explorer Zhang Lisheng was driving was covered in thick yellow smoke. Amidst the sound of the collision, the two Chevrolets tried their best to protect his car and gradually, they came to a stop without getting out of control and tumbling around.
After successfully stopping the Explorer, the Chevrolet SUVs stopped all of a sudden. The doors immediately opened and a few armed personnel wearing black bullet-proof vests, with infrared night vision goggles on their faces, raised up their long guns and bent slightly, being on their guards.
When the armed men jumped out of the car, a skinny figure emerged out of the thick smoke emitted from the rear seat windows of the Explorer that were smashed by the tear gas bombs.
After that figure landed on the ground, he leaped softly and went around by the side of the armed men. Without making any communication, he directly stepped out and threw out a straight punch, hitting the chest of one of the armed personnel, who had started to react but still was not fast enough, causing him to collapse directly.
Two ribs pierced deeply into his heart. No matter how st.u.r.dy his body was, he would immediately die as well. The dead person naturally became the s.h.i.+eld of the attacker.
After the dead person was being pushed forward as he was used to block a few shots by the skinny figure and came near his companion, a long and slender arm reached out from underneath the dead armed man’s armpit and swiftly grabbed on the throat of another gunman, ending the life of that person as well.
His s.h.i.+eld had now increased from one to two. After he had obtained two s.h.i.+elds, the attacker directly pushed the two dead people to the remaining two armed men on the side.
Then, he s.h.i.+fted his position twice in an astoundingly fast speed. With a hack of his palm and a punch of his fist, he finished killing all of the four armed men who were on the same side.
“Sh*t! He’s not using any superpower! That seems like true Chinese kung fu! I hope your men can still be saved!” Witnessing how Zhang Lisheng managed to kill four FBI agents in just four to five seconds after exiting his car, Ca.s.sandro could not help but exclaim in bafflement seeing that he had no other abnormality other than having powerful strength, quick movements, and a firm understanding of martial arts.
“Reveal your ident.i.ty! Reveal your ident.i.ty!” As the commander of this risky plan this time, of course, Louis could not be as calm as his companion who had a special ident.i.ty. He shouted into the communication device but everything had already come to an end.
After killing the four armed men who suddenly attacked himself, Zhang Lisheng played the same old trick and lifted a dead body wearing bullet-proof vests as his s.h.i.+eld, annihilating all of them before any of the agents manage to reveal their ident.i.ty.
Louis’ words, saying, ‘reveal your ident.i.ty’ in the communication device became a reminder for the young man instead.
After finis.h.i.+ng his killing spree, Zhang Lisheng thought about it and suddenly sped up his movement, returning to his Explorer. Before the black extended van Louis and Ca.s.sandro had returned, he increased his speed and drove towards New York City.
The outskirts of New York were not covered in sand dunes like how it was outside of Las Vegas. Even though it was still early in the morning, many fast-moving vehicles soon found the corpses on the road and the two old Chevrolet SUVs.
Of course, the first thing the ordinary people would do when they found such a scene would be calling the police.
However, when a well-dressed middle-aged playboy driving a Ferrari sports car carrying a beautiful woman was about to call the police, a black van stopped abruptly at his side.
The door of the van opened and a tall and skinny middle-aged man stepped down to show his identification card. “We’re the FBI, sir. This is our live combat exercise. We’ll take over from here and please don’t call the police. Please hand over yours and your partner’s phones, I’ll have to check it.”
“You don’t have the right to ask us to hand over the phone, sir, unless there is a search warrant issued by the judge, otherwise, as a New York…”
“Sorry, I’ve never been a person who acts accordingly with the custom and law. Not only that, I’m likely to become a federal felon as well, so you better listen to me, sir,” the thin middle-aged man said expressionlessly.
Upon seeing his cold look, the middle-aged playboy’s heart shuddered as he wisely surrendered his phone. Not only that, he even told his female companion who was still scared out of her wits in the sports car, “Tinnie baby, please hand over your phone. This Mr. FBI needs to check it out.”
The beautiful woman handed over her phone obediently and the skinny man said, “thank you” before taking the two phones and took out an evidence bag from his pocket. Then, he crushed the phones and put them in the bag.
His actions left the playboy and his lover who had lost their phones dumbstruck.
Upon seeing Louis doing whatever he wanted, Ca.s.sandro could feel the despair in his heart, so he got out of the car and whispered to him, “Hey, buddy! Don’t be like that! Perhaps things may not be as bad as you think.”
“Don’t comfort me! We all know how bad it is now,” Louis sighed and murmured.
“It’s not that bad. Think about it, a Chinese teenager who weighs no more than 120 pounds could actually kill eight elite agents with anesthesia guns and two drivers in less than ten seconds? How could such a combat power be explained through just proficiency in Chinese kung fu? ”
“Who could prove that a true martial art fighter who is proficient in kung fu would not be able to do it then?” Louis approached the Chevrolet and moved his men’s bodies into the car before adding in a grave expression. “This is not a fireball, ice arrow, or even similar to anything like Hulk’s transformation! I first thought that only these three situations would have taken place at most—first, maybe our target would have been secretly arrested without resisting, and then we can slowly trick him into confessing. Perhaps, we could even have our target use his superpower, but we would still secretly arrest him. It would even be better if the target’s superpower would have been too strong for our forces that he managed to escape from the arrest this time, but we still managed to seize evidence of his abilities in the end…”
“Or there’s also the fourth possibility that the target’s superpower was very strong and unscrupulous in his actions. He would kill all the arresters and still have the evidence seized by us,” Ca.s.sandro added one more possibility with a strange tone as he helped Louis move the agents’ bodies onto the car.
“I only agreed to your plan for the sake of the US’ national interest, Ca.s.sandro! Don’t tell me that the guy who grew up in China who could always be linked to the Elizabeth Holiday’s incident, Hawaii’s mishap, and the emergence of the mysterious creatures off the coast of New York, could only be called a ‘coincidence’? If he’s not suspicious, then it’s impossible for Director Fernand to agree on monitoring him for 24 hours a day in such a shorthanded period right now. Our target this time has gone missing for a few days and has even told his subordinates to intervene in the mid-year election…”
“Hey, buddy. You don’t have to explain all of these to me. Leave those explanations in your action report instead.” Ca.s.sandro dragged the last body into the van and closed the door with a bang.
Right now, a screaming police siren resonated from the distance.
“d.a.m.n it! Somebody still called the police! It’s a good thing we’ve cleared the scene already,” Louis patted his face and cursed in a whisper, remaining behind on the same spot to prepare for the New York police’s interrogation.