An Eye for News Chapter 28
“There’s a landline in my bedroom, I’ll use it
to call my dad!”
Xin Yu bustled about in the
darkness, reluctant to open the lights lest it attracted the attention of
Sister Xu and her accomplice.
“Good idea, remember to tell him
to send for someone trustworthy!”
Xin Yu leaned across to grab at
the phone at the other end of the bed. Her lithe figure was stretched out on
the large bed. She believed the darkness provided her cover but Se Cai’s mouth was
going dry from the ‘scenery’ that unfolded before him.
“h.e.l.lo, dad, it’s me…”
Xin Yu spoke softly into the
phone before finally setting it down with a relieved sigh.
Then, she tensed, remembering
something.
“Se Cai, tell me honestly… Do
you have night vision?”
She thought back to Se Cai’s
command for her to switch off the headlights during the conflict with the
driver. Then, about how Se Cai managed to hit the driver squarely on the back
of his head while his opponent was obviously fumbling in the dark. She drew the
coat that she had on closer.
“Will it make you feel better if
I say no?”
Se Cai answered with an awkward
laugh.
“You…”
Xin Yu lobbed a pillow at him as
she scurried under the mattress like a scared rabbit.
She had embarra.s.sed herself more
times that night than her life combined!
“I didn’t mean to, okay? It’s
all for the purpose of saying you! If I didn’t come back, you would have been
shipped off by Jin Feng to G.o.d knows where already!”
Se Cai justified after he let
the pillow hit him in the face. He could have evaded it but he let it slide to
give Xin Yu the satisfaction.
“Wait, someone’s coming. Stay
under the covers and don’t move!”
Suddenly, Se Cai warned as he
heard fast footsteps coming their way.
In the next moment, the bedroom
door burst open with a bang. A sliver of light slid towards Se Cai!
It was a flying dagger. This was
Xu Jin Feng’s specialty, a skill she had trained since she was young. She was so
adept at it that she could feasibly hit her target within her 20 meter’s
radius.
It was this unique set of skill
that first brought her into Chang Seng’s employment. She was his hired
a.s.sa.s.sin, responsible for eradicating compet.i.tors both local and overseas.
Thankfully Xin Yu had revealed
to Se Cai Jin Feng’s dangerous skill when they were in the bathroom so he was
not caught by surprise.
He ducked with a deft bend of
his body and the dagger flew over his shoulder before lodging itself in the
make-up counter behind him. It was embedded in the counter’s hardwood panel,
its hilt still vibrating from the force.
“Nice dodge there!”
Jin Feng sneered. She walked
into the room and switched on the light.
She had full confidence in her
skills and she had her track record to prove it. She once incapacitated an
expert gunner with a calculated shot at his wrist before he could even pull his
gun out.
Therefore, she chalked her
blunder up to Se Cai’s good luck and the room’s darkness.
“So, it is you. Why did you come
back?”
Se Cai shivered at the sight of
the dagger behind him and asked cautiously, “And how did you know we’re still
here?”
“You have that phone call to
thank.”
Jin Feng’s eyes landed on the
phone that sat on the bedside table, adding with a jeer, “You two have underestimated
me. I’m responsible for the security of this house, have you really not thought
of the possibility of me bugging the calls that come in and out of this place?”
Se Cai nodded, his confusion
answered.
No wonder Jin Feng appeared
minutes after Xin Yu made her call, she already had the phone bugged.
Thankfully though, it was only
Jin Feng herself that returned.
“Since you heard the call, why
didn’t you run before Chang Seng’s men get here?”
Se Cai said with as much threat
as he could muster.
He knew Jin Feng had her
accomplices but he knew her party wouldn’t stand a chance against Chang Seng’s
reinforcement.
The longer she remained, the
harder it would be for her to escape.
“Young man, don’t you get
concerned for me when you still have yourself to worry about.”
Jin Feng shrugged as she leveled
a glacial stare at Se Cai.
Se Cai was right but Jin Feng
was unfazed because she knew she would complete her plan before her Old Master’s
forces arrived. She was a professional a.s.sa.s.sin taking on 2 unarmed reporters,
how long could it possibly take?
“Here’s a lesson for you, young
man… Heroes tend to have an early death!”
Jin Feng launched 2 daggers that
she retrieved from her coat pocket. They were aimed directly at Se Cai’s chest
and forehead!
Se Cai finally understood why
Jin Feng was given the moniker, Black Widow. Her daggers, like the spider’s
fangs were fast and lethal. If he was distracted for even a moment, his body
would be lying on the floor.
However, unfortunately for Jin
Feng, Se Cai’s Eye for News system was her skill’s natural weakness.
The efficacy of Jin Feng flying
daggers depended completely on their speed. With a system that could slow
things in his sight down, they were practically useless against Se Cai.
Se Cai didn’t duck this time but
took a brave step forward.
With a twist of his wrist, Se
Cai grabbed hold of the daggers’ hilt in mid-air!
“This is impossible!”
Jin Feng exclaimed in shock. Se
Cai not only didn’t deflect her daggers but plucked them basically out of the
thin air. This was the first time Jin Feng had stumbled across such an
opponent.
This Se Cai first took down a
hired Cobra Syndicate mercenary and now he caught my flying dagger... Jin Feng started to doubt her initial a.s.sessment
of Se Cai. Could he be a pro that escaped her detection?
“Just a small trick up my
sleeves. Why don’t you try something else, I might have more to show you.”
Se Cai said haughtily.
He crossed his arms to shield
his palm from view. Jin Feng’s daggers weren’t empty threats, even with the
system’s help, Se Cai’s palm was grazed by the knife’s edge, cutting a wound
through it.
Se Cai wasn’t sure he could
handle more of Jin Feng’s flying daggers.
“I have to hand it to you, I’ve
underestimated you!”
Jin Feng said as she took off
her suit jacket and rolled up her sleeves. She took deliberate steps towards Se
Cai.
Since her daggers didn’t work,
she was going to try close-quarter combat. As a professional a.s.sa.s.sin, of
course she didn’t only have one set of skills.
Suddenly, she gathered into a
sprint.
She launched herself off the
ground, gathering her momentum at the point of her heel that was aimed at Se
Cai’s neck.
Se Cai understood why Chang Seng
kept Jin Feng at his side for so long. Her skills were miles better than the
mercenary Se Cai faced. She was a killing machine!
Se Cai smiled and untangled his
crossed arms.
He didn’t do anything flashy, he
merely lifted his arms to shield his face.
It had made all the difference
in the world though because Jin Feng found her legs heading towards 2 pointy
daggers that Se Cai had nestled between his fingers.
She pulled in her muscle at the
last minute, but it wasn’t a clean escape.
Her calfskin boot and black
legging were split open, revealing a bleeding wound that ran the length of her
leg.
“But… how could you predict my
moves?”
Jin Feng said as she took a
cautious step back.
Thanks to her impressive reflex,
the wound didn’t cut deep. If she had reacted one second sooner, there would be
2 daggers stuck in the ball of her feet.
“Well, didn’t I say I would show
you more?”
Se Cai shrugged nonchalantly but
he was overjoyed within.
He had been thinking on how to protect
himself ever since his confrontation with the mercenary.
The Eye for News system was extraordinary
but it wasn’t an aggressive skill.
It allowed him great prowess at evasion
and defense but that did nothing to hurt his opponent.
Finally, he decided to play into
the system’s strengths, to embrace the spirit of Tai Chi, to reflect his aggressor’s
force back against themselves.
This was the first time he had
tried it out in actual combat and it was surprisingly effective!