An Eye for News Chapter 29
“I’m impressed, I have totally misjudged you,
young man!”
Jin Feng frowned deeply and
said.
She kicked off her shorn boots and
circled around Se Cai, looking for a break.
Se Cai stood still and went as
far as putting his hands behind his back, looking at Jin Feng with
condescension in his eyes.
This was all a front to put Jin
Feng off because if she knew he only had an eye that could help him see things
in slow motion, he would be dead meat!
“You… *sshole, aren’t you
underestimating 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 was
so visibly cavalier in her threatening presence. She was used to the fear in
her victim’s eyes before she snuffed them out so Se Cai’s challenging gaze
unhinged her.
She arced her leg and leaped at
Se Cai like a loosened arrow. Instead of utilizing her legs, she pulled her arm
back, aiming to land a sideway elbow blow at Se Cai’s chest.
Se Cai could feel the force
behind her action from the vibration in the air.
“Come at me!”
Se Cai teased as he leaned and
took a step backwards.
The elbow jab narrowly missed Se Cai.
Jin Feng smiled because she had
predicted as much. She swing her arms back open in a wide arc and Se Cai saw a
little bit too late the glint of the dagger that she hid in her palm.
“Now die!”
The dagger shot of out her hands
carrying her previous momentum. The first elbow jab was a decoy intended to unbalance
her opponents for when she shot out the dagger that she stashed in her palm. This
sly trick was the skill that cemented as her name as the Black Widow because it
was akin to the unexpected moment when the spider bared her fatal fangs.
“F*ck!”
Se Cai cursed, leaned into
gravity and fell to the floor on his back!
Se Cai landed heavily as the
dagger sliced the air above him. Se Cai avoided the fatal hit but he was
feeling light-headed from the impact.
Jin Feng saw the advantage and leaped
into the air to commit an elbow drop.
The elbow drop was a common
wrestling skill. While the ones shown on tv were all show with no punch, Jin
Feng’s elbow drop was meant to crush Se Cai’s trachea.
If hit, Se Cai would die on the
spot from internal bleeding and asphyxiation.
Se Cai gritted his teeth and
rolled desperately out of the way.
Jin Feng landed on the carpeted
floor with a ma.s.sive thump. Based on the dent in the floor, Se Cai believed more
than a few wooden planks of flooring underneath were broken.
Jin Feng deftly turned her body
around and tried to grapple Se Cai with her legs.
“A lock down this time?”
Se Cai knew he would be left to
Jin Feng’s mercy if he was chained by her legs.
In the nick of time, he pushed
against the floor and leaped into a wobbly standing position, narrowly escaped
death.
“We’ll see how long you can keep
up!”
Jin Feng spat. She realized Se
Cai was weak at close-quarter combat. She too leaped off the floor to continue
her 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 pressured
deeper and deeper into the room.
Se Cai retreated with heavier
steps, his eye was useless in close combat. Jin Feng was too close for him to
lock her down in his sight. Her attacks came from way too many angles of her
body.
Eventually, Se Cai felt the wall
on his back and his heart sunk with despair.
“Am I going to die here today…?”
Se Cai closed his eyes to
prepare for death when his hands found the light switch.
“Right, the same trick could
work again!”
He flipped the switch and the
room descended into darkness.
As the saying goes, don’t fix it
if it ain’t broken. Darkness had aided Se Cai in his last physical
confrontation. It leveled the playing field for him.
Jin Feng was temporarily dazed
because normal human eyes needed some time to adapt to the sudden change in
lighting.
This was a hindrance that Se Cai
was exempted from.
He swooped behind Jin Feng with
a 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 crumbled
to the floor following a scream.
“One more fell with a smack on
the head. Maybe this is my special skill?”
Se Cai said as he stared at the
broken vase in his hand.
He chuckled mirthlessly because
without an aggressive combat skill, a blunt force trauma to the back of his
opponent’s head seemed like his best bet at winning a physical altercation. In
fact, it seemed tailored made to fit his pa.s.sive ability.
Xin Yu poked her head out
cautiously from under the covers when she heard the sound of combat stopped.
“Se Cai, are you okay?”
She implored as her hands found
the switch to the table lamp. Looking at her ruined bedroom, and the ceramic
pieces that littered the floor, she added, “That’s my Grecian Wedgewood Vase,
it’s an authentic antique piece…”
Se Cai scratched his head
awkwardly as he set the broken vase gingerly back down on the table.
“I’m sorry, I didn’t realize it
was so expensive.”
Se Cai noticed the coloration
and engravings that ran outside the vase and realized it was probably worth
more than his whole a.s.set combined.
“I’m sure you can replace
another one easily right? There are vases being sold practically all over the
country, and many are much prettier than this!”
“This is an artisa.n.a.l piece that
can only be found outside of China… Never mind, now is not the time for an art
lesson.”
Xin Yu shook her head and
sighed, “It is a piece of object after all, the important thing is that you’re
safe and sound!”
Se Cai was trying to save her
life, he could have leveled the whole house and her father probably won’t even
bat an eye.
She crawled out of bed with the
cover 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. With
everything simmering down, the reality of her closest companion’s betrayal
struck her once more. Sorrow framed her expression as she looked down at Sister
Xu’s face.
“People change and greed could
corrupt a person easily!”
Se Cai said matter-of-factly
since 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 other
people moving nearby with his enhanced hearing.
“Right, we’ll take the elevator
to the garage!”
Xin Yu b.u.t.toned the Burberry
coat 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 of
a dress she was wearing underneath.
Xin Yu caught Se Cai’s
reflection in one of the hallway mirrors and asked curiously.
“Why do you keep looking down at
the floor?”
“Nothing!”
Se Cai quickly stared fixedly
ahead and replied.
The piece of clothing Xin Yu had
grabbed from the closet was a negligee gown and a coat. The gown was halfway to
her knees and the coat was barely longer. Needless to say, they proved to be
quite a distraction for Se Cai.
“h.e.l.lo, my eyes are up here and
you’re going to trip if you don’t keep your eyes on the path.”
Xin Yu said warningly after she
caught Se Cai’s wandering gaze again.
She pulled her coat down as far
as she could.
“Well, to be fair it’s not every
day you’ll get views like this.”
Se Cai joked.
It was the third time Se Cai had
saved Xin Yu in a 2 day’s period but she wasn’t above gouging his eyes out
there and then.