Chapter 31 (1/2)

Translator: Larbre Studio  Editor: Larbre Studio

Wuwuwuwu!

Hearing the wailing of the police siren that followed closely behind him, Ling Chen was stunned. The cop driving the traffic police car was quite adept, actually managing to chase him into such a narrow lane.

At that moment, the Buick came to a grating halt, before starting reversing backwards, gaining tremendous speed as it did so.

Let’s see who’s more courageous!

Ling Chen furrowed his brows and he did not slow down his Audi, ploughing right into the Buick ahead of him.

Peng!

Following a loud bang, there was a violent collision with the Buick’s rear, instantly distorting the shape of both vehicles.

Ling Chen clutched his head, feeling slightly dizzy from the impact, he pushed away from the airbag that had been deployed in response to the collision. He then tried to open the door, intending to go over to the Buick to drag out its driver. However, he found out quickly that due to the intense collision, the car door had been distorted out of shape, and it was impossible even to open it.

What kind of lousy car is this?

He viciously cursed inwardly and smashed his fist against the car window. The window that already had fine cracks running through it immediately shattered into pieces.

However, before he could climb through the window, he noticed the driver of the Buick already squirming through his window. Taking advantage of the superior height of his car, the other party leapt up and steadied himself on the adjacent walls of the alleyway. Climbing up swiftly, he disappeared from Ling Chen’s vision in a blink of an eye.

Ling Chen was afraid that he would lose the Buick’s driver again and hurriedly squeezed through the car window. He raised his hand and grabbed on to a stone ledge protruding out of the wall, intending to flip over the wall and give chase.

“Nobody moves! Get your hand off the wall! ”

Ling Chen swept a glance towards the origin of the voice and froze instantly. What he saw was Xia Mutong aiming a gun straight at him, directing a cold gaze towards him, that seemed more frigid than the contents of a sub-zero refrigerator.

Staring blankly into the dark void of the gun muzzle, Ling Chen was panicking inwardly, not sparing a thought to chase after the Buick’s driver.

“It’s you?”

At that moment, a gleam of recognition also flashed through Xia Mutong’s eyed.

“Officer Xia, the driver of the Buick is escaping! Why aren’t you chasing after him?”

“Since he can escape from me, he can be considered quite lucky. If you have the ability, then try escaping as well.”

Ling Chen felt rather helpless at squandering the opportunity to catch the driver.

Screw it, at the very most I’ll have a record for driving over the speed limit and be fined a few hundred dollars. It’s just a pity that the driver got away…

Now that he had watched the driver of the Buick in action, he was even more convinced that the background of the other party was not simple at all. If the other party were not a contract killer, then he would at least be a mercenary and a seasoned one at that.

From what he could recall, the top ten mercenaries in the world all belonged to a single organization and would seldom choose to act out on their own. Moreover, these mercenaries would never provoke him like just now, preferring to act in a more low-key fashion. With those points in mind, he could eliminate the possibility of the other party being a mercenary.

Given so, then there was a high likelihood of the other party being a contract killer.

A killer’s modus operandi would be to be as systematic as possible, preparing to the best of his ability, before finding an opportunity to strike from the dark.

Furthermore, before carrying out an operation, a contract killer would conduct extensive research on his target. With the other party exhibiting all of these traits, he can safely conclude that the Buick driver was a contract killer.

“Could it be that guy?”

Ling Chen scrunched his face as a name suddenly popped into his mind.

He knew of every single member on the list of the top ten assassins in the world. Although he had not come into contact with all of them personally, he at least knew about the way they operated.

He had no choice in being privy to this information as the career he had in the past required him to be knowledgeable about them.

What he could not understand was that who could have such a huge enmity with Nanrong Wanqing that they would even resort to hiring a pinnacle assassin to get rid of her.

While he was deep in contemplation, the reinforcements that Xia Mutong signalled for had arrived at the scene. Leaving a few colleagues behind at the crime scene, Xia Mutong directly apprehended Ling Chen and halled him back to the police station.

As he sat in the back of the police car, Ling Chen stared at the reflection of Xia Murong in the rear-view mirror, his eyes gleaming.