36: 36 chapters: Murder 36: 36 chapters: Murder As the light of dawn vanished across the sky, night fell.
At that very mont, Yusuf Zuck sprang to his feet and, like a civet, leaped out of the car, crossing the highway like the wind before disappearing into the cornfield.
The unharvested crops of the deep night rustled with a ‘shasha’ sound that was unsettling.
The boundless, deserted cornfields, especially under the obscure darkness, seed particularly sinister.
The faint-hearted would probably not dare to enter them.
After all, this was an unfamiliar setting, pitch-dark—so who would be foolish enough to venture inside?
Of course, Yusuf Zuck had to venture inside.
The fear that the environnt evoked in him was not terrifying; the real terror ca from people.
Bent over, he had moved about fifty ters when he sat down and quickly sent a ssage to Fleur Carson on his phone, asking where he was.
However, after the ssage was sent, Fleur Carson did not reply right away, and Yusuf continued to send a string of question marks.
Yusuf frowned, could Fleur Carson be in an inconvenient situation?
Or had he encountered the two assassins?
After a mont’s thought, he decided to make a call to Fleur Carson’s mobile number.
“Sorry, the user you are calling has switched off their phone…” The system’s prompt sounded in Yusuf’s ear, and upon hearing it, he couldn’t help but feel a chill run down his spine.
Why had Fleur Carson turned off his phone?
Why didn’t he notify him before doing so?
“Sothing’s wrong!” Instinctively, Yusuf knew that Fleur Carson must have encountered an ergency situation since he hadn’t had the chance to inform Yusuf.
“Damn it,” Yusuf cursed and, putting away his phone, continued eastward.
His telekinesis constantly covered a radius of fifteen ters around him.
In the pitch-black cornfield, where visibility was less than two ters, his telekinesis provided unprecedented security.
He moved quickly, running while hunched over to avoid both the corn leaves, which could cut his face, and the louder noise standing upright would make.
To avoid being detected, he kept his profile as low as possible.
After a non-stop twenty-minute run, he finally erged from the other end of the cornfield.
Then, using the cover of night, he noticed a rice field next to the cornfield, its water dried up—it was late autumn, and the rice was ripe for harvest.
Even though there was no water in the rice field, when he stepped down, his foot plunged into the mud.
“My new shoes!” Yusuf lanted the state of his attire, which he had bought new just the day before.
“To hell with the one million US Dollars,” Yusuf thought to himself.
Fleur Carson was such a scamr; tonight’s job was truly foul.
Treading through the mud, Yusuf grumbled quietly to himself while surveying his surroundings.
Ahead, there seed to be a forest a few hundred ters away.
The strong night wind caused the leaves to rustle continuously.
A sudden, faint ‘ding’ sound rang out just as he neared the forest; the noise was reminiscent of two knives clashing together!
“Here,” although the sound was faint, Yusuf instantly confird that there were people in the depths of the forest, or perhaps a knife fight was happening!
“Invisible!” Without a second thought, Yusuf stimulated the deep recesses of his mind with telekinesis and his body instantly vanished from sight.
He hadn’t used his Invisibility Technique at all that day, so he had three opportunities to beco invisible, which amounted to ten minutes.
He believed he could save Fleur Carson’s friend Shanshan within that tifra.
“Whoosh,” unwilling to waste ti, Yusuf dashed towards the source of the sound without a visible form.
Just seconds later, he saw three figures in the depths of the forest and noticed the relentless flashing of two icy knife blades.
Being too far to identify who was who, Yusuf kept approaching while also searching for Fleur Carson’s girlfriend’s whereabouts.
Two minutes later, he managed to get within fifteen ters of the battleground and could see everything within that radius through telekinesis.
Fleur Carson held a katana, moving as if he and the sword were one.
His movents were fluid, and his slashes were incredibly fast.
Yusuf, who had practiced martial arts, had handled swords before but had never seen such rapid swordplay.
The person dueling with him was a woman with blonde hair and blue eyes, dressed in a tight leather suit, wearing boots.
She also wielded a sword resembling a Japanese katana.
This type of katana could usually be transported legally, as it could be considered a piece of art.
Thus, with the proper paperwork, it could be brought into China.
A few steps away from the duo stood another foreigner with a big belly, fat and strong, wearing a coat and holding a gun fitted with a silencer!
Yusuf was taken aback upon seeing the firearm.
How had a foreigner managed to get a gun in China?
The foreigner kept his gun aid at Fleur Carson while smoking a cigarette and smiling smugly.
Finally, Yusuf’s gaze rested on a girl…
a girl…
who was already dead!
Indeed, the girl had a bullet hole in her forehead, the blood around it had dried up, and she lay motionless in a pool of her own blood!
Yusuf observed the girl, who seed to retain a look of terror from before her death, the bullet hole in her forehead, and Fleur Carson’s relentless attacks.
His eyes grew cold.
Two foreign assassins had co to China to kill?
Did they consider the lives of the Chinese to be worthless?
And she was Fleur Carson’s girlfriend!
If Yusuf hadn’t been contacted by Fleur Carson and hadn’t followed him here, might both Fleur Carson and his girlfriend have ended up dead?
“Hoo,” his invisibility ti was up, so he imdiately reappeared, but he didn’t move and remained hidden behind a tree, unnoticed by the others.
Yusuf closed his eyes, then looked once more at the girl lying on the ground, and suddenly made up his mind, once again using telekinesis to trigger the Blood Beads.
“Hoo!” He turned invisible once more.
He had never killed anyone, though he was pretty brutal in fights before, but he had never thought about killing.
Today, at this mont, he felt the urge to kill, and how could he not?
How could he face Fleur Carson’s girlfriend’s spirit in heaven if he didn’t take the lives of those two foreigners?
He gently took off his shoes because, with shoes full of mud, the foreigners might hear him approaching.
So, barefoot, he began to step closer to the foreigners!
He moved slowly and tid himself, as he didn’t want his Invisibility Skill to be discovered, nor did he want Fleur Carson to find out.
It was his biggest secret, and he intended to keep it that way.
So, he calculated that by the ti he made his move and succeeded, his invisibility would wear off.
The distance of a dozen ters took him nearly two minutes to cover.
However, just as he was three or four ters away from the foreigner, the foreigner seed to sense sothing and suddenly turned around, his gaze piercing as he scanned the surroundings!
Assassins are always very vigilant, constantly living on the edge of the knife, and thus have a premonition of danger.
At this mont, the foreigner holding the gun felt a trace of danger.
His brow furrowed slightly, as he could see nothing in his line of sight.
He turned his body back around and also shouted a few words to the woman in the center of the area.
And just as the foreigner turned to speak, Yusuf Zuck suddenly sprinted towards the foreigner.
Despite the three or four ters separating them, with his sudden burst of speed, Yusuf Zuck’s hand quickly grabbed the foreigner’s wrist, and with a forceful twist, a ‘crack’ sound was heard as the foreigner’s forearm was violently bent backward.
“fuak…” The foreigner scread sharply.
“Bang—Bang Bang Bang—” As the foreigner scread, Yusuf Zuck’s other fist rcilessly smashed into the man’s throat.
The throat is a vulnerable part of the human body, and now, with his strength powerful as a tiger’s, after delivering four rapid punches, Yusuf Zuck had shattered the foreigner’s entire neck, almost causing the head to fall off.
“Phantom Knife, you can die now!” Hearing the sound of fists colliding with flesh nearby, Fleur Carson knew Yusuf Zuck had arrived.
Therefore, his spirit was greatly lifted, and with a flick and twirl of his wrist, his blade suddenly sliced horizontally and chopped downwards.
“Pfft—” In an instant, the woman’s forearm was severed, and Fleur Carson quickly sidestepped again, dipping his body slightly as the katana’s edge swiftly swept across the woman’s neck!
His two swift cuts were clean and incredibly fast, executed almost in one breath!
It might be because there had been a gun pointed at him that he had previously held back his skills.
That woman was simply no match for him.
The woman collapsed clutching her throat, blood spurting from the slashed carotid artery like a burst water pipe, her body beginning to convulse as she emitted hoarse sounds.
Yusuf Zuck’s Invisibility Technique wore off, and he leaned against a large tree, his hands shaking slightly as he put a cigarette in his mouth.
It took him three attempts to light it, and he took a deep drag!
He had killed soone for the first ti in his life!
Fleur Carson paid no attention to Yusuf Zuck’s complex emotions but walked over to sit by his girlfriend and gently lifted her head into his arms.
After smoking a cigarette, Yusuf Zuck’s emotions had cald down sowhat.
He glanced at Fleur Carson and asked, “What about this place?”
“Take their phones, check their personal items, and don’t touch the knives, guns, or money.
Pick up your cigarette butts, then leave on your own!”
“Just like that?” Yusuf Zuck asked in surprise.
“What, you want to collect their corpses?” Fleur Carson countered.
“Oh.” Yusuf Zuck responded, realizing for sure there was no reason to collect the bodies of two assassins.
“What about you and Shan Shan?” Yusuf Zuck asked quietly.
“I’ll handle it myself, thanks Yusuf Zuck,” Fleur Carson said without his usual gaiety.
At this mont, he held the deceased Shan Shan, rocking gently as if lulling a child to sleep.
“I won’t try to console you, but take care of yourself,” Yusuf Zuck said before he began searching the pockets of the two assassins.
He understood what Fleur Carson ant: he was to find any clues or items that might be detrintal to them, then destroy their phones.
In that way, even if the police wanted to investigate, they would have nowhere to start.
“I’m fine,” Fleur Carson shook his head with a bitter smile.
Yusuf Zuck quickly took both assassins’ phones and found nothing suspicious among their belongings, although there was so US Dollar cash.
Yusuf Zuck didn’t take any, knowing that money from the dead was not good to spend.
“Then I’m taking off first.
I’ll wait in the car for you!” Yusuf Zuck said after picking up his cigarette butt and adding another line.
“Don’t wait for .
Just drive back to the capital first, and you can keep the car.
You use that one million dollars, too,” said Fleur Carson.
“Why?” Yusuf Zuck imdiately raised his eyebrows.
“I need to go abroad, and it’s uncertain whether or not I’ll be able to return.
Besides, I don’t need that one million dollars.”
Yusuf Zuck fell silent for a mont, then said, “No matter where you go, rember to co back in the end!”
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PS: Thanks to Wen Shuai, Strive, Patriotic Style, Romantically lancholic, Hard to Cure a Heart, Emberly Case, U17109835, and other classmates for their rewards.
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