Stuck in a Chinese novel - Chapter 253

Chapter 253: The chase
Chapter 253

“He’s been spotted in downtown!” Zhang Fei yelled and Rin hurriedly closed the files she was reading. She, along with her team, and a good number of police which was forced to help them out due to the perilous situation left the police station and made their way to the downtown.

While everything was going well and dandy for a few days, suddenly, the biker was spotted in the middle of the downtown, just standing in the middle of the road on a bridge.

Several police units were already surrounding him.

“Put your hands in the air!” A policewoman yelled with her gun pointed at the biker. The biker, on the other hand, under the night sky, looked up at the sky where a helicopter was shooting a spotlight at him.

He looked around, the police on the bridge, on both sides, blocking his exit points. On the side of the bridge, there were units down on the road underneath the bridge.

However, there was none on the bridge next to the one he was on. He looked around and the entire highway on that bridge was empty. There was no traffic as if the entire area had been blocked, but there were no police either.

The biker calmly turned to look at the policewoman and once again, calmly, boarded his bike.

“Stop!” The woman yelled and even fired a warning shot but the biker didn’t stop. Once he was on his bike, he started it and burned his tires to turn the bike to the bridge next to the one he was on.

“Stop!” This time, the woman shot the biker, and the shot landed on his helmet. However, a yellow barrier appeared the moment the shot landed on him which, otherwise, was invisible.

The shot was ineffective and the biker calmly accelerated, and as he did, a yellow ramp appeared in front of him, which acted as a base for his jump and he easily jumped his bike across to the other bridge.

“What the…” The policewoman, along with everyone else was speechless at that. The biker, on the other hand, sped away and disappeared into the city.

“What do you mean you lost him?!” Zhao Hui yelled as he was driving in his own car to the scene.

“He… uh…” The officer at the scene was still speechless but since he had to give an answer, he replied, “He… flew?”

“What do you mean, you bastard?” Zhao Hui asked as he himself couldn’t understand.

“Get on the scene!” Rin, listening to the transmission from her own radio said to her own subordinate, “Get the trace of his Qi before it vanishes.”

Jang Long nodded and jumped out of the car, activated his Qi skills, and jumped up in the air.

“The rest of the units, follow him and report!” Zhao Hui yelled on the other end and Rin also made her way to where the biker was last spotted.

The biker still drove in the downtown, evading police units and making his way through the downtown buildings.

On the other hand, Jang Long finally arrived at the scene where the biker first was but as he did, he saw that there was no trace of Qi. As if it never existed.

“How is this possible?” Speechless, he asked himself the question but since no answer could possibly explain this, there was only one logical explanation left.

‘The biker is Qi Grandmaster.’ A common misconception was that only the high-level cultivators could erase the traces of their Qi. That was the only logical explanation available and that was the only conclusion Jang Long arrived at.

“Captain!” He hurriedly relayed the information to Rin.

Rin, when she heard the news, turned to look at Zhang Fei, the oldest member of her team who was also looking at her with silent eyes. They both knew what this meant.

Rin pulled out her phone and dialed a number, “This is Captain Xiaofei Rin. Put me in touch with Major Tan Bing.”

The biker was driving through the streets of downtown but his exit pathways were being blocked one by one. The police, under Zhao Hui’s instructions, were blocking the entire downtown exits, trapping the biker inside the area.

They knew they couldn’t stop him so the least they could do was buy time for the CSF to get there. The biker, seeing this, turned to a tall building downtown and made his way inside after shooting down the glass.

The glass was reinforced so the biker had to shoot it with a rocket launcher to bring it down. Once he was inside, he drove to the elevator and before anyone could stop him, he was inside.

“Shut down the power!” Zhao Hui said.

Alas, no matter how much the security tried, they just couldn’t shut it down. The power didn’t go down and the biker kept making his way up the building via the elevator and soon arrived at the top.

“What do you mean you can’t stop it?!” Rin asked, her voice loud.

“We can’t access the system. The systems aren’t under the control of the security.” The officer at the scene reported.

“Sh*t!” Rin cursed.

“It must be a hack job. That’s the only explanation.” Zhang Fei said.

“The only problem is that he will be gone by the time we take control of the system,” Rin replied.

As expected, the elevator opened on the last floor of the building, the biker made his way to the west side of the building where, a little away, another building was standing.

He shot down the glass and revved up his engine. As the cops arrived from the other elevators, they were already too late. They could only watch as the biker drove his bike to the shattered glass and jumped out of the building, leaving many policemen with their mouths hanging open.

“What the…” Once again, the police were left speechless.

“Where is he now?!” Zhao Hui asked on the radio.

“He… uh,” Once again, left speechless, the policeman replied, not sure of his own answer, “He flew out of the… building.”

“What are you bast*rds doing today?!” Zhao Hui yelled at his own force for giving answers that didn’t make any sense.

“Where is he now?!” Rin asked.

“Westbound.” A policeman replied.

“Where?” Rin asked.

“On top of a building.” The policeman replied.

“…What?” Rin asked for clarification.

“He’s going on top of the buildings.” The policeman replied.

“Captain.” Zhang Fei, as if something clicked, hurriedly turned to Rin and called out.

“Right there with you.” Rin replied before she said, “Track down the hacker. The priority is to track down the hacker. Foot units, keep chasing the biker, and keep eyes on him in the air.”

“Do as she says!” Zhao Hui yelled because he also felt that something was up. The biker was just standing in the middle of the road, doing nothing, and even now, he was keeping the entire police force on him.

It would be impossible to keep him busy before the reinforcements arrived. He must know that too. He was keeping the entire force busy while the hacker was doing what he or she needed behind the scenes.

“I’ll check with the biker.” Rin said over the radio before she requested, “I’d like you to take care of the other situation.”

“Got it.” Zhao Hui didn’t let his pride get in the way. Whatever this was, it was way beyond his ego or anything else.

“Where is he now?” Rin asked.

“Westbound. But it is getting harder to keep track of him due to the height.” The pilot from the chopper replied.

“He’s smart,” Zhang Fei replied.

“They all are,” Rin replied before she left the car and jumped in the air after she activated all her skills. A whitish hue enveloped her body and her body began to float in the sky and began to push herself forward by emitting a little of her Qi from her hands, imitating the movements of flying.

The biker, while still going on top of the building felt something and suddenly stopped, causing the chopper spotlight to miss him.

“Target lost. I repeat! Target lost.” The one managing the spotlight reported and they turned the chopper around to look for any of the signs for the biker but they didn’t manage to find anything.

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“It’s here!” Rin exclaimed but as soon as she arrived near the bike that was on the roof of a building, it exploded, stopping Rin in her tracks.

She let out an exhale, knowing she had lost the biker. There was no trace to follow as well. Even the chopper took half an hour to find the bike and when she arrived, it exploded, leaving behind no traces.

This part of the downtown wasn’t on lockdown so the biker could have easily slipped away and even if he was in the building, the police didn’t have enough manpower to lock down the building and check it.

“Contact the Thunder Cloud Tempest Sect. Ask them to allow us access to their inner wings.” Rin spoke over to the radio, not optimistic about that at all but she had no other choice.

Because what was stolen this time was equally important as the CSF database.

Actually, it was far more important than that.

‘The empire itself will now get involved.’