Stuck in a Chinese novel - Chapter 261

Chapter 261: One down, one to go
Chapter 261

“Hey! You can’t be here,” A security guard spotted a figure in the dark and went to tell him off. He probably guessed it was a kid who was trying to smoke a joint or something so he made his way there to tell him off. With the police controlling the entire area, he had to be on guard so he couldn’t let a kid be in the area.

The figure didn’t budge from its spot even when the security guard called him. The security guard sighed and made his way to him, putting his hand on the figure’s shoulder.

The figure turned and what the security guard saw was enough to give him nightmares for the rest of his life.

“Aahhh!!!” Sho Xiang turned his head to his right, thinking he heard something but when he asked Jang Long standing next to him, “It must be your imagination. I didn’t hear anything.”

If someone stronger than him didn’t hear anything, then there was a good chance it was just in his head. Sho Xiang nodded and remained on guard outside the motel. He and Jang Long were sitting on a bench near the vending machine, disguised in civil clothes and registered as customers in the motel.

“Do you really think he’ll come?” Jang Long asked because he wasn’t good at such things.

“He will.” Sho Xiang said with certainty.

“What makes you so sure?” Jang Long asked.

“His voice.” Sho Xiang replied before he looked at the questioning expression of Jang Long and elaborated, “Frustration could be felt in his voice. He looked like he was about to lose something precious to him and killing that fatty upstairs was the only way to save that someone.”

Jang Long looked at Sho Xiang and said, “You’ve watched too many emotional dramas. It could have been something else.”

“I sure hope so,” Sho Xiang said before he added, “Because if it isn’t, then he will make sure he kills the fatso. Even if he has to kill us all and the entire city to do it.”

For some reason, even when Jang Long wanted to make fun of Sho Xiang for saying such a cliché thing, Jang Long couldn’t do that because he felt the same. His gut was telling him that something was coming. Something, or someone, who would stop at nothing to obtain what was his or what he wanted to take away from the world.

Regardless of who stood in his way.

“Hey, you!” Jang Long, while shivering from the slight feeling of caution, spotted a man in security guard attire and said, “Remain in your own place.”

“Yes, sir,” The security guard replied and returned to his position. Since it was just a guard, Jang Long didn’t deploy Qi to his eyes to check his face even when he couldn’t see his face in the dark.

The security guard soon turned the corner and disappeared from his eyes. With him gone, Jang Long and Sho Xiang returned to their task.

“Anything to report?” Rin asked from the microphone. Jang Long shrugged and replied, “Except for the stifling silence, nothing. But I would appreciate some company, captain.”

“What’s wrong with my company?” Sho Xiang asked.

“Right. Why wouldn’t I choose the company of a beautiful woman over you?” Jang Long remarked.

“Well, you’re gonna have to make do. Captain’s accompanying me right now.” Zhang Fei said, making sure to relay joy in his voice to irritate Jang Long and the rest.

“Lucky bastard.” All of them collectively said.

“That’s taking advantage of your position, Senior Fei,” Sho Xiang said.

“Then you should work hard and get to his position faster. Then you get to be by my side,” Rin said, putting an end to that conversation but she felt good inside, knowing there were so many people who cared for her.

“Yes, captain,” Sho Xiang replied.

“Hey! Get back to your position. How many times do I have to tell you?” Jang Long once again spotted the security guard, coming from the other side of the wall this time.

“I’m sorry, I’m sorry. I just couldn’t stand in one spot,” The security guard apologized and hurriedly skittered away.

“Who was that?” Rin asked.

“Just some security guard who can’t remain in his spot,” Jang Long replied.

“Check him,” Rin said.

“But he’s just a guard,” Jang Long replied.

“Check him regardless,” Rin said.

Jang Long and Sho Xiang looked at each other, shrugging, and stood up, making their way to the security guard who was about to disappear from their view. They both arrived before him, only to find a balaclava on his face.

“What the…” Jang Long said but before he could even move to do anything…

Boomm!!!

Rin shook, looking at the immense explosion in the night, which was enough to harm even a cultivator. Someone who wasn’t a cultivator would have definitely died from that.

“All units move in!” Rin yelled and got out of her car along with Zhang Fei. As they arrived at the scene, they saw the entire building collapse and Jang Long and Sho Xiang trying to stand up. The immense explosion had shaken them quite a bit but Sho Xiang was quick enough to deploy a Qi barrier around both of them to protect themselves.

Rin looked around, looking at the scattered and torn bodies of the policemen who were disguised as customers in the motel. Rin never expected that the scale of the attack would be this big.

“Find him!” Rin said and told everyone to spread out. She, however, ran towards where the fat man was staying. However, when she arrived, she saw the biker standing on the corpse of the fat man, his helmet in place. He turned to her and said, “Well, that’s one down.”

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“Save me! Save me!” Tao Min yelled, again and again. For some reason, he wasn’t harmed by the immense explosion but before he could sigh in relief, he saw the biker walk through the burning embers of the building.

When Tao Min saw him, he yelled for help, both from the people who were trying to use him as bait and from the strange voice on his watch.

[What do you mean, ‘help’?]

[Why would I waste my precious resources over saving a waste like you?]

[You’ve served your purpose as a pawn]

[Now’s the turn for my main pieces to move]

“Why? Why?! WHY?!!!!” Tao Min yelled, again and again, asking why he was the one chosen for that role. Asking why he was the one who was once again used. Asking why his life was as meaningless as it always was.

“Didn’t I deserve something better for one?” Tao Min asked, quietly, all hope lost.

“Don’t care,” The biker said, not caring in the least what he was saying, and raised his foot, bringing it down on the fat man’s head, crushing it like a tomato.

The death of Tao Min was quite anticlimactic. However, in that short amount of his significant life, Tao Min had caused Wei Jun more trouble and problems than both of the earlier protagonists had.

[Corruption of party member Xia Lu has been terminated]

[You have managed to save your party member]

[You have shown your role as the proper leader]

[Affection with Xia Lu increased by 10]

[Current affection: 51]

[Quest III complete]

[Kill Tao Min]

[Status: Complete]

[Rewards have been granted]

[Level up x23]

[System, inventory, and shop updates have been put on hold until the completion of Main Quest IV]

[A special reward has been granted and has been deposited to the user’s inventory]

[Efficiency of the main quest III has been estimated at 71%]

[Death Qi +71]

[You are now level 117]

[You have crossed the level 100 mark]

[A class can now be selected]

[Error]

[A class has already been selected for the user by default]

[Class ‘Invader’ has been assigned to the user]

[Please check the newly created class section for more details]

Wei Jun, assaulted by the plethora of notifications, was too busy feeling the rush of power to deal with that. His stats hadn’t been limited so his stats hadn’t increased by one bit but the rush of the Death Qi in his body was now as strong as ever before.

It felt amazing, to say the least.

It was a pity he received nothing from killing Tao Min. The other protagonists he killed were cultivators so he obtained a good number of stats from them. But this time, he obtained nothing because the protagonist wasn’t a cultivator but a normal human.

Just before he thought that was the end of it…

[You have obtained an ‘Upgrade Fragment’]

[Possessed ‘Upgrade Fragment’ 13]

The watch on the fatso’s left wrist began to shine but before it could become too immense, the shine died out almost instantly. When it disappeared, the watch was no longer on Tao Min’s wrist.

[The ‘Upgrade Fragment’ has been deposited to the user’s inventory]

Wei Jun was immensely curious about this but before he could do anything about it, he felt someone coming from behind him.

He turned and saw a black-haired girl appear in his vision…

“Well, that’s one down.” Before he turned to her completely and said, “One to go.”