Chapter 15: The Cuckoo Takes Over the Magpie's Nest (Edited) She really still hates surprises...
He made the decision in an instant.
As the two were attracted by the gunshot, he elbowed the man on the left in the abdomen and knocked him down with his feet. As he slid down, he grabbed the rifle that he had unconsciously let go of with his hand, twisted the muzzle, and pointed it at the head of the man on the right who had just turned around.
"You—" He didn't finish his words when the bullet pierced his head. A large amount of blood and brain matter spurted out from the back of his head, covering the door sill and wallpaper.
The recoil made Gin's hands numb. His eyes were cold, his left hand holding the rifle, and his right hand also pulled the rifle from the fallen man's arms. His boot stepped on the neck of the fallen man, blocking the shout he was about to utter in his trachea.
Then he turned the gun over with one hand and smashed the butt of the gun hard on the head of the person at his feet.
Only five seconds had passed, and both of them were dead in an instant.
He walked out of the room. The man in black in the corridor noticed his mishap and raised his gun towards him, but the bullet from the gun in his hand pierced his head before he could reach him.
He held the rifle in both hands, and at this moment, Lin Xi's words flashed through his mind.
"It's a shame we can't practice mobile shooting right now. But maybe we'll have a chance in the future?"
Haha...isn't now the opportunity?
They're all targets.
The men in black had no power to resist the future TOP KILLER. Soon, the men in black in the corridor fell in all directions.
Gin's arms went numb. He dropped the empty rifle in his left hand, pulled out his pistol from his waist, and entered Lin Xi's room with the pistol in one hand and the rifle in the other.
The door was ajar and opened with a push.
There was no light in Lin Xi's room. It was evening, and the room was dim.
Gin could smell the strong scent of blood. But it was useless. He had just killed too many people, and the smell of gunpowder and blood mixed together. He couldn't tell if anyone was injured in the house, or if it was Lin Xi.
He walked inside.
A man in black lay on the ground, clutching his shoulder. He appeared to be unable to move, but still breathing.
Gin walked past him and into the inner room.
The inner room grew darker, and Gin heard a suppressed gasp.
One.
These men in black always work in pairs. But now there's only one left...
Gin tightened his grip on the gun.
The sound was coming from behind the wardrobe. He approached the wardrobe and saw Lin Xi in the shadow cast by the wardrobe.
Another man in black was at her feet, already unconscious.
Gin's breathing suddenly relaxed.
However, when he saw Lin Xi's appearance clearly, his originally relaxed expression became tense again.
Lin Xi wasn't in good shape. She held a dagger in one hand and covered her abdomen with the other. Blood soaked her white shirt.
Gin wanted to taunt her, but he kept his words to himself amidst her weak breathing.
Lin Xi was a little surprised when she saw that it was him.
"Xiaoqin..."
"Stop talking." Gin interrupted her and stretched out his arm to support her.
"Wait, wait..." Lin Xi pressed his shoulders. "How did you get here? You can't be... someone from outside..."
"It's all been taken care of," Gin said. "Everyone on this floor. I didn't check the lab."
Shigeharu Karasuma and Yusuke Morishita are both in the laboratory.
"Ha." Lin Xi closed her eyes. The small pistol slipped out of her sleeve lightly. "Stand over there, Gin."
Something is wrong. Gin thought so and stood a little further away as he was told.
Bang.
The pocket pistol made a dull sound and pierced the heart of the unconscious man in black on the ground.
"Deal with that guy outside." Her voice was cold, "Then help me out. My leg is injured too."
"...Yes." Gin quickly left and returned, a hat in his hand. He saw Lin Xi using strips of cloth torn from his clothes as a bandage, wrapping it around his abdomen and thighs.
She had never been injured before, Gin concluded. The bandage was wrong.
But now is not the time to correct it. Gin put the hat on his head, and Lin Xi just finished bandaging it.
She looked up and saw Gin's hat, and was stunned: "Did you just go next door just to get your hat?"
Gin ignored the question, staring at her with his green eyes. He saw the corners of her mouth tremble a few times, as if she was trying hard to suppress a smile.
She'd better not laugh, Gin thought. The wound will open again.
"Let's go," Lin Xi said, her cold expression vanishing as she took the initiative to climb onto Gin's arm. "Hold my waist. Then, take me and jump out of the window. Can you do it? There's a bush under the window that will act as a buffer zone."
Gin nodded, put his arm around her uninjured waist, and led her across the corpses and blood.
To facilitate his movements, he slung his rifle over his body and smashed the glass with the butt of his pistol.
Amid the sound of breaking glass, they fell into the sea of flowers together.
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On the third floor, in the laboratory.
Yusuke Morishita spread his arms and raised them above his head.
With a gun pressed against his head, he was forced to retreat step by step until his back was against the wall.
"Get down!"
The masked man shouted sharply.
"Yes..." Yusuke Morishita seemed frightened and started shaking all over.
His black-framed glasses were knocked off when the man in black broke into the laboratory just now.
Like him, Karasuma Shigeharu had a gun pressed against his forehead and was forced to squat on the ground.
The leader waved his hand, and the other men in black scattered and searched the house.
"You two," the leading man in black weighed the gun in his hand and asked, "Tell me, where is the medicine?"
"What medicine?" Yusuke Morishita looked confused.
"Bang!"
Yusuke Morishita's head shrank.
The bullet grazed his face, and the scorching heat seemed to still linger on his face.
"Don't play dumb," said the man in black who fired the gun. "You know what medicine I'm talking about."
The freckled young man trembled under the gun, but still refused to speak.
The man in black was a little impatient and used his fingers to exert some pressure on the interrogation.
"I know where the medicine is," Karasuma Moharu suddenly said, "There's no need to shoot."
"Um?"
"I-I can take it out, please don't hurt anyone here."
"Boy, do you think you have any reason to bargain?"
"But you just want medicine, don't you? I recognize you. You are the guards of the Karasuma family... My last name is Karasuma too. If you hurt me, you will be punished."
The man in black looked at him and suddenly sneered.
"Hmph, a bastard... But you're right, we just want the medicine. Go ahead and get it, 'Master'."
Karasuma Shigeharu slowly stood up, his face seemed to have turned a little paler at the insult.
"How dare you!" Morishita Yusuke was anxious, "That's the teacher's hard work!"
"Shut up!" The man in black raised his gun.
The freckled young man shrank and lowered his head.
Karasuma Shigeharu took a deep breath and slowly walked to an instrument in the room.
He took out two tubes of medicine from inside the instrument.
The two tubes of medicine contained ice-blue liquid, which was crystal clear under the cold light in the room.
"Here are the medicines." He handed the medicines to the man in black.
The man in black pursed his lips, and the person behind him immediately stepped forward and opened the box he was carrying, which contained soft cloth.
He took the potion and kept it safely, then looked up and nodded to the man in black who was leading the group.
"Alright, mission accomplished, let's retreat."
When Yusuke Morishita saw them walking out, he was about to get up when two men in black looked at each other, walked up to him, and covered his mouth and nose with a cloth soaked in anesthetic.
He wanted to struggle, but his mind gradually became dizzy.
Finally, his eyelids drooped and his consciousness fell into darkness.
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"Uh...be gentle." Lin Xi felt dizzy from the shaking.
In order to facilitate her escape, she accepted Gin's offer to carry her on his back.
This did indeed make them walk faster, but it also meant that the pistol on Gin's back would hit her every time she took a step.
Moreover, in order to fix Lin Xi, Gin took the cloth strips used to tie the railings in the garden and wrapped them around her legs. The cloth strips were of poor quality and had a rough surface, which also rubbed her legs painfully.
He seemed to know how to deal with such situations naturally, and he quickly integrated the knowledge Lin Xi taught him into actual combat.
"Bear with it." Gin said, "We'll be able to get on the bus soon."
"What—" Lin Xi hugged him tightly, watching him ruthlessly execute the man in black who blocked the road. He held her leg with one hand and walked quickly towards the car parked on the side of the road.
This guy wouldn't think...
"You want to carjack a car? Can you drive?" She was a little upset.
"No." Gin hit the rear window with the butt of his rifle and reached for the front seat to open the door. "But I've seen diagrams of car operating systems in textbooks."
"How can it be the same?!"
He opened the front door, untied the cloth wrapped around Lin Xi's legs, gently placed her on the passenger seat, and then went around to the driver's seat next to her.
"If I'm doing anything wrong, tell me." He started the car. Lin Xi, beside him, tremblingly fastened her seatbelt.
"Actually, I only sustained minor injuries, no arteries or internal organs... I think with this level of injury, I should be able to drive... Wow!"
The car sped off. Gin's driving was as bumpy as he was. Lin Xi clutched the seatbelt tightly, feeling like she was going to vomit.
"Slow down! Did you turn on the turn signal? Then turn! Woohoo..."
"Never mind the headlights," Gin said grimly. "Just tell me which way to go."
"So you don't even know where to go?!" Lin Xi endured the pain from her wound and clicked on the system map. She felt the wound on her abdomen rupture again, and a warm feeling surged out.
"I'm not familiar with Kyoto. I've been staying underground the whole time. If I were to drive on my own, I can only assure you that our direction hasn't changed."
"Go left... Go straight for one kilometer and turn right!" Lin Xi covered her wound with her hand. If she lost more blood, she would need a transfusion. She didn't want blood from unknown sources to enter her body. "You talk like I'm familiar with Kyoto! I just came back from abroad!"
"...Your wound has opened." Smelling the blood in the car, Gin frowned fiercely, "We have to speed up."
“!”
Lin Xi collapsed.
It turns out that the speed just now was not the limit of Gin’s speed!
"No need to drive so fast!" she yelled. "Find a place to abandon the car. They're only after the drugs, they won't be targeting us!"
Gin glanced at her. Her face was still quite rosy... He slowed down as he was told.
Following Lin Xi's guidance, they turned left and right and stopped in a cornfield on the outskirts of Kyoto.
"Get out of the car." Lin Xi panted, "Come and help me."
Gin held her up. When they were far enough apart, Lin Xi pulled out her gun, aimed at the car's gas tank, and fired several times. Her blood had just dripped onto the car, and she couldn't leave any evidence.
Sparks from the friction of the bullets caused the fuel tank to rupture and burn, and soon the entire car was on fire, and the fire also ignited the cornfield next to it.
When Gin helped her to the country hotel, there was only a young girl at the front desk.
"Hello. Please give us a double room."
"Oh, okay! Please register here..."
Lin Xi quickly wrote down her pseudonym. The young girl looked distracted. As Lin Xi approached, the entire cornfield was ablaze. Her family had rushed to harvest the crops and put out the fire. The girl, so preoccupied with her family, didn't notice their strange gait or the smell of gunpowder.
When she got to the room, she finally breathed a sigh of relief.
After experiencing Battle Royale and Fast & Furious, she doesn't want to do anything else now.
How should I put it? Actually, she really likes this kind of exciting game with blood and crime... provided that everything is carried out according to her own plan.
Today's events, from the beginning to the end, were all beyond her expectations.
She really still hates surprises...
No, in fact, the current result is ultimately due to her failure to communicate with Gin before.
Is it because I don’t trust Gin enough?
Just as she was thinking this, she saw the young man take out the hotel's medical kit and stand in front of her.
Lin Xi: “……?”
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