The Rich Hostage

If this hostage were a character from the Dragon Ball anime, I really couldn't just leave him to his fate.

And so, Sun Yu struggled to squeeze out a friendly smile, grinning at the stalling robber: "Hey, buddy..."

"Ahhh... don't come any closer!" The stalling robber was instantly scared out of his wits. In his panic, a "bang" rang out—the robber had fired by mistake. The muzzle was so close to the hostage's head that even Lana's super speed wouldn't have been enough to intercept the bullet in time, not to mention that Lana might not even care whether the hostage lived or died.

Sigh, in the end, I have to be the one to save the world, Sun Yu lamented inwardly. He might not be able to match Lana in speed, but he had the Sharingan. During the year spent on the spaceship, Sun Yu had unearthed a new function of the Sharingan.

As everyone knows, besides its heaven-defying replication ability, the Sharingan also possesses superior insight, capable of seeing through any technique and tracking high-speed objects. Through a year of research... actually, it was just a chance occurrence where Sun Yu noticed the digital clock on the ship slowing down after activating his Sharingan, which led him to wonder if the Sharingan could affect the flow of time.

Sure enough, after multiple experiments, he concluded that activating the Sharingan could indeed influence the flow of time, and by exhausting his physical energy to the limit, he could successfully freeze the area around the ship for two seconds.

This is basically an upgraded version of the Sharingan, isn't it!

Perhaps for an ordinary person, two seconds is just a fleeting moment that changes nothing. But for Sun Yu, it was a whole new world.

The moment the robber fired the "bang," Sun Yu's Sharingan activated instantly. A Stasis Time Field formed within a radius of several dozen meters, and everyone present was frozen in place as if hit by a binding spell. The two-second pause began now.

First, Sun Yu flashed in front of the robber in 0.01 seconds. The robber was still maintaining a look of extreme terror, which was as hilarious as it could get.

Sun Yu had no interest in looking at this disheveled robber any longer. He gently plucked the bullet suspended in mid-air, turned it around, and aimed it at the robber's knee.

This was a literal case of taking an arrow—or rather, a bullet—to the knee!

Although the "knee to the knee" meme was quite old, Sun Yu couldn't help but imagine this poor robber recalling his tragic life in the future: "I used to be an excellent robber, I've robbed the biggest banks in the world, until I took a bullet to the knee..."

Imagining the expression on the robber's face as he said that, Sun Yu covered his mouth tightly to keep from laughing out loud, even throwing in a bit of beatboxing for good measure.

The hostage was saved, so what to do with the remaining 0.5 seconds? Sun Yu looked at Lana out of boredom. It was a good thing he did, but he almost had a nosebleed. I have to say, Sun Yu's Sharingan insight was also heaven-defying! In Sun Yu's eyes at this moment, the soft combat suit on Lana's body seemed transparent, and he could scan her exquisite figure without restraint.

Sun Yu's Sharingan also possessed a certain degree of X-ray vision. Although it wasn't as clear as the Byakugan, it didn't matter; one shouldn't be too greedy!

Sigh, Lana's figure is getting hotter and hotter. Better look less in the future, or I might not be able to keep up with the nutritional requirements. Sun Yu teased himself in his heart, though his eyes remained fixed on Lana with burning intensity.

"Hey, Kael, your gaze is so lecherous, what are you thinking about!" Lana's sudden shout made Sun Yu's Sharingan vanish instantly.

Sun Yu looked at Lana in surprise, his heart skipping a beat. Wasn't there still time left in the stasis? How is Lana already free!

A soul-piercing scream echoed through the hall—it was the robber. However, Sun Yu had no interest in the robber's situation anymore, because he tragically discovered that the Sharingan's stasis effect weakened significantly against individuals stronger than himself.

"Kael, why were your eyes red just now? It was creepy!" Lana walked up to Sun Yu and asked.

"Ah? Haha... sometimes it just does that, I haven't figured it out myself!" Sun Yu brushed it off with a laugh.

Without waiting for Lana to continue questioning, Sun Yu grabbed a bag of cash from the floor, ready to slip away.

At this moment, the East City police at the entrance gathered their courage and walked in, trembling as they said to Sun Yu: "Sir... oh no, young hero, great god, please leave the cash behind, we..."

"Get lost!" Sun Yu's gaze turned cold as he barked.

Do me a favor and get this straight, I'm here to rob the bank too!

"We are the police of East City..." Several officers swallowed hard, then said with desperate courage: "If... if you insist on taking this bag of cash, then we have no choice but to... have no choice but to..."

Judging by their appearance, they wanted to raise their guns, but because their hands were shaking so violently, they couldn't even hold them steady.

"Hmph!" Sun Yu snorted coldly and walked up to the police. The officers immediately collapsed to the ground in fear, unable to even utter a complete sentence.

Hey, is it really necessary to be this afraid of me? Sun Yu had three black lines on his forehead, thinking that if he hadn't stepped in before Lana, they would already be lying in the hospital morgue!

"Um..." A weak voice came from behind Sun Yu. He turned around to see it was the hostage who had just been saved.

"Yeah, what is it?"

"Um..." The hostage clearly gathered immense courage as he said to Sun Yu and Lana: "If the two of you are short on money, I have some savings on me. I can... I can give them to you first."

"Oh?" Someone was delivering money to his doorstep; Sun Yu certainly couldn't refuse. "What, are you very rich, mister?"

Hearing Sun Yu's question, the hostage smiled sheepishly. "I run a company and have made some small money over the past two years. If the two of you don't mind, could you please do me a small favor?"

Sigh, looks like I won't be able to rob the bank today. I didn't even get to experience punching an ATM to pieces. This feels like a huge loss!

"Fine, we're hungry. Take us to get something to eat first, then buy us some clean clothes. That should work, right!" Sun Yu tossed the cash he'd snatched from the robber to the East City police officers and said as much.

"No problem, no problem!" The hostage even patted his satchel, indicating it contained plenty of money. "I am Briefs. May I ask how to address the two of you?"

"Kael'thas. If it's too much trouble, you can call me Sun Yu. This is my cousin Lana... you can just call her Sun Shan!" Sun Yu casually gave his real name; he didn't want to be called Kael'thas after coming to Earth. He also gave Lana an Earth name while he was at it.

Lana blushed upon hearing the name Sun Yu gave her, then pouted and said: "Hey, Kael, don't just go around giving people random names, okay? This young lady's name is Lana!"

Sun Yu pretended not to hear Lana's protest. He walked out of the bank amidst the profuse thanks of the East City police, followed by Lana and the newly promoted meal ticket, Briefs.

"Let's go, we're going to eat our way through the food street ahead!"