"The mission failed!"
"I ran into a tough bastard!"
"Someone caught the bullet!"
"He's not one of the Grandmasters on the Black List! Apart from the three Great Grandmasters at the very top, none of those Grandmasters could catch a bullet barehanded!"
"Enough talk! I'm running for my life! If I make it back alive, I'm going to beat the hell out of you! We should never have taken this job!"
"Damn it! I'm in the elevator! I really can't talk anymore! I'm panicking right now! I've never panicked like this before! Not even when I ran into that blonde in Europe whose skin was too white to be human! I'm not afraid of retaliation from the Xining Chen Family. I'm afraid of that young man who caught a bullet barehanded. This is the most uncanny thing I've encountered in all these years!"
"..."
The signal cut out.
Gun King had hung up himself and gone straight into the elevator.
He wore sunglasses and looked calm, but his heart was pounding faster and faster. As a professional killer, and a renowned one on the Black List at that-a true veteran-he should not have been this rattled even after a failed mission.
But this time was different, completely different from before!
Gun King himself belonged to China's Ancient Martial Arts world, and he knew very well just what level a Grandmaster was at.
The reason he was called Gun King was that he had once killed an Ancient Martial Arts Grandmaster!
No matter how powerful a Grandmaster's true qi was, they could not possibly catch a bullet barehanded, much less remain completely unscathed!
Yet that young man had done it. At the very instant Gun King was about to kill the Xining Chen Family's young heiress, the young man had reached out like a phantom and caught the bullet he had fired!
In other words, that young man was definitely stronger than a Grandmaster, or possessed some special ability! Either way, Gun King was absolutely no match for him!
So he had to run!
Run, now!
If he was too late, he would definitely die!
"Quick, quick, quick! As long as I get in the car, as long as I leave Nan City, I'll be safe!"
Gun King stared at the elevator's floor indicator, wishing only that it would reach basement level one immediately. As long as he got in the car, as long as he left this building and Nan City, he would be safe!
Ding!
The elevator reached basement level one. Gun King stepped out and strode toward his parking space.
Less than a minute later, a Land Rover with out-of-town plates sped out of the underground parking garage. Gun King set his navigation to the fastest route to the highway. All he wanted now was to leave Nan City.
Staying in Nan City, he felt that even breathing was difficult. Only once he left could he truly breathe a sigh of relief!
A little over ten minutes later.
Gun King drove the Land Rover onto the highway. When he saw on the navigation map that he had already left Nan City's urban area, his taut heart finally relaxed.
"Even if you're an Ancient Martial Grandmaster, you probably wouldn't dare expose your movements in the city! Now that I'm on the highway, heading straight out of Nan City, you couldn't catch me even if you wanted to!"
Gun King had lit a cigarette, but after just one puff, his expression suddenly changed. He distinctly felt that something was off about the car's weight. He darted a look at the rearview mirror and suddenly discovered a young man in the back seat!
"Can you escape?"
The next second, he saw the young man smile at him in the rearview mirror!
At that instant, Gun King's entire body shuddered, and his hands shook wildly on the steering wheel. He took a deep breath, lowered his voice, and said viciously, "I don't know when you caught up, and I don't care how you did it. But since you've gotten into the car, you'd better think this through. We're both on the highway now. If it comes to it, we'll die together!"
Chen Zheng smiled faintly.
"You!" Gun King froze, at a loss for words. A moment later, however, he said viciously again, "Killing me won't do you any good! Someone is going to move against the Xining Chen Family!"
Though Gun King sounded fierce, he was actually terrified!
The young man's appearance had been far too uncanny. He had gotten into his car without a sound or a trace. Other than a ghost, what could do that? This defied all science!
Uncanny!
This young man was uncanny!
"An old monster who's lived for several hundred years? Does living a mere few hundred years qualify someone to be called an old monster? Tell me who this fellow who's lived for several hundred years is. Broaden my horizons."
Chen Zheng spoke with a light chuckle.
"You!" Gun King was once again at a loss for words, but after a few seconds of silence, he gritted his teeth and spoke. "..."
"...Doesn't sound like anyone I've heard of."
Chen Zheng spoke in a languid tone.
"Brat!! What the hell are you putting on airs for! So what if you're an Ancient Martial Grandmaster? You're still trash!"
Gun King started swearing!
The uncanny young man's tone, as though he had everything under control, threw his thoughts into chaos. He felt he was about to go mad!
"I'm not an Ancient Martial Grandmaster."
Yet Chen Zheng remained as unruffled as ever.
"What the hell do you want!"
Gun King turned the wheel and slammed on the brakes, bringing the Land Rover to a stop in the emergency lane. Then he suddenly twisted around, moving with incredible speed, drew his concealed pistol, and fired at Chen Zheng!
Gun King had made his move. If he waited any longer, he would go mad, and this was what he considered his desperate last strike!
A sneak attack!
Only a sneak attack offered any chance of killing this uncanny young man!
"Are you a little stupid?" Chen Zheng's expression did not change at all. Then an uncanny scene unfolded: the bullet hurtling toward the center of his forehead stopped less than ten centimeters away!
The bullet hung motionless in the air!
"Superpowers!"
Gun King froze, then cried out, his eyes filled with horror!
"If I can catch bullets, how could a pistol possibly hurt me? Your heart is in chaos, and so are your thoughts. Once you're down below, take some time to repent."
Chen Zheng shook his head lightly. As he spoke, he gave Gun King a mysterious smile, then vanished into thin air!
"What!"
Gun King froze again. Seeing Chen Zheng disappear into thin air, a sliver of hope that he might escape welled up in his heart!
Whoosh!
And at the very instant that sliver of hope arose, the bullet suspended in the air suddenly turned around and pierced the center of Gun King's forehead in the blink of an eye!
Thud!
Gun King's eyes widened, his head lolled to one side, and his living consciousness faded away!