The Creatures That We Are

Chapter 69: Ambush

“Do I get paid?” he asked.

“No.” Wu Dahai gave him a bemused look. “You need money?”

“Yeah,” Gao Yang admitted. “My dad got into a car accident, and his factory is close to bankruptcy. I want to help him.”

“Ah, that’s rough.” Wu Dahai sounded understanding, but he didn’t hesitate to turn him down. “I don’t have money for you.”

Gao Yang was surprised. “Aren’t you a billionaire? Can’t you offer me some help?”

Wu Dahai patted him on the shoulder, but didn’t sway at all. “If you are the one who needs money, you only have to say the word, buddy. But we don’t help monsters.”

“My family may not be monsters,” Gao Yang insisted.

“All non-awakeners are to be treated as monsters,” Heavenly Dog said lazily. “It’s best to let them be. Awakeners must not interfere with a monster’s life.”

He realized everyone was looking at him when he finished, so he hurriedly explained, “Ah, that’s what Captain said.”

“Wang Zikai is a monster too,” Gao Yang argued. “And you lent him a sports car.”

“Wang Zikai’s a special case. Given how different he is as a wanderer, the organization would like to observe him. And he’s rich to start with. Wu Dahai wasn’t gonna change the trajectory of his life by lending him a car.” White Rabbit approached Gao Yang and winked at him. “Why don’t you turn to Wang Zikai to help your dad? It’s fine for a monster to interfere with another monster’s life.”

“Alright.” Gao Yang nodded.

“By the way, it’s best that you don’t visit this place for no reason even though you three now have your own employee ID.” White Rabbit stepped onto the moving platform. “Don’t think that things will be okay just because you have the organization as support. Monsters are still cunning and dangerous. Lay low while you aren’t doing a mission and maintain a good act.”

Gao Yang didn’t need to be told that.

One by one, they got onto the platform. Then they returned to Wu Dahai’s extravagant office.

Mischievous Monkey, Songstress Chicken, Dead Pig, and Heavenly Dog had missions to take care of and departed, leaving Gao Yang, Qing Ling, Officer Huang, Wu Dahai, White Rabbit, and Lovely Lamb behind.

White Rabbit threw Wu Dahai a glance. “Is the renovation of the underground sixth floor complete?”

“Yeah, done last week!” Wu Dahai crowed. “It’ll blow your mind! Come on, I’ll give you a tour!”

“What’s that?” asked Gao Yang.

“One of the organization’s secret bases,” White Rabbit explained. “Something like a Bat Cave, if you will.”

That gave Gao Yang a mental image, but then he got worried. “Did Wu Dahai design it?”

“Of course not! I’d rather die than let him design our base with his atrocious taste!” White Rabbit said with obvious disgust. “Heavenly Dog made the blueprint. He’s an interior designer. Wu Dahai only paid for the construction.”

“Ho-ho-ha-he! Quick, use the nunchucks! Ho-ho-ha-he! Keep in mind, martial artist! Kindness maketh the unrivaled master...[1]” Wu Dahai took the lead and danced around rapping as he walked, ignoring White Rabbit’s comments like it was a routine of theirs.

Just when the six of them were going to enter the private elevator, Gao Yang came to a halt.

“Wait!”

White Rabbit turned around. “What’s wrong?”

Heart pounding, Gao Yang felt an overpowering sense of violent, chilling murderous intent.

[Beep—]

[Warning, you are in extremely great danger.]

[Luck acquisition rate increases to 2500 times.]

“Something’s coming... Something dangerous!”

The smile on White Rabbit’s face froze as she looked at Gao Yang, and she blanched.

She shouted at Wu Dahai, “Get them out of...”

Bam!

Following the explosive impact, the large bulletproof floor-to-ceiling window shattered, the glass particles flying in the air like ice crystals.

In the split second, Gao Yang saw the figure moving amid the splattering glass pieces.

A man!

Wearing a stealth suit and a balaclava, the man tucked both hands and legs to his torso to curl himself into something like a black cannonball, shattering the bulletproof window wall with the momentum he built up from high velocity freefall.

But this is hundreds of meters high up! Did he jump off a helicopter?!

It all happened too fast for Gao Yang to think properly.

The moment he landed, the man in black unfurled his body and landed on his feet. With a roll, he leapt and lunged at a stunned Lovely Lamb, pulling out a short sword from his waist at the same time.

Just when the short sword was going to bury into Lovely Lamb’s vulnerable chest, someone flew over and tackled her away from the blade like a fastball.

It was White Rabbit. She rolled on the floor with Lovely Lamb in her arms, and it took her several rotations to break up the momentum.

Without hesitation, White Rabbit dropped Lovely Lamb and made a leap by pushing both feet hard against the floor, rushing toward the man in black at impressive speed.

The man in black reacted just as quickly. He dodged a powerful kick from White Rabbit by arching backward at a seemingly impossible angle. And seizing the moment when White Rabbit flew over him, he lifted his leg at lightning speed and kicked White Rabbit in the abdomen.

The kick was quick and incredibly powerful. Like a billiard ball getting hit mid roll, her trajectory took a sharp, right-angle turn toward the ceiling above.

Bam! White Rabbit slammed into the ceiling and bounced, falling down toward the floor.

The man in black stayed where he was and held up his short sword with a reverse grip, lifting his hand to stab her in her vitals.

Clink!

His short sword was parried by a Tang Dao. The man in black paused, surprised that Qing Ling would close the eight meters between them so quickly.

He lowered the tip of his short sword, forcing Qing Ling to shift the center of her gravity forward. Then he straightened his left arm and tensed up the muscles to stab at Qing Ling’s throat. He struck quickly and from an unexpected angle like a rattlesnake hunting its prey.

Mid-strike, he quickly pulled back his left hand to block the dagger that was a hair away from stabbing him in the right eye—it was the hidden weapon Qing Ling had manipulated with Metal.

Then sensing another source of danger, the man in black whirled around and threw his short sword.

About ten meters away, Officer Huang had just pulled out his gun when the short sword suddenly hit him in the right arm. Officer Huang grimaced, his gun falling from his right hand.

But his God of Firearms made all guns an extension of his body. With a quick crouch, he caught the gun with his left hand before it hit the ground and turned around quickly, his ring finger already on the trigger. Bang! Three bullets were shot in quick succession. Everyone of his movement flowed to the next seamlessly like water.

The bullets hit, but instead of hitting the man in the head, the bullets hit the left arm the man had raised to shield himself. Blood gushed out of his forearm, yet it seemed as if he couldn’t feel pain, and not only didn’t he slow down, he sped up.

Officer Huang didn’t expect their attacker to be someone so monstrous. He was going to pull the trigger again...

...But the blade was quicker.

Bang! The gun fired a shot, but the bullet hit the ceiling.

When Officer Huang realized what was happening, his arm holding the gun was already flying in the air, splattering blood everywhere.

His left arm was cut off, he belatedly registered the information in his brain.

Pupils dilating, his fearful eyes reflected the image of a man in black moving like a ghost.

Splash! The bloodied short sword thrust into Officer Huang’s chest.

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