Slaughtering Through the Highway
"Fuck!! Did he just smash the car behind us to pieces with one punch?!!"
In the sole remaining car, the killer in the passenger seat stared at the scene in the rearview mirror, his eyeballs nearly popping out of their sockets.
"Damn it... so Superman actually exists in this world?!"
"Then are we still chasing them?"
"Chase my ass! Our savings are already gone! Do you want to throw your life away here too??"
"Quick! Turn the steering wheel! Take another road!"
"This is the fucking highway! Where is there another road?!"
"Then turn around!! I'd rather drive into oncoming traffic than keep going forward!"
However, before they could slow down and turn around, the rear window suddenly rolled down automatically...
Buzz——
"Why did you open the window?"
"I didn't... it opened by itself."
The killer in the passenger seat was about to say something when something resembling a black bird flashed through the rearview mirror. At the same time, the driver pressed the switch, slowly rolling the rear window back up.
As the rear window closed tightly, the howling wind that had poured in finally ceased, and the car's interior fell silent.
"We don't have to turn around! The highway exit is only two hundred meters away!" The driver suddenly noticed the sign in the distance, his eyes lighting up.
"..."
"It's a good thing that Superman didn't chase after us. If he wants to protect 【Su Zhiwei】, he definitely won't chase us off the highway... I think we've escaped this disaster."
"..."
"What do you mean by not talking??"
"..."
The killer driving spoke with displeasure. He was just about to turn his head and curse when his peripheral vision caught the rearview mirror between the two front seats. He suddenly froze in place.
A figure draped in a bloodstained brown trench coat was sitting calmly in the middle of the backseat, like a hitchhiking passenger.
The two killers: "..."
The interior of the car was dead silent.
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In this dead silence, the driver swallowed his saliva. Watching the highway exit sign draw closer and closer, he silently flicked the right turn signal and began turning the steering wheel to the rhythm of the clicking sound, preparing to exit the highway...
"Keep driving," Chen Ling said faintly.
The driver shuddered. He immediately straightened the steering wheel and forced himself to continue driving forward.
Chen Ling looked at his slightly trembling thighs and spoke slowly:
"Why are you driving so slowly? Weren't you driving pretty fast just now?"
The driver shook all over. "...Brother, there might be a misunderstanding between us..."
"Floor the gas pedal," Chen Ling ordered calmly. "If we get too far behind the car in front, it'll be a hassle for me to go back."
"...Alright."
The driver stomped the accelerator to the floor. A strong G-force pressed them into their seats. Amidst the roar of the engine, the air once again sank into dead silence.
"I ask, you answer." Chen Ling toyed with the 【Bone-Stripping Knife】 in his hand. The cold glint of the blade continuously flashed across the corners of their eyes, making their eyelids twitch.
"P-Please ask."
"Who sent you?"
"It was a middleman called 【Vulture】. He posted a bounty on someone's behalf, saying they wanted to deal with a woman named 【Su Zhiwei】..."
"Was he in those cars just now?"
"No, he wasn't. He's just responsible for posting bounties, he rarely acts personally."
"Besides the cars here, are there other killers?"
"The person who posted the bounty this time was very generous. A lot of people are rushing to 【Gusu】. We were just the first batch to arrive... There are probably over a dozen more coming later, but they likely won't arrive until tonight."
The two killers honestly spilled everything. Chen Ling sat in the backseat, deep in thought.
The person who posted the bounty should undeniably be 【Nie Yu】... But Chen Ling didn't expect him to act so fast. Had he and 【Yang Xiao】 not arrived early, 【Su Zhiwei】 wouldn't have survived the night no matter where she fled.
"How many trackers are left?"
"..." The killer in the passenger seat nervously swallowed a mouthful of saliva. "It's just the two of us left... the rest were all taken out by you..."
Chen Ling nodded slightly.
"Pull over."
Hearing these words, the two were taken aback for a moment before joy simultaneously appeared in their eyes. Chen Ling didn't kill them right away like before, making them feel as if they had just reclaimed their lives!
Without any hesitation, the driver yanked the steering wheel toward the emergency lane and quickly came to a stop.
"Brother, then we..."
"Turn on your hazard lights."
"Huh? Oh..."
Although the driver was a bit bewildered, he still pressed the button for the hazard lights. Two beams of red light flashed rhythmically around the car, visible even from a distance.
After pulling over and turning on the hazards, the killer in the passenger seat was about to say something else when the pitch-black muzzle of a gun was calmly raised from the backseat...
Bang, bang——!
Two consecutive gunshots rang out. Fresh blood mixed with brain matter splattered against the inside of the windshield, almost completely obscuring the surrounding windows.
The two killers stared with wide, astonished eyes, but they had already completely lost all signs of life, slumped crookedly in their seats. The driver had even smashed his head into the center of the steering wheel, causing the car horn to blare.
Beep beep beep——
The piercing horn echoed down the highway. Thick, sticky blood seeped through the door crack and onto the ground... A figure calmly opened the rear door. The hem of a brown trench coat stepped over the pool of blood. With a casual tear at his chin, the originally bloodstained trench coat was instantly restored to its pristine condition.
The figure pocketed the 【Handgun】 and gradually disappeared toward the end of the highway amidst the flashing hazard lights... Behind him, billowing thick smoke rose from the wrecked vehicles.
...
"He... he..."
【Yao Qing】 nervously gripped the steering wheel, glancing in shock at the rearview mirror.
Just moments ago, they had witnessed Chen Ling detonate two cars and smash another to pieces with a single punch through the rearview mirror. As the final car gradually pulled over, Chen Ling's figure had completely vanished from their sight.
【Yao Qing】 had considered pulling over to wait for him, but remembering Chen Ling's specific instructions before leaving to keep driving at this speed, he didn't stop. He continued to barrel forward, the gas pedal floored.
Even 【Su Zhiwei】 and 【Yang Xiao】, who had seen Chen Ling in action before, were shocked beyond words by the sight of him violently slaughtering his way through the highway... After all, the visual impact of blowing up a monster with a gun in a forest and smashing a car to pieces with a punch on a highway were completely different.
"Doctor Su, you should believe us a bit more now, right?" 【Yang Xiao】 said helplessly.
【Su Zhiwei】's expression was incredibly complex.
"It's a good thing 【Director Chen】 isn't here to kill me..."
Just as the two were speaking, a figure dropped from the sky onto the roof of the car. Opening the rear door, he quietly slid in like a ghost.
Chen Ling closed the door, patted the dust off the hem of his coat, and said calmly:
"All the spies have been eliminated... We can go straight to the museum now."