The Daily Life Of A Cyberpunk Magician

Chapter 299 - 192: Smiling Face (2nd Update)_3
Chapter 299: Chapter 192: Smiling Face (2nd Update)_3Outside this street, traffic flowed like water and horses like dragons, pedestrians weaved through just as busily as usual, but here, it was quiet, it was grave, it was life and death.

On Xiao Jia’s screen, the message content was very simple.

Now, Tang was not human, but something similar to us.

Jiang Shu saw this sentence and understood.

He instantly realized why he couldn’t use the Mind Reading Technique on Tang Chenggong and why Tang wasn’t shown in the Foreknowledge.

Clearly, this had a great deal to do with the current ”Tang.”

”We’re here,” Tang said as he slowly pulled over to the side of the road. He opened the car door and quickly ran in a direction. ”Hurry up and follow.”

Wolf also sprinted over, and at this position, they could faintly start to hear gunshots.

And Jiang Shu...

He ran for a while, then stopped running.

The reason was simple and terrifying, he couldn’t run anymore.

By the time he finally made it to that street, the gunshots had already ceased.

Police officers surrounded Devil Wind with their guns, but no one fired because Devil Wind was holding a police officer hostage, with his metal knife against the officer’s neck.

”Get me a car,” Devil Wind’s voice was very low.

”Okay, Devil Wind, don’t get worked up,” Wolf stood ten meters in front of Devil Wind. He pinched his own service pistol with two fingers and dropped it to the ground, ”I don’t have any firearms on me, no need to be tense.”

”I need a car,” Devil Wind repeated, as he started walking forward with the police officer, while the circle of police officers also moved along with his advance.

Both sides maintained a certain distance, while Jiang Shu just stood in the empty space by the street, watching the man in the center from afar.

”I assure you, just don’t move, don’t move,” Wolf kept coaxing him, fearing that any movement from Devil Wind might cause the blade to shift and injure his colleague.

”Go, bring a car over, and clear the road,” Wolf turned his head and said to a police officer.

Then he looked back at Devil Wind and continued, ”Please wait, we will prepare a car for you very soon.”

Devil Wind nodded in response.

A standoff formed, and about a minute later, Wolf spoke again, addressing Devil Wind, ”Have you ever considered that surrendering now might be a better choice than trying to escape by car?”

Devil Wind looked at him but didn’t say anything.

”Your face has been registered by the Police Department, even if you escape tonight, you will still be caught later,” Wolf continued, ”You have never killed anyone, nor are you the mastermind behind the Deception case, and I promise you, if you can put down the knife right now, I can help you plead for a significant reduction in your sentence because of your remorse and confession. You might want to think about it.”

At that moment, Jiang Shu suddenly noticed that the wall of police officers became much tighter, and he could no longer see what was happening inside. So, he climbed up a police car nearby and stood on its roof to continue watching the scene.

Devil Wind’s eyes slightly stirred, seemingly touched by Wolf’s words, and the metal knife in his hand began to loosen.

”Bang—” Suddenly, a muffled gunshot rang out, a bullet sped toward Devil Wind’s brow at a speed invisible to the naked eye, penetrating his head and sinking into the ground.

Devil Wind’s mouth opened, and blood continually spilled out, his consciousness rapidly dissipated, and he couldn’t control the metal knife in his left arm. The knife, following the inertia, moved toward the police officer’s neck.

In the nick of time, Devil Wind’s left arm swung outward violently, creating an opening, and the police officer instinctively broke free through the gap, unscathed.

”Bang bang—” Two more shots rang out in succession, two more blood holes appeared in the upper body of Devil Wind, and he finally could no longer hold up and collapsed completely.

Before his consciousness plunged into darkness entirely, his heart was filled with only a sense of resignation.

It was for the best, now he would never risk exposing the Envoy.

”Who!?” Wolf, on the other hand, roared like a madman, his eyes bloodshot as he looked in the direction of the gunshots and flash of gunfire.

”It’s me.” Tang stood up from the sniper spot with the sniper rifle in hand and calmly said, ”I saved a police officer.”

”Devil Wind never meant to kill! He has never killed anyone before! How could he hurt the officer?!” Wolf gritted his teeth, glaring at Tang standing at the third-floor sniper spot, ”This is murder!”

”It’s not murder,” Tang simply shook his head and softly said.

Then he turned and disappeared into the darkness of the dormitory building.

The police officer who had emerged from Devil Wind’s clutches looked back blankly at Devil Wind lying in the pool of blood.

He knew best that not only was Devil Wind not intending to harm him, but in the last moment of his life, he had also mustered tremendous strength to move his arm aside, saving his life.

At that moment, Devil Wind’s eyes were still open, but they were devoid of any vitality.

The officer lowered his gaze, a unique sorrow churning in his heart.

Devil Wind didn’t have to die, if only he had dropped the knife a little sooner.

Subsequently, the officer walked over, his palm brushed over Devil Wind’s eyes, closing them.

Wolf looked at Devil Wind’s body, clenching his fists tightly, without uttering a word.

The entire street was sealed off with police tape, and the officers who processed the scene stayed busy until late into the night before they gradually left.