Dragon Clan: Avoid the College Entrance Examination to Slay the Dragon

Chapter 53: Wind in the Building (Part 2)
The bullet shells made a crisp sound as they bounced on the tiles. Caesar leaned against the carved columns to reload, his blond hair covered in wall dust and falling down. "Do you have your weapons?" he shouted at someone three meters away.

"No! Wait a minute, I'll go around and disrupt them. Get ready." Gu Yi's voice came from under the wreckage of the chandelier. His pupils rippled with golden light.

But at the moment when the time zero field unfolded, the three wakizashi actually tore through the stagnant time and space, and the tip of the knife was only three inches away from his throat.

As Gu Yi leaned back, he could smell the scent of camellia oil on the blade, the distinct aroma of Japanese swordsmen maintaining their knives. He hooked his toes on the overturned crossbar of the Eight Immortals table and slid through the gap in the blade net like origami.

The field opened again, and he scanned the entire area, but did not find where the attacker came from.

The walnut floorboards cracked and groaned in the slowed-down field. Gu Yi dodged behind the enemy on his left, his thumb precisely catching the hollow of his neck. Before the sound of bone cracking could radiate, he had already drawn the dagger from the corpse's waist and, with a backhand, wedged the blade into the jaw of the enemy on his right. When time returned to normal, the third survivor watched in horror as his companion's head folded at a strange angle.

"Look out!" Caesar's roar echoed with the roar of a double volley of gunfire. Just as the four gunmen tried to turn their guns, they were blown off their heads by the .50AE bullets, and blood splattered across the sandalwood screen, creating a picturesque landscape.

The remaining attackers began to retreat towards the door, but froze when they touched the door handle - Gu Yi had blocked the entrance without them knowing, with blood dripping from his dagger.

The blade flashed again, blood splattering everywhere. He leaped up from the steps piled with corpses, the blade's path slicing through the rain like a crescent moon.

The solid wood door suddenly exploded into a myriad of wooden shards. Six men in black burst in, their MP5 submachine guns' laser sights instantly filling the entire space. Gu Yi spun around, kicked the nearest dining table, and yelled at Caesar, who was changing his magazine, "Go to the kitchen first!"

Caesar finished reloading while sliding on his knees. When he pushed open the kitchen door, the white mist from the freezer wrapped in the aroma of pepper hit him. Gu Yi almost dodged in at the same time, and the dagger pierced through the door frame, pinning a pursuer outside the door.

After the reunion, the two stood back to back amidst the thick smoke and gunfire. Caesar's clothes were soaked in blood, but he laughed maniacally: "I should have ordered takeout earlier!"

"Let's escape first."

Gu Yi spun around and kicked over the boiling soup pot, sending eight liters of scalding broth splattering in a fan-shaped pattern onto the killer who had rushed into the kitchen. The killer's face, bearing the brunt of the attack, sizzled. He grabbed the man's twitching wrist and twisted it, pressing the barrel of his shotgun against his jaw.

"You're too noisy."

The vibration from the trigger pull went straight from the tiger's mouth to the spine, and the killer's skull fragments wrapped in brain tissue splashed onto the roof and exploded into crimson mist between the high-speed rotating fan blades.

Gu Yi vanished into a shadow, darting past the next intruders. His knife, accelerated by time, shone with a cold, dark blue light. Three heads flew up simultaneously, arterial blood splattering in the steam, staining most of the kitchen red.

The last surviving killer knelt in a pool of blood, his trembling hands raised above his head, "Don't... don't kill..." Gu Yi kicked him unconscious without waiting for him to finish.

The entire restaurant had turned into a bloody slaughterhouse. The screams of the injured killer filled the entire restaurant. Gu Yi walked towards the door, stepping on the broken porcelain on the ground.

Suddenly, the hair on the back of his neck stood up—the body that had been pierced by the bamboo chopsticks had disappeared! Where the body had been, only a pool of black blood remained.

Seven pairs of headlights suddenly lit up outside the glass door, the shriek of tires tearing through the night air. A black SUV smashed through the porch like a steel behemoth, the muzzle of a bazooka gleaming coldly in the flickering light.

"run!"

The wall shattered, and the rocket's fire engulfed their remaining shadows. The shockwave flung them into the street.

Gu Yi rolled on the ground, grabbing Caesar amidst the rain of gravel. "Run!" They leaped through the alleyway, bullets swishing behind them in a web of fire through the rain. Gu Yi dragged Caesar through the café window, and in the moment of time, the sight of the bullet shattering the macarons in the display case was like a slow-motion art of destruction.

Gu Yi's pupils became even more golden, and the broken glass suddenly hovered into millions of "raindrops". The muscles in his left arm bulged, and his five fingers grasped Caesar like steel clamps. The two of them turned into two overlapping afterimages in the time-slowing field, and jumped into the moving convertible sports car. The owner saw the two people who suddenly appeared in the back seat of his car, and before he could scream, he was knocked unconscious by Caesar's hand knife.

"What the hell did you do? Why are we suddenly in a car?" Caesar yelled. From his perspective, the two of them were just in the coffee shop, and then suddenly appeared in the car.

Gu Yi leaned over and pressed the brake, and the sports car left a five-meter-long tire mark on the wet road.

"Can you drive?" Caesar asked
"No, you drive." Gu Yi threw the unconscious car owner to the screaming crowd on the street.

"Fasten your seat belts!" Caesar jumped into the driver's seat, turned the steering wheel sharply, rushed into the opposite lane, and went straight onto the overpass.

In the rearview mirror, seven pairs of headlights appeared like the eyes of a bloodthirsty beast, and the barrel of a rocket launcher was slowly rising through the skylight.

The convertible sports car tore through the night in the opposite lane, the red light of the dashboard flickering between Caesar's tense jawline.

"Fuck!" He pounded the steering wheel, the metallic sound mixed with the engine roar vibrating the car. "Cell phone! Check if there's a signal!"

Gu Yi clutched the violently jolting car door with his knuckles, and with his other hand, he pulled out his phone from inside his gun-soaked jacket. The blue light from the screen pierced the darkness, illuminating the blood clotted on his brow.

"It's connected." He put the phone to his ear.

Walker's roar almost penetrated the receiver: "Did you tear down Chinatown? The patrolmen ten blocks away heard the explosion! Now all the police forces in Chicago are heading towards you!"

"We are being pursued by seven vehicles. They are numerous, well-trained and heavily armed."

Gu Yi's voice was like a taut steel wire. The car body brushed past the oncoming truck, and the flying gravel played a death drumbeat on the chassis.

There was a sound of electricity, like paper tearing, coming from the receiver.

"Damn it! The helicopter is flying through an electromagnetic interference zone. Get out of the city! The farther away from densely populated areas, the better!"

Gu Yi could hear the crisp sound of Walker's keyboard clacking, like a death warrant, "Hold on, both of you! Don't engage them in a fight in the downtown area. Otherwise, the city government's claims will pile up taller than your tombstones!"

Caesar suddenly swerved the steering wheel, the tires scraping asphalt crumbs on the wet road. The convertible slid almost against the side of the tanker.

He roared into the phone, "I'm running for my life now. I don't have time to fight them! And we're dying! Hurry up if you don't want us to die!"

The car's body whined metallically from the centrifugal force, and veins bulged on the back of Gu Yi's hand as he gripped the seatbelt. Neon signs twisted into streams of cyberlight in his field of vision, and the front window suddenly exploded with spiderweb-like cracks. The car behind him began shooting.

"Hold on tight." Caesar's golden eyes blazed, the dashboard needle spinning furiously as he broke through the red alert zone. The sports car sped down the elevated ring road, leaving the glass curtain wall of the CBD behind.

(End of this chapter)